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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001140361-24-025207
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240509

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000797468
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				954035997
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

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

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		STREET 1:		5 GREENWAY PLAZA
		STREET 2:		SUITE 110
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
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    <div>May 9, 2024</div>
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    <div>Division of Corporation Finance</div>
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            <div>Attention:</div>
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            <div>Occidental Petroleum Corporation</div>
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            <div>Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023</div>
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            <div>File No. 001-09210</div>
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    <div>Ladies and Gentlemen:</div>
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    <div>On behalf of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), we are responding to your comment letter dated April 30, 2024, that we received from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) relating to our Form 10-K for
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    <div>For ease of reference, we have repeated the Staff&#8217;s comments in bolded text preceding each response. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Form 10-K.</div>
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    <div style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Financial Statements and Supplementary Data Note 16 - Geographic Areas and Industry Segments, page 112</u></div>
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            <div style="font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We note from your disclosure on page 3 that the midstream and marketing segment includes your low-carbon ventures businesses (&#8220;OLCV&#8221;) and that
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                third parties to facilitate the implementation of their CCUS projects and that &#8220;OLCV is fostering emerging technologies, including DAC and low-carbon power sources, and other business models with the potential to position Occidental as a
                leader in the production of low-carbon energy and products.&#8221; Please explain in sufficient detail how you evaluated whether OLCV is considered a separate operating segment under the guidance of FASB ASC 280-10-50. As</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">part of your response, please address the following:</font></div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">If you do not consider OLCV to be a separate operating segment, provide an analysis to support your position in accordance with FASB ASC paragraphs 280-10-50-1 through 50-9.</div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">If you do consider OLCV to be a separate operating segment that you aggregate for reporting purposes into the midstream and marketing segment, provide an analysis to support your position that OLCV meets the
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    <div>We respectfully advise the Staff that the Company regularly reviews its segment analysis and will continue to assess OLCV given the expected continued investment in this portfolio of assets. The Company&#8217;s December 2023 analysis, particularly with
      respect to OLCV, concluded that OLCV did not meet the operating segment criteria under FASB ASC paragraphs 28-10-50-1 through 50-9. The below discussion summarizes the Company&#8217;s analysis of the applicable sections of ASC 280-10-50-1 through 50-9.</div>
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    <div>The Company&#8217;s President and CEO is the Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) and is responsible for allocating resources and assessing the performance across the Company&#8217;s operations. The oil and gas, midstream and marketing, and chemicals
      segments each have separate segment management directly accountable to the CODM as described by ASC 280-10-50-7, whereas OLCV does not have a segment manager who is directly accountable to the CODM. The segment managers allocate resources within
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    <div>The CODM reviews a consolidated financial package for the Company and discrete financial packages for each of the Company&#8217;s three operating segments: oil and gas, midstream and marketing and chemicals. All reports present the Company&#8217;s business
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    <div>OLCV seeks to partner with other industries by offering CO<sub style="vertical-align: bottom; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">2</sub> sequestration services at one of several still to be developed sequestration hubs. OLCV also seeks to capture CO<sub style="vertical-align: bottom; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">2</sub> directly from the atmosphere through its first
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    <div>Because OLCV&#8217;s business activities are still in development, information about OLCV revenue and expenses are not presented or regularly reviewed as discrete financial information by the CODM, therefore OLCV does not meet the second characteristic
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    <div>The aggregation criteria in FASB ASC paragraph 280-10-50-11 are not applicable as OLCV is not a separate operating segment.</div>
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    <div style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Supplemental Oil and Gas Information Oil and Gas Reserves, page 114</u></div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">Tell us the quantity of reported reserves that are attributable to investments that are accounted for by the equity method and where they are reflected in your supplemental oil and gas reserve disclosure.
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    <div>We respectfully advise the Staff that the Company does not have any oil and gas reserves or production associated with investments that are accounted for under the equity method for any of the periods presented in the Form 10-K. The equity method
      investee referenced in footnote (b) to the Company&#8217;s presentation of results of operations on page 121 is related to the Company&#8217;s investment in a Gulf of Mexico well containment company that has no oil and gas reserves or production.</div>
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            <div style="font-weight: bold;">Footnote (b) to your presentation of results of operations indicates, in part, that revenues include income from equity investments. Explain to us how this presentation takes into consideration the guidance of
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    <div>We respectfully advise the Staff that the income associated with the equity method investments referenced in footnote (b) accounts for 0.1% or less of total revenues for each period presented in the Form 10-K. Due to its immaterial nature, the
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    <div>If you need any further information or elaboration, or if you wish to discuss any of the information presented above, please call me at your convenience at (713) 985-6901.</div>
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