UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • March 1st, 2012 • Qep Resources, Inc. • Crude petroleum & natural gas • New York
QEP Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan 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 Wells Fargo Securities, LLC 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 $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5 3/8% senior notes due 2022 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to an indenture to be dated as of March 1, 2012 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Truste
