UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): December 30, 2017

PENN VIRGINIA CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 722-6500

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Pending Acquisition

On December 30, 2017, Penn Virginia Oil & Gas, L.P. (“Buyer”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Penn Virginia Corporation (the “Company”), entered into a purchase and sale agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Hunt Oil Company (“Seller”) to acquire certain oil and gas assets (the “Hunt Properties”) from Seller, including oil and gas leases covering approximately 9,700 net acres located primarily in Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, Texas for aggregate consideration of approximately $86.0 million in cash (the “Pending Acquisition”), subject to customary adjustments. The Pending Acquisition has an effective date of October 1, 2017 and is expected to close on March 1, 2018, subject to the satisfaction of specified closing conditions the failure of which may result in the transaction being terminated.

The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants by each of the applicable parties to the Purchase Agreement, and also contains indemnification provisions under which the parties thereto have agreed to indemnify each other against certain liabilities. The representations, warranties and covenants in the Purchase Agreement were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company, Buyer, Seller or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.

There can be no assurance that Buyer will acquire the Hunt Properties on the terms described or at all. Even if Buyer consummates the Pending Acquisition, it may not be able to achieve the expected benefits of the Pending Acquisition. There also can be no assurance that the Pending Acquisition will be beneficial to the Company or Buyer, and the Company and Buyer may not be able to integrate the Hunt Properties without increases in costs, losses in revenues or other difficulties.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement, which will be filed with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.

On January 2, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing Buyer’s entry into the Purchase Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1 is being furnished and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any of the Company’s filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings, except to the extent expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.