Chevron is one of the largest foreign investors in Bangladesh, providing employment for about 2,300 workers and supplying nearly 50 percent of the country's natural gas consumption.
The two-year startup of the Bibiyana Field demonstrated our ability to handle complex projects involving many technical, environmental and workforce challenges. To bring the field into production in 2007, Chevron recruited about 2,300 Bangladesh citizens to work on the project.
Chevron also produces natural gas from the Jalalabad and Moulavi Bazar fields, both of which produce near full capacity. We are exploring in Block 7 in southern Bangladesh.
It is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world's six "super major" oil companies. For the past five years, Chevron has been continuously ranked as one of America's 5 largest corporations by Fortune 500. In 2011 it was named the 16th largest public company in the world by Forbes Global 2000.
As a multinational oil company Chevron has faced lots of controversies over the long run and used the pros and cons of PR activities to their advantage. We can classify their public relations activities worldwide by the following – • Financial public relations – providing information mainly to business reporters • Consumer public relations – gaining publicity for a particular product or service, rather than using advertising • Crisis public relations – responding to negative accusations or information • Government relations – engaging government departments to influence policymaking.
Financial public relations
This practice is mainly done to keep the company clean of any kind of financial accusations and make things clear among partners, share holders and the public. For this Chevron has corporate Governance consisting with