BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Downstream Progress
- movement by a company toward achieving its objectives that is easy because it involves riding a wave or trend and benefiting from favorable conditions.
- See also Upstream Progress
Additional Resources
- Jordan's progress downstream.
- Arab Potash Co. APC, Jordan reports further progress in the expansion of its product portfolio based on other minerals of the Dead Sea. Following three years' successful operation of a 150 kg/h magnesium oxide plant at Safi, APC has decided to proceed with commercial production of...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Investment projects make steady progress.(multinational vhemical companies continue investments in China)
- Multinational chemical companies continue to pour investment into China. A number of previously announced projects have made substantial progress during 2003 and several new projects have been announced table. Shell Chemicals and China National Offshore Oil Corp. CNOOC broke ground earlier this year on their so-called...
- Research articles 2003-08-27
- Patents, paradigm shifts, and progress in biomedical science.
- This Note applies the concept of paradigm shifts from the history and philosophy of science to describe how patents on biomedical research tools--inputs to basic research--can help advance scientific theory. Patents on research tools frustrate scientific norms of sharing and can produce a tragedy of the anticommons that inhibits downstream...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- BG Group Makes Progress in Pre-Salt Brazil
- Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: Buy-recommended BG Group plc (BRGXF.PK) offers unlevered appreciation potential of 25% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 where stock price would equal Net Present Value NPV of $22 a share. Second quarter results released today matched our estimate for unlevered cash flow Ebitda from...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Satyam Computers Services Ltd. F2Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/07f) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Please note that all participants who have logged into the call are allowed to ask questions and there is no specific priority for participants in India and the ones outside...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- U.S. Broadband Speeds Still Lacking
- The average download Internet speed in the United States between 2007 and 2009 increased by only 1.6 megabits per second mbps, from 3.5 mbps in 2007 to 5.1 mbps in 2009, according to a new report by the Communications Workers of America CWA. The Speed Matters Speed Test, a project...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Imperial Tobacco Group PLC FY07 Preliminary Earnings Call
- Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Analyst In the run up to Altadis during that process, I think you were quite clear that you felt that the scope of revenue synergies in Europe was not being fully appreciated. Now I presume that a significant part of that scope of revenue in...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-30
- Fiserv Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question is from Charlie Murphy of Morgan Stanley. Jeff Yabuki Hey, Charlie. Charlie Murphy - Morgan Stanley Hey, how are you. Thanks very much for taking the call. I had a question on the adjusted EBIT margin in the insurance segment, could we...
- Earnings calls 2007-04-25
- BP Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Fergus Macleod Thank you operator and now we'll go to the first question, and that question comes from Neil Perry at Morgan Stanley. Good afternoon Neil. Neil Perry - Morgan Stanley Afternoon Tony, you talked a lot about restoring the...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- VeriSign, Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (VRSN)
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Absolutely. Operator Instructions First up is Peter Cooper at Morgan Stanley. Peter Cooper – Morgan Stanley Hey, great. Thanks very much. I want to focus a little bit on of the things we talked about at the Analyst Day....
- Earnings calls 2006-07-20
- ConocoPhillips Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Neil McMahon with Sanford Bernstein. Neil McMahon - Sanford Bernstein Hi, guys. Just wanted to run over a number of questions. The first is really on your refining number you mentioned that you were capturing more of the crack this...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-25
- ExxonMobil Corporation Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (XOM)
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you, Mr. Hubble. Operator Instructions We will take our first question from Doug Terreson with Morgan Stanley. Douglas Terreson - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter In E&P, the other factor in relation to the first quarter of 2006...
- Earnings calls 2006-07-27
- Amerada Hess Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (AHC)
- Earnings Call Excerpt Amerada Hess AHC Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call January 25th 2006, 10:00 AM. Executives: Jay Wilson, Vice President, Investor Relations John Hess, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Rielly, SVP and Chief Financial Officer John O'Connor, President Worldwide...
- Earnings calls 2006-01-26
- Bad Margins Keep Refiners from Meeting Low-Sulfur Deadlines
- Bad Margins Keep Refiners from Meeting Low-Sulfur Deadlines Persistently weak refining margins since the fourth quarter of last year are putting greater pressure on downstream players to meet incoming tougher requirements to produce low sulfur gasoline and diesel, with a recent survey showing that refiners' environmental capital expenditure...
- Research articles 2002-10-04
- CONSULTANT SEES NEW LOOK FOR GLOBAL CLEAN FUELS REFINING
- -Guest Article Provided by Hart Downstream Energy Services Consultant Terry Higgins - Ultra-low sulfur fuels and other clean-fuels policies will add new dimensions to refining complexity. Desulfurization will be expanded or revised dramatically followed by changes in the light oil processing area. There are a number of technologies...
- Research articles 2004-06-07
- Williams Partners L.P. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions And we’ll take our first question from Darren Horowitz with Raymond James. Darren Horowitz – Raymond James Hi, guys, good morning. Just a quick question for you. You mentioned the ethane rejection in December. Can you give us an update on what you’re...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-01
- CNOOC methanol project makes successful ignition.(China National Offshore Oil Corporation)(Brief article)
- The converter of the CNOOC's China National Offshore Oil Corporation 600 000 t/a methanol project, the most important control point for the trial run progress, made successful ignition in Dongfang Chemical City of Hainan province on August 28th, 2006. The train test run of syngas compressors...
- Research articles 2006-09-16
- OpenTV Corp. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Todd Mitchell - Kaufman Brothers. Todd Mitchell - Kaufman Brothers I have a question with regard to licensing of IPTs and the recent win with Macrovision or where had over NDS. The NDS is had indemnified to move customers in...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-06
- Tru-Si Technologies Makes Wafer Stacking a Possibility
- Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Tru-Si Technologies, manufacturer of atmospheric downstream plasma processing equipment, said it has found a way to hurdle the brick wall blocking the progress of Moore's Law. Instead of shrinking circuits smaller and smaller in silicon wafers, the company's ADP etching process can be applied to enable...
- Research articles 1999-12-06
- BP Profit Halves, Beats Forecasts on Cost Cuts
- By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters UK) - BP beat third-quarter earnings forecasts by a big margin in a sign Chief Executive Tony Hayward's restructuring plans were delivering results, with cost cuts ahead of targets and oil and gas output up strongly. BP said third-quarter replacement cost net profit, which strips...
- News items 2009-10-27
