Chesapeake Energy CEO Doug Lawler received $1.56 million last year for exceeding production and reserve… If investors hoped the biggest oil bust in decades would change the way oil industry executives are getting paid, they are probably disappointed. Many large production companies last year continued to incentivize their executives based, in large part, on how much crude they found and extracted, according to a Wall Street Journal review of filings from the largest U.S. energy producers. Executives received sizable cash bonuses for finding and producing more oil and gas than the year before, even though plummeting commodity prices made it unprofitable to keep drilling many wells. At Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK 4.38 % , one of the country’s largest producers, Chief Executive Doug Lawler received $1.56 million last year for exceeding production and reserve targets, securities filings show. That was more than half his total bonus of $2.69 million, […]