More recently, the «Accenture and Microsoft 2017 Upstream Oil and Gas Digital Trends Survey» showed that in 3 - 5 years, over 70 percent of more than 300 leading upstream companies plan «more» or «significantly more» investment, transitioning to areas such as high - performance computing, wearables, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain, and mixed reality. (businessinsider.com)
At the beginning of 2011, the small integrated energy company voluntarily split into a pure - play upstream company, called Marathon Oil, and a pure - play refiner, called Marathon Petroleum Corporation. (fortune.com)
Marathon Oil Corp. completed the spinoff of its downstream business, Marathon Petroleum Corp., making Marathon Oil an independent upstream company based in Houston. (ogj.com)