Images from top, left to right: Railroad in Yulee, Robert M. Foster Justice Center, Yulee High School, Tributary of the Nassau River. Yulee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, Florida, United States. The population is currently 12,702 as of July 2016. Yulee is part of the Jacksonville metropolitan area, which was home to 1,449,481 people in 2015.
Along the way there are quite a few integral steps. The upstream part of the industry involves the first phase of finding and drilling oil, the midstream phase involves shipping and storing the oil, and the downstream phase involves refining and distributing the processed oil-based products.
Downstream operations are oil and gas operations that take place after the production phase, through to the point of sale. Downstream operations can include refining crude oil and distributing the byproducts, such as gasoline, natural gas liquids, diesel and a variety of other energy sources, down to the retail level. The closer an oil and gas company is to the process of providing consumers with petroleum products, the further downstream the company is said to be.