Chevron Corp. is expanding its reach into capturing and storing carbon emissions across its global businesses, with one endeavor trained in Central California.

CCUS Facilities

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through the Chevron New Energies division, is advancing a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) at the  Kern River Eastridge cogeneration plant in Kern County. The goal is to reduce carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted per unit of energy produced.

Post-combustion capture equipment is being installed to suck up the emissions, which then would be stored thousands of feet underground. 

“At Chevron, we believe the future of energy is lower carbon,” said Chevron New Energies’ Chris Powers, vice president of Carbon Capture,...