Occidental Petroleum vs FirstEnergy
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Permian-led integrated E&P with $26.2B FY2024 revenue; Berkshire Hathaway ~29% stake; $12B CrownRock acquisition 2023; STRATOS world's largest DAC plant opened 2024; OxyChem countercyclical.
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Occidental Petroleum is an integrated oil and gas company with leading positions in the Permian Basin, Middle East, and Latin America, founded in 1920 in Los Angeles and now headquartered in Houston, Texas, trading on NYSE (OXY). The company generated approximately $26.2 billion in revenues for FY2024 under CEO Vicki Hollub, who has established Occidental as the oil and gas industry's most ambitious carbon management company through its STRATOS Direct Air Capture facility—the world's largest operational DAC plant, opened in Ector County, Texas in 2024 with capacity to remove 500,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, has accumulated approximately 29% of Occidental's common shares and holds warrants to acquire an additional 83.9 million shares, representing one of Buffett's largest concentrated investments and a strong endorsement of Occidental's Permian Basin strategy.
Akron OH Midwest/Mid-Atlantic regulated utility (NYSE: FE) ~$13.5B FY2024 revenue; HB 6 scandal recovery complete, $26B 2024-2028 capex, 6M customers in 6 states, data center NJ growth competing with AEP and Exelon.
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FirstEnergy Corp. is an Akron, Ohio-based regulated electric utility holding company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FE) as an S&P 500 Utilities component — providing electric transmission and distribution service to approximately 6 million customers across six states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, New York) through regulated utility subsidiaries including Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Toledo Edison, Pennsylvania Power, The Illuminating Company, Monongahela Power, Potomac Edison, Jersey Central Power & Light, Met-Ed, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through approximately 12,000 employees. FirstEnergy is in the final stages of reputational and operational recovery from a historic corporate governance scandal: in 2020, FirstEnergy admitted to paying $60 million in bribes to Ohio utility regulators and state legislators (including former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder) to secure passage of HB 6 — a $1.3 billion nuclear plant bailout law that was later repealed — resulting in criminal convictions, executive departures, shareholder class action settlements, and a $230 million DOJ deferred prosecution agreement. In fiscal year 2024, FirstEnergy reported revenues of approximately $13.5 billion, with the company executing CEO Brian Tierney's (joined 2023) strategy of rebuilding regulatory trust, improving operational performance, and executing the $26 billion capital plan (2024-2028) for grid modernization, electric vehicle infrastructure, and smart meter installation across the six-state service territory. FirstEnergy's 2021 divestiture of its competitive power generation business (FirstEnergy Solutions — renamed Evolent Energy Resources, including the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants in Ohio) simplified FirstEnergy to a pure regulated utility — eliminating the commodity generation exposure that had distorted earnings and contributed to the improper HB 6 lobbying motivation.
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