More than one-fourth of Oxy's worldwide oil and gas production comes from the Middle East/North Africa region, where the company has been an active investor for more than four decades. Production at Oxy’s operations in Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain was 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2009. Oxy continues to develop opportunities in the region that meet its stringent standards for financial return.
Oxy is the second-largest oil producer in both Oman and offshore Qatar, and a partner in the giant Dolphin Project, the premier transborder natural gas project in the Middle East. One of region's largest energy initiatives, Dolphin supplies natural gas – produced from wells offshore Qatar, processed at Ras Laffan and transported through a 230-mile-long subsea export pipeline – to markets in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
In Bahrain, Oxy is partnering with Mubadala of Abu Dhabi on a project to redevelop the long-producing Bahrain field, site of the first oilfield discovery in an Arab Gulf state in 1932. Field operations began on December 1, 2009.