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[form of email communication sent to approx. 25 shareholders with whom Apache held meetings in the months following the 2013 annual shareholders’ meeting]
From: Sarah Teslik
Subject: would love your comments, especially on the first few pages
Since your input was important to what we did on pay and governance, I wanted to send you a link to the preliminary CD&A we just filed.
If you have just 2 minutes to skim the first 4 pages (not counting the table of contents), I’d love your honest comments.
SARAH BALL TESLIK
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
Policy and Governance
APACHE CORPORATION
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77056
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