Oxy has been an active investor in the Middle East and North Africa for more than four decades, with significant growth in the last 10 years. We are well regarded in this key region for our strong performance record, technical expertise and effective working relationships with strategic partners.

More than a third of Oxy’s worldwide oil and gas production comes from the Middle East/North Africa. Our net developed and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the region total more than 17 million acres.

Oxy is the second-largest oil producer offshore Qatar, participating in three projects: Idd El Shargi North Dome (ISND), located approximately 50 miles east of the Qatar peninsula; Idd El Shargi South Dome (ISSD), about 15 miles south of ISND; and Al Rayyan, located northeast of the Qatar peninsula. For nearly two decades, Oxy has worked in close cooperation with Qatar Petroleum to develop and operate offshore oilfields.

Oxy is also a partner in the giant Dolphin Project, the premier transborder natural gas project in the Middle East. One of the region’s largest energy initiatives, Dolphin supplies natural gas — produced from wells offshore Qatar, processed at Ras Laffan and transported through a 230-mile-long subsea export pipeline — to markets in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

In Oman, our operations are concentrated at the Mukhaizna Field in south-central Oman, and the Safah and Wadi Latham fields and Block 62 in northern Oman. During its more than 30-year tenure in Oman, Oxy has increased production, reserves and scope, and today is the country’s largest independent oil producer.

In Bahrain, Oxy is partnered with the National Oil and Gas Authority of Bahrain (NOGA) and Mubadala of Abu Dhabi on a project to redevelop the legacy Bahrain Field, site of the first oilfield discovery in an Arab Gulf state in 1932. Oxy participates in the management of the joint operating company, Tatweer Petroleum, with Mubadala and NOGA.

In Iraq, Oxy is in a consortium partnering with the South Oil Company of Iraq to develop the giant Zubair oilfield near Basra in the south. In December 2010, the consortium partners announced that they had achieved and sustained a 10-percent increase in oil production at the Zubair Field, the first production milestone under contract.

In the United Arab Emirates, Oxy has partnered with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to develop the Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi, one of the largest gas fields in the Middle East.