OxyChem's market position is No. 1 or No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 1, 2 or 3 in the world. OxyChem is the largest U.S. merchant marketer of caustic soda and the world’s largest producer of caustic potash and calcium chloride. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufac...
In 1998 the company bought huge natural gas deposits in the Elk Hills Field of southern California (formerly part of the U.S. government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve), and in 2000 it bought Altura Energy, Ltd., a company with reserves in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. The ...