Midstream
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Sector of the oil and gas industry
For other uses, see
natural gas purification
plants and deliver it to downstream customers, such as local utilities.
The midstream operations are often taken to include some elements of the upstream and downstream sectors. For example, the midstream sector may include
natural gas liquids (NGL)
as finished end-products.
Service providers
- Barge companies
- Railroadcompanies
- Trucking and hauling companies
- Pipeline transportcompanies
- Logistics and technology companies
- Transloading companies
- Terminal developers and operators
Midstream in ISO standards
ISO 20815 defines "midstream" in its definition section as:
3.1.27 midstream
business category involving the processing and transportation sectors of petroleum industry.[4]
- Examples: .
See also
- Coal bed methane
- Downstream (petroleum industry)
- Extraction of petroleum
- Gas field
- Hydrocarbon exploration
- Natural Gas
- Natural gas condensate
- Natural-gas processing
- Petroleum
- Petroleum extraction
- Oil production plant
- Oil refinery
- Oil well
- Upstream (petroleum industry)
References
- ^ "Petroleum industry". Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
- ^ "Upstream, midstream & downstream". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ^ Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC), Industry Overview Archived 2017-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISO, ISO 20815, accessed 6 June 2018