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A gas flare at a Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. plant ahead of Hurricane Laura in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Hurricane Laura is poised to become a roof-ripping Category 3 storm when it comes ashore along the Texas-Louisiana coast, threatening to inflict as much as $12 billion of damage on the region and potentially shutting 12% of U.S. refining capacity for months.Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

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By Kevin Crowley, Will Wade, and Brian Eckhouse

October 7, 2020 at 4:06 PM EDT

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October 8, 2020 at 5:00 AM EDT

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Chevron Corp. overtook Exxon Mobil Corp. as the largest oil company in America by market value, the first time the Texas-based giant has been dethroned since it began as Standard Oil more than a century ago.

The reordering of the oil giants says more about Exxon than Chevron.

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