Process in industries as diverse as Upstream and Downstream Oil and Gas, petrochemical, specialty chemicals and power value uptime which is a performance metric referred to as asset utilization.

各种行业过程，例如，上游和下游的油气，石化，特别是化工和作为资产利用性能参考的正常运行功率。

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Within the industry, different parts of oil companies are descried as sections of a river: upstream, midstream and downstream.

在石油行业，通常按照河流区域的划分，将石油公司划分为上游、中游和下游。

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Since many major oil companies are looking to get rid of assets downstream, it can be tough to find buyers.

但尽管大型石油公司纷纷希望摆脱下游资产，但买家却是众里难寻。

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In 1996 Gandur made the salmon leap from the downstream activities of oil trading and marketing, which provide thin margins by moving huge volumes of other people's oil, into the upstream, which entails more risk and upfront investment but offers fatter returns. aog inked its first production-sharing contract with the oil minister of Ivory Coast to overhaul the abandoned offshore Espoir oilfield.

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Downstream earnings have snapped back so far that I prefer pure play oil producers like Apache with no downstream cyclical vulnerability.

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