Occidental Petroleum vs Halliburton
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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.
Houston oilfield completions and drilling (NYSE: HAL) $22.9B FY2024 revenue; #1 US hydraulic fracturing, Zeus E-frac, international expansion, $4.0B adj. operating income competing with SLB and Baker Hughes.
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Halliburton Company is a Houston, Texas-based oilfield services company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HAL) as an S&P 500 Energy component — providing products and services for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas through two segments: Completion and Production (hydraulic fracturing, cementing, artificial lift, wireline logging) and Drilling and Evaluation (drill bits, directional drilling, formation evaluation, well construction planning) through approximately 50,000 employees in 70+ countries. In fiscal year 2024, Halliburton reported revenues of $22.9 billion and adjusted operating income of $4.0 billion, with North America (the most important market — driven by US shale completions) generating $8.6 billion and international operations (Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Europe) generating $14.3 billion. CEO Jeff Miller has led Halliburton's return to strong profitability following the COVID-19 oil demand collapse with a disciplined capital-light model: rather than owning all completion equipment (pressure pumping fleets, cementing units), Halliburton has entered long-term customer partnerships where major E&P operators (Pioneer, EOG, Devon, ConocoPhillips) commit multi-year completion work to Halliburton in exchange for deployment priority and dedicated crew relationships — reducing equipment idle time and Halliburton's capital requirements while securing predictable activity levels. Halliburton's Zeus electric fracturing fleet (E-frac using natural gas-powered electric motors to drive frac pumps rather than diesel engines) reduces NOx emissions and fuel cost for US shale operators — achieving 40-50% fuel cost reduction that operators increasingly specify as a sustainability requirement.
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