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• a  in the direction against a stream's current
• r  toward the source or against the current

• Some 100 miles upstream is the proposed site of what would be one of the largest mines in the world.
• The explosion upstream had occurred at the Jilin Petrochemical Company, which is owned by the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation.
• Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown .

• upriver

• downstream
• downriver

News & Articles

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• Total gets approval for EPC contracts at Egina offshore Nigeria
  PARIS – Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd. has received approval from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. to award the main engineering, procurement, and construction contracts for development of the Egina field offshore in block OML 130.
  June 21, 2013 - Offshore Magazine
• The Saga of Sinai: A Neglected Hotspot Egypt’s Morsi Must Not Let Explode
  Egypt’s newspapers and multiple nightly public affairs shows this week brimmed with breathless coverage of a host of hot-button issues. There was President Mohamed Morsi’s dramatic decision to close the Syrian embassy. There was the war of words between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s plans to build an upstream Nile dam. Then Morsi controversially replaced of more than half of Egypt’s ...
  June 21, 2013 - Time.com via Yahoo! News
• Research and Markets: Spain Exploration and Production (Upstream) Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020
  DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cfgd8c/spain_exploration) has announced the addition of the "Spain Exploration and Production (Upstream) Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Fields, Blocks, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Spain oil and gas Exploration and Production industry ...
  June 19, 2013 - Business Wire

Quotes

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• Alain Belda in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Upstream margins were squeezed by higher energy costs and a weaker US dollar, but the global market remains tight ...... primarily driven by demand in Asia, especially China,Chief Executive Alain Belda said in a statement.
• Peter Voser in MarketWatch (press release)
  Shell's Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser commented: "We are enhancing our world-wide Upstream portfolio for profitable growth, through exploration and focused acquisitions, and through divestment of non-core positions. These acreage additions...
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  Upstream Works has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the contact center experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look... Nadji Tehrani http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadji_Tehrani&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHIg7Jjn7tt4iQXTrNYH_GDN87grA Market Wire (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do%3Fid%3D799502&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEe8ktZqkaaP_rnasu94U85MeXisA Dec 4, 2007 106593 139677 upsurge There has been an upsurge of demand," said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a New York Democrat. "It has crossed every line we could imagine, certainly partisan lines, ethnic, racial, geographic lines."