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Chevron Corp – ‘10-Q’ for 3/31/18 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 5/3/18, at 11:45am ET   ·   For:  3/31/18   ·   Accession #:  93410-18-16   ·   File #:  1-00368

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 5/03/18  Chevron Corp                      10-Q        3/31/18   78:6.9M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    529K 
 2: EX-12.1     Statement re: Computation of Ratios                 HTML     45K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
13: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     40K 
14: R2          Consolidated Statement of Income (Unaudited)        HTML     91K 
15: R3          Consolidated Statement of Income (Unaudited)        HTML     24K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
16: R4          Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income      HTML     65K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
17: R5          Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited)              HTML    144K 
18: R6          Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited)              HTML     38K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
19: R7          Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (Unaudited)    HTML    101K 
20: R8          Interim Financial Statements                        HTML     25K 
21: R9          Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses   HTML     53K 
22: R10         Noncontrolling Interests                            HTML     62K 
23: R11         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML    111K 
                of Cash Flows                                                    
24: R12         New Accounting Standards                            HTML     32K 
25: R13         Operating Segments and Geographic Data              HTML    119K 
26: R14         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron U.S.A. Inc.     HTML     44K 
27: R15         Summarized Financial Data - Tengizchevroil LLP      HTML     38K 
28: R16         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron Phillips        HTML     38K 
                Chemical Company LLC                                             
29: R17         Employee Benefits                                   HTML     63K 
30: R18         Income Taxes                                        HTML     28K 
31: R19         Assets Held For Sale                                HTML     24K 
32: R20         Litigation                                          HTML     57K 
33: R21         Other Contingencies and Commitments                 HTML     34K 
34: R22         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML    102K 
35: R23         Financial and Derivative Instruments                HTML     85K 
36: R24         Revenue                                             HTML     33K 
37: R25         New Accounting Standards (Policies)                 HTML     52K 
38: R26         Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses   HTML     53K 
                (Tables)                                                         
39: R27         Noncontrolling Interests (Tables)                   HTML     60K 
40: R28         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML    119K 
                of Cash Flows (Tables)                                           
41: R29         Operating Segments and Geographic Data (Tables)     HTML    119K 
42: R30         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron U.S.A. Inc.     HTML     45K 
                (Tables)                                                         
43: R31         Summarized Financial Data - Tengizchevroil LLP      HTML     37K 
                (Tables)                                                         
44: R32         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron Phillips        HTML     37K 
                Chemical Company LLC (Tables)                                    
45: R33         Employee Benefits (Tables)                          HTML     59K 
46: R34         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     92K 
47: R35         Financial and Derivative Instruments (Tables)       HTML    118K 
48: R36         Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Losses   HTML     63K 
                (Details)                                                        
49: R37         Noncontrolling Interests (Details)                  HTML     45K 
50: R38         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML     94K 
                of Cash Flows (Details)                                          
51: R39         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML     27K 
                of Cash Flows (Details Textual)                                  
52: R40         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML     27K 
                of Cash Flows (Details 1)                                        
53: R41         Information Relating to the Consolidated Statement  HTML     39K 
                of Cash Flows (Details2)                                         
54: R42         New Accounting Standards (Details)                  HTML     30K 
55: R43         Operating Segments and Geographic Data (Details     HTML     25K 
                Textual)                                                         
56: R44         Operating Segments and Geographic Data (Details)    HTML     46K 
57: R45         Operating Segments and Geographic Data (Details 1)  HTML     45K 
58: R46         Operating Segments and Geographic Data (Details 2)  HTML     65K 
59: R47         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron U.S.A. Inc.     HTML     37K 
                (Details)                                                        
60: R48         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron U.S.A. Inc.     HTML     40K 
                (Details 1)                                                      
61: R49         Summarized Financial Data - Tengizchevroil LLP      HTML     38K 
                (Details)                                                        
62: R50         Summarized Financial Data - Chevron Phillips        HTML     42K 
                Chemical Company LLC (Details)                                   
63: R51         Employee Benefits (Details Textual)                 HTML     41K 
64: R52         Employee Benefits (Details)                         HTML     49K 
65: R53         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     28K 
66: R54         Assets Held For Sale (Details)                      HTML     28K 
67: R55         Litigation (Details)                                HTML     78K 
68: R56         Other Contingencies and Commitments (Details)       HTML     23K 
69: R57         Fair Value Measurements (Details)                   HTML     53K 
70: R58         Fair Value Measurements (Details Textual)           HTML     46K 
71: R59         Fair Value Measurements (Details 1)                 HTML     48K 
72: R60         Financial and Derivative Instruments (Details)      HTML     36K 
73: R61         Financial and Derivative Instruments (Details 1)    HTML     32K 
74: R62         Financial and Derivative Instruments (Details 2)    HTML     60K 
75: R63         Revenue (Details)                                   HTML     38K 
77: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    140K 
76: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     81K 
 7: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- cvx-20180331                        XML   2.07M 
 9: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cvx-20180331_cal                XML    247K 
10: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cvx-20180331_def                 XML    480K 
11: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cvx-20180331_lab                      XML   1.36M 
12: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cvx-20180331_pre               XML    818K 
 8: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cvx-20180331                          XSD    145K 
78: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000093410-18-000016-xbrl      Zip    208K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — cvx-20180331_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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