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0001181431-12-009933.txt : 20120217 0001181431-12-009933.hdr.sgml : 20120217 20120217162523 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-12-009933 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120217 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120217 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120217 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CABOT OIL & GAS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000858470 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 043072771 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1200 ENCLAVE PARKWAY CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77077 BUSINESS PHONE: 2815894600 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Shearer Deidre L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001542589 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10447 FILM NUMBER: 12622970 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 840 GESSNER ROAD, SUITE 1400 CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77024 3 1 rrd334599.xml 3 X0204 3 2012-02-17 0 0000858470 CABOT OIL & GAS CORP COG 0001542589 Shearer Deidre L 840 GESSNER ROAD, SUITE 1400 HOUSTON TX 77024 0 1 0 0 Corp Sec & Managing Counsel Common Stock 3000 D Restricted stock award to reporting person under 2004 Incentive Plan. Restrictions on award lapse 33 1/3% on December 7, 2012 and 33 1/3% on each of the next two one-year anniversaries of such date. Exhibit List: Exhibit 24, Power of Attorney Deidre L. Shearer 2012-02-17 EX-24. 2 rrd299834_338589.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd299834_338589.html

Power of Attorney

WHEREAS, the undersigned is a director or officer or both of Cabot Oil & Gas
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and therefore may be subject to
the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the "Act"), and the rules and regulations of Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") promulgated thereunder and accordingly obligated to
file with the Commission statements on Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5;

NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned does hereby appoint Scott C. Schroeder,
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, her true and lawful attorney-in-
fact and agent with power to act for her and in her name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign statements on Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5, in accordance with
Section 16(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder, and all instruments necessary or incidental in connection therewith and to
file the same with the Commission and with any national stock exchange, and to take
any and all other actions in connection with the foregoing which such attorney-in-fact
shall consider necessary or appropriate. Such attorney-in-fact and agent shall have full
power and authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned,
in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in the
premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do
in person, the undersigned hereby ratifying and approving the acts of such attorney-in-
fact and agent. This power of attorney shall remain in effect until the undersigned
ceases to be a director or officer or both of the Company. The undersigned
acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact and agent, in serving in such
capacities at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming any of the undersigned's
responsibilities under Section 16 of the Act.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument as of
the 14th day of February, 2012

/s/ Deidre L. Shearer
Deidre L. Shearer
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