GREELEY – — At the mention of taxes, no one groaned or even flinched Tuesday at the Anadarko Petroleum Corp. regional office in Evans.
Instead, government and community leaders gathered to applaud the largest tax payment Anadarko has made to Weld County — $52 million in 2011 property taxes — with an oversized check and cake.
And Anadarko wasn’t event the largest taxpayer in Weld.
Noble Energy paid $57 million in 2011 property taxes, said John Lefebvre, Weld County treasurer. Together, those two oil and gas companies paid 25 percent of the total property taxes collected by Weld County for last year. The deadline to pay was Monday.
“A payment of this size represents success,” said Travis Holland, senior staff accountant for Anadarko, at the celebration Tuesday.
The gathering came on the heels of the international company’s release of its first-quarter income — $2.1 billion, a 50 percent year-over-year increase in liquid sales volumes.
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