EXHIBIT 99.2

               STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
        OF APACHE CORPORATION REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING
                             TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, G. Steven Farris, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating
Officer of Apache Corporation, state and attest that:

         (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
         reports of Apache Corporation (the "Company"), and, except as corrected
         or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

         o        no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
                  fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
                  the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
                  materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

         o        no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
                  to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
                  circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
                  the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
                  of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of
                  the date on which it was filed).

         (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
         audit committee.

         (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
         before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

                  o        Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the
                           year ended December 31, 2001;

                  o        all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and
                           all definitive proxy materials of the Company filed
                           with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the
                           Form 10-K identified above; and

                  o        any amendments to any of the foregoing.

                                           /s/ G. Steven Farris
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                                           G. Steven Farris
                                           President, Chief Executive Officer
                                           and Chief Operating Officer


Subscribed and sworn to by G. Steven Farris before me this 12th day of August
2002.
                                                /s/ VALENCIA A. MCNEIL
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                                                Notary Public
[SEAL]
My Commission Expires: April 16, 2006