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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.6

                    CONSENT OF PORTER ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES

     As independent oil and gas consultants, Porter Engineering Associates
hereby consents to the references to our firm and to our reserve report dated
December 31, 1997 in the Transition Report on Form 10-K of Chesapeake Energy
Corporation incorporated by reference into the Prospectus constituting part of
the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of Chesapeake Energy Corporation to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about June 19, 1998.

                                       PORTER ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES


                                       By: /s/ JOE H. PORTER
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                                               Joe H. Porter, PE


Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 19, 1998