Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Steve Chazen Found Retirement Boring

From Forbes Retirement was boring. So Steve Chazen is spending his golden years building a new company with a bulletproof balance sheet to drill the sweet spots of the south Texas Eagle Ford shale. Steve Chazen left his job as CEO of Occidental Petroleum in 2015 upon breaching the mandatory retirement age of 68. But retirement was boring. There was