EXHIBIT 24.3



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

     WHEREAS, Chevron Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"),
contemplates filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission at Washington,
D.C., under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the regulations promulgated thereunder, an Annual Report on Form 10-K.

     WHEREAS, the undersigned is an officer or director, or both, of the
Corporation.

     N O W, T H E R E F O R E, the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
LYDIA I. BEEBE, HILMAN P. WALKER, TERRY MICHAEL KEE and BENJAMIN M. VANDEGRIFT,
or any of them, his or her attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the aforementioned Annual Report
on Form  10-K (and any and all amendments thereto) and to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully as to all
intents and purposes he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may
lawfully do and cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his or her hand this
27th day of March, 1996.




                                                     /s/ R. E. Galvin
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