One of the world's largest oil and gas companies and the largest producer of natural gas for Israel.
Chevron is one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, based in the U.S. It operates in many countries around the world and is involved in exploration, production, refining, transport, retail, and other aspects of the oil and gas industry.
Chevron is the largest producer of fossil gas for Israel and a major partner in the Israeli economy. It co-owns and operates the East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline, which illegally runs off the coast of Gaza to export Israeli gas to Egypt.
The company also co-owns and operates Israel’s two largest fossil gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Tamar and Leviathan, which produce gas used to power much of the Israeli economy and apartheid regime, including Israeli military bases, illegal settlements, and Israeli energy apartheid. Chevron earned more than $2.4 billion in revenue from the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields in 2025.
As the operator of these gas fields and the pipeline, Chevron is in charge of all operations of these projects, including planning, construction, production, and supply. Chevron entered the Israeli energy market in 2020 with the acquisition of Noble Energy.
In 2025, 79 percent of Israel’s domestic gas consumption was used to produce electricity, and nearly half of that powered the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). The IEC supplies electricity to all branches of the Israeli government and the vast majority of Israeli households. The Tamar gas field holds the main supply contract to the IEC through 2030, which means that all Israeli military bases, prisons, and police stations, as well as Israel’s illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank, rely on Chevron.
Israel exported 46 percent of its total fossil gas production in 2025, all from Chevron-operated gas fields. In 2025, 72 percent of exports went to Egypt and 28 percent went to Jordan. Most gas exports from the Tamar and Leviathan fields are transported through the EMG pipeline to Egypt.
In December 2025, Chevron and the other partners of the Leviathan fossil gas field signed a $35 billion deal with Egypt to export gas from Israel to Egypt until 2040, which is the largest gas export agreement in Israel’s history. In June 2025, Israel’s Ministry of Energy approved two export permits for the Leviathan gas field to Jordan, worth an estimated $1.2 billion over the next nine to 15 years.
The supply of electricity across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory is used as a tool of subjugation, collective punishment, annexation, and dispossession. In the occupied Palestinian territory, the IEC took over the Palestinian power grid after Israel’s 1967 occupation, making the Palestinian population dependent on its services.
As part of Israel’s apartheid regime, some Palestinian communities inside Israel and across the occupied Palestinian territory are banned from connection to the grid; some are provided subpar services; some are charged differently than neighboring Jewish-Israeli towns; and many suffer punitive power cuts as a form of collective punishment. This is energy apartheid.
Chevron’s Tamar processing rig, as well as its pipelines, are located about 13.5 nautical miles offshore near Al-Majdal Asqalan/Ashkelon, just outside the territorial waters of Gaza. The Israeli Navy secured this rig, and the nearby EMG pipeline, by restricting all Palestinian maritime activities in the area. Between 2009 and 2023, this has tightened Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip to three to six nautical miles, with devastating impacts on Gaza’s economy and fishing industry. Following October 7, 2023, the Israeli naval blockade became much more severe.
Israel completely cut off Gaza’s electricity supply following October 7, 2023, as a form of collective punishment in violation of international law. Prior to this total shutoff, Gaza’s one power plant was repeatedly targeted and destroyed by Israeli bombings since 2007, when Israel closed off the Gaza Strip. This made the IEC an indispensable supplier, providing about 30 to 50 percent of Gaza’s electricity, paid for by the Palestinian Authority.
Chevron Fuels Human Rights Violations Worldwide
Beyond its operations in Palestine/Israel, Chevron fuels environmental destruction and violence against Indigenous communities around the world.
Chevron is responsible, for example, for oil spills in California, toxic wastewater dumps in Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest, and large-scale pollution in the Niger Delta. The company has also been implicated in severe human rights abuses, including torture, forced labor/slavery, rape, murder, and genocide in countries around the world, including Azerbaijan, Angola, Argentina, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, China, East Timor, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Poland, Thailand, Venezuela, and the U.S.