CHK is also moving more into the fracing world outside of their own in-house operations. They recently bought into a company based in Houston but that has one of their larger operations centers in Chickasha. I have a friend that has been working for Frac Tech for a few years now. Word is an IPO is on their radar soon, but if CHK is getting their paws in the mix, who knows.

From what I understand, FracTech is a great one to side with though for CHK. They use a mixture that is NOT harmful and all the stories you hear about groundwater contimination are apparently done by pretty crappy companies that do little to look at the environmental side. So in terms of being clean and green (as far as you can be when you're sucking crap out of the ground), they at least chose a good company to side with.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/0...21850820110509