Kerr-McGee
|
|
Kerr-McGee_logo.png
Kerr-McGee Corporation
The Kerr-McGee Corporation Template:Nyse is an energy company involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources, as well as the manufacture of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment.
The company, founded in 1929, has about 14 billion U.S. dollars in assets.
The current CEO is Luke R Corbett.
Locations
The company is based in several locations around the world.
Oil operations are based in the Gulf of Mexico and in Colorado with office locations in Houston and Denver.
Chemical operations are based in Savannah, Georgia; Henderson, Nevada; and Hamilton, Mississippi.
The corporate centre is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Oil Operations are based in the Central North Sea with the main office in Aberdeen, Scotland. Chemical operations are based in Uerdingen, Germany and Botlek, Netherlands.
Oil operations are based in Bohai Bay
Miscellanous Info
Its name is often misspelled as "Kerr Magee" or "Kerr-Magee".
It was at a Kerr-McGee nuclear-fuel plant that Karen Silkwood contracted her radiation sickness.
Kerr-McGee has since 2001 received international critique for undertaking exploration of possible hydrocarbon resources offshore the Moroccan occupied area of Western Sahara. Shareholders have sold out of the company in protest. In June 2005, the Norwegian government sold its $52.7 million shares in the company, characterising Kerr-McGee's contract in Western Sahara as 'a particularly serious violation of fundamental ethical norms'.
External links
- Kerr-McGee website (http://www.kerr-mcgee.com)