Chesapeake Energy (ticker: CHK, exchange: New York Stock Exchange (.N))
News Release -
27-Mar-2008
Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Pricing of Common Stock OfferingPrinter Friendly Version (pdf format)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar 27, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) today announced that it
has priced a public offering of 20 million shares of its common stock
at $45.75 per share. The company has also granted the underwriters a
30-day option to purchase a maximum of three million additional shares
of its common stock. Chesapeake expects the issuance and delivery of
the shares to occur on April 2, 2008, subject to customary closing
conditions.
Chesapeake intends to use the net proceeds from the offering
initially to repay outstanding indebtedness under its revolving bank
credit facility, which may be reborrowed from time to time to fund its
recently announced drilling and land acquisition initiatives and for
general corporate purposes. The offering is being made pursuant to an
effective registration statement filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC and
Lehman Brothers Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers for the
offering. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus and
related prospectus supplement, copies of which, when available, may be
obtained by mail from the offices of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,
Attn: Prospectus Department, 100 Plaza One, 2nd Floor, Jersey City,
NJ, 07311, by telephone at (800) 503-4611 or by email to
prospectus.cpdg@db.com; by mail from the offices of Banc of America
Securities LLC, Capital Markets Operations, 100 West 33rd Street, 3rd
Floor, New York, NY 10001 or by e-mail to
dg.prospectus_distribution@bofasecurities.com; or by mail from the
offices of Lehman Brothers Inc., c/o Broadridge, Integrated
Distribution Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by
fax to (631) 254-7140, by telephone to (888) 603-5847 or by e-mail to
qiana.smith@broadridge.com. An electronic copy of the prospectus will
be available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission
at www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these
securities in any state or country in which such offer, solicitation
or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under
the securities laws of any state or country.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation is the largest independent and
third-largest overall producer of natural gas in the U.S.
Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused
on exploratory and developmental drilling and corporate and property
acquisitions in the Mid-Continent, Fort Worth Barnett Shale,
Fayetteville Shale, Haynesville Shale, Permian Basin, Delaware Basin,
South Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Ark-La-Tex and Appalachian Basin
regions of the United States.
SOURCE: Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Jeffrey L. Mobley, CFA, 405-767-4763
Senior Vice President -
Investor Relations and Research
jeff.mobley@chk.com
or
Marc Rowland, 405-879-9232
Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
marc.rowland@chk.com
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Chesapeake Energy
