Litigation and Other Contingencies

We are subject to various lawsuits and claims including but not limited to matters

involving oil and gas royalty

and severance tax payments, gas measurement and

valuation methods, contract disputes,

environmental

damages, climate change, personal injury, and property damage.

Our primary exposures for such matters

relate to alleged royalty and tax underpayments

on certain federal, state and privately owned

properties and

claims of alleged environmental contamination

from historic operations.

We will continue to defend ourselves

vigorously in these 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, is required.

We have contingent liabilities resulting from throughput agreements with pipeline and

processing companies

not associated with financing arrangements.

Under these agreements, we may be required

to provide any such

company with additional funds through advances

and penalties for fees related to throughput capacity

not

utilized.

In addition, at December 31, 2020,

we had performance obligations secured by

letters of credit of

$

249

million (issued as direct bank letters of

credit) related to various purchase commitments

for materials,

supplies, commercial activities and services incident

to the ordinary conduct of business.

In 2007, ConocoPhillips was unable to reach

agreement with respect to the 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, ConocoPhillips

initiated international arbitration on November 2,

2007, with the

ICSID.

On September 3, 2013, an ICSID arbitration tribunal

held that Venezuela unlawfully expropriated