News and Projects

Chevron Helps Raise $122,000 for the Richstone Center

On Saturday, April 25, over 40 employees and family members from the Chevron El Segundo Refinery participated in the 22nd Annual Richstone Pier-to-Pier Walk, which raised $122,000 for the Richstone Family Center. Chevron participants, along with nearly 1200 others, walked the 3.4 mile route from the Manhattan Beach Pier to the Hermosa Beach Pier and back to help raise funds to prevent and treat child abuse. The Richstone Family Center, located in Hawthorne and incorporated in 1974, was established to prevent and treat child abuse, to strengthen families, and to prevent violence in families, schools and communities. To learn more about the Richstone Family Center, please visit their Web site at www.richstonefamily.org.

Chevron Donates $50,000 to the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation

On Saturday, April 25, the Chevron El Segundo Refinery donated $50,000 to the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation (AARBF), a California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing burns and fires and providing services to those who have been affected by a burn injury. AARBF brings together health care providers, firefighters, emergency workers, burn survivors and others to enhance the quality of life for burn survivors and to make burn injuries a thing of the past. Chevron has been donating to AARBF for the last 12 years and has donated close to $200,000. This year’s donation of $50,000 tops Chevron’s previous record donation of $40,000 to AARBF in 2007. As in past years, this year’s donation was made possible by efforts led by the Chevron El Segundo Refinery Fire Department, as well as many other Chevron El Segundo employees. More information about the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation can be found at www.aarbf.org.

Gary Yesavage Named President of Chevron Global Manufacturing

EL SEGUNDO, California, March 17, 2009 – Gary Yesavage, currently general manager of Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, has been appointed president of Chevron Global Manufacturing. In his new role, Mr. Yesavage will be responsible for leading the company's worldwide manufacturing operations with a team of 5,500 employees in eight countries. Global Manufacturing is comprised of 16 refineries worldwide, seven of which are wholly owned and nine joint ventures. The total processing capacity for these refineries is over 2.3 million barrels per day. Mr. Yesavage is scheduled to begin in his new role on May 1. Read the full press release >>

Chevron Volunteers Help to Beautify Our Community

Nearly 50 Chevron employees and their families helped to beautify El Segundo at the Tree Musketeers’ Annual Arbor Day tree planting event held on Saturday, March 7, 2009. Chevron volunteers, along with over 300 other members of the residential and business community, planted 75 trees along Hughes Way located between West Basin Municipal Water District and Plaza El Segundo.  Each tree planted will generate $31,250 worth of oxygen, provide $62,000 of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 of water and control $32,250 of soil erosion while sequestering 2½ tons of CO2, over a 50-year lifetime. Chevron, a long-standing partner of Tree Musketeers, has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with the organization in support of its mission “to empower young people to be leaders of environmental and social change in Earth’s communities.”

Five candidates vying for three Manhattan Beach City Council seats answered questions about local issues before a large crowd at the Manhattan Beach City Election Candidates Forum on Tuesday, February 24, at American Martyrs Church. The forum presented by the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Chevron and other Chamber Circle members included City Council incumbents Richard Montgomery and Nick Tell, and newcomers Kathleen Paralusz, Wayne Powell and Peter Gallagher. Tim Lilligren, current Treasurer for the City of Manhattan Beach who is running unopposed for a second term was also invited to make a brief statement at the event. The forum, which was moderated by Rod Spackman, Chevron's Manager of Policy, Government and Public Affairs, included questions related to our current economic climate, ideas for increasing City revenues and the City's recent ban on plastic bag usage by retailers. The city-wide vote will take place on March 3.

According to the International Energy Agency, there will be a 50% increase in the global demand for energy by 2030. The world will need all the energy we can develop, in every
potential form. While finding new ways to develop the use of traditional resources, such as oil and natural gas, Chevron is also doing its part to develop emerging sources of energy. Click on the link below to learn more about what Chevron is doing to help ensure the world's energy needs are met.
Energy Sources

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