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Occidental Petroleum

DC · US

energy fossil fuels
Cycle

Tracked direct giving

$7,900,000

LDA reported lobbying spend

$7,000,000

Connections

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The Money Trail

How money flowed from Occidental Petroleum

$7.9M
9 transactions across 2 counterparties
sum of 9 tracked donations shown

Occidental Petroleum directed $5.9M to SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND across 7 contributions between July 2017 and November 2022.

Jul 2017 – Nov 2022corporate

Occidental Petroleum directed $2.0M to Congressional Leadership Fund across 2 contributions between March 2024 and September 2024.

Mar 2024 – Sep 2024corporate
$7.9M tracked across 2 counterparties (sum of 9 tracked donations shown)
PAC Chain Attribution

Where Occidental Petroleum’s money ended up

Attributed amounts are modeled estimates of how money flowed through intermediary PACs, computed by proportional apportionment of FEC-reported transactions. They are not reported transactions themselves. How we compute this

$1.6M
modeled estimate
52 paths across 50 counterparties
$95Kmodeled estimateattributed to Derek Tran
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$95Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Derek TranmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $10K

$87Kmodeled estimateattributed to Mondaire Jones
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$87Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Mondaire JonesmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $13K

$82Kmodeled estimateattributed to Curtis Hertel JR
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$82Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Curtis Hertel JRmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $10K

$79Kmodeled estimateattributed to Susan Wild
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$79Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Susan WildmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $7K

$76Kmodeled estimateattributed to George Whitesides
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$76Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→George WhitesidesmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $13K

$69Kmodeled estimateattributed to Will Rollins
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$69Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Will RollinsmediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $5K

$63Kmodeled estimateattributed to Josh Riley
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$63Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Josh RileymediumOpposemultiple

smallest single documented leg $8K

$61Kmodeled estimateattributed to Amish Dr. Shah
2024 cycle1 path1 hopMedium confidence
$61Kmodeled estimateOccidental Petroleum→Congressional Leadership Fund→Amish Dr. ShahmediumOpposeindependent_expenditure

smallest single documented leg $10K

Plus 42 additional chains totaling $1.0M.

$1.6M attributed (modeled estimate) across 52 paths·Up to 1 hop deep·Source FEC filings (Schedules A, B, E)·How we compute this

Lobbying Activity Detail

Disclosed lobbying expenditures from LDA filings where this entity is the client. Dollar amounts represent what was reported to the Senate Office of Public Records.

Top Lobbying Issues

TAXTaxation/Internal Revenue Code
$15.1M
ENGENG
$15.1M
NATNatural Resources
$14.5M
WASWaste
$14.5M
TRATransportation
$14.5M
ENVEnvironment/Superfund
$14.5M
RRRRRR
$14.5M
CAWClean Air/Water/Soil
$14.5M
CHMChemicals/Chemical Industry
$14.5M
TRUTrucking/Shipping
$14.5M

Lobbying Firms Retained

In-house lobbyists (filed as its own registrant)$14.5M
BURTON STRATEGY GROUP$640K

Bills Referenced in Lobbying Filings

methane rule

Lobbying data from Senate LDA filings and the LobbyView dataset (MIT/NSF, CC-BY-4.0). Dollar figures represent disclosed expenditures only and may not capture all influence activity. Issue codes follow the LDA general issue classification.

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Donations Given and Outside Spending

Largest 50 records. Rows badged “Spent to support” or “Spent to oppose” are independent expenditures this entity paid to vendors for or against the named candidate. That money was not given to them.

RecipientAmountDateCycle
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$2,000,000Jan 6, 20212022
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$2,000,000Oct 18, 20212022
Congressional Leadership Fund$1,000,000Mar 29, 20242024
Congressional Leadership Fund$1,000,000Sep 26, 20242024
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$1,000,000Sep 21, 20222022
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$500,000Nov 25, 20222022
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$200,000Aug 31, 20182018
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$100,000Jul 27, 20172018
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$100,000Dec 6, 20172018

Relationships

TypeConnected ToDetailsSource
RetainedBURTON STRATEGY GROUPHired BURTON STRATEGY GROUP to lobby (1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2023)Source