About the Company
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is a public company being engaged in hydrocarbon exploration which was founded in 1959 in Delaware with its headquarters based in two skyscrapers in The Woodlands, Texas, the Allison Tower, and the Hackett Tower. The company was acquired by Occidental Petroleum in 2019. It was formed as a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation which is a pipeline company in 1959 after the discovery of huge amounts of natural gas in the Anadarko Basin. It purchased a 7.5 acre tract in The Woodlands, Texas from the Woodlands Land Company to build an 800,000 square foot and 32 story building on the site in 1999. Anadarko was ranked among the 14th best of 92 oil, gas and mining companies on indigenous rights and resource extraction in the Arctic by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in December 2016. It has also participated in the hard minerals business with the help of its ownership of non-operated joint ventures and royalty arrangements.