from the shareholders and governing bodies of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium for a $5.4 billion expansion of the Caspian Pipeline. The capacity of the 935-mile pipeline, which carries crude oil from western Kazakhstan to a dedicated terminal on the Black Sea, will increase to 1.4 million barrels per day.

     Liberia The company acquired a 70 percent interest and operatorship in three deepwater blocks covering 2.4 million acres off the coast of Liberia in western Africa. A three-year exploratory program began in fourth quarter 2010.

     Poland Acquisition work commenced in October 2010 on a 2-D seismic survey across the company’s four shale gas licenses in southeast Poland. Chevron has a 100 percent-owned and operated interest in these four concessions, totalling 1.1 million acres.

     Republic of the Congo Discoveries were confirmed at the Bilondo Marine 2 and 3 wells within the Moho-Bilondo license. Chevron has a 31.5 percent interest in the permit area.

     Romania The company successfully bid on three shale gas exploration blocks, comprising approximately 670,000 acres, in the southeast region of the country. In February 2011, the company acquired a 100 percent interest in the EV-2 Barlad shale gas concession, covering 1.5 million acres in the northeast region of the country.

     Russia The company signed a nonbinding HOA for a deepwater development partnership on the Shatsky Ridge in the eastern Black Sea.

     Turkey The company signed a Joint Operation Agreement for an exploration license in the Black Sea. Chevron acquired a 50 percent interest in a western portion of License 3921, a 5.6 million-acre block located 220 miles northwest of the capital city of Ankara.

     United States In March 2010, first oil was achieved at the nonoperated Perdido Regional Development in the Gulf of Mexico. Located in nearly 8,000 feet of water, Perdido is also the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas drilling and production spar. Chevron has a 37.5 percent working interest in the Perdido regional host facility.

     The company sanctioned development of the Jack/St. Malo project in October 2010, the company’s first operated project located in the Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Seven exploration and appraisal wells have been successfully and safely drilled at these fields since 2003. Chevron has a working interest of 50 percent in the Jack Field and 51 percent in the St. Malo Field.

     In December 2010, the company sanctioned development of the 60 percent-owned and operated Big Foot project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

     In April 2010, the company successfully bid for new exploration acreage in a central Gulf of Mexico lease sale.

     In February 2011, the company completed the acquisition of Atlas Energy, Inc., for $4.47 billion including assumed debt. Atlas holds one of the premier acreage positions in the Marcellus Shale, concentrated in southwestern Pennsylvania.

     Venezuela In February 2010, a Chevron-led consortium was named the operator of the Carabobo 3 heavy-oil project, composed of three blocks in the Orinoco Oil Belt of eastern Venezuela. A joint operating company, Petroindependencia, was