OREANDA-NEWS. Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced today that it successfully priced its proposed term loan and, as a result of strong demand, has upsized the term loan to $1.5 billion from a previously announced size of $1.0 billion.

The term loan is being arranged by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and MUFG as joint lead arrangers.

Chesapeake intends to use the net proceeds of the loan to finance tender offers for its unsecured notes, with any remaining proceeds used for further debt repayments and other general corporate purposes.