Upstream

Operations stages in the oil and gas industry that involve exploration and production.

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Most oil companies are known as "integrated" because they combine upstream activities with downstream operations, which take place after the production phase through to the point of sale.

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1. Correspondent bank that buys Loan Participations exceeding the legal lending limit of a community bank, also called the Downstream bank or respondent bank. Typically, correspondent banks offer other banking services for community banks, such as check collection, foreign exchange, and arrange Letter of Credit financing.

2. loan or transfer of funds, for example, earnings or capital, from a subsidiary to its parent company, a term widely used in banking to denote the internal movements of funds within a bank holding company. Corporate dividends in a multibank holding company are paid out of funds transferred to the holding company by its operating banks.

Look up upstream in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

In geography, upstream literally means towards the source of a stream or river, or against the normal direction of water flow.

Upstream may also refer to:

Molecular biology

• Upstream and downstream (DNA), determining relative positions on DNA
• Upstream and downstream (transduction), determining temporal and mechanistic order of cellular and molecular events of signal transduction
• Upstream (oil industry)
• Upstream (bioprocess)

Companies

• Upstream Marketing and Communications Inc.

Media

• Upstream (film), a 1927 film directed by John Ford

• Upstream (newspaper), a weekly, independent trade newspaper covering the global oil and gas industry.

Computer science

• Upstream (networking)
• Upstream (software development)
• Upstream server

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