Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces James R. Webb Joins Company as Senior Vice President ? Legal and General Counsel
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) today announced the appointment
of James R. Webb as Senior Vice President ? Legal and General Counsel.
Webb joins Chesapeake on a full-time basis after serving the past four
months on a contract basis as Chief Legal Counsel. For the past 17
years, Webb has practiced law at McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma′s largest law
firm, and has served as a partner for the past 12 years. Prior to that,
he worked at the law firm of Gorsuch Kirgis in Denver. Webb graduated
with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and
a Juris Doctorate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Henry J. Hood, Chesapeake′s Senior Vice President ? Land and Legal since
1997, will transfer his responsibilities for Chesapeake′s legal
department to Jim while retaining responsibility for the management of
the company′s land and regulatory departments.
Management Comments
Aubrey K. McClendon, Chesapeake′s Chief Executive Officer, commented,
'We are extremely pleased for Jim to join Chesapeake′s senior management
team. He is exceptionally well known and highly regarded in the legal
and business communities of Oklahoma. During the past four months at
Chesapeake, Jim has earned the respect of his colleagues on our senior
management team. I have great confidence that Jim and Henry will
continue to work well together and this change in responsibility will
allow Henry to focus exclusively on the company′s important land and
regulatory initiatives currently underway.?
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) is the second-largest
producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas
liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S.Headquartered
in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering
and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the
U.S.Chesapeake owns leading positions in the Eagle Ford,
Utica, Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa, Mississippi Lime and Niobrara
unconventional liquids plays and in the Marcellus, Haynesville/Bossier
and Barnett unconventional natural gas shale plays. The company also
owns substantial marketing and oilfield services businesses through its
subsidiaries Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc. and Chesapeake Oilfield
Services, L.L.C. Further information is available at www.chk.com
where Chesapeake routinely posts announcements, updates, events,
investor information, presentations and news releases.
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Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Jeffrey L. Mobley, CFA, 405-767-4763
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