Title: Upstream (petroleum industry)
Content: Example: Offshore oil/gas production facilities, Drilling rigs, intervention vessel. ISO 14224 defines "Upstream" in its definition section as: 3.98 upstream business category of the petroleum industry involving exploration and production.
Title: Upstream (petroleum industry)
Content:  The oil and gas industry is usually divided into three major sectors: upstream (or exploration and production- E&P), midstream and downstream. The upstream sector includes searching for potential underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling exploratory wells, and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and bring the crude oil or raw natural gas to the surface. Upstream Industry has traditionally experienced the highest number of Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures. M&A activity for upstream oil and gas deals in 2012 totaled $254 billion in 679 deals. A large chunk of this M&A, 33% in 2012, was driven by the unconventional/shale 
Title: Upstream (newspaper)
Content:  Upstream is an independent oil and gas industry upstream sector weekly newspaper and a daily internet news site. The newspaper is owned by NHST Media Group. It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The newspaper covers the upstream sector of the global oil and gas industry with full-time staff correspondents in all the major centres of the industry. It is published every Friday. Upstream had full-time reporters based in its head office in Oslo, as well as bureaux and correspondents in London, Moscow, Accra, New Delhi, Singapore, Wellington, Rio de Janeiro and Houston. Its editor in chief is Erik Means. The newspaper was founded in 1996 to compete with well-established rivals including Oil & Gas Journal, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, 
Title: Petroleum industry in Canada
Content:  The upstream oil sector is also commonly known as the exploration and production (E&P) sector. The upstream sector includes the searching for potential underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling of exploratory wells, and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and bring the crude oil and/or raw natural gas to the surface. With the development of methods for extracting methane from coal seams, there has been a significant shift toward including unconventional gas as a part of the upstream sector, and corresponding developments in liquified natural gas (LNG) processing and transport. The upstream sector of the petroleum industry includes Extraction of petroleum, Oil production plant, Oil refinery and Oil well.
Title: Upstream (petroleum industry)
Content: Drilling Contractor Company Integrated Oil & Gas Company:  Independent Oil & Gas Company:  Oil Service Company:  Oil Equipment Manufacturer:  Security Other: This categorization comes from value chain concepts, even before formal development Value Chain Management. A company that owns and operates drilling rigs that are contracted by an operator to drill wells. Examples include Patterson UTI, Transocean, Nabors, Independence Contract Drilling and Cactus. A company that has upstream as well as downstream operations. Examples include Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ChevronTexaco, and SOCAR. A company that has either upstream or downstream operations, but not both. Examples include Anadarko Petroleum, Sunoco, Phillips 66, ConocoPhillips, and Murphy Oil. A company that provides products and/or services to the oil and gas industry. Usually a combination of labor, equipment, and/or other support services. Examples include Schlumberger, Halliburton, Saipem and Baker Hughes. A company that specializes in the sale and distribution of equipment to the oil and gas industry. Examples include Siemens, Schneider Electric and ABB Group. Many major security companies take part in securing the industry. Any other oil and gas related business not defined above such as software companies providing necessary IT services for easy execution in the oilfield.
Title: Royal Dutch Shell
Content: Upstream – manages the upstream business. It searches for and recovers crude oil and natural gas and operates the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to the market. Its activities are organised primarily within geographic units, although there are some activities that are managed across the business or provided through support units. ; Integrated Gas and New Energies – manages to liquefy natural gas, converting gas to liquids and low-carbon opportunities. ; Downstream – manages Shell's manufacturing, distribution, and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals. Manufacturing and supply include refinery, supply, and shipping of crude oil. ; Projects and technology – manages the delivery of Shell's major projects, provides technical services and technology capability covering both upstream and downstream activities. It is also responsible for providing functional leadership across Shell in the areas of health, safety and environment, and contracting and procurement. Shell is organised into four major business groupings:
Title: Upstream (newspaper)
Content:  Offshore Engineer. It covers all aspects of the upstream industry, but focuses especially on news related to business, policy and the sector's key players as well as the commercial side of the industry. Coverage includes exploration, field development, contracts, company news, technological developments and the liquefied natural gas sector, as well as political and financial news which affects the exploration and production sector. In 2001, Upstream added an online edition, upstreamonline.com, which is updated 24 hours a day, five days a week from London, Oslo, Houston and Perth. It provides breaking news and online feature articles written by a dedicated online editorial team, as well as giving access to digital versions of the newspaper in various formats.
Title: Upstream PH
Content:  Upstream was launched in November 14, 2020, as a response to the tightened strict measures on the COVID-19 pandemic on the film industry in the Philippines. In partnership with Globe Telecom, it became the official streaming provider of the 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival. In May 2021, Upstream signed a video-on-demand (VOD) agreement with Comcast/NBCUniversal's Universal Pictures to carry the Hollywood film studio's library of movies, including upcoming theatrical releases.
Title: Heirs Oil and Gas
Content:  Heirs Oil & Gas primary business is in the upstream sector - recovering crude oil and natural gas and management of a vertically integrated oil and gas business as the sole operator of OML 17, in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
Title: Premier Oil
Content:  Premier Oil plc was an independent UK oil company with gas and oil interests in the UK, Asia, Africa and Mexico. It was devoted entirely to the 'upstream' sector of the industry - the exploitation of oil and gas - as opposed to the 'downstream' refining and retail sector. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Chrysaor Holdings and then merged into Harbour Energy in March 2021.

Question: what is upstream project in oil and gas?
Answer: drilling exploratory wells.