Chevron (CVX) POSASRAutomatic shelf registration (post-effective amendment)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2024

Registration No. 333-273638

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CHEVRON CORPORATION  CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Mary A. Francis, Esq.

Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer

Chevron Corporation

5001 Executive Parkway, Suite 200, San Ramon, CA 94583

(925) 842-1000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION

On August 3, 2023, Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (“CUSA” and with Chevron, the “Issuers”) filed an automatic shelf registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-273638). As of February 26, 2024, being the relevant determination date in connection with the filing of Chevron’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, Chevron did not qualify as a well-known seasoned issuer (as that term is defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) for continued use of the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Issuers are filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) to the Registration Statement to deregister all securities that were registered under the Registration Statement but remain unsold as of the date hereof. Because Chevron believes that it is a well-known seasoned issuer as of the date hereof, the Issuers intend to file a new automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 concurrently with the filing of this Post-Effective Amendment.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, each of the Registrants has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Ramon, State of California, on November 7, 2024.