SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-11-14

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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:right;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit&nbsp;10.2</font></b><a name="Exhibit10_2_042436"></a></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYEE SECONDMENT AGREEMENT</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This Amended and Restated Employee Secondment Agreement (this &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Agreement</i></b>&#148;), effective as of November&nbsp;13, 2017 (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Effective Date</i></b>&#148;), is entered into by and among EQT Corporation (&#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">EQT</i></b>&#148;), Rice Midstream Partners LP (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">MLP</i></b>&#148;) and, solely for the limited purposes set forth in <u>Section&nbsp;6(j)</u>, EQT RE, LLC (&#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">EQT RE</i></b>&#148;). Each of the foregoing is referred to herein as a &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Party</i></b>&#148; and collectively as the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Parties</i></b>.&#148; Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Amended Omnibus Agreement (as defined below).</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">RECITALS:</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, the MLP owns the Facilities (defined below) consisting of gathering pipelines and compressor stations and fresh water gathering systems;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, the MLP, Rice Energy Inc. (&#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Rice Energy</i></b>&#148;) and the other parties thereto previously entered into an Omnibus Agreement (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Original Omnibus Agreement</i></b>&#148;), which agreement provided, among other things, for the provision of (i)&nbsp;certain general and administrative services to the MLP and its general partner and (ii)&nbsp;certain rights of first offer for the MLP with respect to midstream assets retained by Rice Energy and its subsidiaries other than the MLP;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, the Parties previously entered into that certain Employee Secondment Agreement, effective as of December&nbsp;22, 2014 (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Original Agreement</i></b>&#148;), whereby, in addition to (and separate from) the general and administrative services provided under the Omnibus Agreement, Rice Energy provided to the MLP the employee services necessary to operate, construct, manage and maintain the MLP&#146;s assets as of December&nbsp;22, 2014, including (i)&nbsp;gathering pipelines, compressor stations, related equipment and assets, (ii)&nbsp;fresh water distribution systems, (iii)&nbsp;any accessions or improvements to the assets set forth in clauses (i)&nbsp;and (ii), or (iv)&nbsp;any assets acquired or constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Amended Omnibus Agreement (as defined below) (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Facilities</i></b>&#148;), to provide support in the running of its business and to otherwise fulfill its intended business purpose (such services, the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">MLP Employee Services</i></b>&#148;), and thus seconded to the MLP all personnel employed by Rice Energy that provided the MLP Employee Services under the terms of the Original Agreement;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, on the date hereof, (a)&nbsp;a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of EQT was merged with and into Rice Energy, with Rice Energy (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Surviving Corporation</i></b>&#148;) surviving as an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of EQT and (b)&nbsp;immediately thereafter, the Surviving Corporation merged with and into EQT RE, a wholly owned subsidiary of EQT, with EQT RE surviving as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of EQT (together, the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Mergers</i></b>&#148;);</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">WHEREAS, contemporaneously herewith, EQT, the MLP and the