PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — EQT Company (NYSE: EQT) (“EQT” or the “Firm”) at the moment introduced that the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee (the “FTC”) has resolved its evaluate of EQT’s settlement with THQ Appalachia I, LLC (“Tug Hill”) and THQ-XcL Holdings I, LLC (“XcL Midstream”) to accumulate Tug Hill’s upstream belongings and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing belongings pursuant to an Settlement Containing Consent Order entered into among the many events to the transactions and the FTC efficient as of at the moment. Tug Hill and XcL Midstream are backed by fairness commitments from funds managed by Quantum Vitality Companions. The events have now happy the situation referring to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976, as amended and the foundations and rules promulgated thereunder, required to shut the transaction.
President and CEO Toby Z. Rice said, “We’re happy the FTC has accomplished its evaluate and we are actually capable of convey the acquisition of Tug Hill and XcL Midstream to an in depth. This acquisition will decrease EQT’s price construction, scale back EQT’s improvement danger, and improve money circulate and web asset worth per share, whereas sustaining our funding grade steadiness sheet. It should additionally enable us to proceed our progress in making the vitality we produce extra inexpensive, dependable, and cleaner.”
EQT expects to shut the transaction throughout the subsequent seven enterprise days.
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About EQT Company
EQT Company is a number one impartial pure gasoline manufacturing firm with operations centered within the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales within the Appalachian Basin. We’re devoted to responsibly creating our world-class asset base and being the operator of alternative for our stakeholders. By leveraging a tradition that prioritizes operational effectivity, know-how and sustainability, we search to repeatedly enhance the best way we produce environmentally accountable, dependable and low-cost vitality. We have now a longstanding dedication to the protection of our workers, contractors, and communities, and to the discount of our general environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the best way we function and in how we work together every day – belief, teamwork, coronary heart, and evolution are on the middle of all we do. Study extra at eqt.com.
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