Oil and Gas Industry Chesapeake Energy Corporation Group 5 Kurt Alvarado Chris Bailey David Naranjo Marci Rees Robert Sanchez Finance 335 Monday, 7 PM November 15, 1999 Firm Description Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “owns 1.1 trillion cubic feet equivalent (tcfe) of proved oil and gas reserves, one of the largest inventories of onshore U.S. natural gas” {Chesapeake Annual Report, 1998, p. 1}. Recently, Chesapeake finished the transformation from an aggressive exploration company focused on developing short-reserve …showed first 75 words of 2734 total…

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