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We now expect to realize the full $1 billion in annual run rate synergies by the end of this year, 6 months faster than our original guidance. We anticipate the transaction to be cash flow accretive…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

Two weeks ago, we achieved a favorable arbitration outcome and closed our merger with Hess, bringing together world-class assets, people, and capabilities to create a premier international energy…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

In the second quarter, Chevron achieved several important milestones, continuing the momentum we've been building over the last year. The success underpins strong financial results, industry-leading…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

There's three primary things. First is you have if you look through the list of pipeline projects that have either been stopped in court or stopped by a state, it's almost always been the 401 water…

Alan Armstrong ·Executive Chairman of the Board WMB ·Jun 2026

Once you hit that state's abuse of the 401 water quality certificate you are in a d loop that is almost impossible to clear. If you sue the state you say hey this was a denial that was wrongly…

Alan Armstrong ·Executive Chairman of the Board WMB ·Jun 2026

It's actually not for the most part it's not the federal agencies that are the problem. It's the litigation that the federal agencies face from the NOS's and from anybody else that wants to try to…

Alan Armstrong ·Executive Chairman of the Board WMB ·Jun 2026

If politicians and regulators and even the NOS's actually understood the energy systems better, they would understand that what they ought to do is get the capacity overbuilt and completely eliminate…

Alan Armstrong ·Executive Chairman of the Board WMB ·Jun 2026

The cost of those bottlenecks is enormous. And if you think about any kind of infer big energy infrastructure, you're building for peaks and you have to be able to build for peaks to accomplish that.

Alan Armstrong ·Executive Chairman of the Board WMB ·Jun 2026

Affordable and reliable energy is fundamental to that progress. And I think the conflict in Ukraine has pointed that out. What we're seeing with AI and the stress on the power system in the US is…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

The policy is yielding the desired results. I think you're seeing some discussion now where policy is being reconsidered and there may be some small steps in the right direction we've seen but…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

We expect strong cash generation to continue even in a lower price environment underpinned by the increased capital efficiency and growth in high margin assets.

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

We're cooperating with all regulatory agencies and have our own investigation underway. Our top priority at Chevron is always the safety of our people and the communities we work with.

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

In the third quarter, Chevron delivered record production and strong cash generation, supporting sustained shareholder distributions. The period was marked by several key milestones as we execute our…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

It's no more about storytelling but it's about story making. You get consumers into the story that excites them. That's where experiential marketing comes and it's all about creating and curating and…

Raja Rajamannar ·Chief Marketing & Communications Officer MA ·Oct 2016

Consumers do not segregate their life in the buckets saying that this is my financial services bucket, this is my restaurant bucket where I want to eat, or this is the experiences bucket where I want…

Raja Rajamannar ·Chief Marketing & Communications Officer MA ·Oct 2016

The kind of advancements which are happening in technology in the last few years particularly has been stunning but financial services have not evolved taking full advantage of this technology…

Raja Rajamannar ·Chief Marketing & Communications Officer MA ·Oct 2016

There is a huge chunk of consumers today who do not even have access to the financial system and getting these folks who are at the lowest end of the financial or the economic scale in any society is…

Raja Rajamannar ·Chief Marketing & Communications Officer MA ·Oct 2016

We don't look at ourselves as a company being in the financial services though we enable movement of money and data between various financial services companies like banks and the merchants around…

Raja Rajamannar ·Chief Marketing & Communications Officer MA ·Oct 2016

We want to grow, you know, gradually over time. The demand for our products isn't growing at an enormous rate. You know, demand for oil's growing arguably 1% a year, give or take. Gas is growing a…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

We're a little bit underweight, relatively speaking, Middle East. Uh uh versus some other parts of the world, and that's been intentional. Uh the types of contracts and the terms have been on offer…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

The irony is we have places in the world like Venezuela that are trying to become more attractive to investment as places like California enact policies to become less attractive to investment. All…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

Chevron has been in Venezuela for over a century, and we remain committed to leveraging our deep expertise and long-standing partnerships for the benefit of our shareholders and the people of…

Michael Wirth ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CVX ·May 2026

As a French national, as a member of the monetary union of Europe, I have to tell you that it's a very ambitious, exciting project, one where, as Aristotle would put it, you should hasten slowly in…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Jan 2014

As financial conditions in advanced economies normalize, it's already beginning in the US with a revised monetary policy, well announced and communicated, it will be the case as well gradually over…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Jan 2014

The IMF is a partner. The IMF is a partner in the countries that want the partnership, that need the partnership, whether it's through financing, whether it's through technical assistance, whether…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Jan 2014

I generally hang out with prime ministers, presidents, ministers of finance, governors of central banks, and it can be incredibly boring. But it sure is repetitive, however necessary. But to be with…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Jan 2014

I want to remind him that when Blue Origin Jeff Bezos sued SpaceX, he tweeted, Elon tweeted, you can't sue your way into space. I want to remind him he can't sue his way into AGI. He can do, hired…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2024

If it's state of the art technology, I think we should control the export of that technology as closely as we control nuclear technology or other national security technologies. I'd like to be clear.…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2024

The argument is really about our competition, our techno economic war with China, which I've talked about before. And if we have powerful technology, we should be open sourcing it and giving it to…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2024

I am not worried at all about the Microsoft relationship. It's a minority relationship. They don't own a majority, and it's structured such that both firms benefit the larger sources of AI in the…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2024