OIL AND GAS TODAY. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Uncovering the oil and gas industry
Considered being the biggest sector in the world in terms of dollar value, the
oil and gas sector is a global powerhouse using hundreds
of thousands of
workers worldwide and generating hundreds of billions of dollars globally
each year. In regions
which house the major NOCs, these oil and gas
companies are so vital they often contribute a
significant amount towards
national GDP.
In this introduction to the oil and gas industry, we provide a snapshot of the
petroleum sector.
What are the different oil and gas sectors?
The
energy
sector
has
three
key
areas: Upstream, midstream and downstream.
What is upstream? -
Upstream is E&P (exploration and exploration).
This involves the search for underwater and underground natural
gas fields or crude oil fields and the drilling
of exploration wells and
drilling
into
established
wells
to
recover
oil
and
gas.
What is midstream?
- Midstream entails the transportation, storage,
and processing of oil and gas.
Once resources are recovered, it has to
be
transported to a refinery, which is often in a completely different
geographic region compared to the oil and gas reserves.
Transportation
can include anything from tanker ships to pipelines and trucking fleets.
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