Edgar Filing: CABOT OIL & GAS CORP

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 11, 2002
Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CABOT OIL & GAS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware 04-3072771
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)

1200 Enclave Parkway
Houston, Texas 77077
(Addresses of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation Second Amended and Restated
Second Amended and Restated 1994 Non-Employee Director
1994 Long-Term Incentive Plan Stock Option Plan

(Full title of the plans)

Lisa A. Machesney
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation
1200 Enclave Parkway
Houston, Texas 77077
(Name and address of agent for service)

(281) 589-4600
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Calculation of Registration Fee

Proposed Proposed maximum Amount of
Title of securities Amount to be maximum offering price aggregate offering registration
to be registered registered per share(1) price(1) fee
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Common Stock, par value $.10 1,400,000 (3) $21.63 $30,282,000 $2,786
per share(2)

(1) Estimated pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) solely for purposes of computing
the registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low prices
reported in the consolidated reporting system for the Common Stock on the
New York Stock Exchange on July 8, 2002.

(2) Includes the Right to Purchase Preferred Stock associated with the Common
Stock.

(3) These shares represent the aggregate amount of additional shares that were
added to the plans pursuant to amendments to such plans that were adopted
by the stockholders of the Company on May 3, 2001.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This registration statement is being filed by Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation
pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended. This registration statement registers an additional 1,200,000 shares
of Common Stock, par value $.10 per share ("Common Stock"), of Cabot Oil & Gas
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, that may be issued from time to time
pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated 1994 Long-Term Incentive Plan of
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and an additional 200,000 shares of Common Stock
that may be issued from time to time pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated
1994 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation previously registered an aggregate of 2,800,000
shares of Common Stock to be issued from time to time pursuant to these plans in
the form of (a) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration No. 33-53723)
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on May 20,
1994, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8 filed with the
Commission on April 12, 2000 and (b) a Registration Statement on Form S-8
(Registration Statement No. 333-37632) filed with the Commission on May 23,
2000. Those registration statements, as so amended, are incorporated herein by
this reference. Filed as exhibits hereto are the following:

Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), by Cabot Oil &
Gas Corporation ("Cabot") are incorporated in this Registration Statement by
reference and shall be deemed to be a part hereof:

o Cabot's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 2001, as amended by a Form 10-K/A filed on June 28, 2002;

o Cabot's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
2002; and

o Cabot's current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 1, 2002,
as amended by a Form 8-K/A filed on July 3, 2002.

All documents filed by Cabot with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent
to the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold, or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Registration
Statement by reference and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, in an amendment
hereto or in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent
that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed amendment or
supplement to this Registration Statement or in any document that also is
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number Description
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*4.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated herein by
this reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 of the
Company (Registration No. 33-32553)).

*4.2 Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated
herein by this reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K of the
Company dated July 1, 2002, File No. 1-10447).

*4.3 Certificate of Designation for Series A Junior Participating
Preferred Stock (incorporated herein by this reference to the
Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended
December 31, 1994, File No. 1-10447).

*4.4 Certificate of Increase of Shares Designated Series A Junior
Participating Preferred Stock (incorporated herein by this
reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K of the Company
dated July 1, 2002, File No. 1-10447).

*4.5 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (incorporated herein by
this reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for
the year ended December 31, 2001, File No. 1-10447).

*4.6 Form of Certificate of Common Stock of the Company (incorporated
herein by this reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1
of the Company (Registration No. 33-32553)).

*4.7 Rights Agreement dated as of March 28, 1991 between the
Company and The First National Bank of Boston, as Rights
Agent, which includes as Exhibit A the form of Certificate of
Designation of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock
(incorporated herein by this reference to the Registration
Statement on Form 8-A of the Company, File No. 1-10447).

(a) Amendment No. 1 to the Rights Agreement dated February 24,
1994 (incorporated herein by this reference to the Annual
Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended
December 31, 1994, File No. 1-10447).

(b) Amendment No. 2 to the Rights Agreement dated December 8, 2000
(incorporated herein by this reference to the Current Report
on Form 8-K dated December 8, 2000, File No. 1-10447).

*4.8 Second Amended and Restated 1994 Long-Term Incentive Plan of
the Company (incorporated herein by this reference to the
Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended
December 31, 2001, File No. 1-10447).

*4.9 Second Amended and Restated 1994 Non-Employee Director Stock
Option Plan of the Company (incorporated herein by this
reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for
the year ended December 31, 2001, File No. 1-10447).

5 Opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P.

15 Awareness Letter of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

23.1 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

23.2 Consent of Miller and Lents, Ltd.

23.3 Consent of Baker Botts L.L.P. (included in Opinion filed as
Exhibit 5 to this registration statement).

24 Powers of Attorney (included in the signature pages hereof).
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* Incorporated by reference as indicated.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on July 11, 2002.

CABOT OIL & GAS CORPORATION

By: /s/ Dan O. Dinges
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Dan O. Dinges
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

Each person whose signature appears below appoints Scott C. Schroeder and
Lisa A. Machesney, and each of them, each of whom may act without the joinder of
the other, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments to this registration
statement, including post-effective amendments, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and all other documents in connection therewith, with the
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done, as fully and for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on July 11, 2002.

Signature Title
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/s/ Dan O. Dinges Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
----------------------------------- President
Dan O. Dinges

/s/ Scott C. Schroeder Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
----------------------------------- and Treasurer (Principal Financial
Scott C. Schroeder Officer)

/s/ Henry C. Smyth Vice President and Controller
----------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Henry C. Smyth

/s/ Robert F. Bailey Director
-----------------------------------
Robert F. Bailey

/s/ Henry O. Boswell Director
-----------------------------------
Henry O. Boswell

/s/ John G. L. Cabot Director
-----------------------------------
John G. L. Cabot

/s/ James G. Floyd Director
-----------------------------------
James G. Floyd

/s/ C. Wayne Nance Director
-----------------------------------
C. Wayne Nance

/s/ P. Dexter Peacock Director
-----------------------------------
P. Dexter Peacock

/s/ Arthur L. Smith Director
-----------------------------------
Arthur L. Smith

/s/ William P. Vititoe Director
-----------------------------------
William P. Vititoe

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit
Number Description
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*4.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated herein
by this reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 of the
Company (Registration No. 33-32553)).

*4.2 Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation
(incorporated herein by this reference to the Current Report on
Form 8-K of the Company dated July 1, 2002, File No. 1-10447).