page_title: Caltex
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Caltex / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Caltex home lubricant
context_page_description: Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in 29 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.
context_section_description: Caltex began in 1936 as the California Texas Oil Company, a joint venture between the Texas Company (later named Texaco) and Standard Oil of California (later named Chevron Corp.) to market oil from newly gained concessions in Bahrain. It was renamed Caltex Petroleum Corp. in 1968. The two parent companies merged in 2001 to form ChevronTexaco (renamed Chevron in 2005) and Caltex remains one of its major international brand names.
  Caltex timeline:
  1936 Chevron and Texaco form the Caltex Group to operate in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
  1940s Caltex aids allied war effort.
  1947 Tankers purchased from surplus U.S wartime fleet; Texaco's European subsidiaries purchased.
  1948 Caltex enters partnership with Japan's Nippon Oil Company
  1949–66 Caltex builds or has interest in new refineries in 20 countries.
  1967 European interests transferred to Chevron and Texaco; Caltex refocuses on Africa and Asia.
  1968 Caltex enters Korean market.
  1981–83 Acquisitions strengthen position in Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia.
  1982 Caltex corporate headquarters move to Dallas, Texas.
  1985 Representative office opened in Beijing, China.
  1990s Caltex moves into promising markets such as India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Lebanon.
  1996 Caltex introduces new corporate and retail identity.
  1998 Caltex relocates corporate center to Singapore.
  1998 Caltex reorganizes along functional business lines.
  1999 Caltex changes name to Caltex Corporation.
  2014 Caltex shut down Kurnell (Australia) refinery and converted the site to an import facility.
caption: Caltex home lubricant
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