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Fair Value Measurements (Details Textual) (USD $)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Cash and cash equivalents $ 12,700,000,000us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsFairValueDisclosure $ 12,800,000,000us-gaap_CashAndCashEquivalentsFairValueDisclosure
Maturity period of bank time deposits, minimum, classified as time deposits (in days) 90 days  
Time deposits 0us-gaap_TimeDepositsAtCarryingValue 8,000,000us-gaap_TimeDepositsAtCarryingValue
Time deposits, fair value 0cvx_TimeDepositsFairValue 8,000,000cvx_TimeDepositsFairValue
Restricted cash 1,100,000,000us-gaap_RestrictedInvestmentsCurrent 1,500,000,000us-gaap_RestrictedInvestmentsCurrent
Long-term debt, net carrying value 22,700,000,000us-gaap_LongTermDebt 16,500,000,000us-gaap_LongTermDebt
Level 1 [Member] | Corporate Bonds [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Fair value of debt 22,000,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFairValue
/ us-gaap_FairValueByFairValueHierarchyLevelAxis
= us-gaap_FairValueInputsLevel1Member
/ us-gaap_LongtermDebtTypeAxis
= us-gaap_CorporateBondSecuritiesMember
 
Level 2 [Member] | Other Bonds [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Fair value of debt 700,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFairValue
/ us-gaap_FairValueByFairValueHierarchyLevelAxis
= us-gaap_FairValueInputsLevel2Member
/ us-gaap_LongtermDebtTypeAxis
= cvx_OtherBondSecuritiesMember
 
Carrying Value of Long-term Debt [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Long-term debt, net carrying value $ 22,000,000,000us-gaap_LongTermDebt
/ us-gaap_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis
= us-gaap_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember
$ 16,000,000,000us-gaap_LongTermDebt
/ us-gaap_FairValueByMeasurementBasisAxis
= us-gaap_CarryingReportedAmountFairValueDisclosureMember
Maximum [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Maturity period of primarily bank time deposits, maximum, classified as cash equivalents and money market funds (in days) 90 days