Chevron Corporation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:02:04 1 History
00:02:14 1.1 Predecessors
00:04:16 1.2 Formation of the Chevron name
00:08:12 1.3 Merger with Texaco and post-merger
00:11:08 2 Operations
00:11:35 2.1 Upstream
00:15:15 2.2 Downstream
00:17:51 2.3 Alternative energy
00:20:44 3 Corporate affairs
00:20:53 3.1 Finance
00:21:37 3.2 Headquarters
00:22:39 3.3 Political contributions
00:23:09 3.4 Board of directors
00:23:54 4 Niger Delta Partnership Initiative
00:24:29 5 Controversies
00:24:39 5.1 Environmental damage in Ecuador
00:29:38 5.2 Oil spills in Angola
00:30:13 5.3 U.S. Clean Air Act Settlements
00:31:47 5.4 NiMH battery technology for automobiles
00:35:45 5.5 Niger Delta shootings
00:36:57 5.6 UN sanctions
00:37:30 5.7 Richmond, California refinery
00:39:27 5.8 Oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro
00:40:35 5.9 iKS Endeavor/i explosion
00:42:00 5.10 Forest Fire in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh
00:42:29 5.11 Polish gas exploration
00:44:07 5.12 Argentina agreement and protests
00:45:09 5.13 Public Eye Lifetime Award
00:46:14 5.14 Global warming
00:46:49 6 See also



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Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. One of the successor companies of Standard Oil, it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries. Chevron is engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries, including hydrocarbon exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world's largest oil companies; as of  2017, it ranked nineteenth in the Fortune 500 list of the top US closely held and public corporations and sixteenth on the Fortune Global 500 list of the top 500 corporations worldwide. It was also one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
Chevron's downstream operations manufacture and sell products such as fuels, lubricants, additives and petrochemicals. The company's most significant areas of operations are the west coast of North America, the U.S. Gulf Coast, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Australia and South Africa. In 2010, Chevron sold an average 3.1 million barrels per day (490×103 m3/d) of refined products like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Chevron's alternative energy operations include geothermal, solar, wind power, biofuel, fuel cells, and hydrogen. In 2011–2013, the company planned to spend at least $2 billion on research and acquisition of renewable power ventures.  Chevron has claimed to be the world's largest producer of geothermal energy.  In October 2011, Chevron launched a 29-MW thermal solar-to-steam facility in the Coalinga Field to produce the steam for enhanced oil recovery. The project is the largest of its kind in the world.