commencing in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

 The company and its partners in the North West Shelf (NWS) venture agreed in mid-2005 to expand the project’s onshore LNG facilities in Western Australia. Chevron holds a one-sixth interest in the NWS venture. The $1.5 billion project includes adding a fifth train that will increase LNG export capacity by more than 4 million metric tons per year to approximately 16 million metric tons per year, with startup expected in 2008. In December 2005, the NWS joint venture participants approved development of the Angel natural gas field, which will provide the natural gas supply for the Train 5 expansion.

     In Nigeria, the company awarded a $1.7 billion contract in April 2005 for the engineering, procurement and construction of the Escravos gas-to-liquids project. Plant construction began in 2005 including major equipment fabrication and site preparation.

     In the third quarter 2005, installation began on a 350-mile main offshore segment of the West African Gas Pipeline that will provide natural gas to markets in Ghana, Togo and Benin by connecting to an existing onshore pipeline in Nigeria. The pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 475 million cubic feet per day and will help in the reduction of the flaring of natural gas in the company’s areas of operation.

     In Russia, OAO Gazprom has included Chevron on a list of companies that could continue further commercial and technical discussions concerning the development and related commercial activities of the Shtokmanovskoye Field. Discussions were under way in early 2006, but the timing of Gazprom’s selection of the company or companies that will participate in the field development was uncertain. Shtokmanovskoye is a very large natural gas field offshore Russia in the Barents Sea. OAO Gazprom is Russia’s largest natural gas producer.

     In the United States, Chevron completed the acquisition of the remaining 40 percent interest of Bridgeline Holdings, L.P. in August 2005. Bridgeline manages and operates more than 1,000 miles of pipeline and 12 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity in southern Louisiana.

     In the third quarter 2005, the company filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to own, construct and operate a natural gas import terminal at the Casotte Landing site adjacent to Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The terminal will be designed to initially process 1.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from imported LNG.

     In the fourth quarter 2005, the company committed to pipeline and additional LNG terminal capacity in the Sabine Pass area of Louisiana. The first commitment was for 1 billion cubic feet per day of pipeline capacity in a new pipeline and additional interconnect capacity to an existing pipeline. The company also exercised its option to increase capacity at a Sabine Pass LNG terminal from 700 million to 1 billion cubic feet per day.

Downstream

United States   The company initiated a project to increase the capacity of the Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery’s fluid catalytic cracking unit by approximately 25 percent, from a current capacity of