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Exhibit 3.2
 
CERTIFICATE OF ELIMINATION
 
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the Oklahoma General Corporation Act,
 
DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
 
FIRST:  That the Corporation has acquired 3 shares of its 4.125% Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Acquired Shares”).
 
SECOND:  That the Board of Directors of the Corporation has adopted resolutions retiring the Acquired Shares.
 
THIRD:  That the Certificate of Designation for the 4.125% Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designation”) prohibits the reissuance of shares when so retired and, pursuant to the provisions of Section 1078 of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act, upon the date of the filing of this Certificate of Elimination, the Certificate of Designation shall be amended so as to reduce the number of authorized shares of the 4.125% Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock by 3 shares, being the total number of the Acquired Shares retired by the Board of Directors. Accordingly, the number of authorized but undesignated shares of preferred stock of the Company shall be increased by 3 shares. The retired Acquired Shares have a par value of $.01 per share and an aggregate par value of $.03.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate to be executed by its Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary, and attested to by its Assistant Secretary, this 29th day of May, 2008.
 
 
  CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION  
       
 
By:
/s/ Jennifer M. Grigsby  
   
Jennifer M. Grigsby
 
   
Senior Vice President, Treasurer &
 
    Corporate Secretary  
 
 

 
ATTEST:
 
         
 
 
/s/ Anita L. Brodrick
     
 
Anita L. Brodrick
     
 
Assistant Secretary