OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP /DE/

CURRENT BUSINESS OUTLOOK AND STRATEGY

GENERAL

The Company’s financial results are significantly influenced by oil prices, and to a lesser extent, NGL and natural gas prices, and commodity market differentials. Oil prices have been and are expected to remain volatile due to shifts in energy supply and demand, ongoing geopolitical factors and OPEC supply actions. In 2025, compared to 2024, the average annual WTI price per barrel decreased to $64.81 from $75.72, and the average annual Brent price per barrel decreased to $68.18 from $79.79.

The Company’s costs are influenced by inflationary trends, market conditions, the availability and cost of oilfield services, electricity, and CO₂, and other operational expenditures. In April 2025, a U.S. tariff policy was announced that imposed a 10% base tariff rate on most imports, with higher rates applied to certain countries. Since then, the U.S. has negotiated trade deals, and certain tariff rates have been adjusted or paused amid ongoing litigation. These tariffs may increase the Company’s supplier costs and affect demand and prices for its products. The Company works to manage inflation impacts by capitalizing on operational efficiencies, locking in pricing on longer-term contracts and working closely with vendors to secure the supply of critical materials. Seasonality is not a primary driver of changes in the Company’s consolidated quarterly earnings.

STRATEGY

The Company is focused on delivering a unique shareholder value proposition with its portfolio of oil and gas and midstream and marketing assets, as well as its ongoing development of carbon management and storage solutions and GHG emissions reduction efforts. The Company conducts its operations with a priority on HSE, sustainability and social responsibility. In order to maximize shareholder returns, the Company will:

■ Maintain production base to preserve asset base integrity and longevity;

■Deliver a sustainable and growing dividend;

■Prioritize excess cash flow and proceeds from divestitures, including the OxyChem Transaction, for deleveraging until principal debt is approximately $14.3 billion, after which available cash will be allocated to opportunistic share repurchases and/or further net debt reduction;

■Enhance its asset base with investments in its cash-generative oil and gas business; and

■Advance integrated technologies in CO 2, power and midstream to enable differentiated resource recovery and value.

OXYCHEM TRANSACTION

In October 2025, the Company announced entry into a purchase and sale agreement with Berkshire Hathaway to sell all of the issued and outstanding equity interests in OxyChem in an all-cash transaction for $9.7 billion. The sale was completed on January 2, 2026, resulting in an estimated gain of $3.2 billion, net of taxes and subject to post-closing adjustments. As a result, OxyChem’s results of operations, cash flows and the related retained liabilities and indemnification obligations are reported as discontinued operations in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Cash Flows for all periods presented, with its assets and liabilities reclassified as held for sale in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

An Occidental subsidiary, Environmental Resource Holdings, LLC (ERH), has retained legacy tort claims and environmental liabilities primarily associated with historical operations outside of the footprint of the operating facilities that were sold. Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc. will continue to manage the remedial activities at environmental sites on behalf of ERH. The Company expects to expend funds for remediation over many years based on the approved workplans.

CAPITAL INVESTMENT

In 2025, the Company invested $5.6 billion in high-return oil and gas assets to generate long-term free cash flow throughout the commodity cycle. In the midstream and marketing segment, the Company invested $0.7 billion before contributions from noncontrolling interest, primarily related to STRATOS.

DEBT

In 2025, the Company used proceeds from divestitures and cash on hand to repay approximately $4.0 billion of debt. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, but before the date of this filing, the Company used proceeds from the OxyChem Transaction to pay or satisfy and discharge an additional $5.4 billion of debt.

As of the date of this filing, the principal debt outstanding was approximately $15 billion, of which $24 million is due in 2026, $48 million in 2027, $14 million in 2028, $367 million in 2029 and $14.6 billion due in 2030 and thereafter.

For detailed information on the Company’s debt activity, see Note 5 - Long-Term Debt in the notes to the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

SHAREHOLDER RETURN PRIORITIES

Capital is returned to shareholders through the Company’s dividend and share repurchases. In 2025, the Company declared dividends to common shareholders of $945 million, or $0.96 per share. As of December 31, 2025, $1.2 billion remained of the Company’s $3.0 billion share repurchase program, which the Board authorized in February 2023. After using the proceeds from the OxyChem Transaction to reduce the principal of outstanding debt to approximately $15 billion, the Company’s shareholder return priorities are to continue to provide a sustainable and growing dividend and further reduce principal debt to approximately $14.3 billion. Available cash will be allocated, as appropriate, to opportunistic share repurchases and/or further debt reduction.

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY

The Company’s sustainability strategy is organized around four pillars: principles of governance, people, planet, and prosperity. The Company integrates these sustainability pillars into our strategic planning and investment decision-making processes.

In 2020, the Company was the first U.S. oil and gas company to announce goals to achieve net-zero GHG emissions for its total emissions inventory including use of sold products. These goals include achieving net-zero GHG emissions (i) from its operations and energy use before 2040, with an ambition to do so before 2035, and (ii) from its total carbon inventory, including the use of its sold products, with an ambition to do so before 2050. In 2020, the Company also set various interim targets, including 2025 carbon and methane intensity targets, and the Company was the first U.S. oil and gas company to endorse the World Bank’s initiative for zero routine flaring by 2030. In 2022, the Board of Directors adopted the Company’s updated HSE and Sustainability Principles, based on engagement with shareholders, employees and other stakeholders. The HSE and Sustainability Principles reinforce the alignment among the Company’s core values, goals and strategies, underpin its Operating Management System, and help to guide the workforce across its operations. In 2023, the Company was an original signatory to the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter, committed funding to the World Bank’s Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership, and established a new, medium-term 2030 methane intensity target. In 2025, the Company established a new, medium-term 2030 CO 2 equivalent intensity target.

The Company seeks to meet its sustainability and environmental goals by implementing practices and technologies to reduce operational emissions coupled with its development and commercialization of technologies that lower both GHG emissions from industrial processes and existing atmospheric concentrations of CO 2. The Company believes that carbon removal technologies, including DAC and CCUS, can, with incentives necessary for their development and deployment, provide essential CO 2 reductions to assist the world’s transition to a lower carbon-intensive economy. Through fiscal 2024, the Company reduced estimated methane emissions by approximately 78.6% from 2019 and 40% from 2023, along with a 28.7% reduction in CO 2 equivalent emissions since 2019. The following actions helped the Company advance its low-carbon business strategy in 2025:

■Completed construction of STRATOS central processing facilities and obtained Class VI permits to sequester CO 2, with operations expected to begin in 2026.

■Actively progressed its sequestration hub plans, with five sequestration hubs in various stages of development primarily in the Permian Basin and across the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast; and

■Implemented emissions reduction projects involving hundreds of facilities and wells and thousands of pieces of equipment across its oil and gas operations.

The future costs associated with emissions reduction, carbon removal and CCUS to meet the Company’s long-term net-zero GHG goals may be substantial and the execution of its plans and net-zero pathway depends on securing third-party capital investments. As reflected by the joint venture with BlackRock, the Company is pursuing multiple avenues to fund these projects including project financing, long-term carbon removal or CCUS agreements, and identifying business opportunities with stakeholders in carbon-intensive industries.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The Company seeks to meet its strategic goals by continually measuring its success against key performance indicators that drive total stockholder return. In addition to efficient capital allocation and deployment discussed below in the section titled “Oil and Gas Segment - Business Strategy,” the Company believes its most significant performance indicators are:

OPERATIONAL

■Total spend per barrel - In 2026, the Company will continue our emphasis on controlling total costs from a per-barrel perspective. Total spend per barrel is the sum of capital spending, general and administrative expenses, other operating and non-operating expenses and oil and gas lease operating costs divided by global oil, NGL and natural gas sales volumes.

■Daily production - the Company seeks to maximize field operability and minimize production down-time.

FINANCIAL

■CROCE - CROCE is calculated as (i) the cash flows from operating activities, before changes in working capital, plus distributions from WES classified as investing cash flows, divided by (ii) the average of the opening and closing balances of total equity plus total debt.

■FCF - FCF is calculated as the cash flows from operating activities, before changes in working capital, less the Company’s capital expenditures, net of contributions from noncontrolling interests.

■Financial Leverage- Reduce debt to achieve metrics consistent with an investment grade credit rating.

SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL

■Interim targets to advance the goal of net-zero operational and energy use emissions before 2040, with an ambition to achieve before 2035.

■Milestones in specific carbon removal and CCUS projects that advance a net-zero total emissions inventory, including use of sold products, with an ambition to achieve before 2050.

■Facilitate deployment of carbon removal, CCUS and other solutions to advance total carbon impact past 2050.