Occidental Names Hollub First Woman CEO of Big U.S. Oil Firm
- She headed OXY Western Hemisphere before global president post
- Stephen Chazen retires, plans to concentrate on philanthropy
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Occidental Petroleum Corp. named Vicki Hollub as chief executive officer Friday, making her the first female CEO of a major U.S. energy explorer.
Hollub, 56, an Occidental lifer who oversaw Western Hemisphere fields pumping almost half the company’s production before becoming global president last year, takes over as Stephen Chazen, her mentor at the second-largest independent oil explorer, retired.