Hurricanes Katrina and Rita interrupted crude oil and natural gas production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and temporarily shut down one of our largest refineries. Chevron employees throughout the region responded to the storms with exceptional courage, compassion and commitment. They rescued neighbors, located colleagues and provided urgently needed food, water, clothing and medical aid to local communities. At the same time, they launched a massive, around-the-clock effort to restore production, refining, transportation and marketing operations and to deliver critically needed emergency fuel to the region.

"There wasn't a barrier we couldn't overcome," says Roland Kell, general manager of the Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery, which was damaged by the storms. "We truly found out what we're made of."