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Upstream

This is where it all begins. Where the story of safely and responsibly meeting the global demand for energy starts. Across the upstream, our geologists, engineers and scientists work tirelessly to explore for and develop oil and natural gas using innovation and industry-leading technology.

Upstream business lines

Our Upstream business is organized into five businesses: unconventional, deepwater, heavy oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and conventional. This organizational model is underpinned by deep technical and commercial capabilities along each value chain.

Conventional

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Conventional oil and natural gas is the largest and most diverse value chain in the Upstream portfolio, and has operations spanning a wide range of operating conditions in nearly 20 countries. 
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Unconventional

We have expertise in developing tight gas, shale gas and unconventional oil resources. 
We operate in all of the major U.S. unconventional producing regions and Western Canada and provide support and technical services to the corporation’s operations in Argentina. ExxonMobil Unconventional manages 11 million acres with a total resource base of about 33 billion oil equivalent barrels.
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG)

With over 40 years of global leadership experience in LNG, ExxonMobil is active across the natural gas value chain in most major markets.
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Deepwater

Our unique challenge consists of deploying technologies and methods to safely develop a wide range of resources both onshore and offshore in diverse locations around the world.
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Heavy oil

ExxonMobil and its majority-owned affiliate Imperial Oil Limited (IOL) have a significant heavy-oil-asset portfolio.
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Technology

50

years’ experience developing Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies within ExxonMobil, making us a leader in CCS.

Additionally, technology advances such as artificial intelligence enable seismic data interpretation, enhance exploration activities, and improve subsurface understanding, all of which increase resource recovery. Technology also allows us to optimize developments and improve operations.

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First oil in Guyana

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Capital-efficient cube development across multiple stacked producing horizons maximizes the recovered resource by minimizing or removing potential parent-child production impacts caused by pressure depletion. Applying this approach at scale differentiates our operations from competitors. Above, seven rigs drill stacked targets within our Permian Basin acreage. Simultaneously accessing multiple shale layers reduces costs and minimizes surface footprint.

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