Chevron: Plan appeal to resume Calif. refinery work

HOUSTON, July 9 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp (CVX.N) plans to appeal a California judge's ruling that halted a $1 billion project to build a hydrogen plant at its San Francisco Bay refinery in Richmond, California, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

Chevron will not ask for a stay of the order which brought the expansion project to an abrupt halt last week, forcing the layoff of 900 out of 1,000 construction workers, said Chevron's Brent Tippen. (Reporting by Erwin Seba)