Helping Local Programs
Chevron Australia, our exploration and production organization, supports community investment programs in Western Australia, particularly in the areas of health, education and training.
We encourage students to consider careers in mathematics, engineering, technology and science by sponsoring an education program in local schools called Beyond the Beaker – Discovering Careers in Science. As part of the Schools Information Program, our employees also deliver presentations to 10th-grade students to increase their awareness of the petroleum industry.
We also contribute to the work of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, which serves remote communities in Western Australia, and we support a youth outreach program in Onslow and an early literacy program in Exmouth, in northwest Western Australia.
Chevron Australia is a community development partner in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and we support the Perth International Arts Festival.
Chevron Australia employees are actively involved in their local communities through employee volunteer days, the administration of community grants and a payroll donation program.
Caltex Australia supports educational initiatives, including the Caltex Best All Rounder Awards. Some 97 percent of Australia's secondary schools participate in this program, which gives awards to students in their final year of school who have demonstrated outstanding all-around achievement.
Caltex Australia also is a major national sponsor of the Starlight Children's Foundation, a program that raises funds through employee, franchisee, distributor and corporate activities to assist in granting wishes and providing entertainment in hospitals for seriously ill children.
Caltex also recognizes excellence in the performing arts through its sponsorship of the Australian Chamber Orchestra's national tours.
The Caltex refinery at Lytton in Queensland supports 16 local schools through a program that encourages interest in science. The refinery also provides an annual grant to the schools' libraries.
In another refinery-related community program, Caltex provides a fuel sponsorship to assist the Surf Life Saving Association in its work in coastal waters around the Kurnell Peninsula in New South Wales.
As part of an agreement Chevron Australia signed in 2005, Chevron Energy Technology Co. has established a new technology center in Perth, which will enhance Chevron's ability to serve its global business units.
Updated: September 2009