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 26, 2018 (September 25, 2018)

 

EQT Midstream Partners, LP

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (412) 553-5700

 

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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.

 

Effective September 25, 2018, the membership of the Board of Directors of EQT Midstream Services, LLC, the general partner (the EQM General Partner) of EQT Midstream Partners, LP (EQM), was increased from seven (7) to eight (8) directors, and Kenneth M. Burke was appointed as an independent director to fill the resulting vacancy. Effective the same day, the membership of the Board of Directors of EQT GP Services, LLC, the general partner (the EQGP General Partner) of EQT GP Holdings, LP, was increased from seven (7) to eight (8) directors, and Mr. Burke was appointed as an independent director to fill the resulting vacancy. Mr. Burke will serve as a member of the Audit Committees of each of the EQM General Partner and the EQGP General Partner.

 

Mr. Burke has served as a director of EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) (EQT), the ultimate parent company of the EQM General Partner and the EQGP General Partner, since January 2012 and a director of Nexeo Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXEO) (Nexeo) since November 2011. He currently serves as a member of the Audit and Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility Committees for EQT and the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Nexeo.  Following the proposed separation of EQT’s upstream and midstream businesses and the creation of a standalone publicly traded corporation known as Equitrans Midstream Corporation (the Separation), Mr. Burke will serve as the Chairman of the Audit Committee for the EQGP General Partner.  Mr. Burke will receive the standard compensation amounts payable to non-employee directors of the EQM General Partner, as described in EQM’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 15, 2018.

 

Effective as of the Separation, Stephen A. Thorington, a current director of the EQM General Partner and the EQGP General Partner, will be removed from the Board of Directors of each of the EQM General Partner and the EQGP General Partner.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

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 MIDSTREAM PARTNERS, LP
	By:	EQT Midstream Services, LLC,
		its general partner
Date: September 26, 2018	By:	/s/ Thomas F. Karam
		Name:	Thomas F. Karam
		Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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