Hoping to give students growing up in the Marcellus shale region the opportunity to work in the oil and natural gas industry, Chevron will partner with the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and others for the $20 million Appalachia Partnership Initiative. Along with RAND Corp. and the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Chevron and the Benedum foundation hope to foster a new generation of workers in 27 counties across Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.