PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Equitable Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EQT) will host a teleconference with security analysts on January 29, 2009, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The topic of the teleconference will be financial results for the year end 2008, which will be released before the NYSE opening that morning. A review of these results will be followed by a Q&A session for security analysts.

Equitable's teleconference with security analysts will be broadcast live via Equitable's website, http://www.eqt.com and will be available for seven days.

Equitable Resources is an integrated energy company with emphasis on Appalachian area natural gas production, gathering, processing, transmission and distribution. Additional information about the company can be obtained through the company's web site, http://www.eqt.com; Investor information is available on that site at http://ir.eqt.com. Equitable Resources uses its web site as a channel of distribution of important information about the company, and routinely posts financial and other important information regarding the company and its financial condition and operations on the Investors web pages.

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