Formed in 1989 with only 10 employees and $50,000 in capital, Chesapeake Energy grown into the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.
Chesapeake is headquartered in Oklahoma City, and focuses its operations on exploratory/developmental drilling, corporate and property acquisitions.
The company owns a substantial leasehold position in every major onshore play east of the Continental Divide, making it the nation's largest natural gas resource base. They have built and maintained successful partnerships with royalty owners whose mineral-bearing properties are located across the eastern two-thirds of America, from Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, through the plains of the Midwest to central New York.
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