Company: OXY-WT
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000797468-25-000076
Chunk: 12

Company: OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 12
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 ended March 31, 2024. The increase in operating cash flow from continuing operations, compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to higher sales volumes, including volumes from the CrownRock Acquisition and GOA, offset primarily by higher use of working capital due to timing of federal tax payments and other current payables.

Investing Cash Flows

Occidental’s net cash used by investing activities was $0.7 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $1.8 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Investing activities included $1.3 billion in divestitures of non-core oil and gas assets. See Note 5 - Acquisitions and Divestitures in the Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q for additional information. 

Capital expenditures, of which the majority were for the oil and gas segment, were $1.9 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $1.8 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2024. 

Financing Cash Flows

Occidental’s net cash used by financing activities was $0.9 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, which included payments of long-term debt of $0.5 billion and payments of common and preferred dividends of $0.4 billion. See Note 4 - Long-Term Debt in the Notes to Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Cash used in financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $0.3 billion, which was primarily related to cash dividends.

Occidental’s Zero Coupons can be put to Occidental in October of each year, in whole or in part, for the then accreted value of the outstanding Zero Coupons. The Zero Coupons can next be put to Occidental in October 2025, which, if put in whole, would require a payment of approximately $381 million at such date. Occidental currently has the ability to meet this obligation and may use available capacity under the RCF and other committed facilities to satisfy the put should it be exercised.

As of the date of this filing, Occidental was in compliance with all covenants in its financing agreements. As of the date of this