Highlights of Operations
Chevron is the third-largest producer of oil in Argentina. Operating through our subsidiary Chevron Argentina S.R.L., our expanded waterflood operations are sustaining oil output at the large El Trapial Field, and exploration is under way in two major basins.
Under the Chevron and Texaco banner, the company meets the lubricant needs of customers with a network of 300 distributors and agents. Our roots in the community also run deep, with many programs to educate, encourage and assist those in need.
We began marketing our line of automotive fuels in Argentina in the first half of the 20th century. After leaving the country in the mid-1950s, Chevron returned to Argentina to explore for oil during the 1980s, later expanding our upstream and downstream operations after the deregulation of the fuels market in 1989.
In 1999, we enhanced our upstream presence in Argentina significantly with the purchase of Petrolera Argentina San Jorge, a company with a history of successful exploration in the prolific Neuquén Basin in the western part of the country.
Updated: March 2008