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Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Cash Tender Offers for up to $500 million Aggregate Purchase Price of Non-Convertible Senior Notes

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) announced today that it has commenced cash tender offers (collectively, the "Tender Offers," and each offer to purchase a series of notes individually, a "Tender Offer") to purchase up to $500,000,000 aggregate purchase price, exclusive of accrued interest (the "Aggregate Maximum Purchase Amount"), of the outstanding notes of Chesapeake set forth in the table below (collectively, the "Notes").

No more than $400,000,000 aggregate purchase price, exclusive of accrued interest (the "Short-Dated Tender Cap"), of 6.25% Euro-denominated Senior Notes due 2017, 6.5% Senior Notes due 2017 and 7.25%... More