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  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Natural gas
    Gunvor chief says loss of Russian gas will cement US export role

    Energy executives see lasting change in global energy market after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    Torbjörn Törnqvist, Gunvor chief executive
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Chesapeake Energy offloads Texas oil acreage in pivot to natural gas

    US shale pioneer will sell assets acquired in 2018 to Wildfire Energy for $1.4bn

    A Chesapeake  worker at an oil drilling site in Texas
  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    Shale patch pioneer Chesapeake to ditch oil in favour of natural gas

    Driller that spearheaded US fracking revolution to shift away from crude amid LNG export boom

    A Chesapeake natural gas drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Shale Oil & Gas
    US shale companies enjoy ‘tsunami of cash’ on high oil prices

    Capital restraint and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed fortunes of once-indebted operators

    Aerial view of storage tanks in Santa Clarita, California
  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Energy Source
    Pricey investments spell ‘nightmare scenario’ for oil companies Premium content

    Plus, Chesapeake CEO weighs in on purchase of Chief Oil & Gas and the comeback of Texas’s upstream oil and gas

    A petroleum refinery smokestack
  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Chesapeake rebuilds on US shale patch with $2.6bn gas deal

    Fracking pioneer buys assets from Chief Oil & Gas less than a year after emerging from bankruptcy

    A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well in Pennsylvania
  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    Energy Source
    Biden to Opec: Drill, baby, drill Premium content

    Plus: what the latest shale patch merger tells us, and renewable adds lag coal declines

  • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
    Back from brink Chesapeake buys shale rival Vine

    US fracking pioneer strikes $2.2bn deal six months after emerging from pandemic-led bankruptcy

    A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well pad
  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Shale executives receive bumper pay packets despite dismal returns

    Investors sour on industry after a decade of profligate spending and debt-fuelled drilling

    A Chesapeake natural gas rig in Texas
  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Corporate bonds
    Risky oil companies snap up $20bn in junk bond record

    Recovery from pandemic fires up oil prices and pulls producers back from the brink

    Oil pumps in North Dakota, US
  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Chesapeake Energy emerges from bankruptcy

    US shale pioneer’s chief says it has undergone a ‘fundamental reset’ during restructuring

  • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
    Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy

    Collapse of group that led shale breakthrough will send shockwaves through sector

  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    On Wall StreetDerek Brower
    It seems rash to bet that the worst is over for US oil stocks

    Energy shares may be beaten down but they are still far from cheap

    Shares in Chesapeake Energy shot up about 400 per cent in a few days, before toppling again towards the end of the week
  • Thursday, 4 June, 2020
    News in-depthShale Oil & Gas
    Chesapeake Energy: rise and fall of a US shale star

    Oil and gas group once worth $35bn is flirting with bankruptcy in face of coronavirus crash

  • Sunday, 19 April, 2020
    Megan Greene
    Bailing out the oil industry brings a fate worse than death   

    Zombie companies would be created that must be kept afloat with taxpayer dollars 

    Shale Gas Costing 2/3 Less Than OPEC Oil Converges With U.S....Nomac Drilling Corp. derrick man Justin Spruell, right, climbs down from an overhead platform after connecting a section of drill pipe on a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Companies are spending billions to dislodge natural gas from a band of shale-sedimentary rock called the Marcellus shale that underlies Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. The band of rock, so designated because it pokes through near a city of that name in northern New York, may contain 262 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Restructuring specialists get their day in the sun Premium content

    Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Chesapeake hires restructuring advisers to look at $9bn debt pile

    Shale energy pioneer suffers from collapse in oil and weak gas prices 

    FILE PHOTO: A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well pad rests on the hill in Litchfield Township, Pennsylvania, January 9, 2013.  REUTERS/Brett Carlsen/File Photo
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Chesapeake Energy raises doubt over its ability to survive

    Shale gas pioneer sends shares and bonds lower with going-concern warning

    Floorman Mario Hernandez (cq) works on a Chesapeake Energy natural gas rig in the North Texas Barnett Shale bed rock deposit, in Kennedale, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2009. Natural gas futures have fallen in New York after a government report showed that slowing industrial demand during the recession has widened a supply surplus. PHOTOGRAPHER: MATT NAGER/ BLOOMBERG NEWS
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
    Commodities
    Chesapeake Energy shares jump in pre-market on earnings beat
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
    UK banks
    Stocks to watch: Centrica, Barclays, Playtech, Go-Ahead, Roku

    Stobart confirms Flybe takeover talks while Berenberg tips Asos

    Playtech website photographed on an iphone. Playtech is an online poker company
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2018
    Equities
    Energy stock rally jolts S&P 500 to new record
  • Sunday, 16 April, 2017
    News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
    Chesapeake digs deep to overcome its weaknesses

    Pioneering shale producer has cut debt and improved profitability, but has more to do

    Doug Lawler plus A natural gas drilling rig stands on a Chesapeake Energy Corp. drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Companies are spending billions to dislodge natural gas from a band of shale-sedimentary rock called the Marcellus shale that underlies Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. The band of rock, so designated because it pokes through near a city of that name in northern New York, may contain 262 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Oil
    Light dims from energy stocks as glow of higher oil prices fades

    With a fall of 6.7 per cent, energy is worst performer of 11 major sectors on S&P 500

    Southwestern Energy Gives Tour During Fracking Stimulation...A worker cleans and lubricates the head of the machine, after the stimulation hydraulic fracturing of one segment of the well is finished, at Southwestern Energy Co.'s natural gas production site at the Marcellus Shale formation in Camptown, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. The Marcellus Shale, located in the U.S. Northeast, contains natural gas, which is obtained through hydraulic fracturing, a technique in which millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock. Photographer: Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 23 February, 2017
    Energy sector
    Chesapeake Energy shrinks losses in 2016
  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2016
    Oil
    Chesapeake taps debt markets for first time in 2 years

    Deal underlines renewed appetite for oil and gas assets

    Floorman Mario Hernandez (cq) works on a Chesapeake Energy natural gas rig in the North Texas Barnett Shale bed rock deposit, in Kennedale, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2009. Natural gas futures have fallen in New York after a government report showed that slowing industrial demand during the recession has widened a supply surplus.
									PHOTOGRAPHER: MATT NAGER/ BLOOMBERG NEWS
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