Occidental Petroleum News

Plenty of black gold is hidden in the sand and shale of the Dominguez Oil Field, Occidental Petroleum Corp.

NEW YORK -- Hit by rising labor and other costs, Occidental Petroleum is moving some of its rigs out of the Bakken Shale Play in North Dakota.

Software and services provider IDOX has announced the second contract win of the week for its McLaren Software unit.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation : Credit Suisse said recent Occidental weakness provides a buying opportunity given management commentary regarding growth, outlook in the Permian and California, and slowing Upstream capital expenditures.

IDOX, the software services firm focused on the UK public sector, said its McLaren Software engineering information unit has bagged a contract with Occidental Petroleum.

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Occidental Petroleum was among the first major U.S. oil drillers to make a big bet on the resurgence of domestic production, spending billions to grab oil patches from Texas to North Dakota.

The Golden State is already home to five of the 12 largest oil fields in the US, and the California Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources estimates that more than 35 billion barrels of oil equivalent overall have been discovered in the state so far.

Occidental Petroleum is a California-based oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation has chosen a new GC who knows the drill when it comes to the petroleum business, John Ale.

A unit of oil producer Occidental Petroleum Corp. has reached an $82 million deal to buy the South Texas site of former Naval Station Ingleside.

It's been signed, sealed and all that's left is the delivery and final payment to complete the sale of the former Naval Station Ingleside.

When it comes to some of the oil plays in my portfolio I have always been of the mindset to buy American, simply because those are the names that I knew and understood the most.

OXY has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts at Zacks reiterated a "neutral" rating on shares of Occidental Petroleum in a research note to investors on Friday, April 27th.

On Friday, I did something I had never done before: I attended a shareholder meeting of a publicly traded corporation.

Occidental Petroleum is a well-run company that is exceptionally well leveraged in oil.

Occidental Petroleum is down more than 15% in the last few months. The stock has been hit by concerns that have turned sentiment negative on the overall energy sector, low natural gas prices and in the last week by falling oil prices.

San Diego County companies are at the top - and the bottom - of a new report from Pepperdine University that ranks the CEO performance of Southern California's largest companies.

Today I had the privilege of being a shareholder proxy at Occidental Petroleum's shareholder meeting today at a lavish Santa Monica hotel, together with a group of other activists organized on behalf of the 99%. New rules put in place by Dodd-Frank require companies to hold votes on executive compensation.

The 10-second takeaway For the quarter ended March 31 , Occidental Petroleum beat expectations on revenues and missed estimates on earnings per share.