Charles J. Pitman

Charles J. Pitman

CHARLES J. PITMAN, 66, joined the company’s board of directors in May 2000. He retired from BP Amoco plc in late 1999, having served as regional president — Middle East/Caspian/Egypt/India. Prior to the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco Corporation in 1998, Mr. Pitman held a variety of executive positions at Amoco, and he is interim chairman and a non-executive director of Urals Energy Public Company Limited, an oil exploration and production company operating in Russia. Mr. Pitman served as chairman of the board of First Calgary Petroleums Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company engaged in exploration development activities in Algeria, from June 2007 until his resignation effective March 12, 2008, and was sole member of Shaker Mountain Energy Associates LLC from September 1999 to November 2007.

At Apache, Mr. Pitman is chairman of the corporate governance and nominating committee. He has been a director since 2000.