Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Plans to Launch Online Barnett Shale Digitial Channel This Fall - Hires Television News Veteran Tracy Rowlett as Anchor and Managing Editor | July 10, 2008
Chesapeake Announces $1.25 Million Scholarship Challenge Reached - Fund Now Totals Over $3.75 Miliion | June, 05 2008
Chesapeake Increases Presence in Downtown Fort Worth: Signs Mineral Lease with Sundance Square | May 2, 2008
Chesapeake Energy Corporation to Purchase Pier 1 Imports Building in Downtown Fort Worth |
March 31, 2008
Chesapeake Energy Corporation Named to Fortune List of “100 Best Companies to Work For” | January 22, 2008
Chesapeake Announces First Natural Gas Production From Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Lease with Initial Sales of 30 MMCFE Per Day From First 11 Barnett Wells | October 30, 2007
Chesapeake Energy Corporation to Fund Up to $2.5 Million Scholarship for Minority and Socially Disadvantaged Youth in Dallas and Fort Worth | June 7, 2007
Chesapeake Energy Corporation Taps First Natural Gas Well at DFW International Airport | May 22, 2007
Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Agreement to Acquire 18,000 Net Acres of Barnett Shale Leasehold Underlying the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport
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The Barnett Shale | July 25, 2008
New York Sun
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Meet Mr. Gas | May 12, 2008
Fortune Magazine
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Chesapeake's Big Move | April 1, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Full article
Barnett Shale Driller to Buy Pier 1 Building | April 1, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Big Building - and a Bold Statement, Too | April 1, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Barnett Shale Beats Expectations | March 29, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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United Way, Y Reap Benefits from the Barnett Shale Drilling Boom | March 27, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Please direct all National media inquiries:
Oklahoma City Headquarters
Jim Gipson, Director – Media Relations
Corporate Development
405.879.1310
jim.gipson@chk.com
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Texas Headquarters
Jerri Robbins, Manager – Public Relations
Corporate Development
301 Commerce Street, #600
Fort Worth, TX 76102
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| This illustrates the geologic strata in the Barnett Shale. |
Horizontal drilling enables Chesapeake Energy to tap into natural gas reserves in the Barnett Shale. |
Chesapeake's 4th Street drillsite illustrates the innovation and efficiency of urban gas production. |
Gathering pipeilines transport natural gas from producing wells. |
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| Example of a compressor station housed in a acoustical building. |
A Chesapeake rig straddles a small piece of land nestled between downtown Fort Worth and fields where cattle graze. |
Water truck emptying contents at a salt water disposal well. |
A wellhead or "Christmas tree" is placed on top of completed well. |
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| Service areas provide access to pipelines, allowing for safety equipment to inspect pipeline integrity. |
Fracture stimulation of a natural gas well |
Tank batteries are located on completed wellsites to hold produced water from natural gas wells. |
Completed wellsites can peacefully coexist in suburban environments. |
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| In urban areas, completed sites are reclaimed and lanscaped. |
The arrangement of pipes and valves at the wellhead to control the flow of oil or natural gas and to prevent blowouts. |
Compressor stations in urban areas are housed in acoustically controlled buildlings and blend in with their surroundings. |
Drilling rig near I-35 and Northside drive in Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Salt water disposal well located in Cleburne, Texas |
Pipeline inspections are made throughout the construction process. |
Machinery laying pipeline in a trench. |
Corrosion-resistant polyethylene pipe with a thickness of nearly on inch is set aside as machinery digs a trench for a water pipeline. |
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| Tank batteries on a completed and producing wellsite. |
Wellsite security is important to Chesapeake |
Security measures are in place at each wellsite location |
Produced water truck removing the contents of a tank battery. |
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| Produced water is offloaded from a water truck in preparation for its injection into a salt water disposal well. |
Salt water disposal wells safely dispose of produced water deep inside the earth. |
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