EQT & Gas Utility Company Deal Gets Federal "Approval"
On March 1, MDN told you about the complex deal agreed to between EQT and People's Natural Gas. EQT wants to swap its gas utility division, called Equiptable Gas Company, to People's in return for cash and a midstream company owned by Peoples called Allegheny Valley Connector (see Pittsburgh Driller & Gas Utility Co Want to Swap Assets). Good news today from EQT. They report the Federal Trade Commission has "not objected" to (meaning it approves of) the transfer--a big hurdle to completing the deal. However, there's still a number of other approvals from state agencies that need to be obtained before the deal can be finalized.
The announcement today from EQT about the FTC "approval":
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