58/100BOccidental Petroleum company profile
- CEO
- Richard A. Jackson
- Employees
- 10,412
- Headquarters
- 5 Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX 77046-0521, US
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
- IPO date
- 31 Dec 1981
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US6745991058
Website:oxy.com
About the company
Occidental Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in the United States and internationally. It operates through Oil and Gas and Midstream and Marketing. The Oil and Gas segment explores for, develops, and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas. This segment also optimizes its transportation and storage capacity and invests in entities. The Midstream and Marketing segment purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGLs, natural gas, carbon dioxide, and power. Occidental Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Employees
Occidental Petroleum had about 10,412 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 21.8% fewer than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Occidental Petroleum
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 86.1% of Occidental Petroleum's shares on 30 June 2026, 1,325 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Occidental Petroleum
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