Chevron Corporation

Chevron has given campaign donations to California governor Pete Wilson, California attorney general Dan Lungren, California legislator Pete Knight, and San Francisco supervisor Amos Brown. (This story was portrayed in the Kirk Douglas movie The Heroes of Telemark). Communities for a Better Environment sued Chevron, Unocal (also an initiative funder), and other oil companies for polluting Latino and African-American communities in Los Angeles. During the Second World War the Rjukan plant was the only location in Europe which produced heavy water, and consequently was the target of several commando and air raids which eventually resulted in the plant's destruction and later reconstruction. Chevron's warning system was delayed for up to a half-hour after the blast. The project will use Pelamis P-750 Wave Energy Converters developed by Ocean Power Delivery to produce an estimated 2.25 megawatts of renewable energy in the subsequent year. Hundreds of people living nearby complained of difficulty breathing and vomiting afterwards. In May 2005, Norsk Hydro AS became a major backer of a Portuguese wave-farming project to produce electricity from wave power.

The 10th accident occurred on 25 March 1999, when the refinery exploded. Eivind Reiten has been the CEO since 2001. Chevron had ten refinery accidents in ten years at their refinery in Richmond, Ca. There are total of around 36,000 employees. The Nigerian government is reportedly 80% dependent upon oil production and is condemned by many for its reported treatment of environmentalists. The Norwegian state holds a 43.8 percent ownership interest in the company. Soldiers shot the activists and subsequently two activists died from their wounds. Hydro has operations in some 40 countries around the world and is active on all continents.

Chevron brought the military in by helicopter. In 1999 Hydro acquired another Norwegian oil and gas company, Saga Petroleum, and in 2002 Hydro acquired the leading German aluminium producer VAW from the German utility company E.on. In 1998, activists were staging a demonstration on an oil platform in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. The company is the second largest oil and gas operator on the Norwegian continental shelf and the third largest integrated aluminium company world wide. They settled for $18.3 million. Hydro presently has two core businesses, Oil & Energy and Aluminium. 43 of the employees sued Chevron and Monsanto for age discrimination. Hydro distributed all its Yara shares to Hydro's shareholders and presently has no ownership in Yara.

"Mother's Day Massacre" : In 1993, the day before Mother's Day, Ortho, a joint division of Chevron and Monsanto, fired more than 60 sales people, 90% of them over 40 years old. Hydro's fertilizer business was spun off as a separately stock-listed company under the name of Yara International on March 26, 2004. Chevron settled the rest of the charges for $7.42 million. Hydro's first factory was built at Notodden followed up with another at Rjukan, Tinn. In 1995, they settled the harassment claim for $2.2 million. The technology had been developed by the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, who originally intended use it in the construction of an electric cannon. In 1992, 777 women filed a class-action suit against Chevron for discrimination and tolerating sexual harassment at Chevron Information Technology Company in San Ramon. The company was founded on December 2, 1905 by Sam Eyde, exploiting a novel technology for producing artificial fertilizers by fixing nitrogen from air.

. Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian oil and energy and integrated aluminium company, headquartered in Oslo. As of August 2005 [2]:. Additionally, the company is investing in the field of nanotechnology, evaluating a new class of molecular building blocks that potentially may be useful in many industries. The company also develops and commercializes advanced energy technologies, including fuel cells, photovoltaics, and advanced batteries, and is active in research and development efforts to utilize hydrogen as a fuel for transport and power.

Alabama: 604 Bessemer Super Hwy, Birmingham
Alaska: 2200 West Dimond Blvd, Anchorage
Arizona: 10444 N 32nd Street, Phoenix
California: 1501 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Florida: 7400 NW 36th Street, Miami
Georgia: 2520 N Four Lane Hwy, Atlanta
Hawaii: 86-038 Farrington Hwy, Waianae, Oahu
Idaho: 3200 West State St, Boise
Kentucky: 480 Connector Rd (@ I-75), Georgetown
Mississippi: 800 Clay Street, Vicksburg
Nevada: 3201 W Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas
New Mexico: 1000 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque
Oregon: 10950 SE Oak Street, Milwaukee
Texas: 6350 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth
Utah: 5595 S Redwood Street, Taylorsville
Washington: 3725 150th Ave SE, Bellevue
. [1] The locations of these stations are:. To maintain ownership of the mark, the company owns and operates one Standard-branded Chevron station in each state of its area. Chevron is the owner of the Standard Oil trademark in a 16-state area of the western and southeastern United States.

This company would later become known as Texaco. Another side of the genealogical chart points to the 1901 founding of The Texas Fuel Company, a modest enterprise that started out in three rooms of a corrugated iron building in Beaumont, Texas. This find led to the formation, in 1879, of the Pacific Coast Oil Company, the predecessor of Chevron Corporation. The company marked its 125th anniversary in 2004, tracing its roots to an oil discovery at Pico Canyon, north of Los Angeles.

The company also has interests in 13 power generating assets in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The company has a worldwide marketing network in 84 countries with approximately 24,000 retail sites, including those of affiliate companies. In addition, the company had a global refining capacity at year-end 2003 of 2.2 million barrels (350,000 m³) of crude oil per day. Daily production in 2003 was 2.5 million net oil-equivalent barrels (400,000 m³) per day.

Chevron employs approximately 53,000 people worldwide and had approximately 12 billion barrels (1.9 km³) of oil-equivalent net proved reserves at December 31, 2003. . Texaco will remain as a brand under the Chevron Corporation. On May 9, 2005, ChevronTexaco announced it would drop the Texaco moniker and return to the Chevron name.

In 2001, the former Chevron corporation merged with Texaco to form ChevronTexaco. Its headquarters are in San Ramon at 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road 94583. Chevron has facilities in 90 countries. Headquartered in San Ramon, California and 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.

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