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We unlock potential by reaching for the impossible and achieving it.
At Oxy, we provide society with reliable energy and essential products while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making the world a better place to live.

For 100 years, Oxy has developed extensive assets, infrastructure, expertise and technology to fuel progress and improve lives around the world. Now we’re leveraging these resources to help solve the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges. We want to be part of the solution, so we're taking bold steps to innovate new technologies for a low-carbon future. 

What We Do

Oxy produces energy and essential products to sustain and improve life on our planet.

Our experienced teams, located in the United States, Middle East and Africa, are committed to safe and efficient operations and products, and to reducing our carbon footprint and helping others do the same.

We are busy developing the big ideas and broad solutions we will need to achieve net zero. Every day, we get closer. And we won’t stop until we’re there.

Where We Operate

Oxy operates world-class energy and chemical assets around the globe, including in the United States, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Over our 100-year history, we have built a vast infrastructure of integrated operations around the world that deliver reliable energy and essential products. 

As an energy leader, we take it as our responsibility to lead the way in the vigorous pursuit of viable, future-looking carbon management worldwide.

Our Mission, Vision and Values

Mission
We dare to do what others won't.

Vision
We will lead the industry by reaching for the impossible, then achieving it. We do this by having the right assets in the hands of remarkable people driven by passion to outperform.

Values
• Lead with passion
• Outperform expectations
• Deliver results responsibly
• Unleash opportunities
• Commit to good

Chlor-Alkali Products

Chlor-alkali products make everyday life safer, healthier and more convenient.
The electrolysis of saltwater simultaneously produces chlorine and akali, enabling this class of practical and valuable chemicals.

OxyChem is a leading producer of chlor-alkali products

Chlor-alkali chemicals serve as critical feedstock for the manufacture of everything from water purification and fertilizers to detergents and pharmaceuticals.

Product Details

Chlorine
Chlorine is one of the most abundant naturally occurring chemical elements. Its unique reactive properties allow it to bond with other chemical elements to form substances that are used in approximately 50 percent of all commercial chemistry. Chlorine is an important building block used to manufacture thousands of everyday products across many industries, including automotive, construction, defense, electronics, food, health care and metal production. It is also essential to public health. Chlorine plays a vital role in keeping the world’s water supplies safe by controlling harmful bacteria and viruses.

To be used in manufacturing, chlorine must first be separated, via electrolysis, from the other elements with which it is combined. In this process an electrical current passes through brine and splits apart the positive sodium and negative chloride ions to form molecular chlorine gas. The chlorine gas is dried, chilled and pressurized or converted to liquid for storage or shipping.

Caustic Soda
OxyChem produces sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution, commonly known as caustic soda, through the electrolysis of sodium chloride (salt) brine in diaphragm or membrane cells. Chlorine and hydrogen are co-produced. The caustic soda solution may be clear or slightly cloudy in appearance, depending on the cell process used. It readily absorbs carbon dioxide from the air. It is available commercially as 50% NaOH, but other concentrations can be provided.

Caustic soda has a wide variety of applications in many industries, including pulp and paper, aluminum, soaps and detergents, textiles, petrochemicals and chemical processing.

Caustic Potash
OxyChem is the largest North American manufacturer of potassium hydroxide (KOH), commonly known as caustic potash. It is produced through the electrolysis of potassium chloride using membrane cell technology, along with co-products chlorine and hydrogen.

A strong alkali, caustic potash is available in both liquid and dry forms. It has applications in fertilizers, batteries, soaps and detergents, specialty glasses and other industrial operations. It also serves as a chemical intermediate for dyes, pharmaceuticals and photographic chemicals.

Hydrochloric Acid
Hydrochloric acid (HCl) is used in petroleum wells, ore reduction, food processing, as a pickling and metal cleaning agent, for pH adjustment and in general cleaning.

Hydrogen
Composed of a single proton and a single electron, hydrogen is the simplest and most abundant element in the universe. OxyChem produces hydrogen gas (H₂) as a co-product of its chlorine and caustic soda production. It is available by pipeline to companies that specialize in marketing industrial gases or that burn hydrogen as a fuel.