The top line fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5,958 million. Quarterly Production, Sales and Realized Price Occidental's average daily production volumes touched 766 thousand barrels of oil equivalents ("MBOE") in second quarter 2012, up 7% year over year. The steady volume growth was driven by strong production from domestic operations and increase in production from North African and Middle Eastern operations. Occidental's daily oil and gas sales volumes during the quarter were 759 MBOE, up 7.7% from 705 MBOE in the year-ago period. Occidental's realized price for crude oil decreased 3.7% to $99.34 per barrel from the prior-year level of $103.12 per barrel. Realized natural gas liquids ("NGL") prices were down 27% to $42.06 per barrel from the prior-year quarter level of $57.67 per barrel.