General (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

In connection with the Acquisition, Occidental entered into a purchase and sale agreement with TOTAL S.A. (Total) to sell all of the assets, liabilities, businesses, and operations of Anadarko's operations in Algeria, Ghana, Mozambique and South Africa. Total and Occidental completed the sale of the Mozambique assets in September 2019 and the South Africa assets in January 2020.

In April 2020, subsequent to communications with Algerian government officials, Occidental determined that the sale of the Algeria assets to Total would not be consummated, and the decision was made to continue to operate within Algeria. As a result, Occidental no longer classified the Algeria operations as a held for sale asset in discontinued operations and reclassified prior periods to reflect the Algeria operations as continuing operations, see Note 3 - Dispositions and Other Transactions for the impact on prior periods. In addition, Occidental recorded a $931 million impairment to remeasure the Algeria oil and gas properties to their fair value which was lower than the carrying amount as if depreciation, depletion and amortization (DD&A) were recorded from the date of the Acquisition. The fair value of the oil and gas properties was measured based on the income approach, see Note 7 - Fair Value Measurements for a description of inputs and assumptions utilized.

In May 2020, Occidental and Total mutually agreed to execute a waiver of the obligation to purchase and sell the Ghana assets, so that Occidental could begin marketing the sale of the Ghana assets to other third parties. Occidental is currently marketing the Ghana assets. The assets and liabilities for Ghana remain presented as held for sale at June 30, 2020, and the carrying amount of the assets and liabilities of the Ghana disposal group were adjusted to their

estimated fair value. Occidental recorded an after-tax impairment of $1.4 billion to reflect the held for sale assets at their fair value less costs to sell based on the income approach, refer to Note 7 - Fair Value Measurements. The results of operations of Ghana continue to be presented as discontinued operations, see Note 3 - Dispositions and Other Transactions.

Unless otherwise indicated, information presented in the Notes to the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements relates only to Occidental's continuing operations. Information related to discontinued operations is included in Note 3 - Dispositions and Other Transactions, and in some instances, where appropriate, is included as a separate disclosure within the individual Notes to the Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements.

Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash Equivalents

Occidental considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents or restricted cash equivalents.

Accounting and Disclosure Changes


NOTE 2 - ACCOUNTING AND DISCLOSURE CHANGES

In January 2020, Occidental adopted Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-13 Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326). The new standard makes significant changes to the accounting for credit losses on financial assets and disclosures regarding credit losses. For trade receivables, loans and held-to-maturity debt securities, entities will be required to estimate lifetime expected credit losses. This will result in the earlier recognition of credit losses than the current incurred-loss model. The acceleration of the recognition of losses is more material for entities whose receivables and other held-to-maturity debt investments are (1) long dated and (2) with less credit worthy counterparties.

The vast majority of Occidental's receivables are short dated with maturities of less than 60 days with creditworthy counterparties, including refiners, pipelines and resellers. Given Occidental’s continued effort to maintain a strong credit portfolio, there have been no negative indications regarding the collectability of these receivables as of the date of this filing. Therefore, adoption of this standard has no material impact for the quarter. Occidental will continue to assess the risk to its receivables in the future.

In January 2020, Occidental adopted ASU 2017-4 Intangibles, Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. The new standard simplifies the accounting for goodwill impairment by requiring a single step impairment test, whereby the impairment equals the difference between the carrying amount and the estimated fair value of the specified units in their entirety, see Note 7 - Fair Value Measurements for the results of this simplified goodwill impairment test.