UPDATE 2-Occidental finance chief pledges to quickly pare acquisition debt <!-- no image --> <div>Occidental Petroleum Corp expects to quickly reduce the $40 billion in debt it took on with its purchase of Anadarko Petroleum, the company's finance chief said on Monday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=jNXdFNWMw-8:kDPirDlFFgg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=jNXdFNWMw-8:kDPirDlFFgg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=jNXdFNWMw-8:kDPirDlFFgg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=jNXdFNWMw-8:kDPirDlFFgg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=jNXdFNWMw-8:kDPirDlFFgg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/jNXdFNWMw-8" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters