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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2010
Registration No. 333 - 105871
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
to
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Apache Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 		  No. 41-0747868
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77056-4400
(713) 296-6000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Apache Corporation
2000 Share Appreciation Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
P. Anthony Lannie, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
APACHE CORPORATION
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77056-4400
(713) 296-6000
(Name and address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
 

 

 

This amendment is filed by the registrant, Apache Corporation (“Apache”), to remove from registration under this Registration Statement certain shares of Apache Common Stock, par value $0.625 per share (“Apache Common Stock”), and certain rights to purchase Common Stock (“Rights”).
A total of 8,085,000 shares of Common Stock and Rights (as adjusted for the two-for-one stock split effected by Apache on January 14, 2004) were initially registered in connection with the 2000 Share Appreciation Plan on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2003 (File No. 333-105871).
Apache is hereby removing from registration the remaining 4,894,328 shares of Common Stock and Rights previously registered in connection with the 2000 Share Appreciation Plan.

 

 

SIGNATURES
The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Houston, State of Texas.
         
  APACHE CORPORATION
 		  
Date: July 13, 2010  By:   /s/ G. Steven Farris    
    G. Steven Farris,   
    Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer 		  
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities, which includes a majority of the board of directors, on the dates indicated.
         
Signature   Title   Date
 
        
/s/ G. Steven Farris
 
G. Steven Farris
  Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)		   July 13, 2010
 
        
/s/ Roger B. Plank
 
Roger B. Plank
  President
(Principal Financial Officer) 		  July 13, 2010
 
        
/s/ Rebecca A. Hoyt
 
Rebecca A. Hoyt
  Vice President and
Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer) 		  July 13, 2010

 

 

         
Signature   Title   Date
 
        
  *
 
Frederick M. Bohen
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
Randolph M. Ferlic
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
Eugene C. Fiedorek
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
A. D. Frazier, Jr.
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
Patricia Albjerg Graham
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
John A. Kocur
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
George D. Lawrence
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
F. H. Merelli
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
Rodman D. Patton
  Director   July 13, 2010
 
        
  *
 
Charles J. Pitman
  Director   July 13, 2010
         
* By:
  /s/ G. Steven Farris
 
G. Steven Farris 		   
 
  Attorney-in Fact