** Occidental Petroleum, an oil company which uses the nickname " Oxy " in its logo, originally from its stock's ticker symbol

* Occidental Petroleum, an American oil company

Mr. Lissouba lost favour with the French government early in his presidency by asking the American-owned Occidental Petroleum company to provide financial support for his Government in exchange for promises of future oil production.

Mr. Lissouba was pressured by the French into canceling all contracts with Occidental Petroleum, but suspicions of Lissouba remained.

He was intending to return to the Congo for the 2002 elections, but in December 2001 he was put on trial in Brazzaville, in absentia, and convicted to 30 years labor work for treason and corruption, related to a $ 150m oil deal with the American company Occidental Petroleum.

East of McKittrick is Occidental Petroleum's Elk Hills Field, formerly the U. S. Naval Petroleum Reserve.

Vintage Production, an arm of Occidental Petroleum, is the primary operator as of 2010.

In the late 1960s, the Occidental Petroleum company developed a residential community in and around the Eucalyptus groves which had long since expanded and grown much more dense.

While the field peaked in production in the 1950s, Occidental Petroleum continues to extract oil through its Vintage Production subsidiary and remains a significant local employer.

Armand Hammer ( May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990 ) was an American business manager and owner, most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran for decades, though he was known as well for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union.

Indeed, the Hooker Chemical Company ( later acquired by Occidental Petroleum Corporation ) dumped toxic waste into the abandoned Love Canal in Niagara Falls and sold the land without disclosing the dumping.

Many of the eggs were sold to Armand Hammer, president of Occidental Petroleum and a personal friend of Lenin, whose father was founder of the United States Communist party, and Emanuel Snowman of the London antique dealers Wartski.

Several failed projects such as the Rainbow Centre Factory Outlet, Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center, the Native American Cultural Center, the Hooker Chemical ( later the Occidental Petroleum ) Headquarters building, the Wintergarden, the Fallsville Splash Park, Aquafalls, a multi-story parking ramp, an enclosed pedestrian walkway / bridge, the Falls Street Faire / Falls Street Station amusement complexes, parts of the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the Mayor E. Dent Lackey Plaza closed within twenty years of their construction.

In the chaos that ensued after Gulf Oil's termination of its deal, Cities Service eventually entered into a merger agreement with, and was acquired by, Occidental Petroleum Corporation — a deal that was closed in the fall of 1982.

That same year, Cities Service Company transferred all of the assets of its Refining, Marketing and Transportation division ( which comprised its refining and retail petroleum business ) into the newly formed Citgo Petroleum Corporation subsidiary, to ease the divestiture of the division, which Occidental had no interest in retaining.

It is jointly owned by the state oil firm Ecopetrol, and U. S. company Occidental Petroleum.

Occidental Petroleum also contracted the security firm AirScan to aid the Colombian military in the defense of its operations.

In the mid-1970s Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed in the press that the site had formerly been used to bury 21, 000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical ( now Occidental Petroleum Corporation ).

Occidental Petroleum was sued by the EPA and in 1995 agreed to pay $ 129 million in restitution.

After leaving Congress, Gore resumed the practice of law with Occidental Petroleum and became vice president and member of the board of directors, taught law at Vanderbilt University 1970 – 1972.

Flight operations were launched on 25 May of that year, initially on regional chartered routes on behalf of Occidental Petroleum, a US-based oil and gas company.

Abboud was the former president of First Chicago Bank and Occidental Petroleum under Armand Hammer.

In 1974, Occidental Petroleum started construction of the island's oil terminal.

As a private citizen Blakeney served as a consultant to the Romanow government in the 1990s when they sold the SaskOil to Occidental Petroleum.

The Altiplano, the high plateau between the two cordilleras, comprises four major basins formed by mountainous spurs that jut eastward from the Cordillera Occidental about halfway to the Cordillera Oriental.

Stanford moved with his family from Sacramento to San Francisco in 1874, where he assumed presidency of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, the steamship line to Japan and China associated with the Central Pacific.

The island was once a single province from 1920 to 1950 when it was divided into its two present-day provinces, Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro.

* Tyto alba contempta – NE Andes from W Venezuela through E Colombia ( rare in the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Occidental ) south to Peru.

The province borders Lanao del Sur to the southeast, Zamboanga del Sur to the west, Illana Bay to the southwest, Iligan Bay to the north, Iligan City to the northeast, and is separated from Misamis Occidental by Panguil Bay to the northwest.

Basaseachic Falls is located in the high mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the Municipality of Ocampo, from Basaseachi community and about west of Chihuahua.

Later, the Negros Occidental area under the leadership of Gen. Araneta only, in contrast to the Negros Oriental area under the leadership of Don Diego de la Viña, formed the Cantonal Republic of Negros, a separate government from the more familiar Malolos Republic established in Luzon.

A chain of rugged mountains separates Negros Oriental from Negros Occidental.

The socio-economic life of Negros Occidental from the 1950s up to the 1980s depended as before mainly on the sugar industry.

Negros del Norte was created from Negros Occidental on January 3, 1986.

Today Negros Occidental remains one of the most progressive and largely developed Philippine province, in large due to the profits from the sugar industry but also due to diversification to other fields.

Aside from hosting sporting events Negros Occidental has produced many of the nation's finest athletes, particularly in boxing.

Through its capital, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental is only 50 minutes from Manila and 30 minutes from Cebu by air.

Category: People from Negros Occidental

Another popular theory suggests it evolved from a cocktail called the Martinez served at the Occidental Hotel in San Francisco sometime in the early 1860s, which people frequented before taking an evening ferry to the nearby town of Martinez.

He was co-editor of the Occidental magazine " Cosmoglotta " from 1934 to 1950, and he was responsible for changing the name of the language to Interlingue in 1949.

He graduated from Occidental College with a Bachelor degree in 1930.

Sabadell is located in the middle of the comarca named Vallès Occidental, approximately 20 km from Barcelona.

In Mexico it ranges from Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, and eastern Coahuila through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental as far south as Michoacán.

The Chihuahua White Pine, Pinus strobiformis, family Pinaceae, is a species of pine tree that occurs in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of Northern Mexico, from a short distance south of the United States border south through Chihuahua and Durango to Jalisco.

She also served as a trustee of Occidental College from 1952 to 1967.

It was once widespread and, until the early 1950s, not uncommon throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, from western Sonora and Chihuahua southwards to Jalisco and Michoacán.