Chesapeake

Chesapeake Energy Corp. is far and away the leading natural gas operator in Pennsylvania after production in the first half of this year closed in on 400 Bcf, easily surpassing any other top-10 producer in the state.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed to swap property and producing wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming with RKI Exploration & Production LLC, the company said Tuesday.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has prevailed in two lawsuits, including one filed by shareholders, but it is facing a criminal trial after a Michigan judge ruled Wednesday there was enough evidence that it colluded with Encana Corp. to rig a land auction in 2010.

Seventy Seven Energy Inc. (SSE), the oilfield services unit jettisoned by Chesapeake Energy Corp., advanced Tuesday in its first day of trading as a standalone on the New York Stock Exchange.

Onshore explorers that boast about holding and developing the “core of the core” won’t find a fan in Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Doug Lawler. He doesn’t think there’s any such thing.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. was charged Thursday by the Michigan attorney general’s office with nine counts of racketeering and fraud in connection with leasing activity four years ago.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s decision that the operator must pay $121 million after reneging on a transaction in Texas.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s decision to increase its natural gas drilling in the Haynesville Shale this year may have startled some investors, but the gaggle of government approvals for proposed natural gas export facilities on the Gulf Coast may be playing right into the Oklahoma City operator's wheelhouse.

Two of North America's largest natural gas producers on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired in a 2010 Michigan lease sale.