CHEVRON CORP
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 26, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 26, 2024
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Refining Operations
At the end of 2023, the company had a refining network capable of proces sing 1.8 million barrels per day. Operable capacity at December 31, 2023, and daily refinery inputs for the company and affiliate refineries for 2021 through 2023, are summarized in the table below. Average crude unit distillation capacity utilization was 89.8 percent in 2023 and 88.6 percent in 2022.
At U.S. refineries, crude unit distillation capacity utilization, which includes all crude oil and other inputs, averaged 90.8 percent in 2023, compared with 87.3 percent in 2022. Chevron processes both imported and domestic crude oil in its U.S. refining operations. Imported crude oil accounted for about 60 percent of Chevron’s U.S. refinery inputs in both 2023 and 2022.
In the United States, the company continued work on projects aimed at improving refinery flexibility and reliability. In 2023, the Pasadena Refinery continued progress on a project that is expected to increase light crude oil throughput capacity to 125,000 barrels per day in 2024. This project is expected to allow the company to process more equity crude from the
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Permian Basin, supply more products to customers in the U.S. Gulf Coast and realize synergies with the company’s Pascagoula refinery. In July 2023, the Richmond refinery commenced making API Group III base oils.
Outside the United States, the company has interests in three large refineries in Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. Singapore Refining Company (SRC), a 50 percent-owned joint venture, has a total capacity of 290,000 barrels of crude per day and manufactures a wide range of petroleum products. The 50 percent-owned GS Caltex (GSC) Yeosu Refinery in South Korea remains one of the world’s largest refineries with a total crude capacity of 800,000 barrels per day. The company’s 60.6 percent-owned refinery in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, continues to supply high-quality petroleum products into regional markets.
| Petroleum Refineries: Locations, Capacities and Crude Oil Inputs | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacities and inputs in thousands of barrels per day · December 31, 2023 · Refinery Crude Oil Inputs* | ||||||||||
| Locations · Number · Operable Capacity · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 | ||||||||||
| Pascagoula | Mississippi | 1 | 369 | 346 | 320 | 333 | ||||
| El Segundo | California | 1 | 290 | 226 | 248 | 233 | ||||
| Richmond | California | 1 | 257 | 225 | 167 | 211 | ||||
| Pasadena | Texas | 1 | 85 | 83 | 77 | 76 | ||||
| Salt Lake City | Utah | 1 | 58 | 54 | 53 | 50 | ||||
| Total Consolidated Companies — United States | 5 | 1,059 | 934 | 865 | 903 | |||||
| Map Ta Phut | Thailand | 1 | 175 | 153 | 156 | 135 | ||||
| Total Consolidated Companies — International | 1 | 175 | 153 | 156 | 135 | |||||
| Affiliates | Various Locations | 2 | 545 | 473 | 483 | 441 | ||||
| Total Including Affiliates — International | 3 | 720 | 626 | 639 | 576 | |||||
| Total Including Affiliates — Worldwide | 8 | 1.779 | 1,560 | 1,504 | 1,479 | |||||
| *In addition to crude oil inputs, the company processed other feedstocks of 38, 72 and 58 thousand barrels per day in 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. | ||||||||||
Renewable Fuels
The company develops and produces renewable fuels, including but not limited to renewable diesel, renewable gasoline, biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuel and renewable natural gas (RNG).
In 2023, the El Segundo refinery in California successfully converted the diesel hydrotreater (DHT) to process 100 percent renewable feedstock. The DHT maintains flexibility to process either traditional or renewable feedstocks. El Segundo also produced sustainable aviation fuel and renewable gasoline blendstocks through renewable feed co-processing in the Fluid Catalytic Cracker.
Chevron Renewable Energy Group, Inc. owns and operates 11 biofuel refineries located in the U.S. and Germany, 10 biofuel refineries producing biodiesel and one producing renewable diesel. Work at the Emden refinery in Germany to enhance feedstock flexibility was completed in 2023. Expansion work at the Geismar renewable diesel plant in Louisiana to increase production capacity from 7,000 to 22,000 barrels per day continues on schedule, with full operations expected in 2024.
Chevron holds a 50 percent working interest in Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables LLC, which produces soybean oil from processing facilities in Destrehan, Louisiana, and Cairo, Illinois. Soybean oil can be used as a renewable feedstock to make renewable diesel, biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel.
The company continues to advance its dairy biomethane activities with its joint venture partners, Brightmark Fund Holdings LLC (Brightmark) and California Bioenergy, LLC (CalBio). In 2023, Chevron’s joint venture with Brightmark achieved commercial operations on seven new anaerobic digestion dairy farm projects across Michigan, Florida and Arizona. Also, in California, construction began on seven new anaerobic digestion dairy farm projects jointly owned with CalBio.
Chevron participates in the RNG value chain through its ownership of Beyond6, LLC and its nationwide network of 56 compressed natural gas stations.
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Marketing Operations
The company markets petroleum products under the principal brands of “Chevron,” “Texaco” and “Caltex” throughout many parts of the world. The following table identifies the company’s and its affiliates’ refined products sales volumes, excluding intercompany sales, for the three years ended December 31, 2023.
| Refined Products Sales Volumes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousands of barrels per day | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| United States | |||
| Gasoline1 | 642 | 639 | 655 |
| Jet Fuel | 260 | 212 | 173 |
| Diesel/Gas Oil1 | 227 | 216 | 179 |
| Fuel Oil | 44 | 56 | 39 |
| Other Petroleum Products2 | 114 | 105 | 93 |
| Total United States | 1,287 | 1,228 | 1,139 |
| Gasoline | 353 | 336 | 321 |
| Jet Fuel | 234 | 196 | 140 |
| Diesel/Gas Oil1 | 472 | 464 | 471 |
| Fuel Oil | 161 | 168 | 177 |
| Other Petroleum Products2 | 225 | 222 | 206 |
| Total International | 1,445 | 1,386 | 1,315 |
| Total Worldwide3 | 2,732 | 2,614 | 2,454 |
| 1 Includes products sold by Chevron Renewable Energy Group: | 44 | 24 | — |
| 2 Principally naphtha, lubricants, asphalt and coke. | |||
| 3 Includes share of affiliates’ sales: | 389 | 389 | 357 |
In the United States, the company markets primarily under the principal brands of “Chevron” and “Texaco”. At year-end 2023, the company supplied directly or through retailers and marketers approximately 8,300 Chevron- and Texaco-branded service stations, primarily in the southern and western states. Approximately 365 of these outlets are company-owned or -leased stations.
Outside the United States, Chevron supplied directly or through retailers and marketers approximately 5,600 branded service stations, including affiliates. The company markets in Latin America using the Texaco brand. In the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East, the company uses the Caltex brand. In South Korea, the company operates through its 50 percent-owned affiliate, GSC. The rebranding project to transition service stations in Australia from Puma to the Caltex brand is expected to complete in 2024.
Chevron markets commercial aviation fuel to 57 airports worldwide. The company also markets an extensive line of lubricant and coolant products under the product names Havoline, Delo, Ursa, Meropa, Rando, Clarity and Taro in the United States and worldwide under these three brands: Chevron, Texaco and Caltex.
Chemicals Operations
Chevron Oronite Company develops, manufactures and markets performance additives for lubricating oils and fuels and conducts research and development for additive component and blended packages. At the end of 2023, the company manufactured, blended or conducted research at 11 locations around the world.
Chevron owns a 50 percent interest in Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem). CPChem produces olefins, polyolefins and alpha olefins and is a supplier of aromatics and polyethylene pipe, in addition to participating in the specialty chemical and specialty plastics markets. At the end of 2023, CPChem owned or had joint-venture interests in 30 manufacturing facilities and two research and development centers around the world.
CPChem has two major integrated polymer projects under construction, the Golden Triangle Polymers Project in Orange, Texas, for which CPChem holds a 51 percent-owned and operated interest and the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Project in Ras Laffan, Qatar, for which CPChem holds a 30 percent nonoperated working interest. Start-up for both projects is targeted for 2026.
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CPChem continued development of the Low Viscosity Poly Alpha Olefin Expansion Project at the CPChem Beringen, Belgium site, with a targeted startup in 2024. In 2023, CPChem completed several other projects at existing facilities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, including: an Ethylene Plant Project in Cedar Bayou, Texas, a C3 Splitter Project in Cedar Bayou, Texas, and a 1-Hexene plant in Old Ocean, Texas.
Chevron is also involved in the petrochemical business through the operations of GSC, the company’s 50 percent-owned affiliate in South Korea. GSC manufactures aromatics, including benzene, toluene and xylene. These base chemicals are used to produce a range of products, including adhesives, plastics and textile fibers. GSC also produces olefins such as ethylene, polyethylene and polypropylene, which are used to make automotive and home appliance parts, food packaging, laboratory equipment, building materials, adhesives, paint and textiles.
Transportation
Pipelines Chevron owns and operates a network of crude oil, natural gas and product pipelines and other infrastructure assets in the United States. In addition, Chevron operates pipelines for its 50 percent-owned CPChem affiliate. The company also has direct and indirect interests in other U.S. and international pipelines.
Refer to Nigeria and Kazakhstan/Russia in the Upstream section for information on the West African Gas Pipeline and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
Shipping The company’s marine fleet includes both U.S. and foreign flagged vessels. The operated fleet consists of conventional crude tankers, product carriers and LNG vessels. These vessels transport crude oil, LNG, refined products and feedstock in support of the company’s global upstream and downstream businesses. In 2023, contracts were executed for construction of two additional LNG vessels, and an agreement was signed to retrofit four existing LNG vessels with technology to reduce their carbon intensity.
Chevron is a strategic partner of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation. This Singapore-based nonprofit supports cross-industry collaboration to help the International Maritime Organization meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals for 2030 and 2050.
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