TSX-V-listed LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners has delivered its first tonne of lithium carbonate to a US-based industrial customer from the company’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) unit and lithium carbonate refining facility at NYSE-listed Select Water Solutions’ site in Howard County, Texas, north of Midland.

The delivery fulfills LibertyStream’s previously announced first US order and marks the company’s first delivery from the Select site. The lithium carbonate was produced to the customer’s required technical specifications and delivered as part of LibertyStream’s broader customer qualification and commercial sales process.

With this delivery, LibertyStream has moved its Texas operations from site deployment and on-site production into customer delivery — an important step in derisking the company’s plan to replicate its lithium extraction and refining model across high-volume US oilfield basins, including the Permian and Bakken.

LibertyStream expects the Select site to remain a core operating and validation platform as the company expands customer deliveries and begins site preparation for the construction of its first Texas facility capable of annualised production of up to 1 000 t of lithium carbonate by the end of 2026.

“We are proud of the pace of lithium carbonate production at Select’s site. Delivery of our first tonne of lithium carbonate achieving the required technical specifications, is another successful significant milestone by the entire LibertyStream team. We continue to make lithium carbonate for delivery to a number of battery grade and technical grade customers. With production now underway, we are positioned to reach an annualised production capability of up to 1 000 t of lithium carbonate by the end of 2026," confirms LibertyStream president and CEO Alex Wylie.

LibertyStream completed installation and construction of its Lithium Carbonate Operating Facility ahead of schedule in March and has since started production from the refining unit, which is engineered to produce both battery-grade and technical-grade lithium carbonate.

The current configuration at Select’s site incorporates key learnings from LibertyStream’s prior field operations and is designed to improve operating consistency as the company builds production history in the field.

LibertyStream aims to be one of North America’s first commercial producers of lithium carbonate from oilfield brine.

"Our strategy is to generate value for shareholders by leveraging management’s hydrocarbon experience to deploy our proprietary DLE technology directly into existing oil and gas infrastructure, thereby reducing capital costs, lowering risks and supporting the world’s clean energy transition," Wylie concludes.