Vicki Hollub ran operations in the Permian basin for Oxy before becoming CEO. She posed for Forbes in 2017. Occidental Petroleum’s conventional oilfields in the Permian basin of west Texas have ...

Hindsight is easy, but you have to believe that, if she could go back in time to April of 2019, Oxy CEO Vicki Hollub might take a pass on that $55 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum.

Oxy's addition of Anadarko's crown jewel acreage in West Texas solidifies Oxy's standing as the booming Permian Basin's largest producer over fast-growing Big Oil majors like Chevron and Exxon Mobil.