Sentence examples for upstream division from inspiring English sources
BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, and Andy Inglis, the head of its upstream division, can look forward to a hard time on Capitol Hill in the weeks to come.From sea to slimy seaSome legislators are talking about changing the legal limit to the amount of third-party damages the company can be sued for.
Profits at Exxon's upstream division dropped 63.3% to $2.9bn.
Last May the head of ConocoPhillips' upstream division, James Gallogly, left the company.
At the time De Margerie was head of Total's upstream division and the point man for talks.
Jason Kenney, an analyst with Santander, said that "the core upstream division was actually ahead of consensus and that's still going great guns.
In Jean-Luc Vermeulen's upstream division, Jaffr says he wants to see return on capital climb to 15% over the next three to five years, from 9.2% in 1998.
Oil companies have had a famously hard time combining the scientists, engineers and explorers who work in their "upstream" divisions with the marketing men and garage owners "downstream .The greatest danger of all is that if greater effort and resources are applied to distribution, the product itself will be neglected.
British Gas is more important for Centrica than the upstream energy division, and we think trading conditions for British Gas have deteriorated.
The bathymetry data indicate a division into an up to 35 m high frontal wedge with large depressions, and an upstream part characterized by mega scale glacial lineations (MSGL).
The following day, the Brazilian ships returned and broke their way through Tonelero's defenses, carrying the remaining troops of Marques de Sousa's Brazilian division upstream towards Gualeguaichu.
A σE-dependent promoter is also found upstream of the cell division protein FtsZ [9], but this promoter is one of multiple promoters that contribute to the complex regulation of ftsZ expression [57], making it unlikely that loss of σE activity would have a large effect under non-stressed growth conditions.
