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Chevron Corp. (CVX) is in the Energy Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $220.9B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $18.6B
- Market Cap
- Sep 04 2008
- $166.8B
Latest News and Analysis
Oil: The Inconvenient Truth
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: The title alludes to my feeling that the biggest challenge facing mankind especially mankind in the USA is not "global warming", but a future in which worldwide oil supply will not keep pace with worldwide oil demand. I have often commented on Seeking Alpha that the "oil problem"...
Chevron's Share Price Looks Most Compelling
Ockham Research submits: Chevron Corp. CVX stock continues to drop in conjunction with the deflating of the oil and commodities bubbles. The stock was off another two plus percent in Wednesday’s trading and is almost twenty percent below its annual high reached last spring. CVX became attractive to us...
Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight the year to date performance of the 30 DJIA members with four months remaining in 2008. As shown, Wal-Mart WMT tops the list with a gain of 27.5% year to date. WMT is trailed by IBM (14%), McDonald's (8.2%), Johnson&Johnson...
Chevron: Storm Damage Checks Will Take Couple of Days
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chevron Corp CVX said Monday checks for damage at offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico will take a "couple of days" once the bulk of Hurricane Gustav passes on shore. The eye of Gustav came ashore earlier on Monday,...
The Economics of Political Spin
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: Current political spin on CNBC and other supposed US "business" channels remind me of a line in the great movie Chinatown, staring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. I can't quote it exactly, but somewhere in the movie private investigator Jake Gitties played by Nicholson says...
Largest Companies in the World
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight the 30 largest companies in the World by market cap ($). As shown, Exxon Mobil XOM is the top dog by about $70 billion. Exxon is trailed by another energy company, Petrochina PTR, then General Electric GE and Microsoft MSFT. ...
First BTC Pipeline Loading Seen on Monday Or Tuesday
ISTANBUL (Reuters UK) - Loading of oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline will begin either on Monday or Tuesday for the first time since it was shut after an explosion earlier this month, a Turkish energy ministry source told Reuters. The one-million barrel per day pipeline...
Dow Price Targets from Last November
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Barry Ritholtz over at the Big Picture recently highlighted Bloomberg's Chart of the Day showing that analyst profit forecasts are currently worse than ever. With that in mind, we pulled up a post we did back in November highlighting the average analyst price...
Canadian Oil Sands: Gates and Buffett Visit
Ron Haruni submits: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates toured this week the Canadian Natural Resource Ltd’s CNQ Horizon oil sands project. The $8.7 billion development involves the extraction of oil sands reserves 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Province of Alberta. The men, according to Reuters, were given details on...
Support for Crude at $111?
Timothy Charles submits: Wednesday was an interesting day in the crude pits. First, the market opened substantially higher and crude moved straight up till the 9mm build of crude was announced by the DOE at 10:35am. Then it proceeded to have a $4 reversal over the course of the morning...
BP Says Baku-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline to Resume Operations
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters UK) - BP BP said on Wednesday exports of Azeri oil from Turkey should resume next week after repairs to the $4 billion (2.1 billion pounds) Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan BTC pipeline damaged by a fire two weeks ago. The line can pump up...
Screener Picks: Three Mega-cap Long Picks
Larry Bellehumeur submits: I wanted to look for Mega-Cap stocks that were trading at a decent evaluation (Modest P/E Ratios, Reasonably low Price-to-Book Ratios and a PEG of less than 1), had a solid history of growing their earnings, and were expected to continue to do so for the...
Chevron Shows Promise as Potential Dividend Investment
Dividends4Life submits: Linked here is a PDF copy of my detailed analysis of Chevron Corporation CVX (alt.1, alt.2). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis: Company Description: Chevron Corporation formerly ChevronTexaco is a global integrated oil company that has interests in exploration, production, refining and marketing,...
Australia's Origin Rebuffs BG Bid
By Fayen Wong and Tom Bergin PERTH/LONDON (Reuters UK) - Australia's Origin Energy ORG said it had shortlisted several potential partners to develop its gas assets as it seeks to fend off a near-$12 billion (6.5 billion pound) takeover bid from BG Group BG. Origin argues...
Hedge Fund Tracking: Clarium Capital
Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
Oil, Housing and the Dollar
John Verke submits: Given the three false bursts of the oil bubble since oil started its ascent in mid-2007, investors are skeptical about the recent fall in commodity prices. The main reason is that oil prices seem to move very quickly in large percentages, bringing with it the...
The Market's View on Oil
The Moneygardener submits: The general rule when buying and selling energy and commodity names is the reverse to other stocks; "buy when P/E ratios are high and sell when P/E ratios are low". This strategy would work like a charm right now, if and only if the energy and commodity...
Too Soon to Re-enter Oil Stocks?
Henrique Simoes submits: Is it to soon to re-enter oil stocks? Oil stocks are down 11% year-to-date and down 21% from the year high established on May 20, responding to the 20% drop in oil prices. Yesterday, IEA, the International Energy Agency, raised its forecast for global oil demand in...
Oil Will Only Fall So Far
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: While the peoples of the world settled into their easy chairs to watch the much anticipated opening ceremonies of the Olympic games in Beijing, Vladimir Putin had athletics of a very different sort on his mind. Putin's timing was as perfect as a military invasion of another country...
Chevron Commit to Domestic Gas Plan
Chevron Corporation plans to include a 300 terajoule TJ per day domestic gas operation as part of its $20 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas LNG project offshore Western Australia, which would contribute significantly to the state's domestic energy supply.The importance of securing new sources of domestic gas in WA...
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- Incorporated: 1926
- CEO: Mr. David J. O'Reilly
Chevron is engaged in petroleum and chemicals operations, mining operations of coal and other minerals, power generation and energy services. Co.'s operations consists of exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; refining crude oil into finished petroleum products; marketing crude oil, natural gas and the products derived from petroleum; and transporting crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products. Co. also manufactures and markets commodity petrochemicals, plastics, and fuel and lubricant oil additives through its chemical operations. As of Dec 31 2007, Co. had net proved reserves of 4,665.0 millions of barrels of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids.
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Chevron Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. David J. O'Reilly
Chairman
Senator Sam Nunn
Dr. Donald B. Rice
Mr. Kevin W. Sharer
Mr. Charles R. Shoemate
Dr. Ronald D. Sugar
Mr. Carl Ware
Mr. Peter J. Robertson
Vice-Chairman
Mr. Samuel H. Armacost
Lead Director
Ms. Linnet F. Deily
Mr. Robert E. Denham
Mr. Robert J. Eaton
Mr. Sam Ginn
Dr. Franklyn G. Jenifer
General James L. Jones
Contact Information
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA
925 842-1000
NAICS Code
Petroleum Refineries: 324110
