Chesapeake Energy hires Anadarko executive as CEO: WSJ

(Reuters) – Chesapeake Power Corp has hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp as chief government, filling the submit vacated by means of co-founder Aubrey McClendon, the Wall Street Journal mentioned, citing folks acquainted with the topic. Chesapeake and Anadarko might not instantly be reached for comment by means of Reuters out of doors of regular U.S. trade hours. McClendon's departure on April 1 got here after a tumultuous year wherein a series of Reuters investigations resulted in civil and felony probes of the second-greatest U.S. pure fuel producer. …