Chesapeake Energy News

PR and The Persimmon Group Thursday night received the overall Beacon Awards at an event established by The Journal Record to pay tribute to area businesses and organizations for their contributions to the nonprofit community.

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has fined Chesapeake Energy Corp.

According to data from WhatsTrading.com, the security saw nearly 12,000 puts cross the tape yesterday, more than doubling its average daily volume of fewer than 5,600 contracts.

The list of foreign companies buying into domestic shale plays continues to grow, as the rest of the world recognizes the value of shale gas, now that the technological barrier to developing it economically has been established.

For more than two years, Pier 1 Imports has been focusing on its core business, trying to get its stores and merchandise just right for the times.

Many investors are very confident in the long-term bullish case for energy stocks, but what if this confidence is misplaced? With oil prices heading lower and natural gas prices staying stuck below the $4 per Mcf mark, this may well be the case.

Three Ark-La-Tex mentoring organizations were donated computers Wednesday from Chesapeake Energy.

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Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey K. McClendon publicly said that the Oklahoma City-based company and Marcellus Shale partner StatoilHydro were equal partners in a plan to seek unconventional shale gas plays worldwide.

Shreveport City Council members Tuesday heard three proposals that eventually could raise more revenue for the city's tight budget.

The 'stuff' killed the cows. That's Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator's assessment of what contributed to the deaths of 17 cows in late April near a natural gas drilling location south of Spring Ridge.

About two miles west of the Silver Hill Volunteer Fire Department on W.Va. 89 in Wetzel County, the NOMAC 242 natural gas drilling rig has already drilled four new wells since operations started about five weeks ago.

Today a 7 News camera crew went where none have ever gone before: a natural gas drilling rig on the Marshall-Wetzel County line.

Natural gas inventories are filling up at a rapid pace as production continues to grow, and demand remains weak.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. acknowledged on Monday that it has laid off employees at its corporate office.

's recent shareholder's meeting, Chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon suggested that the increased use of natural gas : would be a way to help the U.S. stop indirectly funding nations that are "declared enemies" and would benefit the environment as well.

Estimated recoverable U.S. natural gas deposits have jumped more than one-third in two years as a result of prolific drilling and stellar production in major shale-gas plays, led by the Barnett Shale in North Texas.

The stars of a cable television reality show have built what is being touted as the world's first compressed natural gas-powered custom chopper for an energy company that is exploring the Haynesville Shale natural gas formation in northwest Louisiana.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' The stars of a cable television reality show have built what is being touted as the world's first compressed natural gas-powered custom chopper for a local energy company.

Chesapeake Energy has caught a lot of heat this year for some controversial agreements and transactions with Aubrey McClendon, the company's founder, chairman, and CEO.