Chevron Corp

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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX Euronext: CHTEX) is an American multinational energy corporation. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world's six "supermajor" oil companies. For the past five years, Chevron has been continuously ranked as one of America's 5 largest corporations by Fortune 500.

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Campaign Finance

$67,324,049 Given
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Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Chevron Corp Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$97,344,825 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Chevron Corp

View all lobbying data for Chevron Corp Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 59 dockets; Submitted to 15 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Chevron Corp" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

9 contracts; 1 loan
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2010 CONTRACTOR OWNED CONTRACTOR OPERATED (COCO) STORAGE $16,360,034
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2007 COCO STORAGE $13,088,027
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2011 CONTRACT AWARD FOR LO6 AND LTL LUBES. $4,842,240
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2011 LUBRICATING OILS. $4,375,211
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2010 LUBRICATING OILS $4,170,720
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2006 $3,272,007
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2006 $3,272,007
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2004 $2,811,000
contract
 Chevron Corporation 2005 $1,961,876
loan
 Chevron 2007 Small Business Administration TO AID SMALL BUSINESSES WHICH ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN FINANCING IN THE PRIVATE CREDIT MARKETPLACE $1,052,000
View all grant & loan data for Chevron Corp View all contract data for Chevron Corp Sources: USASpending.gov

EPA Violations

30 Enforcement Actions
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Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Operating Industries - 8th Partial Cd Chevron Environmental Management Inc. 2002 Monterey Park, Ca $340,000,000
Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. (Pascagoula Refinery) (National Case) Chevron U.S.A., Inc. 2005 Pascagoula, Ms $117,900,000
Chevron Usa Inc. (National Case)(Lead) Chevron USA Inc. 2005 El Segundo, Ca; ... $76,950,000
Chevron Products Company (National Case) Chevron Products Company 2005 Salt Lake City, ... $36,700,000
Chevron Usa Inc Chevron Usa Inc 2006 Hooven, Oh $25,806,932
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, A Delaware Corporation Chevron Phillips Chemical Company 2004 Pasadena, Tx $3,571,000
Chevron Usa Chevron USA, Inc. 2006 San Ramon, Ca $2,013,216
Alliance Chemical Inc Et Al. Chevron Environmental Mgmt Co obo Texaco Inc (+71 others) 2007 Newark, Nj $37,000,000
Mckin Superfund Site Union Oil Co (+75 others) 2001 Gray, Me $20,150,000
Alcan Corporation Chevron Environmental Management Company (+81 others) 2007 Newark, Nj $13,150,000
View all EPA violations data for Chevron Corp Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

2 people on 2 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Chevron Corp" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Energy 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Chevron Corp