Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. and Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P. Announce MergerPenn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. and Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P. Announce Merger

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. PVR and Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P. PVG today announced a definitive agreement that would result in the merger of the two partnerships. The merger transaction would be completed with 100 percent equity consideration and would result in PVR owning its general partner, the cancellation of PVG's incentive distribution rights and the cancellation of the PVR limited partnership units owned by PVG. Under the terms of the merger agreement, PVG unitholders would receive 0.98 PVR limited partnership units in exchange for each PVG limited partnership unit owned at closing. The merger transaction would result in approximately 38.3 million additional limited partnership units being issued by PVR and the cancellation of approximately 19.6 million PVR limited partnership units owned by PVG.