Upstream, Midstream, Downstream — Not Three Places, Three Business Models
Educational material. This note explains how the oil and gas industry is organised. The numbers in the worked example are illustrative magnitudes chosen to teach a principle — they are not a design basis, and nothing here replaces a project specification or a licensor's process design.
Three people are drawing a 16-inch carbon steel line this morning.
Same nominal size. Same material family. Very possibly the same wall thickness.
Before you read on: what is the biggest difference between those three jobs?
It is not the pipe. It is not even the fluid. It is that A, B and C…
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