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EQT Midstream Partners, LP

6/20/2013, 5:17 AM ET
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"We are a growth-oriented limited partnership formed by EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) to own, operate, acquire and develop midstream assets in the Appalachian Basin. We provide substantially all of our natural gas transmission, storage and gathering services under contracts with fixed reservation and/or usage fees, with a significant portion of our revenues being generated pursuant to long-term firm contracts. We will initially focus our operations in the Marcellus Shale fairway in southern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, a rapidly growing natural gas play and the core operating area of EQT. We believe that our strategically located assets and our relationship with EQT position us as a leading Appalachian Basin midstream energy company serving the Marcellus Shale.

EQT is our largest customer and is one of the largest natural gas producers in the Appalachian Basin. For the year ended December 31, 2011, EQT reported 5.4 Tcfe of proved reserves and total production of 198.8 Bcfe, representing a 44% increase in production as compared to the year ended December 31, 2010. Approximately 42% of EQT's total production in 2011 was from wells in the Marcellus Shale. During the year ended December 31, 2011 and the three-month period ended March 31, 2012, approximately 64% and 65%, respectively, of our total natural gas transmission and gathering volumes were comprised of natural gas produced by EQT. In order to facilitate production growth in its areas of operation, EQT has invested $1.7 billion in midstream infrastructure from January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2012 and currently owns a substantial and growing portfolio of midstream assets, many of which have multiple interconnects into our system. We believe EQT's economic relationship with us incentivizes EQT to provide us with access to additional production growth in and around our existing assets and with acquisitions and organic growth opportunities, although EQT is under no obligation to do so.

We provide midstream services to EQT and third parties in the Appalachian Basin across 22 counties in Pennsylvania and West Virginia through our two primary assets: our transmission and storage system, which serves as a header system transmission pipeline, and our gathering system, which delivers natural gas from wells and other receipt points to transmission pipelines. "