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our history
Upstream Resources LLC formed in 2000 to conduct exploration, scientific research, and economic assessment on industrial minerals, metals, and several other commodities (e.g. helium, kaolin, rare earth elements, silica sand). In 2002, our area of work expanded to include unconventional energy from oil sand, coalbed methane, shale gas, heavy oil, and geothermal resources.
Our main customers are large to mid-size mining companies and mid-size energy companies that want to evaluate new opportunities and either do not have the in-house expertise, do not want to utilize their personnel at an early stage of evaluation, or do not want to draw attention to their interest prematurely.
Our main customers are large to mid-size mining companies and mid-size energy companies that want to evaluate new opportunities and either do not have the in-house expertise, do not want to utilize their personnel at an early stage of evaluation, or do not want to draw attention to their interest prematurely.
Since 2007 we have been providing services to an increasing number of smaller companies and strategic investors that have well-defined objectives.
Mid- and end-market consumers of mineral commodities are now an important group of clients as they seek to understand and establish resilience in their supply chain, improve integrity of supply, and achieve ESG objectives.
A distinguishing characteristic of Upstream Resources is that we develop long term relationships with our clients resulting in collaboration to achieve technical, commercial, and educational goals.
Mid- and end-market consumers of mineral commodities are now an important group of clients as they seek to understand and establish resilience in their supply chain, improve integrity of supply, and achieve ESG objectives.
A distinguishing characteristic of Upstream Resources is that we develop long term relationships with our clients resulting in collaboration to achieve technical, commercial, and educational goals.
Why Choose Us
Trust
On behalf of clients and partners worldwide, Upstream Resources undertakes exploration programs, resource investment, and mineral development projects.
Our roles include: project generation, property acquisition, design and execution of field and drilling programs, geologic and resource modeling, stakeholder support, and project development through design-build delivery process.
An important characteristic about Upstream Resources is that we develop long term relationships with our clients resulting in collaboration that typically lasts 5+ years. Our role typically evolves from a technical role to an operational role to an advisory role during our tenure with our clients.
Integrity
Upstream Resources is involved in mineral and energy resource projects worldwide. Our role focuses on component and integrated geoscience input that are critical to current and future stages of mineral resource investment and development.
We specialize in designing and undertaking tasks that provide conclusive data for use in technical, economic, social, and environmental evaluations.
Our customers are exploration, mining, and energy companies; service companies, processing companies, end users, government agencies, interest groups, consulting firms, analysts, and investors.
We specialize in designing and undertaking tasks that provide conclusive data for use in technical, economic, social, and environmental evaluations.
Our customers are exploration, mining, and energy companies; service companies, processing companies, end users, government agencies, interest groups, consulting firms, analysts, and investors.
Expertise
Upstream Resources brings direct experience working in over 20 countries on more than 24 commodities.
We have firsthand capabilities in field, drilling, geophysical, mining, procesing, lab, and digital techniques.
In addition, we have a reputation for innovation that quickly develops & deploys customized solutions to field operations; sampling & data acquisiiton from drilling & coring; process & product evaluation,
Commodities: Barite, Bauxite, Bitumen, Borate, Coal bed methane, Cobalt, Copper (stratiform), Diatomite, Geothermal, Gold, Graphite, Helium, Iron, Kaolin, Limestone, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Nickel (laterite), Oil & Gas, Oil Sand, Phosphate, Potash, Rare earths, Silica sand, Soda ash (trona), Titanium (mineral sands), Zinc
Our Experience & Interests
Country experience: Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Russia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, UK, USA, Venezuela
Selected Projects
Coalbed methane production, long-reach directional drilling & coring with intersection into vertical borehole.
Process development, chemical feedstock, lab- to pilot- to demonstration-scale.
Coalbed methane well drilling, completion, production, gathering, conditioning project.
North African field mapping, ground truth and sampling program.
Potash definitional drilling, coring, borehole petrophysics program. Project management & onsite operations.
Reservoir charge & characterization; continous core frozen on location; specialized slim hole petrophysical logging program.
Custom core lab designed & built for photographing, logging, & sampling core.
Field mapping and sampling program. Idaho cobalt belt.
