- Chesapeake Energy (NASDAQ:CHK) announces further reductions to its 2015 capital spending budget, now seeing capex of $3.5B-$4B, $500M less than previous guidance of $4B-$4.5B.
- CHK says it plans to operate 25-35 rigs in 2015 vs. last year's average of 64 rigs, and intends to spud and connect to sales a respective 520 and 650 gross operated wells vs. 1,175 and 1,150 wells in 2014.
- As a result, CHK lowers its targeted 2015 production to 231M-236M boe, or 635K-645K boe/day, which represents 1%-3% Y/Y production growth after adjusting for 2014 asset sales.
- CHK -0.2% AH.