Occidental Petroleum News

They currently have a $105.00 target price on the stock. Shares of Occidental Petroleum traded up 0.11% during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $91.03. Occidental Petroleum has a 52 week low of $72.43 and a 52 week high of $93.60. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $84.42. The company has a market cap of $73.338 billion and a P/E ... (more)

As Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Chairman Jim Hackett steps down and heads off to Harvard Divinity School, Chief Executive Officer Al Walker's biggest challenge is convincing investors nothing will change at the $45 billion global oil explorer.

The oil company's board has committed nearly $100-million to ship oil on a pipeline that is still under construction - by a company owned by Continental's own chief executive, Harold Hamm.

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These days, the trend of spinning off operations and becoming focused on a few specific parts of the business is perceived to offer more value for all stakeholders involved.

A company's annual proxy vote is the one time each year that its shareholders can effectively participate in the composition of the board of directors and setting executive compensation.

Transocean Ltd said on Monday that Chairman Michael Talbert will step down later this year, in a move that comes just days before the culmination of a fight between the offshore driller and investor Carl Icahn in which Talbert was a target.

This year's degrees will go to world-renowned linguist and anti-war activist Noam Chomsky; Lebanese-American Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology; Egyptian actress and women's activist Faten Hamama; and international business leader Ray R. Irani.

's stock had its "equal weight" rating reiterated by investment analysts at Barclays Capital in a note issued to investors on Monday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

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Hess Corp., the oil company that's in a proxy battle with billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Management Corp., said it will strip Chief Executive Officer John B. Hess of the chairmanship after its annual meeting next week.

There are too many articles on Seeking Alpha concerning the top oil companies. These companies have a very similar story to tell.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by TheStreet in a research note issued on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network reports.

In the following video, Fool.com energy contributors Tyler Crowe and Aimee Duffy discuss a recent cease-fire within Occidental Petroleum between the company's chairman of the board and former CEO Ray Irani, and the current CEO Steve Chazen.

Chevron Corp. is entitled to unspecified damages against the federal government in a contract dispute over oil deposits in California worth $37 billion, the U.S. Court of Claims ruled.

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Occidental Petroleum Corporation 's boardroom has been a lively place of late. In early 2013, the company surprised shareholders with a "terse" announcement informing them of unexpected changes to the company's executive team.

Now there's an intriguing combination of brainpower. Musk is interested in an autopilot type system for his Tesla electric cars, and he's had early discussions with the folks at Google.

Occidental Petroleum Corp., transformed by longtime leader Ray Irani into a global oil powerhouse from a hodgepodge of businesses that included movies and meatpacking, is set to undergo another makeover after the chairman's ouster by shareholders.

Occidental Petroleum Chairman Ray Irani was ousted by shareholders from the oil and gas petroleum's board and was absent from Friday's annual meeting in Santa Monica.