Power of Attorney

	WHEREAS, the undersigned is a director or officer or both of Cabot Oil & Gas
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and therefore may be
subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"), and the rules and regulations of
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") promulgated thereunder and
accordingly obligated to file with the Commission statements on Form 3, Form 4
and Form 5;

	NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned does hereby appoint Deidre L. Shearer, Vice
President and Corporate Secretary, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent with power to act for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign statements on Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5, in accordance with
Section 16(a) of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
promulgated thereunder, and all instruments necessary or incidental in
connection therewith and to file the same with the Commission and with any
national stock exchange, and to take any and all other actions in connection
with the foregoing which such attorney-in-fact shall consider necessary or
appropriate.  Such attorney-in-fact and agent shall have full power and
authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any
and all capacities, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to be done in
the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifying and approving the acts
of such attorney-in-fact and agent.  This power of attorney shall remain in
effect until the undersigned ceases to be a director or officer or both of the
Company.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact and
agent, in serving in such capacities at the request of the undersigned, is not
assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities under Section 16 of the Act.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument as of the 22nd
day of August.

/s/ Peter B. Delaney
Peter B. Delaney