Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Toby Rice Wins Control of EQT After Proxy Battle

From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Toby Rice is set to take control of EQT Corp., nine months after launching a fast-moving campaign to replace the oil and gas company’s leadership and less than two years after selling his company Rice Energy Corp. to EQT. In a highly anticipated vote to tallied at EQT’s annual meeting on Wednesday, the Downtown company’s shareholders

EQT’s Annual Shareholder Meeting is Here: Two Brothers Lead Showdown With U.S. Natural Gas Giant - Oil & Gas 360

EQT’s Annual Shareholder Meeting is Here: Two Brothers Lead Showdown With U.S. Natural Gas Giant

Investors led by Toby, Derek Rice want to overhaul EQT board EQT says electing Rice slate would lead to ‘managerial chaos’ From Bloomberg The nine-month battle for control of America’s largest natural gas producer has come down to a choice: The old guard, or the “shalennials.” Absent a settlement before EQT Corp.’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, shareholders will decide between

EQT Independent Directors to Toby Rice: We’ll Stand with our New Board and Management Team over Your Proposed ‘Friends-and-Family Club’

Scathing letter to Rice lays out stark differences in governance Things have been steamy in Pittsburgh this spring when it comes to the future corporate governance for EQT Corporation (stock ticker: EQT, $EQT). The $10.7 billion (enterprise value) E&P has been on a rocky ride with the Rice family since EQT’s acquisition of Rice Energy, announced  almost two years ago,

The Merger That Made the Largest Gas Producer in The U.S. Is Failing

From The Wall Street Journal When EQT Corp.  agreed to buy Rice Energy Inc. for $6.7 billion a little over a year ago to create the country’s largest natural-gas producer, it promised that the combined company would be able to make more by spending less. Those promises have so far fallen flat, and what many cheered as one of the first deals

Rice Energy Makes a $2.7 Billion Acquisition in the Dry Marcellus

Rice Energy expands dry gas Marcellus position by 85,000 net acres with Vantage Energy acquisition Rice Energy (ticker: RICE) announced that it will acquire Vantage Energy for approximately $2.7 billion total consideration. The deal consists of $1.02 billion in cash, the assumption and retirement of assumed net debt of approximately $700 million, and the issuance of 39.1 million shares of

Vantage Energy Wins Alpha Natural Resources’ NatGas Assets with $339.5 Million Cash Bid

Next Best Bid Behind Vantage was $335 Million; Bids Exceed Rice Energy’s “Stalking Horse” Offer of $200 Million Bankrupt coal giant Alpha Natural Resources (ticker: ANRZQ) announced today that Colorado-based privately held gas producer Vantage Energy was the successful bidder for its subsidiary Pennsylvania Land Resources’ oil and natural gas assets (PLR assets) in Southwest Pennsylvania. Vantage’s winning cash bid

Rice Energy, Gulfport Energy Team up For Utica Shale Joint Venture

GPOR Dedicates Acreage in Exchange for Infrastructure Buildout Gulfport Energy (ticker: GPOR) is taking the next step in its recently acquired acreage, reaching a joint venture agreement with a wholly owned subsidiary of Rice Energy (ticker: RICE). The companies expect to invest approximately $640 million for associated midstream assets over the course of the next six years. Rice will construct

Rice Midstream Partners Braves Difficult Commodity Market with IPO

Rice Energy (ticker: RICE), an independent E&P focused purely in the Appalachia, commenced an initial public offering (IPO) for its midstream unit on December 17, 2014. Rice Midstream Partners LP will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RMP. Rice was a privately held company less than one year ago and now has two entities listed on