Law360, New York (December 10, 2010, 5:53 PM ET) -- Occidental Petroleum Corp. is selling its oil and gas operations in Argentina to Chinese oil company Sinopec Corp. for around $2.5 billion, but the Los Angeles-based oil giant said new domestic oil investments would more than compensate for lost production in South America.
Occidental — the fourth-largest oil company in the U.S. — announced Friday it would buy properties in South Texas and North Dakota for $3.2 billion, in addition to selling its Argentinian properties to Sinopec, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Petrochemical Corp....