As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 28, 2002
Registration No. 333-72721
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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POST-EFFECTIVE
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
(EXACT NAME OF ISSUER AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
DELAWARE 95-4035997
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
10889 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip code)
OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
DONALD P. DE BRIER, ESQ.
GENERAL COUNSEL
OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
10889 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024
(310) 443-6176
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
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On February 19, 1999, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (the "Company")
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (Registration Statement No. 333-72721) (the "Form S-8") registering
200,000 shares of the Registrant's Common Stock, $0.20 par value (the "Shares"),
to be issued to participants under the Registrant's Occidental Chemical
Corporation Savings and Investment Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan was merged into
the Occidental Petroleum Corporation Savings Plan after an aggregate of 113,187
Shares were issued to participants thereunder. This Post-Effective Amendment No.
1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed in order to
deregister all Shares that were registered under the Form S-8 and remain
unissued under the Plan.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act and Rule 478 thereunder,
the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, State of California, on June 28,
2002.
OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
(REGISTRANT)
By: /s/ DONALD P. DE BRIER
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Donald P. de Brier
Executive Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary
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