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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.
Texas Company Building at 1111 Rusk St. in Houston. The company moved to larger facilities in 1989 "The Texas Company" Galveston station, c. 1910-20. Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the "Texas Fuel Company" in 1902, [6] by Jim Hogg, Joseph S. Cullinan, John Warne Gates, and Arnold Schlaet.
Gulf Oil Limited Partnership (GOLP), based in Framingham, Massachusetts, has bought a license for North American rights to the Gulf brand from Chevron. Chevron still owned the Gulf brand, but was making almost no direct use of it. In January 2010, GOLP bought the entire brand from Chevron and began a nationwide expansion campaign.
Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. [1] Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron.
On Wednesday, Chevron said it will lay off up 20% of its global workforce amid efforts to trim $2 billion to $3 billion in costs by 2026. ... ‘A crossroads in history’: Europe seeks to take ...
Chart detailing the history of some of the largest Standard Oil descendants; bold denotes extant corporations Following the 1911 Supreme Court ruling that found Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly, the company was broken up into 39 different entities, divided primarily by region and activity.
A Brief History of Chevron's Returns. Motley Fool Staff. Updated July 14, 2016 at 6:25 PM. ... Chevron's normalized earnings per share grew by an average of 12.7% a year from 2001 until today.
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