UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 28, 2010 (September 27, 2010)

 

EQT CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

 

625 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(412) 553-5700

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

NONE

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

On September 27, 2010, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of EQT Corporation (the “Company”) elected Stephen A. Thorington as an independent director of the Company, with a term expiring at the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.  Mr. Thorington will serve as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board.

 

Mr. Thorington most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Plains Exploration & Production Company, retiring from that position in May 2006.  Mr. Thorington currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of KMG Chemicals, Inc., where he is a member of the Audit Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee.

 

Item 7.01.  Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On September 28, 2010, the Company issued a press release with respect to the matter described above, a copy of which is furnished with this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference. The information in this Item 7.01 of Form 8-K shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of such section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, regardless of the general incorporation language of such filing, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

 

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)           Exhibits

 

99.1       Press release issued by EQT Corporation dated September 28, 2010.  (Furnished solely for purposes of Item 7.01 of this Form 8-K).

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

	EQT CORPORATION
	(Registrant)
	By:	/s/ Philip P. Conti
		Philip P. Conti
		Senior Vice President and
		Chief Financial Officer
Date: September 28, 2010

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press release issued by EQT Corporation dated September 28, 2010.  (Furnished solely for purposes of Item 7.01 of this Form 8-K).