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Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.

One of the successor companies of Standard Oil, it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries.

Chevron is engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries, including hydrocarbon exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.

Chevron is one of the world's largest oil companies; it ranked third in the Fortune 500 list of the top US closely held and public corporations and sixteenth on the Fortune Global 500 list of the top 500 corporations worldwide.

It was also one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

It is formed when layers of decomposing plant and animal matter are exposed to intense heat and pressure under the surface of the Earth over millions of years.

The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in the gas.

Gasoline, known as petrol outside North America, is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in internal combustion engines.

It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhanced with a variety of additives.

An oil is any neutral, nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally "fat loving").

Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active.

Refining (also perhaps called by the mathematical term affining) is the process of purification of a (1) substance or a (2) form.

The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, but which is more useful in its pure form.

For instance, most types of natural petroleum will burn straight from the ground, but it will burn poorly and quickly clog an engine with residues and by-products.

The term is broad, and may include more drastic transformations, such as the reduction of ore to metal (for which see Refining (metallurgy)).