Oil Rises Above $60 After Occidental Shuts California Oil Field

Crude oil rose above $60 a barrel for the first time in five weeks after an explosion shut down a California field owned by Occidental Petroleum Corp., the fourth- biggest U.S. oil company.
Occidental said about 120,000 barrels of oil and gas liquids a day has been lost after a fire at its Elk Hills site. [...]

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