Chevron Corporation is an energy company active in more than 180 countries; it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world’s six largest oil companies with a workforce of over 67,000 people worldwide and approximately 5, 000 service station employees.
The company has a worldwide marketing network in over eighty countries with approximately 24,000 retail sites, including those of affiliate companies with business interests in 13 power generating assets in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Chevron also has gas stations in Western Canada.
Chevron has major operations in the world’s most important oil and gas regions and is a leader in working in extremely difficult environments such as ultra deep water. Gasoline and refined products are sold under the Chevron, Texaco and Caltex brands. Chevron’s interests range from chemical production and mining to energy research and nanoscience. Along with a range of power facilities, the corporation is also the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of petrochemicals through its joint venture company Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem).
Chevron Corporation supports its employees and the wider community through projects that embrace development and sustainability. In July 2008, Chevron was named a 2008 Best Diversity Company by Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine. In the same year over $950 million was invested on products and services with minority- and women-owned business enterprises in the United States.