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: October 27, 2014 (October 23, 2014)

(Date of Earliest Event Reported)

PENN VIRGINIA CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 687-8900

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):

and

On October 23, 2014, Penn Virginia Corporation (the “Registrant”) entered into the Seventh Amendment and Borrowing Base Redetermination Agreement among Penn Virginia Holding Corp., a subsidiary of the Registrant, as borrower, the Registrant, as parent, the lenders party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent (the “Seventh Amendment”). The Seventh Amendment amends the Registrant’s Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) to, among other things, (i) require pro forma treatment of material acquisitions and dispositions for purposes of the leverage ratio under the Credit Agreement and (ii) remove the requirement that the mid-year reserve report and any special reserve report be certified by the Registrant’s independent reserve engineers. In addition, the Seventh Amendment increases the borrowing base under Credit Agreement from $437.5 million to $500.0 million.

A copy of the Seventh Amendment is attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, is incorporated herein by reference and is hereby filed. The description of the Seventh Amendment in this Current Report on Form 8-K is a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of such agreement.

On October 24, 2014, the Registrant announced the increase of the borrowing base under the Credit Agreement. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is hereby incorporated into this Item 7.01. In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information contained in this Item 7.01 and the press release are being furnished under Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and shall not be deemed “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, nor shall such information and exhibit be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: October 27, 2014

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