2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 ABOUT THIS REPORT 3 MESSAGE FROM THE CEO 5 ABOUT EQT 9 SAFETY 13 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP 21 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 31 ECONOMIC IMPACT 36 GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE CONTENT INDEX 54 EQT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE VALUE CHAIN 1 ABOUT THIS REPORT EQT Corporation’s (EQT or the Company) 2012 Corporate Social This report addresses the expectations of EQT stakeholder groups Responsibility Report is presented in accordance with Global across all aspects of our business. From past experience, we Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines 3.1 and the Oil and Gas know that each of these groups are interested in, and potentially Sector Supplement. GRI standards and technical protocols use, one or more portions of the document. For this reason, we were used to determine the materiality of data, the methods will continue to evolve our stakeholder engagement, monitor for reporting that data, and to validate completeness. Internal feedback, and adjust our materiality assessment as needed. risk assessment, benchmarking, and gap analysis helped EQT knows that our stakeholders have concerns about the determine which sustainability topics were most relevant to processes used to extract natural gas, as well as their potential EQT and its stakeholders. effects on safety and the environment. With this in mind, our The current report covers activity at EQT headquarters and the commitment to community goes beyond creating new jobs and three wholly-owned business segments: Production, Midstream stimulating economic growth — we recognize our responsibility and Distribution (Equitable Gas), for the period January 1, 2012 to identify and answer our stakeholders’ questions. to December 31, 2012. Most quantitative data provided is derived The publication of this report is one of many ways that EQT from direct measurements. Where actual data is not available, remains accountable to its stakeholders, and demonstrates that appropriate estimates and calculations may be used, following sustainability is fully integrated into everything we do. Based on industry or internationally recognized standards. current guidelines, we are proud to self-declare that the report meets the requirements of GRI Application Level B. 2 Go back to Table of Contents MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Dear Stakeholders, Achieving success as a Company depends upon our ability to operate safely, responsibly, and collaboratively to ensure that communities benefit from our activities — and contributing to the overall sustainability of these communities relies on these same efforts. At EQT, managing the impacts of our activities — whether related to safety, environmental, ethical, or social performance — is a fundamental part of how we do business. With EQT’s focus on integrated sustainability, we strive to set operating standards that are consistent with our desire to be a continued and welcome member of the communities in which we live and operate. After more than a century in the natural gas business, our culture of safety and environmental compliance continues to demonstrate EQT’s commitment to operating responsibly. Protecting the health and safety of our people and the public remains our top priority. During 2012, we developed a comprehensive new Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Policy that lays out specific principles to guide EQT and its employees to superior performance in these areas. The new policy underscores our commitment to keeping one another safe and maintaining a zero-injury culture. The new EHS policy also reinforces EQT’s commitment to protecting the environment we all share, and we take great care in finding ways of continuing to minimize our environmental footprint. Examples include enhancing our water conservation and recycling efforts, and using innovative technologies to reduce emissions during our drilling operations. As outlined in this report, we believe we have a solid track record of responsible environmental performance that strives to preserve and protect the land, air, and water where we live and do business. Finally, we must acknowledge the effects that our business operations have on the economic stability of our Company, our employees, our shareholders, and other stakeholders in the community. In addition to being a well-run business financially, EQT’s sustainability commitments include providing significant direct and indirect benefits to the local economy, supporting the infrastructure of our operating regions, and effectively managing the development of our natural gas reserves. Even as we recognize that we must always strive to improve, it is with pride that we present EQT Corporation’s latest Corporate Social Responsibility Report, a comprehensive overview of our sustainability performance and programs during 2012. You will find many examples of how our employees use innovation and commitment to work safely and preserve the environment — and how, as a Company, we strive to enrich our communities. David L. Porges Chief Executive Officer EQT Corporation MESSAGE FROM THE CEO 3 Go back to Table of Contents 4 Go back to Table of Contents ABOUT EQT CORPORATE STRUCTURE EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) is a Fortune 500 investor- With more than 1,870 employees at the end of 2012, EQT owned corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, conducted business in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia through three primary business segments: Pennsylvania, and operating solely in the United States. Production, Midstream and Distribution. Our Production segment EQT’s role in the natural gas industry goes back more is one of the largest natural gas producers in the Appalachian than a century to the formation of the Equitable Gas Basin, with 6.0 Tcfe of proved natural gas and crude oil reserves Company by renowned inventor and businessman George across approximately 3.5 million gross acres; about 540,000 of those gross acres were located in the Marcellus Shale play. Our Westinghouse, a visionary entrepreneur who understood Midstream segment provides the gathering, transmission and how important natural gas could be to industrial growth storage services needed to move our own produced gas, and that in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. As the natural gas of other independent producers, across the Appalachian Basin to sector — and the broader energy industry — changed, the market. The Distribution segment distributes and sells natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers through our the Company expanded and grew into the entity now wholly owned subsidiary, Equitable Gas Company, LLC (Equitable known as EQT Corporation. Gas). This regulated distribution company serves more than 277,000 customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. FAST FACTS: EQT Corporation GOVERNANCE EQT’s internal Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applies Type Investor-Owned to all directors, officers, employees and consultants of the NYSE EQT Company, and serves as the principal guide for ensuring that Founded 1888 we operate responsibly from an economic, environmental and social performance standpoint. The top governing body of the Hometown Pittsburgh, PA Company, the EQT Board of Directors, sets high standards, and Employees 1,873 looks to the charter of its Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility Divisions Production Committee (PPCR) to define the roles and responsibilities regarding Midstream EQT’s compliance with laws, regulations, policies and practices Distribution (Equitable Gas) that relate to economic, social, environmental, health, safety and other sustainability matters. This committee meets as needed, on average, four times per year, to assess the Company’s performance and make procedural improvement recommendations to EQT management and the Board of Directors. The frequency of board committee meetings can be found in the Company’s annual Proxy Statement. ABOUT EQT 5 Go back to Table of Contents COMPOSITION: EQT Board of Directors Executive Independent Total Members, Male 1 8 Total Members, Female 0 2 Male 100% 80% Female 0% 20% Minority 0% 20% Non-Minority 100% 80% EQT works hard to maintain its standing as a company built on Age < 30 0% 0% safety, integrity, accountability, and transparency. While most Age 30-50 0% 10% < of our employees know instinctively that these are the important Age 50 100% 90% pillars of our business, few have actually seen them formally expressed. In 2012, we began working on a number of initiatives • EQT Board Committee responsibilities are described at http://ir.eqt.com to help our employees understand these core values. We started by actually saying the words — to ourselves and to others. INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY We also began articulating the Company’s unspoken mission and vision, so that we could more consistently communicate to external EQT is one of the few operators in our industry that touches almost stakeholders our awareness and understanding of what mattered every aspect of the natural gas value chain (see pages 54-55), and most to them. We anticipate formally rolling out many of these has been doing so for more than a century. From this unique initiatives in 2013 and beyond. The fact that these values have vantage point, we have been able to develop and implement always been part of our existence reinforces our reputation as standards for integrated sustainability that consider the needs and a company that respects its stakeholders, allowing us to grow concerns of a very diverse community of stakeholders, balanced our business and be welcomed into communities that want to against the materiality

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