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The Chevron Richmond Refinery is a 2,900-acre (1,200 ha) petroleum refinery in Richmond, California, on San Francisco Bay. [1] It is owned and operated by Chevron Corporation and employs more than 1,200 workers, [ 1 ] making it the city's largest employer. [ 2 ]
Hundreds of Chevron workers walked off the job at the Chevron Richmond refinery on Monday asking for a 17% pay raise to offset inflation and rising health care costs.
Though more than 500 refinery workers walked off the job in Richmond Monday, Chevron says they don't anticipate the strike impacting gas prices.
Chevron is the largest employer in town but as CBE research has shown, compared with the statewide average for all business activity oil refining creates ten times fewer jobs. [17] In 2009, CBE and other local organizations filed a petition to have the Chevron Refinery's plan to expand looked at once more.
The Richmond Standard is a news site for Richmond, California that functions as the city's only local news outlet. Opened in 2014, It is funded by the Chevron Corporation, which owns the Chevron Richmond Refinery. The site has been criticized for its lack of coverage of stories that are negative toward Chevron. [1]
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Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.
It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California. February 21, 1978 - An explosion & fire at a Rialto pipeline tank farm injured a passerby. [13] February 9, 1980 - A tank farm fire in Kern County. [14] April 10, 1989 – An explosion and fire occurred in a cracking column at the Chevron Richmond refinery.