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Creating New Futures from Crafts of the Past

Chevron’s decade-long support for the Sheber artisans program has helped encourage and recognize the ancestral crafts of Kazakhstan, contributing to the country’s national heritage.

full steam ahead for academy’s first graduates

Moving Crude Oil in Kazakhstan via TCO Railroad

Transporting crude oil from Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz Field is a massive undertaking. While the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is the major transporter of Tengiz crude, Chevron’s affiliate Tengizchevroil (TCO) runs a vital alternative route to market: the TCO railroad -- one of the world's largest, if not the largest, private shortline railroads.

expansion boosts caspian pipeline export capacity

Chevron, in partnership with the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), completed the first increase in incremental capacity of its 935-mile (1,505- km) pipeline – the primary route for exporting crude oil from the company’s Tengiz, Korolev and Karachaganak fields in Kazakhstan.

Helping Chevron Employees Develop Meaningful Careers

Tengizchevroil's Ulzhan Shonataeva is gaining new skills at Chevron HQ. Other Kazakhstani employees are training in finance, technology and operations.

chevron marks 20-year partnership with Kazakhstan

Chevron became the first Western oil company to partner with Kazakhstan when we signed the Tengizchevroil agreement on April 6, 1993.

Chevron Provides Tengiz Field Growth Project Details

Chevron Corporation today reports that its affiliate Tengizchevroil LLP expects to enter front-end engineering and design in 2012 for an expansion project to increase total daily production between 250,000 and 300,000 barrels.

Kazakhstan Partnering In Karachaganak Project

SAN RAMON, Calif., December 14, 2011 - Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today confirmed that the Karachaganak project partners have reached an agreement with the government of Kazakhstan for it to become a 10 percent equity owner in the Karachaganak project.

Kazakhstan partnership produced impressive results

Chevron’s partnership with Kazakhstan has created jobs, strengthened the local economy, and lead to a 26-fold improvement in oil production.

CPC Marks the Groundbreaking for its $5.4 Bn Expansion

Chevron Neftegaz, Inc. an affiliate of Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) announced today at a groundbreaking ceremony in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, that the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has marked the start of the construction phase of the $5.4 billion expansion of the Caspian pipeline.

Sanctioning Caspian Pipeline Expansion

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced that the shareholders and governing bodies of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) have unanimously approved the $5.4 billion expansion of the Caspian pipeline.

Chevron's Tengiz Oil Field Expansion in Kazakhstan

The Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan is one of the largest, most complex crude oil fields in the world. Extraordinary lengths have been required to produce oil.