Robyn L. Ewing, officer, Aug. 1 exercised options to buy 3,700 shares at $8.85, market value $32,745, and sold 3,700 direct shares at $35, market value $129,500.
Rory Lee Miller, officer, on Aug. 1 exercised options to buy 1,669 shares at $9.54, market value $15,922, and sold 1,669 direct shares at $36 for a market value of $60,084.
Tulsa-based natural gas infrastructure firm Williams owns a controlling interest in pipelines and processing assets through its Williams Partners master limited partnership. Williams announced late last month that net income for the second quarter totaled $142 million, an increase over the same period a year earlier.
Chesapeake Energy Corp.: Jennifer M. Grigsby, officer and treasurer, on Aug. 5 sold 29,713 direct shares at $25.09, market value $745,603. Shares fell an average 6.9 percent in the six months after Grigsby's three previous insider sell decisions, according to Thomson.
Thomas L. Ryan, director, on Aug. 5-6 purchased 8,000 direct shares at $25.14- $25.47, market value $202,440.
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake in recent months sold assets to Dallas-based EXCO Resources Inc. and Tulsa-based SemGroup Corp. totaling about $1.3 billion. The $300 million deal with SemGroup included pipeline and processing assets in the Mississippi Lime play of northern Oklahoma, southern Kansas.
AEP: Brian X. Tierney, CFO, on Aug. 6 sold 11,017 direct shares at $45.71-$45.73, market value $503,604. Company stock fell 7.5 percent in the six months after his previous insider sell decision in January 2008, according to Thomson.
Columbus, Ohio-based AEP is parent company of Public Service Co. of Oklahoma, the electricity provider for more than 500,000 customers statewide, including Tulsa.
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Theodore D. Crandall, chief financial officer, on Aug. 30, sold 29,850 direct shares at $97.24 a share for a total market value of $2,902,632.
