Chesapeake Energy (CHK)

2008 — 2009 Financial Plan

In early September 2007, we announced an enhanced financial plan designed to monetize unrecognized balance sheet value and to fully fund our planned capital expenditures through 2009 without accessing public capital markets. Since then, we have successfully implemented multiple aspects of the plan and anticipate further progress during 2008 and 2009. We believe our planned transactions described below will allow us to monetize approximately $3 billion of assets by the end of 2009.

Sale/Leasebacks.    During 2007, we entered into sale/leaseback transactions involving 54 drilling rigs for net proceeds of approximately $369 million. We now operate a total of 78 rigs under sale/leaseback arrangements and anticipate similar transactions on our remaining 3 rigs during 2008, thereby completing the sale/leaseback of our entire fleet of 81 drilling rigs. Also during 2007, we completed a sale/leaseback facility for our natural gas compression assets. We received approximately $188 million for the sale/leaseback of our existing natural gas compression assets, and we will finance up to $175 million of future natural gas compression assets under the same facility.

Producing Property Sales.    In December 2007, we monetized a portion of our proved reserves and production in certain Chesapeake-operated producing assets in Kentucky and West Virginia. In this transaction, we sold a volumetric production payment (VPP) to affiliates of UBS AG and DB Energy Trading LLC (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG) for proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion. The VPP entitles the purchaser to receive scheduled quantities of natural gas from Chesapeake’s interests in over 4,000 producing wells, free of all production costs and production taxes, over a 15-year period. The transaction included approximately 208 bcfe of proved reserves and 55 mmcfe per day of net production, or approximately 2% of our proved reserves and net production as of December 31, 2007. We have retained drilling rights on the properties below currently producing intervals and outside of existing producing wellbores. In addition, we plan to pursue monetizations of similarly mature properties in 2008 and 2009 for estimated proceeds of approximately $2.0 billion.

In the first quarter of 2008, we sold non-core oil and natural gas assets in the Rocky Mountains and in the Arkoma Basin Woodford Shale play for proceeds of approximately $250 million.

Midstream Partnership.    We are currently in the process of forming a private partnership to own a non-operating interest in our midstream natural gas assets outside of Appalachia, which consist primarily of natural gas gathering systems and treating assets. We anticipate raising $1 billion in the first half of 2008 by selling a minority interest in the partnership.

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Index to Financial Statements

2008 — 2009
Financial Plan

In early September 2007, we announced an enhanced financial plan designed to monetize unrecognized balance sheet value
and to fully fund our planned capital expenditures through 2009 without accessing public capital markets. Since then, we have successfully implemented multiple aspects of the plan and anticipate further progress during 2008 and 2009. We believe our
planned transactions described below will allow us to monetize approximately $3 billion of assets by the end of 2009.

SIZE="2">Sale/Leasebacks.    During 2007, we entered into sale/leaseback transactions involving 54 drilling rigs for net proceeds of approximately $369 million. We now operate a total of 78 rigs under sale/leaseback
arrangements and anticipate similar transactions on our remaining 3 rigs during 2008, thereby completing the sale/leaseback of our entire fleet of 81 drilling rigs. Also during 2007, we completed a sale/leaseback facility for our natural gas
compression assets. We received approximately $188 million for the sale/leaseback of our existing natural gas compression assets, and we will finance up to $175 million of future natural gas compression assets under the same facility.