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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001140361-20-007833
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200402
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200402
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20200402

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000797468
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
		IRS NUMBER:				954035997
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09210
		FILM NUMBER:		20769992

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5 GREENWAY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		SUITE 110
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77046
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7132157000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		5 GREENWAY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		SUITE 110
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77046
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM 8-K</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">CURRENT REPORT</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): March 29, 2020</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;"><font style="-sec-ix-hidden: Fact_d5c3c8505e0146bb85d742ccc1a5c28a;">OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION</font><br>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><font style="-sec-ix-hidden: Fact_ee7090f603c146d0a8fae1b14bcbdf2c;">5 Greenway Plaza, Suite 110</font><br>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">Registrant&#8217;s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: <font style="font-weight: bold;">(713)
          215-7000</font></div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Not Applicable</div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)</div>
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      <div>Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
        provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):</div>
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                  <div>Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</div>
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                  <div>Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))</div>
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      <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:</div>
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              <div style="font-weight: bold;">Title of Each Class</div>
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              <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">Trading Symbol(s</font>)</div>
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              <div>Common Stock, $0.20 par value<br>
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            <td style="width: 20.95%; vertical-align: bottom;">OXY<br>
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              <div>New York Stock Exchange<br>
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      <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (CFR
        230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (CFR 240.12b-2).</div>
      <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Emerging growth company &#9744;</div>
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      <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying
        with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. &#9744;</div>
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                <td style="width: 45pt; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">Item 5.02.</td>
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                  <div style="font-weight: bold;">Departure of Directors or Certain Officers&#894; Election of Directors&#894; Appointment of Certain Officers&#894; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.</div>
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      <div>On March 29, 2020, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) adopted the Occidental Petroleum Corporation Executive Severance Plan (the &#8220;Severance
        Plan&#8221;), which is applicable to the Company&#8217;s executive officers.</div>
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      <div>The Company previously did not maintain any severance arrangements for its executive officers.&#160; The purpose of adopting the plan is to allow the Company&#8217;s
        executives to continue to exercise their judgment and perform their responsibilities without the potential for distraction that can arise from concerns regarding their personal circumstances.&#160; In reviewing the Severance Plan, the Executive
        Compensation Committee of the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors (the &#8220;Compensation Committee&#8221;) consulted with its independent compensation consultant, Meridian Compensation Partners, LLC, to develop market-based severance benefits that are competitive
        within the oil and gas industry and that reflect broader U.S. industry practices.&#160; The Compensation Committee also reviewed the plan and determined that it did not provide benefits in excess of the Company&#8217;s long-established Golden Parachute
        Policy.</div>
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      <div>The Severance Plan provides severance benefits in the event that an eligible executive&#8217;s employment with the Company and its subsidiaries is terminated other
        than for &#8220;cause&#8221; (as defined in the Severance Plan).&#160; The Severance Plan does not provide benefits upon a resignation by the executive for any reason.&#160; The severance benefits provided under the Severance Plan are as follows:</div>
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      <div>(1) <font style="font-style: italic;">Cash Severance. </font> The executive would receive a cash
        severance amount equal to 1.5 times (or, in the case of the Company&#8217;s chief executive officer, two times) the sum of (A) the executive&#8217;s base salary and (B) the executive&#8217;s annual bonus for the year of termination.&#160; For terminations on or before
        December 31, 2021, (i) base salary will be deemed to be the higher of the executive&#8217;s base salary in effect on March 1, 2020 and that in effect on the termination date and (ii) the executive&#8217;s annual bonus for the year of termination will be deemed
        to be the actual bonus earned for the year of termination based on actual performance.&#160; For terminations after December 31, 2021, the executive&#8217;s base salary on the termination date and target bonus for the year of termination will apply.&#160; The
        Compensation Committee determined to distinguish the severance benefits for terminations occurring on or before December 31, 2021 in light of the Compensation Committee&#8217;s decision to significantly reduce the base salaries of the Company&#8217;s executive
        officers (as described in the Company&#8217;s preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 1, 2020), as well as the Company&#8217;s commitment to condition annual bonuses on its performance achievement against the macroeconomic
        challenges its industry is currently facing.</div>
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      <div>(2) <font style="font-style: italic;">Pro Rata Bonus</font>.&#160; The executive would receive a <font style="font-style: italic;">pro rata</font> portion of the executive&#8217;s annual bonus for the year of termination, determined based on (x) actual performance for the year of termination, if
        the termination date is on or before December 31, 2021, or (y) target bonus, if the termination date is after December 31, 2021.</div>
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      <div>(3) <font style="font-style: italic;">Welfare Benefits</font>.&#160; For two years following the
        termination date, the executive would receive continued participation of the executive (and eligible dependents) in the basic life, medical and dental plans in which the executive participated immediately before the termination date at the same
        rates and levels in accordance with the terms of such plans.&#160; For purposes of determining the executive&#8217;s eligibility for retiree medical and dental benefits, the executive would be considered to have remained employed until two years after the
        executive&#8217;s termination date and to have retired on the last day of such period.</div>
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      <div>(4) <font style="font-style: italic;">Accelerated Vesting of Service Condition Under Long-Term
          Incentive Awards</font>. <font style="font-style: italic;">&#160;</font>The service-based vesting condition of any long-term incentive award would vest (i) in full, if the executive&#8217;s
        termination date is on or before December 31, 2021, or (ii) <font style="font-style: italic;">pro rata</font>, if the executive&#8217;s termination date is after December 31, 2021.&#160; If the award
        is also subject to performance-based vesting conditions, the award (or the <font style="font-style: italic;">pro rata</font> portion of such award, as applicable) would continue to be
        subject to the satisfaction of the applicable performance conditions.&#160; Any individual performance goals that are not based on objective financial performance criteria would be deemed earned at target performance.</div>
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      <div>(5) <font style="font-style: italic;">Outplacement</font>.&#160; The executive would receive outplacement
        services for up to nine months following the termination date.</div>
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      <div>The foregoing severance benefits are subject to the executive&#8217;s execution of a release of any claims against the Company, as well as any restrictive covenants
        that the Compensation Committee determines in its discretion.&#160; Under the Severance Plan, severance benefits to any executive cannot exceed the amount permitted under the Company&#8217;s Golden Parachute Policy unless approved by a vote of the Company&#8217;s
        stockholders.&#160; Further, if any of the executive&#8217;s payments under the Severance Plan or otherwise would be subject to &#8220;golden parachute&#8221; excise taxes under the Internal Revenue Code, the payments to the executive will be reduced in order to limit or
        avoid the &#8220;golden parachute&#8221; excise tax if and to the extent such reduction would produce an expected better after-tax result for the executive.</div>
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      <div>The foregoing description is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Severance Plan, a copy of which will be filed
        as an exhibit to the Company&#8217;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2020.</div>
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        <div>The Company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;SEC&#8221;) a preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A, containing a form of proxy
          card, with respect to its solicitation of proxies for the Company&#8217;s 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the &#8220;2020 Annual Meeting&#8221;). The proxy statement is in preliminary form and the Company intends to file and mail a definitive proxy statement
          to stockholders of the Company. This communication is not a substitute for any proxy statement or other document that the Company has filed or may file with the SEC in connection with any solicitation by the Company.</div>
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        <div>INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) FILED BY THE COMPANY AND ANY OTHER
          RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ANY SOLICITATION BY THE COMPANY. Investors and security holders may obtain copies of these documents and other
          documents filed with the SEC by the Company free of charge through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed by the Company are also available free of charge by accessing the Company&#8217;s website at www.oxy.com.</div>
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        <div style="font-weight: bold;"><font style="text-decoration: underline;">Participants</font></div>
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        <div>The Company, its directors and executive officers and other members of management and employees may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies by
          the Company. Information about the Company&#8217;s executive officers and directors and their respective direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is available in the Company&#8217;s preliminary proxy statement for its 2020 Annual
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