Occidental Petroleum slashing employee, exec salaries and making new spending reductions

Colorado’s biggest oil and gas producer is cutting employee salaries — including its CEO’s — and reducing more capital spending more to manage the downturn in oil and gas.

Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) is steeply cutting pay for employees and executives in an effort to weather the drastic drop in oil prices, according to a company regulatory filing. Occidental also announced another spending cut of nearly $1 billion Wednesday.

Occidental is Colorado’s largest oil…

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