Chesapeake Energy Corp.
About
Expand Energy Corp. was formed out of the $7.4 billion merger of Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co.
Combined, Expand Energy replaces EQT as the largest U.S. natural gas producer, with large footprints in the Appalachia and Haynesville shale basins.
Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Expand Energy’s operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the U.S. The company also owns oil and natural gas marketing and natural gas gathering and compression businesses.
Headquarters Address
Oklahoma City, OK
United States
Website
www.chk.comTransactions
Chesapeake Closes $7.4B Southwestern Deal to Create Expand Energy
Chesapeake Closes $7.4B Southwestern Deal to Create Expand Energy
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Chief, Tug Hill Acquisition
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Chief, Tug Hill Acquisition
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Chief, Tug Hill Acquisition
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Chief, Tug Hill Acquisition
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Powder River Basin Exit
Chesapeake Energy Refocuses on Shale Gas with Powder River Basin Exit
US Shale Pioneer Chesapeake Energy to Buy Gas Producer Vine Energy for $2.2 Billion
US Shale Pioneer Chesapeake Energy to Buy Gas Producer Vine Energy for $2.2 Billion
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New Financings
Announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion in aggregate…
Priced offering by its wholly-owned indirect subsidiary, Chesapeake Escrow Issuer LLC, of 2026 and 2029…
Chesapeake Energy Corp. has set an expected effective date for the company's reverse stock split,…
Chesapeake Energy Corp., the natural gas giant laden with nearly $10 billion in debt, said Dec. 4 it is…
Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced the final results of its private offers to exchange new 8% senior notes…
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News
Back to the Future: US Shale is Growing Up
The Patch’s maturity will be tested in 2025 amid ongoing consolidation and geopolitical dissonance.
BYOP (Bring Your Own Power): The Great AI Race for Electrons
Data-center developers, scrambling to secure 24/7 power, are calling on U.S. producers to meet demand as natgas offers the quickest way to get more electrons into the taps.
Classic Rock, New Wells: Permian Conventional Zones Gain Momentum
Spurned or simply ignored by the big publics, the Permian Basin’s conventional zones—the Central Basin Platform, Northwest Shelf and Eastern Shelf—remain playgrounds for independent producers.
Expand Foresees Drilling U-Turns in Appalachia
As Expand Energy leans into its newly combined Chesapeake-Southwestern acreage, Tim Beard, the company’s vice president of drilling, would be “surprised” if Expand did not drill U-turn wells in the Appalachian Basin.
Expand Keeps Eye on Comstock’s Monster Haynesville Expansion
But while Expand Energy keeps a watchful eye on what its neighbors are doing, the current gas price is too difficult for Expand to dive into the costly far western Haynesville play itself, said Tim Beard, Expand’s vice president of drilling.
Encino’s Tim Parker: Plenty of Utica Oil—and Takeaway Too
Encino Energy's Tim Parker tells Hart Energy's Nissa Darbonne about the economics of drilling in the company's Utica oil development at the DUG Appalachia Conference and Expo.
Exclusive: Harold Hamm’s Top Oil, Gas Goals After Trump Victory
Continental Resources Chairman Harold Hamm helped raise millions of dollars for Donald Trump’s campaign—and he’s got a laundry list of energy goals for the next administration to tackle.
Utica’s Encino Boasts Four Pillars to Claim Top Appalachian Oil Producer
Encino’s aggressive expansion in the Utica shale has not only reshaped its business, but also set new benchmarks for operational excellence in the sector.
Expand Energy: Chesapeake’s Bankruptcy to Largest Gas Producer in US
Before Expand Energy could boast itself as the largest by volume natural gas-weighted E&P in the U.S., its predecessor Chesapeake Energy had to climb out of bankruptcy.
CEO: Range Passes On M&A Fervor For Now: ‘We Didn’t Have To’
While the rest of the E&P sector bought, merged and consolidated, Range Resources sat on the sidelines in Appalachia because it already has plenty of drilling inventory, CEO Dennis Degner says.
Marcellus Waiting to Exhale But Held Back by Regional, Economic Factors
After years of exploitation as one of the country’s first unconventional shale plays, the Marcellus still has plenty of natural gas for producers, even if regional and economic factors have kept much of it bottled up.
Expand ‘Having Tons of Conversations’ to Power Data Centers with Gas
Expand Energy, the largest U.S. gas producer, has some 1 Bcf/d of supply behind pipe that it can turn online when gas markets stabilize, though executives said Oct. 30 it might not be needed for some time.
DT Midstream Moves on Network Expansion, See Gas Demand Up in ‘25
DT Midstream expects an increase in natural gas demand in the Haynesville Shale in 2025, despite a third-quarter earnings miss.
EQT Sells Remaining Pennsylvania Non-op Assets to Equinor for $1.25B
EQT’s Northeast Pennsylvania divestiture to Equinor is the second deal between the two companies this year following a large swap of Marcellus assets in April.
Asia, EU Buyers Warming Up to US Shale M&A Again—Jefferies
Foreign asset buyers are considering U.S. upstream M&A to lower their LNG supply costs and avoid windfall taxes on European operations, Jefferies Managing Director Bill Marko says.