Business & Tech Chevron Announces They’re Leaving Their San Ramon Headquarters, Relocating to Houston The second-largest US oil company Chevron seemed to have one foot out the door of its national headquarters in San Ramon, but now they’re making it official and moving to Texas, though their smoke-spewing Richmond refinery is apparently staying put.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron's Richmond Refinery's Smokestacks Flaring After Power Outage Chevron's Richmond refinery was flaring from all its smokestacks Monday afternoon; a 28-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday night in Oakland's Fruitvale; and a 9th Circuit judge says he resigned because of the Supreme Court's rightward shift.
Business & Tech San Ramon-Based Chevron Buys Up Smaller Rival Hess for $53 Billion A big merger in Big Oil has Bay Area connections, as San Ramon’s Chevron just announced they’re acquiring a smaller rival called Hess Corp., reaping the gains of record profits generated by high gas prices.
Business & Tech Chevron Selling Off Headquarters In San Ramon, But Richmond Refinery Staying Put Oil and gas giant Chevron is downsizing its Bay Area footprint and moving a bunch of employees from San Ramon to Houston, but sorry Richmond residents, that often-flaring refinery is not going anywhere.
SF News Chevron Spills 600 Gallons of Fuel Into SF Bay; Cleanup and Damage Assessment Underway The Chevron refinery in Richmond had some sort of rupture or accident on Tuesday afternoon at a wharf where fuel tankers dock that leaked around 600 gallons of "a petroleum-water mixture" into San Francisco Bay.
SF Politics SF and Oakland Win Appeal in Global Warming Lawsuit Against Big Oil The multi-billion dollar climate damage lawsuit against BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell is back on, as SF, Oakland, and other cities won in a ruling in the 9th Circuit that likely bounces the case back to state court.
SF News Chevron Refinery Conducts Flaring, Briefly Evacuates Employees Something went down Monday morning at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and it led to some flaring — the practice of safely burning excess hydrocarbon gases that comes with dramatic flames shooting out of smokestacks and the release of smoke.
SF News Chevron Cited For Stinking Up Bay Area Like Rotten Eggs Last December Your nose knows that a rotten egg smell reeked up San Francisco and the greater Bay Area for two days in late December of 2016, and that the prime suspect was the Chevron
SF News Mysterious Stench Returns With A Vengeance, Chevron Facility In Richmond Suspected Culprit The strange weird bad smell of unclear origin that had residents causing a stink of their own yesterday is back. They were crying foul in neighborhoods as far apart as the Bayview, the
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News Chevron Gets Fined Over Toxic 'Flaring' In Richmond Remember when there were those huge scary flames over the Richmond Chevron refinery just before Christmas that got explained as some emergency "flaring" to avoid a potential disaster? Well, incidents like that, and
SF News Huge Flames Over Chevron Refinery Last Night That Freaked Everyone Out Were On Purpose A problem in the de-asphalting unit at the Chevron refinery in Richmond last night led to some dramatic "flaring" in the skies over the East Bay, as KRON4 and others have reported. In
SF News Four Races To Watch In Today's Election, Besides San Francisco's You may have heard some of the figures, but despite this being a mid-term election, this has, for various reasons, become the most expensive mid-term election in American history. And even though people
SF News If You're Not Reading The Richmond Standard, Perhaps You Should Start A curious thing came across my feed last week. It turns out that former Examiner crime reporter Mike Aldax, whose saucy use of words like "thug" and "goon" always livened up my morning
SF News Firefighter May Have Worsened Vapor Leak At Chevron Refinery It looks like a firefighter's sharp-pointed pike tool punctured an already leaking oil pipe during last August's accident and fire at the Richmond Chevron plant, causing the subsequent blaze and toxic vapor leak
SF News Chevron Moves Refinery Fire Claims Center In Richmond, over 10,700 people have filed claims to have the medical and property damage expenses resulting from the August 6th refinery fire reimbursed by the oil company. The company announced today
SF News Chevron To Pay Residents Affected By Toxic Refinery Fire And finally, in crisis communications news: After Monday's fire at the Chrevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a plume of black, toxic smoke into the air blanketing much of Richmond, North Richmond, and
SF News Chevron To Host Town Hall Meeting In Wake Of Toxic Refinery Fire Last night's fire at the Chevron refinery sent a gargantuan cloud of black smoke into the air, forcing shelter-in-place for Richmond, North Richmond, and San Pablo. Now that the blaze is out, people
SF News What To Do About High Gas Prices? Burn Down a Starbucks, Of Course! Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station,
