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) April 29, 2008 (April 23, 2008)

 

EQUITABLE RESOURCES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

PENNSYLVANIA

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

1-3551

 

25-0464690

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

225 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

15212

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(412) 553-5700

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

NONE

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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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.

 

Equitable Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that effective immediately following the Company’s 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, held on April 23, 2008, Thomas A. McConomy retired from the Board of Directors of the Company.  Mr. McConomy’s retirement was pursuant to Article III, Section 3.08 of the Company’s By-Laws, which prohibits any director from serving as a director after the date of the annual meeting of shareholders following his or her seventy-fourth (74th) birthday.

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

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.

 

 

EQUITABLE RESOURCES, INC.

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Philip P. Conti

 

 

Philip P. Conti

 

 

Senior Vice President and

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

Date: April 29, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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