( CHK ) Chesapeake Energy sells 25% Fayetteville Shale Stake

Chesapeake Energy ( CHK ) announced today it is selling 25% stake in its Fayetteville Shale stake to ( BP ) Beyong Petroleum. This comes about 45 days after CHK sold a Woodford Shale stake to BP. For more on the Woodford Shale click here.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation and BP America today announced the execution of a Letter of Intent for a joint venture whereby BP will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake’s Fayetteville Shale assets in Arkansas for $1.9 billion. The assets have current daily net production of approximately 180 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent and include approximately 540,000 net acres of leasehold which the companies believe could support the drilling of up to 6,700 future horizontal wells. As a result of the transaction, BP will own approximately 135,000 net acres of this leasehold and Chesapeake will own approximately 405,000 net acres.

BP will pay $1.1 billion in cash at closing and will pay a further $800 million during the remainder of 2008 and in 2009 by funding 100% of Chesapeake’s 75% share of drilling and completion expenditures until the $800 million obligation has been funded. Chesapeake plans to continue acquiring leasehold in the Fayetteville Shale play and BP will have the right to a 25% participation in any such additional leasehold. The transaction is subject to the execution of mutually acceptable definitive documentation that the companies anticipate executing within the next week and closing is anticipated to occur later this month.

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Haynesville Shale Stocks Reversing HK, CHK, GDP, XTO

Last week their was a huge build in natural gas inventories.....up 16-20% then expected.

All of the Natural Gas stocks got hammered off of this news. Today they opened up weaker but now have reversed and seem to be wanting to break out.

Watch these Haynes Shale Stocks

PetroHawk Energy HK - Capitulated in the $36 area last week.....now reversing above $39 this morning.

Goodrich Petroleum GDP - Still continues to go down.....from $75 down to $57 in a week. GDP is bouncing off the lows this morning and is currently trading at $58.50

XTO Energy XTO - This stock has gotten hammered for being one of the bigger natural gas stocks. After hitting $53 Thursday....XTO has reversed back to $56. XTO is involved in alot of shales including the Bakken Shale of North Dakota, Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, and the Barnett Shale in Texas

Chesapeake Energy CHK - Chesapeake Energy has been smashed all the way down to $52 on Thursday....even after this company Announced that they will be selling their Woodford Shale acres for Beyond Petroleum ( BP ). CHK has been bouncing this morning above $55.

If you have been waiting for a dip in these stocks for awhile now.....here is your chance to invest in specifically the Haynesville Shale or many other shale plays by buying XTO or CHK

Woodford Shale -Chesapeake Energy CHK Sells

Chesapeake has announced today that they will be selling 90,000 acres of their Woodford Shale portfolio to BP for 1.75 Billion.

CHK will use the money for other shale plays including The Marcellus Shale, Haynesville Shale.

The Woodford Shale is located in Oklahoma and is considered a medium range Shale Gas Play. I would probably compare it to the Utica Shale although the Utica is still very young.

For more on the Haynesville Shale and companies drilling there, visit http://haynesvilleshales.com