Editing ConocoPhillips (section)

===2002===
On August 30, 2002, Conoco Inc. and [[Phillips Petroleum Company]], whose headquarters were in nearby [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]] merged into ConocoPhillips.<ref name="company" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2323/89882202001082/filing-main.htm |title=ConocoPhillips, Form 8-K12G3 | date=August 30, 2002 |publisher=secdatabase.com}}</ref> By January 2002, the groups organizing the merger had selected Houston as the site of the headquarters. The merger brought the two companies' expertise together, allowing the new company to develop megaprojects involving remote natural gas supplies.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Exploring the Skyrocketing Price of Oil: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, May 21, 2008 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-16-081871-4 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=142 |language=en}}</ref> [[Governor of Oklahoma]] [[Frank Keating]] said that the move to Houston was "regrettable".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/phillips-conoco-merger-keating-fails-in-effort-to-keep-headquarters/article_52d0cc20-b6e5-53a8-ad17-7a468b314b6a.html | title=Phillips/Conoco Merger: Keating fails in effort to keep headquarters | first=Brian | last=Ford | work=[[Tulsa World]] | date=January 23, 2002}}</ref>