How Will Chesapeake’s Revenue Change If Crude Oil Prices Rebound To $100 Per Barrel By 2018?

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Revenues of Chesapeake Energy, a US-based oil and gas producer, are highly dependent on commodity markets. The sharp fall in commodity prices over the last 20 months has resulted in a notable decline in the company’s price realizations for the various commodities. As a result, the E&P company had to pull back its exploration and drilling plans during 2015. This severely impacted the company, resulting in a drop of almost 50% in its revenue and close to 75% in its EBITDA last year.

Based on a weak outlook for commodity prices in the near future, we expect crude oil prices to gradually recover to $70 per barrel by 2018. In this case, Chesapeake’s production and price realization will remain weak in 2016 and grow gradually over the following two years. These numbers are presented in the table below under the base case calculations. If, however, the commodity markets grow faster-than-expected and crude oil prices rebound to $100 per barrel by 2018Chesapeake’s revenue in 2018 is likely to be 60% higher than our base case.

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1) The purpose of these analyses is to help readers focus on a few important things. We hope such lean communication sparks thinking, and encourages readers to comment and ask questions on the comment section, or email content@trefis.com

2) Figures mentioned are approximate values to help our readers remember the key concepts more intuitively. For precise figures, please refer to our complete analysis for Chesapeake Energy

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