Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has reaffirmed its full-year 2010 sales-volumes guidance range and projected capital spending. The company also announced interim results of a successful deepwater Gulf of Mexico appraisal well that was suspended in accordance with the recently extended moratorium on Gulf of Mexico drilling activity, as well as actions taken to manage its deepwater drilling rig obligations during the moratorium.

Anadarko's sales-volumes guidance remains 230 million to 234 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) for the full year and 57 million to 60 million BOE for the second quarter. Capital spending for the full year, including expensed G&G (geology and geophysics), is still expected to be in the range of $5.3 billion to $5.6 billion.

"We share everyone's desire to ensure the safety of deepwater drilling activity," Anadarko Chairman and CEO Jim Hackett said. "Deepwater exploration, development and production in the Gulf are vitally important to our nation's economy and energy security. These activities must be conducted safely and in a manner that protects the environment.

"We want to assure our stakeholders that we expect to meet our 2010 production targets and have already taken a number of actions to protect the value of our portfolio during the moratorium in the Gulf. Although our Gulf of Mexico drilling activity has been suspended due to the moratorium, we are evaluating opportunities to reallocate some of the 2010 capital from the Gulf to other areas of our global portfolio, including our numerous onshore liquids-rich opportunities, and we remain committed to our world-wide exploration, appraisal and development programs."

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