QEP RESOURCES, INC. (a Delaware corporation) $625,000,000 6.875% Notes due 2021 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • August 16th, 2010 • Qep Resources, Inc. • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
QEP Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and each of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 13 hereof), for whom Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. is acting as representative (in such capacity, the “Representative”), with respect to the issue and sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective principal amounts set forth in Schedule A of $625,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.875% senior notes due 2021 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of March 1, 2001 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Associatio
