Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Nabors Industries Ltd. announced they will enter into a contractual agreement, establishing Nabors as the new preferred drilling contractor for Chesapeake across its unconventional oil and natural gas assets in the United States. Both companies have contributed significantly to advancing the industry's digital maturity, well planning, drilling automation, remote operations, performance monitoring and data analysis and reporting. Now Chesapeake and Nabors are teaming up to further enhance drilling performance and to forge the next generation of technologies.