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Chevron Corporation is an integrated non-governmental energy company headquartered in San Ramón, California. Present in more than 100 countries, it is involved in all facets of the oil and gas industry and is known as one of the largest and most powerful energy entities in the world.
Origins
In 1879, oil was discovered at Pico Canyon, which is north of Los Angeles and is currently Pico Canyon Oilfield. This led to the founding of Pacific Coast Oil Company, the first incarnation of Chevron.
Fusion and transformation
With the antitrust disintegration of the Standard Oil company of the industrialist John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937) in 1911, the Pacific Coast Oil Company changed its name to Standard Oil Company of California. Meanwhile, a decade earlier, a like-minded company (the Texas Fuel Company) had been formed in Beaumont, Texas. Later he would change his name to Texaco. For the year 2001, when Texaco merged with Standard Oil, the latter had changed its name to Chevron Corporation; at the time he acquired the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1984. The new company is now called ChevronTexaco.
Actual state
However, in 2005, the company returned to the Chevron name to unify its components and its global presence. The acquisition of Unocal Corporation that year further solidified Chevron as a world leader in energy.
Activities
Chevron is dedicated to efforts in the crude oil and natural gas industry, which involves exploration and production; manufacturing, marketing and transportation; and power generation. Other interests include the management of worldwide cash and debt financing activities, corporate administrative functions, coal mining operations, insurance operations, real estate activities, technology companies, and security and environmental preservation.
Global Reach
In 2008, Chevron’s global workforce was estimated at around 70,000 employees, and the company produced 2.53 million barrels of oil equivalent net daily, with about 75% of that volume occurring outside the United States. in more than 20 nations. She is nicknamed as one of the “Seven Sisters”; one of the seven companies that dominated the production, refining and distribution of oil in the mid-twentieth century.