0001181431-12-010446.txt : 20120221 0001181431-12-010446.hdr.sgml : 20120220 20120221164006 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-12-010446 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120216 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120221 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120221 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: Cunningham George Kevin CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001500643 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10447 FILM NUMBER: 12627319 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 840 GESSNER ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 1400 CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77024 4 1 rrd335064.xml 4 X0304 4 2012-02-16 0 0000858470 CABOT OIL & GAS CORP COG 0001500643 Cunningham George Kevin CABOT OIL & GAS CORPORATION 840 GESSNER ROAD, SUITE 1400 HOUSTON TX 77024 0 1 0 0 Vice Pres. & General Counsel Common Stock 2012-02-17 4 A 0 3272 0 A 13272 D Common Stock 2012-02-17 4 F 0 953 35.18 D 12319 D Common Stock 5158 I Held in 401(k) Plan Performance Shares 0 2012-02-16 4 A 0 7163 0 A 2014-12-31 Common 7163 7163 D Stock Appreciation Right 35.18 2012-02-16 4 A 0 7345 0 A 2019-02-16 Common 7345 7345 D One-third vesting of a hybrid performance share award made on February 17, 2011. The total beneficial ownership has been adjusted to reflect a two-for-one stock split, payable on January 25, 2012. Disposition of shares to cover tax liability on the hybrid performance share vesting. The performance shares provide for payment in common stock and cash in an amount ranging from 0-200% of the performance shares awarded, based upon certain performance criteria over a three year performance period, beginning January 1, 2012 and ending December 31, 2014. SAR becomes exerciseable for common stock in increments of one-third on each of the first three anniversaries of the date of grant. Based on a statement dated December 31, 2011 for shares held by the reporting person under the Cabot Oil & Gas Savings Investment Plan. Exhibit List: Exhibit 24, Power of Attorney Deidre L. Shearer, Attorney-in-Fact for George Kevin Cunningham 2012-02-21 EX-24. 2 rrd300272_338760.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd300272_338760.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 Deidre L. Shearer,
Corporate Secretary and Managing Counsel, and Scott C. Schroeder, Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, or either of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-
fact and agent with power to act for him and in his 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 17th day of February, 2012.


/s/ George Kevin Cunningham
						George Kevin Cunningham