The company’s largest business segments are exploration and production (upstream)
and refining, marketing and transportation (downstream). Chemicals is also a significant
segment, conducted mainly by the company’s 50 percent-owned affiliate — Chevron
Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem). The petroleum activities of the company
are widely dispersed geographically. The company has petroleum operations in North
America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central and Far East Asia,
and Australia.
CPChem has operations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Singapore, China,
South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Mexico and Belgium. ChevronTexaco’s wholly
owned Oronite fuel and lubricating oil additives business has operations in
the United States, Mexico, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, India, Japan
and Brazil.
The company sells crude oil and natural gas from its producing operations under
a variety of contractual arrangements. Most contracts generally commit the company
to sell quantities based on production from specified properties, but certain
gas sales contracts specify delivery of fixed and determinable quantities. During
2002, Dynegy purchased substantially all natural gas and natural gas liquids
produced by the company in the United States, excluding Alaska, and supplied
natural gas and natural gas liquids feedstocks to the company’s U.S. refineries
and chemical plants
Petroleum — Refining
ChevronTexaco’s wholly owned U.S. cracking and coking facilities are the primary
facilities used to convert heavier products to gasoline and other light products.
Pipelines: ChevronTexaco owns and operates an extensive system of crude oil,
refined products, chemicals, natural gas liquids and natural gas pipelines in
the United States. The company also has direct or indirect interests in other
U.S. and international pipelines.
Chemicals
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) is a 50-50 joint venture with
ConocoPhillips Corporation. CPChem owns or has joint venture interests in 32
manufacturing facilities and six research and technical centers in the United
States, Puerto Rico, Belgium, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South
Korea and Qatar.
A new olefins and polyolefins complex was commissioned in Qatar in 2003. The
complex is owned and operated by Qatar Chemical Company Ltd., a joint venture
between CPChem, with a 49 percent interest, and Qatar General Petroleum, which
owns the remaining 51 percent.
Also during 2003, a 50-50 joint venture with BP Solvay commenced operations
of a new high-density polyethylene (HDPE) facility at a CPChem site in the Houston,
Texas area. The jointly owned 700-million-pounds per-year HDPE facility is among
the largest of its kind in the world and uses CPChem proprietary manufacturing
technology.
ChevronTexaco’s Oronite brand fuel and lubricant additives business is a leading
developer, manufacturer and marketer of performance additives for fuels and
lubricating oils. The company owns and operates facilities in the United States,
France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Japan and Brazil and has equity interests
in facilities in India and Mexico.
Coal
The company’s coal mining and marketing subsidiary, The Pittsburg & Midway
Coal Mining Co. (P&M), owned and operated two surface mines and one underground
mine at year-end 2003. In addition, final reclamation activities were under
way at two mines that are scheduled to close. P&M also owns an approximate
30 percent interest in Inter-American Coal Holding N.V., which has interests
in coal mining operations in Venezuela as well as in trading and transportation
activities in Venezuela and Colombia.