Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron Outside the United States

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Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron Outside the United States Jerry Teague ETH/316 July 29, 2013 Ed McCullough Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron outside the United States Chevron ranked number three recently in the Cable News Network (CNN) list of the world’s largest companies as of 2012, up the previous year’s number ten ranking. Presently, the company headquarters is in San Ramon, California, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide including around 4,000 service station employees. Chevron recently sold its Ireland refinery and some assets in the Caribbean and Africa. It bought Atlas Energy and is confident about its prospects in the Gulf. Chevron conducts business worldwide as one of the global integrated energy companies. According to Chevron (2013), the website says their success is driven by their people and “their commitment to get results the right way – by operating responsibly, executing with excellence, applying innovative technologies and capturing new opportunities for profitable growth.” The company is involved in all facets of the energy industry, such as crude oil, natural gas, fuels and lubricants, petrochemical products, power generation, geothermal energy, energy efficiency solutions, research for advanced biofuels and more. Chevron traces back its beginning to 1879 when Pacific Coast Oil Co was formed which later became Standard Oil Co. of California and then became Chevron when the company acquired Gulf Oil in 1984. The Texas Fuel Company is also a major branch of the Chevron family founded in 1901, which later became known as Texaco. The two companies merged in 2001 and acquired Unocal Corporation in 2005. The average net production of Chevron in 2011 was 2.673 million barrels of oil per day, with about 75% of the production occurring outside the U.S. The company has a huge marketing network to support its

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