Highlights of Operations
Chevron is the top natural gas and oil producer in Thailand. We foster partnerships across the spectrum of our activities, from exploration and production to refining and community support programs.
Through its Caltex subsidiary, the company is a partner in the Star Petroleum Refining refinery, which started up in 1996. The 150,000-barrel-per-day facility is a pacesetter in design, safety features and pollution controls.
Chevron also holds interests in a 700-megawatt Tri Energy electric power plant in Ratchaburi. The natural gas combined-cycle power plant is the first green field, independent power producer in Thailand.
The Caltex-branded operations rank among the nation's leading suppliers of petroleum products, which include liquefied petroleum gas, motor gasoline, gasohol and diesel fuel; transport and industrial lubricants; aviation fuel and other services.
Chevron has had operations in Thailand since 1948 and has remained a marketing presence ever since. It began exploring for oil and gas in the 1970s.
In 1962, Unocal — which Chevron acquired in 2005 — was the first oil firm awarded exploration rights in Thailand. Eleven years later, Unocal made the first discovery of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Thailand, which led to a major natural gas development there later in the decade.
Caltex returned to Cambodia in 1995, when it set up a network of retail service stations and a marine depot. At that time, it launched Caltex lubricants in Cambodia. Chevron began exploration activities in 2002.
Updated: May 2008