English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation
(
redirect) 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; , it ranked third 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.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License