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Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a critical enabler of global net zero and our commitment to accelerate progress toward the lower carbon ambitions of our customers and company.

Chevron has decades of operational experience and a proven track record of carbon-capture projects and is already deploying CCUS technologies in locations across the globe. We’re taking action by deploying CCUS to lower the carbon intensity of our existing assets and growing our CCUS business to help reduce emissions of the essential industries that enable modern society. We are leveraging our expertise and global reach to advance CCUS technologies and scaling viable lower carbon solutions across the value chain (capture, transport, utilization, and storage) with a focus on hard-to-abate, energy-intensive industries such as refining, petrochemicals, power, steel and cement.

We operate Gorgon, one of the world’s largest integrated CCS projects. Since the system started up in mid-2019, almost 7 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions have been injected as of 2022. We are investing in emerging CCUS technologies to bring early insights through pilot programs – often using Chevron’s existing assets – and to accelerate commercialization of promising technologies. To achieve our ambitions, we are also exploring hub opportunities in the United States and abroad.

Chevron believes in the value of delivering large-scale hydrogen solutions that support a lower carbon world. We aim to deliver lower carbon energy to a growing world by creating a profitable, large-scale, lower carbon hydrogen business that builds on our existing assets, capabilities, and customers. We’re well positioned to participate across the value chain to supply industrial, power and heavy-duty transportation customers.

Chevron currently produces approximately 1 million tonnes per year of hydrogen through our traditional business and has experience in retail hydrogen going back to 2005. Chevron has been investing in hydrogen research and development for decades and holds more than 80 patents from early commercial ventures that are applicable to our future development plans.

We’re exploring profitable opportunities for growth across the value chain, from upstream production through distribution into transportation, power generation and other industrial sectors. We are also evaluating using hydrogen as an alternative for industries dependent on combustible fuels and assessing development of hydrogen production hubs. And, we are leveraging our capabilities in carbon capture, utilization, and storage to unlock market opportunities for hydrogen solutions.

Renewable fuels are important products that can help reduce the lifecycle carbon intensity of transportation fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs.

We are responsive to our customers who will increasingly need renewable fuels and products like renewable natural gas, hydrogen, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and renewable base oils and lubricants.

Carbon offsets are expected to play an important role in global carbon reductions, especially in sectors that do not have cost-effective reduction opportunities or for activities where emissions are harder to abate.

Chevron’s experience in developing and using carbon offsets dates back nearly two decades. We have a global carbon trading organization and actively invest in scalable, nature-based solutions – like soil carbon storage, reforestation, and mangrove restoration – to build a portfolio of high-quality credits.

We are growing a carbon offsets business to help achieve our net zero ambitions, and we are working to provide verified, low-cost, high-integrity offsets to our customers around the world in an effort to help them achieve their own lower carbon goals. As global demand grows, we expect to be a supplier of offsets by providing customers with offset-paired products. Carbon offsets are available now for use, and they can also be integrated with other lower carbon solutions to help maximize efficiency.

Chevron has a long history of identifying and driving innovation through investments in emerging technologies, research and development, piloting, trials and university partnerships.

We are exploring opportunities to commercialize and scale the next generation of emerging technologies to add to our lower carbon solutions offering. Initially, we’re leveraging Chevron’s core capabilities in subsurface, drilling, wells, facilities, and operating history in geothermal to advance and scale the next generation of technologies and processes that will allow access to this widespread baseload resource. Our near-term focus on novel geothermal is based on its baseload-nonintermittent nature, unlocking a key lower carbon power source that can greatly complement and be an alternative to other renewable sources to meet growing renewable power demand.

Our team partners closely with Chevron Technology Ventures to continually monitor the energy technology landscape to identify additional synergistic emerging areas that have potential to enhance the way Chevron produces energy.

Chevron New Energies leadership is on a mission to accelerate progress to a lower carbon future and help customers and partners do the same. Our team of senior leaders have diverse backgrounds and expertise in engineering, technology, commercial, business development, and policy. We invite you to read our leaders’ bios to learn more.