Chesapeake Energy Group (NYSE:CHK) may reconsider the sale of Chesapeake Midstream Partners LP (NYSE:CHKM). The firm was spun off from Chesapeake two years ago and Chesapeake is planning on selling the remaining share of it in a bid to raise money to stem its huge cash flow gap. That move, which has not seemed to have faced much opposition so far, now has a dissenter in the form of veteran activist Carl Icahn who wants to reexamine that sale. Chesapeake Midstream Partners operates a huge amount of pipeline and other commodity transport services. About 45%, currently $1.6 billion, of the…
Icahn Wants Chesapeake (CHK) To Keep Midstream Pipeline
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