Concept information
Preferred term
upstream
Definition
- The term upstream has historically been used in the natural resource industry, and specifically in the oil and gas industry, to refer to activities that relate to the finding, associated development activity, and production of crude oil and natural gas or related petroleum products to the point where they are either landed, if produced from deep water, or enter a pipeline system if on land, or are transported into a processing plant as a feedstock for follow-on processes. The origins of the term are in the sense of the location of the deposition of minerals in a stream-bed, for example, gold-panning activities (even older than petroleum exploration and production) where heavy minerals were deposited downstream from the water's source but originated “upstream.” It is, however, also used today to refer to activities that are focused toward the code writers by generators of bugs and system fixes; in bioprocesses where it refers to the origination of new biological materials, and is even used to refer to data transfer speeds between clients and host servers analogously to uploading. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Upstream]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/upstream
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