QEP Resources Inc. announced that it has appointed William L. Thacker to its board of directors, effective immediately. In joining the board, Mr. Thacker will be able to assist with the Company's previously announced separation of its midstream business, QEP Field Services Company, including the Company's ownership of QEP Midstream Partners, LP, from QEP. Mr. Thacker has agreed to resign from the QEP board upon completion of the separation.

Mr. Thacker brings significant midstream energy expertise to QEP's Board through his experience as a director on multiple public midstream company boards, including serving as non-executive chairman of the board of Copano Energy LLC from 2009 through to its sale to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners for $5.1 billion in 2013. Previously, Mr. Thacker served as chief executive officer of TEPPCO Partners, overseeing the company's steady expansion and entrance into crude oil gathering and marketing, petrochemical pipelining, and gas gathering and processing. Mr. Thacker also served as chairman of Pacific Energy Management's Special Committee during its sale to Plains All American Pipeline for $2.3 billion in 2006.

Mr. Thacker will qualify as an "independent director" under New York Stock Exchange rules.