The oil and gas industry is usually divided into three major components: upstream, midstream and downstream. The midstream sector involves the transportation (by pipeline, rail, barge, oil tanker or truck), storage, and wholesale marketing of crude or refined petroleum products. Pipelines and other transport systems can be used to move crude oil from production sites to refineries and deliver the various refined products to downstream distributors.[1][2][3] Natural gas pipeline networks aggregate gas from natural gas purification plants and deliver it to downstream customers, such as local utilities.
Petroleum Pipeline System An overview of an oil pipeline system from the wellhead to downstream consumers
Natural Gas Pipeline System An overview of a natural gas pipeline system from the wellhead to the consumer
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 processing plants that purify the raw natural gas as well as removing and producing elemental sulfur and natural gas liquids (NGL) as finished end-products.
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]
midstream, other, uses, disambiguation, industry, usually, divided, into, three, major, components, upstream, midstream, downstream, midstream, sector, involves, transportation, pipeline, rail, barge, tanker, truck, storage, wholesale, marketing, crude, refine. For other uses see Midstream disambiguation The oil and gas industry is usually divided into three major components upstream midstream and downstream The midstream sector involves the transportation by pipeline rail barge oil tanker or truck storage and wholesale marketing of crude or refined petroleum products Pipelines and other transport systems can be used to move crude oil from production sites to refineries and deliver the various refined products to downstream distributors 1 2 3 Natural gas pipeline networks aggregate gas from natural gas purification plants and deliver it to downstream customers such as local utilities Petroleum Pipeline System An overview of an oil pipeline system from the wellhead to downstream consumersNatural Gas Pipeline System An overview of a natural gas pipeline system from the wellhead to the consumerThe midstream operations are often taken to include some elements of the upstream and downstream sectors For example the midstream sector may include natural gas processing plants that purify the raw natural gas as well as removing and producing elemental sulfur and natural gas liquids NGL as finished end products Contents 1 Service providers 2 Midstream in ISO standards 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksService providers EditBarge companies Railroad companies Trucking and hauling companies Pipeline transport companies Logistics and technology companies Transloading companies Terminal developers and operatorsMidstream in ISO standards EditISO 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 transportation pipelines terminals gas processing and treatment LNG LPG and GTL dd See also EditCoal 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 Edit Petroleum industry Archived from the original on 2013 04 12 Retrieved 2013 05 23 Upstream midstream amp 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 2018External links Edit NOV Midstream Page This article related to natural gas petroleum or the petroleum industry is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Midstream amp oldid 1091062776, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
