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Chesapeake Energy is a public, American oil and natural gas company headquartered in Oklahoma City, United States. Chesapeake Energy is the second-largest natural gas producer in the United States.〔 〕 Its operations are focused on discovering and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the U.S. Chesapeake owns leading positions in the Eagle Ford, Utica, Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa, Mississippi Lime and Niobrara unconventional liquids plays and in the Marcellus, Haynesville/Bossier and Barnett unconventional natural gas shale plays. The company also owns substantial marketing and oilfield services businesses through its subsidiaries Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc. and Chesapeake Oilfield Services, L.L.C. ==History== Founded in 1989 by retired CEO Aubrey McClendon and former President and COO Tom L. Ward, the company began with 10 employees and a $50,000 initial investment. McClendon named the company due to his love of the Chesapeake Bay region. Focusing on a strategy of drilling horizontal natural gas wells in unconventional reservoirs, the company built a sizable position in the Golden Trend and Sholem Alechem fields of South-central Oklahoma and in the Giddings field of Southeast Texas. In 1993, the company completed its IPO at a split-adjusted price of $1.33 per share. In 1995, Chesapeake moved from the NASDAQ to the NYSE and changed its stock symbol to CHK. After struggling with attempts to extend the Austin Chalk play into western and central Louisiana, and the coinciding price collapse of oil and natural gas in the late 1990s, the company modified its strategy to focus almost exclusively on natural gas production. This focus utilized the newest technologies to target a more diversified, longer reserve life and lower base risk asset base, and began to incorporate acquisitions into the company’s business plan. During the period from 2003 to 2007, the company experienced rapid growth thanks to upward shifts in U.S. natural gas prices. During this time, the company expanded its land positions into unconventional reservoirs such as fractured carbonates, tight sandstone and shales, such as the Barnett, Fayetteville, and Marcellus shales. In 2006, Chesapeake was added to the S&P 500, replacing Dana Corporation. In 2008, Chesapeake announced its discovery of the Haynesville Shale in East Texas and northwestern Louisiana. The Haynesville Shale is projected to become the nation’s largest natural gas producer by 2015 and, along with the Marcellus Shale, one of the five largest natural gas fields in the world over time. The company celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2009 by partnering with Orange County Choppers to create the world’s first compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered chopper. On July 22, 2011, Chesapeake Energy agreed to a twelve-year naming rights partnership with the Oklahoma City Thunder to rename their arena Chesapeake Energy Arena. The agreement between Chesapeake and the Thunder has an initial annual cost of $3.0 million with a 3.0% annual escalation.〔 Included in the agreement Chesapeake will have its branding throughout the building, prominent premium placement on the high-definition scoreboard and on new state-of-the-art interior and exterior digital signs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nba.com/thunder/news/release_arena_110721.html )〕 In June 2012, the company appointed Archie W. Dunham as chairman, replacing Aubrey McClendon, who retained his position as CEO. Dunham, who retired as chairman of ConocoPhillips in 2004, was appointed in response to shareholder concerns about corporate governance issues under McClendon's watch. On April 1, 2013, Aubrey McClendon retired from the company〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/ok-chesapeake-energy-idUSnBw3Bymj9a+120+BSW20130129 )〕 and a three-month search for a replacement ended on May 20, 2013 with the announcement of Robert Douglas Lawler as McClendon's successor. At the time of the announcement, Lawler was the senior vice president of international and deepwater operations at Anadarko Petroleum Corp, a rival U.S. corporation, and Chesapeake shares rose by four percent following the appointment. Steven Dixon, Chesapeake's chief operating officer, acted as interim CEO during the replacement search period and, at the time of his appointment in late March, a three-person office of the chairman, consisting of Dixon, Chairmen Archie Dunham and Chief Financial Officer Domenic Dell'Osso, was formed. On October 16 2014, Chesapeake announced the sale of a large portion of its oil and gas assets in the Marcellus and Utica shales to Southwestern Energy. The deal has a price tag of around $5.38 billion and is considered to be Southwestern's largest deal. As part of the deal, Chesapeake Energy is selling ~413,000 net acres and 1,500 wells in northern West Virginia and southern Pennsylvania. 435 of the wells are located in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. Total production from these wells was 336 million cubic feet per day in September 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chesapeake Energy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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