The Denham Capital Management LP-backed operator has been an active consolidator in the play in 2016, while the $465 million deal wraps up the seller’s $2 billion divestiture program. Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Tuesday, Dec. 20, it has reached an agreement to sell the second portion of the company’s acreage and producing properties in the Haynesville Shale in northern Louisiana to an affiliate of private equity-backed Covey Park Energy LLC for $465 million.