Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is a large international energy company, based in San Ramon, California. It employs over 60,000 people. It is one of the six largest oil companies in the world.

A Chevron gas station in Redwood City, California

In September 1879, the Pacific Coast Oil Company was created.^[1] They kept the name until 1906, when it merged with a Standard Oil subsidiary and became Standard Oil Company (California).^[2] Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil merged in 1984, which became the largest merger in history at that time.^[3] The company would change its name to Chevron Corporation the same year. Chevron later merged with Texaco in 2001.