PVR Partners, L.P. Announces Public Offering of 6,500,000 Common Units

RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PVR Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) today announced that it has commenced an offering, subject to market and other conditions, of 6,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests in PVR.  In connection with the offering, PVR expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase a maximum of 975,000 additional common units to cover over-allotments, if any.  PVR intends to use all of the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the borrowings outstanding under its revolving credit facility.

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Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and UBS Investment Bank are acting as joint book-running managers in connection with the offering. When available, copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from the underwriters as follows:

Wells Fargo Securities
Attention: Equity Syndicate Department
375 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10152
Telephone: (800) 326-5897
Email: [email protected]  

BofA Merrill Lynch
222 Broadway
New York, New York 10038
Attn: Prospectus Department
Email: [email protected]  

Barclays
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, New York 11717
Telephone: (888) 603-5847
Email: [email protected]  

Citigroup
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, New York 11717
Telephone: (800) 831-9146

J.P. Morgan
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, New York 11717
Telephone: (866) 803-9204

RBC Capital Markets
Attn: Prospectus Department
3 World Financial Center
200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor
New York, New York 10281
Telephone: (877) 822-4089

UBS Investment Bank
Attn: Prospectus Department
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10171
Telephone: (888) 827-7275

An electronic copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus is available from the Securities and Exchange Commission's (the "SEC") website at http://www.sec.gov.

The common units will be offered and sold pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement previously filed by PVR with the SEC.  This news release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.  The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus.

PVR Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) is a publicly traded limited partnership which owns and operates a network of natural gas midstream pipelines and processing plants, and owns and manages coal and natural resource properties.  Our midstream assets, located principally in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, provide gathering, transportation, compression, processing, dehydration and related services to natural gas producers.  Our coal and natural resource properties, located in the Appalachian, Illinois and San Juan basins, are leased to experienced operators in exchange for royalty payments. 

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this release that address activities, events or developments that PVR expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "estimates," "forecasts," "projects," "should" and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of uncertainties, factors and risks, many of which are outside PVR's ability to control or predict, which could cause results to differ materially from those expected by management. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, regulatory, economic and market conditions, our ability realize the anticipated benefits from the acquisition of Chief Gathering LLC, the timing and success of business development efforts and other uncertainties.  Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in our press releases and public periodic filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and most recently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.  Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect management's views only as of the date hereof.  We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact:   Stephen R. Milbourne
                Director - Investor Relations
                Phone: 610-975-8204
                E-Mail: [email protected]

SOURCE PVR Partners, L.P.