"We're having a revolution," said Steve Farris, Apache's chief executive.
By contrast, Apache's stock fell 3 percent on Monday.
Apache's board eventually lowered Farris's package by around $3 million, but it is the exception.
He said Apache's operations, in remote areas of the Western Desert in Egypt, had continued uninterrupted.
"I worry less about Apache's operations in Egypt than in Argentina," Mr. Gheit said.
Much of the Web's software and code is designed to work along with Apache's features.
The living room has no sofa, only plastic lawn chairs, and milk crates holding books and Apache's basketball trophies.
"This is an important growth step for Apache, a unique bolt-on opportunity that more than doubles Apache's acreage in a highly liquids-rich fairway in the Anadarko Basin," G. Steven Farris, Apache's chief executive, said.
The deal would continue Apache's strategy of trying to extend into deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
"That was Apache's seat," said Best, staring at the chair one last time before walking off the floor.
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