Sentence examples for upstream from inspiring English sources

Upstream capital spending edged lower last year, falling to $147.4bn as companies reacted to the surprise fall in the oil price, the first dip in upstream investments in at least nine years.

The site of the pipeline break, six miles upstream from the high-plains city of Glendive, Montana, is almost entirely capped in ice, complicating efforts to retrieve the oil and slowing the response process.

It is unclear what sort of legal process the government serves on a company to compel communications content and metadata access under Prism or through upstream collection.

On Wednesday, activist shareholders at Chevron, led by campaign group As You Sow, will attend the company's annual meeting in San Ramon, California, inviting fellow investors to vote in favour of a resolution they have filed calling for Chevron to slash its upstream capital spending and to return the unused cash to shareholders.

In 2013 the big five collectively spent $165.3bn on so-called "upstream activities" where investment is focused on colossal engineering projects to bring reserves on tap and, to a lesser extent, on exploration.

Rajesh De, the NSA general counsel, said all communications content and associated metadata harvested by the NSA under a 2008 surveillance law occurred with the knowledge of the companies – both for the internet collection program known as Prism and for the so-called "upstream" collection of communications moving across the internet.

A similar pattern showing a rising proportion of revenues reinvested in upstream capital spending was seen at several firms.