Communicate with the Company 2011 corporate responsibility report 12011 corporate responsibility report 1 D uring the past 23 years, Chesapeake Energy Corpora tion has grown from a start-up company to the nation’s second-largest producer of natural gas, the 11th largest producer of natural gas liquids and oil, and the most active driller of new wells in the United States by using an in novative approach to resource identification and development.