Chevron used the phrase “Gulf of America” in its fourth quarter report, signaling corporate America’s increased adoption of the term.
“The company started up several key projects in the Gulf of America, including the industry-first, high-pressure Anchor project,” Chevron said. The phrase was used four other times.
President Donald Trump wrote in a January 20 executive order that the Gulf “will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping America’s future and the global economy, and in recognition of this flourishing economic resource and its critical importance to our Nation’s economy and its people, I am directing that it officially be renamed the Gulf of America.”
Both the Associated Press and Google have implemented the name change.
Where the Associated Press announced that it revised its style guide to officially recognize the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, Google said in a statement, “We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
“For geographic features in the U.S., this is when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated. When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.”
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized Google’s shift, stating during a news conference that the name change should “only correspond to the 12 nautical miles away from the coastlines of the United States of America” under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
