Total to Buy Chesapeake Shale Stake for $2.25 Billion

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...hesapeake.html

Total SA, Europe’s third-largest oil company, accelerated its expansion in unconventional energy by agreeing to buy a stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s assets in the biggest U.S. natural-gas field for as much as $2.25 billion.