The oil and gas industry facilities and systems are broadly defined, according to their use in the oil and gas industry production stream: Exploration Includes prospecting, seismic and drilling activities that take place before the development of a field is finally decided. Upstream typically refers to all facilities for production and stabilization of oil and gas. The reservoir and drilling community often uses upstream for the wellhead, well, completion and reservoir only, and downstream of the wellhead as production or processing. Exploration and upstream/production together is referred to as Exploration & Production. Midstream Broadly defined as gas treatment, LNG production and regasification plants, and oil and gas pipeline systems. Refining where oil and condensates are processed into marketable products with defined specifications such as gasoline, diesel or feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Refinery off sites such as tank storage and distribution terminals is included in this segment, or may be part of a separate distributions operation. Petrochemical these products are chemical products where the main feedstock is hydrocarbons. This means that oil companies spend much time on analysis models of good exploration data, and will only drill when models give a good indication of source rock and probability of finding oil or gas.

In distributed production, this is called the gathering system. The remainder of the diagram is the actual process, often called the gas oil separation plant (GOSP). While there are oil- or gas-only installations, more often the well-stream will consist of a full range of hydrocarbons from gas (methane, butane, propane, etc.), condensates to crude oil. With this well flow, we also get a variety of unwanted components, such as water, carbon dioxide, salts, sulphur and sand. The purpose of the GOSP is to process the well flow into clean, marketable products: oil, natural gas or condensates. Also included are a number of utility systems, which are not part of the actual process but provide energy, water, air or some other utility to the plant.

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