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Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited (OPCAL) and began production in December 1976, [3] initially as an oil-only platform, but later converted to add gas production.
Three Occidental Petroleum active oil wells (using nodding donkeys); south of Buttonwillow, California. The Elk Hills Oil Field (formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1) is a large oil field in western Kern County, in the Elk Hills of the San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Bakersfield.
Occidental Petroleum was founded in Los Angeles, CA in 1920. [5] In 1957, Armand Hammer became the company's president and CEO after acquiring a controlling stake. [6] The 1960s marked a period of expansion as Occidental established operations in Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad, and the United Kingdom.
The deal would add 94,000 acres to Occidental’s holdings in the area, along with 1,700 undeveloped locations with estimated production of 170,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd).
[11] [12] The pumped oil contained 20% water in 1965, and by 1994 it was 92% water. [13] The islands and operation were purchased by Occidental Petroleum in 2000. [14] In 2014, Occidental Petroleum spun off all California assets into California Resources Corporation (CRC), which still owns and operates THUMS Islands as of 2018. [15]
The Flotta oil terminal is a major crude oil reception, processing, storage and export facility on the island of Flotta, in the south of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. It receives and processes crude oil delivered by a subsea pipeline from the Piper , Claymore , Tartan and Golden Eagle platforms and associated fields.
Occidental Petroleum is one of the largest producers in the Permian Basin, where it controls about 2.8 million net acres of land. It recently strengthened its position through its $12 billion ...
Piper Bravo is a North Sea oil production platform originally operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd, and now owned by Repsol Sinopec Energy UK. Piper Bravo is an eight-legged fixed steel jacket supported platform, located 193 kilometres northeast of Aberdeen in the Piper oilfield in the central North Sea. It stands in 145 metres of ...