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====Diesel in Fracking====From 2010 to July 2014 Occidental drillers in the reported using 739.96 gallons of diesel injected into one well in the U.S. The Environmental Integrity Project extensively researched diesel in fracking. The environmental research organization argues that diesel use in fracking is widely under reported. The Environmental Integrity Project 2014 study [http://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-10_Frackings_Toxic_Loophole.pdf "Fracking Beyond The Law, Despite Industry Denials Investigation Reveals Continued Use of Diesel Fuels in Hydraulic Fracturing,"] found that [[hydraulic fracturing]] with diesel fuel can pose a risk to drinking water and human health because diesel contains [[benzene]], toluene, xylene, and other chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other health problems. The Environmental Integrity Project identified numerous fracking fluids with high amounts of diesel, including additives, friction reducers, emulsifiers, solvents sold by Halliburton.<ref>[http://environmentalintegrity.org/news-reports/reports "Fracking Beyond The Law, Despite Industry Denials Investigation Reveals Continued Use of Diesel Fuels in Hydraulic Fracturing,"] The Environmental Integrity Project, August 13, 2014.</ref>
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Beginning in 1997, Oxy completed a series of acquisitions, sales and asset swaps to become a more highly focused oil and gas company with large, long-lived, high margin oil and gas assets concentrated in the United States, Middle East and Latin America.
Oxy transformed Colombia from oil importer to exporter with the 1983 discovery of the billion-plus barrel Caño Limón oil field located in the Llanos Basin in the northeastern part of the country. In 2006, this oil field averaged 28,000 BOE per day. In 2005, Ecopetrol approved development of the Caricare field, an exploration discovery adjacent to the Caño Limón field, in which Oxy has a 35 percent working interest. That same year, Oxy signed an agreement with Ecopetrol for an EOR project in the La Cira-Infantas field in central Colombia. In December 2006, Oxy completed the second pilot phase and agreed to enter a third and commercial phase with Ecopetrol. [http://www.oxy.com/About%20Oxy/who_we_are/history.htm]
Oxy is California’s largest natural gas producer and the state's largest oil and gas producer on a gross-operated barrels of oil equivalent basis, which has increased with the use of [[hydraulic fracturing]]. On its website, Oxy states that the company "is applying the expertise gained from exploring and producing different shale zones at Elk Hills to other California assets, including properties in the Los Angeles, Ventura and San Joaquin basins. More than one-fourth of Oxy’s California production currently is from shales."<ref>[http://www.oxy.com/OurBusinesses/OilAndGas/UnitedStates/Pages/cal.aspx "Our businesses: California,"] Occidental Website, accessed May 2012.</ref>
===Historical Financial Information===
===Environment ===
Oxy describes their environmental protection principles as requiring constant focus on waste reduction and resource conservation. Oxy also tracks energy efficiency and it has been shown that efforts focused on improving energy efficiency have yielded an 8 percent improvement since 1996. Energy use per pound of production in OxyChem has decreased more than 40 percent since 1995. [http://www.oxy.com/Social%20Responsibility/environment/ENVIRONMENT.htm]
===Consumer Protection and Product Safety===
*[[AMIDEAST]]
*[[Armand Hammer]]
*[[David Thomas (Oil)]]
*[[Crocodyl]]
*[[Alliance for Children's Rights]]
