DOWNSTREAM

Downstream

The oil and gas industry is usually divided into three major sectors: upstream, midstream and downstream. The downstream sector commonly refers to the refining of petroleum crude oil and the processing and purifying of raw natural gas, as well as the marketing and distribution of products derived from crude oil and natural gas. The downstream sector touches consumers through products such as gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil, heating oil, fuel oils, lubricants, waxes, asphalt, natural gas, and liquified petroleum gas as well as hundreds of petrochemicals.

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downstream

Adjective

  1. Lower down, in relation to a river or stream
    She lives downstream from the dam.
  2. in the direction from the server to the client

Adverb

  1. Following the path of a river or stream
    We spent the day paddling downstream in our canoes.


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