The Kerr-McGee Corporation (NYSE: KMG (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=KMG)) 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.

USA

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.

Europe

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.

China

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.

External links

• Kerr-McGee website (http://www.kerr-mcgee.com)