As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 19, 2010

		Registration No. 333 - 25201

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

to

Form S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Apache Corporation

Delaware		No. 41-0747868
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

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”).

A total of 3,003,000 shares of Common Stock (as adjusted for the ten-percent stock dividend effected by Apache on January 21, 2002, the five-percent stock dividend effected by Apache on April 2, 2003, and the two-for-one stock split effected by Apache on January 14, 2004) were initially registered in connection with the 1996 Performance Stock Option Plan on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 1997 (File No. 333-25201).

Subsequently, 808,500 shares of Common Stock (as adjusted for the ten-percent stock dividend effected by Apache on January 21, 2002, the five-percent stock dividend effected by Apache on April 2, 2003, and the two-for-one stock split effected by Apache on January 14, 2004) were removed from registration in connection with the 1996 Performance Stock Option Plan on Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 1999 (File No. 333-25201).

Apache is hereby removing from registration the remaining 295,235 shares of Common Stock previously registered in connection with the 1996 Performance Stock Option 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. 2 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 16, 2010		By:		/s/ G. Steven Farris   G. Steven Farris,
				Chairman of the Board and
				Chief Executive Officer

The undersigned directors and officers of Apache Corporation do hereby constitute and appoint G. Steven Farris, Roger B. Plank, P. Anthony Lannie, and Rebecca A. Hoyt, and each of them, with full power of substitution, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to sign and execute, on behalf of the undersigned, any and all post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement; and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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		Chairman of the Board and
G. Steven Farris		Chief Executive Officer
		(Principal Executive Officer)		July 16, 2010
/s/ Roger B. Plank		President
Roger B. Plank		(Principal Financial Officer)		July 16, 2010
/s/ Rebecca A. Hoyt		Vice President and
Rebecca A. Hoyt		Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)		July 16, 2010

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Frederick M. Bohen		Director
Frederick M. Bohen				July 16, 2010
/s/ Randolph M. Ferlic		Director
Randolph M. Ferlic				July 16, 2010
/s/ Eugene C. Fiedorek		Director
Eugene C. Fiedorek				July 16, 2010
/s/ A. D. Frazier, Jr.		Director
A. D. Frazier, Jr.				July 16, 2010
/s/ Patricia Albjerg Graham		Director
Patricia Albjerg Graham				July 16, 2010
/s/ John A. Kocur		Director
John A. Kocur				July 16, 2010
/s/ George D. Lawrence		Director
George D. Lawrence				July 16, 2010
/s/ F. H. Merelli		Director
F. H. Merelli				July 16, 2010
/s/ Rodman D. Patton		Director
Rodman D. Patton				July 16, 2010
/s/ Charles J. Pitman		Director
Charles J. Pitman				July 16, 2010