Exhibit 10.1
$100,000,000
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Among
CALLON PETROLEUM COMPANY
as Borrower,
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME
as Lenders,
REGIONS BANK,
as Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent
and as an Issuing Lender
As of January 29, 2010

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

                              Page ARTICLE I      DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING
TERMS     2    
 
  Section 1.01   Certain Defined Terms     2  
 
  Section 1.02   Computation of Time Periods     20  
 
  Section 1.03   Accounting Terms; Changes in GAAP     20  
 
  Section 1.04   Types of Advances     20  
 
  Section 1.05   Miscellaneous     20  
 
                ARTICLE II      CREDIT FACILITIES     21    
 
  Section 2.01   Commitment for Advances     21  
 
  Section 2.02   Borrowing Bases     21  
 
  Section 2.03   Method of Borrowing     24  
 
  Section 2.04   Reduction of the Commitments     25  
 
  Section 2.05   Prepayment of Advances     25  
 
  Section 2.06   Repayment of Advances     27  
 
  Section 2.07   Letters of Credit     27  
 
  Section 2.08   Fees     31  
 
  Section 2.09   Interest     32  
 
  Section 2.10   Payments and Computations     33  
 
  Section 2.11   Sharing of Payments, Etc     34  
 
  Section 2.12   [RESERVED]     34  
 
  Section 2.13   Increased Costs     34  
 
  Section 2.14   Taxes     35  
 
  Section 2.15   Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders     37  
 
                ARTICLE III      CONDITIONS OF LENDING     37    
 
  Section 3.01   Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness     37  
 
  Section 3.02   Conditions Precedent to All Borrowings     42  
 
                ARTICLE IV      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES     43    
 
  Section 4.01   Existence; Subsidiaries     43  
 
  Section 4.02   Power     43  
 
  Section 4.03   Authorization and Approvals     43  
 
  Section 4.04   Enforceable Obligations     44  

 

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  Section 4.05   Financial Statements     44  
 
  Section 4.06   True and Complete Disclosure     44  
 
  Section 4.07   Litigation; Compliance with Laws     45  
 
  Section 4.08   Use of Proceeds     45  
 
  Section 4.09   Investment Company Act     45  
 
  Section 4.10   Federal Power Act     45  
 
  Section 4.11   Taxes     45  
 
  Section 4.12   Pension Plans     46  
 
  Section 4.13   Condition of Property; Casualties     47  
 
  Section 4.14   No Defaults     47  
 
  Section 4.15   Environmental Condition     47  
 
  Section 4.16   Permits, Licenses, Etc.     48  
 
  Section 4.17   Gas Contracts     48  
 
  Section 4.18   Liens; Titles, Leases, Etc.     48  
 
  Section 4.19   Solvency     49  
 
  Section 4.20   Hedging Agreements     49  
 
  Section 4.21   Material Agreements     49  
 
                ARTICLE V      AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS     49    
 
  Section 5.01   Compliance with Laws, Etc.     49  
 
  Section 5.02   Maintenance of Insurance     50  
 
  Section 5.03   Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc.     51  
 
  Section 5.04   Payment of Taxes, Etc.     51  
 
  Section 5.05   Visitation Rights     51  
 
  Section 5.06   Reporting Requirements     51  
 
  Section 5.07   Maintenance of Property     55  
 
  Section 5.08   Agreement to Pledge     55  
 
  Section 5.09   Use of Proceeds     56  
 
  Section 5.10   Title Evidence     56  
 
  Section 5.11   Further Assurances; Cure of Title Defects     56  
 
  Section 5.12   Hedging Agreements     57  
 
  Section 5.13   Positive Net Worth     57  
 
  Section 5.14   Cash Reserves for Payment of 2010 Senior Notes     57  
 
                ARTICLE VI      NEGATIVE COVENANTS     57  

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  Section 6.01   Liens, Etc.     57  
 
  Section 6.02   Debts, Guaranties, and Other Obligations     59  
 
  Section 6.03   Agreements Restricting Liens and Distributions     61  
 
  Section 6.04   Merger or Consolidation; Asset Sales     61  
 
  Section 6.05   Restricted Payments     62  
 
  Section 6.06   Investments     62  
 
  Section 6.07   Affiliate Transactions     63  
 
  Section 6.08   Compliance with ERISA     64  
 
  Section 6.09   Sale-and-Leaseback     64  
 
  Section 6.10   Change of Business     65  
 
  Section 6.11   Organizational Documents, Name Change     65  
 
  Section 6.12   Use of Proceeds; Letters of Credit     65  
 
  Section 6.13   Gas Imbalances, Take-or-Pay or Other Prepayments     65  
 
  Section 6.14   Limitation on Speculative Hedging     65  
 
  Section 6.15   Additional Subsidiaries     66  
 
  Section 6.16   Account Payables     66  
 
  Section 6.17   Subordinated Debt; 2010 Senior Notes and 2016 Senior Notes    
66  
 
  Section 6.18   CIECO Loan Documents     67  
 
  Section 6.19   Entrada Entity     67  
 
  Section 6.20   Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries     67  
 
  Section 6.21   Current Ratio     68  
 
  Section 6.22   Leverage Ratio     68  
 
  Section 6.23   Interest Coverage Ratio     68  
 
                ARTICLE VII      EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES     68    
 
  Section 7.01   Events of Default     68  
 
  Section 7.02   Optional Acceleration of Maturity     71  
 
  Section 7.03   Automatic Acceleration of Maturity     72  
 
  Section 7.04   Right of Set-off     72  
 
  Section 7.05   Non-exclusivity of Remedies     72  
 
  Section 7.06   Application of Proceeds     72  
 
                ARTICLE VIII      THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE ISSUING
LENDER     73    
 
  Section 8.01   Authorization and Action     73  
 
  Section 8.02   Administrative Agent’s Reliance, Etc.     73  

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  Section 8.03   The Administrative Agent and Its Affiliates     74  
 
  Section 8.04   Lender Credit Decision     74  
 
  Section 8.05   Indemnification     74  
 
  Section 8.06   Successor Administrative Agent and Issuing Lender     75  
 
  Section 8.07   Additional Agents     76  
 
  Section 8.08   Collateral Matters     76  
 
                ARTICLE IX      MISCELLANEOUS     77    
 
  Section 9.01   Amendments, Etc     77  
 
  Section 9.02   Notices, Etc     78  
 
  Section 9.03   No Waiver; Remedies     78  
 
  Section 9.04   Costs and Expenses     78  
 
  Section 9.05   Binding Effect     78  
 
  Section 9.06   Lender Assignments and Participations     78  
 
  Section 9.07   Indemnification     80  
 
  Section 9.08   Execution in Counterparts     81  
 
  Section 9.09   Survival of Representations, Etc     81  
 
  Section 9.10   Severability     81  
 
  Section 9.11   Business Loans     81  
 
  Section 9.12   Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction     81  
 
  Section 9.13   Confidentiality     82  
 
  Section 9.14   Restatement     83  
 
  Section 9.15   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL     83  
 
  Section 9.16   USA Patriot Act     83  
 
  Section 9.17   Obligations as Senior Indebtedness; Senior Secured Debt     84
 
 
  Section 9.18   Notices of Swap Counterparty     84  
 
  Section 9.19   ORAL AGREEMENTS     84  

              EXHIBITS:        
 
           
 
  Exhibit A   —   Form of Assignment and Acceptance
 
  Exhibit B   —   Form of Compliance Certificate
 
  Exhibit C   —   Form of Guaranty
 
  Exhibit D   —   Form of Mortgage
 
  Exhibit E   —   Form of Note
 
  Exhibit F   —   Form of Notice of Borrowing
 
  Exhibit G   —   [RESERVED]

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  Exhibit H   —   Form of Pledge Agreement
 
  Exhibit I   —   Form of Security Agreement
 
  Exhibit J   —   Form of Transfer Letters
 
  Exhibit K-1   —   Form of Borrower’s Counsel Opinion
 
  Exhibit K-2   —   Form of Borrower’s Local Counsel Opinion   SCHEDULES:      
   
 
  Schedule I   —   [RESERVED]
 
  Schedule II   —   Borrower, Administrative Agent, and Lender Information
 
  Schedule 4.01   —   Subsidiaries
 
  Schedule 4.05   —   Existing Debt
 
  Schedule 4.20   —   Hedging Agreements
 
  Schedule 4.21   —   Material Agreements
 
  Schedule 6.01   —   Existing Liens
 
  Schedule 6.06   —   Existing Investments

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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
     THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of January 29,
2010 is among CALLON PETROLEUM COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (“Borrower”), the
Lenders (as defined below), and REGIONS BANK, an Alabama banking corporation
(“Regions”), as administrative agent for such Lenders (in such capacity, the
“Administrative Agent”), and as an issuing lender for such Lenders (in such
capacity, the “Issuing Lender”).
RECITALS
     A. The Borrower is party to that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement dated as of September 25, 2008, among the Borrower, the lenders party
thereto, and Union Bank, N.A. (f/k/a Union Bank of California, N.A.), in its
capacity as the Administrative Agent (“Union Bank”), as amended by Amendment
No. 1 and Agreement dated as of March 19, 2009, by Amendment No. 2 dated as of
August 31, 2009, and by Amendment No. 3 and Agreement dated as of October 16,
2009 (as so amended, the “Existing Agreement”).
     B. In accordance with that certain Assignment and Assumption, of even
effective date herewith (the “Assignment and Assumption”), Union Bank and
Capital One, N.A., as assignors, assigned to Regions, as assignee, all of their
respective rights and obligations in their respective capacities as Lenders
under the Existing Agreement, and all documents or instruments delivered
pursuant thereto to the extent related to their respective amount and percentage
interest identified in the Assignment and Assumption, and all of their
respective rights related thereto.
     C. In accordance with that certain Waiver and Appointment of Successor
Agent, also of even effective date herewith, Union Bank resigned as
Administrative Agent and Issuing Lender under the Existing Agreement, and the
remaining Required Lenders appointed Regions as successor Administrative Agent
and Issuing Lender under the Existing Agreement.
     D. In order to secure the full and punctual payment and performance of the
obligations under the Existing Agreement, the Borrower and the Guarantors (as
defined in the Existing Agreement) have executed and delivered mortgages, deeds
of trust, collateral assignments, security agreements, pledge agreements and
financing statements in favor of the Administrative Agent (collectively, the
“Existing Security Instruments”) granting a mortgage lien and continuing
security interest in and to the collateral described in such Existing Security
Instruments.
     E. The Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders (as defined
below), and the Lenders desire to (i) amend and restate (but not extinguish) the
Existing Agreement in its entirety as hereinafter set forth through the
execution of this Agreement and (ii) have the obligations of the Borrower
hereunder continue to be secured by the liens and security interests created
under the Existing Security Instruments.
     F. It is the intention of the parties hereto that this Agreement is an
amendment and restatement of the Existing Agreement, and is not a new or
substitute credit agreement or novation of the Existing Agreement.

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G. The purpose of the credit facility provided under this Agreement is to
provide funds (a) to finance the acquisition, exploration, development,
maintenance and production of Oil and Gas Properties, (b) to repurchase, redeem
or repay the 2016 Senior Notes or Subordinated Debt to the extent otherwise
permitted under this Agreement, and (c) for other working capital and general
corporate purposes.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements,
provisions and covenants herein contained, the Borrower, the Administrative
Agent, the Issuing Lenders, and the Lenders (i) do hereby agree that the
Existing Agreement is amended and restated (but not substituted or extinguished)
in its entirety as set forth herein, and (ii) do hereby further agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
     Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the term
defined above shall have the meaning set forth therein and the following terms
shall have the following meanings (unless otherwise indicated, such meanings to
be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined):
     “2010 Senior Notes” means the 9.75% Senior Notes due December 5, 2010,
issued by the Borrower under the 2010 Senior Notes Indenture, as modified,
renewed, or supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted under this
Agreement.
     “2010 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated March 15, 2004,
between the Borrower and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee, as
modified, renewed, or supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted
under this Agreement.
     “2016 Senior Notes” means the 13% Senior Notes due September 15, 2016,
issued by the Borrower under the 2016 Senior Notes Indenture, as modified,
renewed, or supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted under this
Agreement.
     “2016 Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture dated November 24, 2009,
between the Borrower and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee, as
modified, renewed, or supplemented from time to time to the extent permitted
under this Agreement.
     “Acceptable Security Interest” in any Property means a Lien which
(a) exists in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, (b) is superior to all Liens or rights of any other Person in the
Property encumbered thereby other than Permitted Subject Liens, (c) secures the
Obligations, and (d) is perfected and enforceable.
     “Acquisition” means the purchase by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
of any Oil and Gas Properties or any business, including the purchase of
associated assets, operations of a business unit, or stock (or other ownership
interests) of a Person.
     “Administrative Agent” means Regions Bank, in its capacity as agent
pursuant to Article VIII, and any successor agent pursuant to Section 8.06.

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     “Advance” means an advance by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.01(a) as part of a Borrowing.
     “Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or
indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or
is under common control with, such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person. The
term “control” (including the terms “controlled by” or “under common control
with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through
ownership of a Control Percentage, by contract, or otherwise. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, a Person shall be deemed to be controlled by
another Person if such other Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power
to vote 10% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the
election of directors, managing general partners or the equivalent.
     “Agreement” means this Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as the
same may be amended, supplemented, and otherwise modified from time to time.
     “Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender, the office
of such Lender specified as its “Applicable Lending Office” opposite its name on
Schedule II or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time to
time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
     “Assignment and Acceptance” means an assignment and acceptance entered into
by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent,
in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit A.
     “Borrower’s” Account” means Account No. 0206201438 maintained by the
Borrower with the Administrative Agent.
     “Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Advances made by
each Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(a).
     “Borrowing Base” means at any particular time, the Dollar amount determined
as the “Borrowing Base” in accordance with Section 2.02 on account of Proven
Reserves attributable to Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the
Guarantors subject to an Acceptable Security Interest (to the extent required
under Section 5.08) and described in the most recent Independent Engineering
Report or Internal Engineering Report, as applicable, delivered to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.02.
     “Borrowing Base Properties” means those Oil and Gas Properties of Borrower
and the Guarantors elected by the Borrower to be evaluated for Borrowing Base
purposes and included in the most recent Engineering Report delivered to the
Lenders under this Agreement.
     “Business Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or
authorized to close in Atlanta, Georgia.
     “Capital Leases” means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any Property
by such Person as lessee which would, in accordance with GAAP, be required to be
classified and accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of such
Person.

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     “Cash Collateral Account” means a special interest bearing cash collateral
account pledged by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent containing cash
deposited pursuant to Sections 2.05(b), 7.02(b), or 7.03(b) to be maintained
with Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.07(g) and bear interest
or be invested in the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion.
     “CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980, as amended, state and local analogs, and all rules and
regulations and requirements thereunder in each case as now or hereafter in
effect.
     “Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) any Person or two or more Persons, other than the Borrower or any Affiliate
of the Borrower, acting as a group shall acquire beneficial ownership (within
the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Exchange Act, and including holding proxies to vote for the election of
directors other than proxies held by the Borrower’s management or their
designees to be voted in favor of persons nominated by the Borrower’s Board of
Directors) of 40% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the Borrower,
measured by voting power (including both ordinary shares and any preferred stock
or other equity securities entitling the holders thereof to vote with the
holders of common stock in elections for directors of the Borrower), (b) the
Borrower shall fail beneficially to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the
outstanding shares of voting capital stock of any of its Subsidiaries on a
fully-diluted basis except pursuant to a sale or other transaction permitted by
this Agreement, or (c) 50% or more of the directors of the Borrower shall
consist of Persons not nominated by the Borrower’s Board of Directors (not
including as Board nominees any directors which the Board is obligated to
nominate pursuant to shareholders agreements, voting trust arrangements or
similar arrangements).
     “Change in Law” means (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule,
regulation or treaty after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any
law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this
Agreement or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority after the
date of this Agreement.
     “CIECO” means CIECO Energy (Entrada) LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
     “CIECO Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement executed by
Callon Entrada Company and CIECO in connection with the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the CIECO PSA, as the same may be modified or
amended from time to time to the extent permitted herein.
     “CIECO Debt” means Debt owing to CIECO under the CIECO Credit Agreement and
any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension thereof.
     “CIECO Debt Termination” means (a) the payment in full of the CIECO Debt,
(b) the termination of all CIECO Loan Documents or other credit agreements,
promissory notes, mortgages, security agreements, financing statements, and
other documents, agreements and instruments entered into in connection with any
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thereof, and (c) the release of all Liens securing the CIECO Debt and
refinancings, refundings, renewals and extensions thereof.
     “CIECO Loan Documents” means the CIECO Credit Agreement and all promissory
notes, mortgages, security agreements, financing statements, and other
documents, agreements and instruments entered into in connection therewith or
relating thereto as in effect on the Closing Date and copies of which have been
provided to the Administrative Agent but giving effect to any amendments,
supplements or other modifications hereafter entered into and permitted under
Section 6.18(b).
     “CIECO PSA” means that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of
February 7, 2008 between CPOC and CIECO Energy (US) Ltd., as the same may be
from time to time amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified and in
effect to the extent permitted herein.
     “Closing Date” means the date on which all of the conditions precedent to
effectiveness of this Agreement set forth in Section 3.01 shall have been
satisfied by the Borrower or waived in writing by the Lenders.
     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any
successor statute.
     “Collateral” means (a) all “Collateral”, “Pledged Collateral” and
“Mortgaged Properties” (as defined in each of the Mortgages, the Security
Agreements, and the Pledge Agreement, as applicable) or similar terms used in
the Security Instruments, and (b) all amounts contained in the Borrower’s and
its Subsidiaries’ (other than those of (i) any Entrada Entity, unless CIECO Debt
Termination has occurred, or (ii) any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary’s) bank accounts
(other than funds held for third parties); provided that, notwithstanding the
foregoing, (x) none of the Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ ownership
interest in and to Medusa Spar, LLC shall constitute “Collateral” and (y) none
of the Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ ownership in and to (i) the
Entrada Assets or (ii) any equity interests of any Entrada Entity (for so long
as such Entrada Entity does not own any material or significant asset other than
Entrada Assets) shall constitute “Collateral” unless the Borrower has notified
the Administrative Agent, in writing, that it has elected to include such
Entrada Assets or any other assets owned by such Entrada Entity as a portion of
the Borrowing Base or, with respect to any equity interest described in clause
(ii), CIECO Debt Termination has occurred.
     “Commitment” means, for any Lender, the amount set opposite such Lender’s
name on the Schedule II as its Commitment, or if such Lender has entered into
any Assignment and Acceptance, as set forth for such Lender as its Commitment in
the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.06(c),
as such amount may be reduced or terminated pursuant to Section 2.04 or
Article VII or otherwise under this Agreement, and “Commitments” shall mean all
such Commitments collectively. The aggregate Commitments on the date of this
Agreement are $20,000,000.
     “Commitment Fee Rate” means a per annum commitment fee rate of one-half of
one percent (0.50%).

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     “Commitment Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) the Maturity Date
and (b) the earlier termination in whole of the Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.04 or Article VII.
     “Compliance Certificate” means a compliance certificate in the form of the
attached Exhibit B signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
     “Control Percentage” means, with respect to any Person, the percentage of
the outstanding Equity Interest (including any options, warrants or similar
rights to purchase such Equity Interest) of such Person having ordinary voting
power which gives the direct or indirect holder of such Equity Interest the
power to elect a majority of the board of directors (or other applicable
governing body) of such Person.
     “Controlled Group” means all members of a controlled group of corporations
and all businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which,
together with the Borrower, are treated as a single employer under Section 414
of the Code.
     “CPOC” means Callon Petroleum Operating Company, a Delaware corporation.
     “Credit Extensions” means (a) an Advance made by any Lender, and (b) the
issuance, increase or extension of any Letter of Credit by any Issuing Lender.
     “Debt,” for any Person, means without duplication:
     (a) indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;
     (b) obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
other similar instruments;
     (c) obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of
Property or services (including obligations that are non-recourse to the credit
of such Person but are secured by the assets of such Person to the extent of the
fair market value of such assets, but excluding trade accounts payable);
     (d) obligations of such Person (i) as lessee under Capital Leases which
would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in
accordance with GAAP and (ii) in respect of synthetic leases;
     (e) reimbursement obligations of such Person (whether contingent or
otherwise) under letters of credit and agreements relating to the issuance of
letters of credit or acceptance financing;
     (f) obligations of such Person under any Hedge Contract;
     (g) obligations of such Person owing in respect of preferred stock or other
preferred equity interests of such Person that is, in each case, mandatorily
redeemable at the option of the holder at any time prior to the date which is
two years after the Maturity Date;

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     (h) any obligations of such Person owing in connection with any volumetric
production prepayments or production prepayments;
     (i) obligations of such Person under direct or indirect guaranties in
respect of, and obligations (contingent or otherwise) of such Person to purchase
or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect
of, indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses
(a) through (h) above; and
     (j) indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in
clauses (a) through (i) secured by any Lien on or in respect of any Property of
such Person, to the extent of the value of such Property.
     “Default” means (a) an Event of Default or (b) any event or condition which
with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default.
     “Default Rate” means the Interest Rate, plus three percent (3%) per annum.
     “Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any
portion of the Advances, participations in Letter of Credit Obligations required
to be funded by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be
funded by it hereunder, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by
it hereunder within one Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of
a good faith dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of
a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
     “Dollars” and “$” means lawful money of the United States of America.
     “EBITDAX” means with respect to the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, for any period, without duplication, the sum of (a) consolidated
Net Income for such period plus (b) to the extent deducted in determining
consolidated Net Income, Interest Expense, taxes, exploration expenses,
depreciation, amortization (including amortization of good will and debt issue
costs), depletion and other non-cash charges for such period (including any
provision for the reduction in the carrying value of assets recorded in
accordance with GAAP and including non-cash charges resulting from the
requirements of SFAS 133 or 143) for such period minus (c) all non-cash items of
income, excluding volumetric production prepayments or production payments
included in income, which were included in determining such consolidated Net
Income (including non-cash income resulting from the requirements of SFAS 133 or
143), and any capitalized general and administrative expense; provided that,
“EBITDAX” shall be subject to pro forma adjustments after giving effect to any
Acquisition (but only to the extent such Acquisition was funded with proceeds
from Debt issued by the Borrower which is otherwise permitted by the terms
hereof) made by the Borrower or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries during the
period beginning on the first day of the relevant four-quarter period and
through the date of calculation, as if such Acquisition had occurred on the
first day of such four-quarter period; provided further that (i) such pro forma
adjustments shall be made in accordance with GAAP and in a manner otherwise
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, (ii) the corresponding pro
forma adjustments to the Borrower’s consolidated Interest Expense is made for
such four-quarter period, and (iii) promptly after the funding of such
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Borrower shall have provided to the Administrative Agent a written notice of
such Acquisition setting forth the details of such Acquisition, including the
consideration paid therefor, the source of such consideration and a calculation
of the pro forma adjustments to be made as a result of such Acquisition.
     “Eligible Assignee” means (a) any Lender, (b) any Subsidiary or Affiliate
of a Lender, and (c) any commercial bank or other financial institution approved
by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders, and, if no Default or Event of
Default exists, the Borrower.
     “Engineering Report” means either an Independent Engineering Report or an
Internal Engineering Report.
     “Entrada Assets” means, collectively, the Entrada Field and any related
equipment, accounts receivable, deposit accounts, contracts, general intangibles
and other assets.
     “Entrada Entities” means, collectively, Callon Entrada Company, a Delaware
corporation, and each Subsidiary thereof.
     “Entrada Field” means any and all Oil and Gas Properties on, under or
related to Garden Banks Blocks 738, 782, 785, 826 and 827 located in the federal
offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
     “Entrada Hedge Contracts” means, collectively, each of the Hedge Contracts
entered into by any Entrada Entity.
     “Entrada Service Agreement” means that certain Operating Services Agreement
dated as of April 4, 2008 between Callon Entrada Company and Callon Petroleum
Operating Company as it exists on the Closing Date.
     “Environment” or “Environmental” shall have the meanings set forth in 42
U.S.C. 9601(8) (1988).
     “Environmental Claim” means any third party (including governmental
agencies and employees) action, lawsuit, claim, demand, regulatory action or
proceeding, order, decree, consent agreement or notice of potential or actual
responsibility or violation (including claims or proceedings under the
Occupational Safety and Health Acts or similar laws or requirements relating to
health or safety of employees) which seeks to impose liability under any
Environmental Law.
     “Environmental Law” means, as to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, all
Legal Requirements or common law theories applicable to the Borrower or such
Subsidiary arising from, relating to, or in connection with the Environment,
health, or safety, including CERCLA, relating to (a) pollution, contamination,
injury, destruction, loss, protection, cleanup, reclamation or restoration of
the air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata, or other
natural resources; (b) solid, gaseous or liquid waste generation, treatment,
processing, recycling, reclamation, cleanup, storage, disposal or
transportation; (c) exposure to pollutants, contaminants, hazardous substances,
medical infections, or toxic substances, materials or wastes; (d) the safety or
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transportation, distribution in commerce, use, storage or disposal of hazardous
substances, medical infections, or toxic substances, materials or wastes.
     “Environmental Liability” shall mean all liabilities, obligations, damages,
losses, claims, actions, suits, judgments, orders, fines, penalties, fees,
expenses and costs (including administrative oversight costs, natural resource
damages and remediation costs), whether contingent or otherwise, arising out of
or relating to (a) compliance or non-compliance with any Environmental Law,
(b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or
disposal of any Hazardous Substances, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Substances,
(d) the Release of any Hazardous Substances or (e) any contract, agreement or
other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed
with respect to any of the foregoing.
     “Environmental Permit” means any permit, license, order, approval,
registration or other authorization under any Environmental Law.
     “Equity Interest” means, with respect to any Person, any shares, interests,
participation, or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock,
membership interests or partnership interests (or any other ownership interests)
of such Person, including any options, warrants or similar rights to purchase
such Equity Interests.
     “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
     “ERISA Affiliate” means each member of a controlled group of corporations
and all businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which,
together with the Borrower, are treated as a single employee under Section 414
of the Code.
     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.
     “Expiration Date” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the date on
which such Letter of Credit will expire or terminate in accordance with its
terms.
     “Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per
annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates
on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve
System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such
day is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day) by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any
day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for any such day on
such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
     “Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System or any of its successors.
     “Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2008 and the related audited consolidated statements of income,
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Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, and including the certification of
the independent certified public accountants preparing such statements and
footnotes to any of the foregoing, all prepared in accordance with GAAP, the
copies of which have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
     “Funded Debt” of any Person means, at any time, without duplication, Debt
of such Person (a) of the type described in clauses (a), (b), (d), (e) and
(h) of the definition of “Debt”; provided that Debt with respect to letters of
credit referred to in clause (e) of such definition shall be considered “Funded
Debt” only to the extent such letters of credit are drawn or funded, (b) of the
type described in clause (f) of the definition of “Debt” to the extent such Debt
is long term debt; provided that, the amount of such Debt considered to be
“Funded Debt” is limited to the net mark to market value of such Hedge Contract,
and (c) of the type described in clauses (i) and (j) of the definition of “Debt”
to the extent that such guaranty covers, or such Lien secures, Debt of the type
described in clauses (a) and (b) of this definition of “Funded Debt”.
     “GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles as in
effect from time to time, applied on a basis consistent with the requirements of
Section 1.03.
     “Governmental Authority” means, as to any Person in connection with any
subject, any foreign, national, state or provincial governmental authority, or
any political subdivision of any state thereof, or any agency, department,
commission, board, authority or instrumentality, bureau or court, in each case
having jurisdiction over such Person or such Person’s Property in connection
with such subject.
     “Guarantor” means each entity which may from time to time execute a
Guaranty or a supplement to a Guaranty, including CPOC and each Subsidiary of
the Borrower (other than (a) any Entrada Entity, unless CIECO Debt Termination
has occurred, and (b) each Non-Guarantor Subsidiary).
     “Guaranty” means a Guaranty in substantially the form of the attached
Exhibit C and executed by a Guarantor; and “Guaranties” shall mean all such
guaranties collectively.
     “Hazardous Substance” means the substances identified as such pursuant to
CERCLA and those regulated under any other Environmental Law, including
pollutants, contaminants, petroleum, petroleum products, radionuclides,
radioactive materials, and medical and infectious waste.
     “Hazardous Waste” means the substances regulated as such pursuant to any
Environmental Law.
     “Hedge Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps,
credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps,
commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or
options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or
forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options,
forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions,
collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap
transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar
transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options
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whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master
agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related
confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by,
any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master
Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together
with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such
obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
     “Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreement” means a Hedge Contract which is intended to
reduce or eliminate the risk of fluctuations in the price of Hydrocarbons.
     “Hydrocarbons” means oil, gas, coal seam gas, coalbed methane, casinghead
gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, and all other
liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons produced or to be produced in conjunction
therewith from a well bore and all products, by-products, and other substances
derived therefrom or the processing thereof, and all other minerals and
substances produced in conjunction with such substances, including sulfur,
geothermal steam, water, carbon dioxide, helium, and any and all minerals, ores,
or substances of value and the products and proceeds therefrom.
     “Independent Engineer” means any engineering firm selected by the Borrower
and which is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
     “Independent Engineering Report” means a report, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, prepared by an Independent Engineer,
addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and covering only the
Borrowing Base Properties owned by the Borrower or a Guarantor (or to be
acquired by the Borrower or any Guarantor, as applicable) which are or are to be
included in the Borrowing Base, which report shall (a) set forth the oil and gas
reserves attributable to such Borrowing Base Properties together with a
projection of the rate of production and future net income, taxes, operating
expenses and capital expenditures with respect thereto as of the effective date
of such report, based upon the pricing assumptions consistent with SEC reporting
requirements at such time, and (b) contain such other information as is
customarily obtained from and provided in such reports or is otherwise
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.
     “Index Rate” means, for any Index Rate Determination Date, the rate per
annum (rounded upward to the next whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) equal to
(a) the rate determined by Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which
appears on the page of the Reuters Screen which displays an average British
Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate (such page currently being Reuters
Screen LIBOR01 Page) for deposits with a term equivalent to one (1) month in
Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two
(2) Business Days prior to such Index Rate Determination Date, or (b) in the
event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a) does not appear on such
page or service or if such page or service shall cease to be available, the rate
per annum (rounded upward to the next whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) equal to
the rate determined by Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other
page or other service which displays an average British Bankers Association
Interest Settlement Rate for deposits with a term equivalent to one (1) month in
Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two
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to such Index Rate Determination Date, or (c) in the event the rates referenced
in the preceding clauses (a) and (b) are not available, the rate per annum
(rounded upward to the next whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) equal to quotation
rate (or the arithmetic mean of rates) offered to first class banks in the
London interbank market for deposits in Dollars of amounts in same day funds
comparable to the principal amount of the applicable Loan of Regions Bank or any
other Lender selected by Administrative Agent, for which the Index Rate is then
being determined with maturities comparable to one (1) month as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to such Index Rate
Determination Date.
     “Index Rate Determination Date” shall mean the Closing Date and the first
Business Day of each calendar month thereafter.
     “Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement dated
as of November 24, 2009 by and among Borrower, Union Bank, N.A., in its capacity
as Administrative Agent under the Existing Agreement, and Regions Bank, in its
capacity as Collateral Agent for the holders of the 2016 Senior Notes.
     “Interest Expense” means, for the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries for any period, total interest, letter of credit fees, and other
fees and related expenses incurred in connection with any Debt for such period,
whether paid or accrued, including, without limitation, all commissions,
discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and
bankers’ acceptance financing, imputed interest under Capital Leases, and net
costs under Interest Hedge Agreements, all as determined in conformity with
GAAP; provided that, “Interest Expense” shall be subject to pro forma
adjustments after giving effect to any Acquisition (but only to the extent such
Acquisition was funded with proceeds from Debt issued by the Borrower which is
otherwise permitted by the terms hereof) made by the Borrower or any of its
consolidated Subsidiaries during the period beginning on the first day of the
relevant four-quarter period and through the date of calculation, as if such
Acquisition had occurred on the first day of such four-quarter period; provided
further that (i) such pro forma adjustments shall be made in accordance with
GAAP and in a manner otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent, (ii) the corresponding pro forma adjustments to the Borrower’s
consolidated EBITDAX is made for such four-quarter period, and (iii) prior to
the funding of such Acquisition, the Borrower shall have provided to the
Administrative Agent a written notice of such Acquisition setting forth the
details of such Acquisition, including the consideration expected to be paid
therefor, the source of such consideration and a calculation of the pro forma
adjustments to be made as a result of such Acquisition.
     “Interest Hedge Agreement” means a Hedge Contract between the Borrower or
one of its Subsidiaries and one or more financial institutions providing for the
exchange of nominal interest obligations between the Borrower or such Subsidiary
and such financial institution or the cap of the interest rate on any Debt of
the Borrower or such Subsidiary.
     “Interest Rate” means at any time, an interest rate per annum equal to the
sum of (i) four percent (4.0%), plus (ii) the Index Rate, provided, however,
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     “Interim Financial Statements” means the unaudited consolidated balance
sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of June 30, 2008 and
the related unaudited consolidated statements of income, cash flow, and retained
earnings of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, and including the
certification of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, all prepared in
accordance with GAAP, the copies of which have been delivered to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
     “Internal Engineering Report” means a report, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, prepared by the Borrower and certified
by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, addressed to the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders and covering only the Borrowing Base Properties owned by the
Borrower or any Guarantor (or to be acquired by the Borrower or any Guarantor,
as applicable) which are or are to be included in the Borrowing Base, which
report shall (a) set forth the oil and gas reserves attributable to such
Borrowing Base Properties together with a projection of the rate of production
and future net income, taxes, operating expenses and capital expenditures with
respect thereto as of the effective date of such report, based upon the pricing
assumptions consistent with SEC reporting requirements at such time, and
(b) contain such other information as is customarily obtained from and provided
in such reports or is otherwise reasonably requested by the Administrative
Agent.
     “Investments” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.06.
     “Issuing Lender” means (a) Regions Bank, in its capacity as an issuer of
Letters of Credit hereunder, (b) any other Lender designated in writing, from
time to time, to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower (and consented to by
such Lender) as an issuer of Letters of Credit, in its capacity as an issuer of
Letters of Credit hereunder, and (c) any successor issuing bank pursuant to
Section 8.06.
     “Leases” means all oil and gas leases, oil, gas and mineral leases, oil,
gas and casinghead gas leases or any other instruments, agreements, or
conveyances under and pursuant to which the owner thereof has or obtains the
right to enter upon lands and explore for, drill, and develop such lands for the
production of Hydrocarbons.
     “Legal Requirement” means, as to any Person, any law, statute, ordinance,
decree, requirement, order, judgment, rule, regulation (or official
interpretation of any of the foregoing) of, and the terms of any license or
permit issued by, any Governmental Authority, including Regulations D, T, U, and
X, which is applicable to such Person.
     “Lenders” means the lenders listed on the signature pages of this Agreement
and each Eligible Assignee that shall become a party to this Agreement pursuant
to Section 9.06.
     “Letter of Credit” means, individually, any letter of credit issued by any
Issuing Lender for the account of the Borrower in connection with the
Commitments and which is subject to this Agreement, and “Letters of Credit”
means all such letters of credit collectively.
     “Letter of Credit Application” means the applicable Issuing Lender’s
standard form letter of credit application for letters of credit that has been
executed by the Borrower and accepted by such Issuing Lender in connection with
the issuance of a Letter of Credit.

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     “Letter of Credit Documents” means all Letters of Credit, Letter of Credit
Applications, and agreements, documents, and instruments entered into in
connection with or relating thereto.
     “Letter of Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the
aggregate undrawn maximum face amount of all Letters of Credit at such time plus
(b) the aggregate unpaid amount of all Reimbursement Obligations at such time.
     “Letter of Credit Obligations” means any obligations of the Borrower under
this Agreement in connection with the Letters of Credit, including the
Reimbursement Obligations.
     “Lien” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, assignment, charge, deed of trust,
security interest, hypothecation, preference, deposit arrangement or encumbrance
(or other type of arrangement having the practical effect of the foregoing) to
secure or provide for the payment of any obligation of any Person, whether
arising by contract, operation of law, or otherwise (including the interest of a
vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, synthetic lease, Capital
Lease, or other title retention agreement).
     “Liquid Investments” means:
     (a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on
which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or any agency thereof
maturing within one year from the date of any acquisition thereof;
     (b) (i) negotiable or nonnegotiable certificates of deposit, time deposits,
or other similar banking arrangements maturing within one year from the date of
acquisition thereof or which may be liquidated for the full amount thereof
without penalty or premium (“bank debt securities”), issued by (A) any Lender
(or any Affiliate of any Lender), or (B) any other bank or trust company so long
as such certificate of deposit is pledged to secure the Borrower’s or any
Subsidiaries’ ordinary course of business bonding requirements, or any other
bank or trust company which has combined capital and surplus and undivided
profit of not less than $500,000,000.00, if at the time of deposit or purchase,
such bank debt securities are rated at least the third highest credit rating
given by either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Moody’s Investors Service,
Inc., and (ii) commercial paper issued by (A) any Lender (or any Affiliate of
any Lender) or (B) any other Person if at the time of purchase such commercial
paper is rated at the highest or the second highest credit rating given by
either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or
upon the discontinuance of both of such services, such other nationally
recognized rating service or services, as the case may be, as shall be selected
by the Borrower with the consent of the Required Lenders;
     (c) deposits in money market funds investing exclusively in investments
described in clauses (a) and (b) above;
     (d) repurchase agreements relating to investments described in clauses
(a) and (b) above with a market value at least equal to the consideration paid
in connection therewith, with any Person who regularly engages in the business
of entering into repurchase agreements and has a combined capital and surplus
and undivided profit of not less than $500,000,000.00, if at the time of
entering into such agreement the debt securities of such Person are rated at the
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the second highest credit rating given by either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group
or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.; and
     (e) such other instruments (within the meaning of Article 9 of the Texas
Business and Commerce Code) or investment property as the Borrower may request
and the Administrative Agent may approve in writing.
     “Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Letter of Credit
Documents, the Guaranties, the Security Instruments, the Intercreditor
Agreement, and each other agreement, instrument, or document executed by the
Borrower, any Guarantor, or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their
officers at any time in connection with this Agreement.
     “Material Adverse Change” means (a) a material adverse change in the
business, assets (including the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower, any
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries), condition (financial or
otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the Borrower, any Guarantor or
any of their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, since the date of the
Financial Statements or the financial statements most recently delivered
pursuant to Section 5.06(a); provided that the failure to receive a return on
any Investment described in Section 6.06(g) taken alone shall not constitute a
“Material Adverse Change” under this clause (a), or (b) a material adverse
effect on the Borrower’s, or any Guarantor’s or any of their respective
Subsidiary’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement, any Note,
any Guaranty, or any other Loan Document.
     “Maturity Date” means September 25, 2012.
     “Maximum Rate” means the maximum nonusurious interest rate under applicable
law (determined under such laws after giving effect to any items which are
required by such laws to be construed as interest in making such determination,
including if required by such laws, certain fees and other costs).
     “Monthly Payment Date” means the last day of each calendar month, or, if
such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing
January 31, 2010.
     “Mortgages” means, collectively, each of the mortgage or deed of trust
executed by any one or more of the Borrower, a Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries in favor of the Administrative Agent for the ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties in substantially the form of the attached
Exhibit D or such other form as may be requested by the Administrative Agent, in
each case as the same may be amended, modified, restated or supplemented from
time-to-time, together with any assumptions or assignments of the obligations
thereunder by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries, and “Mortgages” shall mean all of such Mortgages collectively.
     “Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan” as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
     “Net Income” means, with respect to the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, for any period, the net income for such period after taxes, as
determined in accordance with GAAP, excluding, however, (a) extraordinary items,
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such period arising from the sale, exchange, retirement or other disposition of
capital assets (such term to include all fixed assets and all securities) other
than in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) any write-up or write-down of
assets and (b) the cumulative effect of any change in GAAP.
     “Non-Entrada Hedge Contracts” means, collectively, each of the Hedge
Contracts entered into by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries other than any
Entrada Entity.
     “Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries” means, collectively, Callon Offshore
Production, Inc., Mississippi Marketing, Inc., and Callon Mineral Properties,
Inc.
     “Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any
Lender, in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit E, evidencing
indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from Advances owing to
such Lender.
     “Notice of Borrowing” means a notice of borrowing in the form of the
attached Exhibit F signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
     “Obligations” means (a) all principal, interest, fees, reimbursements,
indemnifications, and other amounts payable by the Borrower, any Guarantor or
any of their respective Subsidiaries to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing
Lenders or the Lenders under the Loan Documents, including the Letter of Credit
Obligations, and (b) all obligations of the Borrower or any Guarantor owing to
any Swap Counterparty under any Hedge Contract; provided that, (i) when any Swap
Counterparty assigns or otherwise transfers any interest held by it under any
Hedge Contract to any other Person pursuant to the terms of such agreement, the
obligations thereunder shall constitute Obligations only if such assignee or
transferee is also then a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and (ii) if a Swap
Counterparty ceases to be a Lender hereunder or an Affiliate of a Lender
hereunder, obligations owing to such Swap Counterparty shall be included as
Obligations only to the extent such obligations arise from transactions under
such Hedge Agreements entered into at the time such Swap Counterparty was a
Lender hereunder or an Affiliate of a Lender hereunder, without giving effect to
any extension, increases, or modifications thereof which are made after such
Swap Counterparty ceases to be a Lender hereunder or an Affiliate of a Lender
hereunder.
     “Oil and Gas Properties” means fee mineral interests, term mineral
interests, Leases, subleases, farm-outs, royalties, overriding royalties, net
profit interests, carried interests, production payments, back-in interests and
reversionary interests and similar mineral interests, and all unsevered and
unextracted Hydrocarbons in, under, or attributable to such oil and gas
Properties and interests.
     “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity
succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
     “Permit” means any approval, certificate of occupancy, consent, waiver,
exemption, variance, franchise, order, permit, authorization, right or license
of or from any Governmental Authority, including an Environmental Permit.
     “Permitted Liens” means the Liens permitted to exist pursuant to
Section 6.01.

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     “Permitted Subject Liens” means the Liens permitted under paragraphs (b),
(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) of Section 6.01.
     “Person” (whether or not capitalized) means an individual, partnership,
corporation (including a business trust), joint stock company, limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, trust, unincorporated association, joint
venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency
thereof or any trustee, receiver, custodian or similar official.
     “Plan” means an employee benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan)
maintained for employees of the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group
and covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards
under Section 412 of the Code.
     “Pledge Agreement” means a Pledge Agreement in substantially the form of
the attached Exhibit H, executed by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries, as the same may be amended, modified, restated or
supplemented from time to time.
     “Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to any Lender, (a) with respect to
amounts owing under the Commitments, (i) if such Commitments have not been
canceled, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lender’s uncancelled
Commitment at such time to the aggregate uncancelled Commitments at such time,
or (ii) if the aggregate Commitments have been terminated, the ratio as
determined pursuant to the preceding clause (i) immediately prior to such
termination or (b) with respect to amounts owing generally under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of aggregate
Commitments of such Lender to the aggregate Commitments of all the Lenders (or
if such Commitments have been terminated, the ratio (expressed as a percentage)
of Credit Extensions owing to such Lender to the aggregate Credit Extensions
owing to all such Lenders).
     “Property” of any Person means any property or assets (whether real,
personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible) of such Person.
     “Proven Reserves” means, at any particular time, the estimated quantities
of Hydrocarbons which geological and engineering data demonstrate with
reasonable certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs
attributable to Oil and Gas Properties under then existing economic and
operating conditions (i.e., prices and costs as of the date the estimate is
made).
     “Register” has the meaning set forth in paragraph (c) of Section 9.06.
     “Regulations D, T, U, and X” mean Regulations D, T, U, and X of the Federal
Reserve Board, as the same is from time to time in effect, and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
     “Reimbursement Obligations” means all of the obligations of the Borrower to
reimburse the Issuing Lenders for amounts paid by the applicable Issuing Lender
under Letters of Credit as established by the Letter of Credit Applications and
Section 2.07(d).
     “Release” shall have the meaning set forth in CERCLA or under any other
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     “Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders holding at least 66⅔% of the
Commitments or, if the Commitments have been terminated, the outstanding
principal amount of the Advances and Letter of Credit Exposure; provided that
the Commitment of, and the portion of the Advances and Letter of Credit Exposure
held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of
making a determination of Required Lenders.
     “Response” shall have the meaning set forth in CERCLA or under any other
Environmental Law.
     “Responsible Officer” means (a) with respect to any Person that is a
corporation, such Person’s Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial
Officer, Treasurer or Vice President, (b) with respect to any Person that is a
limited liability company, a manager or a Responsible Officer of such Person’s
managing member or manager, and (c) with respect to any Person that is a general
partnership or a limited liability partnership, the Responsible Officer of such
Person’s general partner or partners.
     “Restricted Payment” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any direct or
indirect dividend or distribution (whether in cash, securities or other
Property) or any direct or indirect payment of any kind or character (whether in
cash, securities or other Property) in consideration for or otherwise in
connection with any retirement, purchase, redemption or other acquisition of any
Equity Interest of such Person, or any options, warrants or rights to purchase
or acquire any such Equity Interest of such Person or (b) principal or interest
payments (in cash, Property or otherwise) on, or redemptions of, subordinated
debt of such Person; provided that, the term “Restricted Payment” shall not
include any dividend or distribution payable solely in Equity Interests of the
Borrower or warrants, options or other rights to purchase such Equity Interests.
     “Secured Parties” means the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders, the
Lenders, and the Swap Counterparties.
     “Security Agreements” means the Security Agreements, each in substantially
the form of the attached Exhibit I, executed by the Borrower, any Guarantor or
any of their respective Subsidiaries as the same may be amended, modified, or
supplemented from time to time.
     “Security Instruments” means, collectively: (a) the Mortgages, (b) the
Transfer Letters, (c) the Pledge Agreement, (d) the Security Agreements,
(e) each other agreement, instrument or document executed by the Borrower, any
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries at any time in connection with
the Pledge Agreement, the Security Agreements, or the Mortgages, (f) each
agreement, instrument or document executed by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any
of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Cash Collateral Account,
and (g) each other agreement, instrument or document executed by the Borrower,
any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries at any time in connection
with securing the Obligations.
     “Solvent” means, with respect to any Person as of the date of any
determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the Property of such
Person (both at fair valuation and at present fair saleable value) is greater
than the total liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person,
(b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is not less
than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such
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absolute and matured, (c) such Person is able to realize upon its assets and pay
its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations, and other commitments
as they mature in the normal course of business, (d) such Person does not intend
to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such
Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature, and (e) such
Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage
in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s Property would constitute
unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to current and
anticipated future capital requirements and current and anticipated future
business conduct and the prevailing practice in the industry in which such
Person is engaged. In computing the amount of contingent liabilities at any
time, such liabilities shall be computed at the amount which, in light of the
facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can
reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
     “Subordinated Debt” means any Debt of the Borrower expressly subordinated
to the Obligations, on terms and conditions, and pursuant to documentation in
form and substance, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
     “Subsidiary” of a Person means any corporation or other entity of which
more than 50% of the outstanding Equity Interests having ordinary voting power
under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the board of directors or
similar governing body of such corporation or other entity (irrespective of
whether at such time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such
corporation or other entity shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence
of any contingency) is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by
such Person, by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated herein, each
reference to the term “Subsidiary” shall mean a Subsidiary of the Borrower.
     “Swap Counterparty” means any counterparty to a Hedge Contract with the
Borrower or any Guarantor; provided that, with respect to any Hedge Contract
existing on the date hereof, such counterparty is a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender on the date hereof or is, at the time such Hedge Contract is entered
into, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.
     “Termination Event” means (a) a Reportable Event described in Section 4043
of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder (other than a Reportable Event
not subject to the provision for 30-day notice to the PBGC under such
regulations), (b) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from a
Plan during a plan year in which it was a “substantial employer” as defined in
Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, (c) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a
Plan or the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 of
ERISA, (d) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Plan by the PBGC, or
(e) any other event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of
ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any
Plan.
     “Transfer Letters” means, collectively, the letters in lieu of transfer
orders in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit J and executed by the
Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries executing a
Mortgage, as each of the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from
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     “Unused Commitment Amount” means, with respect to a Lender at any time, the
lesser of (a) such Lender’s Commitment at such time and (b) such Lender’s Pro
Rata Share of the Borrowing Base then in effect at such time minus, in each
case, the sum of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Advances
owed to such Lender at such time plus (ii) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the
aggregate Letter of Credit Exposure at such time.
     Section 1.02 Computation of Time Periods. In this Agreement, with respect
to the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified
date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until”
each means “to but excluding”.
     Section 1.03 Accounting Terms; Changes in GAAP. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be
interpreted, and all financial statements and certificates and reports as to
financial matters required to be delivered to the Lenders hereunder shall
(unless otherwise disclosed to the Lenders in writing at the time of delivery
thereof) be prepared, in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with
those used in the preparation of the latest financial statements furnished to
the Lenders hereunder (which prior to the delivery of the first financial
statements under Section 5.06, shall mean the Financial Statements). All
calculations made for the purposes of determining compliance with this Agreement
shall (except as otherwise expressly provided herein) be made by application of
GAAP applied on a basis consistent with that used in the preparation of the
annual or quarterly financial statements furnished to the Lenders pursuant to
Section 5.06 most recently delivered prior to or concurrently with such
calculations (or, prior to the delivery of the first financial statements under
Section 5.06, used in the preparation of the Financial Statements). In addition,
all calculations and defined accounting terms used herein shall, unless
expressly provided otherwise, when referring to any Person, where applicable,
refer to such Person on a consolidated basis and mean such Person and its
consolidated Subsidiaries.
     Section 1.04 Miscellaneous. Article, Section, Schedule, and Exhibit
references are to Articles and Sections of and Schedules and Exhibits to this
Agreement, unless otherwise specified. All references to instruments, documents,
contracts, and agreements are references to such instruments, documents,
contracts, and agreements as the same may be amended, supplemented, and
otherwise modified from time to time, unless otherwise specified and shall
include all schedules and exhibits thereto unless otherwise specified. The words
“hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement. The term “including” means “including,
without limitation,”. Paragraph headings have been inserted in this Agreement as
a matter of convenience for reference only and it is agreed that such paragraph
headings are not a part of this Agreement and shall not be used in the
interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.

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ARTICLE II
CREDIT FACILITIES
     Section 2.01 Commitment for Advances.
     (a) Advances. Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement (including, without limitation, the terms set forth in
Section 3.01), to make Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any
Business Day during the period from the date of this Agreement until the
Commitment Termination Date in an amount for each Lender not to exceed such
Lender’s Unused Commitment Amount. Each Borrowing shall be in an aggregate
amount not less than the lesser of (i) $100,000 and (ii) the aggregate Unused
Commitment Amount, and in integral multiples of $50,000 in excess thereof by the
Lenders ratably according to their respective Commitments. Within the limits of
each Lender’s Commitment, and subject to the terms of this Agreement, the
Borrower may from time to time borrow, prepay, and reborrow Advances.
     (b) Notes. The indebtedness of the Borrower to each Lender resulting from
the Advances owing to such Lender shall be evidenced by a Note of the Borrower
payable to the order of such Lender.
     Section 2.02 Borrowing Bases.
     (a) Borrowing Bases. The initial Borrowing Base in effect as of the date of
this Agreement has been set by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and
acknowledged by the Borrower as $20,000,000. Such initial Borrowing Base shall
remain in effect until the next redetermination made pursuant to this
Section 2.02. The Borrowing Base shall be determined in accordance with the
standards set forth in Section 2.02(d) and are subject to periodic
redetermination pursuant to Sections 2.02(b) and 2.02(c).
     (b) Calculation of the Borrowing Base.
     (i) The Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and each of the
Lenders on or before each March 31, beginning March 31, 2010, an Independent
Engineering Report dated effective as of the immediately preceding January 1,
and such other information as may be reasonably requested by any Lender with
respect to the Borrowing Base Properties included or to be included in the
Borrowing Base. Upon receipt of such information, the Administrative Agent
shall, in the normal course of business (but in any event within 30 days after
receipt of such information), propose to the Lenders a new Borrowing Base (for
purposes of this subsection, the “Proposed Borrowing Base”). After having
received notice of such proposal, the Lenders shall have 14 days to agree or
disagree with the Proposed Borrowing Base. If at the end of the 14 days, any
Lender has not communicated its approval or disapproval to the Administrative
Agent, such silence shall be deemed to be an approval of the Proposed Borrowing
Base. If at the end of such 14 days, the Required Lenders (or all of the Lenders
if the Borrowing Base is to be increased) have approved or have been deemed to
have approved the Proposed Borrowing Base, then the Proposed Borrowing Base
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Borrowing Base, effective on the date specified in Section 2.02(b)(iii). To the
extent that within such 14 day period the Administrative Agent has not received
the requisite number of approvals from the Lenders, the requisite number of
Lenders shall, within a reasonable period of time, agree on a new Borrowing
Base.
     (ii) The Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender
on or before each September 30, beginning September 30, 2010, an Internal
Engineering Report dated effective as of the immediately preceding July 1, and
such other information as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative
Agent with respect to the Borrowing Base Properties included or to be included
in the Borrowing Base. Upon receipt of such information, the Administrative
Agent shall, in the normal course of business (but in any event within 30 days
after receipt of such information), propose to the Lenders a new Borrowing Base
(for purposes of this subsection, the “Proposed Borrowing Base”). After having
received notice of such proposal, the Lenders shall have 14 days to agree or
disagree with the Proposed Borrowing Base. If at the end of the 14 days, any
Lender has not communicated its approval or disapproval to the Administrative
Agent, such silence shall be deemed to be an approval of the Proposed Borrowing
Base. If at the end of such 14 days, the Required Lenders (or all of the Lenders
if the Borrowing Base is to be increased) have approved or have been deemed to
have approved the Proposed Borrowing Base, then the Proposed Borrowing Base
shall become the new Borrowing Base, effective on the date specified in
Section 2.02(b)(iii). To the extent that within such 14 day period the
Administrative Agent has not received the requisite number of approvals from the
Lenders, the requisite number of Lenders shall, within a reasonable period of
time, agree on a new Borrowing Base.
     (iii) After a redetermined Borrowing Base is approved or deemed approved by
the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as applicable, the Administrative
Agent shall notify the Borrower of the amount of the redetermined Borrowing
Base, and such amounts shall become the Borrowing Base, effective and applicable
to the Borrower, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, shall be
the basis on which the Borrowing Base shall thereafter be calculated until the
effective date of the next redetermination of the Borrowing Base as set forth in
this Section 2.02.
     (iv) In the event that the Borrower does not furnish to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders the Independent Engineering Report, Internal Engineering
Report or other information specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above by the date
specified therein, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may nonetheless
redetermine the Borrowing Base and redesignate the Borrowing Base from
time-to-time thereafter in their sole discretion until the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders receive the relevant Independent Engineering Report, Internal
Engineering Report, or other information, as applicable, whereupon the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall redetermine the Borrowing Base as
otherwise specified in this Section 2.02.
     (v) Each delivery of an Engineering Report by the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall constitute a representation and
warranty by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that,
except as expressly disclosed by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and
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Section 5.06 or otherwise, (A) the Borrower and the Guarantors, as applicable,
own the Borrowing Base Properties specified therein with at least 90% (by value)
of the Proven Reserves covered therein subject to an Acceptable Security
Interest and free and clear of any Liens (except Permitted Liens), and (B) on
and as of the date of such Engineering Report each Borrowing Base Property
described as “proved developed” therein was developed for oil and gas, and the
wells pertaining to such Borrowing Base Properties that are described therein as
producing wells (“Wells”), were each producing oil and gas in paying quantities,
except for Wells that were utilized as water or gas injection wells or as water
disposal wells or wells temporarily shut-in for workovers or other repairs in
the ordinary course of business.
     (c) Interim Redetermination. In addition to the Borrowing Base
redeterminations provided for in Section 2.02(b), the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders may (i) in their sole discretion make one additional redetermination
of the Borrowing Base during any six-month period between scheduled
redeterminations and (ii) at the request of the Borrower make one additional
redetermination of the Borrowing Base during any six-month period between
scheduled redeterminations, and in any case, based on such information as the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders deem relevant (but in accordance with
Section 2.02(d)). Additionally, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may
request an additional redetermination in connection with any sale or proposed
sale of Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower or any Guarantor having a
market value of $5,000,000 or more to the extent any such sale is permitted by
this Agreement. The party requesting the redetermination shall give the other
party at least 10 days’ prior written notice that a redetermination of the
Borrowing Base pursuant to this paragraph (c) is to be performed. In connection
with any redetermination of the Borrowing Base under this Section 2.02(c), the
Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with such
information regarding the Borrower and the Guarantors’ business (including its
Borrowing Base Properties, the Proven Reserves attributable thereto, and
production relating thereto) as the Administrative Agent may request, including
an updated Independent Engineering Report. The Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify the Borrower in writing of each redetermination of the Borrowing
Base pursuant to this Section 2.02(c) and the amount of the Borrowing Base as so
redetermined.
     (d) Standards for Redetermination. Each redetermination of the Borrowing
Base by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.02
shall be made (i) in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders (but in accordance with the other provisions of this Section 2.02(d)),
(ii) in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ customary
internal standards and practices for valuing and redetermining the value of Oil
and Gas Properties in connection with reserve based oil and gas loan
transactions, (iii) in conjunction with the most recent Independent Engineering
Report or Internal Engineering Report, as applicable, or other information
received by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders relating to the Proven
Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors, and (iv) based upon the estimated
value of the Proven Reserves owned by the Borrower and the Guarantors as
determined by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. In valuing and
redetermining the Borrowing Base, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may
also consider the business, financial condition, and Debt obligations of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries and such other factors as the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders customarily deem appropriate, including without limitation,
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general and administrative expenses, capital costs, working capital
requirements, liquidity evaluations, dividend payments, environmental costs, and
legal costs. In that regard, the Borrower acknowledges that the determination of
the Borrowing Base each contains an equity cushion (market value in excess of
loan value), which is essential for the adequate protection of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders. No Proven Reserves shall be included or
considered for inclusion in the Borrowing Base unless the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders shall have received, at the Borrower’s expense, evidence of
title satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent and
evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Administrative Agent
has an Acceptable Security Interest in the Borrowing Base Properties relating
thereto pursuant to the Security Instruments and subject to Section 5.10 of this
Agreement. At all times after the Administrative Agent has given the Borrower
notification of a redetermination of the Borrowing Base under this Section 2.02,
the Borrowing Base shall be equal to the redetermined amount or such lesser
amount designated by the Borrower and disclosed in writing to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders until the Borrowing Base are subsequently redetermined in
accordance with this Section 2.02.
     Section 2.03 Method of Borrowing.
     (a) Notice. Each Borrowing shall be made pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing
(or by telephone notice promptly confirmed in writing by a Notice of Borrowing),
given not later than 12:00 noon Jackson, Mississippi, time on the Business Day
of the proposed Borrowing, by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which
shall in turn give to each Lender prompt notice of such proposed Borrowing by
telecopier. Each Notice of a Borrowing shall be given by telecopier, confirmed
immediately in writing, specifying the information required therein. Each Lender
shall, before 2:00 p.m. Jackson, Mississippi, time on the date of such
Borrowing, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to
the Administrative Agent at its address referred to in Section 9.02, or such
other location as the Administrative Agent may specify by notice to the Lenders,
in same day funds, in the case of a Borrowing, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of
such Borrowing. After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon
fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the
Administrative Agent shall make such funds available to the Borrower in
Borrower’s Account.
     (b) Notices Irrevocable. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and
binding on the Borrower.
     (c) Administrative Agent Reliance. Unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received notice from a Lender before the date of any Borrowing that such
Lender shall not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s Pro
Rata Share of a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender
has made its Pro Rata Share of such Borrowing available to the Administrative
Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with paragraph (a) of this
Section 2.03, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount.
If and to the extent that any Lender shall not have so made its Pro Rata Share
of such Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the
Borrower severally agree to immediately repay to the Administrative Agent on
demand such corresponding amount, together with interest on such amount, for
each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the
date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of
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rate applicable on such day to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in
the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate for such day. If such Lender
shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount and interest
as provided above, such corresponding amount so repaid shall constitute such
Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement even
though not made on the same day as the other Advances comprising such Borrowing.
     (d) Lender Obligations Several. The failure of any Lender to make the
Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other
Lender of its obligation, if any, to make its Advance on the date of such
Borrowing. No Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to
make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
     Section 2.04 Reduction of the Commitments.
     (a) The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three Business Days’
irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce
ratably in part the unused portion of the Commitments; provided, that, each
partial reduction shall be in the aggregate amount of $500,000 or in integral
multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
     (b) Any reduction and termination of the Commitments pursuant to this
Section 2.04 shall be applied ratably to each Lender’s Commitment and shall be
permanent, with no obligation of the Lenders to reinstate such Commitments.
     Section 2.05 Prepayment of Advances.
     (a) Optional. The Borrower may prepay the Advances, after giving by 12:00
noon Jackson, Mississippi, time, same Business Day’s, irrevocable prior written
notice to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate
principal amount of such prepayment. If any such notice is given, the Borrower
shall prepay the Advances in whole or ratably in part in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the amount specified in such notice, together with accrued
interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid and
amounts, if any, required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.12 as a result of
such prepayment being made on such date; provided, however, that each partial
prepayment shall be made in minimum amounts of $100,000 and in integral
multiples of $50,000 in excess thereof. Full prepayments of any Borrowing are
permitted without restriction of amounts.
     (b) Borrowing Base Deficiency. If the aggregate outstanding amount of the
Advances plus the Letter of Credit Exposure ever exceeds the lesser of (x) the
Borrowing Base and (y) the aggregate Commitments, the Borrower shall after
receipt of written notice from the Administrative Agent regarding such
deficiency, take any of the following actions (and the failure of the Borrower
to take such actions to remedy such Borrowing Base deficiency shall constitute
an Event of Default):
     (i) prepay Advances or, if the Advances have been repaid in full, make
deposits into the Cash Collateral Account to provide cash collateral for the
Letter of Credit Exposure, such that the Borrowing Base deficiency is cured
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the date such deficiency notice is received by the Borrower from the
Administrative Agent;
     (ii) pledge as Collateral for the Obligations additional Oil and Gas
Properties acceptable to the Required Lenders in their sole discretion (and
deliver such title evidence thereto to the extent required under Section 5.10
and deliver Engineering Reports covering such Oil and Gas Properties acceptable
to the Required Lenders) such that the Borrowing Base deficiency is cured within
30 days after the date such deficiency notice is received by the Borrower from
the Administrative Agent;
     (iii) (A) deliver, within 10 days after the date such deficiency notice is
received by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, written notice to the
Administrative Agent indicating the Borrower’s election to repay the Advances
and make deposits into the Cash Collateral Account to provide cash collateral
for the Letters of Credit, each in six equal consecutive monthly installments
equal to one-sixth of such Borrowing Base deficiency with the first such
installment due 30 days after the date such deficiency notice is received by the
Borrower from the Administrative Agent and each following installment due
30 days after the preceding installment due date, and (B) make such payments and
deposits within such time periods (provided, however, that if at the end of such
six (6) month period, the aggregate principal balance of the Advances plus the
Letter of Credit Exposure again exceeds exceeds the lesser of (x) the Borrowing
Base or (y) the aggregate Commitments, interest shall accrue on the Advances at
the Default Rate until such time Borrowing Base is equal to or exceeds the
aggregate principal balance of the Advances); or
     (iv) (A) deliver, within 10 days after the date such deficiency notice is
received by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, written notice to the
Administrative Agent indicating the Borrower’s election to combine the options
provided in clause (ii) and clause (iii) above, and also indicating the amount
to be prepaid in installments and the amount to be provided as additional
Collateral, and (B) make such six equal consecutive monthly installments and
deliver such additional Collateral within the time required under clause
(ii) and clause (iii) above.
Each prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be accompanied by accrued
interest on the amount prepaid to the date of such prepayment and amounts, if
any, required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.12 as a result of such prepayment
being made on such date. Each prepayment under clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) of
this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to the Advances as requested by the
Borrower if no Default then exists or, if a Default then exists, shall be
applied to the Advances as determined by the Administrative Agent.
     (c) Reduction of Commitments. On the date of each reduction of the
aggregate Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04, the Borrower agrees to make a
prepayment in respect of the outstanding amount of the Advances to the extent,
if any, that the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Advances plus the
Letter of Credit Exposure exceeds the lesser of (A) the aggregate Commitments,
as so reduced, and (B) the Borrowing Base. Each prepayment pursuant to this
Section 2.05(c) shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the amount prepaid
to the date of such prepayment and amounts, if any, required to be paid pursuant
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result of such prepayment being made on such date. Each prepayment under this
Section 2.05(c) shall be applied to the Advances as requested by the Borrower if
no Default then exists or, if a Default then exists, as determined by the
Administrative Agent.
     (d) [RESERVED].
     (e) No Additional Right; Ratable Prepayment. The Borrower shall have no
right to prepay any principal amount of any Advance except as provided in this
Section 2.05, and all notices given pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall be
irrevocable and binding upon the Borrower. Each payment of any Advance pursuant
to this Section 2.05 shall be made in a manner such that all Advances comprising
part of the same Borrowing are paid in whole or ratably in part.
     Section 2.06 Repayment of Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the
Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders the outstanding
principal amount of each Advance, together with any accrued interest thereon, on
the earliest of: (i) the date which is six (6) months after the date such
Advance was made, (ii) the Maturity Date or (iii) such earlier date as may be
required pursuant to Section 2.05(b), Section 7.02 or Section 7.03.
     Section 2.07 Letters of Credit.
     (a) Commitment. From time to time from the date of this Agreement until
10 days prior to the Maturity Date, at the request of the Borrower, the
requested Issuing Lender shall, on the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement (including, without limitation, the terms of Section 3.01), issue,
increase, or extend the Expiration Date of, Letters of Credit for the account of
the Borrower on any Business Day. No Letter of Credit will be issued, increased,
or extended:
     (i) if such issuance, increase, or extension would cause the Letter of
Credit Exposure to exceed the lesser of (A) $10,000,000 and (B) the lesser of
(1) the aggregate Commitments at such time and (2) the Borrowing Base in effect
at such time minus, in each case under this clause (B), the sum of the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Advances at such time;
     (ii) if such Letter of Credit has an Expiration Date later than 10 days
prior to the Maturity Date;
     (iii) if such Letter of Credit has an expiration date later than one year
after its issuance or extension; provided that any such Letter of Credit with a
one-year tenor may expressly provide that it is renewable at the option of the
applicable Issuing Lender for additional one-year periods;
     (iv) unless such Letter of Credit Documents are in form and substance
acceptable to the applicable Issuing Lender in its sole discretion;
     (v) if such Letter of Credit is a standby letter of credit, it does not
support the repayment of indebtedness for borrowed money of any Person;
     (vi) unless the Borrower has delivered to the applicable Issuing Lender a
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     (vii) unless such Letter of Credit is governed by (A) the Uniform Customs
and Practice for Documentary Credits (2007 Revision), International Chamber of
Commerce Publication No. 600, or (B) the International Standby Practices
(ISP98), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590, in either case,
including any subsequent revisions thereof approved by a Congress of the
International Chamber of Commerce and adhered to by the applicable Issuing
Lender;
     (viii) by Regions Bank, as Issuing Lender, if such issuance, increase or
extension would cause the sum of (A) the Reimbursement Obligations owing to
Regions Bank, as Issuing Lender plus (B) the aggregate undrawn maximum face
amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued by Regions Bank, as Issuing
Lender, to exceed $10,000,000;
     (ix) by any Issuing Lender (other than Regions Bank) unless such issuance,
increase or extension, if made by Regions Bank as Issuing Lender, would cause
the sum of (A) the Reimbursement Obligations owing to Regions Bank, as Issuing
Lender plus (B) the aggregate undrawn maximum face amount of all outstanding
Letters of Credit issued by Regions Bank, as Issuing Lender would exceed
$10,000,000; and
     (x) if any Lender is at such time a Defaulting Lender hereunder, unless the
applicable Issuing Lender has entered into satisfactory arrangements with the
Borrower or such Defaulting Lender to eliminate such Issuing Lender’s risk with
respect to such Defaulting Lender (including depositing cash collateral into the
Cash Collateral Account equal to the Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the
Letter of Credit Exposure attributable to such Letter of Credit, or if
acceptable to such Issuing Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower,
calculating each Lender’s participation in the Letter of Credit subject to such
issuance, increase or extension without giving effect to such Defaulting
Lender’s Pro Rata Share; provided, however, that after giving effect thereto, no
Lender’s participation in such Letter of Credit would exceed its Unused
Commitment Amount).
If the terms of any Letter of Credit Application referred to in the foregoing
clause (v) conflicts with the terms of this Agreement, the terms of this
Agreement shall control.
     (b) Participations. Upon the date of the issuance or increase of a Letter
of Credit, the applicable Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have sold to each
other Lender having a Commitment and each other Lender having a Commitment shall
have been deemed to have purchased from such Issuing Lender a participation in
the related Letter of Credit Obligations equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share
at such date and such sale and purchase shall otherwise be in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement. The applicable Issuing Lender shall promptly notify
the Administrative Agent and each such participant Lender having a Commitment by
telephone, or telecopy of each Letter of Credit issued, increased or extended
and the actual dollar amount of such Lender’s participation in such Letter of
Credit.
     (c) Issuing. Each Letter of Credit shall be issued, increased, or extended
pursuant to a Letter of Credit Application (or by telephone notice promptly
confirmed in writing by a Letter of Credit Application), given to the applicable
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later than 2:00 p.m. Jackson, Mississippi, time on the third Business Day before
the date of the proposed issuance, increase, or extension of the Letter of
Credit, and the applicable Issuing Lender shall (i) promptly after receipt of
such Letter of Credit Application, confirm with the Administrative Agent that
the Administrative Agent has also received a copy of such Letter of Credit
Application and, if not, the such Issuing Lender shall notify the Administrative
Agent of the contents thereof, and (ii) give to each other Lender prompt notice
thereof by telephone, or telecopy. Each Letter of Credit Application shall be
delivered by facsimile or by mail specifying the information required therein;
provided that, if such Letter of Credit Application is delivered by facsimile,
the Borrower shall follow such facsimile with an original by mail to the
applicable Issuing Lender. After the applicable Issuing Lender’s receipt of such
Letter of Credit Application (by facsimile or by mail) and upon fulfillment of
the applicable conditions set forth in Article III and so long as the Issuing
Lender has not received a notice (in writing, by facsimile or by e-mail) of the
limitation set forth in Section 2.07(a)(i) or (ix), such Issuing Lender shall
issue, increase, or extend such Letter of Credit for the account of the
Borrower. Each Letter of Credit Application shall be irrevocable and binding on
the Borrower.
     (d) Reimbursement. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay on demand to the
applicable Issuing Lender an amount equal to any amount paid by such Issuing
Lender under any Letter of Credit. In the event the applicable Issuing Lender
makes a payment pursuant to a request for draw presented under a Letter of
Credit and such payment is not promptly reimbursed by the Borrower upon demand,
such Issuing Lender shall give the Administrative Agent notice of the Borrower’s
failure to make such reimbursement and the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify each Lender having a Commitment of the amount necessary to reimburse such
Issuing Lender. Upon such notice from the Administrative Agent, each Lender
shall promptly reimburse such Issuing Lender for such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of
such amount, and such reimbursement shall be deemed for all purposes of this
Agreement to be an Advance to the Borrower transferred at the Borrower’s request
to such Issuing Lender. If such reimbursement is not made by any Lender to the
applicable Issuing Lender on the same day on which the Administrative Agent
notifies such Lender to make reimbursement to such Issuing Lender hereunder,
such Lender shall pay interest on its Pro Rata Share thereof to such Issuing
Lender at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The Borrower hereby
unconditionally and irrevocably authorizes, empowers, and directs the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders to record and otherwise treat such
reimbursements to the applicable Issuing Lender as Advances under a Borrowing
requested by the Borrower (without regard to the minimums and multiples
referenced in Section 2.1) to reimburse such Issuing Lender which have been
transferred to such Issuing Lender at the Borrower’s request.
     (e) Obligations Unconditional. The obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement in respect of each Letter of Credit shall be unconditional and
irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including the following circumstances:
     (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit
Documents;
     (ii) any amendment or waiver of, or any consent to or departure from, any
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     (iii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right which
the Borrower may have at any time against any beneficiary or transferee of such
Letter of Credit (or any Persons for whom any such beneficiary or any such
transferee may be acting), any Issuing Lender, or any other person or entity,
whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated in this
Agreement or in any Letter of Credit Documents, or any unrelated transaction;
     (iv) any statement or any other document presented under such Letter of
Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid, or insufficient in any respect
or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
     (v) payment by any Issuing Lender under such Letter of Credit against
presentation of a draft or certificate which does not comply with the terms of
such Letter of Credit; or
     (vi) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar
to any of the foregoing;
provided, however, that nothing contained in this paragraph (e) shall be deemed
to constitute a waiver of any remedies of the Borrower in connection with the
Letters of Credit or the Borrower’s rights under Section 2.07(f).
     (f) Liability of Issuing Lenders. The Borrower assumes all risks of the
acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with
respect to its use of such Letter of Credit. No Issuing Lender nor any of its
officers or directors shall be liable or responsible for:
     (i) the use which may be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or
omissions of any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith;
     (ii) the validity, sufficiency, or genuineness of documents, or of any
endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove to be in any or all
respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent, or forged;
     (iii) payment by any Issuing Lender against presentation of documents which
do not comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit, including failure of any
documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to the relevant Letter of
Credit; or
     (iv) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to make
payment under any Letter of Credit (INCLUDING AN ISSUING LENDER’S OWN
NEGLIGENCE),
except that the Borrower may make a claim against such Issuing Lender for any
direct, as opposed to consequential, damages suffered by the Borrower which the
Borrower claims to have been caused by such Issuing Lender’s willful misconduct
or gross negligence or such Issuing Lender’s willful failure to pay under any
Letter of Credit after presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft
and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter
of Credit; provided that, such Issuing Lender shall not be required to reimburse
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the Borrower for any such damages unless a court determines in a final,
non-appealable judgment that such damages were caused by such Issuing Lender’s
willful misconduct or gross negligence or such Issuing Lender’s willful failure
to pay under any Letter of Credit after presentation to it by the beneficiary of
a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and
conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the
foregoing, an Issuing Lender may accept documents that appear on their face to
be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any
notice or information to the contrary.
     (g) Cash Collateral Account.
     (i) If the Borrower is required to deposit funds in the Cash Collateral
Account pursuant to Section 2.05(b), 7.02(b), or 7.03(b), then the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent shall establish the Cash Collateral Account and the
Borrower shall execute any documents and agreements, including the
Administrative Agent’s standard form assignment of deposit accounts, that the
Administrative Agent requests in connection therewith to establish the Cash
Collateral Account and grant the Administrative Agent a first priority security
interest in such account and the funds therein. The Borrower hereby pledges to
the Administrative Agent and grants the Administrative Agent a security interest
in the Cash Collateral Account, whenever established, all funds held in the Cash
Collateral Account from time to time, and all proceeds thereof as security for
the payment of the Obligations.
     (ii) So long as no Default or Event of Default exists, (A) the
Administrative Agent may apply the funds held in the Cash Collateral Account
only to the reimbursement of any Letter of Credit Obligations, and (B) the
Administrative Agent shall release to the Borrower at the Borrower’s written
request any funds held in the Cash Collateral Account in excess of the amount
required to be on deposit to cure a Borrowing Base Deficiency pursuant to
Section 2.05(b). During the existence of any Default or Event of Default, the
Administrative Agent may apply any funds held in the Cash Collateral Account to
the Obligations in any order determined by the Administrative Agent, regardless
of any Letter of Credit Exposure that may remain outstanding. The Administrative
Agent may in its sole discretion at any time release to the Borrower any funds
held in the Cash Collateral Account.
     (iii) The Administrative Agent shall exercise reasonable care in the
custody and preservation of any funds held in the Cash Collateral Account and
shall be deemed to have exercised such care if such funds are accorded treatment
substantially equivalent to that which the Administrative Agent accords its own
Property, it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall not have any
responsibility for taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any
parties with respect to any such funds.
     Section 2.08 Fees.
     (a) Commitment Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of each Lender having a Commitment a commitment fee at a per
annum rate equal to the Commitment Fee Rate on the daily Unused Commitment
Amount of such Lender, from the date of this Agreement until the Commitment
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and payable quarterly in arrears on the last day of each March, June, September,
and December commencing on March 31, 2010, and continuing thereafter through and
including the Commitment Termination Date.
     (b) Letter of Credit Fees.
     (i) The Borrower agrees to pay (A) to the Administrative Agent for the pro
rata benefit of the Lenders having a Commitment a per annum letter of credit fee
for each Letter of Credit issued hereunder in an amount equal to $500.00, and
(B) to each Issuing Lender, a fronting fee for each Letter of Credit issued by
such Issuing Lender equal to 0.125% per annum on the face amount of such Letter
of Credit for the period such Letter of Credit is to be outstanding. The fees
set forth in (A) and (B) above shall be computed quarterly in arrears and shall
be due and payable on the last day of each March, June, September, and December
and on the Commitment Termination Date.
     (ii) The Borrower also agrees to pay to each Issuing Lender such other
usual and customary fees associated with any transfers, amendments, drawings,
negotiations or reissuances of any Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing
Lender.
     (c) Increased Commitment Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to Regions an
increased commitment fee of One Hundred Forty-Seven Thousand Dollars
($147,000.00), as set forth and agreed in that certain Commitment Letter, dated
December 23, 2009, from Regions to and accepted by the Borrower.
     (d) Borrowing Base Increase Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders having a Commitment in
connection with any increase of the Borrowing Base, a borrowing base increase
fee on the amount of such increase to be negotiated by the Agent and the
Borrower, which shall be due and payable on the date that the increase to the
Borrowing Base becomes effective.
     Section 2.09 Interest.
     (a) Interest Rate. Subject to Section 2.09(b) and 2.09(c) below, the
Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance made
by each Lender on each Monthly Payment Date from the date of such Advance until
such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the Interest Rate.
     (b) Late Payment Charge. The Borrower shall pay to each Lender with respect
to any payment of principal, interest or other amounts due hereunder or under
any Note or the other Loan Documents which remains unpaid for more than fifteen
(15) days after the same becomes due and payable, a “late fee” equal to the
greater of four percent (4%) of the amount of such overdue payment or Five and
No/100 Dollars ($5.00).
     (c) Default Rate. Overdue payments of principal under any Note and (to the
extent permitted by law) interest and other amounts due thereunder, hereunder or
under any of the other Loan Documents shall bear interest, from the date the
same became due and payable and in lieu of the Interest Rate, at the Default
Rate, which interest shall continue to accrue and (to the extent permitted by
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respect to the payment thereof shall have been discharged (whether before or
after judgment). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Section, in no event shall the rate of interest accruing from and after the
occurrence of an Event of Default exceed the maximum amount allowed by
applicable law.
     (d) Usury Recapture.
     (i) If, with respect to any Lender, the effective rate of interest
contracted for under the Loan Documents, including the stated rates of interest
and fees contracted for hereunder and any other amounts contracted for under the
Loan Documents which are deemed to be interest, at any time exceeds the Maximum
Rate, then the outstanding principal amount of the loans made by such Lender
hereunder shall bear interest at a rate which would make the effective rate of
interest for such Lender under the Loan Documents equal the Maximum Rate until
the difference between the amounts which would have been due at the stated rates
and the amounts which were due at the Maximum Rate (the “Lost Interest”) has
been recaptured by such Lender.
     (ii) If, when the loans made hereunder are repaid in full, the Lost
Interest has not been fully recaptured by such Lender pursuant to the preceding
paragraph, then, to the extent permitted by law, for the loans made hereunder by
such Lender the interest rates charged under Section 2.09 hereunder shall be
retroactively increased such that the effective rate of interest under the Loan
Documents was at the Maximum Rate since the effectiveness of this Agreement to
the extent necessary to recapture the Lost Interest not recaptured pursuant to
the preceding sentence and, to the extent allowed by law, the Borrower shall pay
to such Lender the amount of the Lost Interest remaining to be recaptured by
such Lender.
     (iii) NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING OR ANY OTHER TERM IN THIS AGREEMENT AND
THE LOAN DOCUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS THE INTENTION OF EACH LENDER AND THE
BORROWER TO CONFORM STRICTLY TO ANY APPLICABLE USURY LAWS. ACCORDINGLY, IF ANY
LENDER CONTRACTS FOR, CHARGES, OR RECEIVES ANY CONSIDERATION WHICH CONSTITUTES
INTEREST IN EXCESS OF THE MAXIMUM RATE, THEN ANY SUCH EXCESS SHALL BE CANCELED
AUTOMATICALLY AND, IF PREVIOUSLY PAID, SHALL AT SUCH LENDER’S OPTION BE APPLIED
TO THE OUTSTANDING AMOUNT OF THE ADVANCES MADE HEREUNDER BY SUCH LENDER OR BE
REFUNDED TO THE BORROWER.

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     Section 2.10 Payments and Computations.
     (a) Payment Procedures. The Borrower shall make each payment under this
Agreement and under the Notes not later than 1:00 p.m. Jackson, Mississippi,
time on the day when due in Dollars to the Administrative Agent at the location
referred to in the Notes (or such other location as the Administrative Agent
shall designate in writing to the Borrower) in same day funds without deduction,
setoff, or counterclaim of any kind. The Administrative Agent may charge, when
due and payable, Borrower’s Account for all interest, principal, fees and other
amounts owing to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any Lender on
or with respect to this Agreement, the Advances or the Loan Documents. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like
funds relating to the payment of principal, interest or fees ratably (other than
amounts payable solely to the Administrative Agent, an Issuing Lender, or a
specific Lender pursuant to Section 2.08(c), 2.09(d), 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 8.05, or
9.07, but after taking into account payments effected pursuant to Section 9.04)
in accordance with each Lender’s Pro Rata Share to the Lenders for the account
of their respective Applicable Lending Offices, and like funds relating to the
payment of any other amount payable to any Lender or any Issuing Lender to such
Lender for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be
applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
     (b) Computations. All computations of interest based on the Interest Rate
and the Federal Funds Rate and of fees (including Letter of Credit fees) shall
be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each
case for the actual number of days (including the first day, but excluding the
last day) occurring in the period for which such interest or fees are payable.
Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee shall
be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
     (c) Non-Business Day Payments. Whenever any payment shall be stated to be
due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next
succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be
included in the computation of payment of interest or fees, as the case may be.
     (d) Administrative Agent Reliance. Unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received written notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any
payment is due to the Lenders that the Borrower shall not make such payment in
full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such
payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative
Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each
Lender on such date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and
to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the
Administrative Agent, each Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender, together with
interest, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender
until the date such Lender repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at
the Federal Funds Rate for such day.
     Section 2.11 Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender shall obtain any
payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of
set-off, or otherwise) on account of the Advances or Letter of Credit
Obligations made by it in excess of its Pro Rata Share of payments on account of
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Lenders (other than as a result of a failure to fund by a Defaulting Lender),
such Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent and forthwith purchase from
the other Lenders such participations in the Advances made by them or Letter of
Credit Obligations held by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing
Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however,
that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from
such purchasing Lender, such purchase from each Lender shall be rescinded and
such Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the
extent of such Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (a) the
amount of the participation sold by such Lender to the purchasing Lender as a
result of such excess payment to (b) the total amount of such excess payment) of
such recovery, together with an amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share
(according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Lender’s required
repayment to the purchasing Lender to (ii) the total amount of all such required
repayments to the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or
payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered.
The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another
Lender pursuant to this Section 2.11 may, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with
respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct
creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
     Section 2.12 [RESERVED].
     Section 2.13 Increased Costs.
     (a) Capital Adequacy. If any Lender or any Issuing Lender determines in
good faith that compliance with any applicable Legal Requirement or any
guideline or request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority
(whether or not having the force of law), in each case which constitutes a
Change in Law, affects or would affect the amount of capital required or
expected to be maintained by such Lender or such Issuing Lender or any
corporation controlling such Lender or such Issuing Lender and that the amount
of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender’s
commitment to lend or such Issuing Lender’s commitment to issue the Letters of
Credit and other commitments of this type, then, within 30 days after receipt of
the certificate required by this subsection (b) from such Lender or such Issuing
Lender (with a copy of any such demand to the Administrative Agent), the
Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender or
to such Issuing Lender, as the case may be, from time to time as specified by
such Lender or such Issuing Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate
such Lender or such Issuing Lender, in light of such circumstances, (i) with
respect to such Lender, to the extent that such Lender reasonably determines
such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender’s
commitment to lend under this Agreement and (ii) with respect to such Issuing
Lender, to the extent that such Issuing Lender reasonably determines such
increase in capital to be allocable to the issuance or maintenance of the
Letters of Credit. A certificate as to such amounts and detailing the
calculation of such amounts submitted to the Borrower by such Lender or such
Issuing Lender shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
     (b) Letters of Credit. If any change after the Closing Date in any
applicable Legal Requirement or in the interpretation thereof by any court or
administrative or Governmental Authority charged with the administration thereof
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applicable any reserve, special deposit, or similar requirement against letters
of credit issued by, or assets held by, or deposits in or for the account of,
any Issuing Lender or (ii) impose on any Issuing Lender any other condition
regarding the provisions of this Agreement relating to the Letters of Credit or
any Letter of Credit Obligations, and the result of any event referred to in the
preceding clause (i) or (ii) shall be to increase the cost to such Issuing
Lender of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (which increase in cost
shall be determined by such Issuing Lender’s reasonable allocation of the
aggregate of such cost increases resulting from such event), then, upon demand
by such Issuing Lender, the Borrower shall pay to such Issuing Lender, from time
to time as specified by such Issuing Lender, additional amounts which shall be
sufficient to compensate such Issuing Lender for such increased cost. A
certificate as to such increased cost incurred by such Issuing Lender, as a
result of any event mentioned in clause (i) or (ii) above, and detailing the
calculation of such increased costs submitted by such Issuing Lender to the
Borrower, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
     (c) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to
demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall not constitute a waiver
of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation,
provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the
Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section 2.13 for any increased costs incurred or
reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or
the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law
giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the
Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive,
then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the
period of retroactive effect thereof).
     Section 2.14 Taxes.
     (a) No Deduction for Certain Taxes. Any and all payments by the Borrower
shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.10, free and clear of and without
deduction for any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions,
charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in
the case of each Lender, each Issuing Lender, and the Administrative Agent,
taxes imposed on its income, and franchise taxes imposed on it, by the
jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender, the Issuing Lender, or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) is organized or any political
subdivision of the jurisdiction (all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter referred to
as “Taxes”) and, in the case of each Lender and each Issuing Lender, Taxes by
the jurisdiction of such Lender’s Applicable Lending Office or any political
subdivision of such jurisdiction. If the Borrower shall be required by
applicable Legal Requirement to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum
payable to any Lender, any Issuing Lender, or the Administrative Agent: (i) the
sum payable shall be increased as may be necessary so that, after making all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable
under this Section 2.14), such Lender, such Issuing Lender, or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deductions been made; provided, however, that if
the Borrower’s obligation to deduct or withhold Taxes is caused solely by such
Lender’s, such Issuing Lender’s, or the Administrative Agent’s failure to
provide the forms described in paragraph (d) of this Section 2.14 and such
Lender, such Issuing Lender, or the Administrative Agent could have provided
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required; (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions; and (iii) the Borrower
shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other
authority in accordance with applicable law.
     (b) Other Taxes. In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any present or
future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges
or similar levies which arise from any payment made or from the execution,
delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, the
Notes, or the other Loan Documents (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”).
     (c) Indemnification. THE BORROWER INDEMNIFIES EACH LENDER, EACH ISSUING
LENDER, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FOR THE FULL AMOUNT OF TAXES OR OTHER TAXES
(INCLUDING ANY TAXES OR OTHER TAXES IMPOSED BY ANY JURISDICTION ON AMOUNTS
PAYABLE UNDER THIS SECTION 2.14) PAID BY SUCH LENDER, SUCH ISSUING LENDER, OR
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT (AS THE CASE MAY BE) AND ANY LIABILITY (INCLUDING
INTEREST AND EXPENSES) ARISING THEREFROM OR WITH RESPECT THERETO, WHETHER OR NOT
SUCH TAXES OR OTHER TAXES WERE CORRECTLY OR LEGALLY ASSERTED. EACH PAYMENT
REQUIRED TO BE MADE BY THE BORROWER IN RESPECT OF THIS INDEMNIFICATION SHALL BE
MADE TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY PARTY CLAIMING SUCH
INDEMNIFICATION WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE DATE THE BORROWER RECEIVES WRITTEN
DEMAND THEREFOR FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AS
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY SUCH ISSUING LENDER, OR ANY SUCH LENDER. IF ANY
LENDER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, OR ANY ISSUING LENDER RECEIVES A REFUND IN
RESPECT OF ANY TAXES PAID BY THE BORROWER UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH (C), SUCH LENDER,
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, OR SUCH ISSUING LENDER, AS THE CASE MAY BE, SHALL
PROMPTLY PAY TO THE BORROWER THE BORROWER’S SHARE OF SUCH REFUND.
     (d) Foreign Lender Withholding Exemption. Each Lender and Issuing Lender
that is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a
state thereof agrees that it shall deliver to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent (i) two duly completed copies of United States Internal
Revenue Service Form W8-ECI or W8-BEN or successor applicable form, as the case
may be, certifying in each case that such Lender is entitled to receive payments
under this Agreement and the Notes payable to it, without deduction or
withholding of any United States federal income taxes, (ii) if applicable, an
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 or W-9 or successor applicable form, as the
case may be, to establish an exemption from United States backup withholding
tax, and (iii) any other governmental forms which are necessary or required
under an applicable tax treaty or otherwise by law to reduce or eliminate any
withholding tax, which have been reasonably requested by the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent. Each Lender which delivers to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent a Form W8-ECI or W8-BEN and Form W-8 or W-9 pursuant to the
immediately preceding sentence further undertakes to deliver to the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent two further copies of the said letter and Form W8-ECI
or W8-BEN and Form W-8 or W-9, or successor applicable forms, or other manner of
certification, as the case may be, on or before the date that any such letter or
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expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of any event requiring a
change in the most recent letter and form previously delivered by it to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and such extensions or renewals thereof
as may reasonably be requested by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
certifying in the case of a Form W8-ECI or W8-BEN that such Lender is entitled
to receive payments under this Agreement without deduction or withholding of any
United States federal income taxes. If an event (including any change in treaty,
law or regulation) has occurred prior to the date on which any delivery required
by the preceding sentence would otherwise be required which renders all such
forms inapplicable or which would prevent any Lender from duly completing and
delivering any such letter or form with respect to it and such Lender advises
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it is not capable of receiving
payments without any deduction or withholding of United States federal income
tax, and in the case of a Form W-8 or W-9, establishing an exemption from United
States backup withholding tax, such Lender shall not be required to deliver such
letter or forms. The Borrower shall withhold tax at the rate and in the manner
required by the laws of the United States with respect to payments made to a
Lender failing to timely provide the requisite Internal Revenue Service forms.
     Section 2.15 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
     (a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests
compensation under Section 2.13, or requires the Borrower to pay any additional
amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender
pursuant to Section 2.14, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to
designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Advances
hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its
offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such
designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant
to Section 2.13 or 2.14, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not
subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise
be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all
reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such
designation or assignment. A Lender shall not be required to make any such
delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or
otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such delegation
cease to apply.
     (b) Replacement of Lenders. If (i) any Lender requests compensation under
Section 2.13, (ii) the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any
Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.14, (iii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, or (iv) any Lender
refuses to consent to an amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement
that requires consent of 100% of the Lenders pursuant to Section 9.01 and that
has been approved by the Required Lenders, then the Borrower may, at the
Borrower’s sole expense and effort and upon notice to such Lender and the
Administrative Agent and, in the case of a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative
Agent may, upon notice to such Defaulting Lender and the Borrower, require such
Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject
to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 9.06), all
of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related
Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee
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     (i) other than for an assignment of a Defaulting Lender requested by the
Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent
the assignment fee specified in Section 9.06;
     (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the
outstanding principal of its Advances and participations in Letter of Credit
Obligations, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts
payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any
amounts under Section 2.12) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding
principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all
other amounts);
     (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for
compensation under Section 2.13 or payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 2.14, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or
payments thereafter;
     (iv) such assignment does not conflict with applicable law; and
     (v) a Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment if, prior
thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances
entitling the Borrower to require such assignment cease to apply.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS OF LENDING
     Section 3.01 Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness. The Existing Agreement
shall be amended and restated in its entirety as set forth herein and this
Agreement shall become effective upon the occurrence of the following conditions
precedent:
     (a) Documentation. The Administrative Agent shall have received the
following duly executed (which may be, in the Administrative Agent’s sole
discretion, by facsimile or scanned pdf email) by all the parties thereto, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders
and the Lenders, and, where applicable, in sufficient copies for each Lender:
     (i) this Agreement, a Note payable to the order of each Lender in the
amount of its Commitment, the Security Agreements, the Guaranties, the Pledge
Agreements, and Mortgages encumbering at least 90% (by value) of all of the
Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ Oil and Gas Properties constituting Proven
Reserves, and each of the other Loan Documents, and all attached exhibits and
schedules;
     (ii) a favorable opinion of (A) the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ counsel
dated as of the date of this Agreement and substantially in the form of the
attached Exhibit K-1 and (B) the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ local counsel
dated as of the date of this Agreement and substantially in the form of the
attached Exhibit K-2 covering the matters discussed in such Exhibit and such
other matters as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
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     (iii) copies, certified as of the date of this Agreement by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower of (A) the resolutions of the board of directors of the
Borrower approving the Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party, (B) the
articles or certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of the Borrower, and
(C) all other documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and
governmental approvals, if any, with respect to this Agreement, the Notes, and
the other Loan Documents;
     (iv) certificates of the secretary or assistant secretary of the Borrower
certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of the Borrower
authorized to sign this Agreement, the Notes, Notices of Borrowing, and the
other Loan Documents and Hedge Contracts to which the Borrower is a party;
     (v) copies, certified as of the date of this Agreement by a Responsible
Officer or the secretary or an assistant secretary of each Guarantor of (A) the
resolutions of the Board of Directors (or other applicable governing body) of
such Guarantor approving the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) the
articles or certificate (as applicable) of incorporation (or organization) and
bylaws of such Guarantor, and (C) all other documents evidencing other necessary
corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to the
Guaranty, the Security Instruments, and the other Loan Documents to which such
Guarantor is a party;
     (vi) a certificate of the secretary or an assistant secretary of each
Guarantor certifying the names and true signatures of officers of such Guarantor
authorized to sign the Guaranty, Security Instruments and the other Loan
Documents to which such Guarantor is a party;
     (vii) a certificate dated as of the Closing Date from a Responsible Officer
of the Borrower stating that (A) all representations and warranties of the
Borrower set forth in this Agreement are true and correct in all material
respects; (B) no Default has occurred and is continuing; and (C) the conditions
in this Section 3.01 have been met;
     (viii) appropriate UCC-1 and UCC-3, as applicable, Financing Statements
covering the Collateral for filing with the appropriate authorities and any
other documents, agreements or instruments necessary to create an Acceptable
Security Interest in such Collateral;
     (ix) insurance certificates naming the Administrative Agent loss payee or
additional insured, as applicable, and evidencing insurance which meets the
requirements of this Agreement and the Security Instruments, and which is
otherwise satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
     (x) a copy of the most recent Independent Engineering Report delivered
pursuant to the Existing Agreement;
     (xi) to the extent required in connection with the Pledge Agreements,
(A) stock or, to the extent applicable under the Person’s organizational
documents, membership or partnership interest certificates, and stock powers
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each such stock certificate endorsed in blank to the Administrative Agent and
(B) to the extent such Person is a limited liability company or a limited
partnership, copies of its limited liability company agreement, partnership
agreement or other similar document the terms of which expressly provide that
membership interests or partnership interests, as applicable, in such Person are
securities governed by Chapter 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in
the State of Texas;
     (xii) certificates of good standing and existence for the Borrower and each
Guarantor in (a) the state, province or territory in which each such Person is
organized and (b) each other state, province or territory in which it is
required to be qualified to do business under Section 5.03, which certificates
shall be dated a date not earlier than 30 days prior to the date hereof;
     (xiii) copies, certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, of the
CIECO Loan Documents and all exhibits and schedules thereto, together with all
amendments, modifications or waivers thereto in effect as of the date of this
Agreement; and
     (xiv) such other documents, governmental certificates, agreements and lien
searches as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request.
     (b) Payment of Fees. On the date of this Agreement, the Borrower shall have
paid the fees required by Section 2.08(c) and all costs and expenses that have
been invoiced not less than three (3) days prior to the Closing Date and are
payable pursuant to Section 9.04.
     (c) Delivery of Financial Statements. The Administrative Agent and the
Lenders shall have received true and correct copies of (i) the Financial
Statements, (ii) the Interim Financial Statements and (iii) such other financial
information as the Lenders may reasonably request.
     (d) Security Instruments. The Administrative Agent shall have received all
appropriate evidence required by the Administrative Agent to determine that the
Administrative Agent (for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders) shall have
an Acceptable Security Interest in the Collateral (which shall include 90% (by
value) of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ Oil and Gas Properties constituting
Proven Reserves (as set forth in the two company-prepared engineering reports
provided to Regions Bank, both dated as of October 1, 2009, covering the
existing collateral properties and the ExL Permian Basin properties) and that
all actions or filings necessary to protect, preserve and validly perfect such
Liens have been made, taken or obtained, as the case may be, and are in full
force and effect.
     (e) Title. The Administrative Agent shall be satisfied in its sole
discretion with the title to the Borrowing Base Properties and that such
Borrowing Base Properties constitute a percentage of such Collateral reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, including mortgagee’s title opinions
in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and issued by title counsel
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent covering at least 80% of the present
value of Proven Reserves set forth on the Independent Engineering Report
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date of this Agreement and at least 80% of the present value of such Proven
Reserves which are categorized as “proved, developed and producing” in such
report.
     (f) No Default. No Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
     (g) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties
contained in Article IV and in each other Loan Document shall be true and
correct in all material respects.
     (h) Material Adverse Change. No event or circumstance that could reasonably
be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change shall have occurred.
     (i) No Proceeding or Litigation; No Injunctive Relief. No action, suit,
investigation or other proceeding (including the enactment or promulgation of a
statute or rule) by or before any arbitrator or any Governmental Authority shall
be threatened or pending and no preliminary or permanent injunction or order by
a state or federal court shall have been entered (i) in connection with (A) any
of the Borrowing Base Properties or other Properties of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries which, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or (B) this
Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby or (ii) which, in any case, in
the judgment of the Administrative Agent, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Change.
     (j) Consents, Licenses, Approvals, etc. The Administrative Agent shall have
received true copies (certified to be such by the Borrower or other appropriate
party) of all consents, licenses and approvals required in accordance with
applicable Legal Requirements, or in accordance with any document, agreement,
instrument or arrangement to which the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries is a party, in connection with the execution, delivery,
performance, validity and enforceability of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. In addition, the Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective
Subsidiaries shall have all such material consents, licenses and approvals
required in connection with the continued operation of the Borrower, such
Guarantors and such Subsidiaries and such approvals shall be in full force and
effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action
being taken or threatened by any competent authority which would restrain,
prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions on this Agreement and the actions
contemplated hereby.
     (k) Material Contracts. The Borrower shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agent copies of all material contracts, agreements or instruments
to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent.
     (l) Notice of Borrowing. If a Loan is requested on the Closing Date, the
Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing from the Borrower
in the form of Exhibit F, with appropriate insertions and executed by a duly
authorized Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
     (m) USA Patriot Act. The Borrower has delivered to each Lender that is
subject to the Act such information requested by such Lender in order to comply
with the Act.
     (n) Hedging Arrangements. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be
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     (o) Minimum Liquidity. The sum of the Borrower’s unrestricted cash and
Unused Commitment Amount, after giving effect to the closing of the facility
evidenced hereby and the making of any Credit Extensions, shall be at least
$5,000,000 as of the Closing Date.
     (p) Receipt of Refund of Overpaid Medusa Royalty. Receipt by the Borrower,
in good collected funds, of a refund of overpaid royalty from the Minerals
Management Service on account of Hydrocarbon production from the Medusa field,
in an amount not less than Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000).
     Section 3.02 Conditions Precedent to All Borrowings. The obligation of each
Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing and of each Issuing
Lender to issue, increase, or extend any Letter of Credit shall be subject to
the further conditions precedent that on the date of such Borrowing or the date
of the issuance, increase, or extension of such Letter of Credit, the following
statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of
Borrowing or Letter of Credit Application and the acceptance by the Borrower of
the proceeds of such Borrowing or the issuance, increase, or extension of such
Letter of Credit shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower
that on the date of such Borrowing or on the date of such issuance, increase, or
extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, such statements are true):
     (a) the representations and warranties contained in Article IV of this
Agreement and the representations and warranties contained in the Security
Instruments, the Guaranties, and each of the other Loan Documents are true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the
date of the issuance, increase, or extension of such Letter of Credit, before
and after giving effect to such Borrowing or to the issuance, increase, or
extension of such Letter of Credit and to the application of the proceeds from
such Borrowing, as though made on and as of such date (except in the case of
representations and warranties which are made solely as of an earlier date or
time, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of such earlier date and time); and
     (b) no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such
Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, or would result
from the issuance, increase, or extension of such Letter of Credit.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants as follows:
     Section 4.01 Existence; Subsidiaries. The Borrower is a corporation duly
organized and validly existing under the laws of Delaware and in good standing
and qualified to do business in each jurisdiction where its ownership or lease
of Property or conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where
failure to be so qualified could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Change. Each Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than any
Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) is duly organized, validly existing, and in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation and in good standing
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jurisdiction where its ownership or lease of Property or conduct of its business
requires such qualification, except where failure to be so qualified could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. As of the date of
this Agreement, the Borrower has no Subsidiaries other than listed on
Schedule 4.01 and the Borrower owns no other Equity Interests in any Person
except in such Subsidiaries and otherwise as set forth in Schedule 4.01.
     Section 4.02 Power. The execution, delivery, and performance by the
Borrower of this Agreement, the Notes, and the other Loan Documents to which it
is a party and by the Guarantors of the Guaranties and the other Loan Documents
to which they are a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby (a) are within the Borrower’s and such Guarantors’ governing
powers, (b) have been duly authorized by all necessary governing action, (c) do
not contravene (i) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s certificate or articles of
incorporation or formation, limited partnership agreement, bylaws, limited
liability company agreement, or other similar governance documents or (ii) any
law or any contractual restriction binding on or affecting the Borrower or any
Guarantor, and (d) will not result in or require the creation or imposition of
any Lien prohibited by this Agreement. At the time of each Advance and the
issuance, extension or increase of a Letter of Credit, such Advance and such
Letter of Credit, and the use of the proceeds of such Advance and such Letter of
Credit, will be within the Borrower’s governing powers, will have been duly
authorized by all necessary governing action, will not contravene (i) the
Borrower’s certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational
documents or (ii) any law or any contractual restriction binding on or affecting
the Borrower and will not result in or require the creation or imposition of any
Lien prohibited by this Agreement.
     Section 4.03 Authorization and Approvals. No consent, order, authorization,
or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any
Governmental Authority or any other Person is required for the due execution,
delivery, and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the Notes, or the
other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party or by each Guarantor of
its Guaranty or the other Loan Documents to which it is a party or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing
of UCC-1 Financing Statements and the Mortgages in the state and county filing
offices and (b) those consents and approvals that have been obtained or made on
or prior to the date of this Agreement and that are in full force and effect. At
the time of each Borrowing and each issuance, increase or extension of a Letter
of Credit, no authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or
filing with, any Governmental Authority will be required for such Borrowing or
such issuance, increase or extension of such Letter of Credit or the use of the
proceeds of such Borrowing or such Letter of Credit, except for (i) the filing
of any additional UCC-1 Financing Statements and the Mortgages in the state and
county filing offices and (ii) those consents and approvals that have been
obtained or made on or prior to the date of such Borrowing, which are, as of the
date of such Borrowing, in full force and effect.
     Section 4.04 Enforceable Obligations. This Agreement, the Notes, and the
other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party have been duly executed
and delivered by the Borrower and the Guaranties and the other Loan Documents to
which each Guarantor is a party have been duly executed and delivered by such
Guarantors. Each Loan Document is the legal, valid, and binding obligation of
the Borrower and any Guarantor which is a party to it enforceable against the
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as such enforceability may be limited by any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, or similar law affecting creditors’ rights generally
and by general principles of equity.
     Section 4.05 Financial Statements.
     (a) The Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
copies of the Financial Statements and the Interim Financial Statements, and the
Financial Statements and the Interim Financial Statements are accurate and
complete in all material respects and present fairly the financial condition of
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of their respective dates and for their
respective periods in accordance with GAAP. As of the date of the Financial
Statements, there were no material contingent obligations, liabilities for
taxes, unusual forward or long-term commitments, or unrealized or anticipated
losses of the Borrower, except as disclosed therein and adequate reserves for
such items have been made in accordance with GAAP.
     (b) Since the date of the Financial Statements, no event or circumstance
that could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change has
occurred.
     (c) As of the date of this Agreement, neither the Borrower nor any of its
Subsidiaries has any Debt other than the Debt listed on Schedule 4.05.
     Section 4.06 True and Complete Disclosure. All factual information
(excluding estimates) heretofore or contemporaneously furnished by or on behalf
of the Borrower or any of the Guarantors in writing to any Lender or the
Administrative Agent for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement, any
other Loan Document or any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby is, and
all other such factual information hereafter furnished by or on behalf of the
Borrower and the Guarantors in writing to the Administrative Agent or any of the
Lenders shall be, true and accurate in all material respects on the date as of
which such information is dated or certified and does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to
make the statements contained therein not misleading at such time. All
projections, estimates, and pro forma financial information furnished by the
Borrower were prepared on the basis of assumptions, data, information, tests, or
conditions believed to be reasonable at the time such projections, estimates,
and pro forma financial information were furnished.
     Section 4.07 Litigation; Compliance with Laws.
     (a) There is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened
action or proceeding affecting the Borrower or any of the Guarantors before any
court, Governmental Authority or arbitrator which could reasonably be expected
to cause a Material Adverse Change or which purports to affect the legality,
validity, binding effect or enforceability of this Agreement, any Note, or any
other Loan Document. Additionally, there is no pending or, to the knowledge of
the Borrower, threatened action or proceeding instituted against the Borrower or
any of the Guarantors which seeks to adjudicate the Borrower or any of the
Guarantors as bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of
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bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the
entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee or other
similar official for it or for any substantial part of its Property.
     (b) The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have complied in all respects with
all statutes, rules, regulations, orders and restrictions of any Governmental
Authority having jurisdiction over the conduct of their respective businesses or
the ownership of their respective Property where non-compliance could reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 4.08 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances will be used by
the Borrower for the purposes described in Section 5.09. The Borrower is not
engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U). No proceeds of any
Advance will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock in violation of
Regulation T, U or X.
     Section 4.09 Investment Company Act. Neither the Borrower nor any of the
Guarantors is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an
“investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended.
     Section 4.10 Federal Power Act. Neither the Borrower nor any of the
Guarantors is subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, as amended or
any other Legal Requirement which regulates the incurring by such Person of
Debt, including Legal Requirements relating to common contract carriers or the
sale of electricity, gas, steam, water or other public utility services.
     Section 4.11 Taxes.
     (a) Reports and Payments. All Returns (as defined below in clause (c) of
this Section 4.11) required to be filed by or on behalf of the Borrower, the
Guarantors, or any member of the Controlled Group (hereafter collectively called
the “Tax Group”) have been duly filed on a timely basis or appropriate
extensions have been obtained, except where the failure to so file could not be
reasonably expected to cause a Material Adverse Change; such Returns are
complete and correct in all material respects; and all Taxes shown to be due and
payable on the Returns or on subsequent assessments with respect thereto have
been paid in full on a timely basis, and no other Taxes will be payable by the
Tax Group with respect to items or periods covered by such Returns, except in
each case to the extent of (i) reserves reflected in the Financial Statements or
(ii) taxes that are being contested in good faith. The reserves for accrued
Taxes reflected in the financial statements delivered to the Lenders under this
Agreement are adequate in the aggregate for the payment of all unpaid Taxes,
whether or not disputed, for the period ended as of the date thereof and for any
period prior thereto, and for which the Tax Group may be liable in its own
right, as withholding agent or as a transferee of the assets of, or successor
to, any Person, except for such Taxes or reserves therefor, the failure to pay
or provide for which does not and could not reasonably be expected to cause a
Material Adverse Change.
     (b) Taxes Definition. “Taxes” in this Section 4.11 shall mean all taxes,
charges, fees, levies, or other assessments imposed by any federal, state,
local, or foreign taxing authority, including income, gross receipts, excise,
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service, leasing, environmental, value added, transfer, payroll, and franchise
taxes (and including any interest, penalties, or additions to tax attributable
to or imposed on or with respect to any such assessment).
     (c) Returns Definition. “Returns” in this Section 4.11 shall mean any
federal, state, local, or foreign report, declaration of estimated Tax,
information statement or return relating to, or required to be filed in
connection with, any Taxes, including any information return or report with
respect to backup withholding or other payments of third parties.
     Section 4.12 Pension Plans. All Plans are in compliance in all material
respects with all applicable provisions of ERISA. No Termination Event has
occurred with respect to any Plan, and each Plan has complied with and been
administered in all material respects in accordance with applicable provisions
of ERISA and the Code. No “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in
Section 302 of ERISA) has occurred and there has been no excise tax imposed
under Section 4971 of the Code. No Reportable Event has occurred with respect to
any Multiemployer Plan, and each Multiemployer Plan has complied with and been
administered in all material respects in accordance with applicable provisions
of ERISA and the Code. The present value of all benefits vested under each Plan
(based on the assumptions used to fund such Plan) did not, as of the last annual
valuation date applicable thereto, exceed the value of the assets of such Plan
allocable to such vested benefits. Neither the Borrower nor any member of the
Controlled Group has had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer
Plan for which there is any withdrawal liability. As of the most recent
valuation date applicable thereto, neither the Borrower nor any member of the
Controlled Group would become subject to any liability under ERISA if the
Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group has received notice that any
Multiemployer Plan is insolvent or in reorganization. Based upon GAAP existing
as of the date of this Agreement and current factual circumstances, the Borrower
has no reason to believe that the annual cost during the term of this Agreement
to the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group for post-retirement
benefits to be provided to the current and former employees of the Borrower or
any member of the Controlled Group under Plans that are welfare benefit plans
(as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) could, in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to cause a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 4.13 Condition of Property; Casualties. Each of the Borrower and
the Guarantors has good and defensible title to all of its material
(individually and in the aggregate) Properties as is customary in the oil and
gas industry in all material respects, free and clear of all Liens except for
Permitted Liens. The Properties used or to be used in the continuing operations
of the Borrower and each of the Guarantors are in good repair, working order and
condition, except to the extent that the failure to be in such condition could
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Since the
date of the Financial Statements, neither the business nor any Property of the
Borrower or any Guarantor has been adversely affected as a result of any fire,
explosion, earthquake, flood, drought, windstorm, accident, strike or other
labor disturbance, embargo, requisition or taking of Property or cancellation of
contracts, Permits, or concessions by a Governmental Authority, riot, activities
of armed forces, or acts of God or of any public enemy, except to the extent
such adverse event could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
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     Section 4.14 No Defaults.
     (a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under or
with respect to any contract, agreement, lease, or other instrument to which the
Borrower or any Subsidiary is a party and which could reasonably be expected to
cause a Material Adverse Change or under any agreement in connection with any
Debt.
     (b) No Default has occurred and is continuing.
     Section 4.15 Environmental Condition.
     (a) Permits, Etc. The Borrower and the Guarantors (i) have obtained all
Environmental Permits necessary for the ownership and operation of their
respective Properties and the conduct of their respective businesses; (ii) have
at all times been and are in compliance with all terms and conditions of such
Permits and with all other requirements of applicable Environmental Laws; (iii)
have not received notice of any violation or alleged violation of any
Environmental Law or Permit; and (iv) are not subject to any actual or
contingent Environmental Claim, except, in the case of clauses (i) through (iv),
where such failure to obtain, such failure to comply, such violation or such
Environmental Claim could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
Change.
     (b) Certain Liabilities. To the Borrower’s actual knowledge, none of the
present or previously owned or operated Property of the Borrower or any
Guarantor or of any of their former Subsidiaries, wherever located: (i) has been
placed on or proposed to be placed on the National Priorities List, the
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Information System
list, or their state or local analogs, or have been otherwise investigated,
designated, listed, or identified as a potential site for removal, remediation,
cleanup, closure, restoration, reclamation, or other response activity under any
Environmental Laws and which listing, event or other circumstance described in
this clause (i) could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change;
(ii) is subject to a Lien, arising under or in connection with any Environmental
Laws, that attaches to any revenues or to any Property owned or operated by the
Borrower or any of the Guarantors, wherever located, which could reasonably be
expected to cause a Material Adverse Change; or (iii) has been the site of any
Release of Hazardous Substances or Hazardous Wastes from present or past
operations which has caused at the site or at any third-party site any condition
that has resulted in or could reasonably be expected to result in the need for
Response that would cause a Material Adverse Change.
     (c) Certain Actions. Without limiting the foregoing: (i) all necessary
notices have been properly filed, and no further action is required under
current Environmental Law as to each Response or other restoration or remedial
project undertaken by the Borrower or the Guarantors or any of their former
Subsidiaries on any of their presently or formerly owned or operated Property,
except where failure to file such notices or failure to take such action could
not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change, and (ii) the
present and, to the Borrower’s knowledge, future liability, if any, of the
Borrower and the Guarantors which could reasonably be expected to arise in
connection with requirements under Environmental Laws could not reasonably be
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     Section 4.16 Permits, Licenses, Etc. The Borrower and the Guarantors
(a) possess all authorizations, Permits, licenses, patents, patent rights or
licenses, trademarks, trademark rights, trade name rights and copyrights which
are material to the conduct of their business and (b) manage and operate their
business in all material respects in accordance with all applicable Legal
Requirements and good industry practices, except, in each case, to the extent
failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
Change.
     Section 4.17 Gas Contracts. Neither the Borrower nor any of the Guarantors,
as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date: (a) is obligated in any
material respect by virtue of any prepayment made under any contract containing
a “take-or-pay” or “prepayment” provision or under any similar agreement to
deliver hydrocarbons produced from or allocated to any of the Borrower’s and the
Guarantors’ Borrowing Base Properties at some future date without receiving full
payment therefor at the time of delivery, except to the extent such obligations
could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change, or
(b) except as has been disclosed to the Administrative Agent, has produced gas,
in any material amount, subject to, and none of the Borrower’s and the
Guarantors’ Borrowing Base Properties is subject to, balancing rights of third
parties or subject to balancing duties under governmental requirements, except
where being subject to such rights and duties could not reasonably be expected
to cause a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 4.18 Liens; Titles, Leases, Etc. None of the Property of the
Borrower or any of the Guarantors is subject to any Lien other than Permitted
Liens. On the Closing Date, all governmental actions and all other filings,
recordings, registrations, third party consents and other actions which are
necessary to perfect the Liens provided for in the Security Instruments will
have been made, obtained and taken in all relevant jurisdictions or, with
respect to any filings or recordings necessary to create and perfect such Liens,
arrangements to do so shall have been made. All leases and agreements necessary
for the conduct of business of the Borrower and the Guarantors are valid and
subsisting, in full force and effect and there exists no default or event of
default or circumstance which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both
would give rise to a default under any such leases or agreements, in each case,
other than to the extent it could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Change.
     Section 4.19 Solvency. Before and after giving effect to the making of the
initial Advances, each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is Solvent.
     Section 4.20 Hedging Agreements. Schedule 4.20 sets forth, as of the date
hereof and as of the Closing Date, a true and complete list of all Interest
Hedge Agreements, Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreements, and any other Hedge Contract of
the Borrower and each Guarantor, the material terms thereof (including the type,
term, effective date, termination date and notional amounts or volumes), the net
mark to market value thereof, all credit support agreements relating thereto
(including any margin required or supplied), and the counterparty to each such
agreement.
     Section 4.21 Material Agreements. Schedule 4.21 sets forth a complete and
correct list of (a) all material agreements and other instruments of the
Borrower and the Guarantors in effect or to be in effect as of the Closing Date
relating to the purchase, transportation by pipeline, gas processing, marketing,
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cancelable on 60 days notice or less without penalty and have a maturity or
expiry date of longer than six (6) months from the date hereof, and (b) all
material agreements, leases, indentures, purchase agreements, obligations in
respect of letters of credit, guarantees, joint venture agreements, and other
instruments in effect or to be in effect as of the Closing Date providing for,
evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to any Debt of the Borrower, any
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, and all obligations of the
Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries to issuers of
surety or appeal bonds issued for account of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any
of their respective Subsidiaries, and such list correctly sets forth the names
of the debtor or lessee and creditor or lessor with respect to the Debt or lease
obligations outstanding or to be outstanding and the Property subject to any
Lien securing such Debt or lease obligation. Except as detailed otherwise in
Schedule 4.21, the Borrower has heretofore delivered to the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders a complete and correct copy of all such material credit
agreements, indentures, purchase agreements, contracts, letters of credit,
guarantees, joint venture agreements, or other instruments listed therein,
including any modifications or supplements thereto, as in effect as of the
Closing Date and requested by the Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE V
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
     So long as any Note or any amount under any Loan Document shall remain
unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding or any Letter of Credit
Exposure shall exist, or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the
Borrower agrees, unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing,
to comply with the following covenants:
     Section 5.01 Compliance with Laws, Etc. The Borrower shall comply, and
cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, in all respects with all Legal
Requirements, except in such instances in which (a) such Legal Requirement is
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or
(b) failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change. Without limitation of the foregoing, the Borrower shall, and
shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) maintain and possess all
authorizations, Permits, licenses, trademarks, trade names, rights and
copyrights which are necessary to the conduct of its business, except to the
extent failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change, and (b) obtain, as soon as practicable, all consents or
approvals required from the United States or any states of the United States (or
other Governmental Authorities) necessary to grant the Administrative Agent an
Acceptable Security Interest in the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ Borrowing
Base Properties to the extent required under Section 5.08.
     Section 5.02 Maintenance of Insurance.
     (a) The Borrower shall, on behalf of itself and each of its Subsidiaries,
procure and maintain or shall cause to be procured and maintained continuously
in effect policies of insurance (after giving effect to any self-insurance
compatible with the following standard) in form and amounts and issued by
companies, associations or organizations reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent covering such casualties, risks, perils, liabilities and
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reasonably required by the Administrative Agent. In addition, the Borrower
shall, on behalf of itself and each of its Subsidiaries, comply with all
requirements regarding insurance contained in the Security Instruments.
     (b) Borrower shall furnish to Administrative Agent certified copies of
policies or certificates thereof, and endorsements and renewals thereof for all
such policies promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent. All Property
insurance policies shall have attached thereto a Lender’s loss payable
endorsement for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, as loss payee in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and all liability insurance
policies shall name the Administrative Agent as an additional insured. All
policies or certificates of insurance shall set forth the coverage, the limits
of liability, the name of the carrier, the policy number, and the period of
coverage. In addition, all policies with respect to Property insurance required
under the terms hereof shall contain an endorsement or agreement by the insurer
that any loss shall be payable in accordance with the terms of such policy
notwithstanding any act of negligence of the Borrower, or a Subsidiary or any
party holding under the Borrower or a Subsidiary which might otherwise result in
a forfeiture of the insurance and the further agreement of the insurer waiving
all rights of setoff, counterclaim or deductions against the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries. All such policies shall contain a provision that notwithstanding
any contrary agreements between the Borrower, its Subsidiaries, and the
applicable insurance company, such policies will not be canceled, allowed to
lapse without renewal, surrendered or amended (which provision shall include any
reduction in the scope or limits of coverage) without at least 30 days’ prior
written notice to the Administrative Agent. In the event that, notwithstanding
the “lender’s loss payable endorsement” requirement of this Section 5.02, the
proceeds of any insurance policy described above are paid to the Borrower or a
Subsidiary and any Obligations are outstanding, except as permitted under
Section 5.02(c) below, the Borrower shall deliver such proceeds to the
Administrative Agent immediately upon receipt.
     (c) To the extent that Administrative Agent is entitled to receive
insurance claim proceeds as loss payee, unless (i) there is deemed to be a total
loss and as such a particular piece of Collateral is not replaceable or
repairable or (ii) there exists an Event of Default, such insurance claim
proceeds shall first be applied to replace or repair the damaged or lost
Collateral and then the remaining proceeds, if any, shall be delivered to the
Administrative Agent.
     (d) In the event that any insurance proceeds are paid to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries in violation of clause (b) or clause (c) above, the
Borrower or such Subsidiary shall hold the proceeds in trust for the
Administrative Agent, segregate the proceeds from the other funds of the
Borrower or such Subsidiary, and promptly pay the proceeds to the Administrative
Agent with any necessary endorsement. Upon the request of the Administrative
Agent, each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent any additional assignments and other documents as may
be necessary or desirable to enable the Administrative Agent to directly collect
the proceeds as set forth herein.
     Section 5.03 Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. The Borrower shall
preserve and maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries (other than a
Non-Guarantor) to preserve and maintain, its corporate, partnership or limited
liability company, as applicable, existence (except as otherwise permitted
pursuant to Section 6.04), rights, franchises, and privileges in the
jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, as applicable, and qualify
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and cause each such Subsidiary to qualify and remain qualified, as a foreign
entity in each jurisdiction in which qualification is necessary or desirable in
view of its business and operations or the ownership of its Properties, and, in
each case, where failure to qualify or preserve and maintain its rights and
franchises could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 5.04 Payment of Taxes, Etc. The Borrower shall pay and discharge,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, before the same shall
become delinquent, (a) all taxes, assessments, and governmental charges or
levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits or Property that are
material in amount, prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto and
(b) all lawful claims that are material in amount which, if unpaid, might by law
become a Lien upon its Property; provided, however, that neither the Borrower
nor any such Subsidiary shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax,
assessment, charge, levy, or claim which is being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings, and with respect to which such reserves as may be
required by GAAP, if any, have been established.
     Section 5.05 Visitation Rights. At any reasonable time and from time to
time, upon reasonable notice, the Borrower shall, and shall cause its
Subsidiaries to, permit the Administrative Agent and any Lender or any of their
respective agents or representatives thereof, to (a) examine and make copies of
and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit and inspect at
their reasonable discretion the Properties of, the Borrower and any such
Subsidiary, and (b) discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower
and any such Subsidiary with any of their respective officers or directors.
     Section 5.06 Reporting Requirements. The Borrower shall furnish to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender:
     (a) Annual Financials. As soon as available and in any event not later than
90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries: (i) a copy of the annual audit report for such year for the
Borrower and such consolidated Subsidiaries, including therein the Borrower’s
and such consolidated Subsidiaries’ balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal
year and the Borrower’s and such consolidated Subsidiaries’ statement of income,
cash flows, and retained earnings, in each case certified by independent
certified public accountants of national standing reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, (ii) a certificate of such accounting firm reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent certifying that (A) the audit of the
business of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries was conducted by such
accounting firm in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and (B) balance sheet and related
statements of income, cash flow, and retained earnings were prepared in
accordance with GAAP, and (iii) a Compliance Certificate executed by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower;
     (b) Quarterly Financials. As soon as available and in any event not later
than 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each
fiscal year of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries: (i) the unaudited
balance sheet and the unaudited consolidated statement of income, cash flows,
and retained earnings of the Borrower and such consolidated Subsidiaries for
such fiscal period and for the period commencing at the end of the previous
fiscal year and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter, all in reasonable
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certified (subject to the absence of footnotes and to year-end audit
adjustments) by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as having been prepared in
accordance with GAAP; and (ii) a Compliance Certificate executed by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower;
     (c) Oil and Gas Engineering Reports.
          (i) At the times required by Section 2.02(b), an Independent
Engineering Report;
          (ii) As At the times required by Section 2.02(b), an Internal
Engineering Report;
          (iii) Such other information as may be reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent with respect to the Borrowing Base Properties included or
to be included in the Borrowing Base;
          (iv) With the delivery of each Engineering Report, a certificate from
a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that, to the best of his
knowledge and in all material respects: (a) the information contained in the
Engineering Report and any other information delivered in connection therewith
is true and correct, (b) the Borrower or the Guarantor, as applicable, owns good
and defensible title to the Borrowing Base Properties evaluated in such
Engineering Report as is customary in the oil and gas industry in all material
respects, and such Properties are subject to an Acceptable Security Interest to
the extent required herein and are free of all Liens except for Permitted Liens,
(c) none of its Borrowing Base Properties listed in the immediately preceding
Engineering Report as having proved reserves have been sold since the date of
the last Borrowing Base determination except as set forth on an exhibit to the
certificate, which certificate shall list all of such Borrowing Base Properties
sold and in such detail as reasonably required by the Administrative Agent, and
(d) attached to the certificate is a list of Persons disbursing at least 80% of
proceeds to the Borrower or to a Guarantor, as applicable, from its Borrowing
Base Properties;
     (d) Production Reports. Within 30 days of receipt of a written request by
the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, a report setting forth the production
revenue and expenses for the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the
Guarantors evaluated in the most recent Engineering Report, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, together with a
certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as to the accuracy
of such information in all material respects;
     (e) Defaults. Promptly and in any event within five days after the
occurrence of any Default, a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower
setting forth the details of such Default and the actions which the Borrower has
taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
     (f) Termination Events. Promptly and in any event (i) within 30 days after
(A) the Borrower knows or has reason to know that any Termination Event
described in clause (a) of the definition of Termination Event with respect to
any Plan has occurred, or (B) the Borrower acquires knowledge that any member of
the Controlled Group knows that any Termination Event described in clause (a) of
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occurred, and (ii) within 10 days after (A) the Borrower knows or has reason to
know that any other Termination Event with respect to any Plan has occurred, or
(B) the Borrower acquires knowledge that any of its Affiliates knows that any
other Termination Event with respect to any Plan has occurred, a statement of a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower describing such Termination Event and the
action, if any, which the Borrower or such Affiliate proposes to take with
respect thereto;
     (g) Termination of Plans. Promptly and in any event within two Business
Days after (i) receipt thereof by the Borrower from the PBGC, or (ii) the
Borrower acquires knowledge of any Controlled Group member’s receipt thereof
from the PBGC, copies of each notice received by the Borrower or any such member
of the Controlled Group of the PBGC’s intention to terminate any Plan or to have
a trustee appointed to administer any Plan;
     (h) Other ERISA Notices. Promptly and in any event within five Business
Days after (i) receipt thereof by the Borrower from a Multiemployer Plan
sponsor, or (ii) the Borrower acquires knowledge of any Controlled Group
member’s receipt thereof from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor, a copy of each
notice received by the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group concerning
the imposition or amount of withdrawal liability pursuant to Section 4202 of
ERISA;
     (i) Environmental Notices. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, a copy of any form of request, notice,
summons or citation received from the Environmental Protection Agency, or any
other Governmental Authority, concerning (i) violations or alleged violations of
Environmental Laws, which seeks to impose liability therefor and could
reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change, (ii) any action or
omission on the part of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their former
Subsidiaries in connection with Hazardous Waste or Hazardous Substances which
could reasonably result in the imposition of liability therefor that could
reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change, including any
information request related to, or notice of, potential responsibility under
CERCLA, or (iii) concerning the filing of a Lien upon, against or in connection
with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or their former Subsidiaries, or any of
their leased or owned Property, wherever located;
     (j) Other Governmental Notices. Promptly and in any event within five
Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, a copy of
any notice, summons, citation, or proceeding seeking to modify in any respect,
revoke, or suspend any contract, license, permit or agreement with any
Governmental Authority, if such modification, revocation or suspension could
reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change;
     (k) Material Changes. Prompt written notice of any condition or event of
which the Borrower has knowledge, which condition or event has resulted or may
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change;
     (l) Disputes, Etc. Prompt written notice of (i) any claims, legal or
arbitration proceedings, proceedings before any Governmental Authority, or
disputes, or to the knowledge of the Borrower threatened, or affecting the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which, if adversely determined, could
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material labor controversy of which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has
knowledge resulting in or reasonably considered to be likely to result in a
strike against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) any claim,
judgment, Lien or other encumbrance (other than a Permitted Lien) affecting any
Borrowing Base Property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary if the value of the
claim, judgment, Lien, or other encumbrance affecting such Property not
otherwise adequately covered by insurance shall exceed $1,000,000;
     (m) Other Accounting Reports. Promptly upon receipt thereof, a copy of each
other material report or letter submitted to the Borrower or any Subsidiary by
independent accountants in connection with any annual, interim or special audit
made by them of the books of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and a copy of
any response by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or the board of
managers or directors (or other applicable governing body) of the Borrower or
any Subsidiary of the Borrower, to such letter or report;
     (n) Notices Under Other Loan Agreements. Promptly after the furnishing
thereof, copies of any default statement or notice of default furnished to any
Person pursuant to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or other similar
agreement governing Debt, other than this Agreement and not otherwise required
to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to any other provision of this
Section 5.06;
     (o) Other Quarterly Reports. Upon the request of the Administrative Agent,
as soon as available and in any event not later than 45 days after the date of
such request; (i) an accounts receivable aging report in a form reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (ii) an accounts payable report in
a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as of the last
Business Day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter;
     (p) Sales and Leasebacks. Prompt written notice of the consummation by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any transaction of the type described in
Section 6.09;
     (q) Hedge Contracts. As soon as available and in any event within 45 days
after the end of each calendar quarter, a report, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, setting forth as of the last Business
Day of such calendar quarter a true and complete list of all Hedge Contracts
(including commodity price swap agreements, forward agreements with terms in
excess of thirty days or contracts of sale which provide for prepayment for
deferred shipment or delivery of oil, gas or other commodities) of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries, the material terms thereof (including the type, term,
effective date, termination date and notional amounts or volumes), the net mark
to market value therefor, any new credit support agreements relating thereto not
listed on Schedule 4.20, any margin required or supplied under any credit
support document, and the counter party to each such agreement;
     (r) Other Information. Such other information respecting the business or
Properties, or the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as any Lender through the Administrative
Agent may from time to time reasonably request.; the Administrative Agent agrees
to provide the Lenders with copies of any material notices and information
delivered solely to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of this
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     Section 5.07 Maintenance of Property. Subject to Section 6.04, the Borrower
shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain their owned,
leased, or operated Property in good condition and repair in accordance with
customary industry standards, ordinary wear and tear excepted; and shall
abstain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to abstain from, knowingly or
willfully permitting the commission of waste or other injury, destruction, or
loss of natural resources, or the occurrence of pollution, contamination, or any
other condition in, on or about the owned or operated Property involving the
Environment that could reasonably be expected to result in Response activities
and that could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 5.08 Agreement to Pledge. The Borrower shall, and shall cause each
Subsidiary (other than (a) the Entrada Entities, unless CIECO Debt Termination
has occurred, and (b) any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) to, grant to the
Administrative Agent an Acceptable Security Interest in any Property of the
Borrower or such Subsidiary now owned or hereafter acquired, including Borrowing
Base Properties and Proven Reserves attributable thereto, promptly after receipt
of a written request from the Administrative Agent; provided that, so long as no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower
and such Subsidiaries shall not be required to grant an Acceptable Security
Interest in any Borrowing Base Properties that constitute more than 90% (by
value) of Borrowing Base Properties and Proven Reserves attributable thereto
(but in no event shall the Administrative Agent have an Acceptable Security
Interest in less than 90% (by value) of all such Borrowing Base Properties and
Proven Reserves attributable thereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to grant an
Acceptable Security Interest in (y) its ownership interest in and to Medusa
Spar, LLC or (z) its ownership in and to (i) the Entrada Assets or (ii) any
equity interests of any Entrada Entity (for so long as such Entrada Entity does
not own any material or significant asset other than Entrada Assets), unless the
Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent, in writing, that it has elected
to include such Entrada Assets or any other assets owned by such Entrada Entity
as a portion of the Borrowing Base or, with respect to any equity interest
described in clause (ii), CIECO Debt Termination has occurred. In addition to
the foregoing and within thirty (30) days of the Closing Date, the Borrower
shall, and/or shall cause each Subsidiary to, grant to the Administrative Agent
an Acceptable Security Interest in its interests in (i) the ExL Properties in
Permian Basin (Texas) and (ii) the Haynesville Shale (Louisiana), to the extent
necessary such that Administrative Agent shall have an Acceptable Security
Interest in and to not less than 90%, in the aggregate, of the present value of
all Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors and Proven
Reserves attributable thereto, including such properties described in the
immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii).
     Section 5.09 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the
Advances and Letters of Credit (a) to finance the acquisition, exploration,
development, maintenance and production of Oil and Gas Properties, (b) to
repurchase, redeem or repay the 2010 Senior Notes, the 2016 Senior Notes or
Subordinated Debt to the extent otherwise permitted under this Agreement, and
(c) for other working capital and general corporate purposes.
     Section 5.10 Title Evidence. The Borrower shall from time to time upon the
reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, take such actions and execute
and deliver such documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent shall
require to ensure that the Administrative Agent shall, at all times, have
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supplemental or new title opinions addressed to it) covering at least 80% of the
present value of the Proven Reserves attributable to Borrowing Base Properties
as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, which evidence of title
shall be in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its
sole discretion and shall include opinions regarding the before payout and after
payout ownership interests held by the Borrower and the Guarantors, for all
wells located on the Borrowing Base Properties covered thereby as to the
ownership of Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors, and
reflecting that the Administrative Agent has an Acceptable Security Interest (to
the extent required under Section 5.08) in such Borrowing Base Properties of the
Borrower and the Guarantors. In addition to the foregoing and also within thirty
(30) days of the Closing Date, the Borrower shall take such actions and execute
and deliver such documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent shall
require to ensure that the Administrative Agent shall, at all times, have
received satisfactory title evidence, which evidence of title shall be in form
and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion and
shall include opinions regarding the before payout and after payout ownership
interests held by the Borrower, for such wells located on (i) the ExL Properties
in Permian Basin (Texas) and (ii) the Haynesville Shale (Louisiana), as to the
ownership of such Properties by the Borrower, and reflecting that the
Administrative Agent has an Acceptable Security Interest in such Properties of
the Borrower, to the extent necessary such that Administrative Agent shall have
received satisfactory evidence of title covering not less than 80%, in the
aggregate, of the present value of such Borrowing Base Properties, including
such properties described in the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii).
     Section 5.11 Further Assurances; Cure of Title Defects. The Borrower shall,
and shall cause each Subsidiary to, cure promptly any defects in the creation
and issuance of the Notes and the execution and delivery of the Security
Instruments and this Agreement. The Borrower hereby authorizes the Lenders or
the Administrative Agent to file any financing statements without the signature
of the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law in order to perfect or
maintain the perfection of any security interest granted under any of the Loan
Documents. The Borrower at its expense will, and will cause each Subsidiary to,
promptly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent upon request all such
other documents, agreements and instruments to comply with or accomplish the
covenants and agreements of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, as the case may be,
in the Security Instruments and this Agreement, or to further evidence and more
fully describe the collateral intended as security for the Notes, or to correct
any omissions in the Security Instruments, or to state more fully the security
obligations set out herein or in any of the Security Instruments, or to perfect,
protect or preserve any Liens created pursuant to any of the Security
Instruments, or to make any recordings, to file any notices or obtain any
consents, all as may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith or to
enable the Administrative Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies
with respect to any Collateral. Within 30 days after (a) a request by the
Administrative Agent to cure any title defects or exceptions which are not
Permitted Liens raised by such information or (b) a notice by the Administrative
Agent that the Borrower has failed to comply with Section 5.10, the Borrower
shall (i) cure such title defects or exceptions which are not Permitted Liens or
substitute acceptable Borrowing Base Properties with no title defects or
exceptions except for Permitted Liens covering Collateral of an equivalent value
and (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent satisfactory title evidence
(including supplemental or new title opinions meeting the foregoing
requirements) in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent in
its reasonable business judgment as to the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’
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Borrowing Base Properties and the Administrative Agent’s Liens and security
interests therein as are required to maintain compliance with Section 5.10. In
addition, the Borrower shall cause the Administrative Agent to, at all times,
have an Acceptable Security Interest in at least 90% (by value) of all of the
Borrowing Base Properties and Proven Reserves attributable thereto.
     Section 5.12 Hedging Agreements. The Borrower shall, and shall cause each
Subsidiary to, maintain in effect all Hedge Contracts existing on the Closing
Date, unless such existing Hedge Contracts are replaced with Hedge Contracts
with terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
     Section 5.13 Positive Net Worth. As of January 1, 2010, the financial
statements of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (calculated for the
purposes of this Section 5.13 by deconsolidating the Entrada Entities from
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date, regardless of
whether or not GAAP would require or permit such deconsolidation or that such
financial statements otherwise do not comply with Section 1.03), shall reflect a
positive net worth (greater than zero (-$0.00-).
     Section 5.14 Cash Reserves for Payment of 2010 Senior Notes. The Borrower
shall maintain minimum cash reserves sufficient to satisfy all amounts to become
due under the 2010 Senior Notes at maturity. Such cash reserves shall be
maintained in a separate interest bearing deposit account at Regions.
ARTICLE VI
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
     So long as any Note or any amount under any Loan Document shall remain
unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding or any Letter of Credit
Exposure shall exist, or any Lender shall have any Commitment, the Borrower
agrees, unless the Required Lenders otherwise consent in writing, to comply with
the following covenants.
     Section 6.01 Liens, Etc. The Borrower shall not create, assume, incur, or
suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, assume, incur, or
suffer to exist, any Lien on or in respect of any of its Property whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, or assign any right to receive income, except that
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may create, incur, assume, or suffer to exist:
     (a) Liens securing the Obligations;
     (b) purchase money Liens or purchase money security interests upon or in
any equipment acquired or held by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of business created prior to or at the time of the Borrower’s or
such Subsidiary’s acquisition of such equipment; provided that such Liens secure
Debt that (i) was incurred solely for the purpose of financing or refinancing
the acquisition of such equipment, and does not exceed the aggregate purchase
price of such equipment, (ii) is secured only by such equipment and not by any
other Properties of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and (iii) is not increased
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     (c) Liens securing Capital Leases; provided such Liens secure Debt that
(i) is secured only by the Property leased under such Capital Leases and not any
other Properties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) is not
increased in amount;
     (d) Liens for taxes, assessments, or other governmental charges or levies
not yet due or that (provided foreclosure, sale, or other similar proceedings
shall not have been initiated) are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, and such reserve as may be required by GAAP shall have been made
therefor;
     (e) Liens in favor of vendors, carriers, warehousemen, landlords,
repairmen, mechanics, workmen, materialmen, construction, or similar Liens
arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business in respect of
obligations that are not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings, provided that such reserve as may be required by GAAP
shall have been made therefor;
     (f) Liens to operators and non-operators under joint operating agreements
arising in the ordinary course of the business of the Borrower or the relevant
Subsidiary to secure amounts owing, which amounts are not yet due or are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, provided that such reserve
as may be required by GAAP shall have been made therefor;
     (g) royalties, overriding royalties, net profits interests, production
payments, reversionary interests, calls on production, preferential purchase
rights and other burdens on or deductions from the proceeds of production, that
do not secure Debt for borrowed money and that are taken into account in
computing the net revenue interests and working interests of the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries warranted in the Security Instruments;
     (h) Liens arising in the ordinary course of business out of pledges or
deposits under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age
pensions or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation
or to secure public or statutory obligations of the Borrower;
     (i) Liens arising under Leases, operating agreements, unitization and
pooling agreements and orders, farmout agreements, gas balancing agreements and
other agreements, in each case that are customary in the oil, gas and mineral
production business and that are entered into in the ordinary course of business
that are taken into account in computing the net revenue interests and working
interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries warranted in the Security
Instruments, to the extent that any such Lien referred to in this clause does
not materially impair the use of the Property covered by such Lien for the
purposes for which such Property is held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or
materially impair the value of such Property subject thereto;
     (j) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, and other similar encumbrances,
and minor defects in the chain of title that are customarily accepted in the oil
and gas financing industry, none of which interfere with the ordinary conduct of
the business of Borrower or any Subsidiary or materially detract from the value
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     (k) deposits of cash or securities to secure the performance of bids, trade
contracts, leases, statutory obligations and other obligations of a like nature
incurred in the ordinary course of business;
     (l) Liens on cash or securities of the Borrower or any Subsidiary securing
the Debt described in Section 6.02(h); provided, however, that the aggregate
amount of cash or securities which may secure such Debt shall not exceed
$5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time;
     (m) Liens securing the CIECO Debt and refinancings, refundings, renewals
and extensions thereof permitted by Section 6.02(i); provided that such Liens
encumber only the Entrada Assets and the Equity Interests of the Entrada
Entities and not any other Properties of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries.
     (n) Liens described in Schedule 6.01;
     (o) Liens securing the 2016 Senior Notes to the extent that such Liens are
subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement; and
     (p) other Liens securing Debt permitted under Section 6.02 in an aggregate
principal amount outstanding not to exceed $3,000,000 at any time.
     Section 6.02 Debts, Guaranties, and Other Obligations. The Borrower shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, assume, suffer to
exist, or in any manner become or be liable in respect of, any Debt except:
     (a) Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under the Loan Documents;
     (b) Debt listed on Schedule 4.05(a) and any refinancings, refundings,
renewals and extensions thereof; provided that the amount of such Debt may not
be increased except by an amount equal to the premium paid, if any, and fees and
expenses incurred in connection with such refinancing, refunding, renewal or
extension;
     (c) Debt secured by the Liens permitted under paragraph (b) or (c) of
Section 6.01 and any obligations that are Debt permitted under Section 6.09, in
an aggregate principal amount outstanding not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time;
     (d) Debt in the form of obligations for the deferred purchase price of
Property or services incurred in the ordinary course of business which are not
yet due and payable or are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been
established;
     (e) Subordinated Debt; provided that (i) the unpaid principal amount of
such Subordinated Debt plus the unpaid principal amount of the Debt described in
subsection (f) below does not exceed $160,000,000 in the aggregate outstanding
at any one time, and (ii) such Subordinated Debt (A) does not have a maturity
date that is on or earlier than September 25, 2012, and (B) does not have any
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principal payments, or mandatory redemption obligations that are due on or prior
to September 25, 2012;
     (f) The 2010 Senior Notes, the 2016 Senior Notes and any refinancings,
renewals or extensions (but not increases except increases to cover premium
paid, if any, and fees and expenses incurred in connection with such
refinancing, renewal or extension and increases as provided in Section 6.02(e))
of such Debt, provided that any such refinancing (i) does not have a maturity
date that is on or earlier than September 25, 2012, (ii) does not have any
sinking fund payments, scheduled principal payments, or mandatory redemption
obligations that are due on or prior to September 25, 2012, (iii) does not
impose representations, warranties, covenants, conditions, mandatory
prepayments, events of default, remedies or other provisions similar to the
foregoing that are materially more restrictive or burdensome as a whole than the
terms and provisions of, as applicable, the 2010 Senior Notes or the 2016 Senior
Notes as in effect on the Closing Date, (iv) does not impose any representation,
warranty, covenant, condition, mandatory prepayment, event of default, remedy or
other provision similar to the foregoing that is more restrictive or burdensome
than the terms and provisions of this Agreement, and (v) does not impose a rate
of interest on such 2010 Senior Notes that exceeds a rate equal to the interest
rate in effect on the Closing Date plus 4% per annum or a rate of interest on
such 2016 Senior Notes that exceeds the rate equal to the interest rate in
effect on the Closing Date plus 2.0% per annum;
     (g) Debt consisting of sureties or bonds provided to any Governmental
Authority or other Person and assuring payment of contingent liabilities of the
Borrower in connection with the operation of the Oil and Gas Properties,
including with respect to plugging, facility removal and abandonment of its Oil
and Gas Properties;
     (h) Debt under Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreements or Interest Hedge Agreements
which are not prohibited by the terms of Section 6.14;
     (i) The CIECO Debt in an aggregate unpaid principal amount not to exceed
$175,000,000 at any time and any refinancings, renewals or extensions thereof
(but not increases except increases to cover premium paid, if any, and fees and
expenses incurred in connection with such refinancing, renewal or extension);
provided that any such refinancing does not (A) impose representations,
warranties, covenants, conditions, mandatory prepayments, events of default,
remedies or other provisions similar to the foregoing that are materially more
restrictive or burdensome as a whole than the terms and provisions of the CIECO
Loan Documents as in effect on the Closing Date (after giving effect to any
amendments thereto permitted under Section 6.18), (B) impose any representation,
warranty, covenant, condition, mandatory prepayment, event of default, remedy or
other provision similar to the foregoing that is more restrictive or burdensome
than the terms and provisions of this Agreement, (C) allow greater recourse to
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities) or
their respective assets (other than the Entrada Assets) than that arising under
the CIECO Loan Documents, or (D) cause the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
(other than the Entrada Entities) to have any greater liability, whether direct
or indirect, contingent or otherwise, in respect of such Debt than that arising
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     (j) Debt not otherwise permitted under this Section 6.02, provided that (i)
such Debt is not secured by any Lien on Property of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries and (ii) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Debt shall
not exceed $5,000,000 at any time.
     Section 6.03 Agreements Restricting Liens and Distributions. Except for
provisions in (a) the 2010 Senior Notes Indenture (and in any indenture or other
agreement governing any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension permitted
herein of the Debt evidenced by the 2010 Senior Notes Indenture; provided that
such provisions are not materially more restrictive than those in this Agreement
or the 2010 Senior Notes Indenture as in effect on the Closing Date), (b) the
2016 Senior Notes Indenture (and in any indenture or other agreement governing
any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension permitted herein of the Debt
evidenced by the 2016 Senior Notes Indenture; provided that such provisions are
not materially more restrictive than those in this Agreement or the 2016 Senior
Notes Indenture as in effect on the Closing Date), and (c) the CIECO Credit
Agreement (and in any credit agreement or other agreement governing any
refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension permitted herein of the Debt
evidenced by the CIECO Credit Agreement; provided that such provisions are not
materially more restrictive than those in this Agreement or the CIECO Credit
Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date), the Borrower shall not, nor shall
it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist
any contract, agreement or understanding (other than this Agreement and the
Security Instruments) which in any way prohibits or restricts the granting,
conveying, creation or imposition of any Lien on any of its Property, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure the Obligations or restricts any
Subsidiary from paying dividends or otherwise transferring Property to the
Borrower, or which requires the consent of or notice to other Persons in
connection therewith; provided, however, that this Section shall not prohibit
any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of secured Debt
permitted by Section 6.02(c) of this Agreement to the extent any such negative
pledge relates solely to the property financed by such Debt.
     Section 6.04 Merger or Consolidation; Asset Sales. The Borrower shall not,
nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to (a) merge or consolidate with or
into any other Person other than (i) the merger of a Guarantor with and into the
Borrower or another Guarantor, (ii) the merger of an Entrada Entity with and
into another Entrada Entity, or (iii) the merger of any other Person (other than
any Entrada Entity, unless CIECO Debt Termination has occurred) with and into
the Borrower or any Guarantor so long as the Borrower or such Guarantor is the
surviving entity and the investment to be made by the Borrower or any Guarantor
related to such merger would be permitted under the terms hereof; or (b) sell,
lease, transfer, assign, farm-out, convey, or otherwise dispose of any of its
Property (including any working interest, overriding royalty interest,
production payments, net profits interest, royalty interest, or mineral fee
interest) other than: (i) the sale of Hydrocarbons in the ordinary course of
business,(ii) the sale or transfer of equipment that is (A) obsolete, worn out,
depleted or uneconomic and disposed of in the ordinary course of business,
(B) no longer necessary for the business of such Person or (C) contemporaneously
replaced by equipment of at least comparable use, (iii) any sale, lease,
transfer, assignment, farm-out, conveyance or disposition of any interest in Oil
and Gas Properties to which no Proven Reserves have been attributed in the most
recent Engineering Report delivered pursuant to this Agreement; provided that
such sale, lease, transfer, assignment, farm-out, conveyance or disposition is
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and (iv) other sales, leases, transfers, assignments, farm-outs, conveyances or
dispositions of Property made in arm’s-length transactions and for fair market
value; provided that the aggregate amount of the proceeds of such transaction
described in this clause (iv), taken together with all other such transactions
under this clause (iv) during any fiscal year, may not exceed 15% of the
Borrowing Base in effect at the time such transaction is effected.
     Section 6.05 Restricted Payments. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Restricted Payments except that if
no Default exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower may (i) pay cash
dividends on equity securities issued to refinance Subordinated Debt or issued
to refinance the 2010 Senior Notes or the 2016 Senior Notes on terms acceptable
to the Lenders in their reasonable discretion, (ii) make redemptions on
preferred stock with the proceeds of or in connection with a contemporaneous
issuance of equity securities; provided that, as to mandatorily redeemable
preferred stock, such preferred stock was permitted by the terms hereof,
(iii) pay stock dividends only in common stock of the Borrower, (iv) pay stock
dividends on preferred stock in the form of preferred stock of the Borrower so
long as such preferred stock is otherwise permitted by the terms hereof, and
(v) make scheduled payments on Subordinated Debt permitted under Section 6.02.
     Section 6.06 Investments. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
of its Subsidiaries to, make or permit to exist any loans, advances, or capital
contributions to, or make any investment in (including the making of any
Acquisition), or purchase or commit to purchase any stock or other securities or
evidences of indebtedness of or equity interests in (collectively,
“Investments”) any Person, except:
     (a) Investments existing on the Closing Date set forth in Schedule 6.06;
     (b) Liquid Investments;
     (c) trade and customer accounts receivable which are for goods furnished or
services rendered in the ordinary course of business and are payable in
accordance with customary trade terms;
     (d) the creation or acquisition of any additional Subsidiaries in
compliance with Section 6.15; provided that immediately before and after giving
effect to the creation or acquisition of such additional Subsidiary, no Default
shall exist and be continuing;
     (e) guaranties permitted by Section 6.02;
     (f) investments in direct ownership interests in additional Oil and Gas
Properties and gas gathering systems related thereto, and investments, loans or
advances in connection with or related to farm out agreements, farm in
agreements, joint operating agreements, joint venture or area of mutual interest
agreements, processing facilities, seismic acquisition and evaluation, pipelines
or other similar or customary arrangements made in the ordinary course of
business only insofar as they do not (i) reduce the net revenue interest of the
Borrower or any Guarantor in any Borrowing Base Property for which value was
given in the most recent Borrowing Base redetermination below the undivided net
revenue interest specified for the Borrower or such Guarantor in the most recent
Engineering Report utilized by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in
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working interest in any such Borrowing Base Property without a corresponding
increase in the net revenue interest specified for the Borrower or such
Guarantor in the most recent Engineering Report utilized by the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders in determining the then effective Borrowing Base;
     (g) Investments in any Entrada Entity in an aggregate amount not to exceed
(i) the contribution of the Entrada Assets to Callon Entrada Company made prior
to the Closing Date as contemplated by the CIECO Loan Documents as in effect on
the Closing Date without giving effect to any amendments, supplements or other
modifications, plus (ii) $77,500,000 (regardless of whether such Investments are
made before or after the Closing Date and determined after giving effect to any
return of such Investments);
     (h) investments, loans or advances made by the Borrower in or to the
Guarantors or by any Guarantor in or to Borrower or another Guarantor;
     (i) loans or advances to employees of the Borrower and the Guarantors in
the ordinary course of business in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000
at any time; and
     (j) other investments, loans or advances in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $5,000,000 at any time.
     Section 6.07 Affiliate Transactions. Except for transactions between (a) a
Guarantor and another Guarantor or the Borrower, (b) a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary
with another Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, and (c) an Entrada Entity with another
Entrada Entity, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any
transaction or series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, lease or
exchange of Property, the making of any investment, the giving of any guaranty,
the assumption of any obligation or the rendering of any service) with any of
their Affiliates unless such transaction or series of transactions is on terms
no less favorable to the Borrower or the Subsidiary, as applicable, than those
that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person
that is not such an Affiliate.
     Section 6.08 Compliance with ERISA. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (a) engage in, or
permit any Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate to engage in, any transaction which
could reasonably be expect to result in the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any
ERISA Affiliate being subjected to either a civil penalty assessed pursuant to
section 502(c), (i) or (l) of ERISA or a tax imposed by Chapter 43 of Subtitle D
of the Code; (b) terminate, or permit any Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate to
terminate, any Plan in a manner, or take any other action with respect to any
Plan, which could result in any liability to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any
ERISA Affiliate to the PBGC; (c) fail to make, or permit any Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate to fail to make, full payment when due of all amounts which, under the
provisions of any Plan, agreement relating thereto or applicable law, the
Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is required to pay as
contributions thereto; (d) permit to exist, or allow any Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate to permit to exist, any accumulated funding deficiency within the
meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or section 412 of the Code, whether or not
waived, with respect to any Plan; (e) permit, or allow any Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate to permit, the actuarial present value of the benefit liabilities (as
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of the benefit liabilities” shall have the meaning specified in section 4041 of
ERISA) under any Plan maintained by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA
Affiliate which is regulated under Title IV of ERISA to exceed the current value
of the assets (computed on a plan termination basis in accordance with Title IV
of ERISA) of such Plan allocable to such benefit liabilities; (f) contribute to
or assume an obligation to contribute to, or permit any Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate to contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, any
Multiemployer Plan; (g) acquire, or permit any Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate to
acquire, an interest in any Person that causes such Person to become an ERISA
Affiliate with respect to the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate if
such Person sponsors, maintains or contributes to, or at any time in the
six-year period preceding such acquisition has sponsored, maintained, or
contributed to, (1) any Multiemployer Plan, or (2) any other Plan that is
subject to Title IV of ERISA under which the actuarial present value of the
benefit liabilities under such Plan exceeds the current value of the assets
(computed on a plan termination basis in accordance with Title IV of ERISA) of
such Plan allocable to such benefit liabilities; (h) incur, or permit any
Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate to incur, a liability to or on account of a Plan
under section 515, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4201 or 4204 of ERISA; (i) contribute to or
assume an obligation to contribute to, or permit any Subsidiary or ERISA
Affiliate to contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, any
employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in section 3(1) of ERISA, including
any such plan maintained to provide benefits to former employees of such
entities, that may not be terminated by such entities in their sole discretion
at any time without any material liability; (j) amend or permit any Subsidiary
or ERISA Affiliate to amend, a Plan resulting in an increase in current
liability such that the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is
required to provide security to such Plan under section 401(a)(29) of the Code;
or (k) permit to exist any occurrence of any Reportable Event (as defined in
Title IV of ERISA), or any other event or condition, which presents a material
(in the opinion of the Required Lenders) risk of such a termination by the PBGC
of any Plan.
     Section 6.09 Sale-and-Leaseback. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell or transfer to a Person any Property
having a value, in the aggregate at any time outstanding, in excess of
$7,500,000, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, if at the time or
thereafter the Borrower or a Subsidiary shall lease as lessee such Property or
any part thereof or other Property which the Borrower or a Subsidiary intends to
use for substantially the same purpose as the Property sold or transferred.
     Section 6.10 Change of Business. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any material change in the character of
its business as an independent oil and gas exploration and production company,
nor will the Borrower or any Subsidiary operate or carry on business in any
jurisdiction other than the United States.
     Section 6.11 Organizational Documents, Name Change. The Borrower shall not,
nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend its name or change its
jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation without prior written
notice to the Administrative Agent.
     Section 6.12 Use of Proceeds; Letters of Credit. The Borrower will not
permit the proceeds of any Advance or Letters of Credit to be used for any
purpose other than those permitted by Section 5.09. The Borrower will not engage
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the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of
Regulation U). Neither the Borrower nor any Person acting on behalf of the
Borrower has taken or shall take, nor permit any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries
to take any action which might cause any of the Loan Documents to violate
Regulation T, U or X or any other regulation of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System or to violate Section 7 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 or any rule or regulation thereunder, in each case as now in effect or as
the same may hereinafter be in effect, including the use of the proceeds of any
Advance or Letters of Credit to purchase or carry any margin stock in violation
of Regulation T, U or X.
     Section 6.13 Gas Imbalances, Take-or-Pay or Other Prepayments. The Borrower
shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, allow gas imbalances,
take-or-pay or other prepayments with respect to the Oil and Gas Properties of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary which would require the Borrower or any
Subsidiary to deliver their respective Hydrocarbons produced on a monthly basis
from such Oil and Gas Properties at some future time without then or thereafter
receiving full payment therefore, if such gas imbalances, take-or-pay or other
prepayments could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Change.
     Section 6.14 Limitation on Hedging. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) purchase, assume, or hold a speculative
position in any commodities market or futures market or enter into any Hedge
Contract for speculative purposes, or (b) be party to or otherwise enter into
any Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreement, Interest Hedge Agreement or any other Hedge
Contract which (i) is entered into for reasons other than as a part of its
normal business operations as a risk management strategy and/or hedge against
changes resulting from market conditions related to the Borrower’s operations,
(ii) with respect to Non-Entrada Hedge Contracts, covers notional volumes in
excess of 75% of the anticipated production volumes attributable to Proven
Reserves of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities)
which are categorized as “proved, developed and producing” during the period
such hedge arrangement is in effect, (iii) with respect to Entrada Hedge
Contracts, allows the applicable counterparty to have recourse to the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities) or their respective
assets (other than the Entrada Assets), or is otherwise guaranteed or supported
by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities),
(iv) covers fluctuations in interest rates for notional principal amounts in
excess of 85% of the Debt for borrowed money of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, (v) is longer than five (5) years in duration for any Interest
Hedge Agreement or twenty-four (24) months for any Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreement,
(vi) requires the Borrower or any Subsidiary to put up money, assets, or other
security (other than letters of credit or guaranties permitted by Section 6.02
and liens on cash and securities to the extent permitted under Section 6.01(l))
against the event of its nonperformance prior to actual default by the Borrower
or such Subsidiary in performing its obligations thereunder, or (vii) is with a
counterparty or has a guarantor of the obligation of the counterparty who
(unless such counterparty is a Lender or one of its Affiliates) at the time the
contract is made (x) is not Shell Energy North America, Inc. or BP Corporation
North America, Inc. or any of their respective Affiliates, (y) does not have
long-term obligations rated BBB- or Baa3 or better, respectively, by either
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or (z) is
not an investment grade-rated industry participant (or such counterparty’s
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     Section 6.15 Additional Subsidiaries. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities, unless CIECO
Debt Termination has occurred) to, create or acquire any additional Subsidiaries
without (a) prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders, (b) such new Subsidiary executing and delivering to the Administrative
Agent, at its request, a Guaranty, a Pledge Agreement, a Security Agreement and
a Mortgage, and such other Security Instruments as the Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders may reasonably request, (c) the equity holder of such
Subsidiary executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a Pledge
Agreement pledging 100% of the Equity Interest owned by such equity holder of
such Subsidiary along with the certificates pledged thereby, if any, and
appropriately executed stock powers in blank, if applicable, and (d) the
delivery by the Borrower and such Subsidiary of any certificates, opinions of
counsel, title opinions or other documents as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request relating to such Subsidiary.
     Section 6.16 Account Payables. The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit
any Guarantor to, allow any of its trade payables or other accounts payable to
be outstanding for more than 120 days past the invoice or billing date (except
in cases where any such trade payable is being disputed in good faith and
adequate reserves under GAAP have been established).
     Section 6.17 Subordinated Debt; 2010 Senior Notes and 2016 Senior Notes.
     (a) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary shall make any voluntary
prepayment in respect of any Subordinated Debt, nor will they make any other
payment thereon that is not allowed under the subordination provisions of any
Subordinated Debt.
     (b) The Borrower will not amend, supplement or otherwise modify the 2010
Senior Notes Indenture, the 2016 Senior Notes Indenture or any other instruments
evidencing, or agreements relating to or executed in connection with, as
applicable, the 2010 Senior Notes or the 2016 Senior Notes, in any manner which
would have the effect of (a) accelerating the timing or amount of any scheduled
payments of principal or interest thereon (unless such accelerated date is after
the Maturity Date), (b) increasing the rate of interest payable thereon by more
than 2% per annum or (c) resulting in a Material Adverse Change. For avoidance
of doubt, this Section 6.17 does not restrict the Borrower from prepaying or
repaying the 2010 Senior Notes or the 2016 Senior Notes at or prior to the
maturity thereof.
     Section 6.18 CIECO Loan Documents.
     (a) The Borrower shall not, and shall cause the Entrada Entities to not,
make any optional termination or reduction of the aggregate Commitment (as
defined in the CIECO Credit Agreement) other than in accordance with the terms
and conditions thereof.
     (b) The Borrower will not amend, supplement or otherwise modify any of the
CIECO Loan Documents without the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent and the Required Lenders if the effect of such amendment, supplement or
modification would (i) shorten the final maturity date of such Debt or any other
scheduled date for the payment of principal, interest or other sums payable in
respect of such Debt, (ii) increase the maximum principal amount of such Debt to
an amount that exceeds $175,000,000, (iii) impose rates of interest (other than
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the default rate as provided for in the CIECO Loan Documents), prepayment
charges, premiums, closing fees or other fees or other amounts that are
materially greater than the respective amounts thereof in effect on the Closing
Date, (iv) impose any representations, warranties, covenants, conditions,
mandatory prepayments, events of default, remedies or other provisions similar
to the foregoing that are materially more restrictive or burdensome as a whole
than the terms and provisions of the CIECO Loan Documents as in effect on the
Closing Date, (v) impose any representation, warranty, covenant, condition,
mandatory prepayment, event of default, remedy or other provision similar to the
foregoing that is more restrictive or burdensome than the terms and provisions
of this Agreement, (vi) allow CIECO to have greater recourse to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities) or their respective
assets (other than the Entrada Assets) than that arising under the CIECO Loan
Documents, or (vii) cause the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than
the Entrada Entities) to have any greater liability, whether direct or indirect,
contingent or otherwise, in respect of such Debt than that arising under the
CIECO Loan Documents.
     Section 6.19 Entrada Entities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein (including any provision of this Article VI) and except as
provided in the Entrada Service Agreement, Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities) to (i) create,
assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien on or in respect of any of its
Property for the benefit of any Entrada Entity, other than Liens securing the
Obligations, (ii) sell, assign, pledge, or otherwise transfer any of its
Properties to any Entrada Entity, except as permitted under Section 6.04 and on
terms permitted by Section 6.07, or (iii) except as permitted under
Section 6.06(g) and (j), make or permit to exist any loans, advances, or capital
contributions to, or make any investment in, or purchase or commit to purchase
any stock or other securities or evidences of indebtedness of or interests in,
any Entrada Entity or in any of its Properties, including without limitation the
Entrada Assets.
     Section 6.20 Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein (including any provision of this Article VI), Borrower
shall not, nor shall it permit any Guarantor to (i) create, assume, incur or
suffer to exist any Lien on or in respect of any of its Property for the benefit
of any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, (ii) sell, assign, pledge, or otherwise
transfer any of its Properties to any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, except as
permitted under Section 6.04 and on terms permitted by Section 6.07, or
(iii) except as permitted under Section 6.06(j), make or permit to exist any
loans, advances, or capital contributions to, or make any investment in, or
purchase or commit to purchase any stock or other securities or evidences of
indebtedness of or interests in, any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary or in any of its
Properties.
     Section 6.21 Current Ratio. The Borrower shall not permit, as of the end of
any fiscal quarter, the ratio of (a) its consolidated current assets to (b) its
consolidated current liabilities, to be less than 1.00 to 1.00. For purposes of
this calculation (i) “current assets” shall include, as of the date of
calculation, the aggregate Unused Commitment Amount but shall exclude, as of the
date of calculation (A) any cash deposited with or at the request of a
counterparty to any Hedge Contract, (B) any assets representing a valuation
account arising from the application of SFAS 133 and 143, and (C) the current
portion of any deferred tax assets, and (ii) “current liabilities” shall
exclude, as of the date of calculation, (A) the current portion of long-term
Debt permitted under this Agreement and current maturities of the 2010 Senior
Notes, the 2016 Senior Notes and the CIECO Debt, (B) any liabilities
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application of SFAS 133 and 143, and (C) the current portion of any tax deferred
obligations. For the purpose of the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2009, the
Current Ratio shall be calculated without reference to and shall exclude any
amounts attributable to the Entrada Entities.
     Section 6.22 Leverage Ratio. The Borrower shall not permit, as of the end
of any fiscal quarter, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending December 31,
2009, the ratio of (a) all Funded Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as
of such fiscal quarter end to (b) the consolidated EBITDAX of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries for the four-fiscal quarter period then ended, to be greater
than 4.00 to 1.00. Any calculation of the Leverage Ratio or any component
thereof which uses financial data for the fiscal quarter ending December 31,
2009 and any prior fiscal quarters shall be calculated without reference to and
shall exclude any amounts attributable to the Entrada Entities.
     Section 6.23 Interest Coverage Ratio. The Borrower shall not permit, as of
the end of any fiscal quarter, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending
December 31, 2009, the ratio of (a) the consolidated EBITDAX of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries for the four-fiscal quarter period then ended to (b) the
consolidated Interest Expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the
four-fiscal quarter period then ended, to be less than 2.50 to 1.00. Any
calculation of the Interest Coverage Ratio or any component thereof which uses
financial data for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2009 and any prior
fiscal quarters shall be calculated without reference to and shall exclude any
amounts attributable to the Entrada Entities that may otherwise be included in
such quarters.
ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
     Section 7.01 Events of Default. The occurrence of any of the following
events shall constitute an “Event of Default” under any Loan Document:
     (a) Payment. The Borrower (i) shall fail to pay when due any principal
under the Notes or (ii) shall fail to pay any interest, fees, reimbursements,
indemnifications, or other amounts due and payable hereunder, under the Notes,
or under any other Loan Document and such failure shall continue for a period of
three Business Days after the due date therefore;
     (b) Representation and Warranties. Any representation or warranty made or
deemed to be made (i) by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries (or any of their respective officers) in this Agreement or in any
other Loan Document, or (ii) by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries (or any of their respective officers) in connection with
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, shall prove to have been incorrect in
any material respect when made or deemed to be made;
     (c) Covenant Breaches. The Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries shall fail to (i) perform or observe any covenant
contained in Section 5.02(a), Section 5.06(e) or Article VI or (ii) fail to
perform or observe any other term or covenant set forth in this Agreement or in
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or any other provision of this Section 7.01, if such failure shall remain
unremedied for 30 days after the earlier to occur of (a) notice thereof to the
Borrower by the Administrative Agent or (b) the Borrower otherwise becoming
aware of such breach or failure;
     (d) Cross-Defaults. (i) The Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries shall fail to pay any principal of or premium or
interest on its Debt (other than the CIECO Debt) which is outstanding in a
principal amount of at least $500,000 individually or when aggregated with all
such Debt of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries
so in default (but excluding Debt evidenced by the Notes) when the same becomes
due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the
applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument
relating to such Debt; (ii) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist
under any agreement or instrument relating to Debt (including, without
limitation, any event of default or termination event under any Interest Rate
Agreement or Hydrocarbon Hedge Agreement but excluding any event of default
under the CIECO Loan Documents) which is outstanding in a principal amount (or
termination payment amount or similar amount) of at least $500,000 individually
or when aggregated with all such Debt of the Borrower, such Guarantor or such
Subsidiary so in default, and shall continue after the applicable grace period,
if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event
or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of
such Debt; or (iii) any Debt (other than the CIECO Debt) shall be declared to be
due and payable, or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled
required prepayment) prior to the stated maturity thereof; provided that for
purposes of this paragraph (d), the “principal amount” of the obligations in
respect of Hedging Contracts at any time shall be the aggregate amount (giving
effect to any netting agreements) that would be required to be paid if such
Hedging Contracts were terminated at such time;
     (e) Insolvency.
          (i) The Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries (other than any Entrada Entity) shall admit in writing its
inability to, or be generally unable to, pay its debts as such debts become due;
          (ii) The Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries (other than any Entrada Entity) shall (A) apply for or consent to
the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian,
trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property,
(B) make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (C) commence a
voluntary case under the Federal Bankruptcy Code (as now or hereafter in
effect), (D) file a petition seeking to take advantage of any other law relating
to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up, liquidation or
composition or readjustment of debts, (E) fail to controvert in a timely and
appropriate manner, or acquiesce in writing to, any petition filed against it in
an involuntary case under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, or (F) take any corporate
action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; or
          (iii) A proceeding or case shall be commenced, without the application
or consent of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries (other than any Entrada Entity), as applicable, in any court of
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(A) its liquidation, reorganization, dissolution or winding-up, or the
composition or readjustment of its debts, (B) the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of the Borrower, any Guarantor or
any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than any Entrada Entity) of all or
any substantial part of its respective assets, (C) similar relief in respect of
the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than
any Entrada Entity) under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, winding-up, or composition or adjustment of debts, and such
proceeding or case shall continue undismissed, or an order, judgment or decree
approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered and continue
unstayed and in effect, for a period of 60 days, or (D) an order for relief
against the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries
(other than any Entrada Entity) shall be entered in an involuntary case under
the Federal Bankruptcy Code;
     (f) Judgments. Any judgment or order for the payment of money in excess of
$500,000 shall be rendered against (i) the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of
their respective Subsidiaries (other than any Entrada Entity) and either
(A) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such
judgment or order or (B) there shall be any period of 30 consecutive days during
which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending
appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect, or (ii) any Entrada Entity and such
judgment or order allows any party recourse to the Borrower, any Guarantor or
any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Entrada Entities) or their
respective assets (other than the Entrada Assets) in order to satisfy such
judgment or to comply with such order;
     (g) Termination Events. Any Termination Event with respect to a Plan shall
have occurred, and, 30 days after notice thereof shall have been given to the
Borrower by the Administrative Agent, (i) such Termination Event shall not have
been corrected and (ii) the then present value of such Plan’s vested benefits
exceeds the then current value of assets accumulated in such Plan by more than
the amount of $5,000,000 (or in the case of a Termination Event involving the
withdrawal of a “substantial employer” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA), the withdrawing employer’s proportionate share of such excess shall
exceed such amount);
     (h) Plan Withdrawals. The Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group as
employer under a Multiemployer Plan shall have made a complete or partial
withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan and the plan sponsor of such
Multiemployer Plan shall have notified such withdrawing employer that such
employer has incurred a withdrawal liability in an annual amount exceeding
$5,000,000;
     (i) Change in Control. A Change in Control shall have occurred;
     (j) Borrowing Base. Any failure to cure any Borrowing Base deficiency in
accordance with Section 2.05;
     (k) Loan Documents. Any material provision of any Loan Document shall for
any reason cease to be valid and binding on the Borrower or a Guarantor or any
of their respective Subsidiaries or any such Person shall so state in writing;
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     (l) Security Instruments. (i) The Administrative Agent shall fail to have
an Acceptable Security Interest in any material portion of the Collateral as
determined by the Administrative Agent or (ii) any Security Instrument shall at
any time and for any reason cease to create the Lien on the Property purported
to be subject to such agreement in accordance with the terms of such agreement,
or cease to be in full force and effect, or shall be contested by the Borrower,
any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
     Section 7.02 Optional Acceleration of Maturity. If any Event of Default
(other than an Event of Default pursuant to paragraph (e) of Section 7.01) shall
have occurred and be continuing, then, and in any such event,
     (a) the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or may with the
consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the
obligation of each Lender and each Issuing Lender to make extensions of credit
hereunder, including making Advances and issuing, increasing or extending
Letters of Credit, to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith
terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the
Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare all principal, interest,
fees, reimbursements, indemnifications, and all other amounts payable under this
Agreement, the Notes, and the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and
payable, whereupon all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and
payable in full, without notice of intent to demand, demand, presentment for
payment, notice of nonpayment, protest, notice of protest, grace, notice of
dishonor, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration, and all other
notices, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
     (b) the Borrower shall, on demand of the Administrative Agent at the
request or with the consent of the Required Lenders, deposit with the
Administrative Agent into the Cash Collateral Account an amount of cash equal to
the Letter of Credit Exposure as security for the Obligations; and
     (c) the Administrative Agent shall at the request of, or may with the
consent of, the Required Lenders proceed to enforce its rights and remedies
under the Security Instruments, the Guaranties, and any other Loan Document for
the ratable benefit of itself, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders by
appropriate proceedings.
     Section 7.03 Automatic Acceleration of Maturity. If any Event of Default
pursuant to paragraph (e) of Section 7.01 shall occur,
     (a) (i) the obligation of each Lender and each Issuing Lender to make
extensions of credit hereunder, including making Advances and issuing,
increasing or extending Letters of Credit, shall terminate, and (ii) all
principal, interest, fees, reimbursements, indemnifications, and all other
amounts payable under this Agreement, the Notes, and the other Loan Documents
shall become and be forthwith due and payable in full, without notice of intent
to demand, demand, presentment for payment, notice of nonpayment, protest,
notice of protest, grace, notice of dishonor, notice of intent to accelerate,
notice of acceleration, and all other notices, all of which are hereby expressly
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     (b) the Borrower shall deposit with the Administrative Agent into the Cash
Collateral Account an amount of cash equal to the outstanding Letter of Credit
Exposure as security for the Obligations; and
     (c) the Administrative Agent shall at the request of, or may with the
consent of, the Required Lenders proceed to enforce its rights and remedies
under the Security Instruments, the Guaranties, and any other Loan Document for
the ratable benefit of itself, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders by
appropriate proceedings.
     Section 7.04 Right of Set-off. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent, each Issuing
Lender and each Lender is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all
deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time
held and other indebtedness at any time owing by the Administrative Agent, such
Issuing Lender or such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the
Borrower against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter
existing under this Agreement, the Notes held by the Administrative Agent, such
Issuing Lender or such Lender, and the other Loan Documents, irrespective of
whether or not the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Lender or such Lender
shall have made any demand under this Agreement, such Notes, or such other Loan
Documents, and although such obligations may be unmatured. The Administrative
Agent, each Issuing Lender and each Lender agrees to promptly notify the
Borrower after any such set-off and application made by the Administrative
Agent, such Issuing Lender or such Lender, provided that the failure to give
such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The
rights of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and each Lender under
this Section 7.04 are in addition to any other rights and remedies (including
other rights of set-off) that the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Lender or
such Lender may have.
     Section 7.05 Non-exclusivity of Remedies. No remedy conferred upon the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders is intended to be
exclusive of any other remedy, and each remedy shall be cumulative of all other
remedies existing by contract, at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.
     Section 7.06 Application of Proceeds. From and during the continuance of
any Event of Default, any monies or Property actually received by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the
exercise of any rights or remedies under any Security Instrument or any other
agreement with the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries which secures any of the Obligations, shall be applied in the
following order:
     (a) First, to the payment of all amounts, including costs and expenses
incurred in connection with the collection of such proceeds and the payment of
any part of the Obligations, due to the Administrative Agent under any of the
expense reimbursement or indemnity provisions of this Agreement or any other
Loan Document, any Security Instrument, or other collateral documents, and any
applicable law;
     (b) Second, ratably, according to the then unpaid amounts thereof, without
preference or priority of any kind among them, to the payment of the Obligations
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including Obligations with respect to Letters of Credit and any Obligations of
the Borrower or its Subsidiaries owing to any Swap Counterparty under any Hedge
Contract; and
     (c) Third, the remainder, if any, to the Borrower, its Subsidiaries, their
respective successors or assigns, or such other Person as may be lawfully
entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
ARTICLE VIII
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE ISSUING LENDERS
     Section 8.01 Authorization and Action. Each Lender hereby appoints and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf
and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the
Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and of the other Loan Documents,
together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any
matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or any other Loan Document
(including enforcement or collection of the Notes), the Administrative Agent
shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall
be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so
acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Lenders,
and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of
Notes; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to
take any action which exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability or
which is contrary to this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or applicable law.
     Section 8.02 Administrative Agent’s Reliance, Etc. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents, or employees
shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken (INCLUDING THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S OWN NEGLIGENCE) by it or them under or in connection with
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, except for its or their own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the
foregoing, the Administrative Agent: (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the
holder thereof until the Administrative Agent receives written notice of the
assignment or transfer thereof signed by such payee and in form satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent; (b) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel
for the Borrower), independent public accountants, and other experts selected by
it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good
faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants, or
experts; (c) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender and shall not be
responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties, or representations
made in or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
(d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or
observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document on the part of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or to
inspect the Property (including the books and records) of the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries; (e) shall not be responsible to any Lender for the due execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency, or value of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (f) shall incur no liability under or
in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by acting upon any
notice, consent, certificate, or other instrument or writing (which may be by
telecopier) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party
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     Section 8.03 The Administrative Agent and Its Affiliates. With respect to
its Commitment, the Advances made by it and the Notes issued to it, the
Administrative Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement
as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the
Administrative Agent. The term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise
expressly indicated, include the Administrative Agent in its individual
capacity. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from,
lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, and generally engage in any
kind of business with, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and any Person
who may do business with or own securities of the Borrower or any such
Subsidiary, all as if the Administrative Agent were not an agent hereunder and
without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
     Section 8.04 Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other
Lender and based on the Financial Statements and such other documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it
shall, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any
other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under this Agreement.
     Section 8.05 Indemnification. THE LENDERS SEVERALLY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH ISSUING LENDER AND EACH AFFILIATE THEREOF AND
THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS (TO THE EXTENT NOT
REIMBURSED BY THE BORROWER), ACCORDING TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PRO RATA SHARES FROM
AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, LOSSES, DAMAGES, PENALTIES,
ACTIONS, JUDGMENTS, SUITS, COSTS, EXPENSES, OR DISBURSEMENTS OF ANY KIND OR
NATURE WHATSOEVER WHICH MAY BE IMPOSED ON, INCURRED BY, OR ASSERTED AGAINST THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND SUCH ISSUING LENDER IN ANY WAY RELATING TO OR ARISING
OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY ACTION TAKEN OR OMITTED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
OR SUCH ISSUING LENDER UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT
(INCLUDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S AND SUCH ISSUING LENDER’S OWN NEGLIGENCE),
AND INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITIES, PROVIDED THAT NO LENDER SHALL BE LIABLE
FOR ANY PORTION OF SUCH LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, LOSSES, DAMAGES, PENALTIES,
ACTIONS, JUDGMENTS, SUITS, COSTS, EXPENSES, OR DISBURSEMENTS RESULTING FROM THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S OR SUCH ISSUING LENDER’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL
MISCONDUCT. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, EACH LENDER AGREES TO REIMBURSE
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH ISSUING LENDER PROMPTLY UPON DEMAND FOR ITS
RATABLE SHARE OF ANY OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES (INCLUDING COUNSEL FEES) INCURRED BY
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE PREPARATION, EXECUTION,
DELIVERY, ADMINISTRATION, MODIFICATION, AMENDMENT, OR ENFORCEMENT (WHETHER
THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS, LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, OR OTHERWISE) OF, OR LEGAL

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ADVICE IN RESPECT OF RIGHTS OR RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER, THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR SUCH ISSUING
LENDER IS NOT REIMBURSED FOR SUCH BY THE BORROWER. To the extent that the
indemnity obligations provided in this Section 8.05 are for the benefit of the
Administrative Agent as the named secured party under the Liens granted under
the Security Instruments, each Lender hereby agrees that if such Lender ceases
to be a Lender hereunder but Obligations owing to such Lender or an Affiliate of
such Lender continue to be secured by such Liens, then such Lender shall
continue to be bound by the provisions of this Section 8.05 until such time as
such Obligations have been satisfied or terminated in full. In such event, in
determining the pro rata shares under this Section 8.05, the Lenders shall
include the aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that
would be owing to such Swap Counterparty if such Hedge Contracts were terminated
at the time of determination.
     Section 8.06 Successor Administrative Agent and Issuing Lenders. The
Administrative Agent or any Issuing Lender may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower and may be removed at any
time with or without cause by the Required Lenders upon receipt of written
notice from the Required Lenders to such effect. Any Issuing Lender designated
in writing by the Borrower as provided in the definition of “Issuing Lender” may
be removed at any time with or without cause by the Borrower. Upon receipt of
notice of any such resignation or removal (other than a removal of an Issuing
Lender by the Borrower), the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a
successor Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender with, if any Event of Default
has not occurred and is not continuing, the consent of the Borrower, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If no successor Administrative Agent
or Issuing Lender shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders with the
consent of the Borrower, and shall have accepted such appointment, within
30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent’s or Issuing Lender’s giving of
notice of resignation or the Required Lenders’ removal of the retiring
Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender, then the retiring Administrative Agent
or Issuing Lender may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Borrower, appoint a
successor Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender, which shall be, in the case of
a successor agent, a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United
States of America or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $500,000,000.00 and, in the case of the Issuing Lender, a
Lender. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent or
Issuing Lender by a successor Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender, such
successor Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender shall thereupon succeed to and
become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges, and duties of the
retiring Administrative Agent or Issuing Lender, and the retiring Administrative
Agent or Issuing Lender shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, except that the retiring
Issuing Lender shall remain the Issuing Lender with respect to any Letters of
Credit outstanding on the effective date of its resignation or removal and the
provisions affecting the Issuing Lender with respect to such Letters of Credit
shall inure to the benefit of the retiring Issuing Lender until the termination
of all such Letters of Credit. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s or
Issuing Lender’s resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent or
Issuing Lender, the provisions of this Article VIII shall inure to its benefit
as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative
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     Section 8.07 Additional Agents. Neither the Syndication Agent nor the
Documentation Agent referred to on the cover of this Agreement shall have any
duties, obligations or liabilities in their respective capacities as agents.
     Section 8.08 Collateral Matters.
     (a) Administrative Agent is authorized on behalf of the Secured Parties,
without the necessity of any notice to or further consent from the Secured
Parties, from time to time, to take any actions with respect to any Collateral
or Security Instruments which may be necessary to perfect and maintain
Acceptable Security Interests in and Liens upon the Collateral granted pursuant
to the Security Instruments. Administrative Agent is further authorized on
behalf of the Secured Parties, without the necessity of any notice to or further
consent from the Secured Parties, from time to time, to take any action (other
than enforcement actions requiring the consent of, or request by, the Required
Lenders as set forth in Section 7.02 or Section 7.03 above) in exigent
circumstances as may be reasonably necessary to preserve any rights or
privileges of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents or applicable law. By
accepting the benefit of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Instruments,
each Secured Party not party hereto hereby agrees to the terms of this paragraph
(a).
     (b) Each Secured Party irrevocably authorizes Administrative Agent to
release any Lien granted to or held by the Administrative Agent upon any
Collateral: (i) upon termination of the Commitments, termination or expiration
of all Letters of Credit (other than Letters of Credit as to which other
arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing
Lender have been made), and payment in full of all Obligations payable under
this Agreement, under any other Loan Document and termination of all Hedge
Contracts with any Swap Counterparty (other than Hedge Contracts with any Swap
Counterparty with respect to which other arrangements satisfactory to the Swap
Counterparty and the Borrower have been made; provided that, unless a Swap
Counterparty notifies the Administrative Agent in writing at least 2 Business
Days prior to the expected termination of the Commitments that such arrangements
have not been made, then solely for purposes of this clause (b), it shall be
deemed that such satisfactory arrangements have been made); (ii) constituting
Property sold or to be sold or otherwise disposed of as part of or in connection
with any disposition permitted under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
(iii) constituting Property in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary owned no
interest at the time the Lien was granted or at any time thereafter;
(iv) constituting Property leased to the Borrower or any Subsidiary under a
lease which has expired or has been terminated in a transaction permitted under
this Agreement or is about to expire and which has not been, and is not intended
by the Borrower or such Subsidiary to be, renewed or extended; or (v) if
approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the applicable Required Lenders
or all the Lenders, as the case may be, as required by Section 9.01. Upon the
request of the Administrative Agent at any time, the Secured Parties will
confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release particular
types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 8.08. By accepting the
benefit of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Instruments, each Secured
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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
     Section 9.01 Amendments, Etc.
     (a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, the Notes,
or any other Loan Document, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be
in writing and signed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower, and then such
waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no amendment, waiver,
or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders, do any of the
following: (a) waive any of the conditions specified in Section 3.01,
(b) increase the Borrowing Base or the Commitments of the Lenders, (c) reduce
the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (d) postpone any date fixed for any
payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts
payable hereunder or extend the Maturity Date or the Commitment Termination
Date, (e) change the percentage of Lenders which shall be required for the
Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder or under any other Loan
Document, (f) amend Section 2.11 or this Section 9.01, (g) amend the definition
of “Required Lenders,” (h) release any Guarantor from its obligations under any
Guaranty, except to the extent such release is permitted under Section 8.08(b),
(i) permit the Borrower or any Subsidiary to enter into any merger or
consolidation with or into any other Person or amend Section 6.04(a), or (j)
release all or substantially all of the Collateral securing the Obligations,
except to the extent such release is permitted under Section 8.08(b); and
provided further that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing
and signed by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders in addition to the
Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the
Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders, as the case may be, under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any
amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that neither the Commitment of
such Lender nor the Borrowing Base may be increased and the Commitment may not
be extended without the consent of such Lender.
     (b) No Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender shall have any voting rights
under any Loan Document as a result of the existence of obligations owed to it
under any such Hedge Contracts.
     Section 9.02 Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications shall be in
writing (including telecopy) and mailed by certified mail, return receipt
requested, telecopied, hand delivered, or delivered by a nationally recognized
overnight courier, at the address for the appropriate party specified in
Schedule II or at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a
written notice to the other parties. All such notices and communications shall,
when so mailed, telecopied, or hand delivered or delivered by a nationally
recognized overnight courier, be effective when received if mailed, when
telecopy transmission is completed, or when delivered by such messenger or
courier, respectively, except that notices and communications to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II or VIII shall not be effective until
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     Section 9.03 No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender, the
Administrative Agent, or any Issuing Lender to exercise, and no delay in
exercising, any right hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a waiver
thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any
other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The
remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies
provided by law.
     Section 9.04 Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees to pay on demand
(a) all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent
in connection with the preparation, execution, waiver, delivery, administration,
modification, and amendment of this Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranties, and
the other Loan Documents including the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket
expenses of counsel for the Administrative Agent with respect to advising the
Administrative Agent as to its rights and responsibilities under this Agreement,
and (b) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses, if any, of the Administrative
Agent, each Issuing Lender, and each Lender (including reasonable counsel fees
and expenses of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender, and each Lender)
in connection with the enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal
proceedings, or otherwise) of this Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranties, and the
other Loan Documents. Any sums spent by the Administrative Agent, any Issuing
Lender and each Lender in payment of the foregoing costs and expenses shall
become part of the Obligations and shall bear interest at an annual rate equal
to the Default Rate from the date demanded until the date repaid by or on behalf
of the Borrower.
     Section 9.05 Binding Effect. Subject to the terms of Article III, this
Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and when the Administrative Agent shall
have, as to each Lender, either received a counterpart hereof executed by such
Lender or been notified by such Lender that such Lender has executed it and
thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender, and each Lender and their respective
successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to
assign its rights or delegate its duties under this Agreement or any interest in
this Agreement without the prior written consent of each Lender.
     Section 9.06 Lender Assignments and Participations.
     (a) Assignments. Any Lender may assign to one or more banks or other
entities all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it, the
Notes held by it, and the participation interest in the Letter of Credit
Obligations held by it); provided, however, that (i) each such assignment shall
be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of such Lender’s rights and
obligations assigned under this Agreement and shall be an equal percentage with
respect to both its obligations owing in respect of the Commitments and the
related Advances and Letters of Credit, (ii) the amount of the Commitments and
Advances of such Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment
(determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such
assignment) shall be, if to an entity other than a Lender, not less than
$3,000,000 and shall be an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof,
(iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, (iv) the parties to
each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for
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Acceptance, together with the Notes subject to such assignment, and (v) each
Eligible Assignee (other than the Eligible Assignee of the Administrative Agent)
shall pay to the Administrative Agent a $3,500 administrative fee (provided that
the Administrative Agent may waive such fee). Upon such execution, delivery,
acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each
Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at least three Business
Days after the execution thereof (unless the Administrative Agent agrees
otherwise), (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto for all purposes
and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to
it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations
of a Lender hereunder and (B) such Lender thereunder shall, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its
obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).
     (b) Term of Assignments. By executing and delivering an Assignment and
Acceptance, the Lender thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and
agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as
provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such Lender makes no representation
or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or
the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency of
value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto; (ii) such Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries or the performance or observance by the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries of any of their obligations under this Agreement or any other
instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms
that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the
Financial Statements referred to in Section 4.05 and such other documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such Lender or
any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee appoints and
authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf
and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the
Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto; and (vi) such assignee agrees that it will
perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms
of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
     (c) The Register. The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address
referred to in Section 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered
to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and
addresses of the Lenders and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the
Advances owing to, each Lender from time to time (the “Register”). The entries
in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders,
and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as
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of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon
reasonable prior notice.
     (d) Procedures. Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed
by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, together with the Notes subject to such
assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance
has been completed and is in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit A:
(i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained
therein in the Register, and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower.
Promptly after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Notes (A) if
such Eligible Assignee has acquired a Commitment, a new Note to the order of
such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it
pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and (B) if such Lender has retained
any Commitment hereunder, a new Note to the order of such Lender in an amount
equal to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Notes shall be dated
the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be in
substantially the form of the attached Exhibit E.
     (e) Participations. Each Lender may sell participations to one or more
banks or other entities in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments, the
Advances owing to it, its participation interest in the Letter of Credit
Obligations, and the Notes held by it); provided, however, that (i) such
Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including its Commitments to the
Borrower hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations,
(iii) such Lender shall remain the holder of any such Notes for all purposes of
this Agreement, (iv) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the Issuing
Lenders and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with
such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement, and (v) such Lender shall not require the participant’s consent to
any matter under this Agreement, except for change in the principal amount of
the Notes, reductions in fees or interest, releasing all or substantially all of
any Collateral, permitting the Borrower or any Subsidiary to enter into any
merger or consolidation with or into any other, postponement of any date fixed
for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other
amounts payable hereunder, or extensions of the Maturity Date or the Commitment
Termination Date. The Borrower hereby agrees that participants shall have the
same rights under Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14(c), and 9.07 as a Lender to the
extent of their respective participations.
     Section 9.07 Indemnification. THE BORROWER SHALL INDEMNIFY THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE LENDERS, EACH ISSUING LENDER, AND EACH AFFILIATE
THEREOF AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM,
AND DISCHARGE, RELEASE, AND HOLD EACH OF THEM HARMLESS AGAINST, ANY AND ALL
LOSSES, LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, OR DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE IMPOSED ON, INCURRED BY, OR
ASSERTED AGAINST THEM IN ANY WAY RELATING TO OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR
ANY ACTION TAKEN OR OMITTED BY THEM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT (A) INCLUDING ANY SUCH LOSSES, LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, OR EXPENSE
INCURRED BY REASON OF THE PERSON BEING INDEMNIFIED’S OWN NEGLIGENCE OR

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STRICT LIABILITY, (B) INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS AND ANY
LIABILITIES ARISING UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, AND (C) INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION ANY SUCH OTHER LOSSES, LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, OR EXPENSES
RESULTING FROM ANY LITIGATION, LEGAL PROCEEDING OR OTHER TYPE OF ACTION,
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY PARTY BEING INDEMNIFIED IS PARTY TO SUCH LITIGATION,
LEGAL PROCEEDING OR OTHER ACTION, BUT EXCLUDING ANY SUCH LOSSES, LIABILITIES,
CLAIMS, DAMAGES, OR EXPENSES THAT ARE DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION BY FINAL AND NON-APPEALABLE JUDGMENT TO HAVE RESULTED FROM THE
GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF THE PERSON TO BE INDEMNIFIED.
     Section 9.08 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original
and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
     Section 9.09 Survival of Representations, Etc. All representations and
warranties contained in this Agreement or made in writing by or on behalf of the
Borrower in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the Loan Documents, the making of the Advances and any
investigation made by or on behalf of the Lenders, none of which investigations
shall diminish any Lender’s right to rely on such representations and
warranties. All obligations of the Borrower provided for in Sections 2.12, 2.13,
2.14(c), 9.04, and 9.07 and all of the obligations of the Lenders in
Section 8.05 shall survive any termination of this Agreement and repayment in
full of the Obligations.
     Section 9.10 Severability. In case one or more provisions of this Agreement
or the other Loan Documents shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
respect under any applicable law, the validity, legality, and enforceability of
the remaining provisions contained herein or therein shall not be affected or
impaired thereby.
     Section 9.11 Business Loans. The Borrower warrants and represents that the
Loans evidenced by the Notes are and shall be for business, commercial,
investment, or other similar purposes and not primarily for personal, family,
household, or agricultural use, as such terms are used in Chapter One
(“Chapter One”) of the Texas Credit Code. At all such times, if any, as
Chapter One shall establish a Maximum Rate, the Maximum Rate shall be the
“indicated rate ceiling” (as such term is defined in Chapter One) from time to
time in effect.
     Section 9.12 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.
     (a) This Agreement, the Notes and the other Loan Documents shall be
governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the
State of Mississippi. Each Letter of Credit shall be governed by either the
Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of
Commerce Publication No. 600 (2007 version) or the International Standby
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No. 590 (and any subsequent revisions thereof approved by a Congress of the
International Chamber of Commerce and adhered to by the applicable Issuing
Lender).
     (b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any
Mississippi state or federal court sitting in Jackson, Mississippi, in any
action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents, and the Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees that all claims in
respect of such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such court.
The Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives, to the fullest
extent it may effectively do so, any right it may have to the defense of an
inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding. The Borrower
hereby agrees that service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other
process which may be served in any such action or proceeding may be made by
mailing or delivering a copy of such process to such Borrower at its address set
forth in this Agreement. The Borrower agrees that a final judgment in any such
action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
Nothing in this Section shall affect the rights of any Lender to serve legal
process in any other manner permitted by the law or affect the right of any
Lender to bring any action or proceeding against the Borrower or its Property in
the courts of any other jurisdiction.
     Section 9.13 Confidentiality. In the event that the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries provides to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders confidential
information belonging to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, which the Borrower or
any Subsidiary shall designate in writing as “confidential”, the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders shall thereafter maintain such information in confidence
in accordance with the usual care that each utilizes in maintaining its own
confidential information. This obligation of confidence shall not apply to such
portions of the information which (i) are in the public domain, (ii) hereafter
become part of the public domain without the Administrative Agent or the Lenders
breaching their obligation of confidence to the Borrower, (iii) are previously
known by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders from some source other than the
Borrower, (iv) are hereafter developed by the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders without using the Borrower’s information, (v) are hereafter obtained by
or available to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders from a third party who
owes no obligation of confidence to the Borrower with respect to such
information or through any other means other than through disclosure by the
Borrower, (vi) are disclosed with the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s consent,
(vii) must be disclosed either pursuant to any Legal Requirement or to Persons
regulating the activities of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or
(viii) as may be required by law or regulation or order of any Governmental
Authority in any judicial, arbitration or governmental proceeding. Further, the
Administrative Agent or a Lender may disclose any such information to any other
Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender, any independent petroleum engineers or
consultants, any independent certified public accountants, any legal counsel
employed by such Person in connection with this Agreement or any Security
Instrument, including without limitation, the enforcement or exercise of all
rights and remedies thereunder, or any assignee or participant (including
prospective assignees and participants) in the Loans. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary provided herein, this obligation of confidence shall cease three
(3) years from the date the information was furnished, unless the Borrower
requests in writing at least thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of such
three year period, to maintain the confidentiality of such information for an
additional three year period. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries waives
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confidentiality as against the Administrative Agent and the Lenders arising by
contract, agreement, statute or law except as expressly stated in this
Section 9.13.
     Section 9.14 Restatement. This Agreement amends and restates the Existing
Agreement in its entirety. The Borrower hereby agrees that (a) the Debt
outstanding under the Existing Agreement and the Loan Documents (as defined in
the Existing Agreement; together with the Existing Agreement, the “Existing Loan
Documents”) and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon and (b) all accrued and
unpaid fees under the Existing Loan Documents shall be deemed to be outstanding
under and governed by this Agreement. The Borrower hereby acknowledges,
warrants, represents and agrees that this Agreement is not intended to be, and
shall not be deemed or construed to be, a novation or release of the Existing
Loan Documents. Each Lender (which is a Lender under the Existing Loan
Documents) hereby waives any requirements for notice of prepayment, minimum
amounts of prepayments of the loans thereunder, ratable reductions of the
commitments of Lenders under the Existing Loan Documents and ratable payments on
account of the principal or interest of any loan under the Existing Loan
Documents to the extent that any such prepayment, reductions or payments are
required to ensure that, upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, the loans of
the Lenders shall be outstanding on a ratable basis in accordance with their
respective Pro Rata Share. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower to request Borrowings from the Lenders, to make
prepayment of the loans under the Existing Loan Documents and to reduce the
commitments under the Existing Loan Documents among Lenders in order to ensure
that, upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, the Credit Extensions of the
Lenders shall be outstanding on a ratable basis in accordance with their
respective Pro Rata Share. The Administrative Agent and each Secured Party (by
receiving the benefits hereunder and of the Collateral under the Security
Instruments) acknowledges and agrees (i) to the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement, (ii) that from and after the Closing Date this Agreement shall be and
be deemed to be the First Lien Credit Agreement (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement) for all purposes, (iii) that the Lenders hereunder shall be and be
deemed to be the First Lien Lenders under the Intercreditor Agreement, (iv) that
Administrative Agent shall be and be deemed to be the First Lien Representative
under and pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, and (v) that the terms and
provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement shall be binding on such Secured Party
and its successors and assigns as if it were an original party thereto.
     Section 9.15 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE BORROWER, THE LENDERS, THE ISSUING
LENDERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
REPRESENTED BY AND HAVE CONSULTED WITH COUNSEL OF THEIR CHOICE, AND HEREBY
KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY, INTENTIONALLY, AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY AND ALL RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING
TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS
CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.
     Section 9.16 USA Patriot Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as
hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf
of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of
the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26,
2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that
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address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or the
Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with
the Act.
     Section 9.17 Obligations as Senior Indebtedness; Senior Secured Debt. It is
the intent of all the parties hereto that all of the Obligations arising under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall constitute (and to the extent,
if any, required are hereby designated by Borrower to constitute) “Senior
Indebtedness” and “Senior Secured Debt” as such terms are defined in the 2010
Senior Notes Indenture and the 2016 Senior Notes Indenture. This Agreement and
the other Loan Documents represent the “Senior Secured Credit Facility”, as
defined in the 2010 Senior Notes Indenture and the 2016 Senior Notes Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the acknowledgment of intent contained in this
Section 9.17 shall not be deemed to modify or amend any provision of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
     Section 9.18 Notices of Swap Counterparty. Each Lender (other than the
Lender serving as the Administrative Agent) shall provide to the Administrative
Agent prompt written notice of any Hedge Contract entered into by such Lender or
any of its Affiliates with the Borrower or any Guarantor.
     Section 9.19 ORAL AGREEMENTS. THIS WRITTEN AGREEMENT, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS,
AND ANY HEDGE CONTRACTS WITH SWAP COUNTERPARTIES, AS DEFINED IN THIS AGREEMENT,
REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY
EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE
PARTIES.
THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS AMONG THE PARTIES.
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EXECUTED as of the date first above written.

            BORROWER:       CALLON PETROLEUM COMPANY         By:    /s/ Rodger
W. Smith       Rodger W. Smith
Vice President and Treasurer        ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT/
ISSUING LENDER:       REGIONS BANK
as Administrative Agent, Documentation Agent and
Syndication Agent and as an Issuing Lender         By:    /s/ William A. Philipp
      William A. Philipp,        Vice President     

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            LENDERS:
      REGIONS BANK
      By:    /s/ William A. Philipp       William A. Philipp        Vice
President     

Signature page to Credit Agreement
(Callon Petroleum Company)