Chevron flies to Midland the week after its annual meeting

Chevron flew from Flying Armadillo Field to Midland International Air and Space Port on June 5, touching down after a 46-minute hop. The Boeing Business Jet (N884GL) arrived just over a week after Chevron’s annual meeting in Houston, where shareholders voted to re-elect the full board and approved all management proposals, per a company filing with the SEC.

The same week, Chevron is leaning into its Permian Basin operations—production there held flat at about 1 million boe/d in 2026, per the Oil & Gas Journal—and pushing forward with its “power foundries” concept in West Texas. These off-grid gas plants, built with GE Vernova turbines, are designed to deliver up to 4 GW to AI data centers, with generation expected by late 2027, as covered by the Index Times.

The trip fits a pattern of short-haul flights to company strongholds: the fleet’s recent logs show multiple hops between Houston, Midland, and other Texas sites. For a company that relocated its headquarters from California to Houston in 2024, the Permian Basin remains the engine room—and the destination for leadership oversight.