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In accordance with ASC 450, a liability is recorded for a loss contingency when its occurrence is probable and damages can be reasonably estimated based on the anticipated most likely outcome or the minimum amount within a range of possible outcomes. The Company believes that the exposure to potential losses from its contingencies deemed as probable is immaterial. For claims deemed reasonably possible the Company does not have a range of potential exposure as an estimate cannot be made because the cases are in their early stages or have a large number of plaintiffs. Disclosures are provided for contingencies reasonably possible to occur which would have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial position, results of operations or cash flows but have not yet been accrued. Some of the claims involve numerous plaintiffs, highly complex issues relating to liability, damages and other matters subject to substantial uncertainties and, therefore, the probability of liability or an estimate of loss cannot be reasonably determined. 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;606.5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;6.05% Senior Notes due 2016&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;176.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;176.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;6.80% Senior Notes due 2018&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;138.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;138.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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QEP has established policies and procedures for managing commodity price volatility through the use of derivative instruments. QEP uses derivative instruments to reduce the impact of downward movements in commodity prices on cash flow, returns on capital, and other financial results. However, these instruments typically limit future gains from favorable price movements. The volume of production subject to derivative instruments and the mix of the instruments are frequently evaluated and adjusted by management in response to changing market conditions. QEP may enter into derivative contracts for up to 100% of forecasted production from proved reserves. QEP does not enter into derivative instruments for speculative purposes.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP uses derivative instruments known as fixed-price swaps and costless collars to realize a known price or range of prices for a specific volume of production delivered into a regional sales point. Costless collars are combinations of put and call options that have a floor price and a ceiling price and payments are made or received only if the settlement price is outside the range between the floor and ceiling prices. QEP's derivative instruments do not require the physical delivery of natural gas, crude oil, or NGL between the parties at settlement. Swap and costless collar transactions are settled in cash with one party paying the other for the net difference in prices, multiplied by the contract volume, for the settlement period. Natural gas price derivative instruments are typically structured as fixed-price swaps at regional price indices. Oil price derivative instruments are typically structured as NYMEX fixed-price swaps based at Cushing, Oklahoma. NGL price derivative instruments are typically structured as Mont Belvieu, Texas fixed-price swaps.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP enters into derivative transactions that do not have margin requirements or collateral provisions that would require payments prior to the scheduled settlement dates. Derivative contract counterparties are normally financial institutions and energy trading firms with investment-grade credit ratings. QEP routinely monitors and manages its exposure to counterparty risk by requiring specific minimum credit standards for all counterparties and avoids concentration of credit exposure by transacting with multiple counterparties.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;All derivative instruments are recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as either assets or liabilities measured at their fair values. Reporting changes in the fair value of derivatives depend upon whether the derivative instrument has been designated as a cash flow hedge and qualifies for hedge accounting. A derivative instrument qualifies for hedge accounting if, at inception, the derivative is expected to be highly effective in offsetting the underlying unhedged cash flows. Through December 31, 2011, QEP designated most of its natural gas, oil and NGL derivative contracts as cash flow hedges, whose unrealized fair value gains and losses were recorded to Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI). Effective January 1, 2012, QEP elected to de-designate all of its natural gas, oil and NGL derivative contracts that had previously been designated as cash flow hedges and discontinue hedge accounting prospectively. As a result, as of January 1, 2012, QEP will recognize all gains and losses from changes in the fair value of natural gas, oil and NGL derivative contracts immediately in earnings rather than deferring any such amounts in AOCI. At December 31, 2011, AOCI consisted of $395.9 million ($248.6 million after tax) of unrealized gains, representing the mark-to-market value of QEP's cash flow hedges at December 31, 2011, less any ineffectiveness recognized. As a result of discontinuing hedge accounting on January 1, 2012, the mark-to-market values at December 31, 2011 are frozen in AOCI as of the de-designation date and will be reclassified into the statement of income in future periods as the original hedged transactions occur and effect earnings. QEP expects to reclassify into earnings from AOCI the frozen value related to de-designated natural gas, oil and NGL hedges during the remainder of 2012 and in 2013. In addition, in connection with QEP's election to discontinue hedge accounting, all realized and unrealized gains and losses from derivative instruments incurred after January 1, 2012 will be presented in the statement of income in &amp;#8220;Realized and unrealized gains on commodity derivative contracts&amp;#8221; below operating income.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;QEP derivative contracts as a percentage of reported production&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Costless collars&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; 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font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Propane derivative volumes as a percent of propane volumes - QEP Field Services&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Fixed price swaps&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;71&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; 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Belvieu Ethane&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;11.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;0.64&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Swap&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="24%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;Mt. Belvieu Propane&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;9.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;1.35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;QEP Marketing Outstanding Derivative Contracts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP Marketing enters into commodity derivative transactions to lock in a margin on natural gas volumes placed into storage and to lock in a fixed price for some of its customers. 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Natural gas sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="24%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(MMBtu)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Swaps&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;4.15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;December&amp;#160;31,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="18%"&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="22%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(0.2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; 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Interim condensed consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for audited annual consolidated financial statements. 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The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2012, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2012.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;De-designation of commodity derivative contracts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Effective January 1, 2012, QEP elected to discontinue hedge accounting prospectively. Accordingly, all realized and unrealized gains and losses will be recognized in earnings immediately each quarter as derivative contracts are settled and marked-to-market. For the first quarter of 2012 unrealized gains of $128.3 million were included in income that prior to January 1, 2012 would have been deferred in accumulated other comprehensive income under hedge accounting. 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QEP reported NGL sales of $17.2 million and Gathering, processing and other of $97.9 million in its first quarter 2011 Form 10-Q. 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In recent years, domestic natural gas supply has grown faster than natural gas demand, driven by advances in technology, including horizontal drilling combined with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, which have allowed producers to extract increasing amounts of natural gas from shale, tight sand formations, and other unconventional reservoirs. Increased natural gas supply has put downward pressure on natural gas prices, while concern about the global economy and other factors has created volatility in the price of crude oil. Changes in the market prices for natural gas, crude oil, and NGL directly impact many aspects of QEP's business, including its financial condition, revenues, results of operations, planned drilling activity and related capital expenditures, liquidity, rate of growth, costs of goods and services required to drill and complete wells, and the carrying value of its oil and natural gas properties.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;New accounting pronouncements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;In December of 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-11, which enhances disclosure requirements regarding an entity's financial instruments and derivative instruments that are offset or subject to a master netting arrangement. This information about offsetting and related netting arrangements will enable users of financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on the entity's financial position, including the effect of rights of setoff. The amendments are required for annual reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2013, and interim periods within those annual periods. QEP is evaluating the impact of this ASU on its disclosure requirements.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:OrganizationConsolidationAndPresentationOfFinancialStatementsDisclosureTextBlock>
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font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Three Months Ended March 31,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="52%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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  <us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="c20120101to20120331">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Note 13 &amp;#8211; Operations by Line of Business&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP's lines of business include natural gas and oil exploration and production (QEP Energy), midstream field services (QEP Field Services) and marketing (QEP Marketing and other). The lines of business are managed separately and therefore the financial information is presented separately due to the distinct differences in the nature of operations of each line of business, among other factors. 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;396.2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP Field Services&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP Energy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-size: 70%; vertical-align: text-top;"&gt;(1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2011 have been recast to reflect QEP's revised reporting of its transportation and handling costs. See Note 2 &amp;#8220;Basis of Presentation of Interim Consolidated Financial Statements&amp;#8221; for additional information. In addition, revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2011 reflect the impact of QEP's settled derivative contracts which during the three months ended March 31, 2012 are reflected below operating income. 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Revenues from unaffiliated customers &lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;112.8&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;148.4&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Stock option transactions under the terms of the LTSIP are summarized below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; 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font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Aggregate&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Intrinsic Value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in years)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;30.90&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;17.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Unrealized gains and losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(2.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(2.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; 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  <us-gaap:FairValueDisclosuresTextBlock contextRef="c20120101to20120331">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Note 6 &amp;#8211; Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP measures and discloses fair values in accordance with the provisions of ASC 820 &amp;#8220;Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures&amp;#8221;. This guidance defines fair value in applying GAAP, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair-value measurements, but does not change existing guidance as to whether or not an instrument is carried at fair value. ASC 820 also establishes a fair-value hierarchy. Level 1 inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date. At March 31, 2012, the Company does not have Level 1 fair value measurements since it uses a broker to access the futures market. Level 2 inputs are inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. QEP's Level 2 fair value measurements consist of fixed-price swaps of natural gas, oil and NGL. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. QEP's Level 3 measurements are made up of costless collars for natural gas and oil. The Level 2 fair value of derivative contracts (see Note 7 &amp;#8220;Derivative Contracts&amp;#8221;) is based on market prices posted on the NYMEX on the last trading day of the reporting period and industry standard discounted cash flow models. The Level 3 fair value of derivative contracts is computed by QEP's risk management group using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with observable inputs from the NYMEX futures prices, LIBOR one year interest rates, credit default swap rates, and unobservable input of volatility computed from historical prices using the Black-Scholes model.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP primarily applies the market approach for recurring fair value measurements and maximizes its use of observable inputs and minimizes its use of unobservable inputs. QEP considers bid and ask prices for valuing the majority of its assets and liabilities measured and reported at fair value. In addition to using market data, QEP makes assumptions in valuing its assets and liabilities, including assumptions about risk and the risks inherent in the inputs to the valuation technique.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Certain of QEP's derivative instruments, however, are valued using industry standard models that consider various inputs, including quoted forward prices for commodities, time value, volatility, and current market and contractual prices for the underlying instruments, as well as other relevant economic measures. Substantially all of these inputs are observable in the marketplace throughout the full term of the instrument, and can be derived from observable data or are supported by observable prices at which transactions are executed in the marketplace. The determination of fair value for derivative assets and liabilities also incorporates nonperformance risk for counterparties and for QEP. Derivative contract fair values are reported on a net basis to the extent a legal right of offset with a counterparty exists.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP did not have any assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis, other than ARO's and property, plant and equipment values for purposes of determining the impairment calculation, at March 31, 2012, or at December 31, 2011. The fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities at March 31, 2012, is shown in the table below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="14" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(13.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;0.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The change in the fair value of Level 3 commodity derivative instruments assets and liabilities for the three months ended March 31, 2012, is shown below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Change in Level 3 Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Balance at January 1,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;36.3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Realized gains and losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;17.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Unrealized gains and losses&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(2.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(13.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Settlements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(17.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="76%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Balance at March 31,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(2.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;23.2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities at December 31, 2011, is shown in the table below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="14" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Fair Value Measurements&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="14" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;December 31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;-&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="52%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Granted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;283,029&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;30.90&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;0.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfShareBasedCompensationStockOptionsActivityTableTextBlock>
  <!--Schedule of calculated fair value of options granted and major assumptions used-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfShareBasedPaymentAwardStockOptionsValuationAssumptionsTableTextBlock contextRef="c20120101to20120331">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The calculated fair value of options granted and major assumptions used in the model at the date of grant are listed below:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Stock Option Variables&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Three Months Ended&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;March&amp;#160;31, 2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="88%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Fair value of options at grant date&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;14.49&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="88%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Risk-free interest rate&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;0.81&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="88%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Expected price volatility&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;55.9&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="88%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Expected dividend yield&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;0.26&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="88%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Expected life in years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.0&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfShareBasedPaymentAwardStockOptionsValuationAssumptionsTableTextBlock>
  <!--Derivative Volumes and Average Prices-->
  <us-gaap:ScheduleOfNotionalAmountsOfOutstandingDerivativePositionsTableTextBlock contextRef="c20120101to20120331">&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The following table sets forth QEP Energy's volumes and average prices for its commodity derivative contracts as of March 31, 2012:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="18%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Swaps&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="22%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Collars&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Type of Contract&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="18%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Index&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Total Volumes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; 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padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" valign="bottom" width="10%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ceiling price&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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Belvieu Ethane&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;11.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;0.64&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Swap&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="24%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;Mt. Belvieu Propane&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;9.6&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;1.35&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;QEP Marketing Outstanding Derivative Contracts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;QEP Marketing enters into commodity derivative transactions to lock in a margin on natural gas volumes placed into storage and to lock in a fixed price for some of its customers. 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Natural gas sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="24%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;(MMBtu)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Swaps&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;4.15&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="15%"&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="52%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Total financial liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="border-bottom: black 4px double; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;0.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-indent: 0pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Level 3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="14" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-style: italic; display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Financial Assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 31,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="36%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="5" valign="bottom" width="21%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="39%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; 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margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="22%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="22%"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;(in millions)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="18%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Current&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="10%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="18%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Commodity&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Fair value of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;derivative contracts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;347.5&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;284.1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="17%"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Fair value of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;derivative contracts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="bottom" width="9%" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#cceeff"&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="18%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: -9pt; display: block; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Commodity&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="left" valign="bottom" width="17%" style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; 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