What Could Your Brine Be Worth?

Not every brine is a goldmine. But with the right chemistry, scale, and partner, your brine can become a revenue stream.

See example value scenario

On paper, it sits in the cost column.

It becomes a real opportunity when three things line up:

the right chemistry
the right scale
the right partner to turn it into lithium and other products

Extracting lithium from brine is complex. Projects live and die on chemistry, integration, and operational discipline, and not every brine will support an economic project. Handling produced water or geothermal brine gives you a genuine opportunity - our role is to show where that opportunity is strongest and how to unlock it.

Our job is to be the partner who tells you the truth fast - and creates real value where the numbers work. We turn qualifying brines into bankable design-build-own-operate projects with clear unit economics per barrel or per m³.

Imagine you run an oil production operation handling 40,000 barrels of produced water every day.

Trucks roll in, pipelines run full, and every month you sign off on the same thing: Disposal costs and compliance. On the P&L, that water sits firmly in the cost column.

Now, imagine you enter a Joint Venture with Lithium Harvest.

We have already confirmed that your produced water holds around 125 ppm lithium. On your P&L, that same 40,000 barrels per day is no longer just “disposal and compliance”. It now underpins a Joint Venture (JV) lithium project that can produce around 1,200 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate.

Commercially, you and Lithium Harvest have agreed on:

A design-build-own-operate (DBOO) platform where Lithium Harvest designs, builds, owns, and operates the plant, with JV profit sharing tied to performance.
A JV structure that shares upside and aligns incentives, giving you a direct stake in a booming lithium market without having to build an in-house lithium team or take on full project complexity.

What this means in plain language

A water stream that used to be a disposal problem now supports a high-margin lithium project, with around 74% gross margin and payback in roughly 2 years.
At around 1,200 tonnes per year of lithium carbonate, your produced water moves from a pure cost center into a strategic revenue stream that supports your energy transition and diversification goals.
Because the project is structured as design-build-own-operate (DBOO), you get the benefit of a lithium asset without having to become a lithium operator - Lithium Harvest designs, builds, owns, and operates the plant.

Suddenly, that produced water stream is no longer just a line item under “wastewater costs” - it is the foundation of a profitable JV asset that helps future-proof your business.

	Illustrative JV Base Case
Feedstock	40,000 bbl./d
Lithium concentration	125 ppm
Lithium price	$14,175
CapEx	$26M
OpEx	$3,647/t
Lithium production	1,200 tpa
Gross margin	74%
Revenue	$17.1M/year
1-year result	$12.7M
Payback period	2 years

40,000 bbl./d

125 ppm

$14,175

$26M

$3,647/t

1,200 tpa

74%

$17.1M/year

$12.7M

2 years

All figures are illustrative and for model demonstration only. Actual results depend on site-specific chemistry, flow, uptime, integration, utilities, offtake terms, and market conditions. This is not investment advice or a performance guarantee.

Now zoom in from the full JV project to a single barrel of produced water.

Yesterday, that barrel was just a cost. You paid to handle, move, and dispose of it. It showed up in one place on the P&L: wastewater.

In a JV with Lithium Harvest, that same barrel becomes a platform for value.

We don’t chase every possible molecule in the water. We focus on risk-adjusted returns per barrel. Lithium comes first. Then, where it makes commercial sense, we layer in additional modules that lift $/barrel while keeping capital discipline.

That’s what “finding more value in every barrel” means in practice - not shiny add-ons, but disciplined innovation that keeps improving the value of each barrel over the life of the project.

Disclaimer: Illustrative only. Actual value per barrel depends on chemistry, volumes, integration, offtake structures, and regulatory framework.

Getting into the lithium space doesn’t have to mean megaproject headaches, years of piloting, or building a lithium team from scratch.

With Lithium Harvest, you plug into a partner that:

Sits in the lowest decile on the CapEx and OpEx curve, so more project value flows to the JV
Brings a proven, patented extraction solution tailored to produced water and other brines
Works through a clear, aligned partnership model where we design, build, own, and operate - and you share the upside
Combines deep industrial water, separation, and extraction know-how with a sharp commercial focus on $/barrel and $/tonne

You get into the lithium space without the headache - and with a partner whose success is tied directly to the value we create together.

Want to see what that could look like for your operation?