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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 19, 2010
    Registration No. 333 - 25201
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 2
to
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Apache Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Delaware   No. 41-0747868
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (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
1996 Performance Stock Option 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)
 
 

 


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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.

 


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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

 


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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