Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies, involved in virtually every aspect of the energy industry. Access to energy helps improve lives by driving human progress and enabling the benefits of modern society. This is why Chevron is constantly working to provide reliable, affordable, and ever-cleaner energy.
Chevron operates three gas fields in the northeast of the country. Chevron Bangladesh Block Twelve, Ltd. and Chevron Bangladesh Blocks Thirteen & Fourteen, Ltd. (“Chevron Bangladesh”) is the largest producer of natural gas in Bangladesh, accounting for over 60% of total domestic natural gas production. Its facilities also produce over 80% of the domestic condensate production. Condensate is liquid hydrocarbon produced with natural gas. Chevron Bangladesh has achieved a remarkable safety record, managing its operations with a workforce that comprises over 95% Bangladeshi nationals. Chevron Bangladesh works with communities across its operations, building long-term partnerships that foster economic development and lasting benefits to them.
Social investments in communities are one of the core values of Chevron’s global business practice. In Bangladesh, Chevron has been managing social investment programs since 2006. The key areas of social investment are health, education, economic development, and emergency relief.
Chevron Bangladesh invests in activities and programs that focus primarily on livelihood support, access to education, primary health care facilities, skill development and entrepreneurship support. Chevron carries out most of these projects in partnership with leading nongovernmental organizations.
Thousands of people working in Chevron Bangladesh's operation in the country's northeast area and the people living in the adjacent areas benefited through the company's partnership with the community and different NGOs. Through these partnerships, the critical socioeconomic issues of the people living in that area were addressed. As a partner with Bangladesh government, as well as local businesses and communities, Chevron also contributes to health care, education, and economic development for mutual benefit and progress.
At Chevron Bangladesh, we refer to our common set of values as The Chevron Way. This is the foundation for what we believe and how we behave. Throughout our history, Chevron Bangladesh has been a place where trust, respect and humility define our culture and where performance, partnership and accountability guide the way. The Chevron Way underpins our commitment to delivering affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy. Our strategy is clear – we are leveraging our strengths to deliver lower carbon energy to a growing world. This includes contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which we view as a system of targets and objectives that build on each other to achieve a more sustainable future. We believe the next decade will be full of partnership, action and growth, and we are well-positioned to be part of the solution.
Chevron Bangladesh touches all 17 SDGs through our day-to-day operations, partnership initiatives and social investment opportunities. We work with key partners, communities, and industry groups to maximize positive outcomes and continually deepen our understanding of sustainable development.
Achieving a more sustainable energy future means drawing on our culture of human ingenuity to solve problems and deliver solutions. It also means being an outstanding partner with businesses around the world and with the communities we call home. By operating responsibly and performing with excellence, we strive to make Chevron the partner of choice
In Bangladesh, our partnerships and investments in health, education and economic development advance progress and strengthen communities. We spent more than USD 15 million on community programs over last 12 years, benefitting more than 120,000 people.
Chevron’s Bangladesh Partnership Initiative (BPI) is our flagship, multi-year program that supports economic development for communities in the greater Sylhet region. We work with leading development organizations, like BRAC, Swisscontact, and International Development Enterprises to establish business and workforce development programs. BPI demonstrates sustainable progress through strengthening governance of 110 Village Development Organizations (VDO) as registered cooperatives under the Jibika project. Few of these VDOs received the best cooperative award at District and Divisional levels in the last couple of years which is a landmark of substantial growth in their livelihoods and leadership skills. Uttoron is another workstream of BPI which provided technical training to more than 3000 local youths in various trades with 68% job placement. As a long-term legacy of Uttoron intervention, BPI contributed to establishing one permanent technical training center and one advanced welding facility in partnering with Sylhet City Corporation and Khulna Shipyard respectively. BPI also designed to support 1100 Micro, Small and Medium enterprises through the ‘Uddokta’ project providing market chain development support, access to finance facilities, joint venture initiatives, promotional campaigns, etc.
For 15 years, Chevron Bangladesh has sponsored two clinics in Karimpur and Swastipur near our Bibiyana gas plant to improve access to healthcare. These two clinics serve the local communities with approximately 60,000 affordable and quality health services every year.Since 2006, we have been implementing water, Sanitation and Hygiene projects for the Greater Sylhet communities. Tree plantation campaign, winter support, agriculture inputs, solar streetlights, sewing machines, toolboxes, and learning materials are a few other support areas in which Chevron is contributing to improving the quality of livelihoods of local neighboring communities
During the Covid pandemic, we provided emergency food & hygiene packages to more than 8000 families, 10 oxygen concentrators, and two ICU ventilators to local hospitals to help strengthening healthcare facilities to attend to more patients in Sylhet with covid complications. At the event of the recent flood in Sylhet region, we provided one week’s supplies to around 15,000 families and additional 240,000 oral saline and water purification tablets
n addition, we support education programs. In the last 12 years, we have awarded more than 8,000 scholarships to local students. The SHIKHON project, a collaboration between Chevron and Save the Children, provided multi years of an accelerated non-formal primary school education to 1,800 previously out-of-school children and dropouts from 46 villages near our areas of operation. Also, we pioneered a partnership with the Asian University for Women (AUW) by supporting their Summer School where the brightest female high school students across Bangladesh participate in an intensive program focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Humanities subjects.
Eric M Walker is the President and Managing Director of Chevron Bangladesh. He Joined Chevron Bangladesh in July 2020. Prior to joining Chevron Bangladesh, Eric was the General Manager of Reservoir Management for Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East. In this role, he was based in London and responsible for Asset Development for Chevron’s interests in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Europe, and Iraq. Before moving to London, he was based in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he held the position of Country Manager.
Eric is a native of Texas, USA. He began his career in 1987 as a petroleum engineer and has held numerous technical and management positions of increasing responsibility in the United States, Brazil, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, and the United Kingdom during his career. Eric received his Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1986 and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1991
