LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) today announced that its fourth quarter net income was $77 million higher ($0.19 per share) than the $665 million ($1.67 per share) the company disclosed on January 24, 2005. The improvement in income is due to an increase in the carrying value of Occidental's investment in Lyondell Chemical Company because of an increase in Lyondell's book value resulting from its November 30, 2004 acquisition of Millennium Chemical Company. There is no cash effect to this non-core earnings item.
Occidental's fourth quarter net income is $742 million ($1.86 per share), thereby increasing total net income for the year from $2.491 billion ($6.30 per share) to $2.568 billion ($6.49 per share).