Edgar Filing: CONOCOPHILLIPS

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2010

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-K


(Mark One)
[x]		ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
		For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
		OR
[ ]		TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
		For the transition period from to

Commission file number: 001-32395

ConocoPhillips

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware		01-0562944
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)

600 North Dairy Ashford
Houston, TX 77079

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 281-293-1000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


		Name of each exchange
Title of each class		on which registered
Common Stock, $.01 Par Value		New York Stock Exchange
Preferred Share Purchase Rights Expiring June 30, 2012		New York Stock Exchange
6.65% Debentures due July 15, 2018		New York Stock Exchange
7% Debentures due 2029		New York Stock Exchange
9.375% Notes due 2011		New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

[x] Yes [ ] No

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

[ ] Yes [x] No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. [x] Yes [ ] No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

[x] Yes [ ] No

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [x]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.


Large accelerated filer [x]		Accelerated filer [ ]		Non-accelerated filer [ ]		Smaller reporting company [ ]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). [ ] Yes [x] No

The aggregate market value of common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant on June 30, 2010, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, based on the closing price on that date of $49.09, was $72.8 billion. The registrant, solely for the purpose of this required presentation, had deemed its Board of Directors and grantor trusts to be affiliates, and deducted their stockholdings of 827,349 and 37,798,903 shares, respectively, in determining the aggregate market value.

The registrant had 1,429,647,979 shares of common stock outstanding at January 31, 2011.

Documents incorporated by reference:

Portions of the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 11, 2011 (Part III)

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Item		Page
PART I

1 and 2.	Business and Properties		1
	Corporate Structure		1
	Segment and Geographic Information		2
	Exploration and Production (E&P)		2
	Midstream		14
	Refining and Marketing (R&M)		16
	LUKOIL Investment		20
	Chemicals		21
	Emerging Businesses		21
	Competition		22
	General		23
1A.	Risk Factors		24
1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments		26
3.	Legal Proceedings		26
4.	(Removed and Reserved) Executive Officers of the Registrant		28

PART II

5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities		30
6.	Selected Financial Data		31
7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		32
7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk		66
8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data		69
9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure		172
9A.	Controls and Procedures		172
9B.	Other Information		172

PART III

10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance		173
11.	Executive Compensation		173
12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters		173
13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence		173
14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services		173

PART IV

15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules		174
	Signatures		179
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EX-10.20.3
EX-10.20.4
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EX-21
EX-23.1
EX-23.2
EX-31.1
EX-31.2
EX-32
EX-99
EX-101 INSTANCE DOCUMENT
EX-101 SCHEMA DOCUMENT
EX-101 CALCULATION LINKBASE DOCUMENT
EX-101 LABELS LINKBASE DOCUMENT
EX-101 PRESENTATION LINKBASE DOCUMENT
EX-101 DEFINITION LINKBASE DOCUMENT

PART I

Unless otherwise indicated, “the company,” “we,” “our,” “us” and “ConocoPhillips” are used in this report to refer to the businesses of ConocoPhillips and its consolidated subsidiaries. Items 1 and 2—Business and Properties, contain forward-looking statements including, without limitation, statements relating to our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions that are made pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “budget,” “continue,” “could,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “seek,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “expect,” “objective,” “projection,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “outlook,” “effort,” “target” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to update, revise or correct any forward-looking information unless required to do so under the federal securities laws. Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements should be read in conjunction with the company’s disclosures under the heading “CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ‘SAFE HARBOR’ PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995,” beginning on page 65.

Items 1 and 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES

CORPORATE STRUCTURE

ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. ConocoPhillips was incorporated in the state of Delaware on November 16, 2001, in connection with, and in anticipation of, the merger between Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company. The merger between Conoco and Phillips was consummated on August 30, 2002.

Our business is organized into six operating segments:

	•		Exploration and Production (E&P)—This segment primarily explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis.

	•		Midstream—This segment gathers, processes and markets natural gas produced by ConocoPhillips and others, and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids, predominantly in the United States and Trinidad. The Midstream segment primarily consists of our 50 percent equity investment in DCP Midstream, LLC.

	•		Refining and Marketing (R&M)—This segment purchases, refines, markets and transports crude oil and petroleum products, mainly in the United States, Europe and Asia.

	•		LUKOIL Investment—This segment consists of our investment in the ordinary shares of OAO LUKOIL, an international, integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Russia. At December 31, 2010, our ownership interest was 2.25 percent based on issued shares. See Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for information on sales of LUKOIL shares.

	•		Chemicals—This segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis. The Chemicals segment consists of our 50 percent equity investment in Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem).

	•		Emerging Businesses—This segment represents our investment in new technologies or businesses outside our normal scope of operations.

At December 31, 2010, ConocoPhillips employed approximately 29,700 people.

SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

For operating segment and geographic information, see Note 25—Segment Disclosures and Related Information, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference.

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION (E&P)

At December 31, 2010, our E&P segment represented 63 percent of ConocoPhillips’ total assets. This segment primarily explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis. Operations to liquefy natural gas and transport the resulting LNG are also included in the E&P segment. At December 31, 2010, our E&P operations were producing in the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, offshore Timor-Leste in the Timor Sea, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Libya, Nigeria, Algeria, Qatar and Russia.

The E&P segment does not include the financial results or statistics from our investment in the ordinary shares of LUKOIL, which are reported in our LUKOIL Investment segment. As a result, references to results, production, prices and other statistics throughout the E&P segment discussion exclude amounts related to our investment in LUKOIL. However, our share of LUKOIL is included in the “Oil and Gas Operations” disclosures, as well as in the following net proved reserves table, for periods before we ceased using equity-method accounting for this investment, which occurred at the end of the third quarter of 2010.

The information listed below appears in the “Oil and Gas Operations” disclosures following the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and is incorporated herein by reference:

	•		Proved worldwide crude oil and natural gas liquids, natural gas, bitumen and synthetic oil reserves.

	•		Net production of crude oil and natural gas liquids, natural gas, bitumen and synthetic oil.

	•		Average sales prices of crude oil and natural gas liquids, natural gas, bitumen and synthetic oil.

	•		Average production costs per barrel of oil equivalent (BOE).

	•		Net wells completed, wells in progress and productive wells.

	•		Developed and undeveloped acreage.

The following table is a summary of the proved reserves information included in the “Oil and Gas Operations” disclosures following the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Approximately 75 percent of our proved reserves are located in politically stable countries that belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Natural gas reserves are converted to BOE based on a 6:1 ratio: six thousand cubic feet of natural gas converts to one BOE. See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for a discussion of factors that will enhance the understanding of the table below.


	Millions of Barrels of Oil Equivalent
Net Proved Reserves at December 31	2010		2009		2008

Crude oil and natural gas liquids
Consolidated operations		3,161		3,194		3,340
Equity affiliates		231		1,710		1,677

Total Crude Oil and Natural Gas Liquids		3,392		4,904		5,017


Natural gas
Consolidated operations		3,039		3,161		3,360
Equity affiliates		580		880		798

Total Natural Gas		3,619		4,041		4,158


Bitumen
Consolidated operations		455		417		100
Equity affiliates		844		716		700

Total Bitumen		1,299		1,133		800


Synthetic oil
Consolidated operations		-		248		-
Equity affiliates		-		-		-

Total Synthetic Oil		-		248		-


Total consolidated operations		6,655		7,020		6,800
Total equity affiliates		1,655		3,306		3,175

Total company		8,310		10,326		9,975

Includes amounts related to LUKOIL investment:		-		1,967		1,893
Excludes Syncrude mining-related reserves (synthetic oil):		*n/a*		n/a		249

In 2010, E&P’s worldwide production, including its share of equity affiliates, averaged 1,752,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOED), compared with 1,854,000 BOED in 2009. During 2010, 686,000 BOED were produced in the United States, a 9 percent decrease from 755,000 BOED in 2009. Production from our international E&P operations averaged 1,066,000 BOED in 2010, a 3 percent decrease from 1,099,000 BOED in 2009. Worldwide production decreased primarily due to field decline, the impact of higher prices on production sharing arrangements and the sale of our Syncrude oil sands mining operation. These decreases were partially offset by production from major projects in China, Canada, Qatar, the Lower 48 and Australia.

E&P’s worldwide annual average crude oil and natural gas liquids sales price increased 31 percent, from $55.63 per barrel in 2009 to $72.77 per barrel in 2010. Worldwide bitumen prices increased 18 percent, from $44.84 per barrel in 2009 to $53.06 per barrel in 2010. E&P’s average annual worldwide natural gas sales price increased 14 percent, from $4.37 per thousand cubic feet in 2009 to $4.98 per thousand cubic feet in 2010.

E&P—UNITED STATES

In 2010, U.S. E&P operations contributed 40 percent of E&P’s worldwide liquids production and 39 percent of natural gas production, compared with 40 and 41 percent in 2009, respectively.

Alaska
Greater Prudhoe Area
The Greater Prudhoe Area includes the Prudhoe Bay Field and five satellite fields, as well as the Greater Point McIntyre Area fields. Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field on Alaska’s North Slope, is the site of a large waterflood and enhanced oil recovery operation, as well as a gas processing plant that processes and re-injects natural gas into the reservoir. Prudhoe Bay’s satellites are Aurora, Borealis, Polaris, Midnight Sun and Orion, while the Point McIntyre, Niakuk, Raven and Lisburne Fields are part of the Greater Point McIntyre Area. We have a 36.1 percent nonoperator interest in all fields within the Greater Prudhoe Area. Net oil and natural gas liquids production from the Greater Prudhoe Area averaged 113,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 119,000 barrels per day in 2009.

Greater Kuparuk Area
We operate the Greater Kuparuk Area, which is made up of the Kuparuk Field and four satellite fields: Tarn, Tabasco, Meltwater and West Sak. Kuparuk is located 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope. Our ownership interest in the area is approximately 55 percent. Field installations include three central production facilities that separate oil, natural gas and water. The natural gas is either used for fuel or compressed for re-injection. Net oil production from the area averaged 60,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 65,000 barrels per day in 2009.

Western North Slope
On the Western North Slope we operate the Colville River Unit, which includes the Alpine Field and three satellite fields: Nanuq, Fiord and Qannik. Alpine is located 34 miles west of Kuparuk. Our ownership interest in the area is 78 percent. Net production in 2010 was 59,000 barrels of oil per day, compared with 68,000 barrels per day in 2009. Further development of potential satellite fields west of Alpine and into the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska (NPRA) is contingent upon the receipt of permit approvals and additional exploration appraisal work. Planned development of one of these satellites, the Alpine West CD5 Project, was postponed due to the denial of a key permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in February 2010. We appealed their decision, and in December 2010, a ruling on our appeal remanded the matter back to the agency’s district office in Alaska for further review.

Cook Inlet Area
We operate the North Cook Inlet Unit, the Beluga River Unit, and the Kenai LNG Plant in the Cook Inlet Area. We have a 100 percent interest in the North Cook Inlet Unit, while we own 33.3 percent of the Beluga River Unit. Net production in 2010 from the Cook Inlet Area averaged 73 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, compared with 85 million cubic feet per day in 2009. Production from the North Cook Inlet Unit is used primarily to supply our share of natural gas to the Kenai LNG Plant and also as a backup supply to local utilities, while gas from the Beluga River Unit is primarily sold to local utilities and is used as backup supply to the Kenai LNG Plant.

We have a 70 percent interest in the Kenai LNG Plant, which supplies LNG to two utility companies in Japan. We sold 17 net billion cubic feet of LNG in 2010, compared with 21 billion cubic feet in 2009. On February 9, 2011, we announced that due to market conditions we will cease LNG exports from the Kenai LNG Plant, effective in the second quarter of 2011, and will begin mothballing the facility for potential future use.

Exploration
In a February 2008 lease sale conducted by the U. S. Department of Interior (DOI) under the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act, we successfully bid and were awarded 10-year-primary-term leases on 98 blocks in the Chukchi Sea, for total bid payments of $506 million. Various special interest groups have brought two separate lawsuits challenging (1) the DOI’s entire OCS leasing program, and (2) the Chukchi Sea lease sale conducted by the DOI under that program. Due to continued pending litigation and associated injunctions, our plans for drilling an exploration well on our Chukchi Sea leases remain under review.

In January 2010, we exchanged a 25 percent working interest in 50 of our leases in the Chukchi Sea for cash consideration and additional working interests in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM). In late 2010, we entered into an agreement to farm-down an additional 10 percent of our working interest in the same Chukchi

Sea leases, and that agreement is subject to regulatory approval. In addition, we participated in two appraisal wells in the Point Thomson Unit, where development options are currently being evaluated.

Transportation
We transport the petroleum liquids produced on the North Slope to south-central Alaska through an 800-mile pipeline that is part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). We have a 28.3 percent ownership interest in TAPS, and we also have ownership interests in the Alpine, Kuparuk and Oliktok Pipelines on the North Slope.

Our wholly owned subsidiary, Polar Tankers, Inc., manages the marine transportation of our North Slope production, using five company-owned double-hulled tankers in addition to chartering third-party vessels as necessary.

In 2008, ConocoPhillips and BP plc formed a limited liability company to progress the pipeline project named Denali—The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The project would move natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to North American markets. Denali conducted an open season during 2010, a process in which the pipeline company solicits customers to make long-term firm transportation commitments to the project. There is a pipeline project competing with Denali that is structured under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. Both projects are currently evaluating bids received from potential customers during their respective open seasons and are engaged in confidential negotiations with those bidders.

U.S. Lower 48
Gulf of Mexico
At year-end 2010, our portfolio of producing properties in the GOM mainly consisted of one operated field and three fields operated by co-venturers, including:

	•		75 percent operator interest in the Magnolia Field in Garden Banks Blocks 783 and 784.

	•		16 percent nonoperator interest in the unitized Ursa Field located in the Mississippi Canyon Area.

	•		16 percent nonoperator interest in the Princess Field, a northern, sub-salt extension of the Ursa Field.

	•		12.4 percent nonoperator interest in the unitized K2 Field, comprised of seven blocks in the Green Canyon Area.

Net production from our GOM properties averaged 18,000 barrels per day of liquids and 20 million cubic feet per day of natural gas in 2010, compared with 21,000 barrels per day and 28 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

Onshore
Our 2010 onshore production principally consisted of natural gas and associated liquids production, with the majority of production located in the San Juan Basin, Permian Basin, Lobo Trend, Bossier Trend, Fort Worth Basin, panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and Williston Basin. We also have operations in the Wind River and Anadarko Basins, as well as in East Texas and northern and southern Louisiana.

Onshore activities in 2010 were centered mostly on continued optimization and development of existing assets, with particular focus on areas with higher liquids production. Total net production from all Lower 48 onshore fields in 2010 averaged 1,675 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 142,000 barrels per day of liquids, compared with 1,899 million cubic feet per day and 145,000 barrels per day in 2009.

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Shale Plays
Exploration and development continues in our shale positions in Eagle Ford, Bakken and Barnett, which produced approximately 36,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2010. We plan to drill approximately 150 exploration and development wells in the Eagle Ford in 2011 and, with subsequent investments, expect to achieve peak production in 2013 and long-term average production of 65,000 to 70,000 barrels per day. We acquired approximately 90,000 additional acres in various resource plays across the Lower 48 during 2010, further expanding our significant acreage position in Lower 48 shale plays.

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San Juan
The San Juan Basin, located in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado, includes the majority of our U.S. coalbed methane (CBM) production. Additionally, we continue to pursue development opportunities in three conventional formations in the San Juan Basin. Net production from San Juan averaged 799 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 50,000 barrels per day of liquids in 2010, compared with 903 million cubic feet per day and 49,000 barrels per day in 2009.

Exploration
In January 2010, we exchanged a 25 percent working interest in 50 of our leases in the Chukchi Sea for cash consideration and additional working interests in the deepwater GOM. We were also the successful bidder on 10 blocks in the March 2010 federal offshore lease sale. At year end, we had interests in 274 lease blocks totaling 1.1 million net acres offshore GOM.

In May 2010, in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident in the GOM, the DOI issued a six-month drilling moratorium on new deepwater wells in the OCS, which was scheduled to expire on November 30, 2010. On October 12, 2010, the DOI lifted the ban, citing new regulatory requirements which would reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling. The new rules are aimed at improving safety and environmental standards and include strengthened requirements on safety equipment, well control systems, blowout prevention practices and emergency response on offshore oil and gas operations.

The new regulations have created delays in the permitting process and deepwater exploratory drilling in the GOM. As a result, we have been unable to drill any GOM prospects or appraise the Tiber and Shenandoah discoveries, which occurred in 2009. Although there are no material impacts to our near-term production, the future effects of this incident, including any new or additional regulations that may be adopted in response, are not clearly known at this time. We will continue to evaluate the impact on our exploration prospects in the GOM.

Onshore, we actively pursued the appraisal of our existing shale plays in Eagle Ford in South Texas, the Bakken in the Williston Basin and the Barnett in the Fort Worth Basin. We have seen encouraging results in these liquids-rich plays and plan to continue appraisal and development in 2011.

Transportation
We own a 25 percent interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX). REX is a 1,679-mile natural gas pipeline stretching from northwestern Colorado to eastern Ohio, which became fully operational in November 2009. REX has the capacity to deliver 1.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to eastern markets.

E&P—EUROPE

In 2010, E&P operations in Europe contributed 21 percent of E&P’s worldwide liquids production, compared with 23 percent in 2009. European operations contributed 18 percent of natural gas production in 2010 and 2009. Our European assets are principally located in the Norwegian and U.K. sectors of the North Sea.

Norway
We operate and hold a 35.1 percent interest in the Greater Ekofisk Area, located approximately 200 miles offshore Norway in the North Sea. The Greater Ekofisk Area is composed of four producing fields: Ekofisk, Eldfisk, Embla and Tor. Net production in 2010 from the Greater Ekofisk Area was 80,000 barrels of liquids per day and 79 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, compared with 92,000 barrels per day and 89 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

We also have varying ownership interests in eight other producing fields in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and in the Norwegian Sea. Net production from these fields averaged 57,000 barrels of liquids per day and 130 million cubic feet of natural gas per day in 2010, compared with 68,000 barrels per day and 128 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

Exploration
We participated in two exploration wells during 2010. Both the Megalodon and Dalsnuten wells failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and were expensed as dry holes.

Transportation
We have interests in the transportation and processing infrastructure in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, including interests in the Norpipe Oil Pipeline System and in Gassled, which owns most of the Norwegian gas transportation system.

United Kingdom
In addition to our 58.7 percent interest in the Britannia natural gas and condensate field, we own 50 percent of Britannia Operator Limited, the operator of the field. We also have an 83.5 percent interest and a 75 percent interest in the Callanish and Brodgar Britannia satellite fields, respectively. Net production from Britannia and its satellite fields averaged 302 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 39,000 barrels of liquids per day in 2010, compared with 304 million cubic feet per day and 40,000 barrels per day in 2009.

We operate and hold a 36.5 percent interest in the Judy/Joanne/Jasmine Fields, which together make up J-Block, located in the U.K. central North Sea. Additionally, our operated Jade Field, in which we hold a 32.5 percent interest, produces from a wellhead platform and pipeline tied to the J-Block facilities. The Judy/Joanne/Jade Fields produced a net 11,000 barrels of liquids per day and 82 million cubic feet of natural gas per day in 2010, compared with 12,000 barrels per day and 96 million cubic feet per day in 2009. In 2010, we received government approval for the development of the Jasmine Field, which is expected to startup in 2012, and achieve average net peak production of 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2013.

Our various ownership interests in 18 producing gas fields in the Rotliegendes and Carboniferous Areas of the Southern North Sea yielded average net production in 2010 of 150 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, compared with 185 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

The Millom, Dalton and Calder Fields in the East Irish Sea, in which we have a 100 percent ownership interest, are operated on our behalf by a third party. Net production in 2010 averaged 61 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, compared with 60 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

In the Atlantic Margin, we have a 24 percent interest in the Clair Field. Net production in 2010 averaged 9,000 barrels of liquids per day, compared with 12,000 barrels per day in 2009.

We also have ownership interests in several other producing fields in the U.K. sector of the North Sea. Net production from these fields averaged 15,000 barrels of liquids per day and 11 million cubic feet of natural gas per day in 2010, compared with 16,000 barrels per day and 12 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

Exploration
We were awarded six blocks in the U.K. 26^th Licensing Round. Three are in close proximity to our producing J-Block infrastructure in the central North Sea, while one is adjacent to our Britannia Field. The remaining blocks represent growth opportunities in the Dutch Bank Basin of the North Sea.

Transportation
We have a 10 percent interest in the Interconnector Pipeline, which links the United Kingdom and Belgium and facilitates marketing natural gas produced in the United Kingdom throughout Europe. We have export capability to ship up to 220 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets in continental Europe via the Interconnector, and our reverse-flow rights provide 85 million cubic feet per day of import capability into the United Kingdom.

We operate the Teesside oil and Theddlethorpe gas terminals, in which we have 29.3 percent and 50 percent ownership interests, respectively. We also have a 100 percent ownership interest in the Rivers Gas Terminal, operated by a third party, in the United Kingdom.

Poland
Exploration
We are participating in a shale gas venture in Poland that provides us with the opportunity to evaluate and earn a 70 percent interest in six exploration licenses in the Baltic Basin. We drilled two wells in 2010 and plan to continue appraisal of the play in 2011.

E&P—CANADA

E&P operations in Canada contributed 11 percent of E&P’s worldwide liquids production in 2010 and 2009. Canadian operations contributed 21 percent of E&P’s worldwide natural gas production in 2010, compared with 22 percent in 2009.

Western Canada
Operations in western Canada encompass oil and gas properties throughout Alberta, northeastern British Columbia, and southern Saskatchewan. Net production from western Canada averaged 984 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 38,000 barrels per day of liquids in 2010, compared with 1,062 million cubic feet per day and 40,000 barrels per day in 2009. Our 2010 drilling program focused on the development and exploitation of several liquids-rich resource opportunities, which included the Cardium Formation that lies primarily on our existing land base within the Deep Basin and central Alberta. We initiated temporary production curtailments of approximately 150 million cubic feet equivalent per day from September through early December 2010, in response to continued low natural gas prices in western Canada.

Surmont
We operate and have a 50 percent interest in the Surmont oil sands lease, located approximately 35 miles south of Fort McMurray, Alberta. An enhanced thermal oil recovery method called steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is used at Surmont. The average net production of bitumen during 2010 was 10,000 barrels per day, compared with 7,000 barrels per day in 2009. Surmont Phase II construction began in 2010, with a targeted production startup in 2015. Surmont’s net production is expected to increase to 50,000 barrels per day by 2017.

FCCL
We have two 50/50 North American heavy oil business ventures with Cenovus Energy Inc.: FCCL Partnership, a Canadian upstream general partnership, and WRB Refining LP, a U.S. downstream limited partnership. FCCL’s assets, operated by Cenovus, include the Foster Creek and Christina Lake SAGD bitumen projects, both located in the eastern flank of the Athabasca oil sands in northeastern Alberta. Our share of FCCL’s production increased to 49,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 43,000 barrels per day in 2009. In the third quarter of 2010, FCCL received regulatory approval for Phases F, G and H at Foster Creek. Construction of Christina Lake Phase C continued in 2010, with first production expected in the second half of 2011. Construction of Christina Lake Phase D also continued through 2010. See the “Refining and Marketing (R&M)” section for information on WRB.

Syncrude Canada Ltd.
We sold our 9.03 percent interest in the Syncrude Canada Ltd. joint venture in June 2010 for $4.6 billion. Syncrude had synthetic oil proved reserves of 248 million barrels at December 31, 2009. Production averaged 12,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 23,000 barrels per day in 2009.

Parsons Lake/Mackenzie Gas Project
We are involved with three other energy companies, as members of the Mackenzie Delta Producers’ Group, on the development of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and gathering system, which is proposed to transport onshore gas production from the Mackenzie Delta in northern Canada to established markets in North America. We have a 75 percent interest in the Parsons Lake gas field, one of the primary fields in the Mackenzie Delta, which would anchor the pipeline development. The project is in the final stage of regulatory approval, anticipated in early 2011; however, detailed engineering work continues to be deferred pending resolution with the Canadian government on the fiscal and commercial framework.

Exploration
We hold exploration acreage in four areas of Canada: offshore eastern Canada, onshore western Canada, the Mackenzie Delta/Beaufort Sea Region, and the Arctic Islands. During 2010, we completed drilling an exploration well in the Laurentian Basin, located offshore eastern Canada, which did not find commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and was expensed as a dry hole. In western Canada, we participated in 28 wells resulting in 20 discoveries.

E&P—SOUTH AMERICA

Venezuela
In 2007, we announced we had been unable to reach agreement with respect to our migration to an empresa mixta structure mandated by the Venezuelan government’s Nationalization Decree. As a result, Venezuela’s national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), or its affiliates, directly assumed control over ConocoPhillips’ interests in the Petrozuata and Hamaca heavy oil ventures and the offshore Corocoro development project. In response to this expropriation, we filed a request for international arbitration on November 2, 2007, with the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). An arbitration hearing was held during 2010 before ICSID. We are awaiting their decision.

Ecuador
In 2008, Burlington Resources, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, initiated arbitration before ICSID against The Republic of Ecuador and PetroEcuador, as a result of the newly enacted Windfall Profits Tax Law and government-mandated renegotiation of our production sharing contracts. Despite a restraining order issued by ICSID, Ecuador confiscated the crude oil production of Burlington and its co-venturer and sold the illegally seized crude oil. In 2009, Ecuador took over operations in Blocks 7 and 21, fully expropriating our assets. In June 2010, the ICSID tribunal concluded it has jurisdiction to hear the expropriation claim. A hearing on case merits is scheduled for March 2011. For additional information, see Note 10—Impairments, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Exploration
In November 2010, Burlington Resources, Inc., and PetroEcuador signed termination agreements for exploration Blocks 23 and 24, ending our participation in both blocks.

Peru
Exploration
During 2010, we executed two farm-downs that reduced our interests in Blocks 123, 124 and 129, which are awaiting final government approval. We are currently completing the initial 2D seismic program for Blocks 123 and 129 and plan to analyze the results in 2011. We also own a 35 percent working interest in Block 39.

E&P—ASIA PACIFIC/MIDDLE EAST

In 2010, E&P operations in the Asia Pacific/Middle East Region contributed 15 percent of E&P’s worldwide liquids production and 19 percent of natural gas production, compared with 13 percent and 16 percent in 2009, respectively.

Australia and Timor Sea
Australia Pacific LNG
Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG), our 50/50 joint venture with Origin Energy, is focused on producing CBM from the Bowen and Surat Basins in Queensland, Australia. Gas is currently sold to domestic customers, while progress continues on the development of an LNG processing and export sales business. Once established, this will enhance our LNG position and serve as an additional LNG hub targeting Asia Pacific markets. Two initial 4.2-million-tons-per-year LNG trains are anticipated, with over 10,000 gross wells ultimately envisioned to supply both the domestic gas market and the LNG development. The additional wells will be supported by expanded gas gathering systems, centralized gas processing and compression stations, and water treatment facilities, in addition to a new export pipeline from the gas fields to the LNG facilities.

Our share of the joint venture’s production in 2010 was 115 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, compared with 84 million cubic feet per day in 2009. CBM field development work is ongoing in parallel with front-end engineering associated with the planned LNG processing facilities. Engagement with potential LNG buyers continues to progress, and a final investment decision on the initial phase of the project is planned for mid-2011.

In November 2010, the APLNG LNG development project received environmental approval from Australia’s Queensland state. In late February 2011, the project received environmental approval from the Australian federal government.

Bayu-Undan
We operate and hold a 57.2 percent ownership interest in the Bayu-Undan Field located in the Timor Sea. Net production from the field averaged 31,000 barrels of liquids per day in 2010, compared with 35,000 barrels per day in 2009. Our share of natural gas production was 198 million cubic feet per day in 2010, compared with 216 million cubic feet per day in 2009. Produced natural gas is used to supply the Darwin LNG Plant, in which we own a 57.2 percent interest. In 2010, we sold 147 billion gross cubic feet of LNG to utility customers in Japan, compared with 156 billion cubic feet in 2009.

Greater Sunrise
We have a 30 percent interest in the Greater Sunrise gas and condensate field located in the Timor Sea. Although agreement has been reached between the governments of Australia and Timor-Leste concerning sharing of revenues from the anticipated development of Greater Sunrise, key challenges must be resolved before significant funding commitments can be made. These include gaining both governments’ approval of the development concept selected by the co-venturers and establishing fiscal stability arrangements.

Western Australia
Our share of production from the Athena/Perseus (WA-17-L) gas field, located offshore Western Australia, was 35 million cubic feet of natural gas per day in both 2010 and 2009.

Exploration
We operate and own a 60 percent interest in three permits located in the Browse Basin, offshore northwest Australia. During 2010, we continued the exploration and appraisal programs and drilled two wells, Poseidon-2 and Kronos-1, both of which encountered hydrocarbons. We intend to carry out a second phase of drilling in the Browse Basin during 2011 and 2012. Analysis of the recently acquired seismic survey over the discovered resource area is ongoing.

Qatar
Qatargas 3 (QG3) is an integrated project jointly owned by Qatar Petroleum (68.5 percent), ConocoPhillips (30 percent) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (1.5 percent). The project comprises upstream natural gas production facilities to produce approximately 1.4 billion gross cubic feet per day of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field over a 25 year life. The project also includes a 7.8-million-gross-ton-per-year LNG facility, from which LNG is shipped in leased LNG carriers destined for sale in the United States and other markets. First production was achieved in October 2010, with eight LNG cargoes loaded and shipped in 2010.

We have a 12.4 percent ownership interest in the Golden Pass LNG Terminal and affiliated Golden Pass Pipeline. The terminal is currently under construction adjacent to the Sabine-Neches Industrial Ship Channel northwest of Sabine Pass, Texas. Definitive terminal and pipeline use agreements have been reached, which will provide us with terminal and pipeline capacity for the receipt, storage and regasification of the LNG purchased from QG3 and the transportation of regasified LNG to interconnect with major interstate natural gas pipelines.

Indonesia
We operate seven production sharing contracts (PSCs) in Indonesia. Three of these PSCs are in various stages of development from which net production averaged 463 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 17,000 barrels per day of liquids in 2010, compared with 447 million cubic feet per day and 19,000 barrels per day in 2009. Our producing assets are primarily concentrated in two core areas: South Natuna Sea and onshore South Sumatra.

South Natuna Sea Block B
The offshore South Natuna Sea Block B PSC, in which we have a 40 percent interest, has two producing oil fields and 16 natural gas fields in various stages of development. Natural gas production is sold under international sales agreements to Malaysia and Singapore.

South Sumatra
These onshore blocks consist of the Corridor and South Jambi B PSCs. The Corridor PSC, in which we have a 54 percent interest, has six oil fields and six natural gas fields in various stages of development. Natural gas is supplied from the Grissik and Suban gas processing plants to the Duri steamflood in central Sumatra and to markets in Singapore, Batam and West Java. Unitization of the Suban natural gas field commenced in 2010, reflecting that approximately 8 percent of the field’s proved reserves are now attributable to an adjacent PSC. The unitization is expected to be finalized during 2011. We have a 45 percent interest in the South Jambi B PSC, which supplies natural gas to Singapore.

Exploration
We operate three offshore exploration PSCs: Amborip VI, Kuma and Arafura Sea, with interests ranging from 60 to 100 percent. We began exploration drilling in the fourth quarter of 2010. The first well drilled on these offshore PSCs was the Aru-1. We did not find recoverable resources with the well, and it was expensed as a dry hole in the fourth quarter of 2010. We also operate and own an 80 percent interest in the Warim onshore exploration PSC in Papua.

Transportation
We are a 35 percent owner of a consortium company that has a 40 percent ownership in PT Transportasi Gas Indonesia, which owns and operates the Grissik to Duri and Grissik to Singapore natural gas pipelines.

China
We are the operator and have a 49 percent share of the Peng Lai 19-3 Field in Bohai Bay Block 11-05, as well as the nearby Peng Lai 19-9 and Peng Lai 25-6 Fields. As part of our Bohai Bay Phase II Project, a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is used to accommodate production from these fields. Net production averaged 56,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010, compared with 33,000 barrels per day in 2009. Production from the Peng Lai area is expected to increase due to continued development of Peng Lai 19-3, with annual average net production of 60,000 barrels of oil per day anticipated in 2011.

The Xijiang development consisted of two fields located approximately 80 miles south of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. Combined net production of oil from the Xijiang Fields averaged 1,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 5,000 barrels per day in 2009. Under the terms of the contract, our ownership rights in the 24-3/1 Field ended in January 2010, and our rights in the 30-2 Field ended in November 2010. Our ownership in these fields was 24.5 percent and 12.3 percent, respectively.

We have a 24.5 percent interest in the offshore Panyu development, also located in the South China Sea, which produced 11,000 net barrels of oil per day in both 2010 and 2009. We plan to expand the scope and capacity of the existing two fields and anticipate government approval of the expansion in the first half of 2011.

Exploration
In 2009, we entered a pilot evaluation program in a CBM play in the onshore Qinshui Basin. The pilot program was expected to last between 12-18 months and involved drilling and monitoring the production performance of a series of horizontal wells. In the fourth quarter of 2010, we terminated our involvement in this program.

Vietnam
Our ownership interest in Vietnam is centered around the Cuu Long Basin in the South China Sea and consists of two primarily oil-producing blocks and one gas pipeline transportation system.

We have a 23.3 percent interest in Block 15-1, and our activities are focused around three producing fields: Su Tu Den, Su Tu Den Northeast and Su Tu Vang; and two fields in development: Su Tu Trang and Su Tu Nau. First production on the Su Tu Den Northeast Field occurred in May 2010, averaging a net 4,000 barrels of oil

per day and 4 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. Net production from the three producing fields averaged 18,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010, compared with 22,000 barrels per day in 2009.

We have a 36 percent interest in the Rang Dong Field in Block 15-2. Net production in 2010 was 6,000 barrels per day of liquids and 12 million cubic feet per day of natural gas, compared with 7,000 barrels per day and 15 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

Transportation
We own a 16.3 percent interest in the Nam Con Son natural gas pipeline. This 244-mile transportation system links gas supplies from the Nam Con Son Basin to gas markets in southern Vietnam.

Malaysia
We own interests in three deepwater PSCs located off the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah: Block G, Block J, and the Kebabangan Cluster. We have a 35 percent interest in Block G, 40 percent in Block J, and 30 percent in the Kebabangan Cluster. Development of the Gumusut deepwater oil discovery in Block J continues and includes the installation of a semi-submersible oil production platform. First production for Gumusut is anticipated in 2013, with estimated net peak production of 29,000 barrels of liquids per day occurring in 2014.

Exploration
During 2010, we participated in the Ubah-4 appraisal well in Block G. The well was suspended in order to evaluate development options for the area.

Bangladesh
Exploration
We were formally awarded two deepwater blocks offshore Bangladesh in 2009. PSC negotiations are currently underway with government authorities.

Abu Dhabi
In April 2010, we decided to end participation in development of the Shah Gas Field in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

E&P—AFRICA

During 2010, E&P operations in Africa contributed 8 percent of E&P’s worldwide liquids production and 3 percent of natural gas production, compared with 7 percent and 2 percent, respectively, in 2009.

Nigeria
We have a 20 percent nonoperating interest in four onshore Oil Mining Leases (OMLs). In 2010, net production from these leases was 20,000 barrels of liquids per day and 141 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, compared with 19,000 barrels per day and 111 million cubic feet per day in 2009.

Natural gas is sourced from our proved reserves in the OMLs and provides fuel for a 480-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Kwale, Nigeria. We have a 20 percent interest in this power plant, which supplies electricity to Nigeria’s national electricity supplier. In 2010, the plant consumed 5 million net cubic feet per day of natural gas.

We have a 17 percent equity interest in Brass LNG Limited, which plans to construct an LNG facility in the Niger Delta.

Exploration
We drilled one exploration well during 2010, the Tuomo C. The well found commercial hydrocarbons and is being incorporated into the ongoing Tuomo/Tuomo West Field development.

Libya
We hold a 16.3 percent interest in the Waha concessions in Libya, which encompass nearly 13 million gross acres. Net oil production averaged 46,000 barrels per day in 2010, versus 45,000 barrels per day in 2009.

Algeria
Our activities in Algeria are centered around three fields in Block 405a: the Menzel Lejmat North Field (MLN), the Ourhoud Field, and the EMK Field. We operate and have a 65 percent interest in MLN, and we have a 3.7 percent interest in Ourhoud and a 16.9 percent interest in EMK. The El Merk Project was sanctioned in 2009 to develop the EMK Field, and engineering, procurement and construction is ongoing. Net production from MLN and Ourhoud averaged 13,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010, compared with 14,000 barrels per day in 2009.

E&P—RUSSIA

NMNG
We have a 30 percent ownership interest with a 50 percent governance interest in OOO Naryanmarneftegaz (NMNG), a joint venture with LUKOIL. NMNG achieved initial production of the Yuzhno Khylchuyu (YK) Field in June 2008, and development was completed in 2010. Net production averaged 45,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 46,000 barrels per day in 2009. Production from the NMNG joint venture fields is transported via pipeline to LUKOIL’s terminal at Varandey Bay on the Barents Sea and then shipped via tanker to international markets.

Polar Lights
We have a 50 percent equity interest in Polar Lights Company, an entity that owns producing fields in the Timan-Pechora Basin in northern Russia. Net production averaged 7,000 barrels of oil per day in 2010, compared with 9,000 barrels per day in 2009.

E&P—CASPIAN

In the Caspian Sea, we have an 8.4 percent interest in the Republic of Kazakhstan’s North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement, which includes the Kashagan Field. The first phase of field development currently being executed includes construction of artificial drilling islands with processing facilities and living quarters, and pipelines to carry production onshore. The initial production phase of the contract lasts until 2041, with options to extend the agreement an additional 20 years. A joint operating company, North Caspian Operating Company, oversees the Kashagan development, and expects first production in late 2012.

Transportation
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline transports crude oil from the Caspian Region through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey for tanker loadings at the port of Ceyhan. We have a 2.5 percent interest in BTC.

Exploration
We have a 24.5 percent interest in the N Block, located offshore Kazakhstan. In the fourth quarter of 2010, drilling operations were completed on the Rak More well. The well encountered oil and gas but requires further evaluation to determine commerciality. Further exploration drilling is planned in 2011 to determine development potential of a second area of interest within the block. In addition, appraisal drilling and development studies continue for the next phase of Kashagan and the satellite fields of Kalamkas, Kairan and Aktote.

E&P—OTHER

Greenland
Exploration
We were formally awarded a license in 2010 for oil and gas exploration in Baffin Bay, offshore Greenland. We will serve as operator, with a 61.3 percent interest in the Qamut Block. Planned activities in 2011 include field work, environmental assessments, and seismic data acquisition and evaluation.

Marine Well Containment Company
During 2010, we formed a non-profit organization with Exxon Mobil Corporation, Chevron Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell plc to develop a new oil spill containment system and improve industry spill response in the GOM. The

Marine Well Containment Company plans to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater GOM.

LNG
We have a long-term agreement with Freeport LNG Development, L.P. to use 0.9 billion cubic feet per day of regasification capacity at Freeport’s 1.5-billion-cubic-feet-per-day LNG receiving terminal in Quintana, Texas. Market conditions currently favor the flow of LNG to European and Asian markets; therefore, our near-to-mid-term utilization of the Freeport Terminal is expected to be limited. We are responsible for monthly process-or-pay payments to Freeport irrespective of whether we utilize the terminal for regasification. The financial impact of this capacity underutilization is not expected to be material to our future earnings or cash flows.

E&P—RESERVES

We have not filed any information with any other federal authority or agency with respect to our estimated total proved reserves at December 31, 2010. No difference exists between our estimated total proved reserves for year-end 2009 and year-end 2008, which are shown in this filing, and estimates of these reserves shown in a filing with another federal agency in 2010.

DELIVERY COMMITMENTS

We sell crude oil and natural gas from our E&P producing operations under a variety of contractual arrangements, some of which specify the delivery of a fixed and determinable quantity. Our Commercial organization also enters into natural gas sales contracts where the source of the natural gas used to fulfill the contract can be the spot market or a combination of our reserves and the spot market. Worldwide, we are contractually committed to deliver approximately 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, including approximately 700 billion cubic feet related to the noncontrolling interests of consolidated subsidiaries, and 120 million barrels of crude oil in the future. These contracts have various expiration dates through the year 2029. We expect to fulfill the majority of these delivery commitments with proved developed reserves. In addition, we anticipate using proved undeveloped reserves and spot market purchases to fulfill these commitments. See the disclosure on “Proved Undeveloped Reserves” in the “Oil and Gas Operations” section following the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for information on the development of proved undeveloped reserves.

MIDSTREAM

At December 31, 2010, our Midstream segment represented 2 percent of ConocoPhillips’ total assets. Our Midstream business is primarily conducted through our 50 percent equity investment in DCP Midstream, LLC, a joint venture with Spectra Energy.

The Midstream business purchases raw natural gas from producers and gathers natural gas through extensive pipeline gathering systems. The gathered natural gas is then processed to extract natural gas liquids. The remaining “residue” gas is marketed to electrical utilities, industrial users and gas marketing companies. Most of the natural gas liquids are fractionated—separated into individual components such as ethane, butane and propane—and marketed as chemical feedstock, fuel or blendstock. Total natural gas liquids extracted in 2010, including our share of DCP Midstream, were 193,000 barrels per day, compared with 187,000 barrels per day in 2009.

DCP Midstream markets a portion of its natural gas liquids to us and CPChem under a supply agreement whose volume commitments remain steady until December 31, 2014. This purchase commitment is on an “if-produced, will-purchase” basis and is expected to have a relatively stable purchase pattern over the remaining term of the contract. Under the agreement, natural gas liquids are purchased at various published market index prices, less transportation and fractionation fees.

DCP Midstream is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. At December 31, 2010, DCP Midstream owned or operated 55 natural gas liquids extraction and 10 natural gas liquids fractionation plants, and its gathering and

transmission systems included approximately 61,000 miles of pipeline. In 2010, DCP Midstream’s raw natural gas throughput averaged 6.1 billion cubic feet per day, and natural gas liquids extraction averaged 369,000 barrels per day, compared with 6.1 billion cubic feet per day and 358,000 barrels per day in 2009. DCP Midstream’s assets are primarily located in the following producing regions of the United States: Rocky Mountains, Midcontinent, Permian, East Texas/North Louisiana, South Texas, Central Texas and Gulf Coast.

Outside of DCP Midstream, our U.S. natural gas liquids business includes the following:

	•		A 25,000-barrel-per-day capacity natural gas liquids fractionation plant in Gallup, New Mexico.

	•		A 22.5 percent equity interest in Gulf Coast Fractionators, which owns a natural gas liquids fractionation plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. Our net share of capacity is 24,300 barrels per day. In October 2010, Gulf Coast Fractionators announced plans to expand the capacity of its fractionation facility to 145,000 barrels per day. The expansion is expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2012.

	•		A 40 percent interest in a fractionation plant in Conway, Kansas. Our net share of capacity is 43,200 barrels per day.

	•		A 12.5 percent equity interest in a fractionation plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. Our net share of capacity is 26,000 barrels per day.

	•		Marketing operations that optimize the flow of natural gas liquids and markets propane on a wholesale basis.

We also own a 39 percent equity interest in Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited, which processes natural gas in Trinidad and markets natural gas liquids throughout the Atlantic Basin. Its facilities include a 2-billion-cubic-feet-per-day gas processing plant and a 70,000-barrel-per-day natural gas liquids fractionator. Our share of natural gas liquids extracted averaged 9,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 8,000 barrels per day in 2009. Our share of fractionated liquids averaged 18,000 barrels per day in 2010, compared with 17,000 barrels per day in 2009.

REFINING AND MARKETING (R&M)

At December 31, 2010, our R&M segment represented 24 percent of ConocoPhillips’ total assets. Our R&M segment primarily refines crude oil and other feedstocks into petroleum products (such as gasolines, distillates and aviation fuels); buys, sells and transports crude oil; and buys, transports, distributes and markets petroleum products. R&M has operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. The R&M segment does not include the results or statistics from our equity investment in LUKOIL, which are reported in our LUKOIL Investment segment.

R&M—UNITED STATES

Refining
At December 31, 2010, we owned or had an interest in 12 operated refineries in the United States.


					Net Crude Throughput
Refinery	Location	Ownership			Capacity (MBD)

East Coast Region
Bayway	Linden, New Jersey		100.00	%		238
Trainer	Trainer, Pennsylvania		100.00			185

						423


Gulf Coast Region
Alliance	Belle Chasse, Louisiana		100.00			247
Lake Charles	Westlake, Louisiana		100.00			239
Sweeny	Old Ocean, Texas		100.00			247

						733


Central Region
Wood River	Roxana, Illinois		50.00			153
Borger	Borger, Texas		50.00			73
Ponca City	Ponca City, Oklahoma		100.00			187

						413


West Coast Region
Billings	Billings, Montana		100.00			58
Ferndale	Ferndale, Washington		100.00			100
Los Angeles	Carson/Wilmington, California		100.00			139
San Francisco	Arroyo Grande/San Francisco, California		100.00			120

						417

						1,986

Primary crude oil characteristics and sources of crude oil for our U.S. refineries are as follows:

Characteristics

Sources

Medium

Heavy

High

United

South

Europe

Middle East

Sweet

Sour

TAN*

States

Canada

America

& FSU**

& Africa

Bayway

Trainer

Alliance

Lake Charles

Sweeny

Wood River

Borger

Ponca City

Billings

Ferndale

Los Angeles

San Francisco

*High TAN (Total Acid Number): acid content greater than or equal to 1.0 milligram of potassium hydroxide (KOH) per gram.

**Former Soviet Union.

Capacities for and yields of clean products, as well as other products produced, at our U.S. refineries are as follows:

Clean Product Capacity (MBD)

Other Refined Product Output

Clean

Fuel Oil &

Natural

Petro-

Product Yield

Other Heavy

Gas

Petroleum

Chemical

Gasolines

Distillates

Capability

Intermediates

Liquids

Coke

Feedstock

Asphalt

Bayway

145

110

90%

Trainer

105

Alliance

125

120

Lake Charles

110

·**

Sweeny

130

120

Wood River*

Borger*

Ponca City

105

Billings

Ferndale

Los Angeles

San Francisco

*Represents our proportionate share.

**Includes specialty coke.

MSLP
Merey Sweeny, L.P. (MSLP) is a limited partnership that owns a 70,000-barrel-per-day delayed coker and related facilities at the Sweeny Refinery. MSLP processes our long residue, which is produced from heavy sour crude oil, for a processing fee. Fuel-grade petroleum coke is produced as a by-product and becomes the property of MSLP. Prior to August 28, 2009, MSLP was owned 50/50 by us and PDVSA. Under the agreements that govern the relationships between the partners, certain defaults by PDVSA with respect to supply of crude oil to the Sweeny Refinery gave us the right to acquire PDVSA’s 50 percent ownership interest in MSLP. On August 28, 2009, we exercised that right. PDVSA has initiated arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce challenging our actions, and this arbitration is underway. We continue to use the equity method of accounting for our investment in MSLP.

WRB
We have two 50/50 North American heavy oil business ventures with Cenovus Energy Inc.: FCCL Partnership, a Canadian upstream general partnership, and WRB Refining LP, a U.S. downstream limited partnership. WRB consists of the Wood River and Borger Refineries, located in Roxana, Illinois, and Borger, Texas, respectively. We are the operator and managing partner of WRB. See the “Exploration and Production (E&P)” section for additional information on FCCL.

WRB’s processing capability of heavy Canadian crude is currently 145,000 barrels per day. We continue to progress the coker and refinery expansion (CORE) project at the Wood River Refinery, with operational startup anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2011. Upon completion of the CORE Project, total processing capability of heavy Canadian or similar crudes within WRB will increase to 275,000 barrels per day. The majority of the existing asphalt production at Wood River will be replaced with production of upgraded products.

Excel Paralubes
We own a 50 percent interest in the Excel Paralubes joint venture, which owns a hydrocracked lubricant base oil manufacturing plant located adjacent to the Lake Charles Refinery. The facility produces approximately 20,000 barrels per day of high-quality, clear hydrocracked base oils.

Marketing
In the United States, as of December 31, 2010, we marketed gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel through approximately 8,300 marketer-owned outlets in 49 states. The majority of these sites utilize the Phillips 66, Conoco or 76 brands.

Wholesale
At December 31, 2010, our wholesale operations utilized a network of marketers operating approximately 7,150 outlets that provided refined product offtake from our refineries. A strong emphasis is placed on the wholesale channel of trade because of its lower capital requirements. In addition, we held brand-licensing agreements with approximately 400 sites. We also buy and sell petroleum products in the spot market. Our refined products are marketed on both a branded and unbranded basis.

In addition to automotive gasoline and diesel, we produce and market aviation gasoline, which is used by smaller, piston engine aircraft. At December 31, 2010, aviation gasoline and jet fuel were sold through independent marketers at approximately 750 Phillips 66-branded locations in the United States.

Retail
In June 2010, we sold our interest in CFJ Properties, a joint venture which owned and operated 110 Flying J-branded truck travel plazas.

In December 2006, we announced plans to divest approximately 830 of our U.S. company-owned outlets. This program was completed during 2010.

Lubricants
We manufacture and sell automotive, commercial and industrial lubricants which are marketed under the Phillips 66, Conoco, 76 and Kendall brands, as well as other private label brands.

Transportation
We distribute refined products to our customers via company-owned and common-carrier pipelines, barges, railcars and trucks.

Pipelines and Terminals
At December 31, 2010, R&M managed approximately 24,000 miles of common-carrier crude oil, raw natural gas liquids, natural gas and petroleum products pipeline systems in the United States, including those partially owned or operated by affiliates. In addition, we owned or operated 44 finished product terminals, 7 liquefied petroleum gas terminals, 5 crude oil terminals and 1 coke exporting facility.

Tankers
At December 31, 2010, we had 19 double-hulled crude oil tankers under charter, with capacities ranging in size from 713,000 to 2,100,000 barrels. These tankers are primarily used to transport feedstocks to certain of our U.S. refineries. In addition, we utilized four double-hulled product tankers, with capacities ranging from 315,000 to 332,000 barrels, to transport our heavy and clean products. The tankers discussed here exclude the operations of the company’s subsidiary, Polar Tankers, Inc., which are discussed in the “Exploration and Production (E&P)” section, as well as an owned tanker on lease to a third party for use in the North Sea.

Specialty Businesses
We manufacture and sell a variety of specialty products including petroleum cokes, polypropylene, pipeline flow improvers and anode material for high-power lithium-ion batteries. We also manufacture and market high-quality graphite and anode-grade petroleum cokes in the United States and Europe for use in the global steel and aluminum industries.

R&M—INTERNATIONAL

Refining
At December 31, 2010, R&M owned or had an interest in five refineries outside the United States.


					Net Crude Throughput
					Capacity (MBD)
					At		Effective
Refinery	Location	Ownership			December 31, 2010		January 1, 2011
Humber	N. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom		100.00	%		221		221
Whitegate	Cork, Ireland		100.00			71		71
Wilhelmshaven	Wilhelmshaven, Germany		100.00			260		-
MiRO*	Karlsruhe, Germany		18.75			58		58
Melaka	Melaka, Malaysia		47.00			61		76

						671		426

*Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein GmbH.

Primary crude oil characteristics and sources of crude oil for our international refineries are as follows:

Characteristics

Sources

Medium

Heavy

High

Europe

Middle East

Sweet

Sour

TAN*

& FSU**

& Africa

Humber

Whitegate

MiRO

Melaka

*High TAN (Total Acid Number): acid content greater than or equal to 1.0 milligram of potassium hydroxide (KOH) per gram.

**Former Soviet Union.

Capacities for and yields of clean products, as well as other products produced, at our international refineries are as follows:

Clean Product Capacity (MBD)

Other Refined Product Output

Clean

Fuel Oil &

Product Yield

Other Heavy

Natural Gas

Petroleum

Gasolines

Distillates

Capability

Intermediates

Liquids

Coke

Asphalt

Humber

112

84%

·*

Whitegate

MiRO

Melaka

*Includes specialty coke.

We operate a crude oil and products storage complex consisting of 7.5 million barrels of storage capacity and an offshore mooring buoy, located about 80 miles southwest of the Whitegate Refinery in Bantry Bay, Ireland.

The project to expand the crude oil, conversion and treating unit capacity of the Melaka Refinery was completed in the fourth quarter of 2010. As a result, effective January 1, 2011, our net share of the refinery’s crude throughput capacity will increase from 61,000 to 76,000 barrels per day, and clean product capacity for gasoline and distillates will increase to 17,500 and 47,000 barrels per day, respectively.

In the second quarter of 2010, due to ongoing unfavorable market conditions and consistent with our strategy of maintaining capital discipline and reducing our downstream portfolio over time, we canceled plans for a project to upgrade our refinery in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. We are currently evaluating offers to sell the facility. If sufficient value is not achievable from a sale, we plan to operate the facility as a terminal. As a result, effective January 1, 2011, we will no longer include Wilhelmshaven’s capacity in our stated refining capacities or our capacity utilization metrics.

Also consistent with our strategy of reducing our downstream portfolio, in the first quarter of 2010, we ended our participation in a new refinery project in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

Marketing
At December 31, 2010, R&M had marketing operations in five European countries. Our European marketing strategy is to sell primarily through owned, leased or joint venture retail sites using a low-cost, high-volume approach. We use the JET brand name to market retail and wholesale products in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. In addition, a joint venture in which we have an equity interest markets products in Switzerland under the Coop brand name. We also market aviation fuels, liquid petroleum gases, heating oils, transportation fuels and marine bunkers to commercial customers and into the bulk or spot market in the aforementioned countries and Ireland.

As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately 1,450 marketing outlets in our European operations, of which approximately 890 were company-owned and 360 were dealer-owned. We also held brand-licensing agreements with approximately 200 sites. Through our joint venture operations in Switzerland, we also have interests in 245 additional sites.

LUKOIL INVESTMENT

At year-end 2009, we had a 20 percent ownership interest in OAO LUKOIL. In July 2010, we announced our intention to sell our entire interest. During 2010, we sold approximately 151 million shares of LUKOIL, and as a result of these sales, our ownership interest was 2.25 percent at December 31, 2010, based on authorized and issued shares. By the end of the third quarter of 2010, our ownership interest declined to a level at which we were no longer able to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of LUKOIL. Accordingly, at the end of the third quarter of 2010, we stopped reporting equity earnings, proved reserves and production related to our LUKOIL investment. In the first quarter of 2011, we sold our remaining interest.

See Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for more information.

CHEMICALS

At December 31, 2010, our Chemicals segment represented 2 percent of ConocoPhillips’ total assets. The Chemicals segment consists of our 50 percent equity investment in CPChem, a joint venture with Chevron Corporation, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

CPChem’s business is structured around two primary operating segments: Olefins & Polyolefins (O&P) and Specialties, Aromatics & Styrenics (SAS). The O&P segment produces and markets ethylene, propylene, and other olefin products, which are primarily consumed within CPChem for the production of polyethylene, normal alpha olefins, polypropylene and polyethylene pipe. The SAS segment manufactures and markets aromatics products, such as benzene, styrene, paraxylene and cyclohexane, as well as polystyrene and styrene-butadiene copolymers. SAS also manufactures and markets a variety of specialty chemical products including organosulfur chemicals, solvents, catalysts, drilling chemicals, mining chemicals and high-performance engineering plastics and compounds.

CPChem’s manufacturing facilities are located in Belgium, China, Colombia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States.

CPChem owns a 49 percent interest in Qatar Chemical Company Ltd. (Q-Chem), a joint venture that owns a major olefins and polyolefins complex in Mesaieed, Qatar. CPChem also owns a 49 percent interest in Qatar Chemical Company II Ltd. (Q-Chem II), a joint venture that began construction of a second complex in Mesaieed in 2005. The Q-Chem II facility is designed to produce polyethylene and normal alpha olefins on a site adjacent to the Q-Chem complex. In connection with this project, an ethylene cracker that provides ethylene feedstock via pipeline to the Q-Chem II plants was developed in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The ethylene cracker and pipeline are owned by Ras Laffan Olefins Company, a joint venture of Q-Chem II and Qatofin Company Limited. Collectively, Q-Chem II’s interest in the ethylene cracker and pipeline and the polyethylene and normal alpha olefins plants are referred to as the “Q-Chem II Project.” Operational startup of the Q-Chem II Project was achieved in 2010.

Saudi Chevron Phillips Company (SCP) is a 50-percent-owned joint venture of CPChem that owns and operates an aromatics complex at Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Jubail Chevron Phillips Company, another 50-percent-owned joint venture of CPChem, owns and operates an integrated styrene facility adjacent to the SCP aromatics complex.

Saudi Polymers Company (SPCo), a 35-percent-owned joint venture company of CPChem, is constructing an integrated petrochemicals complex at Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. SPCo will produce ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and 1-hexene. Construction began in January 2008, and commercial production is scheduled to begin in late 2011.

CPChem plans to build a 1-hexene plant capable of producing in excess of 200,000 metric tons per year at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown, Texas. Project planning has begun, with startup anticipated in 2014.

EMERGING BUSINESSES

At December 31, 2010, our Emerging Businesses segment represented 1 percent of ConocoPhillips’ total assets. The segment encompasses the development of new technologies and businesses outside our normal operations. Activities within this segment are focused on power generation and new technologies related to conventional and nonconventional hydrocarbon recovery, refining, alternative energy, biofuels and the environment.

Power Generation
The focus of our power business is on developing projects to support our E&P and R&M strategies. While projects primarily in place to enable these strategies are included within their respective segments, the following projects have a significant merchant component and are included in the Emerging Businesses segment:

	•		The Immingham Combined Heat and Power Plant, a wholly owned 1,180-megawatt facility in the United Kingdom, which provides steam and electricity to the Humber Refinery and steam to a neighboring refinery, as well as merchant power into the U.K. market.

	•		Sweeny Cogeneration LP, our 50 percent joint venture near the Sweeny Refinery complex.

In December 2010, we sold a gas-fired cogeneration plant located in Orange, Texas.

Technology Development
Our Technology group focuses on developing new business opportunities designed to provide future growth prospects for ConocoPhillips. Focus areas include advanced hydrocarbon processes, energy efficiency technologies, new petroleum-based products, renewable fuels and carbon capture and conversion technologies. We are progressing the technology development of second-generation biofuels with Iowa State University, the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels and Archer Daniels Midland. We have also established a relationship with the University of Texas Energy Institute to collaborate on emerging technologies. Internally, we are continuing to evaluate wind, solar and geothermal investment opportunities.

In early 2011, we announced we will partner with General Electric Capital and NRG Energy, Inc., to form a new joint venture, Energy Technology Ventures (ETV), which will focus on development of next generation energy technology. ETV will invest in, and offer commercial collaboration opportunities to, venture- and growth-stage energy technology companies in the renewable power generation, smart grid, energy efficiency, oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, emission controls and biofuels sectors.

In addition, we are equal co-venturers with General Electric Company in a Global Water Sustainability Center in Qatar, which researches and develops water solutions for the petroleum, petrochemical, municipal and agricultural sectors.

We offer a gasification technology (E-Gas™) that uses petroleum coke, coal, and other low-value hydrocarbons as feedstock, resulting in high-value synthesis gas used for a slate of products, including power, substitute natural gas (SNG), hydrogen and chemicals. This clean, efficient technology facilitates carbon capture and storage, as well as minimizes criteria pollutant emissions and reduces water consumption. E-Gas™ Technology has been utilized in commercial applications since 1987 and is currently licensed to several third parties. We have also licensed E-Gas™ to third parties in Asia and North America, and are pursuing several additional licensing opportunities.

COMPETITION

We compete with private, public and state-owned companies in all facets of the petroleum and chemicals businesses. Some of our competitors are larger and have greater resources. Each of our segments is highly competitive. No single competitor, or small group of competitors, dominates any of our business lines.

Our E&P segment competes with numerous other companies in the industry, including state-owned companies, to locate and obtain new sources of supply and to produce oil and natural gas in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Based on publicly available year-end 2009 reserves statistics, we had the sixth-largest total of worldwide proved reserves of nongovernment-controlled companies. We deliver our production into the worldwide commodity markets. Principal methods of competing include geological, geophysical and engineering research and technology; experience and expertise; economic analysis in connection with portfolio management; and operating efficient oil and gas producing properties.

The Midstream segment, through our equity investment in DCP Midstream and our consolidated operations, competes with numerous other integrated petroleum companies, as well as natural gas transmission and distribution companies, to deliver components of natural gas to end users in the commodity natural gas markets. DCP Midstream is a large extractor of natural gas liquids in the United States. Principal methods of competing include economically securing the right to purchase raw natural gas into gathering systems, managing the pressure of those systems, operating efficient natural gas liquids processing plants and securing markets for the products produced.

Our R&M segment competes primarily in the United States, Europe and Asia. Based on the statistics published in the December 6, 2010, issue of the Oil & Gas Journal, our R&M segment had the largest U.S. refining capacity of 17 large refiners of petroleum products. Worldwide, our refining capacity ranked fourth among nongovernment-controlled companies. In the Chemicals segment, CPChem generally ranked within the top 10 producers of many of its major product lines, based on average 2010 production capacity, as published by industry sources. Petroleum products, petrochemicals and plastics are delivered into the worldwide commodity markets. Elements of competition for both our R&M and Chemicals segments include product improvement, new product development, low-cost structures, and efficient manufacturing and distribution systems. In the marketing portion of the business, competitive factors include product properties and processibility, reliability of supply, customer service, price and credit terms, advertising and sales promotion, and development of customer loyalty to ConocoPhillips’ or CPChem’s branded products.

GENERAL

At the end of 2010, we held a total of 1,398 active patents in 62 countries worldwide, including 597 active U.S. patents. During 2010, we received 34 patents in the United States and 69 foreign patents. Our products and processes generated licensing revenues of $90 million in 2010. The overall profitability of any business segment is not dependent on any single patent, trademark, license, franchise or concession.

Company-sponsored research and development activities charged against earnings were $230 million, $190 million and $209 million in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) organization provides tools and support to our business units and staff groups to help them ensure consistent health, safety and environmental excellence. In support of the goal of zero incidents, we have implemented an HSE Excellence process, which enables business units to measure their performance and compliance with our HSE Management System requirements, identify gaps, and develop improvement plans. Assessments are conducted annually to capture progress and set new targets. We are also committed to continuously improving process safety and preventing releases of hazardous materials.

The environmental information contained in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations on pages 57 through 60 under the captions “Environmental” and “Climate Change” is incorporated herein by reference. It includes information on expensed and capitalized environmental costs for 2010 and those expected for 2011 and 2012.

Web Site Access to SEC Reports
Our Internet Web site address is http://www.conocophillips.com. Information contained on our Internet Web site is not part of this report on Form 10-K.

Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to these reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are available on our Web site, free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Alternatively, you may access these reports at the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Item 1A. RISK FACTORS

You should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Each of these risk factors could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition, as well as adversely affect the value of an investment in our common stock.

Our operating results, our future rate of growth and the carrying value of our assets are exposed to the effects of changing commodity prices and refining margins.

Our revenues, operating results and future rate of growth are highly dependent on the prices we receive for our crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, natural gas liquids, LNG and refined products. The factors influencing these prices are beyond our control. Lower crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, natural gas liquids, LNG and refined products prices may reduce the amount of these commodities we can produce economically, which may have a material adverse effect on our revenues, operating income and cash flows.

Unless we successfully add to our existing proved reserves, our future crude oil, bitumen and natural gas production will decline, resulting in an adverse impact to our business.

The rate of production from upstream fields generally declines as reserves are depleted. Except to the extent that we conduct successful exploration and development activities, or, through engineering studies, identify additional or secondary recovery reserves, our proved reserves will decline materially as we produce crude oil and natural gas. Accordingly, to the extent we are unsuccessful in replacing the crude oil and natural gas we produce with good prospects for future production, our business will experience reduced cash flows and results of operations.

Any material change in the factors and assumptions underlying our estimates of crude oil, bitumen and natural gas reserves could impair the quantity and value of those reserves.

Our proved reserve information included in this annual report has been derived from engineering estimates prepared or reviewed by our personnel. Any significant future price changes could have a material effect on the quantity and present value of our proved reserves. Future reserve revisions could also result from changes in, among other things, governmental regulation. Reserve estimation is a process that involves estimating volumes to be recovered from underground accumulations of crude oil, bitumen and natural gas that cannot be directly measured. As a result, different petroleum engineers, each using industry-accepted geologic and engineering practices and scientific methods, may produce different estimates of reserves and future net cash flows based on the same available data. Any changes in the factors and assumptions underlying our estimates of these items could result in a material negative impact to the volume of reserves reported.

We expect to continue to incur substantial capital expenditures and operating costs as a result of our compliance with existing and future environmental laws and regulations. Likewise, future environmental laws and regulations may impact or limit our current business plans and reduce demand for our products.

Our businesses are subject to numerous laws and regulations relating to the protection of the environment. These laws and regulations continue to increase in both number and complexity and affect our operations with respect to, among other things:

	•		The discharge of pollutants into the environment.

	•		Emissions into the atmosphere (such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions as they are, or may become, regulated).

	•		The handling, use, storage, transportation, disposal and clean up of hazardous materials and hazardous and nonhazardous wastes.

	•		The dismantlement, abandonment and restoration of our properties and facilities at the end of their useful lives.

	•		Exploration and production activities in environmentally sensitive areas, such as offshore environments, arctic fields, oil sands reservoirs and shale gas plays.

We have incurred and will continue to incur substantial capital, operating and maintenance, and remediation expenditures as a result of these laws and regulations. To the extent these expenditures, as with all costs, are not ultimately reflected in the prices of our products and services, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows in future periods could be materially adversely affected.

Although our business operations are designed and operated to accommodate expected climatic conditions, to the extent there are significant changes in the Earth’s climate, such as more severe or frequent weather conditions in the markets we serve or the areas where our assets reside, we could incur increased expenses, our operations could be materially impacted, and demand for our products could fall.

In addition, in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident, the United States, as well as other countries where we do business, may make changes to their laws or regulations governing offshore operations that could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Domestic and worldwide political and economic developments could damage our operations and materially reduce our profitability and cash flows.

Actions of the U.S., state and local governments through tax and other legislation, executive order and commercial restrictions could reduce our operating profitability both in the United States and abroad. The U.S. government can prevent or restrict us from doing business in foreign countries. These restrictions and those of foreign governments have in the past limited our ability to operate in, or gain access to, opportunities in various countries. Actions by both the United States and host governments have affected operations significantly in the past, such as the expropriation of our oil assets by the Venezuelan government, and may continue to do so in the future.

Local political and economic factors in international markets could have a material adverse effect on us. Approximately 67 percent of our hydrocarbon production was derived from production outside the United States in both 2009 and 2010, and 56 percent of our proved reserves, as of December 31, 2010, were located outside the United States. We are subject to risks associated with operations in international markets, including changes in foreign governmental policies relating to crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, natural gas liquids or refined product pricing and taxation, other political, economic or diplomatic developments, changing political conditions and international monetary fluctuations.

Changes in governmental regulations may impose price controls and limitations on production of crude oil, bitumen and natural gas.

Our operations are subject to extensive governmental regulations. From time to time, regulatory agencies have imposed price controls and limitations on production by restricting the rate of flow of crude oil, bitumen and natural gas wells below actual production capacity in order to conserve supplies of crude oil and natural gas. Because legal requirements are frequently changed and subject to interpretation, we cannot predict the effect of these requirements.

Our investments in joint ventures decrease our ability to manage risk.

We conduct many of our operations through joint ventures in which we may share control with our joint venture participants. There is a risk our joint venture participants may at any time have economic, business or legal interests or goals that are inconsistent with those of the joint venture or us, or our joint venture participants may be unable to meet their economic or other obligations and we may be required to fulfill those obligations alone. Failure by us, or an entity in which we have a joint venture interest, to adequately manage the risks associated with any acquisitions or joint ventures could have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of our joint ventures and, in turn, our business and operations.

We do not insure against all potential losses; and therefore, we could be harmed by unexpected liabilities and increased costs.

We maintain insurance against many, but not all, potential losses or liabilities arising from operating risks. As such, our insurance coverage may not be sufficient to fully cover us against potential losses arising from such risks. Uninsured losses and liabilities arising from operating risks could reduce the funds available to us for capital, exploration and investment spending and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Our operations present hazards and risks that require significant and continuous oversight.

The scope and nature of our operations present a variety of operational hazards and risks that must be managed through continual oversight and control. These risks are present throughout the process of exploration, production, transportation, refinement and storage of the hydrocarbons we produce. Failure to manage these risks could result in injury or loss of life, environmental damage, loss of revenues and damage to our reputation.

Item 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

The following is a description of reportable legal proceedings, including those involving governmental authorities under federal, state and local laws regulating the discharge of materials into the environment for this reporting period. The following proceedings include those matters that arose during the fourth quarter of 2010, as well as matters previously reported in our 2009 Form 10-K and our first-, second- and third-quarter 2010 Form 10-Qs that were not resolved prior to the fourth quarter of 2010. Material developments to the previously reported matters have been included in the descriptions below. While it is not possible to accurately predict the final outcome of these pending proceedings, if any one or more of such proceedings was decided adversely to ConocoPhillips, we expect there would be no material effect on our consolidated financial position. Nevertheless, such proceedings are reported pursuant to SEC regulations.

Our U.S. refineries are implementing two separate consent decrees, regarding alleged violations of the Federal Clean Air Act, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), six states and one local air pollution agency. Some of the requirements and limitations contained in the decrees provide for stipulated penalties for violations. Stipulated penalties under the decrees are not automatic, but must be requested by one of the agency signatories. As part of periodic reports under the decrees or other reports required by permits or regulations, we occasionally report matters that could be subject to a request for stipulated penalties. If a specific request for stipulated penalties meeting the reporting threshold set forth in SEC rules is made pursuant to these decrees based on a given reported exceedance, we will separately report that matter and the amount of the proposed penalty.

New Matters
There are no new matters to report.

Matters Previously Reported
In October 2007, we received a Complaint from the EPA alleging violations of the Clean Water Act related to a 2006 oil spill at our Bayway Refinery and proposing a penalty of $156,000. We are working with the EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard to resolve this matter.

In 2009, ConocoPhillips notified the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that it had self-identified certain compliance issues related to Benzene Waste Operations National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants requirements at its Trainer, Pennsylvania, and Borger, Texas, facilities. On January 6, 2010, the DOJ provided its initial penalty demand for this matter as part of our confidential settlement negotiations.

ConocoPhillips has reached an agreement with the EPA and DOJ regarding an appropriate penalty amount, which will be reflected in the third amendment to the consent decree in Civil Action No. H-05-258 (the agreed-upon penalty amount remains confidential until that time).

On May 19, 2010, the Lake Charles Louisiana Refinery received a Consolidated Compliance Order and Notice of Potential Penalty from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) alleging various violations of applicable air emission regulations, as well as certain provisions of the consent decree in Civil Action No. H-01-4430. ConocoPhillips will work with the LDEQ to resolve this matter.

On September 23, 2010, the Los Angeles County Fire Department Health and Hazardous Materials Division (HHMD) issued a proposed penalty of $127,000 to ConocoPhillips. The penalty pertains to alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at the Los Angeles Refinery noted by HHMD during its refinery compliance inspections in November and December 2009. ConocoPhillips resolved this matter with a settlement payment of $102,880 to HHMD.

On January 22, 2010, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) issued a penalty demand to resolve 16 Notices of Violation issued in 2008 and 2009 that allege violations of air pollution control regulations and/or facility permit conditions at the Rodeo facility in San Francisco, California. ConocoPhillips resolved this matter with a settlement payment of $125,050 to BAAQMD.

In October 2003, the District Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, California, filed a complaint in Superior Court for alleged methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) contamination in groundwater. On April 4, 2008, the District Attorney’s Office filed an amended complaint that included alleged violations of state regulations relating to operation or maintenance of underground storage tanks. There are numerous defendants named in the suit in addition to ConocoPhillips. We continue to contest this lawsuit.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT


Name	Position Held	Age*

John A. Carrig	President	59
Willie C. W. Chiang	Senior Vice President, Refining, Marketing, Transportation and Commercial	50
Greg C. Garland	Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production—Americas	53
Alan J. Hirshberg	Senior Vice President, Planning and Strategy	49
Janet L. Kelly	Senior Vice President, Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary	53
Ryan M. Lance	Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production—International	48
James J. Mulva	Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer	64
Glenda M. Schwarz	Vice President and Controller	45
Jeff W. Sheets	Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer	53


*On February 15, 2011.

There are no family relationships among any of the officers named above. Each officer of the company is elected by the Board of Directors at its first meeting after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and thereafter as appropriate. Each officer of the company holds office from the date of election until the first meeting of the directors held after the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until a successor is elected. The date of the next annual meeting is May 11, 2011. Set forth below is information about the executive officers.

John A. Carrig has served as President since October 2010, having previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to October 2010. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer since the merger of Conoco and Phillips in 2002 (the merger).

Willie C. W. Chiang was appointed Senior Vice President, Refining, Marketing, Transportation and Commercial in October 2010. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Refining, Marketing and Transportation from 2008 to October 2010; Senior Vice President, Commercial from 2007 to 2008; and President, Americas Supply & Trading, Commercial, from 2005 through 2007.

Greg C. Garland was appointed Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production—Americas in October 2010, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of CPChem since 2008. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Planning and Specialty Products at CPChem from 2000 to 2008.

Alan J. Hirshberg was appointed Senior Vice President, Planning and Strategy in October 2010. Prior to that, he was employed by Exxon Mobil Corporation and served as Vice President, Worldwide Deepwater and Africa Projects since 2009; Vice President, Worldwide Deepwater Projects from 2008 to 2009; Vice President, Established Areas Projects from 2006 to 2008; and Vice President, Operated by Others Projects in 2006.

Janet L. Kelly was appointed Senior Vice President, Legal, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in 2007, having previously served as Deputy General Counsel since 2006.

Ryan M. Lance was appointed Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production—International, in May 2009. Prior to that, he served as President, Exploration and Production—Asia, Africa, Middle East and Russia/Caspian since April 2009; President, Exploration and Production— Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 2007 to 2009; Senior Vice President, Technology in 2007; and Senior Vice President, Technology and Major Projects since 2006.

James J. Mulva has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, having previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since 2004. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer since the merger.

Glenda M. Schwarz was appointed Vice President and Controller in 2009. She previously served as General Auditor and Chief Ethics Officer from 2008 to 2009, having previously served as General Manager, Downstream Finance and Performance Analysis since 2005.

Jeff W. Sheets was appointed Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer in October 2010. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Planning and Strategy since 2008, having previously served as Vice President and Treasurer since the merger.

PART II

Item 5.

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Quarterly Common Stock Prices and Cash Dividends Per Share

ConocoPhillips’ common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol “COP.”


	Stock Price
	High		Low		Dividends

2010
First	$	53.80		46.63		.50
Second		60.53		48.51		.55
Third		58.03		48.06		.55
Fourth		68.58		56.80		.55


2009
First	$	57.44		34.12		.47
Second		48.71		37.52		.47
Third		47.30		38.62		.47
Fourth		54.13		44.88		.50



Closing Stock Price at December 31, 2010					$	68.10
Closing Stock Price at January 31, 2011					$	71.46
Number of Stockholders of Record at January 31, 2011*						58,644

*In determining the number of stockholders, we consider clearing agencies and security position listings as one stockholder for each agency or listing.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Millions of Dollars

Total Number of

Approximate Dollar

Shares Purchased

Value of Shares

Average

as Part of Publicly

that May Yet Be

Total Number of

Price Paid

Announced Plans

Purchased Under the

Period

Shares Purchased

Per Share

or Programs

Plans or Programs

October 1-31, 2010

17,776,116

$ 59.62

17,540,398

$ 2,696

November 1-30, 2010

11,464,464

60.93

11,458,408

1,998

December 1-31, 2010

13,266,256

65.25

13,249,000

1,134

Total

42,506,836

$ 61.73

42,247,806


*	Includes the repurchase of common shares from company employees in connection with the company’s broad-based employee incentive plans.
**	On March 24, 2010, we announced plans to repurchase up to $5 billion of our common stock through 2011. On February 11, 2011, we announced plans to repurchase up to $10 billion of our common stock over the subsequent two years. Acquisitions for the share repurchase program are made at management’s discretion, at prevailing prices, subject to market conditions and other factors. Repurchases may be increased, decreased or discontinued at any time without prior notice. Shares of stock repurchased under the plan are held as treasury shares.

Item 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA


	Millions of Dollars Except Per Share Amounts
	2010		2009		*	2008		*	2007		*	2006		*

Sales and other operating revenues	$	189,441		149,341			240,842			187,437			183,650
Net income (loss)		11,417		4,492			(16,279	)		11,545			15,410
Net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips		11,358		4,414			(16,349	)		11,458			15,334
Per common share
Basic		7.68		2.96			(10.73	)		7.06			9.67
Diluted		7.62		2.94			(10.73	)		6.96			9.53
Total assets		156,314		152,138			142,865			177,094			164,557
Long-term debt		22,656		26,925			27,085			20,289			23,091
Joint venture acquisition obligation—long-term		4,314		5,009			5,669			6,294			-
Cash dividends declared per common share		2.15		1.91			1.88			1.64			1.44

*Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

Many factors can impact the comparability of this information, such as:

	•		The financial data for 2010 includes the impact of $5,803 million before-tax ($4,583 million after-tax) related to gains on asset dispositions and LUKOIL share sales.

	•		The financial data for 2008 includes the impact of impairments related to goodwill and to our LUKOIL investment that together amount to $32,939 million before- and after-tax.

	•		The financial data for 2007 includes the impact of a $4,588 million before-tax ($4,512 million after-tax) impairment related to the expropriation of our oil interests in Venezuela.

See Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of factors that will enhance an understanding of this data.


Item 7.		MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

February 23, 2011

Management’s Discussion and Analysis is the company’s analysis of its financial performance and of significant trends that may affect future performance. It should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes, and supplemental oil and gas disclosures. It contains forward-looking statements including, without limitation, statements relating to the company’s plans, strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions that are made pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “budget,” “continue,” “could,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “seek,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “expect,” “objective,” “projection,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “outlook,” “effort,” “target” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking information unless required to do so under the federal securities laws. Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements should be read in conjunction with the company’s disclosures under the heading: “CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ‘SAFE HARBOR’ PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995,” beginning on page 65.

The terms “earnings” and “loss” as used in Management’s Discussion and Analysis refer to net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company. We are the third-largest integrated energy company in the United States, based on market capitalization. We have approximately 29,700 employees worldwide, and at year-end 2010 had assets of $156 billion. Our stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COP.”

Our business is organized into six operating segments:

	•		Exploration and Production (E&P)—This segment primarily explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis.

	•		Midstream—This segment gathers, processes and markets natural gas produced by ConocoPhillips and others, and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids, predominantly in the United States and Trinidad. The Midstream segment primarily consists of our 50 percent equity investment in DCP Midstream, LLC.

	•		Refining and Marketing (R&M)—This segment purchases, refines, markets and transports crude oil and petroleum products, mainly in the United States, Europe and Asia.

	•		LUKOIL Investment—This segment consists of our investment in the ordinary shares of OAO LUKOIL, an international, integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Russia. At December 31, 2010, our ownership interest was 2.25 percent based on issued shares. See Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for information on sales of LUKOIL shares.

	•		Chemicals—This segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis. The Chemicals segment consists of our 50 percent equity investment in Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem).

	•		Emerging Businesses—This segment represents our investment in new technologies or businesses outside our normal scope of operations.

In 2010, as the global economy continued to recover from the recession, the business environment for certain parts of the energy industry also recovered. Oil prices continued to increase in 2010, reflecting strong oil demand growth, especially in China, and an improved economic outlook for the United States. U.S. natural gas prices, however, remained under pressure during 2010, despite a colder-than-normal winter and hotter-than-normal summer. U.S. natural gas production continues to increase at a faster rate than the demand recovery from the economic crisis, primarily as a result of increased production from shale plays. Storage levels are below 2009 levels, but remain historically high. We expect these factors will continue to moderate natural gas prices, resulting in limited U.S. LNG imports in the near- to mid-term, and potentially impacting the timing of commercialization of our Alaska North Slope and Canadian Arctic gas resources.

In late 2009, we announced several strategic initiatives designed to improve our financial position and increase returns on capital. We announced plans to raise $10 billion from asset dispositions through the end of 2011, reduce our debt and increase shareholder distributions. As of year-end 2010, we have generated approximately $7 billion from asset dispositions, the proceeds of which were primarily targeted toward debt reduction. This accelerated the return to our target debt-to-capital ratio of 20 to 25 percent. In addition, we increased the amount of our quarterly dividend rate by 10 percent, and we paid dividends on our common stock of $3.2 billion for the full year. We also announced plans to sell our entire interest in LUKOIL, and our Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to $5 billion of our common stock through 2011. As of year-end 2010, we had sold approximately 90 percent of our interest in LUKOIL, which generated cash proceeds of approximately $8 billion, while we repurchased approximately $4 billion of our common stock. In February 2011, our Board authorized the additional purchase of up to $10 billion of our common stock over the next two years.

Our total capital program in 2011 is expected to be $13.5 billion, a $2.8 billion increase from $10.7 billion in 2010. We also expect 2011 production to be approximately 1.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, excluding the impact of any additional asset sales.

Crude oil, bitumen, natural gas and LNG prices, along with refining margins, are the most significant factors in our profitability, and are driven by market factors over which we have no control. These prices and margins can be subject to extreme volatility. However, from a competitive perspective, there are other important factors we must manage well to be successful, including:

	•		Operating our producing properties and refining and marketing operations safely, consistently and in an environmentally sound manner. Safety is our first priority, and we are committed to protecting the health and safety of everyone who has a role in our operations and the communities in which we operate. Optimizing utilization rates at our refineries and minimizing downtime in producing fields enable us to capture the value available in the market in terms of prices and margins. During 2010, our worldwide refining capacity utilization rate was 81 percent, compared with 84 percent in 2009. The lower rate primarily reflects run reductions at Wilhelmshaven in response to market conditions, partially offset by lower turnaround activity. Excluding Wilhelmshaven, the worldwide refining capacity utilization rate was 90 percent in 2010, compared with 88 percent in 2009.

			There has been heightened public focus on the safety of the oil and gas industry, as a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), which occurred in April 2010. Safety and environmental stewardship, including the operating integrity of our assets, remain our highest priorities. Therefore, in order to improve industry spill response, in 2010 we formed a non-profit organization, the Marine Well Containment Company LLC (MWCC), with Exxon Mobil Corporation, Chevron Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell plc to develop a new oil spill containment system. MWCC plans to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater GOM.

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Adding to our proved reserve base. We primarily add to our proved reserve base in three ways:

	o		Successful exploration and development of new fields.

	o		Acquisition of existing fields.

	o		Application of new technologies and processes to improve recovery from existing fields.

			Through a combination of the methods listed above, we have been successful in the past in maintaining or adding to our production and proved reserve base, and we anticipate being able to do so in the future. In the five years ended December 31, 2010, our reserve replacement was 111 percent, excluding LUKOIL. Over this period we added reserves through acquisitions and project developments, partially offset by the impact of asset expropriations in Venezuela and Ecuador.

			Access to additional resources has become increasingly difficult as direct investment is prohibited in some nations, while fiscal and other terms in other countries can make projects uneconomic or unattractive. In addition, political instability, competition from national oil companies, and lack of access to high-potential areas due to environmental or other regulation may negatively impact our ability to increase our reserve base. As such, the timing and level at which we add to our reserve base may, or may not, allow us to replace our production over subsequent years.

	•		Controlling costs and expenses. Since we cannot control the prices of the commodity products we sell, controlling operating and overhead costs, within the context of our commitment to safety and environmental stewardship, is a high priority. We monitor these costs using various methodologies that are reported to senior management monthly, on both an absolute-dollar basis and a per-unit basis. Because managing operating and overhead costs is critical to maintaining competitive positions in our industries, cost control is a component of our variable compensation programs. Operating and overhead costs increased by 4 percent in 2010, compared with 2009, primarily as a result of market conditions and higher transportation costs.

	•		Selecting the appropriate projects in which to invest our capital dollars. We participate in capital-intensive industries. As a result, we must often invest significant capital dollars to explore for new oil and gas fields, develop newly discovered fields, maintain existing fields, construct pipelines and LNG facilities, or continue to maintain and improve our refinery complexes. We invest in projects that are expected to provide an adequate financial return on invested dollars. However, there are often long lead times from the time we make an investment to the time the investment is operational and begins generating financial returns.

			Our total capital program in 2010 was $10.7 billion, which included $9.8 billion of capital expenditures and investments. Our 2011 capital program is expected to be approximately $13.5 billion, which includes $12.8 billion of capital expenditures and investments. The 2011 budget is consistent with our plan to improve returns through increased capital discipline, while still funding existing projects and enabling us to preserve flexibility to develop major projects in the future.

	•		Managing our asset portfolio. We continually evaluate our assets to determine whether they fit our strategic plans or should be sold or otherwise disposed. In 2009, we sold a majority of our U.S. retail marketing assets and announced our intention to raise $10 billion from asset dispositions through the end of 2011. In 2010, we completed the U.S. retail marketing disposition program. We also sold our 9.03 percent interest in the Syncrude oil sands mining operation; our 50 percent interest in CFJ Properties, a joint venture which owned and operated Flying J-branded truck and travel plazas; and several E&P properties located in the Lower 48 and western Canada. As part of a separate program, in 2010, we announced our intention to sell our entire interest in LUKOIL. As of year-end 2010, we sold approximately 90 percent of our interest in LUKOIL. We disposed of our remaining shares in the first quarter of 2011.

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Developing and retaining a talented work force. We strive to attract, train, develop and retain individuals with the knowledge and skills to implement our business strategy and who support our values and ethics. Throughout the company, we focus on the continued learning, development and technical training of our employees. Professional new hires participate in structured development programs designed to accelerate their technical and functional skills.

Our key performance indicators are shown in the statistical tables provided at the beginning of the operating segment sections that follow. These include commodity prices, production and refining capacity utilization.

Other significant factors that can affect our profitability include:

	•		Impairments. As mentioned above, we participate in capital-intensive industries. At times, our investments become impaired when, for example, our reserve estimates are revised downward, commodity prices or refining margins decline significantly for long periods of time, or a decision to dispose of an asset leads to a write-down to its fair market value. We may also invest large amounts of money in exploration which, if exploratory drilling proves unsuccessful, could lead to a material impairment of leasehold values. Before-tax impairments in 2010 totaled $2.4 billion and primarily related to the $1.5 billion property impairment of our refinery in Wilhelmshaven, Germany (WRG), and a $0.6 billion impairment of our equity investment in Naraynmarneftegaz (NMNG). Before-tax impairments in 2009 totaled $0.8 billion and primarily related to certain natural gas properties in western Canada and our equity investment in NMNG.

	•		Goodwill. We had $3.6 billion of goodwill on our balance sheet at year-end 2010 and 2009. In 2008, we recorded a $25.4 billion complete impairment of our E&P segment goodwill, primarily as a function of decreased year-end commodity prices and the decline in our market capitalization. Deterioration of market conditions in the future could lead to other goodwill impairments that may have a substantial negative, though noncash, effect on our profitability.

	•		Effective tax rate. Our operations are located in countries with different tax rates and fiscal structures. Accordingly, even in a stable commodity price and fiscal/regulatory environment, our overall effective tax rate can vary significantly between periods based on the “mix” of pretax earnings within our global operations.

	•		Fiscal and regulatory environment. Our operations, primarily in E&P, can be affected by changing economic, regulatory and political environments in the various countries in which we operate, including the United States. These changes have generally negatively impacted our results of operations, and further changes to government fiscal take could have a negative impact on future operations. Our assets in Venezuela and Ecuador were expropriated in 2007 and 2009, respectively. In Canada, the Alberta provincial government changed the royalty structure in 2009 to tie a component of the new rate to prevailing prices. Our management carefully considers these events when evaluating projects or determining the level of activity in such countries.

Segment Analysis
The E&P segment’s results are most closely linked to crude oil and natural gas prices. These are commodity products, the prices of which are subject to factors external to our company and over which we have no control. Industry crude oil prices for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) were higher in 2010, compared with 2009, averaging $79.39 per barrel in 2010, an increase of 29 percent. Uncertainty about economic growth in developed countries, especially in the United States, and concerns about the debt crisis in Europe were more than offset by increased demand from China and other developing countries. Industry natural gas prices at Henry Hub increased 10 percent during 2010 to an average price of $4.39 per million British thermal units, primarily as a result of weather-related events. An increase in demand was offset by higher natural gas production levels, and as a result, natural gas storage levels remain high and have adversely impacted Henry Hub prices.

The Midstream segment’s results are most closely linked to natural gas liquids prices. The most important factor affecting the profitability of this segment is the results from our 50 percent equity investment in DCP Midstream. DCP Midstream’s natural gas liquids prices increased 39 percent in 2010.

Refining margins, refinery capacity utilization and cost control primarily drive the R&M segment’s results. Refining margins are subject to movements in the cost of crude oil and other feedstocks, and the sales prices for refined products, both of which are subject to market factors over which we have no control. Global refining margins improved during 2010, compared with 2009. The U.S. benchmark 3:2:1 crack spread increased 9 percent in 2010, while the N.W. Europe benchmark increased 16 percent. Demand for refined products improved globally in 2010, driven by the improved economic environment, particularly in the developing nations. In addition, a wider differential in prices for high-quality crude oil relative to lower-quality crude oil improved margins for refineries configured to capitalize on the ability to process lower-quality crudes.

The LUKOIL Investment segment consists of our investment in the ordinary shares of LUKOIL. At year-end 2009, we had a 20 percent ownership interest in LUKOIL based on authorized and issued shares. At the end of the third quarter of 2010, as a result of our plan to divest of our entire interest in LUKOIL, our ownership interest declined to a level at which we were no longer able to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of LUKOIL. Accordingly, at the end of the third quarter of 2010, we stopped recording equity earnings from LUKOIL. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2010, earnings from the LUKOIL Investment segment primarily reflect the realized gain on share sales. We disposed of our remaining interest in LUKOIL in the first quarter of 2011.

The Chemicals segment consists of our 50 percent interest in CPChem. The chemicals and plastics industry is mainly a commodity-based industry where the margins for key products are based on market factors over which CPChem has little or no control. CPChem is investing in feedstock-advantaged areas in the Middle East with access to large, growing markets, such as Asia.

The Emerging Businesses segment represents our investment in new technologies or businesses outside our normal scope of operations. Activities within this segment are currently focused on power generation and innovation of new technologies, such as those related to conventional and nonconventional hydrocarbon recovery, refining, alternative energy, biofuels and the environment. Some of these technologies have the potential to become important drivers of profitability in future years.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Consolidated Results

A summary of the company’s net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips by business segment follows:


	Millions of Dollars
Years Ended December 31	2010			2009			2008


Exploration and Production (E&P)	$	9,198			3,604			(13,479	)
Midstream		306			313			541
Refining and Marketing (R&M)		192			37			2,322
LUKOIL Investment*		2,503			1,219			(4,839	)
Chemicals		498			248			110
Emerging Businesses		(59	)		3			30
Corporate and Other		(1,280	)		(1,010	)		(1,034	)

Net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips	$	11,358			4,414			(16,349	)

*2009 and 2008 recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

2010 vs. 2009

The improved results in 2010 were primarily the result of:

	•		Higher prices for crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in our E&P segment. Commodity price benefits were somewhat offset by increased production taxes.

	•		Gains of $4,583 million after-tax from asset dispositions and LUKOIL share sales.

	•		Improved results from our domestic R&M operations, reflecting higher refining margins.

These items were partially offset by:

	•		Impairments totaling $1,928 million after-tax.

	•		Lower production volumes from our E&P segment.

2009 vs. 2008

The improved results in 2009 were primarily the result of:

	•		The absence of a $25,443 million before- and after-tax impairment of all E&P segment goodwill in 2008.

	•		The absence of a $7,496 million before- and after-tax impairment of our LUKOIL investment in 2008.

	•		Lower production taxes.

	•		Reduced operating and overhead expenses.

These items were partially offset by:

	•		Lower crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids prices, which impacted our E&P, Midstream and LUKOIL Investment segments.

	•		Lower refining margins in our R&M segment.

Statement of Operations Analysis

2010 vs. 2009

Sales and other operating revenues increased 27 percent in 2010, while purchased crude oil, natural gas and products increased 33 percent. These increases were primarily due to higher prices for petroleum products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and LNG.

Equity in earnings of affiliates increased 24 percent in 2010. The increase primarily resulted from:

	•		Improved earnings from CPChem primarily due to higher margins in the olefins and polyolefins business line.

	•		Improved earnings from FCCL Partnership due to higher commodity prices and volumes.

	•		Improved earnings from Merey Sweeny, L.P. (MSLP) as a result of improved margins and volumes.

These increases were partially offset by a $645 million impairment of our equity investment in NMNG.

Gain on dispositions increased $5,643 million in 2010. The increase primarily reflects the $2,878 million gain realized from the June 2010 sale of our 9.03 percent interest in the Syncrude oil sands mining operation; the $1,749 million gain on the divestiture of our LUKOIL shares; gains on the disposition of certain E&P assets located in the Lower 48 and Canada; and the gain on sale of our 50 percent interest in CFJ Properties. For additional information, see Note 5—Assets Held for Sale and Note 6—Investment, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Impairments increased $1,245 million in 2010, primarily as a result of the second quarter impairment of WRG. For additional information, see Note 10—Impairments, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Taxes other than income taxes increased 8 percent during 2010, primarily due to higher production taxes as a result of higher crude oil prices and higher excise taxes on petroleum product sales.

Interest and debt expense decreased 8 percent during 2010, primarily due to lower debt levels.

See Note 20—Income Taxes, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for information regarding our income tax expense and effective tax rate.

2009 vs. 2008

Sales and other operating revenues decreased 38 percent in 2009, while purchased crude oil, natural gas and products decreased 39 percent. These decreases were mainly the result of significantly lower prices for petroleum products, crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids.

Equity in earnings of affiliates decreased 49 percent in 2009, primarily due to reduced earnings from LUKOIL; DCP Midstream; MSLP; Malaysian Refining Company Sdn. Bhd.; and Excel Paralubes, which were partially offset by higher earnings from CPChem. The decreases were mainly the result of lower commodity prices and refining margins.

Gain on dispositions decreased 82 percent during 2009. The decrease was primarily due to 2008 gains related to asset dispositions in our E&P and R&M segments.

Production and operating expenses decreased 13 percent in 2009, as a result of lower utilities costs, favorable foreign currency exchange impacts, and our cost reduction efforts.

Selling, general and administrative expense decreased 18 percent in 2009, primarily due to disposition of U.S. and international marketing assets.

Impairments decreased from $34,625 million in 2008 to $535 million in 2009, primarily reflecting the 2008 goodwill and LUKOIL impairments. Other impairments decreased $1,151 million during 2009. For additional information, see Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables and Note 9—Goodwill and Intangibles, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Taxes other than income taxes decreased 25 percent in 2009, primarily due to lower production taxes resulting from lower crude oil prices, as well as reduced excise taxes on petroleum product sales.

Interest and debt expense increased 38 percent in 2009, as a result of a higher average debt level, partially offset by lower interest rates. Interest expense also increased as a result of lower capitalized interest.

See Note 20—Income Taxes, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for information regarding our income tax expense and effective tax rate.

Segment Results

E&P


	2010		2009			2008
	Millions of Dollars
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips
Alaska	$	1,735		1,540			2,315
Lower 48		1,033		(37	)		2,673

United States		2,768		1,503			4,988
International		6,430		2,101			6,976
Goodwill impairment		-		-			(25,443	)

	$	9,198		3,604			(13,479	)


	Dollars Per Unit

Average Sales Prices
Crude oil and natural gas liquids (per barrel)
United States	$	69.73		53.21			89.38
International		74.95		57.40			89.32
Total consolidated operations		72.63		55.47			89.35
Equity affiliates		74.81		58.23			71.15
Total E&P		72.77		55.63			88.91
Synthetic oil (per barrel)
International		77.56		62.01			103.31
Bitumen (per barrel)
International		51.10		39.67			46.85
Equity affiliates		53.43		45.69			58.54
Total E&P		53.06		44.84			56.72
Natural gas (per thousand cubic feet)*
United States		4.27		3.50			7.60
International		5.60		5.06			8.65
Total consolidated operations		5.07		4.40			8.20
Equity affiliates		2.79		2.35			2.04
Total E&P		4.98		4.37			8.18

*Prior periods reclassified to conform to current year presentation which includes intrasegment transfer pricing.

Average Production Costs Per Barrel of Oil Equivalent
United States	$	8.30		7.73			8.34
International		7.96		7.72			8.03
Total consolidated operations		8.10		7.73			8.17
Equity affiliates		8.11		7.68			13.36
Total E&P		8.10		7.72			8.33


	Millions of Dollars

Worldwide Exploration Expenses
General and administrative; geological and geophysical; and lease rentals	$	678		576			639
Leasehold impairment		241		247			273
Dry holes		236		359			425

	$	1,155		1,182			1,337


	2010		2009		2008
	Thousands of Barrels Daily
Operating Statistics
Crude oil and natural gas liquids produced
Alaska		230		252		261
Lower 48		160		166		165

United States		390		418		426
Canada		38		40		44
Europe		211		241		233
Asia Pacific/Middle East		140		132		107
Africa		79		78		80
Other areas		-		4		9

Total consolidated operations		858		913		899
Equity affiliates
Russia		52		55		24
Asia Pacific/Middle East		3		-		-

		913		968		923


Synthetic oil produced
Consolidated operations—Canada		12		23		22


Bitumen produced
Consolidated operations—Canada		10		7		6
Equity affiliates—Canada		49		43		30

		59		50		36


	Millions of Cubic Feet Daily

Natural gas produced*
Alaska		82		94		97
Lower 48		1,695		1,927		1,994

United States		1,777		2,021		2,091
Canada		984		1,062		1,054
Europe		815		876		954
Asia Pacific/Middle East		712		713		609
Africa		149		121		114
Other areas		-		-		14

Total consolidated operations		4,437		4,793		4,836
Equity affiliates
Asia Pacific/Middle East		169		84		11

		4,606		4,877		4,847

*Represents quantities available for sale. Excludes gas equivalent of natural gas liquids included above.
Equity affiliate statistics exclude our share of LUKOIL, which is reported in the LUKOIL Investment segment.

The E&P segment primarily explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, LNG and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis. At December 31, 2010, our E&P operations were producing in the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, offshore Timor-Leste in the Timor Sea, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Libya, Nigeria, Algeria, Qatar and Russia. Total E&P production on a barrel-of-oil-equivalent (BOE) basis averaged 1,752,000 BOE per day in 2010, compared with 1,854,000 BOE per day in 2009.

2010 vs. 2009

Earnings from our E&P segment were $9,198 million in 2010, compared with earnings of $3,604 million in 2009. The increase in 2010 earnings primarily resulted from higher prices for crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and LNG. In addition, 2010 earnings benefitted from the $2,679 million after-tax gain on sale of Syncrude and higher gains from other asset rationalization efforts. These increases were partially offset by lower crude oil, natural gas and synthetic oil volumes, higher petroleum and export taxes as a result of higher prices, and the NMNG impairment. See the “Business Environment and Executive Overview” section for additional information on industry crude oil and natural gas prices.

U.S. E&P
U.S. E&P earnings increased 84 percent in 2010, from $1,503 million in 2009 to $2,768 million in 2010. The increase was primarily the result of higher prices for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. Earnings also benefitted from higher gains from asset sales in our Lower 48 portfolio and lower depreciation, depletion and amortization. These increases were partially offset by lower crude oil and natural gas volumes, higher production taxes, primarily in Alaska, and an unfavorable tax ruling.

U.S. E&P production averaged 686,000 BOE per day in 2010, a decrease of 9 percent from 755,000 BOE in 2009. The decrease was primarily due to field decline and unplanned downtime, which was somewhat offset by new production.

International E&P
International E&P earnings were $6,430 million in 2010, compared with $2,101 million in 2009. The increase in 2010 was mostly due to gains from the sale of Syncrude and other assets and higher crude oil, natural gas and LNG prices. These increases were partially offset by the NMNG impairment, lower synthetic oil and natural gas volumes, higher petroleum taxes as a result of higher prices and an $81 million after-tax charge to exploration expenses for project costs resulting from our decision to end participation in the Shah Gas Field Project in Abu Dhabi.

International E&P production averaged 1,066,000 BOE per day in 2010, a decrease of 3 percent from 1,099,000 BOE in 2009. The decrease was largely due to field decline, the impact of higher prices on production sharing arrangements and the sale of Syncrude. These decreases were partially offset by production from major projects, primarily in China, Canada, Qatar and Australia.

2009 vs. 2008

The E&P segment had earnings of $3,604 million during 2009. In 2008, the E&P segment had a loss of $13,479 million, which included a $25,443 million before- and after-tax complete impairment of E&P segment goodwill.

Excluding the impact from the goodwill impairment, earnings from the E&P segment decreased 70 percent during 2009, primarily due to substantially lower crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids prices. Our E&P segment also recognized property impairment charges. These decreases were partially offset by lower Alaska and Lower 48 production taxes due to lower prices, as well as higher international volumes and improved operating costs.

U.S. E&P
Earnings from our U.S. E&P operations decreased 70 percent, due to significantly lower crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids prices. Lower production taxes, lower property impairments in the Lower 48 and improved operating costs partially offset the decrease.

U.S. E&P production averaged 755,000 BOE per day in 2009, a decrease of 3 percent from 775,000 BOE per day in 2008. Less unplanned downtime and improved well performance were more than offset by field decline.

International E&P
Earnings from our international E&P operations were $2,101 million in 2009, compared with $6,976 million in 2008. The decline was primarily a result of significantly lower crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids prices and higher impairments. These decreases were partially offset by higher volumes and lower operating costs.

International E&P production averaged 1,099,000 BOE per day in 2009, an increase of 8 percent from 1,014,000 BOE per day in 2008. The increase was predominantly due to new production in the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Canada, Norway and Vietnam. In addition, production increased due to the impacts from the royalty framework in Alberta, Canada, as well as less unplanned downtime and the impact of lower prices on production sharing arrangements. These increases were partially offset by field decline and planned downtime.

Midstream


	2010		2009		2008
	Millions of Dollars

Net Income Attributable to ConocoPhillips*	$	306		313		541

*Includes DCP Midstream-related earnings:	$	*191*		183		458
	Dollars Per Barrel
Average Sales Prices
U.S. natural gas liquids*
Consolidated	$	45.42		33.63		56.29
Equity affiliates		41.28		29.80		52.08

*Based on index prices from the Mont Belvieu and Conway market hubs that are weighted by natural gas liquids component and location mix.
	Thousands of Barrels Daily
Operating Statistics
Natural gas liquids extracted*		193		187		188
Natural gas liquids fractionated**		152		166		165

*Includes our share of equity affiliates, except LUKOIL, which is included in the LUKOIL Investment segment.

**Excludes DCP Midstream.

The Midstream segment purchases raw natural gas from producers and gathers natural gas through an extensive network of pipeline gathering systems. The natural gas is then processed to extract natural gas liquids from the raw gas stream. The remaining “residue” gas is marketed to electrical utilities, industrial users, and gas marketing companies. Most of the natural gas liquids are fractionated—separated into individual components like ethane, butane and propane—and marketed as chemical feedstock, fuel or blendstock. The Midstream segment consists of our 50 percent equity investment in DCP Midstream, as well as our other natural gas gathering and processing operations, and natural gas liquids fractionation, trading and marketing businesses, primarily in the United States and Trinidad.

2010 vs. 2009

Midstream earnings decreased 2 percent in 2010. Higher natural gas liquids prices and, to a lesser extent, improved volumes from our equity affiliate, Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited, were more than offset by the absence of the 2009 recognition of an $88 million after-tax benefit, which resulted from a DCP Midstream subsidiary converting subordinated units to common units. In addition, higher operating expenses resulting from higher turnaround activity contributed to the decrease in earnings.

2009 vs. 2008

Earnings from the Midstream segment decreased 42 percent in 2009. The decrease was primarily due to substantially lower realized natural gas liquids prices, partially offset by the recognition of the $88 million after-tax benefit resulting from the conversion of subordinated units to common units.

R&M


	2010			2009			2008
	Millions of Dollars
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips
United States	$	1,022			(192	)		1,540
International		(830	)		229			782

	$	192			37			2,322

	Dollars Per Gallon
U.S. Average Wholesale Prices*
Gasoline	$	2.24			1.84			2.65
Distillates		2.30			1.76			3.06

*Excludes excise taxes.
	Thousands of Barrels Daily
Operating Statistics
Refining operations*
United States
Crude oil capacity**		1,986			1,986			2,008
Crude oil processed		1,782			1,731			1,849
Capacity utilization (percent)		90	%		87			92
Refinery production		1,958			1,891			2,035
International
Crude oil capacity**		671			671			670
Crude oil processed		374			495			567
Capacity utilization (percent)		56	%		74			85
Refinery production		383			504			575
Worldwide
Crude oil capacity**		2,657			2,657			2,678
Crude oil processed		2,156			2,226			2,416
Capacity utilization (percent)		81	%		84			90
Refinery production		2,341			2,395			2,610


Petroleum products sales volumes
United States
Gasoline		1,120			1,130			1,128
Distillates		873			858			893
Other products		400			367			374

		2,393			2,355			2,395
International		647			619			645

		3,040			2,974			3,040

*Includes our share of equity affiliates, except LUKOIL, which is included in the LUKOIL Investment segment.

**Weighted-average crude oil capacity for the periods.

Our R&M segment refines crude oil and other feedstocks into petroleum products (such as gasoline, distillates and aviation fuels); buys, sells and transports crude oil; and buys, transports, distributes and markets petroleum products. R&M has operations mainly in the United States, Europe and Asia.

2010 vs. 2009

R&M reported earnings of $192 million in 2010, compared with earnings of $37 million in 2009. Earnings for 2010 included the $1,124 million after-tax property impairment of WRG. Excluding the impact of this impairment, earnings were significantly improved during 2010 due to higher global refining margins. Results also benefitted from a $113 million after-tax gain on the sale of CFJ and higher refining and marketing volumes. These increases were partially offset by negative foreign currency impacts. See the “Business Environment and Executive Overview” section for additional information on industry refining margins.

U.S. R&M
Earnings from U.S. R&M were $1,022 million in 2010, compared with a loss of $192 million in 2009. The increase in 2010 primarily resulted from significantly higher refining margins and the gain on sale of CFJ. Higher refining and marketing volumes also contributed to the improvement in earnings.

Our U.S. refining crude oil capacity utilization rate was 90 percent in 2010, compared with 87 percent in 2009. The increase in 2010 was primarily due to lower turnaround activity, lower run reductions due to market conditions, and less unplanned downtime.

International R&M
International R&M reported a loss of $830 million in 2010, compared with earnings of $229 million in 2009. The loss in 2010 primarily resulted from the WRG impairment and a $29 million after-tax impairment resulting from our decision to end participation in the Yanbu Refinery Project. Excluding these impairments, earnings were improved due to higher refining margins, partially offset by foreign currency losses.

Our international refining crude oil capacity utilization rate was 56 percent in 2010, compared with 74 percent in 2009. The 2010 rate primarily reflects run reductions at WRG in response to market conditions.

We are currently exploring options to either pursue the sale of WRG or operate it as a terminal. As a result, effective January 1, 2011, we no longer include its capacity in our stated refining capacities or our capacity utilization metrics.

2009 vs. 2008

R&M reported earnings of $37 million in 2009, compared with $2,322 million in 2008. The decrease was primarily a result of significantly lower U.S. and international refining margins, lower volumes, lower international marketing margins and a lower net benefit from asset rationalization efforts. These decreases were partially offset by lower operating expenses, lower property impairments and positive foreign currency impacts. During 2008, our R&M segment had property impairments totaling $511 million after-tax, mostly due to a significantly diminished outlook for refining margins.

U.S. R&M
Our U.S. R&M operations reported a loss of $192 million in 2009, compared with earnings of $1,540 million in 2008. The decrease was primarily due to significantly lower U.S. refining margins, lower U.S. refining and marketing volumes and a lower net benefit from asset sales. These decreases were partially offset by lower operating expenses and lower property impairments.

Our U.S. refining capacity utilization rate was 87 percent in 2009, compared with 92 percent in 2008. The rate for 2009 was mainly affected by run reductions due to market conditions and increased turnaround activity, while the 2008 rate was impacted by downtime associated with hurricanes.

International R&M
International R&M reported earnings of $229 million in 2009 and earnings of $782 million in 2008. The decrease in earnings was primarily due to significantly lower international refining and marketing margins, lower international marketing volumes and a lower net benefit from asset sales. These decreases were partially offset by positive foreign currency impacts, lower property impairments and lower operating expenses.

Our international refining capacity utilization rate was 74 percent in 2009, compared with 85 percent in 2008. The rate for 2009 reflected higher turnaround activity. In addition, the utilization rate for both periods reflected run reductions in response to market conditions.

LUKOIL Investment


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009		*	2008		*


Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips	$	2,503		1,219			(4,839	)


Operating Statistics
Crude oil production (thousands of barrels daily)		284		388			389
Natural gas production (millions of cubic feet daily)		254		295			330
Refinery crude oil processed (thousands of barrels daily)		189		240			226

*Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

This segment represents our investment in the ordinary shares of LUKOIL, an international, integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Russia.

Prior to 2010, our equity earnings for LUKOIL were estimated. Effective January 1, 2010, we changed our accounting to record our equity earnings for LUKOIL on a one-quarter-lag basis. This change in accounting principle has been applied retrospectively, by recasting prior period financial information. The performance metrics are also reported on a one-quarter-lag basis. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for more information.

In addition to our equity share of LUKOIL’s earnings, segment results include the amortization of the basis difference between our equity interest in the net assets of LUKOIL and the book value of our investment, as well as gains from the divestiture of our LUKOIL shares.

At year-end 2009, we had a 20 percent ownership interest in LUKOIL based on authorized and issued shares. In July 2010, we announced our intention to sell our entire interest in LUKOIL. During 2010, we sold approximately 151 million shares of LUKOIL, and as a result of these sales, our ownership interest in LUKOIL was 2.25 percent at December 31, 2010, based on authorized and issued shares. In the third quarter of 2010, our ownership interest declined to a level at which we were no longer able to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of LUKOIL. Accordingly, at the end of the third quarter of 2010, we stopped applying the equity method of accounting for our remaining investment. In addition, we will no longer report proved reserves or production related to our LUKOIL investment. See Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for more information.

In the first quarter of 2011, we sold our remaining interest in LUKOIL. As a result, our first quarter 2011 earnings from the LUKOIL Investment segment will primarily reflect the realized gain on share sales. The total unrealized gain on those shares at December 31, 2010, based on a closing price of LUKOIL shares on the London Stock Exchange of $56.50 per share, was $158 million after-tax, and this amount was included in accumulated other comprehensive income.

2010 vs. 2009

LUKOIL segment earnings increased $1,284 million in 2010, which primarily resulted from the $1,251 million after-tax gain on our LUKOIL shares sold during 2010.

2009 vs. 2008

LUKOIL segment earnings were $1,219 million in 2009, compared with a loss of $4,839 million in 2008. Results for 2008 included a $7,496 million noncash, before- and after-tax impairment of our LUKOIL investment taken during the fourth quarter. Excluding the impact of this impairment, earnings decreased 54 percent in 2009. The decrease was primarily due to lower realized refined product and crude oil prices, which was partly offset by lower extraction taxes and export tariff rates, and a benefit from basis difference amortization.

Chemicals


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009		2008


Net Income Attributable to ConocoPhillips	$	498		248		110

The Chemicals segment consists of our 50 percent interest in CPChem, which we account for under the equity method. CPChem uses natural gas liquids and other feedstocks to produce petrochemicals. These products are then marketed and sold, or used as feedstocks, to produce plastics and commodity chemicals.

2010 vs. 2009

Earnings from the Chemicals segment increased $250 million in 2010, primarily due to substantially higher margins in the olefins and polyolefins business line and, to a lesser extent, improved margins from the specialties, aromatics and styrenics business line. Higher operating costs partially offset these increases.

2009 vs. 2008

Earnings from the Chemicals segment increased $138 million in 2009 due to lower operating costs and higher margins in the specialties, aromatics and styrenics business line. These increases were partially offset by lower margins in the olefins and polyolefins business line.

Emerging Businesses


	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009			2008

Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips
Power	$	49			105			106
Other		(108	)		(102	)		(76	)

	$	(59	)		3			30

2010 vs. 2009

The Emerging Businesses segment reported a loss of $59 million in 2010, compared with earnings of $3 million in 2009. The decrease for 2010 was mainly due to lower domestic and international power generation results, which resulted from higher operating costs and impairment charges related to a U.S. cogeneration plant that was sold in December 2010. Lower margins in international power and higher technology development expenses also contributed to the decrease.

2009 vs. 2008

Emerging Businesses reported earnings of $3 million in 2009, compared with $30 million in 2008. The decrease in 2009 was primarily due to lower international power results and higher technology development expenses, which were mostly offset by the absence of an $85 million after-tax impairment of a U.S. cogeneration power plant in 2008.

Corporate and Other


	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009			2008

Net Loss Attributable to ConocoPhillips
Net interest	$	(965	)		(851	)		(558	)
Corporate general and administrative expenses		(209	)		(108	)		(202	)
Other		(106	)		(51	)		(274	)

	$	(1,280	)		(1,010	)		(1,034	)

2010 vs. 2009

Net interest consists of interest and financing expense, net of interest income and capitalized interest, as well as premiums incurred on the early retirement of debt. Net interest increased 13 percent in 2010, mostly due to a $114 million after-tax premium on early debt retirement and a lower effective tax rate. These increases were partially offset by lower interest expense due to lower debt levels. Corporate general and administrative expenses increased $101 million in 2010, primarily as a result of costs related to compensation and benefit plans. The category “Other” includes certain foreign currency transaction gains and losses, environmental costs associated with sites no longer in operation, and other costs not directly associated with an operating segment. Changes in the “Other” category primarily reflect foreign currency transaction losses.

2009 vs. 2008

Net interest increased 53 percent in 2009 as a result of higher average debt levels, partially offset by lower average interest rates. Capitalized interest was also lower in 2009. Corporate general and administrative expenses decreased 47 percent due to decreased costs related to compensation plans and overhead. Changes in the “Other” category are primarily due to foreign currency transaction gains in 2009, compared with foreign currency transaction losses in 2008.

CAPITAL RESOURCES AND LIQUIDITY

Financial Indicators


	Millions of Dollars
	Except as Indicated
	2010			2009		2008
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	17,045			12,479		22,658
Short-term debt		936			1,728		370
Total debt		23,592			28,653		27,455
Total equity*		69,109			62,613		56,265
Percent of total debt to capital**		25	%		31		33
Percent of floating-rate debt to total debt***		10	%		9		37

*2009 and 2008 recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

**Capital includes total debt and total equity.

***Includes effect of interest rate swaps.

To meet our short- and long-term liquidity requirements, we look to a variety of funding sources. Cash generated from operating activities is the primary source of funding. In addition, during 2010, we received $15,372 million in proceeds from asset sales. During 2010, the primary uses of our available cash were: $9,761 million to support our ongoing capital expenditures and investments program, $5,202 million to repay debt, $3,866 million to repurchase common stock, $3,175 million to pay dividends on our common stock, and $982 million to purchase short-term investments. During 2010, cash and cash equivalents increased by $8,912 million to $9,454 million.

In addition to cash flows from operating activities and proceeds from asset sales, we rely on our commercial paper and credit facility programs and our shelf registration statement to support our short- and long-term liquidity requirements. We believe current cash and short-term investment balances and cash generated by operations, together with access to external sources of funds as described below in the “Significant Sources of Capital” section, will be sufficient to meet our funding requirements in the near- and long-term, including our capital spending program, dividend payments, required debt payments and the funding requirements to FCCL.

Significant Sources of Capital

Operating Activities
During 2010, cash of $17,045 million was provided by operating activities, a 37 percent increase from cash from operations of $12,479 million in 2009. The increase was primarily due to significantly higher crude oil prices in our E&P segment and higher refining margins in our R&M segment.

During 2009, cash flow from operations decreased $10,179 million, compared with 2008. The decline was primarily due to significantly lower commodity prices in our E&P segment and lower refining margins in our R&M segment.

While the stability of our cash flows from operating activities benefits from geographic diversity and the effects of upstream and downstream integration, our short- and long-term operating cash flows are highly dependent upon prices for crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, LNG and natural gas liquids, as well as refining and marketing margins. Crude oil and natural gas prices deteriorated significantly in the fourth quarter of 2008. Crude oil prices trended higher in 2009 and 2010 although natural gas prices remained weak. Refining margins deteriorated significantly in the fourth quarter of 2008, remained low throughout 2009, and showed improvement during 2010. Prices and margins in our industry are typically volatile, and are driven by market conditions over which we have no control. Absent other mitigating factors, as these prices and margins fluctuate, we would expect a corresponding change in our operating cash flows.

The level of our production volumes of crude oil, bitumen, natural gas and natural gas liquids also impacts our cash flows. These production levels are impacted by such factors as acquisitions and dispositions of fields,

field production decline rates, new technologies, operating efficiency, weather conditions, the addition of proved reserves through exploratory success and their timely and cost-effective development. While we actively manage these factors, production levels can cause variability in cash flows, although historically this variability has not been as significant as that caused by commodity prices.

Our E&P production for 2010 averaged 1.75 million BOE per day. Future production is subject to numerous uncertainties, including, among others, the volatile crude oil and natural gas price environment, which may impact project investment decisions; the effects of price changes on production sharing and variable-royalty contracts; timing of project startups and major turnarounds; and weather-related disruptions. Our production in 2011, excluding the impact of any additional dispositions, is expected to be approximately 1.7 million BOE per day. We continue to evaluate various properties as potential candidates for our disposition program. The makeup and timing of our disposition program will also impact 2011 and future years’ production levels.

To maintain or grow our production volumes, we must continue to add to our proved reserve base. Our reserve replacement in 2010 was negative 160 percent, including a positive 41 percent from consolidated operations. The 2010 reserve replacement reflects a reduction of 2.2 billion BOE due to LUKOIL share sales and other asset dispositions. Excluding the impact of acquisitions and dispositions, the E&P segment’s reserve replacement was 138 percent of 2010 production. Over the five-year period ended December 31, 2010, our reserve replacement was 75 percent, including 105 percent from consolidated operations; however, excluding LUKOIL, our five-year reserve replacement would have been 111 percent. Over this period we added reserves through acquisitions and project developments, which were more than offset by the impact of asset expropriations in Venezuela and Ecuador and the sale of our investment in LUKOIL. The reserve replacement amounts above were based on the sum of our net additions (revisions, improved recovery, purchases, extensions and discoveries, and sales) divided by our production, as shown in our reserve table disclosures. For additional information about our proved reserves, including both developed and undeveloped reserves, see the “Oil and Gas Operations” section of this report.

We are developing and pursuing projects we anticipate will allow us to add to our reserve base. However, access to additional resources has become increasingly difficult as direct investment is prohibited in some nations, while fiscal and other terms in other countries can make projects uneconomic or unattractive. In addition, political instability, competition from national oil companies, and lack of access to high-potential areas due to environmental or other regulation may negatively impact our ability to increase our reserve base. As such, the timing and level at which we add to our reserve base may, or may not, allow us to replace our production over subsequent years.

As discussed in the “Critical Accounting Estimates” section, engineering estimates of proved reserves are imprecise; therefore, each year reserves may be revised upward or downward due to the impact of changes in commodity prices or as more technical data becomes available on reservoirs. In 2010 and 2009, revisions increased reserves, while in 2008 revisions decreased reserves. It is not possible to reliably predict how revisions will impact reserve quantities in the future.

In our R&M segment, the level and quality of output from our refineries impacts our cash flows. The output at our refineries is impacted by such factors as operating efficiency, maintenance turnarounds, market conditions, feedstock availability and weather conditions. We actively manage the operations of our refineries, and typically, any variability in their operations has not been as significant to cash flows as that caused by refining margins.

Asset Sales
Proceeds from asset sales in 2010 were $15.4 billion, compared with $1.3 billion in 2009. The 2010 proceeds from asset sales included $8.3 billion from our interest in LUKOIL. The remaining sales consisted primarily of our interest in Syncrude Canada Ltd., CFJ Properties and North America E&P assets. We plan to raise an additional $3 billion through the end of 2011, as part of our previously announced $10 billion asset disposition program. The sale of our LUKOIL interest is not included in this program.

Commercial Paper and Credit Facilities
At December 31, 2010, we had two revolving credit facilities totaling $7.85 billion, consisting of a $7.35 billion facility expiring in September 2012 and a $500 million facility expiring in July 2012. Our revolving credit facilities may be used as direct bank borrowings, as support for issuances of letters of credit totaling up to $750 million, or as support for our commercial paper programs. The revolving credit facilities are broadly syndicated among financial institutions and do not contain any material adverse change provisions or any covenants requiring maintenance of specified financial ratios or ratings. The facility agreements contain a cross-default provision relating to the failure to pay principal or interest on other debt obligations of $200 million or more by ConocoPhillips, or by any of its consolidated subsidiaries.

Credit facility borrowings may bear interest at a margin above rates offered by certain designated banks in the London interbank market or at a margin above the overnight federal funds rate or prime rates offered by certain designated banks in the United States. The agreements call for commitment fees on available, but unused, amounts. The agreements also contain early termination rights if our current directors or their approved successors cease to be a majority of the Board of Directors.

Our primary funding source for short-term working capital needs is the ConocoPhillips $6.35 billion commercial paper program. Commercial paper maturities are generally limited to 90 days. We also have the ConocoPhillips Qatar Funding Ltd. $1.5 billion commercial paper program, which is used to fund commitments relating to the Qatargas 3 (QG3) Project. At December 31, 2010 and 2009, we had no direct borrowings under the revolving credit facilities, but $40 million in letters of credit had been issued at both periods. In addition, under the two ConocoPhillips commercial paper programs, $1,182 million of commercial paper was outstanding at December 31, 2010, compared with $1,300 million at December 31, 2009. Since we had $1,182 million of commercial paper outstanding and had issued $40 million of letters of credit, we had access to $6.6 billion in borrowing capacity under our revolving credit facilities at December 31, 2010.

Shelf Registration

We have a universal shelf registration statement on file with the SEC under which we, as a well-known seasoned issuer, have the ability to issue and sell an indeterminate amount of various types of debt and equity securities.

Our senior long-term debt is rated “A1” by Moody’s Investor Service and “A” by both Standard and Poor’s Rating Service and by Fitch. We do not have any ratings triggers on any of our corporate debt that would cause an automatic default, and thereby impact our access to liquidity, in the event of a downgrade of our credit rating. If our credit rating were to deteriorate to a level prohibiting us from accessing the commercial paper market, we would still be able to access funds under our $7.35 billion and $500 million revolving credit facilities.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As part of our normal ongoing business operations and consistent with normal industry practice, we enter into numerous agreements with other parties to pursue business opportunities, which share costs and apportion risks among the parties as governed by the agreements. At December 31, 2010, we were liable for certain contingent obligations under the following contractual arrangements:

•

Qatargas 3: We own a 30 percent interest in QG3, an integrated project to produce and liquefy natural gas from Qatar’s North Field. The other participants in the project are affiliates of Qatar Petroleum (68.5 percent) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (1.5 percent). Our interest is held through a jointly owned company, Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited (3), for which we use the equity method of accounting. QG3 secured project financing of $4 billion in 2005, consisting of $1.3 billion of loans from export credit agencies (ECA), $1.5 billion from commercial banks, and $1.2 billion from ConocoPhillips. The ConocoPhillips loan facilities have substantially the same terms as the ECA and commercial bank facilities. Prior to project completion certification, all loans, including the ConocoPhillips loan facilities, are guaranteed by the participants, based on their respective ownership interests. Accordingly, our maximum exposure to this financing structure is $1.2 billion. Upon completion certification, currently expected in 2011, all project loan facilities, including the

			ConocoPhillips loan facilities, will become nonrecourse to the project participants. At December 31, 2010, QG3 had approximately $4 billion outstanding under all the loan facilities, including the $1.2 billion from ConocoPhillips.

	•		Rockies Express Pipeline: In June 2006, we issued a guarantee for 24 percent of $2 billion in credit facilities issued to Rockies Express Pipeline LLC, operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. In the second quarter of 2010, the credit facilities were reduced, and our guarantee was released.

For additional information about guarantees, see Note 14—Guarantees, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Capital Requirements

Our debt balance at December 31, 2010, was $23.6 billion, a decrease of $5.1 billion during 2010, and our debt-to-capital ratio was 25 percent at year-end 2010, versus 31 percent at the end of 2009. The change in the debt-to-capital ratio was due to a combination of a decrease in debt and an increase in equity. Our debt-to-capital ratio target range is 20 to 25 percent. On February 15, 2011, a $328 million 9.375% Note was repaid at maturity.

In 2007, we closed on a business venture with Cenovus Energy Inc. As part of this transaction, we are obligated to contribute $7.5 billion, plus accrued interest, over a 10-year period that began in 2007, to the upstream business venture, FCCL, formed as a result of the transaction. Quarterly principal and interest payments of $237 million began in the second quarter of 2007, and will continue until the balance is paid. Of the principal obligation amount, approximately $695 million was short-term and was included in the “Accounts payable—related parties” line on our December 31, 2010, consolidated balance sheet. The principal portion of these payments, which totaled $659 million in 2010, is included in the “Other” line in the financing activities section of our consolidated statement of cash flows. Interest accrues at a fixed annual rate of 5.3 percent on the unpaid principal balance. Fifty percent of the quarterly interest payment is reflected as a capital contribution and is included in the “Capital expenditures and investments” line on our consolidated statement of cash flows.

We have provided loan financing to WRB Refining LP, to assist it in meeting its operating and capital spending requirements. At December 31, 2010, $550 million of such financing was outstanding and $400 million was classified as long term.

In February 2011, we announced a 20 percent increase in the quarterly dividend rate to 66 cents per share. The dividend is payable March 1, 2011, to stockholders of record at the close of business February 22, 2011.

On March 24, 2010, our Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to $5 billion of our common stock through 2011. Repurchase of shares under this authorization totaled 64.5 million shares at a cost of $3.9 billion, through December 31, 2010. On February 11, 2011, the Board authorized the additional purchase of up to $10 billion of our common stock over the subsequent two years. At year end we had a cash and short-term investment balance of $10.4 billion, a significant portion of which is expected to be directed toward the repurchase of common stock.

Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our aggregate contractual fixed and variable obligations as of December 31, 2010:


	Millions of Dollars
	Payments Due by Period
			Up to		Years			Years			After
	Total		1 Year		2-3			4-5			5 Years

Debt obligations (a)	$	23,553		924		3,354			3,137			16,138
Capital lease obligations		39		12		4			3			20

Total debt		23,592		936		3,358			3,140			16,158

Interest on debt and other obligations		20,060		1,404		2,649			2,274			13,733
Operating lease obligations		2,896		752		1,033			554			557
Purchase obligations (b)		139,575		61,136		14,326			9,044			55,069
Joint venture acquisition obligation (c)		5,009		695		1,504			1,672			1,138
Other long-term liabilities (d)
Asset retirement obligations		8,776		454		722			627			6,973
Accrued environmental costs		994		117		176			119			582
Unrecognized tax benefits (e)		160		160		(e	)		(e	)		(e	)

Total	$	201,062		65,654		23,768			17,430			94,210

(a)		Includes $457 million of net unamortized premiums and discounts. See Note 12—Debt, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for additional information.

(b)		Represents any agreement to purchase goods or services that is enforceable and legally binding and that specifies all significant terms. Does not include purchase commitments for jointly owned fields and facilities where we are not the operator.

		The majority of the purchase obligations are market-based contracts, including exchanges and futures, for the purchase of products such as crude oil, unfractionated natural gas liquids, natural gas and power. The products are mostly used to supply our refineries and fractionators, optimize the supply chain, and resell to customers. Product purchase commitments with third parties totaled $73,138 million. In addition, $50,179 million are product purchases from CPChem, mostly for natural gas and natural gas liquids over the remaining term of 89 years, and Excel Paralubes, for base oil over the remaining initial term of 15 years.

		Purchase obligations of $12,806 million are related to agreements to access and utilize the capacity of third-party equipment and facilities, including pipelines and LNG and product terminals, to transport, process, treat, and store products. The remainder is primarily our net share of purchase commitments for materials and services for jointly owned fields and facilities where we are the operator.

(c)		Represents the remaining amount of contributions, excluding interest, due over a seven-year period to the FCCL upstream joint venture with Cenovus.

(d)		Does not include: Pensions—for the 2011 through 2015 time period, we expect to contribute an average of $530 million per year to our qualified and nonqualified pension and postretirement benefit plans in the United States and an average of $240 million per year to our non-U.S. plans, which are expected to be in excess of required minimums in many cases. The U.S. five-year average consists of $730 million for 2011 and then approximately $480 million per year for the remaining four years. Our required minimum funding in 2011 is expected to be $360 million in the United States and $160 million outside the United States.

(e)

Excludes unrecognized tax benefits of $965 million because the ultimate disposition and timing of any payments to be made with regard to such amounts are not reasonably estimable. Although unrecognized tax benefits are not a contractual obligation, they are presented in this table because they represent potential demands on our liquidity.

Capital Spending

Capital Expenditures and Investments


	Millions of Dollars
	2011
	Budget		2010		2009		2008

E&P
United States—Alaska	$	900		730		810		1,414
United States—Lower 48		3,300		1,855		2,664		3,836
International		7,100		5,908		5,425		11,206

		11,300		8,493		8,899		16,456

Midstream		-		3		5		4

R&M
United States		1,000		790		1,299		1,643
International		200		266		427		626

		1,200		1,056		1,726		2,269

LUKOIL Investment		-		-		-		-
Chemicals		-		-		-		-
Emerging Businesses		100		27		97		156
Corporate and Other		200		182		134		214

	$	12,800		9,761		10,861		19,099

United States	$	5,400		3,576		4,921		7,111
International		7,400		6,185		5,940		11,988

	$	12,800		9,761		10,861		19,099

Our capital expenditures and investments for the three-year period ending December 31, 2010, totaled $39.7 billion, with 85 percent allocated to our E&P segment.

Our capital expenditures and investments budget for 2011 is $12.8 billion. Included in this amount is approximately $0.4 billion in capitalized interest. We plan to direct 88 percent of the capital expenditures and investments budget to E&P and 9 percent to R&M. With the addition of loans to certain affiliated companies and principal contributions related to funding our portion of the FCCL business venture, our total capital program for 2011 is approximately $13.5 billion.

E&P
Capital expenditures and investments for E&P during the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, totaled $33.8 billion. The expenditures over this period supported key exploration and development projects including:

	•		Oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas developments in the Lower 48, including Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

	•		The initial investment in 2008 related to the Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) 50/50 joint venture and subsequent expenditures to advance the associated coalbed methane (CBM) projects.

	•		Oil sands projects and ongoing natural gas projects in Canada.

	•		Alaska activities related to development drilling in the Greater Kuparuk Area, the Greater Prudhoe Area, the Western North Slope and the Cook Inlet Area; and exploration.

	•		Significant U.S. lease acquisitions in the federal waters of the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska, as well as in the deepwater GOM.

	•		Development drilling and facilities projects in the Greater Ekofisk Area, Alvheim, Heidrun and Statfjord, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

	•		The Peng Lai 19-3 development in China’s Bohai Bay.

	•		The Kashagan Field and satellite prospects in the Caspian Sea offshore Kazakhstan.

	•		In the U.K. sector of the North Sea, the development of the Britannia satellite fields, the development of the Jasmine discovery in the J-Block Area and development drilling on Clair and in the southern and central North Sea.

	•		Investment in Rockies Express Pipeline LLC.

	•		The North Belut Field, as well as other projects in offshore Block B and onshore South Sumatra in Indonesia.

	•		The QG3 Project, an integrated project to produce and liquefy natural gas from Qatar’s North Field.

	•		The Gumusut-Kakap development offshore Sabah, Malaysia.

	•		Exploration activities in Australia’s Browse Basin, deepwater GOM, onshore North American shale play and oil sands projects, offshore eastern Canada, North Sea and Kazakhstan’s Block N.

	•		The El Merk Project, comprised of wells, gathering lines and a shared Central Processing Facility to develop the EMK Field Unit in Algeria.

2011 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES AND INVESTMENTS BUDGET

E&P’s 2011 capital expenditures and investments budget is $11.3 billion, 33 percent higher than actual expenditures in 2010. Thirty-seven percent of E&P’s 2011 capital expenditures and investments budget is planned for the United States.

Capital spending for our Alaskan operations is expected to be directed toward the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk Fields, as well as the Alpine Field and satellites on the Western North Slope.

In the Lower 48, we expect to make capital expenditures and investments for ongoing development in the Williston, Permian and San Juan Basins, as well as the Eagle Ford, Barnett and Lobo Trends. Also, we expect to direct capital spending towards exploration and appraisal activities in the Eagle Ford shale position in Texas, the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and the deepwater GOM.

E&P is directing $7.1 billion of its 2011 capital expenditures and investments budget to international projects. Funds in 2011 will be directed to developing major long-term projects including:

	•		Canadian oil sands projects and ongoing natural gas projects in the western Canada gas basins.

	•		Further development of CBM projects associated with the APLNG joint venture in Australia.

	•		Elsewhere in the Asia Pacific/Middle East Region, continued development of Bohai Bay in China, new fields offshore Malaysia, offshore Block B and onshore South Sumatra in Indonesia, and offshore Vietnam.

	•		In the North Sea, the Ekofisk Area, Greater Britannia Fields, Southern North Sea assets, development of the Jasmine discovery in the J-Block Area and the Clair Ridge Project.

	•		The Kashagan Field in the Caspian Sea.

	•		Onshore developments in Nigeria, Algeria and Libya.

	•		Exploration and appraisal activities in North American shale plays and oil sands projects, Australia’s Browse Basin, Kazakhstan’s Block N, deepwater GOM, offshore Indonesia and the North Sea.

For information on proved undeveloped reserves and the associated cost to develop these reserves, see the “Oil and Gas Operations” section.

R&M
Capital spending for R&M during the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, was primarily for air emission reduction and clean fuels projects to meet new environmental standards, refinery upgrade projects to improve product yields and increase heavy crude oil processing capability, improving the operating integrity of key processing units, as well as for safety projects. During this three-year period, R&M capital spending was $5.1 billion, which represented 13 percent of our total capital expenditures and investments.

Key projects during the three-year period included:

	•		Installation of a 20,000-barrel-per-day hydrocracker at the Rodeo facility of our San Francisco Refinery.

	•		Installation of a 225-ton per day sulfur plant at the Sweeny Refinery.

	•		Installation of facilities to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from the Fluid Catalytic Cracker at the Alliance Refinery.

	•		Completion of a gasoline benzene reduction project at the Borger Refinery.

	•		Investment to obtain an equity interest in four Keystone Pipeline entities, and associated investment to construct a crude oil pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, to delivery points in the United States. We disposed of our interest in the Keystone Pipeline in 2009.

Major construction activities in progress include:

	•		Installation of a 65,000-barrel-per-day coker and a major reconfiguration of the Wood River Refinery to handle advantaged crude and increase capacity, partially funded through long-term advances from ConocoPhillips.

	•		Installations, revamps and expansions of equipment at several U.S. refineries to enable production of low benzene gasoline.

	•		U.S. programs aimed at air emission reductions.

2011 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES AND INVESTMENTS BUDGET

R&M’s 2011 capital expenditures and investments budget is $1.2 billion, a 14 percent increase from actual spending in 2010, with about $1 billion targeted in the United States and $0.2 billion internationally. These funds will be used primarily for projects related to sustaining and improving the existing business with a focus on safety, regulatory compliance and reliability.

Emerging Businesses
Capital spending for Emerging Businesses during the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, was primarily for an expansion of the Immingham combined heat and power cogeneration plant near our Humber Refinery in the United Kingdom.

Contingencies
A number of lawsuits involving a variety of claims have been made against ConocoPhillips that arise in the ordinary course of business. We also may be required to remove or mitigate the effects on the environment of the placement, storage, disposal or release of certain chemical, mineral and petroleum substances at various active and inactive sites. We regularly assess the need for accounting recognition or disclosure of these contingencies. In the case of all known contingencies (other than those related to income taxes), we accrue a liability when the loss is probable and the amount is reasonably estimable. If a range of amounts can be reasonably estimated and no amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount, then the minimum of the range is accrued. We do not reduce these liabilities for potential insurance or third-party recoveries. If applicable, we accrue receivables for probable insurance or other third-party recoveries. In the case of income-tax-related contingencies, we use a cumulative probability-weighted loss accrual in cases where sustaining a tax position is less than certain.

Based on currently available information, we believe it is remote that future costs related to known contingent liability exposures will exceed current accruals by an amount that would have a material adverse impact on our consolidated financial statements. As we learn new facts concerning contingencies, we reassess our position

both with respect to accrued liabilities and other potential exposures. Estimates particularly sensitive to future changes include contingent liabilities recorded for environmental remediation, tax and legal matters. Estimated future environmental remediation costs are subject to change due to such factors as the uncertain magnitude of cleanup costs, the unknown time and extent of such remedial actions that may be required, and the determination of our liability in proportion to that of other responsible parties. Estimated future costs related to tax and legal matters are subject to change as events evolve and as additional information becomes available during the administrative and litigation processes.

Legal and Tax Matters
Our legal organization applies its knowledge, experience and professional judgment to the specific characteristics of our cases, employing a litigation management process to manage and monitor the legal proceedings against us. Our process facilitates the early evaluation and quantification of potential exposures in individual cases. This process also enables us to track those cases that have been scheduled for trial and/or mediation. Based on professional judgment and experience in using these litigation management tools and available information about current developments in all our cases, our legal organization regularly assesses the adequacy of current accruals and determines if adjustment of existing accruals, or establishment of new accruals, are required. See Note 20—Income Taxes, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for additional information about income-tax-related contingencies.

Environmental
We are subject to the same numerous international, federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations as other companies in our industry. The most significant of these environmental laws and regulations include, among others, the:

	•		U.S. Federal Clean Air Act, which governs air emissions.

	•		U.S. Federal Clean Water Act, which governs discharges to water bodies.

	•		European Union Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).

	•		U.S. Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), which imposes liability on generators, transporters and arrangers of hazardous substances at sites where hazardous substance releases have occurred or are threatening to occur.

	•		U.S. Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which governs the treatment, storage and disposal of solid waste.

	•		U.S. Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA90), under which owners and operators of onshore facilities and pipelines, lessees or permittees of an area in which an offshore facility is located, and owners and operators of vessels are liable for removal costs and damages that result from a discharge of oil into navigable waters of the United States.

	•		U.S. Federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), which requires facilities to report toxic chemical inventories with local emergency planning committees and response departments.

	•		U.S. Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, which governs the disposal of wastewater in underground injection wells.

	•		U.S. Department of the Interior regulations, which relate to offshore oil and gas operations in U.S. waters and impose liability for the cost of pollution cleanup resulting from operations, as well as potential liability for pollution damages.

	•		European Union Trading Directive resulting in European Emissions Trading Scheme.

These laws and their implementing regulations set limits on emissions and, in the case of discharges to water, establish water quality limits. They also, in most cases, require permits in association with new or modified operations. These permits can require an applicant to collect substantial information in connection with the application process, which can be expensive and time consuming. In addition, there can be delays associated with notice and comment periods and the agency’s processing of the application. Many of the delays associated with the permitting process are beyond the control of the applicant.

Many states and foreign countries where we operate also have, or are developing, similar environmental laws and regulations governing these same types of activities. While similar, in some cases these regulations may

impose additional, or more stringent, requirements that can add to the cost and difficulty of marketing or transporting products across state and international borders.

The ultimate financial impact arising from environmental laws and regulations is neither clearly known nor easily determinable as new standards, such as air emission standards, water quality standards and stricter fuel regulations, continue to evolve. However, environmental laws and regulations, including those that may arise to address concerns about global climate change, are expected to continue to have an increasing impact on our operations in the United States and in other countries in which we operate. Notable areas of potential impacts include air emission compliance and remediation obligations in the United States.

An example in the fuels area is the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which imposed obligations to provide increasing volumes of renewable fuels in transportation motor fuels through 2012. These obligations were changed with the enactment of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The 2007 law requires fuel producers and importers to provide additional renewable fuels for transportation motor fuels that include a mix of various types to be included through 2022. We have met the increased requirements to date while establishing implementation, operating and capital strategies, along with advanced technology development, to address projected future requirements.

We also are subject to certain laws and regulations relating to environmental remediation obligations associated with current and past operations. Such laws and regulations include CERCLA and RCRA and their state equivalents. Remediation obligations include cleanup responsibility arising from petroleum releases from underground storage tanks located at numerous past and present ConocoPhillips-owned and/or operated petroleum-marketing outlets throughout the United States. Federal and state laws require contamination caused by such underground storage tank releases be assessed and remediated to meet applicable standards. In addition to other cleanup standards, many states adopted cleanup criteria for methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) for both soil and groundwater.

At RCRA-permitted facilities, we are required to assess environmental conditions. If conditions warrant, we may be required to remediate contamination caused by prior operations. In contrast to CERCLA, which is often referred to as “Superfund,” the cost of corrective action activities under RCRA corrective action programs typically is borne solely by us. We anticipate increased expenditures for RCRA remediation activities may be required, but such annual expenditures for the near term are not expected to vary significantly from the range of such expenditures we have experienced over the past few years. Longer-term expenditures are subject to considerable uncertainty and may fluctuate significantly.

We, from time to time, receive requests for information or notices of potential liability from the EPA and state environmental agencies alleging that we are a potentially responsible party under CERCLA or an equivalent state statute. On occasion, we also have been made a party to cost recovery litigation by those agencies or by private parties. These requests, notices and lawsuits assert potential liability for remediation costs at various sites that typically are not owned by us, but allegedly contain wastes attributable to our past operations. As of December 31, 2009, we reported we had been notified of potential liability under CERCLA and comparable state laws at 65 sites around the United States. At December 31, 2010, we had been notified of seven new sites, re-opened three sites and settled two sites, bringing the number to 73 unresolved sites with potential liability.

For most Superfund sites, our potential liability will be significantly less than the total site remediation costs because the percentage of waste attributable to us, versus that attributable to all other potentially responsible parties, is relatively low. Although liability of those potentially responsible is generally joint and several for federal sites and frequently so for state sites, other potentially responsible parties at sites where we are a party typically have had the financial strength to meet their obligations, and where they have not, or where potentially responsible parties could not be located, our share of liability has not increased materially. Many of the sites at which we are potentially responsible are still under investigation by the EPA or the state agencies concerned. Prior to actual cleanup, those potentially responsible normally assess site conditions, apportion responsibility and determine the appropriate remediation. In some instances, we may have no liability or attain a settlement of liability. Actual cleanup costs generally occur after the parties obtain EPA or equivalent state agency approval. There are relatively few sites where we are a major participant, and given the timing and

amounts of anticipated expenditures, neither the cost of remediation at those sites nor such costs at all CERCLA sites, in the aggregate, is expected to have a material adverse effect on our competitive or financial condition.

Expensed environmental costs were $928 million in 2010 and are expected to be about $1,100 million per year in 2011 and 2012. Capitalized environmental costs were $574 million in 2010 and are expected to be about $650 million per year in 2011 and 2012.

Accrued liabilities for remediation activities are not reduced for potential recoveries from insurers or other third parties and are not discounted (except those assumed in a purchase business combination, which we do record on a discounted basis).

Many of these liabilities result from CERCLA, RCRA and similar state laws that require us to undertake certain investigative and remedial activities at sites where we conduct, or once conducted, operations or at sites where ConocoPhillips-generated waste was disposed. The accrual also includes a number of sites we identified that may require environmental remediation, but which are not currently the subject of CERCLA, RCRA or state enforcement activities. If applicable, we accrue receivables for probable insurance or other third-party recoveries. In the future, we may incur significant costs under both CERCLA and RCRA.

Remediation activities vary substantially in duration and cost from site to site, depending on the mix of unique site characteristics, evolving remediation technologies, diverse regulatory agencies and enforcement policies, and the presence or absence of potentially liable third parties. Therefore, it is difficult to develop reasonable estimates of future site remediation costs.

At December 31, 2010, our balance sheet included total accrued environmental costs of $994 million, compared with $1,017 million at December 31, 2009. We expect to incur a substantial amount of these expenditures within the next 30 years.

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, and as with other companies engaged in similar businesses, environmental costs and liabilities are inherent concerns in our operations and products, and there can be no assurance that material costs and liabilities will not be incurred. However, we currently do not expect any material adverse effect upon our results of operations or financial position as a result of compliance with current environmental laws and regulations.

Climate Change
There has been a broad range of proposed or promulgated state, national and international laws focusing on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. These proposed or promulgated laws apply or could apply in countries where we have interests or may have interests in the future. Laws in this field continue to evolve, and while it is not possible to accurately estimate either a timetable for implementation or our future compliance costs relating to implementation, such laws, if enacted, could have a material impact on our results of operations and financial condition. Examples of legislation or precursors for possible regulation that do or could affect our operations include:

	•		European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the program through which many of the European Union (EU) member states are implementing the Kyoto Protocol.

	•		California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which requires the California Air Resources Board to develop regulations and market mechanisms that will ultimately reduce California’s GHG emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

	•		Two regulations issued by the Alberta government in 2007 under the Climate Change and Emissions Act. These regulations require any existing facility with emissions equal to or greater than 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide or equivalent per year to reduce the net emissions intensity of that facility by 2 percent per year beginning July 1, 2007, with an ultimate reduction target of 12 percent of baseline emissions.

	•		The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497, 127 S.Ct. 1438 (2007), confirming that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as an “air pollutant” under the Federal Clean Air Act.

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The EPA’s announcement on December 7, 2009, “Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, 74, Fed. Reg. 66,495,” finalizing its findings that GHG emissions threaten public health and the environment and that cars and light trucks cause or contribute to this threat. While these findings do not themselves impose any requirements on any industry or company at this time, these findings may lead to greater regulation of GHG emissions by the EPA, may trigger more climate-based claims for damages, and may result in longer agency review time for development projects to determine the extent of climate change.

In the EU, we have assets that are subject to the ETS. The first phase of the EU ETS was completed at the end of 2007, with EU ETS Phase II running from 2008 through 2012. The European Commission has approved most of the Phase II national allocation plans. We are actively engaged to minimize any financial impact from the trading scheme.

In the United States, there is growing consensus that some form of regulation will be forthcoming at the federal level with respect to GHG emissions. Such regulation could take any of several forms that may result in the creation of additional costs in the form of taxes, the restriction of output, investments of capital to maintain compliance with laws and regulations, or required acquisition or trading of emission allowances. We are working to continuously improve operational and energy efficiency through resource and energy conservation throughout our operations.

Compliance with changes in laws and regulations that create a GHG emission trading scheme or GHG reduction policies could significantly increase our costs, reduce demand for fossil energy derived products, impact the cost and availability of capital and increase our exposure to litigation. Such laws and regulations could also increase demand for less carbon intensive energy sources, including natural gas. The ultimate impact on our financial performance, either positive or negative, will depend on a number of factors, including but not limited to:

	•		Whether and to what extent legislation is enacted.

	•		The nature of the legislation (such as a cap and trade system or a tax on emissions).

	•		The GHG reductions required.

	•		The price and availability of offsets.

	•		The amount and allocation of allowances.

	•		Technological and scientific developments leading to new products or services.

	•		Any potential significant physical effects of climate change (such as increased severe weather events, changes in sea levels and changes in temperature).

	•		Whether, and the extent to which, increased compliance costs are ultimately reflected in the prices of our products and services.

Other
We have deferred tax assets related to certain accrued liabilities, loss carryforwards and credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances have been established to reduce these deferred tax assets to an amount that will, more likely than not, be realized. Based on our historical taxable income, our expectations for the future, and available tax-planning strategies, management expects that the net deferred tax assets will be realized as offsets to reversing deferred tax liabilities and as reductions in future taxable income.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to select appropriate accounting policies and to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. See Note 1—Accounting Policies, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for descriptions of our major accounting policies. Certain of these accounting policies involve judgments and uncertainties to such an extent that there is a reasonable likelihood that materially different amounts would have been reported under different conditions, or if different assumptions had been used. These critical accounting estimates are discussed with the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors at least annually. We believe the following discussions of critical accounting estimates, along with the discussions of contingencies and of deferred tax asset valuation allowances in this report, address all important accounting areas where the nature of accounting estimates or assumptions is material due to the levels of subjectivity and judgment necessary to account for highly uncertain matters or the susceptibility of such matters to change.

Oil and Gas Accounting

Accounting for oil and gas exploratory activity is subject to special accounting rules unique to the oil and gas industry. The acquisition of geological and geophysical seismic information, prior to the discovery of proved reserves, is expensed as incurred, similar to accounting for research and development costs. However, leasehold acquisition costs and exploratory well costs are capitalized on the balance sheet pending determination of whether proved oil and gas reserves have been discovered on the prospect.

Property Acquisition Costs
For individually significant leaseholds, management periodically assesses for impairment based on exploration and drilling efforts to date. For leasehold acquisition costs that individually are relatively small, management exercises judgment and determines a percentage probability that the prospect ultimately will fail to find proved oil and gas reserves and pools that leasehold information with others in the geographic area. For prospects in areas that have had limited, or no, previous exploratory drilling, the percentage probability of ultimate failure is normally judged to be quite high. This judgmental percentage is multiplied by the leasehold acquisition cost, and that product is divided by the contractual period of the leasehold to determine a periodic leasehold impairment charge that is reported in exploration expense.

This judgmental probability percentage is reassessed and adjusted throughout the contractual period of the leasehold based on favorable or unfavorable exploratory activity on the leasehold or on adjacent leaseholds, and leasehold impairment amortization expense is adjusted prospectively. At year-end 2010, the book value of the pools of property acquisition costs that individually are relatively small and thus subject to the above-described periodic leasehold impairment calculation was $1,581 million and the accumulated impairment reserve was $497 million. The weighted-average judgmental percentage probability of ultimate failure was approximately 58 percent, and the weighted-average amortization period was approximately three years. If that judgmental percentage were to be raised by 5 percent across all calculations, pretax leasehold impairment expense in 2011 would increase by approximately $23 million. The remaining $5,374 million of gross capitalized unproved property costs at year-end 2010 consisted of individually significant leaseholds, mineral rights held in perpetuity by title ownership, exploratory wells currently drilling, and suspended exploratory wells. Management periodically assesses individually significant leaseholds for impairment based on the results of exploration and drilling efforts and the outlook for project commercialization. Of this amount, approximately $2.8 billion is concentrated in 10 major development areas. One of these major assets totaling $118 million is expected to move to proved properties in 2011.

Exploratory Costs
For exploratory wells, drilling costs are temporarily capitalized, or “suspended,” on the balance sheet, pending a determination of whether potentially economic oil and gas reserves have been discovered by the drilling effort to justify completion of the find as a producing well.

If exploratory wells encounter potentially economic quantities of oil and gas, the well costs remain capitalized on the balance sheet as long as sufficient progress assessing the reserves and the economic and operating viability of the project is being made. The accounting notion of “sufficient progress” is a judgmental area, but

the accounting rules do prohibit continued capitalization of suspended well costs on the mere chance that future market conditions will improve or new technologies will be found that would make the project’s development economically profitable. Often, the ability to move the project into the development phase and record proved reserves is dependent on obtaining permits and government or co-venturer approvals, the timing of which is ultimately beyond our control. Exploratory well costs remain suspended as long as we are actively pursuing such approvals and permits, and believe they will be obtained. Once all required approvals and permits have been obtained, the projects are moved into the development phase, and the oil and gas reserves are designated as proved reserves. For complex exploratory discoveries, it is not unusual to have exploratory wells remain suspended on the balance sheet for several years while we perform additional appraisal drilling and seismic work on the potential oil and gas field or while we seek government or co-venturer approval of development plans or seek environmental permitting. Once a determination is made the well did not encounter potentially economic oil and gas quantities, the well costs are expensed as a dry hole and reported in exploration expense.

Management reviews suspended well balances quarterly, continuously monitors the results of the additional appraisal drilling and seismic work, and expenses the suspended well costs as a dry hole when it determines the potential field does not warrant further investment in the near term. Criteria utilized in making this determination include evaluation of the reservoir characteristics and hydrocarbon properties, expected development costs, ability to apply existing technology to produce the reserves, fiscal terms, regulations or contract negotiations, and our required return on investment.

At year-end 2010, total suspended well costs were $1,013 million, compared with $908 million at year-end 2009. For additional information on suspended wells, including an aging analysis, see Note 8—Suspended Wells, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Proved Reserves
Engineering estimates of the quantities of proved reserves are inherently imprecise and represent only approximate amounts because of the judgments involved in developing such information. Reserve estimates are based on geological and engineering assessments of in-place hydrocarbon volumes, the production plan, historical extraction recovery and processing yield factors, installed plant operating capacity and approved operating limits. The reliability of these estimates at any point in time depends on both the quality and quantity of the technical and economic data and the efficiency of extracting and processing the hydrocarbons.

Despite the inherent imprecision in these engineering estimates, accounting rules require disclosure of “proved” reserve estimates due to the importance of these estimates to better understand the perceived value and future cash flows of a company’s E&P operations. There are several authoritative guidelines regarding the engineering criteria that must be met before estimated reserves can be designated as “proved.” Our reservoir engineering organization has policies and procedures in place consistent with these authoritative guidelines. We have trained and experienced internal engineering personnel who estimate our proved reserves held by consolidated companies, as well as our share of equity affiliates.

Proved reserve estimates are adjusted annually in the fourth quarter and during the year if significant changes occur, and take into account recent production and subsurface information about each field. Also, as required by current authoritative guidelines, the estimated future date when a field will be permanently shut down for economic reasons is based on 12-month average prices and year-end costs. This estimated date when production will end affects the amount of estimated reserves. Therefore, as prices and cost levels change from year to year, the estimate of proved reserves also changes.

Our proved reserves include estimated quantities related to production sharing contracts, which are reported under the “economic interest” method and are subject to fluctuations in prices of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids; recoverable operating expenses; and capital costs. If costs remain stable, reserve quantities attributable to recovery of costs will change inversely to changes in commodity prices. For example, if prices increase, then our applicable reserve quantities would decline. The estimation of proved developed reserves also is important to the statement of operations because the proved developed reserve estimate for a field serves as the denominator in the unit-of-production calculation of depreciation, depletion and amortization of the capitalized costs for that asset. At year-end 2010, the net book value of productive E&P properties, plants and equipment subject to a unit-of-production calculation was approximately $56 billion and the depreciation,

depletion and amortization recorded on these assets in 2010 was approximately $7.8 billion. The estimated proved developed reserves for our consolidated operations were 5.6 billion BOE at the beginning of 2010 and were 5.2 billion BOE at the end of 2010. If the estimates of proved reserves used in the unit-of-production calculations had been lower by 5 percent across all calculations, pretax depreciation, depletion and amortization in 2010 would have increased by an estimated $410 million. Impairments of producing properties resulting from downward revisions of proved reserves due to reservoir performance were not material in the last three years.

Impairments

Long-lived assets used in operations are assessed for impairment whenever changes in facts and circumstances indicate a possible significant deterioration in future cash flows expected to be generated by an asset group and annually in the fourth quarter following updates to corporate planning assumptions. If, upon review, the sum of the undiscounted pretax cash flows is less than the carrying value of the asset group, the carrying value is written down to estimated fair value. Individual assets are grouped for impairment purposes based on a judgmental assessment of the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of the cash flows of other groups of assets—generally on a field-by-field basis for exploration and production assets, or at an entire complex level for downstream assets. Because there usually is a lack of quoted market prices for long-lived assets, the fair value of impaired assets is typically determined based on the present values of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with those used by principal market participants, or based on a multiple of operating cash flow validated with historical market transactions of similar assets where possible. The expected future cash flows used for impairment reviews and related fair value calculations are based on judgmental assessments of future production volumes, commodity prices, operating costs, refining margins and capital project decisions, considering all available information at the date of review. See Note 10—Impairments, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for additional information.

Investments in nonconsolidated entities accounted for under the equity method are reviewed for impairment when there is evidence of a loss in value and annually following updates to corporate planning assumptions. Such evidence of a loss in value might include our inability to recover the carrying amount, the lack of sustained earnings capacity which would justify the current investment amount, or a current fair value less than the investment’s carrying amount. When it is determined such a loss in value is other than temporary, an impairment charge is recognized for the difference between the investment’s carrying value and its estimated fair value. When determining whether a decline in value is other than temporary, management considers factors such as the length of time and extent of the decline, the investee’s financial condition and near-term prospects, and our ability and intention to retain our investment for a period that will be sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in the market value of the investment. When quoted market prices are not available, the fair value is usually based on the present value of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with those used by principal market participants, plus market analysis of comparable assets owned by the investee, if appropriate. Differing assumptions could affect the timing and the amount of an impairment of an investment in any period. For additional information, see the “LUKOIL” and “NMNG” sections of Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Asset Retirement Obligations and Environmental Costs

Under various contracts, permits and regulations, we have material legal obligations to remove tangible equipment and restore the land or seabed at the end of operations at operational sites. Our largest asset removal obligations involve removal and disposal of offshore oil and gas platforms around the world, oil and gas production facilities and pipelines in Alaska, and asbestos abatement at refineries. The fair values of obligations for dismantling and removing these facilities are accrued at the installation of the asset based on estimated discounted costs. Estimating the future asset removal costs necessary for this accounting calculation is difficult. Most of these removal obligations are many years, or decades, in the future and the contracts and regulations often have vague descriptions of what removal practices and criteria must be met when the removal event actually occurs. Asset removal technologies and costs, regulatory and other compliance considerations,

expenditure timing, and other inputs into valuation of the obligation, including discount and inflation rates, are also subject to change.

In addition, under the above or similar contracts, permits and regulations, we have certain obligations to complete environmental-related projects. These projects are primarily related to cleanup at domestic refineries and remediation activities required by Canada and the state of Alaska at exploration and production sites. Future environmental remediation costs are difficult to estimate because they are subject to change due to such factors as the uncertain magnitude of cleanup costs, the unknown time and extent of such remedial actions that may be required, and the determination of our liability in proportion to that of other responsible parties.

Business Acquisitions

Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed
Accounting for the acquisition of a business requires the recognition of the consideration paid, as well as the various assets and liabilities of the acquired business. For most assets and liabilities, the asset or liability is recorded at its estimated fair value. The most difficult estimates of individual fair values are those involving properties, plants and equipment and identifiable intangible assets. We use all available information to make these fair value determinations. We have, if necessary, up to one year after the acquisition closing date to finalize these fair value determinations.

Intangible Assets and Goodwill
At December 31, 2010, we had $739 million of intangible assets determined to have indefinite useful lives, thus they are not amortized. This judgmental assessment of an indefinite useful life must be continuously evaluated in the future. If, due to changes in facts and circumstances, management determines these intangible assets have definite useful lives, amortization will have to commence at that time on a prospective basis. As long as these intangible assets are judged to have indefinite lives, they will be subject to periodic lower-of-cost-or-market tests that require management’s judgment of the estimated fair value of these intangible assets.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, we fully impaired the recorded goodwill associated with our Worldwide E&P reporting unit. At December 31, 2010, we had $3,633 million of goodwill remaining on our balance sheet, all of which was attributable to the Worldwide R&M reporting unit. See Note 9—Goodwill and Intangibles, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, for additional information on intangibles and goodwill, including a detailed discussion of the facts and circumstances leading to the goodwill impairment, as well as the judgments required by management in the analysis leading to the impairment determination.

Projected Benefit Obligations

Determination of the projected benefit obligations for our defined benefit pension and postretirement plans are important to the recorded amounts for such obligations on the balance sheet and to the amount of benefit expense in the statement of operations. The actuarial determination of projected benefit obligations and company contribution requirements involves judgment about uncertain future events, including estimated retirement dates, salary levels at retirement, mortality rates, lump-sum election rates, rates of return on plan assets, future health care cost-trend rates, and rates of utilization of health care services by retirees. Due to the specialized nature of these calculations, we engage outside actuarial firms to assist in the determination of these projected benefit obligations and company contribution requirements. For Employee Retirement Income Security Act-qualified pension plans, the actuary exercises fiduciary care on behalf of plan participants in the determination of the judgmental assumptions used in determining required company contributions into the plan. Due to differing objectives and requirements between financial accounting rules and the pension plan funding regulations promulgated by governmental agencies, the actuarial methods and assumptions for the two purposes differ in certain important respects. Ultimately, we will be required to fund all promised benefits under pension and postretirement benefit plans not funded by plan assets or investment returns, but the judgmental assumptions used in the actuarial calculations significantly affect periodic financial statements and funding patterns over time. Benefit expense is particularly sensitive to the discount rate and return on plan assets assumptions. A 1 percent decrease in the discount rate assumption would increase annual benefit expense by $130 million, while a 1 percent decrease in the return on plan assets assumption would increase annual benefit expense by $70 million. In determining the discount rate, we use yields on high-quality fixed income investments matched to the estimated benefit cash flows of our plans.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE “SAFE HARBOR” PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995

This report includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You can identify our forward-looking statements by the words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “budget,” “continue,” “could,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “seek,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “expect,” “objective,” “projection,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “outlook,” “effort,” “target” and similar expressions.

We based the forward-looking statements on our current expectations, estimates and projections about ourselves and the industries in which we operate in general. We caution you these statements are not guarantees of future performance as they involve assumptions that, while made in good faith, may prove to be incorrect, and involve risks and uncertainties we cannot predict. In addition, we based many of these forward-looking statements on assumptions about future events that may prove to be inaccurate. Accordingly, our actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what we have expressed or forecast in the forward-looking statements. Any differences could result from a variety of factors, including the following:

	•		Fluctuations in crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, LNG and natural gas liquids prices, refining and marketing margins and margins for our chemicals business.

	•		Potential failures or delays in achieving expected reserve or production levels from existing and future oil and gas development projects due to operating hazards, drilling risks and the inherent uncertainties in predicting reserves and reservoir performance.

	•		Unsuccessful exploratory drilling activities or the inability to obtain access to exploratory acreage.

	•		Failure of new products and services to achieve market acceptance.

	•		Unexpected changes in costs or technical requirements for constructing, modifying or operating facilities for exploration and production, manufacturing, refining or transportation projects.

	•		Unexpected technological or commercial difficulties in manufacturing, refining or transporting our products, including chemicals products.

	•		Lack of, or disruptions in, adequate and reliable transportation for our crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, bitumen, LNG and refined products.

	•		Inability to timely obtain or maintain permits, including those necessary for construction of LNG terminals or regasification facilities, or refinery projects; comply with government regulations; or make capital expenditures required to maintain compliance.

	•		Failure to complete definitive agreements and feasibility studies for, and to timely complete construction of, announced and future exploration and production, LNG, refinery and transportation projects.

	•		Potential disruption or interruption of our operations due to accidents, extraordinary weather events, civil unrest, political events or terrorism.

	•		International monetary conditions and exchange controls.

	•		Substantial investment or reduced demand for products as a result of existing or future environmental rules and regulations.

	•		Liability for remedial actions, including removal and reclamation obligations, under environmental regulations.

	•		Liability resulting from litigation.

	•		General domestic and international economic and political developments, including armed hostilities; expropriation of assets; changes in governmental policies relating to crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, LNG, natural gas liquids or refined product pricing, regulation or taxation; other political, economic or diplomatic developments; and international monetary fluctuations.

	•		Changes in tax and other laws, regulations (including alternative energy mandates), or royalty rules applicable to our business.

	•		Limited access to capital or significantly higher cost of capital related to illiquidity or uncertainty in the domestic or international financial markets.

	•		Delays in, or our inability to implement, our asset disposition plan.

	•		Inability to obtain economical financing for projects, construction or modification of facilities and general corporate purposes.

	•		The operation and financing of our midstream and chemicals joint ventures.

	•		The factors generally described in Item 1A—Risk Factors in this report.

Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Financial Instrument Market Risk

We and certain of our subsidiaries hold and issue derivative contracts and financial instruments that expose our cash flows or earnings to changes in commodity prices, foreign currency exchange rates or interest rates. We may use financial and commodity-based derivative contracts to manage the risks produced by changes in the prices of electric power, natural gas, crude oil and related products; fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; or to capture market opportunities.

Our use of derivative instruments is governed by an “Authority Limitations” document approved by our Board of Directors that prohibits the use of highly leveraged derivatives or derivative instruments without sufficient liquidity for comparable valuations. The Authority Limitations document also establishes the Value at Risk (VaR) limits for the company, and compliance with these limits is monitored daily. The Chief Financial Officer monitors risks resulting from foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates and reports to the Chief Executive Officer. The Senior Vice President of Refining, Marketing and Transportation and Commercial monitors commodity price risk and also reports to the Chief Executive Officer. The Commercial organization manages our commercial marketing, optimizes our commodity flows and positions, and monitors related risks of our upstream and downstream businesses.

Commodity Price Risk
We operate in the worldwide crude oil, bitumen, refined products, natural gas, natural gas liquids, LNG and electric power markets and are exposed to fluctuations in the prices for these commodities. These fluctuations can affect our revenues, as well as the cost of operating, investing and financing activities. Generally, our policy is to remain exposed to the market prices of commodities.

Our Commercial organization uses futures, forwards, swaps and options in various markets to optimize the value of our supply chain, which may move our risk profile away from market average prices to accomplish the following objectives:

	•		Balance physical systems. In addition to cash settlement prior to contract expiration, exchange-traded futures contracts also may be settled by physical delivery of the commodity, providing another source of supply to meet our refinery requirements or marketing demand.

	•		Meet customer needs. Consistent with our policy to generally remain exposed to market prices, we use swap contracts to convert fixed-price sales contracts, which are often requested by natural gas and refined product consumers, to a floating market price.

	•		Manage the risk to our cash flows from price exposures on specific crude oil, natural gas, refined product and electric power transactions.

	•		Enable us to use the market knowledge gained from these activities to capture market opportunities such as moving physical commodities to more profitable locations, storing commodities to capture seasonal or time premiums, and blending commodities to capture quality upgrades. Derivatives may be utilized to optimize these activities.

We use a VaR model to estimate the loss in fair value that could potentially result on a single day from the effect of adverse changes in market conditions on the derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments held or issued, including commodity purchase and sales contracts recorded on the balance sheet at December 31, 2010, as derivative instruments. Using Monte Carlo simulation, a 95 percent confidence level and a one-day holding period, the VaR for those instruments issued or held for trading purposes at December 31, 2010 and 2009, was immaterial to our cash flows and net income attributable to ConocoPhillips.

The VaR for instruments held for purposes other than trading at December 31, 2010 and 2009, was also immaterial to our cash flows and net income attributable to ConocoPhillips.

Interest Rate Risk
The following table provides information about our financial instruments that are sensitive to changes in U.S. interest rates. The debt portion of the table presents principal cash flows and related weighted-average interest rates by expected maturity dates. Weighted-average variable rates are based on effective rates at the reporting date. The carrying amount of our floating-rate debt approximates its fair value. The fair value of the fixed-rate financial instruments is estimated based on quoted market prices. The joint venture acquisition obligation portion of the table presents principal cash flows of the fixed-rate 5.3 percent joint venture acquisition obligation owed to FCCL Partnership. The fair value of the obligation is estimated based on the net present value of the future cash flows, discounted at a year-end 2010 and 2009 effective yield rate of 2.33 percent and 2.63 percent, respectively, based on yields of U.S. Treasury securities of a similar average duration adjusted for ConocoPhillips’ average credit risk spread and the amortizing nature of the obligation principal.


	Millions of Dollars Except as Indicated
											Joint Venture
	Debt										Acquisition Obligation
	Fixed		Average			Floating		Average			Fixed		Average
Expected	Rate		Interest			Rate		Interest			Rate		Interest
Maturity Date	Maturity		Rate			Maturity		Rate			Maturity		Rate
Year-End 2010
2011	$	853		7.62	%	$	-		-	%	$	695		5.30	%
2012		916		4.80			1,185		0.51			732		5.30
2013		1,262		5.33			-		-			772		5.30
2014		1,513		4.77			-		-			814		5.30
2015		1,514		4.62			64		2.05			858		5.30
Remaining years		15,291		6.44			498		0.38			1,138		5.30

Total	$	21,349				$	1,747				$	5,009

Fair value	$	24,397				$	1,747				$	5,600


Year-End 2009
2010	$	1,439		8.82	%	$	-		-	%	$	660		5.30	%
2011		3,183		6.72			750		0.45			695		5.30
2012		1,264		4.94			1,303		0.25			732		5.30
2013		1,262		5.33			-		-			772		5.30
2014		1,513		4.77			3		2.01			814		5.30
Remaining years		16,805		6.28			598		0.61			1,996		5.30

Total	$	25,466				$	2,654				$	5,669

Fair value	$	27,911				$	2,654				$	6,276

During the second quarter of 2010, we executed interest rate swaps to synthetically convert $500 million of our 4.60% fixed-rate notes due in 2015 to a floating rate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). These swaps qualify for and are designated as fair-value hedges using the short-cut method of hedge accounting. The short-cut method permits the assumption that changes in the value of the derivative perfectly offset changes in the value of the debt; therefore, no gain or loss has been recognized due to hedge ineffectiveness.

The average pay rate is comprised of the LIBOR index rate and the swap spread. The swap spread consists primarily of the difference between the 4.60% fixed receive rate and the fixed rates for similar instruments at the time of execution.


	Millions of Dollars Except as Indicated
	Interest Rate Derivatives
			Average			Average
Expected Maturity Date	Notional		Pay Rate			Receive Rate
Year-End 2010
2011–2015	$	-		-	%		-	%
2015–fixed to variable		500		2.33			4.60
Remaining years		-		-			-

Total	$	500

Fair Value	$	20

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
We have foreign currency exchange rate risk resulting from international operations. We do not comprehensively hedge the exposure to currency rate changes although we may choose to selectively hedge certain foreign currency exchange rate exposures, such as firm commitments for capital projects or local currency tax payments, dividends and cash returns from net investments in foreign affiliates to be remitted within the coming year.

At December 31, 2010 and 2009, we held foreign currency exchange forwards hedging cross-border commercial activity and foreign currency exchange swaps hedging short-term intercompany loans between European subsidiaries and a U.S. subsidiary. Although these forwards and swaps hedge exposures to fluctuations in exchange rates, we elected not to utilize hedge accounting. As a result, the change in the fair value of these foreign currency exchange derivatives is recorded directly in earnings. Since the gain or loss on the swaps is offset by the gain or loss from remeasuring the intercompany loans into the functional currency of the lender or borrower, and since our aggregate position in the forwards was not material, there would be no material impact to our income from an adverse hypothetical 10 percent change in the December 31, 2010 or 2009, exchange rates. The notional and fair market values of these positions at December 31, 2010 and 2009, were as follows:


	In Millions
Foreign Currency Exchange Derivatives	Notional*				Fair Market Value**
	2010		2009		2010			2009

Sell U.S. dollar, buy euro	USD	-		246	$	-			(2	)
Sell U.S. dollar, buy British pound	USD	4		1,664		(3	)		(16	)
Sell U.S. dollar, buy Canadian dollar	USD	562		554		8			34
Sell U.S. dollar, buy Norwegian kroner	USD	3		744		-			(4	)
Sell U.S. dollar, buy Australian dollar	USD	-		3		-			-
Sell euro, buy British pound	EUR	253		267		1			(14	)

*Denominated in U.S. dollars (USD) and euro (EUR).

**Denominated in U.S. dollars.

For additional information about our use of derivative instruments, see Note 16—Financial Instruments and Derivative Contracts, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

CONOCOPHILLIPS

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


		Page
Report of Management		70

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Consolidated Financial Statements		71

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting		72

Consolidated Statement of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008		73

Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2010 and 2009		74

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008		75

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008		76

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		77

Supplementary Information

Oil and Gas Operations		137

Selected Quarterly Financial Data		165

Condensed Consolidating Financial Information		166

Report of Management

Management prepared, and is responsible for, the consolidated financial statements and the other information appearing in this annual report. The consolidated financial statements present fairly the company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. In preparing its consolidated financial statements, the company includes amounts that are based on estimates and judgments management believes are reasonable under the circumstances. The company’s financial statements have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm appointed by the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors and ratified by stockholders. Management has made available to Ernst & Young LLP all of the company’s financial records and related data, as well as the minutes of stockholders’ and directors’ meetings.

Assessment of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. ConocoPhillips’ internal control system was designed to provide reasonable assurance to the company’s management and directors regarding the preparation and fair presentation of published financial statements.

All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.

Management assessed the effectiveness of the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010. In making this assessment, it used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control—Integrated Framework. Based on our assessment, we believe the company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2010.

Ernst & Young LLP has issued an audit report on the company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, and their report is included herein.




/s/ James J. Mulva		/s/ Jeff W. Sheets

James J. Mulva		Jeff W. Sheets
Chairman and		Senior Vice President, Finance
Chief Executive Officer		and Chief Financial Officer

February 23, 2011

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Consolidated Financial Statements

The Board of Directors and Stockholders
ConocoPhillips

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of ConocoPhillips as of December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010. Our audits also included the related condensed consolidating financial information listed in the Index at Item 8 and financial statement schedule listed in Item 15(a). These financial statements, condensed consolidating financial information, and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements, condensed consolidating financial information, and schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of ConocoPhillips at December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related condensed consolidating financial information and financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, in 2010 ConocoPhillips changed the method used to determine its equity method share of LUKOIL’s earnings. In addition, as discussed in Note 2, in 2009 ConocoPhillips changed its reserve estimates and related disclosures as a result of adopting new oil and gas reserve estimation and disclosure requirements.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), ConocoPhillips’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 23, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Houston, Texas
February 23, 2011

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

The Board of Directors and Stockholders
ConocoPhillips

We have audited ConocoPhillips’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). ConocoPhillips’ management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included under the heading “Assessment of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” in the accompanying “Report of Management.” Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, ConocoPhillips maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the 2010 consolidated financial statements of ConocoPhillips and our report dated February 23, 2011 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Houston, Texas
February 23, 2011


Consolidated Statement of Operations		ConocoPhillips


Years Ended December 31	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009		**	2008		**
Revenues and Other Income
Sales and other operating revenues*	$	189,441			149,341			240,842
Equity in earnings of affiliates		3,133			2,531			4,999
Gain on dispositions		5,803			160			891
Other income		278			358			199

Total Revenues and Other Income		198,655			152,390			246,931

Costs and Expenses
Purchased crude oil, natural gas and products		135,751			102,433			168,663
Production and operating expenses		10,635			10,339			11,818
Selling, general and administrative expenses		2,005			1,830			2,229
Exploration expenses		1,155			1,182			1,337
Depreciation, depletion and amortization		9,060			9,295			9,012
Impairments
Goodwill		-			-			25,443
LUKOIL investment		-			-			7,496
Other		1,780			535			1,686
Taxes other than income taxes*		16,793			15,529			20,637
Accretion on discounted liabilities		447			422			418
Interest and debt expense		1,187			1,289			935
Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses		92			(46	)		117

Total Costs and Expenses		178,905			142,808			249,791

Income (loss) before income taxes		19,750			9,582			(2,860	)
Provision for income taxes		8,333			5,090			13,419

Net income (loss)		11,417			4,492			(16,279	)
Less: net income attributable to noncontrolling interests		(59	)		(78	)		(70	)

Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips	$	11,358			4,414			(16,349	)


Net Income (Loss) Attributable to ConocoPhillips Per Share of Common Stock (dollars)
Basic	$	7.68			2.96			(10.73	)
Diluted		7.62			2.94			(10.73	)


Average Common Shares Outstanding (in thousands)
Basic		1,479,330			1,487,650			1,523,432
Diluted		1,491,067			1,497,608			1,523,432

*Includes excise taxes on petroleum products sales:	$	*13,689*			13,325			15,418
**Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information. Also, certain amounts have been reclassified to conform to current-year presentation.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.


Consolidated Balance Sheet		ConocoPhillips


At December 31	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009		**
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	9,454			542
Short-term investments*		973			-
Accounts and notes receivable (net of allowance of $32 million in 2010 and $76 million in 2009)		13,787			11,861
Accounts and notes receivable—related parties		2,025			1,354
Investment in LUKOIL		1,083			-
Inventories		5,197			4,940
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		2,141			2,470

Total Current Assets		34,660			21,167
Investments and long-term receivables		31,581			35,742
Loans and advances—related parties		2,180			2,352
Net properties, plants and equipment		82,554			87,708
Goodwill		3,633			3,638
Intangibles		801			823
Other assets		905			708

Total Assets	$	156,314			152,138


Liabilities
Accounts payable	$	16,613			14,168
Accounts payable—related parties		1,786			1,317
Short-term debt		936			1,728
Accrued income and other taxes		4,874			3,402
Employee benefit obligations		1,081			846
Other accruals		2,129			2,234

Total Current Liabilities		27,419			23,695
Long-term debt		22,656			26,925
Asset retirement obligations and accrued environmental costs		9,199			8,713
Joint venture acquisition obligation—related party		4,314			5,009
Deferred income taxes		17,335			17,956
Employee benefit obligations		3,683			4,130
Other liabilities and deferred credits		2,599			3,097

Total Liabilities		87,205			89,525


Equity
Common stock (2,500,000,000 shares authorized at $.01 par value)
Issued (2010—1,740,529,279 shares; 2009—1,733,345,558 shares)
Par value		17			17
Capital in excess of par		44,132			43,681
Grantor trusts (at cost: 2010—36,890,375 shares; 2009—38,742,261 shares)		(633	)		(667	)
Treasury stock (at cost: 2010—272,873,537 shares; 2009—208,346,815 shares)		(20,077	)		(16,211	)
Accumulated other comprehensive income		4,773			3,065
Unearned employee compensation		(47	)		(76	)
Retained earnings		40,397			32,214

Total Common Stockholders’ Equity		68,562			62,023
Noncontrolling interests		547			590

Total Equity		69,109			62,613

Total Liabilities and Equity	$	156,314			152,138

*Includes marketable securities of:	$	602			-
**Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.


Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows		ConocoPhillips


Years Ended December 31	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009		*	2008		*
Cash Flows From Operating Activities
Net income (loss)	$	11,417			4,492			(16,279	)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities
Depreciation, depletion and amortization		9,060			9,295			9,012
Impairments		1,780			535			34,625
Dry hole costs and leasehold impairments		477			606			698
Accretion on discounted liabilities		447			422			418
Deferred taxes		(878	)		(1,115	)		(414	)
Undistributed equity earnings		(1,073	)		(1,254	)		(2,357	)
Gain on dispositions		(5,803	)		(160	)		(891	)
Other		(249	)		196			(1,135	)
Working capital adjustments
Decrease (increase) in accounts and notes receivable		(2,427	)		(1,106	)		4,225
Decrease (increase) in inventories		(363	)		320			(1,321	)
Decrease (increase) in prepaid expenses and other current assets		43			282			(724	)
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable		2,887			1,612			(3,874	)
Increase (decrease) in taxes and other accruals		1,727			(1,646	)		675

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities		17,045			12,479			22,658


Cash Flows From Investing Activities
Capital expenditures and investments		(9,761	)		(10,861	)		(19,099	)
Proceeds from asset dispositions		15,372			1,270			1,640
Purchases of short-term investments		(982	)		-			-
Long-term advances/loans—related parties		(313	)		(525	)		(163	)
Collection of advances/loans—related parties		115			93			34
Other		234			88			(28	)

Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities		4,665			(9,935	)		(17,616	)


Cash Flows From Financing Activities
Issuance of debt		118			9,087			7,657
Repayment of debt		(5,320	)		(7,858	)		(1,897	)
Issuance of company common stock		133			13			198
Repurchase of company common stock		(3,866	)		-			(8,249	)
Dividends paid on company common stock		(3,175	)		(2,832	)		(2,854	)
Other		(709	)		(1,265	)		(619	)

Net Cash Used in Financing Activities		(12,819	)		(2,855	)		(5,764	)


Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash and Cash Equivalents		21			98			21


Net Change in Cash and Cash Equivalents		8,912			(213	)		(701	)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year		542			755			1,456

Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Year	$	9,454			542			755

*Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.


Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity		ConocoPhillips


	Millions of Dollars
	Attributable to ConocoPhillips
	Common Stock										Accum. Other			Unearned
	Par		Capital in		Treasury			Grantor			Comprehensive			Employee			Retained			Comprehensive			Noncontrolling
	Value		Excess of Par		Stock			Trusts			Income (Loss)			Compensation			Earnings			Income (Loss)			Interests			Total

December 31, 2007*	$	17		42,724		(7,969	)		(731	)		4,560			(128	)		49,861						1,173			89,507

Net income (loss)																		(16,349	)		(16,349	)		70			(16,279	)
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Defined benefit pension plans
Net prior service cost												22									22						22
Net actuarial loss												(950	)								(950	)					(950	)
Nonsponsored plans												(41	)								(41	)					(41	)
Foreign currency translation adjustments												(5,464	)								(5,464	)					(5,464	)
Hedging activities												(2	)								(2	)					(2	)

Comprehensive income (loss)																					(22,784	)		70			(22,714	)

Cash dividends paid on company common stock																		(2,854	)								(2,854	)
Repurchase of company common stock						(8,242	)		1																		(8,241	)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests and other																								(143	)		(143	)
Distributed under benefit plans				672					28																		700
Recognition of unearned compensation															26												26
Other																		(16	)								(16	)

December 31, 2008*		17		43,396		(16,211	)		(702	)		(1,875	)		(102	)		30,642						1,100			56,265

Net income																		4,414			4,414			78			4,492
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Defined benefit pension plans
Net prior service cost												7									7						7
Net actuarial loss												(99	)								(99	)					(99	)
Nonsponsored plans												22									22						22
Foreign currency translation adjustments												5,007									5,007						5,007
Hedging activities												3									3						3

Comprehensive income																					9,354			78			9,432

Cash dividends paid on company common stock																		(2,832	)								(2,832	)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests and other																								(588	)		(588	)
Distributed under benefit plans				285					35																		320
Recognition of unearned compensation															26												26
Other																		(10	)								(10	)

December 31, 2009*		17		43,681		(16,211	)		(667	)		3,065			(76	)		32,214						590			62,613

Net income																		11,358			11,358			59			11,417
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Defined benefit pension plans
Net prior service cost												-									-						-
Net actuarial gain												133									133						133
Nonsponsored plans												13									13						13
Net unrealized gain on securities												158									158						158
Foreign currency translation adjustments												1,404									1,404						1,404

Comprehensive income																					13,066			59			13,125

Cash dividends paid on company common stock																		(3,175	)								(3,175	)
Repurchase of company common stock						(3,866	)																				(3,866	)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests and other																								(102	)		(102	)
Distributed under benefit plans				451					34																		485
Recognition of unearned compensation															29												29

December 31, 2010	$	17		44,132		(20,077	)		(633	)		4,773			(47	)		40,397						547			69,109

*Recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.


Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		ConocoPhillips

Note 1—Accounting Policies

Consolidation Principles and Investments—Our consolidated financial statements include the accounts of majority-owned, controlled subsidiaries and variable interest entities where we are the primary beneficiary. The equity method is used to account for investments in affiliates in which we have the ability to exert significant influence over the affiliates’ operating and financial policies. When we do not have the ability to exert significant influence, the investment is either classified as available-for-sale if fair value is readily determinable, or the cost method is used if fair value is not readily determinable. Undivided interests in oil and gas joint ventures, pipelines, natural gas plants and terminals are consolidated on a proportionate basis. Other securities and investments are generally carried at cost.

Foreign Currency Translation—Adjustments resulting from the process of translating foreign functional currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in common stockholders’ equity. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are included in current earnings. Most of our foreign operations use their local currency as the functional currency.

Use of Estimates—The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and the disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Revenue Recognition—Revenues associated with sales of crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural gas liquids, petroleum and chemical products, and other items are recognized when title passes to the customer, which is when the risk of ownership passes to the purchaser and physical delivery of goods occurs, either immediately or within a fixed delivery schedule that is reasonable and customary in the industry.

Revenues associated with producing properties in which we have an interest with other producers are recognized based on the actual volumes we sold during the period. Any differences between volumes sold and entitlement volumes, based on our net working interest, which are deemed to be nonrecoverable through remaining production, are recognized as accounts receivable or accounts payable, as appropriate. Cumulative differences between volumes sold and entitlement volumes are generally not significant.

Revenues associated with transactions commonly called buy/sell contracts, in which the purchase and sale of inventory with the same counterparty are entered into “in contemplation” of one another, are combined and reported net (i.e., on the same statement of operations line).

Shipping and Handling Costs—Our Exploration and Production (E&P) segment includes shipping and handling costs in production and operating expenses for production activities. Transportation costs related to E&P marketing activities are recorded in purchased crude oil, natural gas and products. The Refining and Marketing (R&M) segment records shipping and handling costs in purchased crude oil, natural gas and products. Freight costs billed to customers are recorded as a component of revenue.

Cash Equivalents—Cash equivalents are highly liquid, short-term investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and have original maturities of 90 days or less from their date of purchase. They are carried at cost plus accrued interest, which approximates fair value.

Short-Term Investments—Investments in bank time deposits and marketable securities (commercial paper and government obligations) with original maturities of greater than 90 days but less than one year

are classified as short-term investments. See Note 16—Financial Instruments and Derivative Contracts, for additional information on these held-to-maturity financial instruments.

Inventories—We have several valuation methods for our various types of inventories and consistently use the following methods for each type of inventory. Crude oil and petroleum products inventories are valued at the lower of cost or market in the aggregate, primarily on the last-in, first-out (LIFO) basis. Any necessary lower-of-cost-or-market write-downs at year end are recorded as permanent adjustments to the LIFO cost basis. LIFO is used to better match current inventory costs with current revenues and to meet tax-conformity requirements. Costs include both direct and indirect expenditures incurred in bringing an item or product to its existing condition and location, but not unusual/nonrecurring costs or research and development costs. Materials, supplies and other miscellaneous inventories, such as tubular goods and well equipment, are valued under various methods, including the weighted-average-cost method, and the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method, consistent with industry practice.

Fair Value Measurements—We categorize assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs employed in the measurement. Level 1 inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 inputs are observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly through market-corroborated inputs. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability reflecting significant modifications to observable related market data or our assumptions about pricing by market participants.

Derivative Instruments—Derivative instruments are recorded on the balance sheet at fair value. If the right of offset exists and certain other criteria are met, derivative assets and liabilities with the same counterparty are netted on the balance sheet and the collateral payable or receivable is netted against derivative assets and derivative liabilities, respectively.

Recognition and classification of the gain or loss that results from recording and adjusting a derivative to fair value depends on the purpose for issuing or holding the derivative. Gains and losses from derivatives not accounted for as hedges are recognized immediately in earnings. For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as a fair value hedge, the gains or losses from adjusting the derivative to its fair value will be immediately recognized in earnings and, to the extent the hedge is effective, offset the concurrent recognition of changes in the fair value of the hedged item. Gains or losses from derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as a cash flow hedge or hedge of a net investment in a foreign entity are recognized in other comprehensive income and appear on the balance sheet in accumulated other comprehensive income until the hedged transaction is recognized in earnings; however, to the extent the change in the value of the derivative exceeds the change in the anticipated cash flows of the hedged transaction, the excess gains or losses will be recognized immediately in earnings.

Oil and Gas Exploration and Development—Oil and gas exploration and development costs are accounted for using the successful efforts method of accounting.

Property Acquisition Costs—Oil and gas leasehold acquisition costs are capitalized and included in the balance sheet caption properties, plants and equipment. Leasehold impairment is recognized based on exploratory experience and management’s judgment. Upon achievement of all conditions necessary for reserves to be classified as proved, the associated leasehold costs are reclassified to proved properties.

Exploratory Costs—Geological and geophysical costs and the costs of carrying and retaining undeveloped properties are expensed as incurred. Exploratory well costs are capitalized, or “suspended,” on the balance sheet pending further evaluation of whether economically recoverable reserves have been found. If economically recoverable reserves are not found, exploratory well costs are expensed as dry holes. If exploratory wells encounter potentially economic quantities of oil and gas, the well costs remain capitalized on the balance sheet as long as sufficient progress assessing the reserves and the economic and operating viability of the project is being made. For complex exploratory discoveries, it is not unusual to have exploratory wells remain suspended on the balance sheet for several years while we perform additional appraisal drilling and seismic work on the

potential oil and gas field or while we seek government or co-venturer approval of development plans or seek environmental permitting. Once all required approvals and permits have been obtained, the projects are moved into the development phase, and the oil and gas resources are designated as proved reserves.

Development Costs—Costs incurred to drill and equip development wells, including unsuccessful development wells, are capitalized.

Depletion and Amortization—Leasehold costs of producing properties are depleted using the unit-of-production method based on estimated proved oil and gas reserves. Amortization of intangible development costs is based on the unit-of-production method using estimated proved developed oil and gas reserves.

Capitalized Interest—Interest from external borrowings is capitalized on major projects with an expected construction period of one year or longer. Capitalized interest is added to the cost of the underlying asset and is amortized over the useful lives of the assets in the same manner as the underlying assets.

Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill—Intangible assets that have finite useful lives are amortized by the straight-line method over their useful lives. Intangible assets that have indefinite useful lives are not amortized but are tested at least annually for impairment. Each reporting period, we evaluate the remaining useful lives of intangible assets not being amortized to determine whether events and circumstances continue to support indefinite useful lives. These indefinite lived intangibles are considered impaired if the fair value of the intangible asset is lower than net book value. The fair value of intangible assets is determined based on quoted market prices in active markets, if available. If quoted market prices are not available, fair value of intangible assets is determined based upon the present values of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with those used by principal market participants, or upon estimated replacement cost, if expected future cash flows from the intangible asset are not determinable.

Goodwill—Goodwill resulting from a business combination is not amortized but is tested at least annually for impairment. If the fair value of a reporting unit is less than the recorded book value of the reporting unit’s assets (including goodwill), less liabilities, then a hypothetical purchase price allocation is performed on the reporting unit’s assets and liabilities using the fair value of the reporting unit as the purchase price in the calculation. If the amount of goodwill resulting from this hypothetical purchase price allocation is less than the recorded amount of goodwill, the recorded goodwill is written down to the new amount. For purposes of goodwill impairment calculations, two reporting units have been determined: Worldwide Exploration and Production and Worldwide Refining and Marketing.

Depreciation and Amortization—Depreciation and amortization of properties, plants and equipment on producing hydrocarbon properties and certain pipeline assets (those which are expected to have a declining utilization pattern), are determined by the unit-of-production method. Depreciation and amortization of all other properties, plants and equipment are determined by either the individual-unit-straight-line method or the group-straight-line method (for those individual units that are highly integrated with other units).

Impairment of Properties, Plants and Equipment—Properties, plants and equipment used in operations are assessed for impairment whenever changes in facts and circumstances indicate a possible significant deterioration in the future cash flows expected to be generated by an asset group and annually in the fourth quarter following updates to corporate planning assumptions. If, upon review, the sum of the undiscounted pretax cash flows is less than the carrying value of the asset group, the carrying value is written down to estimated fair value through additional amortization or depreciation provisions and

reported as impairments in the periods in which the determination of the impairment is made. Individual assets are grouped for impairment purposes at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of the cash flows of other groups of assets—generally on a field-by-field basis for exploration and production assets, or at an entire complex level for downstream assets. Because there usually is a lack of quoted market prices for long-lived assets, the fair value of impaired assets is typically determined based on the present values of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with those used by principal market participants or based on a multiple of operating cash flow validated with historical market transactions of similar assets where possible. Long-lived assets committed by management for disposal within one year are accounted for at the lower of amortized cost or fair value, less cost to sell, with fair value determined using a binding negotiated price, if available, or present value of expected future cash flows as previously described.

The expected future cash flows used for impairment reviews and related fair value calculations are based on estimated future production volumes, prices and costs, considering all available evidence at the date of review. If the future production price risk has been hedged, the hedged price is used in the calculations for the period and quantities hedged. The impairment review includes cash flows from proved developed and undeveloped reserves, including any development expenditures necessary to achieve that production. Additionally, when probable reserves exist, an appropriate risk-adjusted amount of these reserves may be included in the impairment calculation.

Impairment of Investments in Nonconsolidated Entities—Investments in nonconsolidated entities are assessed for impairment whenever changes in the facts and circumstances indicate a loss in value has occurred and annually following updates to corporate planning assumptions. When such a condition is judgmentally determined to be other than temporary, the carrying value of the investment is written down to fair value. The fair value of the impaired investment is based on quoted market prices, if available, or upon the present value of expected future cash flows using discount rates believed to be consistent with those used by principal market participants, plus market analysis of comparable assets owned by the investee, if appropriate.

Maintenance and Repairs—Costs of maintenance and repairs, which are not significant improvements, are expensed when incurred.

Advertising Costs—Production costs of media advertising are deferred until the first public showing of the advertisement. Advances to secure advertising slots at specific sporting or other events are deferred until the event occurs. All other advertising costs are expensed as incurred, unless the cost has benefits that clearly extend beyond the interim period in which the expenditure is made, in which case the advertising cost is deferred and amortized ratably over the interim periods that clearly benefit from the expenditure.

Property Dispositions—When complete units of depreciable property are sold, the asset cost and related accumulated depreciation are eliminated, with any gain or loss reflected in the “Gain on dispositions” line of our consolidated statement of operations. When less than complete units of depreciable property are disposed of or retired, the difference between asset cost and salvage value is charged or credited to accumulated depreciation.

Asset Retirement Obligations and Environmental Costs—Fair value of legal obligations to retire and remove long-lived assets are recorded in the period in which the obligation is incurred (typically when the asset is installed at the production location). When the liability is initially recorded, we capitalize this cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related properties, plants and equipment. Over time the liability is increased for the change in its present value, and the capitalized cost in properties, plants and equipment is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. See Note 11—Asset Retirement Obligations and Accrued Environmental Costs, for additional information.

Environmental expenditures are expensed or capitalized, depending upon their future economic benefit. Expenditures that relate to an existing condition caused by past operations, and that do not have a future economic benefit, are expensed. Liabilities for environmental expenditures are recorded on an undiscounted basis (unless acquired in a purchase business combination) when environmental assessments or cleanups are probable and the costs can be reasonably estimated. Recoveries of environmental remediation costs from other parties, such as state reimbursement funds, are recorded as assets when their receipt is probable and estimable.

Guarantees—Fair value of a guarantee is determined and recorded as a liability at the time the guarantee is given. The initial liability is subsequently reduced as we are released from exposure under the guarantee. We amortize the guarantee liability over the relevant time period, if one exists, based on the facts and circumstances surrounding each type of guarantee. In cases where the guarantee term is indefinite, we reverse the liability when we have information that the liability is essentially relieved or amortize it over an appropriate time period as the fair value of our guarantee exposure declines over time. We amortize the guarantee liability to the related statement of operations line item based on the nature of the guarantee. When it becomes probable that we will have to perform on a guarantee, we accrue a separate liability if it is reasonably estimable, based on the facts and circumstances at that time. We reverse the fair value liability only when there is no further exposure under the guarantee.

Stock-Based Compensation—We recognize stock-based compensation expense over the shorter of the service period (i.e., the stated period of time required to earn the award) or the period beginning at the start of the service period and ending when an employee first becomes eligible for retirement. We have elected to recognize expense on a straight-line basis over the service period for the entire award, whether the award was granted with ratable or cliff vesting.

Income Taxes—Deferred income taxes are computed using the liability method and are provided on all temporary differences between the financial reporting basis and the tax basis of our assets and liabilities, except for deferred taxes on income considered to be permanently reinvested in certain foreign subsidiaries and foreign corporate joint ventures. Allowable tax credits are applied currently as reductions of the provision for income taxes. Interest related to unrecognized tax benefits is reflected in interest expense, and penalties in production and operating expenses.

Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities—Excise taxes are reported gross within sales and other operating revenues and taxes other than income taxes, while other sales and value-added taxes are recorded net in taxes other than income taxes.

Net Income (Loss) Per Share of Common Stock—Basic net income (loss) per share of common stock is calculated based upon the daily weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the year, including unallocated shares held by the stock savings feature of the ConocoPhillips Savings Plan. Also, this calculation includes fully vested stock and unit awards that have not been issued. Diluted net income per share of common stock includes the above, plus unvested stock, unit or option awards granted under our compensation plans and vested but unexercised stock options, but only to the extent these instruments dilute net income per share. For the purpose of the 2009 earnings per share calculation, net income attributable to ConocoPhillips was reduced by $12 million for the excess of the amount paid for the redemption of a noncontrolling interest over its carrying value, which was charged directly to retained earnings. Diluted net loss per share in 2008 is calculated the same as basic net loss per share—that is, it does not assume conversion or exercise of securities, totaling 17,354,959 shares in 2008 that would have an anti-dilutive effect. Treasury stock and shares held by the grantor trusts are excluded from the daily weighted-average number of common shares outstanding in both calculations.

Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles

LUKOIL Accounting
Effective January 1, 2010, we changed the method used to determine our equity-method share of OAO LUKOIL’s earnings. Prior to 2010, we estimated our LUKOIL equity earnings for the current quarter based on current market indicators, publicly available LUKOIL information and other objective data. This earnings estimation process was necessary because, historically, LUKOIL’s accounting cycle close and preparation of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles financial statements occurred subsequent to our reporting deadline, and for certain periods this timing gap exceeded 93 days. Although Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 323, “Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures,” provides that when financial statements of an investee are not sufficiently timely, then the investor should record its share of earnings or loss based on the most recently available financial statements, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance indicates this timing gap generally should not exceed 93 days. When the timing gap was reduced to less than 93 days for all reporting periods, we believed it was preferable to implement a change in accounting principle to record our equity-method share of LUKOIL’s earnings on a one-quarter-lag basis, because it improves reporting reliability, while maintaining an acceptable level of relevance.

The following table summarizes the line items affected on the consolidated statement of operations for year ended December 31, 2010:


	Millions of Dollars
	Computed with		As Reported		Effect of
	Estimate		with Lag		Change

Equity in earnings of affiliates	$	2,951		3,133		182
Gain on dispositions		5,593		5,803		210
Provision for income taxes		8,343		8,333		(10	)
Net income		11,015		11,417		402
Net income attributable to ConocoPhillips		10,956		11,358		402


Net income attributable to ConocoPhillips per share of common stock (dollars)
Basic	$	7.41		7.68		.27
Diluted		7.35		7.62		.27

The following table summarizes the line items affected on the consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2010:


	Millions of Dollars
	Computed with		As Reported		Effect of
	Estimate		with Lag		Change

Accrued income and other taxes	$	4,865		4,874		9
Accumulated other comprehensive income		4,741		4,773		32
Retained earnings		40,438		40,397		(41	)

The following table summarizes the line items affected on the 2010 consolidated statement of cash flows for year ended December 31, 2010:


	Millions of Dollars
	Computed with			As Reported			Effect of
	Estimate			with Lag			Change

Net income	$	11,015			11,417			402
Deferred taxes		(868	)		(878	)		(10	)
Undistributed equity earnings		(891	)		(1,073	)		(182	)
Gain on dispositions		(5,593	)		(5,803	)		(210	)

This change in accounting principle to a one-quarter lag under ASC Topic 323 has been applied retrospectively, by recasting prior period financial information. The following table summarizes the line items affected on the consolidated statement of operations for years ended December 31:


	Millions of Dollars
	2009							2008
	As				Effect			As						Effect
	Originally		As		of			Originally			As			of
	Reported		Adjusted		Change			Reported			Adjusted			Change

Equity in earnings of affiliates	$	2,981		2,531		(450	)		4,250			4,999			749
Impairment LUKOIL investment		-		-		-			7,410			7,496			86
Provision for income taxes		5,096		5,090		(6	)		13,405			13,419			14
Net income (loss)		4,936		4,492		(444	)		(16,928	)		(16,279	)		649
Net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips		4,858		4,414		(444	)		(16,998	)		(16,349	)		649


Net income (loss) attributable to ConocoPhillips per share of common stock (dollars)
Basic	$	3.26		2.96		(.30	)		(11.16	)		(10.73	)		.43
Diluted		3.24		2.94		(.30	)		(11.16	)		(10.73	)		.43

The following table summarizes the line items affected on the consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009:


	Millions of Dollars
	As Originally		As Reported		Effect of
	Reported		with Lag		Change

Investments and long-term receivables	$	36,192		35,742		(450	)
Deferred income taxes		17,962		17,956		(6	)
Retained earnings		32,658		32,214		(444	)

The cumulative impact to retained earnings as of January 1, 2008, was a decrease of $649 million as a result of the accounting change.

The following table summarizes the line items affected on the consolidated statement of cash flows for years ended December 31:


	Millions of Dollars
	2009									2008
	As						Effect			As						Effect
	Originally			As			of			Originally			As			of
	Reported			Adjusted			Change			Reported			Adjusted			Change

Net income (loss)	$	4,936			4,492			(444	)		(16,928	)		(16,279	)		649
Impairments		535			535			-			34,539			34,625			86
Deferred taxes		(1,109	)		(1,115	)		(6	)		(428	)		(414	)		14
Undistributed equity earnings		(1,704	)		(1,254	)		450			(1,609	)		(2,357	)		(748	)
Other		196			196			-			(1,134	)		(1,135	)		(1	)

See Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables, for additional information relating to our LUKOIL investment.

Transfers of Financial Assets
In June 2009, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 166, “Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets, an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140,” which was codified into FASB ASC Topic 860, “Transfers and Servicing.” This Statement removed the concept of a qualifying special purpose entity (SPE) and the exception for qualifying SPEs from the consolidation guidance. Additionally, the Statement clarified the requirements for financial asset transfers eligible for sale accounting. This Statement was effective January 1, 2010, and did not impact our consolidated financial statements.

Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)
Also in June 2009, the FASB issued SFAS No. 167, “Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R),” to address the effects of the elimination of the qualifying SPE concept in SFAS No. 166, and other concerns about the application of key provisions of consolidation guidance for VIEs. This Statement was codified into FASB ASC Topic 810, “Consolidation.” More specifically, Topic 810 requires a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach to determine the primary beneficiary of a VIE, it amended certain guidance pertaining to the determination of the primary beneficiary when related parties are involved, and it amended certain guidance for determining whether an entity is a VIE. Additionally, this Statement requires continuous assessments of whether an enterprise is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. This Statement was effective January 1, 2010, and its adoption did not impact our consolidated financial statements, other than the required disclosures. For additional information, see Note 3—Variable Interest Entities (VIEs).

Reserve Estimation and Disclosures
In January 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2010-03, “Oil and Gas Reserve Estimation and Disclosures.” This ASU amended the FASB’s ASC Topic 932, “Extractive Activities—Oil and Gas” to align the accounting requirements of Topic 932 with the SEC’s final rule, “Modernization of the Oil and Gas Reporting Requirements” issued on December 31, 2008. In summary, the revisions in ASU 2010-03 modernized the disclosure rules to better align with current industry practices and expanded the disclosure requirements for equity method investments so that more useful information is provided. More specifically, the main provisions include the following:

	•		An expanded definition of oil and gas producing activities to include nontraditional resources such as bitumen extracted from oil sands.

	•		The use of an average of the first-day-of-the-month price for the 12-month period, rather than a year-end price for determining whether reserves can be produced economically.

	•		Amended definitions of key terms such as “reliable technology” and “reasonable certainty” which are used in estimating proved oil and gas reserve quantities.

	•		A requirement for disclosing separate information about reserve quantities and financial statement amounts for geographical areas representing 15 percent or more of proved reserves.

	•		Clarification that an entity’s equity investments must be considered in determining whether it has significant oil and gas activities and a requirement to disclose equity method investments in the same level of detail as is required for consolidated investments.

This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods ended on or after December 31, 2009, and it requires (1) the effect of the adoption to be included within each of the dollar amounts and quantities disclosed, (2) qualitative and quantitative disclosure of the estimated effect of adoption on each of the dollar amounts and quantities disclosed, if significant and practical to estimate and (3) the effect of adoption on the financial statements, if significant and practical to estimate. Adoption of these requirements did not significantly impact our reported reserves or our consolidated financial statements.

Business Combinations
In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141 (Revised), “Business Combinations” (SFAS No. 141(R)), which was subsequently amended by FASB Staff Position (FSP) FAS 141(R)-1 in April 2009. This Statement was codified into FASB ASC Topic 805, “Business Combinations.” Topic 805 applies prospectively to all transactions in which an entity obtains control of one or more other businesses on or after January 1, 2009. In general, Topic 805 requires the acquiring entity in a business combination to recognize the fair value of all assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the transaction; establishes the acquisition date as the fair value measurement point; and modifies disclosure requirements. It also modifies the accounting treatment for transaction costs, in-process research and development, restructuring costs, changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowances as a result of a business combination, and changes in income tax uncertainties after the acquisition date. Additionally, effective January 1, 2009, accounting for changes in valuation allowances for acquired deferred tax assets and the resolution of uncertain tax positions for prior business combinations impact tax expense instead of goodwill.

Noncontrolling Interests
Effective January 1, 2009, we implemented SFAS No. 160, “Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements—an amendment of ARB No. 51.” This Statement was codified into FASB ASC Topic 810, “Consolidation.” Topic 810 requires noncontrolling interests, previously called minority interests, to be presented as a separate item in the equity section of the consolidated balance sheet. It also requires the amount of consolidated net income attributable to noncontrolling interests to be clearly presented on the face of the consolidated statement of operations. Additionally, Topic 810 clarified that changes in a parent’s ownership interest in a subsidiary that do not result in deconsolidation are equity transactions, and that deconsolidation of a subsidiary requires gain or loss recognition in net income based on the fair value on the deconsolidation date. Topic 810 was applied prospectively with the exception of presentation and disclosure requirements, which were applied retrospectively for all periods presented, and did not significantly change the presentation of our consolidated financial statements. FASB ASU No. 2010-02, “Accounting and Reporting for Decreases in Ownership of a Subsidiary—a Scope Clarification,” clarified the decrease in ownership provision of Topic 810 applies to a group of assets or a subsidiary that is a business, but was not applicable to sales of in-substance real estate, or conveyances of oil and gas mineral rights.

Derivatives
Effective January 1, 2009, we implemented SFAS No. 161, “Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities—an amendment of FASB No. 133.” This Statement was codified into FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging.” The amendments to Topic 815 expanded disclosure requirements to provide greater transparency for derivative instruments. In addition, we now must include an indication of the volume of derivative activity by category (e.g., interest rate, commodity and foreign currency); derivative assets, liabilities, gains and losses, by category, for the periods presented in the financial statements; and expanded disclosures about credit-risk-related contingent features. See Note 16—Financial Instruments and Derivative Contracts, for additional information.

Fair Value Measurement
Effective January 1, 2008, we implemented SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This Statement was codified primarily into FASB ASC Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.” This Topic defined fair value, established a framework for its measurement and expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. We elected to implement this guidance with the one-year deferral permitted for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities measured at fair value, except those that are recognized or disclosed on a recurring basis (at least annually). Following the allowed one-year deferral, effective January 1, 2009, we implemented Topic 820 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. The implementation covers assets and liabilities measured at fair value in a business combination; impaired properties, plants and equipment, intangible assets and goodwill; initial recognition of asset retirement obligations; and restructuring costs for which we use fair value. There was no impact to our consolidated financial statements from the implementation of this Topic for nonfinancial assets and liabilities, other than additional disclosures.

Equity Method Accounting
In November 2008, the FASB reached a consensus on Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No. 08-6, “Equity Method Investment Accounting Considerations” (EITF 08-6). EITF 08-6 was codified into FASB ASC Topic 323, “Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures.” EITF 08-6 was issued to clarify how the application of equity method accounting is affected by SFAS No. 141(R) and SFAS No. 160. Topic 323 clarified that an entity shall continue to use the cost accumulation model for its equity method investments. It also confirmed past accounting practices related to the treatment of contingent consideration and the use of the impairment model under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 18, “The Equity Method of Accounting for Investments in Common Stock.” Additionally, it requires an equity method investor to account for a share issuance by an investee as if the investor had sold a proportionate share of the investment. This Topic was effective January 1, 2009, and applies prospectively. The adoption did not impact our consolidated financial statements.

Postretirement Benefit Plan Assets
In December 2008, the FASB issued FSP FAS 132(R)-1, “Employers’ Disclosures about Postretirement Benefit Plan Assets,” to improve the transparency associated with disclosures about the plan assets of a defined benefit pension or other postretirement plan. This Statement was codified into FASB ASC Topic 715, “Compensation—Retirement Benefits.” Topic 715 requires the disclosure of each major asset class at fair value using the fair value hierarchy in SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This Topic is effective for annual financial statements beginning with the 2009 fiscal year, but did not impact our consolidated financial statements, other than requiring additional disclosures. For more information on this disclosure, see Note 19—Employee Benefit Plans.

Note 3—Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)

We hold significant variable interests in VIEs that have not been consolidated because we are not considered the primary beneficiary. Information on these VIEs follows.

We have a 30 percent ownership interest with a 50 percent governance interest in the OOO Naryanmarneftegaz (NMNG) joint venture to develop resources in the Timan-Pechora province of Russia. The NMNG joint venture is a VIE because we and LUKOIL have disproportionate interests, and LUKOIL was a related party at inception of the joint venture. Since LUKOIL is no longer a related party, we do not believe NMNG would be a VIE if reconsidered today. LUKOIL owns 70 percent versus our 30 percent direct interest; therefore, we have determined we are not the primary beneficiary of NMNG, and we use the equity method of accounting for this investment. The funding of NMNG has been provided with equity contributions, primarily for the development of the Yuzhno Khylchuyu (YK) Field. At December 31, 2010, the book value of our investment in the venture was $735 million.

We have an agreement with Freeport LNG Development, L.P. (Freeport LNG) to participate in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Quintana, Texas. We have no ownership in Freeport LNG; however, we own a 50 percent interest in Freeport LNG GP, Inc. (Freeport GP), which serves as the general partner managing the venture. We entered into a credit agreement with Freeport LNG, whereby we agreed to provide loan financing for the construction of the terminal. We also entered into a long-term agreement with Freeport LNG to use 0.9 billion cubic feet per day of regasification capacity. The terminal became operational in June 2008, and we began making payments under the terminal use agreement. Freeport LNG began making loan repayments in September 2008, and the loan balance outstanding as of December 31, 2010, was $653 million. Freeport LNG is a VIE because Freeport GP holds no equity in Freeport LNG, and the limited partners of Freeport LNG do not have any substantive decision making ability. We performed an analysis of the expected losses and determined we are not the primary beneficiary. This expected loss analysis took into account that the credit support arrangement requires Freeport LNG to maintain sufficient commercial insurance to mitigate any loan losses. The loan to Freeport LNG is accounted for as a financial asset, and our investment in Freeport GP is accounted for as an equity investment.

Note 4—Inventories

Inventories at December 31 were:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009

Crude oil and petroleum products	$	4,254		3,955
Materials, supplies and other		943		985

	$	5,197		4,940

Inventories valued on the LIFO basis totaled $4,051 million and $3,747 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. The excess of current replacement cost over LIFO cost of inventories amounted to $6,794 million and $5,627 million at December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Note 5—Assets Held for Sale

In the fourth quarter of 2009, we announced plans to raise approximately $10 billion from asset sales through the end of 2011. At December 31, 2009, we classified $323 million of Refining and Marketing (R&M) noncurrent assets, primarily investment in equity affiliates, and $75 million of R&M noncurrent deferred income tax liabilities as held for sale. During 2010, these assets and others were sold. While we continue to market and evaluate other assets for sale under this program that may be sold in 2011, we did not have significant assets meeting the criteria to be classified as held for sale as of December 31, 2010.

On June 25, 2010, we sold our 9.03 percent interest in the Syncrude Canada Ltd. joint venture for $4.6 billion. The $2.9 billion before-tax gain was included in the “Gain on dispositions” line of our consolidated statement of operations. The cash proceeds were included in the “Proceeds from asset dispositions” line within the investing cash flow section of our consolidated statement of cash flows. At the time of disposition, Syncrude had a net carrying value of $1.75 billion, which included $1.97 billion of properties, plants and equipment. During 2010 until its disposition, Syncrude contributed $327 million in intercompany sales and other operating revenues, and generated income before taxes of $127 million and net income of $93 million for the E&P segment.

Note 6—Investments, Loans and Long-Term Receivables

Components of investments, loans and long-term receivables at December 31 were:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009

Equity investments*	$	30,055		34,280
Loans and advances—related parties		2,180		2,352
Long-term receivables		922		1,009
Other investments		604		453

	$	33,761		38,094

*2009 recast to reflect a change in accounting principle. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for more information.

Equity Investments
Affiliated companies in which we had a significant equity investment at December 31, 2010 include:

	•		Australia Pacific LNG—50 percent owned joint venture with Origin Energy—to develop coalbed methane production from the Bowen and Surat Basins in Queensland, Australia, as well as process and export LNG.

	•		FCCL Partnership—50 percent owned business venture with Cenovus Energy Inc.—produces bitumen in the Athabasca oil sands in northeastern Alberta and sells the bitumen blend.

	•		WRB Refining LP—50 percent owned business venture with Cenovus—owns the Wood River and Borger Refineries, which process crude oil into refined products.

	•		OOO Naryanmarneftegaz (NMNG)—30 percent ownership interest and a 50 percent governance interest—a joint venture with LUKOIL to explore for, develop and produce oil and gas resources in the northern part of Russia’s Timan-Pechora Province.

	•		DCP Midstream, LLC—50 percent owned joint venture with Spectra Energy—owns and operates gas plants, gathering systems, storage facilities and fractionation plants.

	•		Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem)—50 percent owned joint venture with Chevron Corporation—manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics.

Summarized 100 percent financial information for equity method investments in affiliated companies, combined, was as follows (information includes LUKOIL until loss of significant influence):


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009		2008

Revenues	$	105,589		128,881		180,070
Income before income taxes		11,250		12,121		22,356
Net income		9,495		9,145		17,976
Current assets		14,039		36,139		34,838
Noncurrent assets		79,411		126,163		114,294
Current liabilities		9,325		22,483		21,150
Noncurrent liabilities		24,412		30,960		29,845

Our share of income taxes incurred directly by the equity companies is reported in equity in earnings of affiliates, and as such is not included in income taxes in our consolidated financial statements.

At December 31, 2010, retained earnings included $1,991 million related to the undistributed earnings of affiliated companies.

Australia Pacific LNG
In October 2008, we closed on a transaction with Origin Energy, an integrated Australian energy company, to further enhance our long-term Australasian natural gas business. The 50/50 joint venture, Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG), is focused on coalbed methane production from the Bowen and Surat Basins in Queensland, Australia, and LNG processing and export sales. This transaction gives us access to coalbed methane resources in Australia and enhances our LNG position with the expected creation of an additional LNG hub targeting the Asia Pacific markets.

Under the terms of our agreements with Origin Energy, we will potentially make up to four additional payments to Origin of $500 million each. The payments are conditional on up to four LNG trains being approved and developed by the joint venture and achievement of certain other financial and operating milestones.

At December 31, 2010, the book value of our equity method investment in APLNG was $9,159 million, which includes $3,244 million of cumulative translation effects due to a strengthening Australian dollar. Our 50 percent share of the historical cost basis net assets of APLNG on its books under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $1,187 million, resulting in a basis difference of $7,948 million on our books. The amortizable portion of the basis difference, $5,719 million associated with properties, plants and equipment, has been allocated on a relative fair value basis to individual exploration and production license areas owned by APLNG, most of which are not currently in production. Any future additional payments are expected to be allocated in a similar manner. Each exploration license area will periodically be reviewed for any indicators of potential impairment, which, if required, would result in acceleration of basis difference amortization. As the joint venture begins producing natural gas from each license, we amortize the basis difference allocated to that license using the unit-of-production method. Included in net income attributable to ConocoPhillips for 2010, 2009 and 2008 was after-tax expense of $5 million, $4 million and $7 million, respectively, representing the amortization of this basis difference on currently producing licenses.

FCCL and WRB
In January 2007, we closed on a business venture with Cenovus to create an integrated North American heavy oil business. The transaction consists of two 50/50 business ventures, a Canadian upstream general partnership, FCCL Partnership, and a U.S. downstream limited partnership, WRB Refining LP. We use the equity method of accounting for both entities, with the operating results of our investment in FCCL reflecting its use of the full-cost method of accounting for oil and gas exploration and development activities.

At December 31, 2010, the book value of our investment in FCCL was $8,674 million. FCCL’s operating assets consist of the Foster Creek and Christina Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage bitumen projects, both located in the eastern flank of the Athabasca oil sands in northeastern Alberta. Cenovus is the operator and managing partner of FCCL. We are obligated to contribute $7.5 billion, plus accrued interest, to FCCL over a 10-year period that began in 2007. For additional information on this obligation, see Note 13—Joint Venture Acquisition Obligation.

At December 31, 2010, the book value of our investment in WRB was $3,222 million. WRB’s operating assets consist of the Wood River and Borger Refineries, located in Roxana, Illinois, and Borger, Texas, respectively. As a result of our contribution of these two assets to WRB, a basis difference was created due to the fair value of the contributed assets recorded by WRB exceeding their historical book value. The difference is primarily amortized and recognized as a benefit evenly over a period of 26 years, which is the estimated remaining useful life of the refineries’ property, plant and equipment at the closing date. The basis difference at December 31, 2010, was $4,101 million. Equity earnings in 2010, 2009 and 2008 were increased by $243 million, $209 million and $246 million, respectively, due to amortization of the basis difference. We are the operator and managing partner of WRB. Cenovus is obligated to contribute $7.5 billion, plus accrued interest, to WRB over a 10-year period that began in 2007. For the Wood River Refinery, operating results are shared 50/50 starting upon formation. For the Borger Refinery, we were entitled to 85 percent of the operating results in 2007, with our share decreasing to 65 percent in 2008, and 50 percent in all years thereafter.

LUKOIL
LUKOIL is an integrated energy company headquartered in Russia. Our ownership interest was 2.25 percent at December 31, 2010, and 20 percent at December 31, 2009 and 2008, based on 851 million shares authorized and issued. For financial reporting under U.S. GAAP, treasury shares held by LUKOIL are not considered

outstanding for determining equity method ownership interest. Our ownership interest, based on estimated shares outstanding at December 31, 2009 and 2008, was 20.09 percent and 20.06 percent, respectively.

On July 28, 2010, we announced our intention to sell our entire interest in LUKOIL, then consisting of 163.4 million shares. This decision was implemented as follows:

	•		On July 28, 2010, we entered into a stock purchase and option agreement (the Agreement) with a wholly owned subsidiary of LUKOIL, pursuant to which such subsidiary purchased 64.6 million shares from us at a price of $53.25 per share, or $3,442 million in total. This transaction closed on August 16, 2010.

	•		Also pursuant to the Agreement, the LUKOIL subsidiary had a 60-day option, expiring on September 26, 2010, to purchase any or all of our interest remaining at the time of exercise of the option, at a price of $56 per share. Upon exercise of this option, we sold 42.5 million shares on September 29, 2010, for proceeds of $2,380 million.

	•		Finally, we sold our remaining shares in the open market subject to the terms of the Shareholder Agreement, with the final disposition of all shares occurring in the first quarter of 2011.

During the third quarter of 2010, our ownership interest declined to a level at which we were no longer able to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of LUKOIL. Accordingly, at the end of the third quarter of 2010, we stopped applying the equity method of accounting for our remaining investment in LUKOIL, and we reclassified the investment from “Investments and long-term receivables” to current assets on our consolidated balance sheet as an available-for-sale equity security.

In total, during 2010, we sold 151 million shares of LUKOIL for $8,345 million, realizing a before-tax gain on disposition of $1,749 million, which was included in the “Gain on dispositions” line of our consolidated statement of operations. Included in these amounts are sales proceeds of $1,793 million and a realized before-tax gain of $437 million incurred subsequent to classifying the investment as available-for-sale. The cost basis for shares sold is average cost.

At December 31, 2010, our remaining investment in LUKOIL was carried at fair value of $1,083 million, reflecting a closing price of LUKOIL American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on the London Stock Exchange of $56.50 per share. The carrying value reflects a pretax unrealized gain over our cost basis of $247 million. This unrealized gain, net of related income taxes, is reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. The fair value is categorized as Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy.

Prior to 2010, our equity earnings for LUKOIL were estimated. Effective January 1, 2010, we changed our accounting to record our equity earnings for LUKOIL on a one-quarter-lag basis. See Note 2—Changes in Accounting Principles, for additional information about this change in accounting principle for our LUKOIL investment.

While applying the equity method of accounting, a negative basis difference existed which was primarily amortized on a straight-line basis over a 22-year useful life as an increase to equity earnings. Equity earnings in 2010 and 2009 were increased $155 million and $157 million, respectively, while equity earnings in 2008 were reduced $86 million due to amortization of the positive basis difference that existed prior to the 2008 year-end investment impairment discussed below.

Since the inception of our investment and through June 30, 2008, the market value of our investment in LUKOIL exceeded book value, based on the price of LUKOIL ADRs on the London Stock Exchange. However, the price of LUKOIL ADRs experienced significant decline during the second half of 2008, and traded for most of the fourth quarter and into early 2009 in the general range of $25 to $40 per share. The ADR price at year-end 2008 was $32.05 per share, or 67 percent lower than the June 30, 2008, price. This resulted in a December 31, 2008, market value of our investment of $5,452 million, or 58 percent lower than our book value. Based on a review of the facts and circumstances surrounding this decline in the market value of our investment during the second half of 2008, we concluded that an impairment of our investment was necessary. In reaching this conclusion, we considered the length of time market value had been below book value and the severity of the decline in market value to be important factors. In combination, these two items

caused us to conclude that the decline was other than temporary. Accordingly, we recorded a noncash $7,496 million, before- and after-tax impairment, in our fourth-quarter 2008 results. This impairment had the effect of reducing our book value to $5,452 million, based on the market value of LUKOIL ADRs on December 31, 2008.

NMNG
NMNG is a joint venture with LUKOIL, created in June 2005, to develop resources in the northern part of Russia’s Timan-Pechora province. We have a 30 percent direct ownership interest with a 50 percent governance interest. At December 31, 2010, the book value of our equity method investment in NMNG was $735 million. NMNG achieved initial production of the YK Field in June 2008, and development was completed in 2010. Production from the NMNG joint venture fields is transported via pipeline to LUKOIL’s existing terminal at Varandey Bay on the Barents Sea and then shipped via tanker to international markets. During 2010 and 2009, we reduced the carrying value of our NMNG investment, reflecting other-than-temporary declines in fair value.

DCP Midstream
DCP Midstream owns and operates gas plants, gathering systems, storage facilities and fractionation plants. At December 31, 2010, the book value of our equity method investment in DCP Midstream was $1,038 million. DCP Midstream markets a portion of its natural gas liquids to us and CPChem under a supply agreement that continues at the current volume commitment with a primary term ending December 31, 2014. This purchase commitment is on an “if-produced, will-purchase” basis and so has no fixed production schedule, but has had, and is expected over the remaining term of the contract to have, a relatively stable purchase pattern. Natural gas liquids are purchased under this agreement at various published market index prices, less transportation and fractionation fees.

CPChem
CPChem manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics. At December 31, 2010, the book value of our equity method investment in CPChem was $2,518 million. We have multiple supply and purchase agreements in place with CPChem, ranging in initial terms from one to 99 years, with extension options. These agreements cover sales and purchases of refined products, solvents, and petrochemical and natural gas liquids feedstocks, as well as fuel oils and gases. Delivery quantities vary by product, and are generally on an “if-produced, will-purchase” basis. All products are purchased and sold under specified pricing formulas based on various published pricing indices, consistent with terms extended to third-party customers.

Loans and Long-term Receivables
As part of our normal ongoing business operations and consistent with industry practice, we enter into numerous agreements with other parties to pursue business opportunities. Included in such activity are loans and long-term receivables to certain affiliated and non-affiliated companies. Loans are recorded when cash is transferred or seller financing is provided to the affiliated or non-affiliated company pursuant to a loan agreement. The loan balance will increase as interest is earned on the outstanding loan balance and will decrease as interest and principal payments are received. Interest is earned at the loan agreement’s stated interest rate. Loans and long-term receivables are assessed for impairment when events indicate the loan balance may not be fully recovered.

At December 31, 2010, significant loans to affiliated companies include the following:

•

$653 million in loan financing to Freeport LNG Development, L.P. for the construction of an LNG receiving terminal that became operational in June 2008. Freeport began making repayments in 2008 and is required to continue making repayments through full repayment of the loan in 2026. Repayment by Freeport is supported by “process-or-pay” capacity service payments made by us to Freeport under our terminal use agreement.

•

$1,118 million of project financing and an additional $96 million of accrued interest to Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited (3) (QG3), which is an integrated project to produce and liquefy natural gas from Qatar’s North Field. We own a 30 percent interest in QG3, for which we use the equity method of accounting. The other participants in the project are affiliates of Qatar Petroleum (68.5 percent) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (1.5 percent). QG3 secured project financing of $4.0 billion in

December 2005, consisting of $1.3 billion of loans from export credit agencies (ECA), $1.5 billion from commercial banks, and $1.2 billion from ConocoPhillips. The ConocoPhillips loan facilities have substantially the same terms as the ECA and commercial bank facilities. Prior to project completion certification, all loans, including the ConocoPhillips loan facilities, are guaranteed by the participants based on their respective ownership interests. Accordingly, our maximum exposure to this financing structure is $1.2 billion. Upon completion certification, which is expected in 2011, all project loan facilities, including the ConocoPhillips loan facilities, will become nonrecourse to the project participants. At December 31, 2010, QG3 had approximately $4.0 billion outstanding under all the loan facilities. Bi-annual repayments began in January 2011 and will extend through July 2022.

•

$550 million of loan financing to WRB Refining LP to assist it in meeting its operating and capital spending requirements. We have certain creditor rights in case of default or insolvency.

The long-term portion of these loans are included in the “Loans and advances—related parties” line on the consolidated balance sheet, while the short-term portion is in “Accounts and notes receivable—related parties.”

At September 30, 2010, the Varandey Terminal Company was no longer considered a related party. Accordingly, the long-term portion of this loan is included in the “Investments and long-term receivables” line of the consolidated balance sheet, while the short-term portion is in “Prepaid expenses and other current assets.”

At December 31, 2010, significant long-term receivables and loans to non-affiliated companies included $372 million related to seller financing of U.S. retail marketing assets. In January 2009, we closed on the sale of a large part of our U.S. retail marketing assets which included a five-year note to finance the sale of certain assets. The note is collateralized by the underlying assets related to the sale.

Long-term receivables and the long-term portion of these loans are included in the “Investments and long-term receivables” line on the consolidated balance sheet, while the short-term portion related to non-affiliate loans is in “Accounts and notes receivable.”

Other
We have investments remeasured at fair value on a recurring basis to support certain nonqualified deferred compensation plans. The fair value of these assets at December 31, 2010, was $325 million, and at December 31, 2009, was $338 million. Substantially the entire value is categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. These investments are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quotations from national securities exchanges.

Merey Sweeny, L.P. (MSLP) is a limited partnership that owns a 70,000-barrel-per-day delayed coker and related facilities at the Sweeny Refinery. MSLP processes our long residue, which is produced from heavy sour crude oil, for a processing fee. Fuel-grade petroleum coke is produced as a by-product and becomes the property of MSLP. Prior to August 28, 2009, MSLP was owned 50/50 by us and Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). Under the agreements that govern the relationships between the partners, certain defaults by PDVSA with respect to supply of crude oil to the Sweeny Refinery gave us the right to acquire PDVSA’s 50 percent ownership interest in MSLP. On August 28, 2009, we exercised that right. PDVSA has initiated arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce challenging our actions, and this arbitration is underway. We continue to use the equity method of accounting for our investment in MSLP.

Note 7—Properties, Plants and Equipment

Properties, plants and equipment (PP&E) are recorded at cost. Within the E&P segment, depreciation is mainly on a unit-of-production basis, so depreciable life will vary by field. In the R&M segment, investments in refining manufacturing facilities are generally depreciated on a straight-line basis over a 25-year life, and pipeline assets over a 45-year life. The company’s investment in PP&E, with accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization (Accum. DD&A), at December 31 was:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010						2009
	Gross		Accum.		Net		Gross		Accum.		Net
	PP&E		DD&A		PP&E		PP&E		DD&A		PP&E


E&P	$	116,805		50,501		66,304		115,224		45,577		69,647
Midstream		128		80		48		123		74		49
R&M		23,579		8,999		14,580		23,047		6,714		16,333
LUKOIL Investment		-		-		-		-		-		-
Chemicals		-		-		-		-		-		-
Emerging Businesses		981		161		820		1,198		300		898
Corporate and Other		1,732		930		802		1,650		869		781

	$	143,225		60,671		82,554		141,242		53,534		87,708

Note 8—Suspended Wells

The following table reflects the net changes in suspended exploratory well costs during 2010, 2009 and 2008:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010			2009			2008


Beginning balance at January 1	$	908			660			589
Additions pending the determination of proved reserves		216			342			160
Reclassifications to proved properties		(106	)		(39	)		(37	)
Sales of suspended well investment		(4	)		(21	)		(10	)
Charged to dry hole expense		(1	)		(34	)		(42	)

Ending balance at December 31	$	1,013			908			660

The following table provides an aging of suspended well balances at December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010		2009		2008


Exploratory well costs capitalized for a period of one year or less	$	220		319		182
Exploratory well costs capitalized for a period greater than one year		793		589		478

Ending balance	$	1,013		908		660

Number of projects that have exploratory well costs that have been capitalized for a period greater than one year		40		34		31

The following table provides a further aging of those exploratory well costs that have been capitalized for more than one year since the completion of drilling as of December 31, 2010:


		Millions of Dollars
			Suspended Since
Project	Total		2007-2009		2004-2006		2001-2003


Aktote—Kazakhstan⁽¹⁾	$	19		-		8		11
Alpine satellite—Alaska⁽¹⁾		23		-		-		23
Browse Basin—Australia⁽²⁾		93		93		-		-
Caldita/Barossa—Australia⁽²⁾		77		-		77		-
Clair—U.K.⁽¹⁾		46		29		17		-
Fiord West—Alaska⁽¹⁾		16		16		-		-
Harrison—U.K.⁽¹⁾		15		15		-		-
Kairan—Kazakhstan⁽¹⁾		27		14		13		-
Kalamkas—Kazakhstan⁽²⁾		13		4		5		4
Kashagan—Kazakhstan⁽²⁾		44		34		-		10
Malikai—Malaysia⁽¹⁾		53		-		53		-
NPR-A—Alaska⁽¹⁾		17		17		-		-
Petai/Pisagon—Malaysia⁽²⁾		43		33		10		-
Saleski—Canada⁽²⁾		14		14		-		-
Shenandoah—Lower 48⁽²⁾		43		43		-		-
Sunrise 3—Australia⁽¹⁾		13		13		-		-
Surmont Beyond Phase II—Canada⁽²⁾		28		19		9		-
Thornbury—Canada⁽²⁾		20		20		-		-
Tiber—Lower 48⁽²⁾		40		40		-		-
Titan—Norway⁽¹⁾		12		12		-		-
Ubah—Malaysia⁽¹⁾		24		24		-		-
Uge—Nigeria⁽²⁾		30		16		14		-
Eighteen projects of $10 million or less each⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾		83		59		24		-

Total of 40 projects	$	793		515		230		48

(1) Appraisal drilling complete; costs being incurred to assess development.

(2) Additional appraisal wells planned.

Note 9—Goodwill and Intangibles

Goodwill
Changes in the carrying amount of goodwill were as follows:


	Millions of Dollars
	2010									2009
	E&P			R&M			Total			E&P			R&M			Total

Balance as of January 1
Goodwill	$	25,443			3,638			29,081			25,443			3,778			29,221
Accumulated impairment losses		(25,443	)		-			(25,443	)		(25,443	)		-			(25,443	)

		-			3,638			3,638			-			3,778			3,778
Goodwill allocated to assets held for sale or sold		-			-			-			-			(135	)		(135	)
Tax and other adjustments		-			(5	)		(5	)		-			(5	)		(5	)

Balance as of December 31
Goodwill		25,443			3,633			29,076			25,443			3,638			29,081
Accumulated impairment losses		(25,443	)		-			(25,443	)		(25,443	)		-			(25,443	)

	$	-			3,633			3,633			-			3,638			3,638

Goodwill Impairment
We perform our annual goodwill impairment review in the fourth quarter of each year. During the fourth quarter of 2008, there were severe disruptions in the credit markets and reductions in global economic activity which had significant adverse impacts on stock markets and oil-and-gas-related commodity prices, both of which contributed to a significant decline in our company’s stock price and corresponding market capitalization. For most of the fourth quarter of 2008, our market capitalization value was significantly below the recorded net book value of our balance sheet, including goodwill.

Because quoted market prices for our reporting units are not available, management must apply judgment in determining the estimated fair value of these reporting units for purposes of performing the annual goodwill impairment test. Management uses all available information to make these fair value determinations, including the present values of expected future cash flows using discount rates commensurate with the risks involved in the assets. A key component of these fair value determinations is a reconciliation of the sum of these net present value calculations to our market capitalization. We use an average of our market capitalization over the 30 calendar days preceding the impairment testing date as being more reflective of our stock price trend than a single day, point-in-time market price. Because, in our judgment, Worldwide E&P is considered to have a higher valuation volatility than Worldwide R&M, the long-term free cash flow growth rate implied from this reconciliation to our recent average market capitalization is applied to the Worldwide E&P net present value calculation.

The accounting principles regarding goodwill acknowledge that the observed market prices of individual trades of a company’s stock (and thus its computed market capitalization) may not be representative of the fair value of the company as a whole. Substantial value may arise from the ability to take advantage of synergies and other benefits that flow from control over another entity. Consequently, measuring the fair value of a collection of assets and liabilities that operate together in a controlled entity is different from measuring the fair value of that entity’s individual common stock. In most industries, including ours, an acquiring entity typically is willing to pay more for equity securities that give it a controlling interest than an investor would pay for a number of equity securities representing less than a controlling interest. Therefore, once the above net present value calculations have been determined, we also add a control premium to the calculations. This control premium is judgmental and is based on observed acquisitions in our industry. The resultant fair values calculated for the reporting units are then compared to observable metrics on large mergers and acquisitions in our industry to determine whether those valuations, in our judgment, appear reasonable.

After determining the fair values of our various reporting units as of December 31, 2008, it was determined that our Worldwide R&M reporting unit passed the first step of the goodwill impairment test, while our Worldwide E&P reporting unit did not pass the first step. As described above, the second step of the goodwill impairment test uses the estimated fair value of Worldwide E&P from the first step as the purchase price in a hypothetical acquisiti