Chevron Richmond refinery unit in planned shutdown: filing

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chevron Corp's 245,271 barrel per day (bpd) San Francisco Bay-area refinery in Richmond, California, performed the planned shutdown of a unit on Saturday, according to notices the refinery filled that day with federal and California pollution regulators.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating possible criminal violations by Chevron Corp at its SanFrancisco Bay-area refinery in Richmond, California, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. The investigation is unrelated to state and federal probes of an August 6 explosion and fire that shut the central crude oil refining unit at the 245,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Richmond refinery, according to the Chronicle report. Chevron told the newspaper that it was cooperating with the investigation, which began early this year, prior to the fire. ...

Californians who bought gasoline on Friday experienced an unpleasant shock.

RICHMOND, California (Reut

Weaker oil prices ate into Chevron Corp’s first-quarter profits, while the second-largest U.S. oil company also took a hit from downtime at two of its three biggest U.S. refineries. First-quarter net income fell 4.5% to US$6.18-billion, or US$3.18 per share, from US$6.47-billion, or US$3.27 per share, a year earlier. Analysts had expected US$3.08 per share, according to the average on Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, and shares of Chevron rose by 0.4% in premarket trading.

SACRAMENTO -- California safety officials ordered Chevron Corp.