ChevronTexaco Corp. (Industry News).
ChevronTexaco Corp., San Ramon San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
- Argentina
- San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, a city
- Costa Rica
- San Ramón, Costa Rica, the municipality of San Ramón
, Calif., announces that it will switch from blending MTBE MTBE Methyl-tert-butyl-ether Surgery An aliphatic ether that rapidly dissolves cholesterol stones in vivo, introduced under local anesthesia via a percutaneous transhepatic cholecystectomy catheter, as a non-invasive method for treating gallstones; after injection, to ethanol in the southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, market between January and May. By joining ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell and ExxonMobil, Chevron's announcement means that more than 80 percent of California gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by will soon be blended with ethanol. ChevronTexaco, which controls 18 percent of the California retail gasoline market, will stop using MTBE statewide by the end of the year in compliance with the state's MTBE ban.
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| | Title Annotation: | to decrease MTBE additive in Southern California, gasoline |
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| Comment: | ChevronTexaco Corp. (Industry News).(to decrease MTBE additive in Southern California, gasoline ) |
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| Publication: | Agri Marketing |
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| Article Type: | Brief Article |
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| Geographic Code: | 1U9CA |
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| Date: | Feb 1, 2003 |
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| Words: | 77 |
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