CNOOC and Chesapeake announce second shale deal

Chinese E&P company CNOOC has announced a $1.3 billion deal to purchase a 33.3% stake in some of US producer Chesapeake's shale assets

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The deal will give CNOOC a stake in Chesapeake’s 800,000 net oil and natural gas leasehold acres in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) and Powder River Basins in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming. It will pay $570 million in cash at closing and will then fund 66.7% of Chesapeake’s drilling and completion costs up to an additional $697 million. Chesapeake expects the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2011, will the additional funding arrangement ending by 2014.

The companies announced a

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