Chevron traces its roots to the Standard Oil empire through Standard Oil Company of California. Standard Oil purchased Pacific Coast Oil in 1900 and combined it with its West Coast operations in 1906. After the Supreme Court dissolved the Standard Oil monopoly in 1911, the California company became independent. It later acquired Standard Oil of Kentucky and, in 1984, was renamed Chevron Corporation. In 2001, Chevron acquired Texaco—its former partner in Aramco and other Middle Eastern oil ventures—to form ChevronTexaco. The company resumed the Chevron name in 2005.
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