US Gas Producers: Bulls in a China Shop?

摘要

If they wanted to, executives at Chesapeake Energy could quickly start producing the bounty of natural gas just sitting in wells that the company has already drilled in the Marcellus Shale. But should they? After all, Chesapeake's multiyear drilling spree helped create the very supply glut, and resulting price collapse, that has left the second-largest US gas producer and many of its peers in deep financial distress.