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Occidental Petroleum CEO on Berkshire Hathaway buying OxyChem for $9.7 billion
OXYOXY(US:OXY) CNBC Televisionยท2025-10-02 17:45

Let's talk a little bit about this deal, how it came together, and $9.7% billion in cash. What do you plan to do with it. >> Well, with the cash, we're going to take about $6.5% billion of the cash, and we're going to apply it to debt reduction. And that debt reduction amount will get us to below our target uh debt of $15 billion that we laid out after the uh Crown Rock acquisition.That then will reduce our interest payments by $350 million. And uh that will enable us then to start adding back parts of our ...