Chesapeake Energy News

Plans by Chesapeake Energy Corp. to raise up to $12 billion in 2012 lifted shares of the company Monday, as the energy sector got an added boost from a Goldman Sachs upgrade of some key oil-service stocks.

Chesapeake Energy Corp said it would sell off $10 billion to $12 billion in assets and issue another $1 billion in debt to cover its spending this year amid the weakest natural gas prices in a decade.

CEO Aubrey McClendon never misses an opportunity to talk up his own shares, and why would he: he's successful at it.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation : The company is pursuing joint venture transactions in its Mississippi Lime and Permian Basin plays where it owns 1.8 million and 1.5 million net acres of leasehold, respectively.

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Chesapeake Energy 's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Sterne Agee in a research note issued to investors on Monday.

U.S. stocks rose, after the first weekly loss for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index in 2012, as Greece approved austerity plans to secure rescue funds.

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are pointing toward a gain of about 90 points on the open, as Wall Street utters a sigh of relief in the wake of Greece 's approval of additional austerity measures.

The outside of a natural gas drill site owned by Chesapeake Energy in Leroy Township, Pa., is shown on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. says its new system for treating wastewater from gas wells in eastern Ohio can dramatically reduce the amount of brine going into injection wells for disposal.

Columbiana County Recorder Craig Brown has begun his own discussions with Chesapeake Energy about extending office hours to help the company process the record number of oil and gas leases needing recorded.

Chesapeake Energy was downgraded by research analysts at FBR Capital from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating in a report issued on Friday.

Natural-gas futures rose Thursday as the possibility of additional production cuts overshadowed a U.S. government report showing a smaller-than-average drop in weekly gas inventories.

A piece of construction equipment hit a gas line near Chesapeake Energy in northwest Oklahoma City, causing a natural gas leak and leading to a brief building evacuation.

The price of natural gas jumped Thursday after a major producer said it is aggressively cutting production.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined a gas driller more than $500,000 for three separate violations.

The price of natural gas is climbing after a major producer said it may increase U.S. production cuts this year.

CARROLLTON, Ohio -- An energy company has announced a new system for treating wastewater from gas wells in eastern Ohio, where a natural gas boom is underway.

As reported in the Daily Caller on Saturday , the Sierra Club received $26 million dollars in donations from Chesapeake Energy between 2007 and 2010 with a large majority of the cash coming directly from the CEO Aubrey McClendon.