Sentence examples for upstream capital from inspiring English sources

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

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 combined 2014 upstream capital spending bill for the big five is three and a half times the sum devoted to research and development by the world's five biggest-spending drug firms.

Citigroup points to a new peak in upstream capital expenditures and the likelihood of a further cost deflation in shale oil economics as potential indicators of a cyclical downturn.

Across North America, upstream capital spending on natural gas and oil is roughly expected to fall 25 to 40percentt next year, said Art Smith, chief executive of John S. Herold Inc., an energy research and consulting firm in Norwalk, Conn.

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.

Not the kind of returns that were hyped up nearly a decade ago by Sand Hill Road's best and brightest, sure, and certainly not in the kind of upstream, capital-intensive, commodity manufacturing plays that were en vogue back then.

Geographical Background 9. (U) The Myitsone Dam is being constructed just below the confluence of the two headwaters of the Irrawaddy, approximately 40 kilometers upstream from the capital of Kachin State, Myitkyina.

This paper explores a pathway to commercializing user innovations hitherto not studied, namely, the vertical diversification of a user firm into an upstream industry supplying capital goods, and subsequent coexistence of user and manufacturing units.

Closed - Creates a solid steel wall preventing water flowing upstream towards the capital.

This suggests that upstream-downstream social capital will be central to new collective local PES, while our overall trends suggest social capital can be raised by successful coordination over time.