NEW YORK (AP) — Chesapeake Energy, a shale drilling pioneer that helped to turn the United States into a global energy powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Oklahoma City-based company ...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has agreed to allow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to run tests at drilling sites in order to investigate the risks of hydraulic fracturing on drinking ...

The boom in U.S. supplies of both oil and natural gas as a result of ongoing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations may be the saving grace that rescues the Federal Reserve, the Obama ...

A blowout at a natural gas well in rural northern Pennsylvania spilled thousands of gallons of chemical-laced water Wednesday, contaminating a stream and leading officials to ask seven families who ...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Thursday it had suspended "fracking" at all of its wells in Pennsylvania until it figures out the cause of a spill in the northern part of the state. The Oklahoma ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy will not resume a controversial natural gas production process in Pennsylvania until a well which blew out last week is permanently sealed and inspected, a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy is looking for options to plug permanently a Pennsylvania natural gas well following a blowout this week that sent drilling fluid into local waterways.

North Carolina is sitting on top of large natural gas reserves, which could be retrieved using a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. However, even the mention of fracking can unearth a ...