Sentence examples for upstream activities from inspiring English sources

In a statement, Shell said that effective July 1 its "upstream" activities, which cover exploration and production, would become two units: upstream Americas and upstream international.

Craftsmanship (that is, manufacturing) became separated from downstream activities, like sales and postpurchase service, as well as from upstream activities, like new-product development and design.

But company sources said it had no interest in a Corus stake because its strategy was based on upstream activities such as primary production.

In 1974, he was named director and vice president for exploration and production, from which position he guided Chevron's worldwide upstream activities until his retirement in 1986.

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.

"If you're doing a lifecycle assessment, you want to make sure you include upstream activities that are water intensive," Dr. Hendrickson said.

Biostratigraphy is a key upstream activity.

CH4 permeability decreases with increasing n-C4H10 upstream activity (f/fsat) in the feed.

And this "upstream" activity has been followed by even more lucrative "downstream" businesses.

In the present study, we identify a novel feedback mechanism in the Rho1 mediated Pkc1-MAPK pathway, in which the end kinase of the pathway, Mpk1, controls the upstream activity through Rom2, the nucleotide exchange factor of Rho1.

Our work here details how the operation of synapses between RBCs and AII amacrine cells maximizes sensitivity to upstream activity while minimizing added noise in darkness.