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Chesapeake is proud to be
the nation’s second-larg-
est producer of natural gas
— and the most vocal propo-
nent for natural gas Fueling
America’s Future.
Natural Gas
LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS 11
Best Companies to Work For® (3). In addition, we were
honored in December 2009 at the 11th Annual Platts
Global Energy Awards as the Energy Producer of
the Year. We also received the Industry Leadership
Award and were a finalist for CEO of the Year, Deal of
the Year and Community Development Program of
the Year. Chesapeake was one of only two compa-
nies to receive multiple awards this year and one of
only three companies selected as a finalist in five or
more categories. This was the second time in three
years that Platts has named Chesapeake Producer of
the Year. Chesapeake was also recognized in 2009
with Oil and Gas Investor magazine’s Best Corporate
Citizen Award.
building a first class human resource team within a
distinctive corporate culture. Talk to Chesapeake em-
ployees and you will sense genuine pride and great
enthusiasm about the company and the vital role we
play in delivering our high-quality product to con-
sumers across the country.
Chesapeake employees are distinctive in other
ways as well. They are much younger than the in-
dustry average, with 50% of our 3,300 Oklahoma
City-based headquarters employees 34 years old
or younger. Their enthusiasm and willingness to
learn create an atmosphere of vitality and energy
at Chesapeake, important ingredients of our unique
culture. These attributes, along with a very attrac-
tive corporate headquarters campus, low levels of
bureaucracy and a well-executed corporate strat-
egy, have combined to create our culture of success
and innovation.
This has generated extremely positive external
feedback as Chesapeake was recently recognized for
the third consecutive year as one of the FORTUNE 100
From our beginning 20 years ago with 10 employees in Oklahoma
to employing 8,600 people in 16 states today, Chesapeake has
always focused on building a first class human resource team
within a distinctive corporate culture.