Mark Hatfield

Mark Hatfield has been appointed to lead Chevron Australia, replacing Al Williams who has been made global vice president of corporate affairs.

Chevron Australia has committed $3.45 million to Conservation Volunteers Australia over three years to support lower carbon projects.

Chevron will spend $40 million in WA, and acquire carbon 5.2 million tonnes of offsets, to compensate for delays in the scale up of its Gorgon carbon sequestration plant.

Mark Hatfield spent his youth cleaning tables in his father’s hamburger restaurant in Oklahoma, a world away from the Chevron Australia operation he now leads as managing director.

Western Australia’s first major oil field is coming to the end of its life, with Chevron announcing production at Barrow Island will cease in 2025.

The state’s environmental regulator wants Chevron’s Gorgon LNG plant to hit net zero by 2050, and to offset any reservoir emissions that are not captured and stored underground.

Chevron Australia boss Mark Hatfield said he is determined to improve the company’s workplace culture after a report found nearly half of staff had been bullied.

Documents filed as part of a restructure of Chevron’s Australian operations have given a glimpse into the finances of the $13 billion-a-year oil and gas producer.

AOG: Woodside will spend $US2 billion on decommissioning by the end of the decade, while Chevron has touted a similar value for local contracting work on Jansz-Io.

Chevron Australia’s profit more than tripled to $12 billion in 2022.

New emissions targets for Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG plant have been signed off by the state government.

Chevron Australia has announced the production of first gas from the $4 billion Gorgon Stage 2 project, which involved the installation of 11 additional wells.

Chevron Australia managing director Mark Hatfield is concerned for Western Australia’s future gas supply as availability tightens and state and federal regulatory pressures bite.

Domestic gas production capacity at the Chevron-operated Wheatstone gas project will increase five per cent, after modifications were made to the project’s plant near Onslow.

Chevron’s proposed US$60 billion (A$94 billion) acquisition of producer Hess Corporation has been hailed as the acceleration of a new era of global oil megamergers.

LNG producer Chevron Australia paid more than $1.2 billion in tax in Australia in 2022, over a period during which it racked up income tax payment liability of $4.2 billion.

Permitting is under way on remediation work to improve carbon capture at Chevron Australia’s Gorgon facility on Barrow Island, according to managing director Mark Hatfield.

Chevron Australia has increased the production capacity of its Wheatstone domestic gas facility by seven per cent, lifting nameplate capacity to 230 terajoules per day.

LNG producer Chevron has tipped more than $68 million into a state government desalination plant at Onslow, as part of a state development agreement over its Wheatstone project.

zero2hero and Chevron join forces to support young people across the state.

Chevron has announced a suite of leadership changes including Balaji Krishnamurthy moving from its technical center in Houston to become president of its Australian operations.