Whois & Analysis for chk.com

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is a petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The company was founded in 1989 by Aubrey McClendon and Tom L.

Ward with only a $50,000 initial investment.

McClendon named the company due to his love of the Chesapeake Bay region.

Ward later left the company to found SandRidge Energy.

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

It is formed when layers of decomposing plant and animal matter are exposed to intense heat and pressure under the surface of the Earth over millions of years.

The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in the gas.

A cash flow describes a real or virtual movement of money: a cash flow in its narrow sense is a payment (in a currency), especially from one central bank account to another; the term 'cash flow' is mostly used to describe payments that are expected to happen in the future, are thus uncertain and therefore need to be forecasted with cash flows;

Economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.

It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP, usually in per capita terms.

An oil is any neutral, nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally "fat loving").

Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active.