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Acquisition of Hess Corporation
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Business Combination, Asset Acquisition, Transaction between Entities under Common Control, and Joint Venture Formation [Abstract]  
Acquisition of Hess Corporation
Acquisition of Hess Corporation
On July 18, 2025, the company acquired Hess Corporation (Hess), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Hess’s principal upstream operations are in the United States, Guyana and Malaysia. Hess’s operations also include an approximately 38 percent ownership interest in Hess Midstream LP (HESM), with operations primarily in the Bakken shale in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota.
The aggregate purchase price of Hess was approximately $48 billion, including 15.38 million shares of Hess common stock purchased in open market transactions in the first quarter of 2025 and 301.25 million shares of Chevron common stock issued as closing consideration in July. As part of the transaction, the company assumed debt with an aggregate outstanding principal value of $8.8 billion. The shares issued represented approximately 15 percent of the shares of Chevron common stock outstanding immediately after the transaction closed on July 18, 2025.
The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination under ASC 805, which requires assets acquired and liabilities assumed to be measured at their acquisition date fair value. Provisional fair value measurements were made for acquired assets and liabilities, and adjustments to those measurements may be made in subsequent periods, up to one year from the
date of acquisition, as information necessary to complete the analysis is obtained. Oil and gas properties were valued using a discounted cash flow model that incorporated assumptions for commodity prices, future production volumes, operating costs, development costs, and risk-adjusted discount rates. The fair value of the noncontrolling interest was determined based on the quoted market price of HESM on the acquisition date. Debt assumed in the acquisition was valued based on observable market prices for Hess’s debt. As a result of measuring the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed at fair value, there was no goodwill or bargain purchase recognized.
At July 18, 2025
(Billions of dollars)
Current assets$3.4 
Properties, plant and equipment
73.5 
Other assets2.6 
Total assets acquired79.5 
Current liabilities3.1 
Long-term debt(1)
10.0 
Deferred income taxes11.0 
Other liabilities2.4 
Total liabilities assumed26.5 
Noncontrolling interest(2)
5.0 
Net assets acquired / purchase price$48.0 
(1) Includes finance leases
(2) Related to HESM

The long-term debt assumed in the transaction is detailed in the table below:
Hess CorporationPrincipal
4.300% due 2027
$1,000 
7.875% due 2029
467 
7.300% due 2031
631 
7.125% due 2033
540 
6.000% due 2040
750 
5.600% due 2041
1,250 
5.800% due 2047
500 
  Total Hess Corporation Debt$5,138 
Hess Midstream Operations LP
5.125% due 2028
$550 
5.875% due 2028
800 
6.500% due 2029
600 
4.250% due 2030
750 
5.500% due 2030
400 
Term loan and credit facility borrowings646 
  Total Hess Midstream Operations LP Debt$3,746 
Unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs(61)
  Total Long-Term Debt Assumed$8,823 
Fair market value adjustment for debt acquired in the acquisition247 
  Fair Market Value of Long-Term Debt Assumed$9,070 
The following table presents revenue and earnings for Hess since the acquisition date (July 18, 2025), for the year ended December 31, 2025.
Year Ended December 31,
2025
Sales and other operating revenue$5,957 
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Chevron Corporation$193 
The following unaudited pro forma information presents the results of operations as if the acquisition of Hess had occurred January 1, 2024:
Year Ended December 31,
20252024
Sales and other operating revenue$189,416 $204,300 
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Chevron Corporation$12,464 $19,003 
The unaudited pro forma information uses estimates and assumptions based on information available at the time. Management believes the estimates and assumptions to be reasonable; however, actual results may differ significantly from this pro forma financial information. The pro forma information does not reflect any synergistic savings that might be achieved from combining the operations and is not intended to reflect the actual results that would have occurred had the companies actually been combined during the periods presented. The pro forma results reflect pro forma adjustments primarily related to conforming Hess’ accounting policies to Chevron’s, additional depreciation expense related to the fair value adjustment of the acquired property, plant and equipment, elimination of intercompany transactions and applicable income tax impacts.