Exhibit 10.4
EXTERRAN CORPORATION
AWARD NOTICE
COMMON STOCK AWARD FOR NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS
Exterran Corporation (the "Company") has granted to you (the "Participant") an
Other Stock-Based Award consisting of shares of Common Stock under the Exterran
Corporation 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (as may be amended from time to time, the
"Plan"), subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Award Notice (the
“Award Notice”) and the Plan. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms
used in this Award Notice shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in
the Plan.
The material terms of your Award are as follows:
1.Award. You have been granted shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Award”
or “Stock") subject to these terms and conditions.
2.Grant Date. The Grant Date of your Award is the date on which this Award is
approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or an appropriate committee of
the Board of Directors.
3.Stockholder Rights. The Company will register the Stock in your name. You will
have the right to vote your Stock and receive dividends, if any.
4.No Right to Continued Service. Nothing contained in this Award Notice shall
confer upon you any right to continued service (as a member of the Board or
otherwise), or limit in any way the right of the Board to terminate or modify
the terms of your service at any time.
5.Data Privacy. You consent to the collection, use, processing and transfer of
your personal data as described in this paragraph. You understand that the
Company and/or its Affiliates hold certain personal information about you
(including your name, address and telephone number, date of birth, social
security number, social insurance number, etc.) for the purpose of administering
the Plan (“Data”). You also understand that the Company and/or its Affiliates
will transfer this Data amongst themselves as necessary for the purpose of
implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan, and
that the Company and/or its Affiliates may also transfer this Data to any third
parties assisting the Company in the implementation, administration and
management of the Plan. You authorize them to receive, possess, use, retain and
transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for these purposes. You also
understand that you may, at any time, review the Data, require any necessary
changes to the Data or withdraw your consent in writing by contacting the
Company. You further understand that withdrawing your consent may affect your
ability to participate in the Plan.
6.Withholding. To the extent required by law, the Company and its Affiliates
will withhold a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock that are otherwise
issuable to you pursuant to your Award to satisfy any required tax withholding
obligations.

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7.Plan Governs. Your Award and this Award Notice are subject to the terms of the
Plan, a copy of which is available at no charge through your stock account or
which will be provided to you upon request as indicated in Section 13. All the
terms and conditions of the Plan, as may be amended from time to time, and any
rules, guidelines and procedures which may from time to time be established
pursuant to the Plan, are hereby incorporated into this Award Notice. In the
event of a discrepancy between this Award Notice and the Plan, the Plan shall
govern.
8.Adjustment. This Award shall be subject to adjustment as provided in Paragraph
XIII of the Plan.
9.Modifications. The Company may, without your consent, make any change to this
Award Notice that is not adverse to your rights under this Award Notice or the
Plan.
10. Non-Solicitation/Confidentiality/Non-Disparagement Agreement. The greatest
assets of the Company and its Affiliates (“Exterran” in this Section 10) are its
employees, directors, customers, and confidential information. In recognition of
the increased risk of unfairly losing any of these assets, Exterran has adopted
this Non-Solicitation/Confidentiality/Non-Disparagement Agreement as set forth
in this Section 10, the terms of which you acknowledge and agree to in exchange
for the consideration provided by this Award and access to the Company’s
confidential information.
a.    In order to assist you with your duties, Exterran has provided and shall
continue to provide you with access to confidential and proprietary operational
information and other confidential information which is either information not
known by actual or potential competitors and third parties or is proprietary
information of Exterran (“Confidential Information”). Such Confidential
Information shall include, without limitation, information regarding Exterran’s
customers and suppliers, employees, business operations, product lines,
services, pricing and pricing formulae, machines and inventions, research,
knowhow, manufacturing and fabrication techniques, engineering and product
design specifications, financial information, business plans and strategies,
information derived from reports and computer systems, work in progress,
marketing and sales programs and strategies, cost data, methods of doing
business, ideas, materials or information prepared or performed for, by or on
behalf of Exterran. You agree, during your service to Exterran and at all times
thereafter, not to use, divulge, or furnish or to make accessible to any third
party, company, or other entity or individual, without Exterran’s written
consent, any Confidential Information of Exterran, except as required by your
job-related duties to Exterran.
b.    You agree that you will not, during your service to Exterran, and for one
year thereafter, directly or indirectly, for any reason, for your own account or
on behalf of or together with any other person, entity or organization (i) call
on or otherwise solicit any natural person who is employed by Exterran in any
capacity with the purpose or intent of attracting that person from the employ of
Exterran, or (ii) solicit any established customer of Exterran or other service
provider of Exterran without, in each case, the prior written consent of
Exterran.
c.    You agree that (i) the terms of this Section 10 are reasonable and
constitute an otherwise enforceable agreement to which the terms and provisions
of this Section 10 are ancillary or a part of; (ii) the consideration provided
by Exterran under this Section 10 is not illusory; (iii) the restrictions of
this Section 10 are necessary and reasonable for the protection of the
legitimate business interests and goodwill of Exterran; and (iv) the Award and
other consideration given by Exterran under this Section 10, including without
limitation, the provision by Exterran of Confidential Information to you, gives
rise to Exterran’s interests in the covenants set forth in this Section 10.

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d.    Subject to Section 11 below, you agree that you will not, directly or
indirectly, make any public or private statements (whether orally, in writing,
via electronic transmission or otherwise) that disparage, denigrate or malign
Exterran or any of its affiliates; any of the businesses, activities,
operations, affairs, reputations or prospects of any of the foregoing; or any of
the respective officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, agents,
members or shareholders of any of the foregoing. Your obligation under this
Section will not be violated by truthful statements that you make (i) to any
governmental authority, (ii) which are in connection with legal process,
required governmental testimony or filings, or administrative or arbitral
proceedings (including, without limitation, depositions in connection with such
proceedings) or (iii) in connection with a performance review.
e.    You and Exterran agree that it was both parties’ intention that the terms
of this Section 10 are binding and enforceable. You agree that if any covenant
contained in this Section 10 is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to
contain limitations as to time, geographic area, or scope of activity that are
not reasonable and impose a greater restraint than is necessary to protect the
goodwill or other business interests of Exterran, then the court shall reform
the covenant to the extent necessary to cause the limitations contained in the
covenant as to time, geographic area, and scope of activity to be restrained to
be reasonable and to impose a restraint that is not greater than necessary to
protect the goodwill and other business interests of Exterran.
f.    In the event that Exterran determines that you have breached or attempted
or threatened to breach any term of this Section 10, in addition to any other
remedies at law or in equity Exterran may have available to it, it is agreed
that Exterran shall be entitled, upon application to any court of proper
jurisdiction, to a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction
(without necessity of (i) proving irreparable harm, (ii) establishing that
monetary damages are inadequate, or (iii) posting any bond with respect thereto)
against you prohibiting such breach or attempted or threatened breach by proving
only the existence of such breach or attempted or threatened breach. You agree
that the period during which the covenants contained in this Section 10 are in
effect shall be computed by excluding from such computation any time during
which you are in violation of any provision of this Section 10.
g.    You hereby acknowledge that the Award being granted to you under the Plan
is an extraordinary item of compensation and is not part of, nor in lieu of,
your ordinary wages for services you may render to Exterran.
h.    You understand that the obligations in this Section 10 are independent of
and do not affect the enforceability of any other restrictive covenants by which
you have agreed to be bound in any other agreement with Exterran.
i.    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Award, the provisions of this
Section 10 shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws
of the State of Texas, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles
thereof. Any action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of this
Section 10 shall be brought only in the courts of the State of Texas or, if it
has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Texas, and the parties consent to the jurisdiction of such
courts in any such action or proceeding and waive any objection to venue laid
therein.

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11. Protected Rights. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Award Notice,
nothing contained in this Award Notice limits your ability to file a charge or
complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor
Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the
Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal, state or local
governmental agency or commission (collectively, “Government Agencies”), or from
providing truthful testimony in response to a lawfully issued subpoena or court
order. You understand that this Award Notice does not limit your ability to
communicate with any Government Agencies or otherwise participate in any
investigation or proceeding that may be conducted by any Government Agency,
including providing documents or other information, without notice to the
Exterran.
12. Defend Trade Secrets Act. You are hereby notified that under the Defend
Trade Secrets Act: (1) no person will be held criminally or civilly liable under
federal or state trade secret law for disclosure of a trade secret (as defined
in the Economic Espionage Act) that is: (A) made in confidence to a federal,
state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an
attorney, and made solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a
suspected violation of law; or, (B) made in a complaint or other document filed
in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal so that it
is not made public; and (2) a person who pursues a lawsuit for retaliation by an
employer for reporting a suspected violation of the law may disclose the trade
secret to the attorney of the person and use the trade secret information in the
court proceeding, if the person files any document containing the trade secret
under seal, and does not disclose the trade secret, except as permitted by court
order.
13. Additional Information. If you require additional information concerning
your Award, contact compensation@exterran.com, UBS at 1-877-313-6669, or log in
online at www.ubs.com/onesource/extn
14. Clawback. The Award shall be subject to the provisions of any clawback or
recoupment policy adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors from time to time,
including without limitation the Incentive-Based Compensation Recoupment Policy
adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors effective on January 1, 2019.

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