Occidental Petroleum Company

U.S. producers of benzene from petroleum and their approximate production capacities are shown in Table 5. These figures are inexact because the size of the market and instabiUty of benzene prices causes frequent changes in capacity. Dow Chemical, with total armual benzene capacity of 8.3 x 10 t (250 million gallons) is the largest producer in the United States. Other companies with total domestic capacity of over 3.3 x 10 t (100 million gallons) per year are Amoco Corp., Lyondell, British Petroleum America, Chevron, Exxon Chemical, Occidental Petroleum, Shell Oil, and Mobil. These companies account for approximately 60% of total U.S. benzene capacity (65). 

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Hexachloroethane is not currently produced for commercial distribution in the United States. It is a by-product in the industrial chlorination of saturated and unsaturated C2 hydrocarbons by several U.S. companies, including Dow Chemical, PPG Industries, and Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The product may be used captively in-house or recycled in feedstock to produce tetrachloroethylene or carbon tetrachloride. Estimates of current production volumes were not located (Gordon et al. 1991 Santodonato et al. 1985 TRI93 1995). 

At the same time, oil companies were integrating downstream petrochemicals and polymers. Such was the case of Occidental Petroleum, which through its chemical subsidiary Hooker (later Oxychem) bought up... 

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Seattle, Washington (USITC 1995). Facilities listed as being responsible for producing the top 50% of regional capacity in the United States include Chevron Chemical (18%) Exxon Chemical Company (8%) Shell Chemical Company (7%) Dow Chemical Company (7%) BP Oil Company (7%) and Occidental Petroleum Corporation (7%) (SRI 1995). 

In autumn 1976 a contract was signed with the Ministry of Science Policy for a study on the pyrolysis of waste. At that moment it seemed impossible to catch up with the work of excellent companies such as Union Carbide, Monsanto or Occidental Petroleum and develop a proprietary process. Furthermore the amount of financial funds provided and the extent of facilities available at the University precluded such an approach. 

In this way, the crash programs in gasoline and rubber transformed the major oil and gas companies into significant producers of chemicals. By the war s end, most, but not all, of the principal American petroleum companies were producing basic feedstocks, intermediate petrochemicals, as well as commodity polymers. Some companies failed, for different reasons, including Mobil, Texaco, Gulf (later part of Chevron), Ashland, Occidental, and Blf-Atochem. 

Exxon, Arco, Amoco, Mobil, and Ashland also entered the mining of copper and other industrial minerals. For Mobil and Exxon, the latter included uranium. By 1993, however, these units had been spun off. A few firms strayed even further afield. Exxon and Arco undertook the production of computer products and provided computer services. Exxon even went so far as to acquire an innovative electric-motor enterprise. Reliance Electric. As mentioned above, Mobil purchased Montgomery Ward and the Container Corporation of America, while Occidental bought Iowa Beef, the nation s most successful meat packer. By the mid-1990s, however, the petroleum companies had sold off nearly all these acquisitions. By then, nearly all American industrial corporations had learned that such unrelated diversification could rarely remain profitable for more than a decade and defined their strategic boundaries accordingly. 

High-density CWS fuels, discussed both in Steam [12], and in Morrison et. al. [15], have been produced on both a research and development basis by a joint venture between Occidental Petroleum and Combustion Engineering—OXCE— and by Carbogel, a Swedish development company. Carbogel worked with Foster Wheeler in the development of high-density CWS fuels. 

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