Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.

[1] Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron.

After the merger, the former joint venture became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the merged company and changed its corporate name to ChevronTexaco Global Energy Inc, now Chevron Global Energy Inc. Caltex timeline:[1][2] As of 2015[update], the Caltex brand name is used in 29 countries in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Texas Company (Australasia) Limited was incorporated in New South Wales in 1918, with operations across Australia and New Zealand.

[14] In May 1995, Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd was merged with its rival Ampol Limited to form Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd, owned equally by Caltex Australia Limited and Ampol's parent Pioneer International.

[17][10] In exchange, Pioneer received 90 million Caltex Australia shares (33.33% stake), which it later sold through public offering.

The remaining twelve months until 31 December 2022 was a "non-exclusivity period", where both Chevron and Ampol could use the Caltex brand at the same time.

[25][26] Early in 2024, Chevron finalised an agreement to purchase most of Viva Energy's Coles Express-branded outlets in South Australia.

In exchange, Viva received 13 Chevron sites located in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

Caltex Cambodia Limited was incorporated in 1995, with the first service station opened in Pochentong, Phnom Penh in 1996.

T. C. Brothers company dealt in Petroleum products, service station for automobiles, paint, tiles, pipes, cements and transportation of oil, kerosene, gasoline/petrol in state of Gujarat.

[30] There are approximately 420 Caltex stations across Peninsular Malaysia; three terminals in Pulau Indah, Prai; and a joint-venture in Pasir Gudang.

The success in New Zealand allowed Caltex to sign up rights to sell Boron in other markets worldwide.

Eleven years later, its Pandacan oil depot was converted into a key distribution terminal to bring products by barge to nearby provinces.

[48] The 850 Caltex service stations in South Africa and Botswana began to be rebranded as Astron in September 2022.

[49][50] Glenore owns 72% of Astron Energy South Africa, with the remaining 28% held by Off The Shelf Investments (OTS) (23%) and employees (5%).

[51] Astron Energy and previously CSA owns a refinery in Milnerton which is north of Cape Town; the refinery has a production capacity of 100,000 barrels per day and produces a range of petrochemical products including petrol, diesel, jet fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, fuel oil and paving asphalt.

[52] Prior to the rebranding, a quarter of Caltex's service stations were located in South Africa, making it one of the country's top five petroleum brands.

[citation needed] In the 1955 movie Godzilla Raids Again, convicts escape in a truck with the Caltex livery on the side.