EXHIBIT 24.8


                                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 Act of 1933, as
amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (and amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments).

        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 KEITH J.
MENDELSON, 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
Registration Statement (and any and all amendments thereto, including
post-effective amendments) 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 28th day of January, 1998.




                                                   /s/  J. BENNETT JOHNSTON

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