Knowra Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Its businesses span oil and natural gas production, refining, chemicals, and lower-carbon energy.
Upstream (petroleum industry) : The oil and gas industry activities of exploration, development, and production. Chevron’s upstream operations find and produce crude oil and natural gas.
Pacific Coast Oil Company : A California oil company founded in 1879 that became part of Standard Oil’s western operations. It is an early corporate predecessor in Chevron’s lineage.
Tengiz Field : A large oil field in Kazakhstan developed by an international consortium that includes Chevron. Tengiz is one of Chevron’s major international production projects.
Chevron Corporation v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. : A 1984 U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a framework for judicial deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. The decision, named for Chevron, became a major rule of U.S. administrative law.
ExxonMobil : An American multinational oil and gas company formed through the 1999 merger of Exxon and Mobil. ExxonMobil is Chevron’s closest U.S. peer in integrated oil and gas.
Downstream (petroleum industry) : The oil and gas activities of refining, processing, distribution, and sales. Chevron turns crude oil into fuels and delivers products to markets.
Standard Oil : An American oil trust founded by John D. Rockefeller and dissolved under antitrust law in 1911. Chevron traces its roots to Standard Oil’s western affiliate.
Gorgon LNG : A liquefied natural gas project on Barrow Island in Western Australia. Chevron operates Gorgon, a major source of its LNG output.
Texaco–CITGO Ecuador litigation : Litigation arising from pollution claims linked to Texaco’s former oil operations in Ecuador. The dispute continued after Chevron acquired Texaco and became a defining legal controversy.
Shell plc : A British multinational energy company with operations in oil, gas, chemicals, and lower-carbon energy. Shell offers an international comparison in scale and energy-transition strategy.
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