What is Chevron Corporation?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} [[Image:Newchevrongasstation.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Chevron gas station in [[Redwood City, California|Redwood City]], [[California]]]] [[Image:Chevron Logo.svg|right|200px]] '''Chevron Corporation''' ({{nyse|CVX}}) is a large [[international]] [[energy]] company, based in [[San Ramon, California|San Ramon]], [[California]]. It employs over 60,000 people. It is one of the six largest oil companies in the world. In September 1879, the '''Pacific Coast Oil Company''' was created.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. S. Vassiliou|title=Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBvz_YxlB-AC&pg=PA128|access-date=January 7, 2015|date=March 2, 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6288-3|pages=128–}}</ref> They kept the name until 1906, when it merged with a [[Standard Oil]] subsidiary and became Standard Oil Company (California).<ref>{{cite book|author=M. S. Vassiliou|title=The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdNjTbcB__0C&pg=PA128|access-date=January 7, 2015|date=September 24, 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7066-6|pages=128–}}</ref> Standard Oil of California and [[Gulf Oil]] merged in 1984, which became the largest [[Mergers and acquisitions|merger]] in history at that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/25/business/ftc-approves-chevron-gulf-deal.html|access-date=January 7, 2015|title=F.T.C. Approves Chevron-Gulf Deal|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The company would change its name to '''Chevron Corporation''' the same year. Chevron later merged with [[Texaco]] in 2001. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.chevron.com/ Official site] {{US-stub}} [[Category:1879 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1870s establishments in California]] [[Category:Companies based in California]] [[Category:American fuel companies]]