Company: OXY-WT
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000797468-25-000029
Chunk: 103

Company: OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 103
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, gas plants, co-generation facilities and storage facilities and invests in entities that conduct similar activities, such as WES in the United States and DEL in the Middle East, which are accounted for as equity method investments. WES owns gathering systems, plants and pipelines and earns revenue from fee-based and service-based contracts with Occidental and third parties. DEL owns and operates a pipeline that connects its gas processing and compression plant in Qatar and its receiving facilities in the UAE, and uses its network of DEL-owned and other existing leased pipelines to supply natural gas to the UAE and Oman. The midstream segment also includes Al Hosn Gas, a processing facility in the UAE that removes sulfur from natural gas and processes the natural gas and sulfur for sale, as well as the OLCV businesses.

Leveraging Occidental’s carbon management expertise, OLCV primarily focuses on advancing carbon removal and CCUS projects, including developing and commercializing DAC technology. STRATOS, the Company’s first large-scale DAC facility, is designed to capture up to 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum once complete. Commissioning and start-up of operations for the first phase of the project is expected in mid-2025, with an initial capacity of up to 250,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum. OLCV also invests in third-party entities developing technologies to advance other low-carbon initiatives, including NET Power, an energy technology company building its first utility-scale plant to provide near-zero emissions electricity by 2028.

COMPETITION

Occidental’s midstream and marketing businesses operate in competitive and highly regulated markets. Occidental competes for capacity and infrastructure for the gathering, processing, transportation, storage and delivery of its products, which are sold at market prices or on a forward basis to refiners, end users and other market participants. Occidental’s marketing business competes with other market participants on exchange platforms and through other bilateral transactions with direct counterparties. OLCV and its businesses and investees also face a broad range of competitors, with nascent markets for low-carbon products and CO2 removal credits that are subject to rapidly changing laws, regulations, policies and reporting and verification mechanisms that can significantly impact the financing, construction and operation of projects and the development of markets.

Occidental’s midstream and marketing operations are conducted in the locations described below as of December 31, 2024:

Location(a)DescriptionCapacity (b)Gas PlantsTexas, New Mexico and ColoradoOccidental and third-party-operated natural gas/