Fact Sheet: Chevron Fuels Israeli Apartheid and War Crimes

Written by the Action Center for Corporate Accountability, June 2026, for the Boycott Chevron campaign.

Photo by Brooke Anderson

Chevron’s business activities in Palestine/Israel

Chevron entered the Israeli market in 2020 with the acquisition of Noble Energy, and became a major partner of the Israeli economy, controlling most of the fossil gas production used to create electricity for the Israeli market.

Chevron operates and partially owns the largest Israeli gas fields, Tamar and Leviathan, both located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, west of Haifa. The Leviathan processing rig is also located west of Haifa, while the gas from Tamar is processed in a rig that is located farther south, off the coast of Isdud/Ashdod.

Chevron also operates and partially owns the East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline, which runs from Israel to Egypt off the coast of the Gaza Strip. This pipeline is not under Israeli jurisdiction, and any economic gain in this area without Palestinian agreement is illegal under international law.

Chevron also partially owns the undeveloped Dalit gas field and the Mari-B gas field, which has been depleted since 2013. The Mari-B field, which is on the edge of Gaza’s territorial waters, is used by Chevron for storage.

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 earned more than $2.4 billion in revenue from the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields in 2025.

Israel’s electricity production increasingly relies on fossil gas. In 2025, 74 percent of Israel’s electricity production came from fossil gas. The Tamar gas field, operated and co-owned by Chevron, holds the main supply contract to the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation through 2030, making Chevron the most important partner for the Israeli energy economy. The Israel Electric Corporation provides electricity to the Israeli military bases, illegal settlements, and most Israeli homes while denying Palestinians equal access to electricity.

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 to Egypt are transported through the illegal EMG pipeline.

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.

Chevron has repeatedly shut down its operations in Israel due to ongoing violent conflict. In October 2023, Chevron shut down production at the Tamar processing rig and its gas exports through the EMG pipeline for almost six weeks. Several more shutdowns were recorded at Leviathan and Tamar in late 2024. In early 2026, Leviathan closed for 32 days due to Israel’s war with Iran. Chevron called these shutdowns precautionary measures, citing security concerns such as missile or drone attacks that could threaten the safety of its employees, the public, the environment, and its facilities.

Since 2023, Chevron has repeatedly reported to its investors that the ongoing war may threaten its revenues. Amid increasing uncertainty, the company has reported that the “future impacts” of the war on its operations and financial condition “remain uncertain.”

Chevron fuels energy apartheid, military occupation, and settler colonialism

The supply of electricity across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory is used as a tool of subjugation, collective punishment, annexation, and dispossession.

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 nearby 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.

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 Israeli Electric Corporation an indispensable supplier, providing about 30 to 50 percent of Gaza’s electricity, paid for by the Palestinian Authority.

Israel completely cut off Gaza’s electricity supply following October 7, 2023, as a form of collective punishment in violation of international law, and further tightened its naval blockade.

Chevron fuels the destruction of our planet and communities

Chevron fuels environmental destruction:

Chevron is one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, fueling the climate crisis worldwide. As of 2024, it ranked fourth in the world for most cumulative climate pollution in history, after the former Soviet Union, China, and Saudi Arabia.

Chevron is responsible for major instances of climate destruction in California. In 2021, the company’s Richmond refinery spilled 600 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay. In 2025, an explosion erupted at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, releasing toxic gases into the air.

Chevron deliberately dumped 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest between 1964 and 1992, in what is considered the world’s largest oil-related catastrophe. It has yet to clean up this wastewater.

Chevron has polluted the Niger Delta for decades since the discovery of oil in the 1950s, decimating the region’s ecosystem and devastating indigenous groups’ waterways, food systems, and livelihoods. The company has yet to clean up this pollution.

Chevron is the largest co-owner of Tengizchevroil, Kazakhstan’s largest oil company, which has been fined by the state multiple times, as recently as early 2026, for exceeding emissions standards and polluting the air.

Chevron’s activities disproportionately impact communities of color with pollution and severe human health risks. The company has faced multiple lawsuits in recent years, including in Delaware, Oakland and San Francisco, CA, Hoboken, N.J., and Washington, D.C., alleging that the impacts of its operations have disproportionately affected marginalized communities.

Chevron fuels violence against indigenous communities:

Chevron has repeatedly been sued for violence against indigenous communities around the world. In 2021, an independent analysis of 70 lawsuits against the company found that 65 percent of cases involved documented claims of severe human rights abuses, including torture, forced labor/slavery, rape, murder, and genocide.

The Makah and Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribes filed lawsuits against Chevron and other oil companies in 2023 seeking to make them pay for damages caused by sea level rise, flooding, and other climate-fueled crises which forced the tribes to relocate to higher ground in their native Washington state.

Chevron’s construction of a pipeline from Chad to Cameroon on indigenous lands from 2000 to 2003 displaced some 22,000 indigenous persons through the contamination of their water sources and soil and the destruction of their food sources.

Chevron’s activities in Nigeria led to the destruction of ancestral lands and the forcible displacement of multiple indigenous communities in the late 1980s. In several documented incidents, Chevron-funded military forces destroyed indigenous communities’ homes and infrastructure to clear lands for pipelines and executed indigenous rights activists.

The company’s activities have played a role in the destruction of marginalized people’s homes, resources, and livelihoods in Azerbaijan, Angola, Argentina, Canada, China, East Timor, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Thailand, Venezuela, the U.S., and elsewhere.

Chevron Fuels Military Conflict Worldwide

Chevron was the only American oil company with a U.S. license to operate in Venezuela despite the sanctions, positioning it to benefit from the U.S. invasion of Venezuela in early 2026. Much of the subsequent increase in Venezuelan oil production has been processed at Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi, leading to increased air pollution in the area.

Chevron was one of the owners of the Yadana gas project in Myanmar between 2005 and 2024. Revenue from the project reportedly funded atrocities against the people of Myanmar. After the 2021 military coup and military attacks on Myanmar’s ethnic communities and resistance actors, Chevron lobbied the U.S. government not to impose sanctions on Myanmar. In 2022, Chevron announced it would exit the country, and it did so in 2024.