Chevron
US oil major; holds 50% of Tengizchevroil; CPC shareholder whose assets Ukraine struck on 6 April 2026.
Chevron agreed on 22 June 2026 to build a 2.67 GW gas plant beside a Microsoft data centre in West Texas for about $7bn. It also holds a stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, whose Black Sea terminal Ukraine has struck.
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When the State Department protects Chevron's pipeline from Ukraine, whose interests is Washington actually defending?
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Chevron is the second-largest US oil and gas company by market value, with headquarters in San Ramon, California. It holds 50% of Tengizchevroil, the venture that runs Kazakhstan's Tengiz field.
That Kazakh crude leaves through Russia. Chevron is a shareholder in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, whose Novorossiysk terminal is the export point, so the war in Ukraine reaches the company's balance sheet directly. When Ukrainian drones struck the terminal in April 2026, Washington intervened diplomatically on the shareholders' behalf.
Since June 2026 Chevron has also been building a power business. Project Kilby, a gas-fired plant dedicated to a Microsoft data centre in West Texas, makes it a direct electricity supplier to AI computing. The two exposures pull in different directions: one ties Chevron to Russian infrastructure it cannot protect, the other to US demand it controls end to end.
An oil major becomes a power generator
Project Kilby is Chevron's largest move outside oil and gas. Agreed on 22 June 2026, the plant will feed a Microsoft data centre in West Texas directly rather than through the public grid, with first power due in 2028.
At 2.67 GW it was the largest dedicated power deal for a data centre in 2026. For Chevron, the contract turns its own gas into a long-term electricity sale under a 20-year agreement, run through its power unit, Energy Forge One. The off-grid design matters to the customer: US regulators twice ordered grid-connected AI sites to cut power this year, and a private plant sits outside those orders. A final investment decision was expected by the end of 2026.
Its Kazakh crude exits through a war
Chevron's 50% stake in Tengizchevroil depends on a single exit to the SEA: the Caspian Pipeline Consortium line to the Novorossiysk terminal on Russia's Black Sea coast, in which Chevron is also a shareholder. On 6 April 2026 Ukrainian drones hit that terminal.
The US State Department then formally warned Kyiv to stop targeting it. The warning shielded American shareholders, Chevron and ExxonMobil, rather than Moscow. Kyiv struck again regardless. Chevron's Kazakh output therefore rests on restraint by a third party it cannot control, in a war where both sides now treat oil infrastructure as a target.
When will Chevron's Project Kilby deliver its first power to Microsoft?
What is Chevron's Project Kilby and how large is it?
Who co-owns the Caspian Pipeline Consortium alongside Chevron?
How dependent is Chevron on Russian infrastructure to export its Kazakhstan oil?
Why did the US State Department warn Ukraine not to attack Chevron's oil pipeline?
