This article is about the Standard Oil descendant. For similarly named companies, see Chevron.
Chevron Corporation
Logo used since 2005.
Chevron's former headquarters complex in San Ramon, California
Formerly
Pacific Coast Oil Co.[1] (1879–1906)
Standard Oil of California (1906–1984)[2]
ChevronTexaco Corporation (2001–2005)
Company type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: CVX
DJIA component
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
ISIN
US1667641005
Industry
Energy
Oil and gas
Predecessors
Standard Oil (1870–1911)
Founded
September 10, 1879; 144 years ago (1879-09-10) as "Pacific Coast Oil Co."[3]
Headquarters
San Ramon, California, U.S.[4]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Mike Wirth (Chairman and CEO)[5]
Products
Gasoline, natural gas and other petrochemicals
Brands
Chevron
Texaco
Caltex
Havoline
Techron
Calso (1946–55)
Gulf (1985–2010)
Revenue
US$200.9 billion (2023)
Operating income
US$29.58 billion (2023)
Net income
US$21.37 billion (2023)
Total assets
US$261.6 billion (2023)
Total equity
US$160.9 billion (2023)
Number of employees
45,600 (December 2023)
Parent
Standard Oil Co. (1900–1911)
Subsidiaries
Chevron Phillips Chemical
Chevron Sri Lanka
Website
chevron.com
Footnotes / references [6]
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries. Within oil and gas, Chevron is vertically integrated and is involved in hydrocarbon exploration, production, refining, marketing and transport, chemicals manufacturing and sales, and power generation.
Chevron traces its history back to the 1870s to small California-based oil companies which were acquired by Standard and merged into Standard Oil of California. The company grew quickly on its own after the breakup of Standard Oil by continuing to acquire companies and partnering with others both inside and outside of California, eventually becoming one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. In 1985, Socal merged with the Pittsburgh-based Gulf Oil and rebranded as Chevron; the newly merged company later merged with Texaco in 2001.[7] Chevron manufactures and sells fuels, lubricants, additives, and petrochemicals, primarily in Western North America, the US Gulf Coast, Southeast Asia, South Korea and Australia. In 2018, the company produced an average of 791,000 barrels (125,800 m3) of net oil-equivalent per day in United States.[8]
Chevron is one of the largest companies in the world and the second largest oil company based in the United States by revenue, only behind fellow Standard Oil descendant ExxonMobil. Chevron ranked 10th on the Fortune 500 in 2023. The company is also the last-remaining oil and gas component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since ExxonMobil's exit from the index in 2020.[9][10]
Chevron has been subject to numerous controversies arising out of its activities, the most notable of which being related to its activities and inherited liabilities from its acquisition of Texaco in the Lago Agrio oil field, which include allegations of both Chevron and Texaco collectively dumping 18 billion tons of toxic waste and spilling 17 million US gallons (64,000,000 L) of petroleum.[11] Chevron and Texaco's activities were the subject of a lawsuit Chevron lost to Ecuadorian residents defended in Ecuadorian court by Steven Donziger. Due to accusations of Donziger bribing the Ecuadorian court and the subsequent disbarment and criminal contempt charges against Donziger, Chevron was accused by environmentalists and human rights groups of jailing Donziger and compelling the US Federal Government to deny Donziger due process of law.[12][13]
^Chevron history on Chevron website
^Standard Oil History at the Encyclopedia Britannica
^Kaszynski, William (2000). The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United States. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 47. ISBN 0786408227. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
^2020 First quarter form 10-Q
^DiChristopher, Tom (September 28, 2017). "Chevron names Mike Wirth chairman and CEO". MSNBC. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
^"2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 26, 2024.
^Chevron Policy, Government and Public Affairs. "Chevron History". chevron.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
^"United States Highlights of Operations". chevron.com. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^"Check out Chevron Corp's stock price (CVX) in real time". CNBC. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
^"Chevron | 2022 Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
^"Chevron wins Ecuador rainforest 'oil dumping' case". BBC News. September 7, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
^Dorrell, Taylor (November 4, 2021). "How Chevron imprisoned environmental lawyer Steven Donziger". People's World. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
^Paz, Isabella Grullón (October 28, 2021). "Lawyer Who Won $9.5 Billion Judgment Against Chevron Reports to Prison". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
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