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Portions of this presentation contain forward-looking statements and involve risks and uncertainties that could materially affect
expected results of operations, liquidity, cash flows and business prospects. Factors that could cause results to differ
materially include, but are not limited to: higher-than-expected costs; global commodity pricing fluctuations; supply and demand
considerations for Occidental’s products; general domestic political and regulatory approval conditions; political events; not
successfully completing, or any material delay of, any development of new fields, expansion projects, capital expenditures,
efficiency-improvement projects, acquisitions or dispositions; potential failure to achieve expected production from existing and
future oil and gas development projects; exploration risks such as drilling unsuccessful wells; any general economic recession
or slowdown domestically or internationally; potential liability for remedial actions under existing or future environmental
regulations and litigation; potential liability resulting from pending or future litigation; general domestic and international political
conditions; potential disruption or interruption of Occidental’s production or manufacturing or damage to facilities due to
accidents, chemical releases, labor unrest, weather, natural disasters or insurgent activity; failure of risk management; changes
in law or regulations; or changes in tax rates. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits oil and
natural gas companies, in their SEC filings, to disclose only reserves anticipated to be economically producible, as of a given
date, by application of development projects to known accumulations. We use certain terms in this presentation, such as net-in
-place, net risked reserves, de-risked, EUR (expected ultimate recovery), discovered barrels, likely recoverable resources, net
remaining and oil in place, that the SEC’s guidelines strictly prohibit us from using in our SEC filings. These terms represent
our internal estimates of volumes of oil and gas that are not proved reserves but are potentially recoverable through exploratory
drilling or additional drilling or recovery techniques and are not intended to correspond to probable or possible reserves as
defined by SEC regulations. By their nature these estimates are more speculative than proved, probable or possible reserves
and subject to greater risk they will not be realized. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
which speak only as of the date of this presentation. Unless legally required, Occidental does not undertake any obligation to
update any forward-looking statements, as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. U.S. investors are urged to
consider carefully the disclosures in our 2011 Form 10-K, available through the following toll-free number 1-888-OXYPETE (1-
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