PASCAGOULA — The Jackson County Board of Supervisors has voted to ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a 2007 state law is unconstitutional in requiring the Pascagoula School District to share some tax dollars generated from Chevron facilities with other districts. The ruling overturned a decision by a Jackson County judge [...] [...]
Alan Sudduth has been named Chevron public and government affairs manager for Mississippi. Sudduth will join Chevron March 7 and succeed Steve Renfroe, who is retiring. As county administrator for the Jackson County Bard of Supervisors, Sudduth currently manages 16 departments, including the Public Information Office. He previously served as special counsel to the Jackson [...] [...]
LONDON — Leading oil and gas companies warned British lawmakers Tuesday that any U.K. moratorium on deepwater drilling in response to the Gulf of Mexico spill would force them to abandon the North Sea in favor of projects elsewhere. Executives from Chevron Corp., France’s Total and Danish state-controlled DONG Energy told a parliamentary committee that [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Chevron Corp. announced yesterday that there would be a change of leadership at the Pascagoula Refinery. General manager Roland Kell is retiring. Taking his place will be Tom Kovar, general manager of the company’s Pembroke refinery in Wales. The Wales property is one the company recently announced it would consider selling as part [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Chevron Corp. says its refinery in Mississippi is safe and could possibly expand. Chevron said yesterday it will cut 2,000 jobs this year. It also will seek to sell some overseas entities. The Pascagoula refinery is Chevron’s largest in the United States with about 1,500 workers and refines 330,000 barrels of crude oil [...] [...]