re: OXY buying APC for 57B

it will be good for some and bad for others, i would expect 10-20% reduction of some sort over the next year. Field personnel are usually ok unless they are manager, but office personnel will likely take a hit. Having friends at both companies, I would say that this is worse for the Anadarko group as it was a better company to work for in general, but it will be stressful for both for a few years and they work to integrate.