{"id":14381,"date":"2013-05-20T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:47:55","slug":"chesapeake-energy-picks-anadarko-executive-for-ceo-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/05\/20\/chesapeake-energy-picks-anadarko-executive-for-ceo-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesapeake Energy Picks Anadarko Executive for CEO Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14393\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 199px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/robert-lawler.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14393\" title=\"Robert Lawler\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/robert-lawler-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/robert-lawler-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/robert-lawler-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/robert-lawler.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Anadarko Petroleum<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Robert Douglas Lawler, senior vice president of international and deepwater operations at Anadarko Petroleum, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chk.com\/News\/Articles\/Pages\/1821954.aspx\">chosen to lead<\/a> the Oklahoma City natural gas giant, which has been seeking a permanent replacement for co-founder Aubrey McClendon, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/29\/aubrey-mcclendon-to-retire-as-chesapeake-energy-ceo\/\">forced out<\/a> of the company on April 1.<\/p><p>Lawler starts on June 17. In choosing him, Chesapeake is getting &#8220;a relatively youthful but seasoned industry hand as it seeks to coax greater profits from its extensive oil-and-gas holdings,&#8221; the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323463704578493590027758394.html\">Daniel Gilbert reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Lawler, who has spent 25 years at Anadarko and a predecessor company, also has experience directing operations in some of Chesapeake&#8217;s core areas, including shale-rock formations in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Lawler faces some standard business challenges in his new post, the <em>WSJ<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the most daunting is a persistent gap between Chesapeake&#8217;s spending and its cash flow, estimated at $3.5 billion this year, which the company is seeking to plug by selling assets.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>But Lawler could encounter other complications that come with having to work with the ghost of McClendon, Gilbert writes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Further complicating matters is Mr. McClendon, a charismatic executive who co-founded Chesapeake in 1989 and built it into a colossus. Mr. McClendon, 53, isn&#8217;t entirely out of the picture.<\/p><p>He continues to invest in every well that Chesapeake drills, a perk he can continue to exercise through June 2014, even as he launches a rival company, American Energy Partners LP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Douglas Lawler, senior vice president of international and deepwater operations at Anadarko Petroleum, has been chosen to lead the Oklahoma City natural gas giant, which has been seeking a permanent replacement for co-founder Aubrey McClendon, who was forced out of the company on April 1.Lawler starts on June 17. In choosing him, Chesapeake is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[360,275,238,537],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14401,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}