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EXHIBIT 10.4
 
TERM LOAN NOTE
 
$40,000,000

May 2, 2014
New York, New York

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, VERTEX ENERGY OPERATING, LLC, a Texas limited liability
company (“Company”), promises to pay GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, a New York
State-Chartered Bank (“Payee”) or its registered assigns the principal amount of
FORTY MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($40,000,000) in the installments referred to
below.
 
Company also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof,
from the date hereof until paid in full, at the rates and at the times which
shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of that certain Credit and
Guaranty Agreement, dated as of  May 2, 2014 (as amended, restated, replaced,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time,  the “Credit Agreement”;
the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as
therein defined), by and among Company, VERTEX ENERGY, INC., a Nevada
corporation (“Holdings”), certain other Subsidiaries of Holdings, as Guarantors,
the Lenders party thereto from time to time and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as
Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Lead Arranger.
 
Company shall make scheduled principal payments on this Note as set forth in
Section 2.12 of the Credit Agreement.
 
This Note is one of the “Term Loan Notes” in the aggregate principal amount of
$40,000,000 and is issued pursuant to and entitled to the benefits of the Credit
Agreement, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete statement of
the terms and conditions under which the Term Loan evidenced hereby was made and
is to be repaid.
 
All payments of principal and interest in respect of this Note shall be made in
lawful money of the United States of America in same day funds at the Principal
Office of Administrative Agent or at such other place as shall be designated in
writing for such purpose in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement.  Unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting the assignment or
transfer of the obligations evidenced hereby shall have been accepted by
Administrative Agent and recorded in the Register, Company, each Agent  and
Lenders shall be entitled to deem and treat Payee as the owner and holder of
this Note and the obligations evidenced hereby.  Payee hereby agrees, by its
acceptance hereof, that before disposing of this Note or any part hereof it will
make a notation hereon of all principal payments previously made hereunder and
of the date to which interest hereon has been paid; provided, the failure to
make a notation of any payment made on this Note shall not limit or otherwise
affect the obligations of Company hereunder with respect to payments of
principal of or interest on this Note.
 

 
 

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This Note is subject to mandatory prepayment and to prepayment at the option of
Company, each as provided in the Credit Agreement.
 
THIS NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREUNDER SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
 
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the unpaid balance of the principal
amount of this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, may
become, or may be declared to be, due and payable in the manner, upon the
conditions and with the effect provided in the Credit Agreement.
 
The terms of this Note are subject to amendment only in the manner provided in
the Credit Agreement.
 
No reference herein to the Credit Agreement and no provision of this Note or the
Credit Agreement shall alter or impair the obligations of Company, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the place, at the respective times, and in the currency herein prescribed.
 
Company promises to pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’
fees, all as provided in the Credit Agreement, incurred in the collection and
enforcement of this Note.  Company and any endorsers of this Note hereby consent
to renewals and extensions of time at or after the maturity hereof, without
notice, and hereby waive diligence, presentment, protest, demand notice of every
kind and, to the full extent permitted by law, the right to plead any statute of
limitations as a defense to any demand hereunder.
 

 
 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Company has caused this Note to be duly executed and
delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date and at the
place first written above.
 
 
 
VERTEX ENERGY OPERATING, LLC
         
By: /s/ Benjamin P. Cowart
 
Title: President & Chief Executive Officer

 
 
 
 

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