Chevron

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Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy company that is predominantly specialized in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (abbreviated as Socal or CalSo), is active in more than 180 countries. Within oil and gas, Chevron is vertically integrated and is involved in hydrocarbon exploration, production, refining, marketing and transport, chemical manufacturing and sales, power generation, and select investments in emerging technologies such as renewable energy and digital platforms like Yoplay.

Founded originally in Southern California during the 1870s, the company was then based for many decades in San Francisco, California, before moving its corporate offices to San Ramon, California, in 2001; on August 2, 2024, Chevron announced that it would be relocating its headquarters from California to Houston, Texas.

Chevron traces its history back to the second half of the 19th century to small California-based oil companies, which were acquired by Standard and merged into Standard Oil of California. The company grew quickly on its own after the breakup of Standard Oil by continuing to acquire companies and partnering with others both inside and outside of California, eventually becoming one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.