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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Chevron Industry: Oil & Gas

Patience is an underrated weapon, and Mike Wirth just proved it in arbitration. Chevron’ s chief refused to blink through the siege over Hess and Guyana’ s oil bonanza, won and completed the deal securing growth into the 2030s. It capped a tenure of unfashionable consistency, capital discipline when rivals splurged, the Permian mastered and headquarters moved from California to Houston. A refinery engineer who joined at 21, Wirth points Chevron at the AI economy, building gas-fired power for data centres. Oil made Chevron’ s fortune. Its next act is selling reliability itself.

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