Occidental Petroleum's Wheeling and Dealing Is Helping Fuel Strong Results
Occidental Petroleum used its gushing free cash flow to strengthen its balance sheet and repaid a total of $4 billion in debt during the period. That included $1.1 billion of debt maturities, all of CrownRock's $1.2 billion of debt that it assumed, and $1.7 billion of the term loans it took out to help finance the CrownRock deal.