Houston’s largest deal of 2019 came a little past the halfway point of the year, when Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) closed its $55 billion acquisition of The Woodlands-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
The deal had already had a tumultuous background before it closed. It started with a bidding war between Oxy and its California-based rival buyer, Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), that Occidental won with $10 billion in backing from billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway…