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31 unusual facts about Chevron Corporation


Adar oilfield

The Chevron Corporation discovered the Adar Yale field in 1981, shortly before the start of the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005).

Alabama State Route 204

There is a Chevron station at the caution light before going uphill and across a high bridge over a deep valley.

Allegheny County belt system

Prior to its acquisition by the Chevron Corporation in 1980, the Gulf Oil Corporation, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, published a map of Allegheny County prominently displaying the Belt System.

Autopia

In 2000, Disneyland replaced both existing Autopia tracks with a new, much larger Autopia sponsored by Chevron.

Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The town reportedly fell to the rebels, and two foreign employees of the Chevron oil company were captured.

Beyneu

There is a railway station, and further up north in Kasura, there is a Chevron oil plant.

Corey Hébert

Dr. Hebert is a motivational speaker for many national companies including Chevron and Essence Magazine as well as countless charitable organizations and Churches throughout the United States.

Craig Peyer

Cara Knott was last seen alive at a Chevron gas station just two miles away from the murder scene.

Cyclone Rosita

Chevron Australia said a tanker due to arrive on 18 April was asked to delay its arrival till 22 April because of the cyclone.

Economy of the Republic of the Congo

Chevron, independent CMS Nomeco, and Exxon Mobil are among the American companies active in petroleum exploration or production.

Francis Muir

He then transferred to the Chevron Oilfield Research Company, which he left in 1983 as Senior Research Associate.

Frederick S. Humphries

He is employed as a Senior Analyst at Chevron Africa & Latin America Exploration & Production Co.

Grosmont Formation

The first attempts to produce oil from the Grosmont dates back to the 1970s, when the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority and industry partners Union Oil Canada and Chevron Resources Canada conducted an unsuccessful production pilot.

Irene Tsu

She was featured playing the wiki wiki girl in the Wiki wiki dollar advertising campaign for Chevron Corporation in the 1960s.

Joseph F. Holt

She had to determine which of the three men on stage was the real member of Congress, between a Chevron service station attendant/owner from the San Fernando Valley named Earl Sager and a press agent for Ringling Brothers Circus named Norman Carroll.

Kurnell Refinery

It is operated by Caltex, and owned by the Chevron Corp., one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world.

Milford, Texas

Just after 8:30AM CDT on November 14, 2013, an explosion and resulting fire occurred near the intersection of Highway 77 and FM 308 when a Chevron Corporation liquefied petroleum gas pipeline was punctured by a Chevron drilling crew.

Ninian Central Platform

Originally operated by Chevron Petroleum (UK), a division of Chevron, it is currently operated by CNR.

Orvis

In 1994, Leigh Perkins, Orvis CEO from 1965 to 1992, received the Chevron Corporation's Chevron Conservation Award for lifetime achievements in conservation, perhaps the most prestigious such award given in the United States.

Pinang Kampai Airport

It serves a commercial flight of Sky Aviation from/to Pekanbaru and charter flights from Jakarta-Halim and Pekanbaru for Pertamina and Chevron Pacific Indonesia.

Pittsburg, Kansas

In September 2007, Chevron which owned the company, merged it with its Molycorp Inc. coal mining division to form Chevron Mining, thus ending the Pittsburg corporate name.

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Notable was Avakian's organizing work at a Chevron plant in the Bay Area as an organizing model to link the insurgent student movements with working people in struggle.

Ronald Greeley

After receiving his Ph.D. in Geology in 1966, Greeley worked for Standard Oil Company of California.

Ronald L. Ellis

Berlinger had been forced to yield his outtakes for a film about Chevron operations in Ecuador because he had removed a scene at the request of his subjects.

Sam Laidlaw

He was Executive Vice President of Global Business Development of the California-based Chevron Corporation from May 2003 and became Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Oil in 2002 (which was bought under his leadership by Shell in 2002 for £3.5bn).

San Francisco Sentinel

Amazon Watch wrote in 2008 that petroleum giant Chevron appeared to be paying Murphy to write positively about Chevron and negatively about its opponents in Ecuador and Nigeria.

Solar thermal enhanced oil recovery

In October 2011, Chevron Corp. and BrightSource Energy revealed a 29-megawatt solar- to-steam facility at the Coalinga Oil Field in Fresno County, California.

St. Johns Signal Tower Gas Station

It was in operation as a gas station until 1984, but changed brand from Signal Gas to Hellman's Golden Eagle Gas Station in 1954 and, in turn, became a Chevron station in 1965.

Steven R. Donziger

On February 14, 2011, a local court in Ecuador ordered Chevron Corporation to pay $18.1 billion.

Wiki wiki dollar

A wiki wiki dollar was a giveaway promotion in the United States from the Chevron gasoline company during the 1960s.

Żurawlów

During summer 2013 "Occupy Chevron" protesters occupied the field near Żurawlów where Chevron Corporation plans to drill an exploratory well for shale gas.


2008 Sharpie 500

Texaco's Havoline brand motor oil, owned by Chevron, has announced that they will not return to NASCAR.

Balikpapan

Companies including Baker Hughes (US), ChevronTexaco (US), Halliburton (US), Pertamina (Indonesia), Schlumberger (France), Thiess (Australia), Total S.A. (France) and Weatherford International (US) use Balikpapan as their base of operations in the region.

Da Vinci Schools

Some of Da Vinci Schools’ partners include: Northrop Grumman, Belkin International, The Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Raytheon, SpaceX, Art Center College of Design, Mattel, Gensler, Deutsch advertising, Karten Design, Project Lead the Way, Antioch University Los Angeles, Marymount California University, and many more.

Downtown St. John's

ExxonMobil Canada has its headquarters in the Cabot Building on New Gower Street, as well Chevron, Statoil and Suncor Energy along with other oil and gas companies have major operations downtown.

Drilling and Killing

The documentary suggested the possibility for the first time that Chevron played a role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers by facilitating an attack by the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL).

Evangelos Marinakis

With a total deadweight capacity of over 4 million tonnes, the vessels enter into long-term charters with strong counterparties around the world, such as BP Shipping, COSCO (China), Hyundai Merchant Marine (S.Korea), Maersk Line, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total (France), Repsol, Statoil (Norway), Pemex (Mexico), Petrobras (Brazil), Cepsa (Spain).

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

George H. Peck

Among his larger real estate transactions were the sale of properties for the Standard Oil (now Chevron) refinery at what became El Segundo and the Army's Fort MacArthur at San Pedro.

Gorgon gas project

WAPET was the operator on behalf of various joint ventures comprising Chevron, Texaco, Shell and Ampolex (the exploration division of Ampol).

Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement

MESA has established an active partnership with industry and STEM leaders such as AT&T, Chevron, Google, HP, Sempra Energy, and PG&E.

Oil industry in Poland

During summer 2013 "Occupy Chevron" protesters occupied the field near Żurawlów in the Grabowiec district where Chevron Corporation plans to drill an exploratory well.

Orphan basin

A wide Mesozoic rift zone, the Basin spans 160,000 square kilometres and has been studied and explored by the oil & gas companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Imperial Oil, and Shell Canada.

The current Chevron well in the Basin is almost twice as deep as the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf, possibly posing increased risk for blowout preventer failure.

Poly Technologies

Poly has established business relations with hundreds of enterprises and governmental organizations of nearly 100 countries and regions, including many world famous multinational corporations such as Boeing of the United States, Bombardier Inc. of Canada, Chevron - Texaco of the United States, Benz of Germany, Ferrari of Italy, State Corporation 'Rosoboronexport' and Japanese Sagawa Logistic Co., Ltd.

Shale gas by country

"Fracking" is prohibited by moratorium despite the 30-million-euro contract signed with Chevron for the exploration of shale gas deposits in Novi Pazar.

Thomas L. Cummings, Sr.

His son, Thomas L. Cummings, Jr., was a businessman and founder of Cummings Signs, a manufacturer of corporate brand signs for the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, KFC, Captain D's, the Chevron Corporation, Conoco, Holiday Inn and Bank of America.

W. D. Twichell

On September 29, 2010, Chevron, Atlantic Richfield, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, which held the remaining Twichell papers, donated the surveys to the office of General Land Commissioner Jerry E. Patterson.