Re: ConocoPhillips Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 Response letters dated April 12, 2007 and June 7, 2007 File No. 001-32395 |
1. | We note your response letter of June 7, 2007, states that in 2006, you purchased crude oil from three Syrian sources, including the Syrian Petroleum Company. Please identify the approximate dollar amount paid to the Syrian Petroleum Company. Please also advise us of the approximate dollar amount you have paid directly or indirectly to the Syrian government and/or Syrian government-controlled entities for crude oil and Syrian-origin vacuum gas oil to date in fiscal 2007, and the approximate dollar amount of such payments you anticipate making during the remainder of the fiscal year. | |
Response: The approximate dollar amount paid to the Syrian Petroleum Company totaled $280 million for fiscal 2006, and $170 million for the first half of fiscal 2007. For the second half of fiscal 2007, the approximate dollar amount of payments to the Syrian Petroleum Company is anticipated to be in the range of $150 million to $170 million. We neither made nor anticipate making any other payments, directly or indirectly, to the Syrian government and/or Syrian-government-controlled entities for crude oil in 2007. |
1. | The adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the above filing is ConocoPhillips responsibility. | ||
2. | The Staffs comments or the changes to disclosure we make in response to the Staffs comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action on the above filing. | ||
3. | ConocoPhillips may not assert the Staffs comments as a defense in any proceedings initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
Very truly yours, CONOCOPHILLIPS |
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/s/ John A. Carrig | ||||
John A. Carrig | ||||
Executive Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer |
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cc: | Mr. James E. Copeland, Jr. Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee Mr. James J. Mulva Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Stephen F. Gates, Esq. Senior Vice President, Legal, and General Counsel Mr. Rand C. Berney Vice President and Controller Mr. Andrew R. Brownstein, Esq. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Mr. R. Dale Nijoka Ernst & Young LLP |