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Senior Notes
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Senior Notes
Senior Notes
 
 
December 31, 2017
 
December 31, 2016
 
 
Principal Value
Carrying Value (a)
Fair
Value (b)
 
Principal Value
Carrying Value (a)
Fair
Value (b)
 
 
(Thousands)
5.15% Notes, due March 1, 2018
 
$

$

$

 
$
200,000

$
199,545

$
207,180

6.50% Notes, due April 1, 2018
 



 
500,000

499,089

527,205

8.13% Notes, due June 1, 2019
 
700,000

698,918

755,153

 
700,000

698,106

789,271

Floating Rate Notes due October 1, 2020

 
500,000

497,206

501,325

 



2.50% Notes due October 1, 2020
 
500,000

497,169

497,670

 



4.88% Notes, due November 15, 2021
 
750,000

744,920

801,953

 
750,000

743,595

801,218

3.00% Notes due October 1, 2022
 
750,000

742,364

743,550

 



4.00% EQM Notes, due August 1, 2024
 
500,000

494,939

504,110

 
500,000

494,170

493,125

7.75% debentures, due July 15, 2026
 
115,000

110,732

135,024

 
115,000

110,235

141,800

4.125% EQM Notes, due December 1, 2026
 
500,000

492,413

501,990

 
500,000

491,562

488,460

3.90% Notes due October 1, 2027
 
1,250,000

1,238,707

1,245,200

 



Medium-term notes:
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
7.42% Series B, due 2023
 
10,000

10,000

11,433

 
10,000

9,998

11,677

7.6% Series C, due 2018
 
8,000

7,999

8,012

 
8,000

7,991

8,375

8.7% to 9.0% Series A, due 2020 through 2021
 
35,200

35,187

40,510

 
35,200

35,168

41,906

 
 
5,618,200

5,570,554

5,745,930

 
3,318,200

3,289,459

3,510,217

Less Senior Notes payable within one year
 
8,000

7,999

8,012

 



Total Senior Notes
 
$
5,610,200

$
5,562,555

$
5,737,918

 
$
3,318,200

$
3,289,459

$
3,510,217


 
(a)     Carrying value represents principal value less unamortized debt issuance costs and debt discounts.

(b)    Fair value is measured using Level 2 inputs.

On October 4, 2017, the Company completed the public offering (the 2017 Notes Offering) of $500 million aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Notes due 2020 (the Floating Rate Notes), $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% Senior Notes due 2020 (the 2020 Notes), $750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.00% Senior Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $1,250 million aggregate principal amount of 3.90% Senior Notes due 2027 (the 2027 Notes, and, together with the Floating Rate Notes, the 2020 Notes and the 2022 Notes, the 2017 Notes). The Company received net proceeds from the 2017 Notes Offering of approximately $2,974.2 million, which the Company used, together with other cash on hand and borrowings under the Company’s $2.5 billion credit facility, to fund the cash portion of the consideration for and expenses related to the Rice Merger and related transactions including the repayment of certain indebtedness of Rice and its subsidiaries, to redeem or repay $700 million of Company Senior Notes due in 2018 and for other general corporate purposes.

In October 2017, the Company delivered redemption notices to redeem all of its outstanding $200 million aggregate principal amount 5.15% Senior Notes due 2018 and $500 million aggregate principal amount 6.50% Senior Notes due 2018. On November 3, 2017, the Company redeemed the 5.15% Senior Notes due 2018 at a redemption price of 101.252%, plus accrued but unpaid interest, and the 6.50% Senior Notes due 2018 at a redemption price of 101.941%, plus accrued but unpaid interest. This resulted in make whole call premiums of $2.5 million and $9.7 million for the 5.15% Senior Notes due 2018 and the 6.50% Senior Notes due 2018, respectively. As a part of these transactions, the Company recorded loss on debt extinguishment of $12.6 million, which included the make whole call premiums and the write-off of $0.4 million in unamortized deferred financing costs.

The indentures governing the Company’s and EQM’s long-term indebtedness contain certain restrictive financial and operating covenants, including covenants that restrict, among other things, the Company’s or EQM's ability to incur, as applicable, indebtedness, incur liens, enter into sale and leaseback transactions, complete acquisitions, merge, sell assets and perform certain other corporate actions.  The covenants do not contain a rating trigger.  Therefore, a change in the Company’s or EQM’s debt rating would not trigger a default under the indentures governing the indebtedness.
 
Aggregate maturities of Senior Notes are $8.0 million in 2018, $700.0 million in 2019, $1,011.2 million in 2020, $774.0 million in 2021, $750.0 million in 2022 and $2,375.0 million in 2023 and thereafter.