Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

 


FORM 8-K

 


CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Earliest Event Reported: May 7, 2007

Commission File No. 1-8968

 


ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION

 


1201 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, Texas 77380-1046

(832) 636-1000

 

Incorporated in the

State of Delaware

 

Employer Identification

No. 76-0146568

 


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 



Item 8.01 Other Events

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (the “Company”) filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 (the “2006 Form 10-K”) on February 28, 2007. As a participant in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s voluntary eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) program, the Company has attached as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K the complete set of financial statements and the supplemental information on oil and gas exploration and production activities, excluding the notes to the financial statements, from the 2006 Form 10-K formatted in XBRL.

Pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T, users of this data are advised that the financial information contained in the XBRL-related documents is unaudited and that these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Company. The purpose of submitting these XBRL-related documents is to test the related format and technology. As a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d)   Exhibits
100   The following materials from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed on February 28, 2007, formatted in XBRL: (i) the Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity, (v) the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income and (vi) the Supplemental Information on Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Activities.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized officer.

 

    ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
    (Registrant)                    

May 7, 2007

    By:  

/s/ Bruce W. Busmire 

      Bruce W. Busmire - Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer