Exhibit 10.1
DATED 30 October 2006
ENDEAVOUR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(as the Company)
arranged by
BNP PARIBAS
(as Mandated Lead Arranger, Agent, Security Trustee and Fronting Bank)
and
THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND
(as Mandated Lead Arranger, Account Bank and Technical Bank)
 
$225,000,000
SECURED REVOLVING LOAN AND
LETTER OF CREDIT FACILITY
AGREEMENT
 
Herbert Smith LLP

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Exhibit 10.1
TABLE OF CONTENTS

         
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
    1  
 
       
2. THE FACILITY
    27  
 
       
3. PURPOSE
    27  
 
       
4. CONDITIONS OF UTILISATION
    28  
 
       
5. UTILISATION — LOANS
    31  
 
       
6. UTILISATION — LETTERS OF CREDIT
    32  
 
       
7. PROJECTIONS
    40  
 
       
8. REPAYMENT
    49  
 
       
9. PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
    50  
 
       
10. INTEREST
    53  
 
       
11. INTEREST PERIODS
    54  
 
       
12. CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST
    54  
 
       
13. FEES
    56  
 
       
14. TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES
    59  
 
       
15. INCREASED COSTS
    65  
 
       
16. OTHER INDEMNITIES
    66  
 
       
17. MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS
    67  
 
       
18. COSTS AND EXPENSES
    68  
 
       
19. GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY
    69  
 
       
20. PROJECT ACCOUNTS
    71  
 
       
21. REPRESENTATIONS
    79  
 
       
22. INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS
    87  
 
       
23. GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
    93  
 
       
24. FINANCIAL COVENANTS
    106  
 
       
25. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
    110  
 
       
26. CHANGES TO THE LENDERS
    115  
 
       
27. CHANGES TO THE OBLIGORS
    120  
 
       
28. ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCE PARTIES
    123  

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29. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES
    130  
 
       
30. SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES
    131  
 
       
31. PAYMENT MECHANICS
    133  
 
       
32. SET-OFF
    136  
 
       
33. NOTICES
    136  
 
       
34. CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
    138  
 
       
35. PARTIAL INVALIDITY
    139  
 
       
36. REMEDIES AND WAIVERS
    139  
 
       
37. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
    139  
 
       
38. COUNTERPARTS
    140  
 
       
39. GOVERNING LAW
    141  
 
       
40. ENFORCEMENT
    141  
 
       
SCHEDULE 1 The Original Obligors
    142  
SCHEDULE 2 The Original Lenders
    143  
SCHEDULE 3 Conditions precedent and Subsequent
    144  
SCHEDULE 4 Applicable Cover Ratios
    154  
SCHEDULE 5 Utilisation Request
    155  
SCHEDULE 6 Forms of Letter of Credit
    158  
SCHEDULE 7 Mandatory Cost Formulae
    165  
SCHEDULE 8 Form of Transfer Certificates
    168  
SCHEDULE 9 Form of Accession Letter
    171  
SCHEDULE 10 Initial Borrowing Base Assets
    173  
SCHEDULE 11 Summary of Projections Process
    174  
SCHEDULE 12 Group Structure
    175  
SCHEDULE 13 Hedging Policy
    176  
SCHEDULE 14 Margin
    178  
SCHEDULE 15 Director’s Certificate
    179  

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Exhibit 10.1
THIS AGREEMENT is dated                2006 and made between:

(1)   ENDEAVOUR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (a corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of Nevada whose principal place of business is 1000 Main
Street, Suite 3300, Houston, Texas, 77002, USA) (the “Company”);   (2)   THE
AFFILIATES of the Company listed in Part I (The Original Borrowers) of
Schedule 1 (the Original Obligors) as original borrowers (the “Original
Borrowers”);   (3)   THE AFFILIATES of the Company listed in Part II (The
Original Guarantors) of Schedule 1 (The Original Obligors) as original
guarantors (together with the Company, the “Original Guarantors”);   (4)   BNP
PARIBAS as mandated lead arranger, bookrunner and underwriter (a “Mandated Lead
Arranger”);   (5)   THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND as mandated
lead arranger, bookrunner and underwriter (a “Mandated Lead Arranger” and
together with BNP PARIBAS the “Mandated Lead Arrangers”);   (6)   THE FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS whose names appear in the first row of the table set out in
Schedule 2 (The Original Lenders) (the “Original Lenders”);   (7)   BNP PARIBAS
as Agent, Security Trustee and Fronting Bank; and   (8)   THE GOVERNOR AND
COMPANY OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND as Account Bank and Technical Bank.

IT IS AGREED as follows:
INTERPRETATION

1.   DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION   1.1   Definitions       In this Agreement:
      “Abandonment Date” means, in relation to each Borrowing Base Asset, the
date (reflected in each Projection) on which it is assumed that production of
Petroleum from that Borrowing Base Asset will no longer be commercially viable
and the operation of such Borrowing Base Asset will cease for economic reasons.
      “Accession Letter” means a document substantially in the form set out in
Schedule 9 (Form of Accession Letter).       “Account Bank” means the Governor
and Company of the Bank of Scotland in its capacity as account bank in relation
to the Project Accounts or any person that replaces it in such capacity in
accordance with this Agreement.       “Acquisition Agreement” means the
Agreement dated 26th May 2006 between Paladin Resources Limited (1) Endeavour
Energy UK Limited (2) and Endeavour International Corporation (3) granting put
and call options over the entire issued share capital of Talisman Expro Limited.

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    “Additional Borrower” means a company which becomes an Additional Borrower
in accordance with Clause 27 (Changes to the Obligors).       “Additional Cost
Rate” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 7 (Mandatory Cost formulae).      
“Additional Guarantor” means a company which becomes an Additional Guarantor in
accordance with Clause 27 (Changes to the Obligors).       “Additional Obligor”
means an Additional Borrower or an Additional Guarantor.       “Administrative
Finance Parties” means each of the Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Agent, the
Account Bank, the Security Trustee, the Technical Bank and the Fronting Bank.  
    “Affiliate” means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or
a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding
Company.       “Agent” means BNP Paribas in its capacity as agent for the other
Finance Parties or any other person that replaces it in such capacity in
accordance with this Agreement.       “Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange” means, in
relation to any date, the Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the
relevant currency with dollars in the London foreign exchange market at or about
11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to that date.       “Aggregate
Commitments” means, in relation to any Specified Period or any day falling in
that Specified Period, the sum of the Lenders’ Commitments for that Specified
Period (which, as at the date of this Agreement and subject to any cancellation,
reduction or transfer of any Lender’s Commitment in accordance with this
Agreement, is the amount (in dollars) set opposite that Specified Period in the
last column (headed “Aggregate Commitments”) of the table in Schedule 2 (The
Original Lenders)).       “Applicable Tranche A DSCR” means the figure
determined in accordance with Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).      
“Applicable Tranche A FLCR” means the figure determined in accordance with
Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).       “Applicable Tranche A LLCR” means
the figure determined in accordance with Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).  
    “Applicable Tranche B DSCR” means the figure determined in accordance with
Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).       “Applicable Tranche B FLCR” means
the figure determined in accordance with Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).  
    “Applicable Tranche B LLCR” means the figure determined in accordance with
Schedule 4 (Applicable Cover Ratios).       “Assumptions” means the Economic
Assumptions and the Technical Assumptions.       “Authorisation” means an
authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing,
notarisation or registration.       “Availability Period” means, in relation to
a Loan, the period from and including the date of this Agreement to and
including the date falling one month prior to the Final Maturity Date or, in
relation to a Letter of Credit, the period from and including the date of this
Agreement to and including the date falling twelve months prior to the Final
Maturity Date.       “Available Commitment” means a Lender’s Commitment minus:

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(A)   the Dollar Amount of its participation in any outstanding Utilisations
(other than that Lender’s participation in any Utilisations that are due to be
repaid or prepaid on or before the proposed Utilisation Date); and   (B)   in
relation to any proposed Utilisations, the Dollar Amount of its participation in
any Utilisations that are due to be made on or before the proposed Utilisation
Date.

“Borrower” means an Original Borrower or an Additional Borrower.
“Borrower Group” means Endeavour International Holding and its Subsidiaries for
the time being other than any Non-Recourse Subsidiary.
“Borrower Update” means a report prepared by or on behalf of the Company which
updates the information and/or evaluation(s) contained in the most recent
Reserves Report and including any additional information and/or evaluation(s) as
the Technical Bank may reasonably require.
“Borrowing Base Asset” means (A) the Petroleum Assets listed in Schedule 10
(Initial Borrowing Base Assets), (B) any other Petroleum Asset that has been
designated as such in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) but, in the case of
(A) or (B), excluding any of the foregoing which has ceased to be designated a
Borrowing Base Asset in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections).
“Break Costs” means the amount (if any) by which:

(A)   the interest which a Lender should have received for the period from the
date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Loan or Unpaid Sum
to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Loan or Unpaid
Sum, had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day
of that Interest Period;

exceeds:

(B)   the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount
equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a
leading bank in the Relevant Interbank Market for a period starting on the
Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the
current Interest Period.

“Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday or bank holiday) on
which banks are open for general business in London and Paris and:

(A)   in relation to any date for the payment or purchase of dollars, New York;
or   (B)   in relation to any date for the payment or purchase of Norwegian
krone, Oslo; or   (C)   in relation to any date for the payment or purchase of
euro, any TARGET day.

“Calculation End Date” means, in relation to each Projection, the last day of
the last Calculation Period in which any item of Gross Expenditure and/or Gross
Income is projected to arise.
“Cash Collateral Account” has the meaning given in Clause 20.4 (Cash Collateral
Accounts).
“Calculation Period” means each period of six months commencing on 1 January or
1 July of each year.

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“Commitment” means:

(A)   in relation to each Original Lender at any time during a Specified Period,
the amount (in dollars) set opposite that Specified Period in the column in
which that Original Lender’s name appears in the table in Schedule 2 (The
Original Lenders) and the amount of any other Commitment for that Specified
Period transferred to it under this Agreement; and   (B)   in relation to any
other Lender at any time during a Specified Period, the amount (in dollars) of
any Commitment for that Specified Period transferred to it under this Agreement,

in each case, to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under
this Agreement.
“Commitment Letter” means the commitment letter dated 9th August 2006 entered
into between the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Company.
“Computer Model” means the computer model used to prepare the Initial
Projection, as amended from time to time in accordance with Clause 7.11
(Computer Model) or as otherwise agreed between the Company, the Technical Bank
and the Agent.
“Confidentiality Undertaking” means a confidentiality undertaking substantially
in a form from time to time recommended by the LMA or in any other form agreed
between the Company and the Agent.
“Default” means Event of Default or Potential Event of Default.
“Disruption Event” means either or both of:

(A)   a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to
those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order
for payments to be made in connection with the Facilities (or otherwise in order
for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out)
which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the
Parties; or   (B)   the occurrence of any other event which results in a
disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or
payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other Party;

  (i)   from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or
    (ii)   from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of
the Finance Documents,

(and which (in either such case)) is not caused by, and is beyond the control
of, the Party whose operations are disrupted.
“Dollar Amount” means, at any time:

(A)   in relation to each Utilisation denominated in dollars, the relevant
amount of that Utilisation;   (B)   in relation to each Loan or, as the case may
be, proposed Loan, not denominated in dollars, the amount of that Loan converted
into dollars at the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the most recent valuation
date (where, for these purposes, “valuation date” means each of (a) the date on
which the Agent receives the Utilisation Request for that Loan; (b) the
Utilisation Date for that Loan; (c) each Scheduled Recalculation Date; (d) the
date on which the Agent receives a Utilisation Request

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    for any other Utilisation; (e) the Utilisation Date for any other
Utilisation; (f) the first day of each Interest Period for that Loan; and
(g) any other date falling within the Interest Period of that Loan that the
Agent (acting reasonably) may nominate);   (C)   in relation to each Letter of
Credit or, as the case may be, proposed Letter of Credit not denominated in
dollars, the relevant amount of that Letter of Credit converted into dollars at
the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the most recent valuation date (where, for
these purposes, “valuation date” means each of (a) the date on which the Agent
receives the Utilisation Request for the Letter of Credit; (b) the Utilisation
Date for that Letter of Credit; (c) the Expiry Date of that Letter of Credit;
(d) each Scheduled Recalculation Date; (e) the date on which the Agent receives
a Utilisation Request for any other Utilisation; (f) the Utilisation Date for
any other Utilisation; and (g) any other date falling within the Term of that
Letter of Credit as the Agent (acting reasonably) may nominate); and   (D)   in
relation to any amount standing to the credit of any Project Account:

  (i)   (if the Project Account is denominated in dollars) the relevant amount
standing to the credit of that Project Account; or     (ii)   (if the Project
Account is denominated in any other currency) the relevant amount standing to
the credit of that Project Account converted into dollars at the Agent’s Spot
Rate of Exchange on the most recent valuation date (where, for these purposes,
“valuation date” means the first day of each Calculation Period, each
Recalculation Date and any other date falling on or before the Final Maturity
Date as the Agent (acting reasonably) may nominate).

“Due Diligence Report” means the due diligence report from Ashurst referred to
in paragraph 4.5 of Part 1 of Schedule 3.
“Dutch Banking Act” means the Credit System Supervision Act 1992 (Wet toezicht
kredietwezen 1992).
“Dutch Borrower” means any Borrower which is incorporated in The Netherlands.
“Dutch Exemption Regulation” means the Exemption Regulation dated 26 June 2002
of the Minister of Finance of The Netherlands as promulgated in connection with
the Dutch Banking Act.
“Dutch Obligor” means any Obligor which is incorporated in The Netherlands.
“Economic Assumption” means each of the following economic assumptions, and the
values ascribed to such assumptions, upon which each Projection or draft
Projection and, in each case, the calculations and information therein are, or
are to be, based:

(A)   commodity prices;   (B)   exchange rates;   (C)   inflation rates;   (D)  
discount rates;   (E)   interest rates; and

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(F)   any other assumptions that the Technical Bank, the Agent and the Company
agree shall be treated as “Economic Assumptions”.

“Eligible Letter of Credit” means each Letter of Credit issued for the purpose
referred to in Clause 3.1.2(A) (Purpose) which the Agent (acting reasonably and
in consultation with the Company) determines is a Letter of Credit which has
been issued for the purposes of providing security and/or credit enhancement
with respect to the obligations and liabilities of any Obligor relating to the
abandonment or decommissioning of any Borrowing Base Asset which have been
reflected in the current Projection and been deducted for the purposes of
determining each FLCR Amount and LLCR Amount included in such Projection).
“Endeavour International Holding” means Endeavour International Holding B.V., a
private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte
aansprakelijkheid) incorporated in The Netherlands having its corporate seat at
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and its registered address at Teleportboulevard 140,
1043 EJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Enforcement Date” means the date on which a notice is issued under Clause 25.23
(Acceleration).
“Environmental Claims” means any claim by any person in connection with (i) a
breach, or alleged breach, of an Environmental Law; (ii) any accident, fire,
explosion or other event of any type involving an emission or substance which is
capable of causing harm to any living organism or the environment; or (iii) any
other environmental contamination.
“Environmental Laws” means any law or regulation concerning (i) the protection
of health and safety; (ii) the environment; or (iii) any emission or substance
which is capable of causing harm to any living organism or the environment.
“Environmental Licence” means all Authorisations required by any Environmental
Law for the ownership of an interest in, or the operation or development of, any
Petroleum Asset.
“Equivalent Field Document” means, to the extent that any member of the Group is
permitted to enter into the same under the Finance Documents, in relation to any
Petroleum Asset that is not a Borrowing Base Asset:

(A)   each joint operating agreement and/or unitisation and unit operating
agreement relating thereto, each agreement relating to the transportation,
processing and/or storage of production therefrom and each agreement for the
sale or marketing of production therefrom and each other major agreement
relating to that Petroleum Asset and/or Petroleum produced therefrom;   (B)  
any Authorisation required for the lawful exploitation, development or operation
of that Petroleum Asset or the production, transportation or sale of Petroleum
therefrom (and including, without limitation, any Petroleum production licence);
  (C)   any development plan approved by any relevant operating committee and/or
any appropriate governmental or other regulatory authority relating to that
Petroleum Asset;   (D)   any documents relating to the acquisition by any member
of the Group of any interests in that Petroleum Asset or of any entity holding
the interest in that Petroleum Asset; and

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(E)   any other document designated as such by the Company and the Agent.

“EURIBOR” means, in relation to any Loan in euro:

(A)   the applicable Screen Rate; or   (B)   (if no Screen Rate is available for
the Interest Period of that Loan) the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded
upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Agent at its request quoted
by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the European interbank market,

as of 11.00 am Brussels time on the Quotation Day for the offering of deposits
in euro for a period comparable to the Interest Period of the relevant Loan.
“Event of Default” means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause
25 (Events of Default).
“Exemption Regulation” means the Exemption Regulation dated 26 June 2002 of the
Ministry of Finance of The Netherlands as promulgated in connection with the
Dutch Act on the Supervision of Credit Institutions 1992 (Wet toezicht
kreditietwezen 1992) (the “wtk”), in each case as amended.
“Expiry Date” means, for a Letter of Credit, the last day of its Term.
“Facility” means the credit facility described in Clause 2.1 (Facility).
“Facility Office” means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent
in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date,
by not less than five Business Days’ written notice) as the office or offices
through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.
“Fee Letter” means each of:

(A)   any letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement between (i) all or
any of the Obligors and (ii) all or any of the Administrative Finance Parties
relating to the payment of fees by the Obligors (or any of them) to any such
Administrative Finance Party(ies); and   (B)   any other letter designated as
such by the Agent and the Company.

“Final Maturity Date” means the earlier of the date falling five years less
10 days after the date of this Agreement and the Reserve Tail Date.
“Finance Document” means:

(A)   this Agreement;   (B)   any Security Document;   (C)   any Fee Letter;  
(D)   (other than for the purposes of Clauses 14 (Tax Gross up and Indemnities)
15 (Increased Costs) and 37 (Amendments and Waivers)) any Secured Hedging
Agreement;   (E)   any Transfer Certificate;   (F)   any Accession Letter;

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(G)   any other Accession Instrument;   (H)   the Intercreditor Agreement;   (I)
  the Commitment Letter;   (J)   any BoS Counter-indemnity   (K)   any guarantee
given by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland in favour of HBOS
Treasury Services plc (“HBOSTS”) in respect of the liabilities of any Obligor
under any Secured Hedging Agreement entered into between HBOSTS and that
Obligor; and   (L)   any other document designated as such by the Company and
the Agent.

“Finance Party” means each of the Lenders, the Hedging Banks, the Mandated Lead
Arrangers, the Fronting Bank, the Security Trustee, the Agent, the Account Bank
and the Technical Bank.
“Financial Indebtedness” means, at the relevant date, any indebtedness for or in
respect of:

(A)   moneys borrowed;   (B)   any acceptance credit;   (C)   any bond, note,
debenture, loan stock, or other similar instrument;   (D)   any redeemable
preference share;   (E)   any finance or capital lease;   (F)   receivables sold
or discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis);   (G)   the acquisition
cost of any asset to the extent payable after its acquisition or possession by
the party liable where the deferred payment is arranged primarily as a method of
raising finance or financing the acquisition of that asset;   (H)   any
derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any
rate or price (and, except for non-payment of an amount, the then mark to market
value of the derivative transaction will be used to calculate its amount);   (I)
  any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) which
has the commercial effect of a borrowing;   (J)   any counter-indemnity
obligation in respect of any guarantee, indemnity, bond, letter of credit or any
other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; or   (K)   any
guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss of any person
in respect of any item referred to in paragraphs (A) to (J) above,

but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any indebtedness arising from the
purchase of goods or services on normal credit terms in the ordinary course of
business.
“FLCR Amount” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the amount, in
dollars, calculated in accordance with the following formula:

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FLCR Amount = A + B + C
where:
“A” is the net present value (as at the first day of that Calculation Period) of
the aggregate (the “relevant amount”) of the Projected Net Revenues for that
Calculation Period and for each Calculation Period occurring thereafter which
ends on or before the Calculation End Date (being the discounted value of the
relevant amount calculated, using the Computer Model, by applying the relevant
discount rate agreed or determined in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) to
the relevant amount);
“B” is the aggregate Dollar Amount of sums standing to the credit of the Cash
Collateral Accounts on the first day of that Calculation Period which have been
credited thereto by a Borrower for the purposes of complying with its
obligations under Clause 6.13 (Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit)); and
“C” is (to the extent that (i) such capital expenditure has been approved by the
Technical Bank and (ii) drawings under the Facility are forecast to be available
to fund such capital expenditure or the Company demonstrated to the satisfaction
of the Technical Bank (acting reasonably) that the Borrower Group has other
committed funds, other than cash flow, to fund such capital expenditure which is
within this paragraph C) the net present value (as at the first day of that
Calculation Period) of the aggregate amount of capital expenditure projected to
be incurred by the Borrower Group in the period of twelve months commencing on
that first day of that Calculation Period (being, the discounted value of that
aggregate amount of capital expenditure calculated, using the Computer Model, by
applying the relevant discount rate agreed or determined in accordance with
Clause 7 (Projections) to that aggregate amount of capital expenditure).
“Fronting Bank” means BNP Paribas in its capacity as issuing bank for each
Letter of Credit or any other person that replaces it in such capacity in
accordance with this Agreement.
“GAAP/IFRS” means:

(A)   in relation to any member of the Group incorporated in the UK, generally
accepted accounting principles in the UK; or   (B)   in relation to any member
of the Group that is not incorporated in the UK, generally accepted accounting
principles in that person’s jurisdiction of incorporation,

or, in each case, if IFRS has been implemented by the Group or the relevant
member thereof, IFRS.
“Gross Expenditure” means, in relation to any period and any member of the
Borrower Group, without double counting:

(A)   to the extent that the same is payable in that period by that member of
the Borrower Group in respect of any Borrowing Base Asset:

  (i)   all cash calls by the operator of that Borrowing Base Asset; and    
(ii)   to the extent not covered by paragraph (i) above:

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  (a)   all costs of producing, lifting, transporting, storing, processing,
marketing and selling any Petroleum derived from that Borrowing Base Asset;    
(b)   all costs of reinstating any damaged facilities relating to that Borrowing
Base Asset;     (c)   all costs of satisfying any liability in respect of
seepage, pollution and well control;     (d)   all insurance premiums and all
the fees, costs and expenses of insurance brokers;     (e)   all exploration,
appraisal and development expenditure on that Borrowing Base Asset;     (f)  
all costs of abandonment and any payments to make provision for abandonment
costs in accordance with all relevant Project Documents relating to the whole or
any part of that Borrowing Base Asset or any physical assets associated with it;
and     (g)   any royalties under any Petroleum production licence;

  (iii)   any general and administrative expenditure or any other expenses and
payments not falling within the preceding sub-paragraphs of paragraph (A) above
which are payable by that member of the Borrower Group in that period;

(B)   any Taxes payable by that member of the Borrower Group in that period;  
(C)   (if that member of the Borrower Group is an Obligor) any Hedging Costs
which are payable by that member of the Borrower Group in that period;   (D)  
any other expense or payment not falling in the preceding paragraphs of this
definition which the Company elects to treat as “Gross Expenditure”.

“Gross Income” means, in relation to any period and any member of the Borrower
Group, without double counting:

(A)   to the extent that the same is payable in that period to that member of
the Borrower Group in respect of any Borrowing Base Asset:

  (i)   the gross proceeds (without deductions whatsoever) of any disposal of
any Petroleum derived from that Borrowing Base Asset payable to that member of
the Borrower Group in that period;     (ii)   any gross proceeds (without any
deductions whatsoever) payable to that member of the Borrower Group in respect
of the use or reservation of capacity of any infrastructure forming part of, or
relating to, that Borrowing Base Asset;     (iii)   any other amounts payable to
that member of the Borrower Group in that period in respect of that Borrowing
Base Asset;

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(B)   any refunds of Taxes payable to that member of the Borrower Group in that
period; and   (C)   (if that member of the Borrower Group is an Obligor) any
Hedging Receipts which are payable to that member of the Borrower Group in that
period;

but excluding:

  (1)   any amount payable by way of loan or contribution to the equity capital
of that member of the Borrower Group in that period; and     (2)   any amount
payable to that member of the Borrower Group in that period which does not
relate to a Borrowing Base Asset (other than any amount referred to in paragraph
(B) above).

“Group” means Endeavour International Corporation and its Subsidiaries for the
time being other than any Non-Recourse Subsidiary.
“Guarantor” means an Original Guarantor or an Additional Guarantor.
“Holding Company” means, in relation to a company or corporation, any other
company or corporation in respect of which it is a Subsidiary.
“IFRS” means the International Financial Reporting Standards, International
Accounting Standards and interpretations of those standards issued by the
International Accounting Standards Board and the International Financial
Reporting Interpretations Committee and their predecessor bodies.
“Independent Engineer” means Netherlands Sewell & Associates, Gaffney, Cline &
Associates Ltd and/or such other reputable independent petroleum engineer or
other expert acceptable to the Technical Bank and the Company.
“Information Memorandum” means the document in the form approved by the Company
concerning the Facility and the Obligors which is prepared by the Mandated Lead
Arrangers and is to be distributed to selected financial institutions for the
purposes of the syndication of the Facility.
“Information Package” means the written information and documents delivered to
the Mandated Lead Arrangers by any Obligor in connection with the negotiation of
this Agreement and the Commitment Letter and/or supplied pursuant to Clause
23.15 (Syndication).
“Initial Projection” means the Projection delivered pursuant to Clause 4
(Conditions of Utilisation).
“Insolvency Officer” means any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial
custodian or manager, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative receiver,
administrator, curator, bewindvoerder, vereffenaar or similar officer, in each
case, appointed in any relevant jurisdiction.
“Insurances” means any insurances that are required to be maintained by, or on
behalf of, any Obligor or any member of the Group in respect of the Borrowing
Base Assets and/or any activities related thereto pursuant to this Agreement.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means the agreement dated on or about the date of this
Agreement between, among others, the Company, the Obligors as defined therein
and the Finance Parties.

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“Interest Period” means, in relation to a Loan, each period determined in
accordance with Clause 11 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum,
each period determined in accordance with Clause 10.3 (Default interest).
“Interim Projection” means each Projection that is adopted or due to be adopted
on each Interim Recalculation Date.
“Interim Recalculation Date” means any date nominated by the Agent pursuant to
Clause 7.1.2 (Adoption) as of which an Interim Projection is to be prepared and
adopted.
“L/C Proportion” means, in relation to any Lender in respect of any Letter of
Credit at any time, the proportion (expressed as a percentage) borne by that
Lender’s Commitment to the Aggregate Commitments at such time or, if at any such
time the Aggregate Commitments have been reduced to zero, the proportion,
(expressed as a percentage) borne by that Lender’s Commitment to the Aggregate
Commitments immediately prior to such reduction.
“Lender” means:

(A)   any Original Lender; and   (B)   any bank, financial institution, trust,
fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with Clause 26
(Changes to the Lenders),

which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement.
“Letter of Credit” means a letter of credit issued or to be issued pursuant to
Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of Credit).
“LIBOR” means, in relation to any Loan:

(A)   the applicable Screen Rate; or   (B)   (if no Screen Rate is available for
the currency or the Interest Period of that Loan) the arithmetic mean of the
rates (rounded upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Agent at its
request quoted by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank
market,

as of 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Day for the offering of deposits
in the currency of that Loan and for a period comparable to the Interest Period
for that Loan.
“LLCR Amount” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the amount, in
dollars, calculated in accordance with the following formula:
LLCR Amount = A + B + C
where:
“A” is the net present value (as at the first day of that Calculation Period) of
the aggregate (the “relevant amount”) of the Projected Net Revenues for that
Calculation Period and for each Calculation Period occurring thereafter which
ends on or before the Final Maturity Date (being the discounted value of the
relevant amount calculated, using the Computer Model, by applying the relevant
discount rate agreed or determined in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) to
the relevant amount);

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“B” is the aggregate Dollar Amount of sums standing to the credit of the Cash
Collateral Accounts on the first day of that Calculation Period which have been
credited thereto by a Borrower for the purposes of complying with its
obligations under Clause 6.13 (Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit)) in
relation to each Letter of Credit that has been issued in respect of any
Borrowing Base Asset the Abandonment Date of which is projected to occur prior
to the Final Maturity Date); and
“C” is (to the extent that (i) such capital expenditure has been approved by the
Technical Bank and (ii) drawings under the Facility are forecast to be available
to fund such capital expenditure or the Company has demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the Technical Bank (acting reasonably) that the Borrower Group
has other committed funds, other than cash flow, to fund such capital
expenditure which is within this paragraph C) the net present value (as at the
first day of that Calculation Period) of the aggregate amount of capital
expenditure projected to be incurred by the Borrower Group in the period of
twelve months (or such shorter period as ends on the Final Maturity Date)
commencing on that first day of that Calculation Period (being, the discounted
value of that aggregate amount of capital expenditure calculated, using the
Computer Model, by applying the relevant discount rate agreed or determined in
accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) to that aggregate amount of capital
expenditure).
“LMA” means the Loan Market Association.
“Loan” means a loan made or to be made under the Facility or the principal
amount outstanding for the time being of that loan being a Tranche A Loan or a
Tranche B Loan.
“Majority Lenders” means:

(A)   until the Aggregate Commitments have been reduced to zero, a Lender or
Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than 66.67% of the Aggregate
Commitments (or, if the Aggregate Commitments have been reduced to zero and
there are no Utilisations then outstanding, aggregated more than 66.67% of the
Aggregate Commitments immediately prior to the reduction); or   (B)   at any
other time, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Utilisations then
outstanding aggregate more than 66.67% of all the Utilisations then outstanding.

    “Mandatory Cost” means the percentage rate per annum calculated by the Agent
in accordance with Schedule 7 (Mandatory Cost Formulae).       “Margin” means
the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent in accordance with
Schedule 14 (Margin).       “Material Adverse Change” means any event,
development or circumstance that has a material adverse effect on:

(A)   the ability of any Obligor to perform any of its payment obligations under
any Finance Document as and when they fall due to be performed;   (B)   the
business, property, operations or financial condition of the Obligors (taken as
a whole);   (C)   the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Finance
Document;

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(D)   the rights and remedies of any Finance Party under any Finance Document;
or   (E)   the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or priority of any
Security created or purported to be created under the Finance Documents.

“Material Subsidiary” means each member of the Group whose:

(A)   profits (calculated before making allowances for Taxes) represent more
than 10% of the aggregate profits of the Group (calculated before making
allowances for Taxes) as shown by the latest audited consolidated accounts for
the time being of the Company as adjusted in such manner as the Agent and the
Company may agree (each acting reasonably) to be appropriate from time to time
to take account of any matters occurring after the relevant balance sheet date;
or   (B)   fixed assets (other than intangible assets) have a book value which
represents more than 10% of the book value of the consolidated fixed assets
(other than intangible assets) of the Group as shown by the latest audited
consolidated accounts for the time being of the Company as adjusted in such
manner as the Agent and the Company may agree (each acting reasonably) to be
appropriate from time to time to take account of any matters occurring after the
relevant balance sheet date.

“Month” means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the
numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:

(A)   (subject to paragraph (C) below) if the numerically corresponding day is
not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that
calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is
not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;   (B)   if there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to
end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
  (C)   if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar
month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar
month in which that Interest Period is to end.

The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period.
“NIBOR” means, in relation to any Loan in Norwegian krone:

(A)   the applicable Screen Rate; or   (B)   (if no Screen Rate is available for
the Interest Period of that Loan) the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded
upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Agent at its request quoted
by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the European interbank market,

as of 11.00 am Oslo time on the Quotation Day for the offering of deposits in
Norwegian krone for a period comparable to the Interest Period of the relevant
Loan.

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“Non Recourse Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company which:

(A)   does not own directly or indirectly (by shareholding or otherwise) an
interest in any Borrowing Base Asset; and   (B)   which has been nominated as a
“Non-Recourse Subsidiary” by the Company by written notice to the Agent.

“Obligor” means a Borrower or a Guarantor.
“Original Financial Statements” means:

(A)   in relation to the Company, the audited consolidated financial statements
of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2005; and   (B)   in
relation to each of the other Original Obligors, its financial statements or, if
the same have been audited, audited financial statements for its financial year
ended 31 December 2005.

“Original Obligor” means an Original Borrower or an Original Guarantor.
“Original Reserves” means, in relation to each Borrowing Base Asset, the
quantities of Petroleum forecast in the first Projection in which such Petroleum
Asset is included as a Borrowing Base Asset to be produced from such Borrowing
Base Asset from the first day of the first Calculation Period shown in such
Projection up to (and including) the Abandonment Date for such Borrowing Base
Asset.
“Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Communities
that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with
legislation of the European Community relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
“Party” means a party to this Agreement.
“Permitted Hedging Agreement” means any Secured Hedging Agreement or any other
Hedging Agreement entered into by any Obligor in accordance with Clause 23.22
(Hedging).
“Permitted Transaction” means:

(A)   an intra-group re-organisation on a solvent basis   (B)   the transfer of
any Borrowing Base Asset owned by Talisman Expro Limited to Endeavour Energy UK
Limited, on terms (i) whereby such asset remains a Borrowing Base Asset and
(ii) that ensure that the Security Trustee continues to have Security over such
Borrowing Base Asset upon the same, or more beneficial, terms as the Security
granted in favour of the Security Trustee over such Borrowing Base Asset before
such transfer and that the Security that the Security Trustee has over such
Borrowing Base Asset is not prejudiced or adversely affected in any way;   (C)  
the winding-up of Talisman Expro Limited on a solvent basis at a time when it
has no assets whatsoever and is not a Borrower or Guarantor; or   (B)   any
other transaction agreed by the Majority Lenders.

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“Petroleum” means any mineral, oil or relative hydrocarbon (including condensate
and natural gas liquids) and natural gas existing in its natural condition in
strata (but not including coal or bituminous shale or other stratified deposits
from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation).
“Petroleum Asset” means (i) any Petroleum field, pipeline transmission system or
other Petroleum project, (ii) the facilities relating to such field, system or
project and/or (iii) the interests in such field, system, project or facilities.
“PMP” means a professional market party (professionele marktpartij) within the
meaning of the Dutch Exemption Regulation.
“Policy Guidelines” means the Dutch Central Bank’s Policy Guidelines (issued in
relation to the Exemption Regulation) dated 29 December 2004 (beleidsregel
kernbegrippen markttoetreding en handhaving wtk 1992).
“Potential Event of Default” means any event or circumstances specified in
Clause 25 (Events of Default) which would (with the expiry of a grace period,
the giving of notice, the fulfilment of any condition, the making of any
determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of the foregoing)
be an Event of Default.
“Probable Reserves” means, in relation to any Petroleum Asset, those quantities
of Petroleum which have a 50% or greater probability of being recovered from
that Petroleum Asset (as determined in accordance with the guidelines of the
Society of Petroleum Engineers).
“Proceeds Account” has the meaning given in Clause 20.3 (Proceeds Account).
“Project Accounts” means the Proceeds Accounts and the Cash Collateral Accounts.
“Project Documents” means:

(A)   in relation to each Borrowing Base Asset:

  (1)   each joint operating agreement and/or unitisation and unit operating
agreement relating thereto, each agreement relating to the development thereof
or the transportation, processing and/or storage of production therefrom and
each agreement for the sale or marketing of production therefrom and each other
major agreement relating to that Borrowing Base Asset and/or Petroleum produced
therefrom;     (2)   any Authorisation required for the lawful exploitation,
development or operation of that Borrowing Base Asset or the production,
transportation or sale of Petroleum therefrom (and including, without
limitation, any Petroleum production licence);     (3)   any development plan
approved by any relevant operating committee and/or any appropriate governmental
or other regulatory authority relating to that Borrowing Base Asset;

(B)   any documents relating to the acquisition by any member of the Borrower
Group of any interests in any Borrowing Base Asset or of any entity holding the
interest in such Borrowing Base Asset; and

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(C)   any other document designated as such by the Company and the Agent.

“Projected Net Revenues” means, in relation to any period, an amount (which may
be a negative or positive figure) calculated by deducting “B” from “A” where:
“A” is the aggregate of the Gross Income projected to be received in that
period; and
“B” is the aggregate of the Gross Expenditure projected to be made in that
period.
“Projection” means a consolidated cashflow and debt service projection in
respect of the Borrower Group prepared or to be prepared pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Proven Reserves” means, in relation to any Petroleum Asset, those quantities of
Petroleum which have a 90% or greater probability of being recovered from that
Petroleum Asset (as determined in accordance with the guidelines of the Society
of Petroleum Engineers).
“Qualifying Lender” has the meaning given to it in Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and
indemnities).
“Quotation Day” means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is
to be determined:

(A)   (if the currency is sterling) the first day of that period;   (B)   (if
the currency is euro) two TARGET Days before the first day of that period; or  
(C)   (for any other currency) two Business Days before the first day of that
period,

unless market practice differs in the Relevant Interbank Market for a currency
in which case the Quotation Day for that currency will be determined by the
Agent in accordance with market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market and if
quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the Relevant Interbank
Market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days.
“Recalculation Date” means any Scheduled Recalculation Date or Interim
Recalculation Date.
“Reference Banks” means, in relation to LIBOR, the principal London offices of
BNP Paribas and the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland and, in
relation to EURIBOR, the principal offices in Brussels of BNP Paribas and the
Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland and, in relation to NIBOR, the
principal offices in Oslo of BNP Paribas and the Governor and Company of the
Bank of Scotland or in any case such other Banks as may be appointed by the
Agent in consultation with the Company.
“Relevant Affiliate” means, to the extent that it is not already an Obligor, any
wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company.
“Relevant Interbank Market” means, in relation to euro, the European interbank
market, in relation to Norwegian krone, the Oslo interbank market and, in
relation to any other currency, the London interbank market.
“Relevant NPV” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the FLCR Amount or,
as the case may be, the LLCR Amount (shown in the then current Projection) which
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derive the then applicable Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount and Tranche B
Borrowing Base Amount.
“Remaining Reserves” means, in relation to each Borrowing Base Asset and any
date, the quantities of Petroleum forecast in the then current Projection to be
produced by that Borrowing Base Asset in the period from that date up to (and
including) the Abandonment Date for such Borrowing Base Asset.
“Renewal Letter of Credit” means a Letter of Credit issued in accordance with
the requirements of Clause 6.4 (Renewal of a Letter of Credit).
“Repeating Representations” means each of the representations set out in Clause
21 (Representations) other than those in Clauses 21.6 (Pari passu ranking), 21.7
(Insolvency), 21.9 (Authorisations), 21.10 (Financial statements), 21.11 (No
Material Adverse Change), 21.12 (Litigation), 21.13 (Information Package), 21.15
(Environmental Matters), 21.19 (Laws and regulations), 21.20 (Insurances), 21.23
(Deduction of Tax), 21.24 (Ownership structure), 21.26 (Share Security) and
21.27 (Information Memorandum).
“Reserve Tail Date” means the first day of the first Calculation Period in which
the then current Projection forecasts that the aggregate Remaining Reserves for
all Borrowing Base Assets falls below 20% of the aggregate Original Reserves for
such Borrowing Base Assets.
“Reserves Report” means a report which:

(A)   is prepared by an Independent Engineer;   (B)   is addressed to the
Technical Bank and Security Trustee (on behalf of the Secured Creditors) in a
manner which ensures that the Independent Engineer owes a duty of care to the
Technical Bank, the Security Trustee and the Secured Creditors; and   (C)  
contains such information and/or evaluation(s) (relating to each Borrowing Base
Asset or, as the case may be, any other Petroleum Asset which the Company is
seeking to have designated as a Borrowing Base Asset) as the Technical Bank may
reasonably require including (i) evaluation(s) of the recoverable reserves (both
Probable Reserves and Proven Reserves) and/or production profiles of such
Borrowing Base Assets or, as the case may be, Petroleum Assets and (ii) the
operating costs and expenditure profiles taken into consideration by the
Independent Engineer for each Borrowing Base Asset or, as the case may be, other
Petroleum Asset included in such report;

“Rollover Loan” means one or more Loans:

(A)   made or to be made on the same day that a maturing Loan is due to be
repaid;   (B)   the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the
maturing Loan;   (C)   in the same currency as the maturing Loan; and   (D)  
made or to be made to the same Borrower for the purpose of refinancing a
maturing Loan.

“Scheduled Projection” means each Projection that is adopted or due to be
adopted on a Scheduled Recalculation Date.

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“Scheduled Recalculation Date” means each 1st April and 1st October occurring
before the Final Maturity Date.
“Screen Rate” means:

(A)   in relation to LIBOR, the British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement
Rate for the relevant currency and period;   (B)   in relation to EURIBOR, the
percentage rate per annum determined by the Banking Federation of the European
Union for the relevant period; and   (C)   in relation to NIBOR, the percentage
rate per annum determined by Den Norske Bank for the relevant currency and
period,

displayed on the appropriate page of the Telerate screen. If the agreed page is
replaced or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page
or service displaying the appropriate rate after consultation with the Company
and the Lenders.
“Second Lien Facility” means the second lien credit and guarantee agreement
dated on or about the date of this Agreement between, amongst others, Endeavour
International Holding, the Guarantors as defined therein and Credit Suisse.
“Secured Creditors” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Intercreditor
Agreement.
“Security” means a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other security interest
securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement
having a similar effect.
“Specified Period” means each period specified in the first column (headed
“Specified Period”) of the table set out in Schedule 2 (The Original Lenders).
“Subsidiary” means a subsidiary undertaking within the meaning of section 258 of
the Companies Act 1985.
“Syndication Date” means the date notified by the Mandated Lead Arrangers to the
Company as the date on which the primary syndication of this Facility is to be,
or has been, effected.
“Talisman Expro Limited” means Talisman Expro Limited, a company incorporated in
England and Wales (Registered No. 03518803) having its registered office at
20-22 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JS.
“TARGET” means Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer payment system.
“Target Assets” means the issued share capital of Talisman Expro Limited.
“TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET is open for the settlement of
payments in euro.
“Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a
similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any
failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).
“Taxes Act” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

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“Technical Assumption” means any assumption (other than an Economic Assumption),
and the values ascribed to such assumption, upon which each Projection or draft
Projection and, in each case, the calculations and information therein are, or
are to be, based (including the Abandonment Date for each Borrowing Base Asset).
“Technical Bank” means The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland in its
capacity as technical bank or any other person that replaces it in such capacity
in accordance with this Agreement.
“Term” means, in relation to any Letter of Credit, the period during which the
Fronting Bank is under a liability under that Letter of Credit.
“Total Available Commitments” means the aggregate for the time being of each
Lender’s Available Commitment.
“Total Relevant Outstandings” means, on any date, the amount which is the
aggregate of the aggregate Dollar Amount of all Loans and all Letters of Credit
(other than Eligible Letters of Credit) outstanding at such time. For this
purpose, the amount outstanding under any Letter of Credit shall be deemed to
have been reduced by the amount of cash cover for such Letter of Credit
“Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount” means, in relation to any Calculation Period
or any day falling in that Calculation Period, the amount (in dollars) reflected
in each Projection which is the lowest of A, B and C where:

(A)   “A” is calculated by dividing the FLCR Amount relating to that Calculation
Period by the Applicable Tranche A FLCR; and   (B)   “B” is calculated by
dividing the LLCR Amount relating to that Calculation Period by the Applicable
Tranche A LLCR; and   (C)   “C” is the maximum aggregate amount of Loans (in
dollars) which could be outstanding under the Facility without the Tranche A
DSCR for any Calculation Period being less than the Applicable Tranche A DSCR.

“Tranche A DSCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the debt service
cover ratio for such period being the ratio of N:D as shown in the then current
Projection, where:
“N” is the aggregate of (i) the Projected Net Revenues for such Calculation
Period; (ii) all Hedging Termination Payments which are due and payable to the
Obligors in such Calculation Period; and (iii) the aggregate Dollar Amount of
the amounts standing to the credit of the Proceeds Accounts on the first day of
such Calculation Period which the Technical Bank (acting reasonably) determines
would be available to the Obligors for the purposes of meeting their liabilities
under the Finance Documents and any Permitted Hedging Agreement as they fall due
in such Calculation Period; and
“D” is the aggregate amount of (i) all principal, interest, fees, commission and
other amounts which are due and payable by the Obligors in such Calculation
Period under the Finance Documents (other than any Hedging Costs that are due
and payable under any Secured Hedging Agreement or any of the foregoing amounts
which relate to Tranche B Loans) and (ii) all Hedging Termination Payments which
are due and payable by the Obligors in such Calculation Period.
“Tranche A FLCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the field life
cover ratio for such period being the ratio of N:D as shown in the then current
Projection, where:

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(A)   “N” is the FLCR Amount relating to that Calculation Period; and   (B)  
“D” is the aggregate Dollar Amount of all Tranche A Loans and Letters of Credit
(other than Eligible Letters of Credit) or, as the case may be, the projected
aggregate Dollar Amount of all Tranche A Loans and Letters of Credit (other than
Eligible Letters of Credit) outstanding on the first day of that Calculation
Period.

“Tranche A LLCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the loan life
cover ratio for such period being the ratio of N:D as shown in the then current
Projection where:
“N” is the LLCR Amount relating to that Calculation Period; and
“D” is the aggregate Dollar Amount of all Tranche A Loans and Letters of Credit
(other than Eligible Letters of Credit) or, as the case may be, the projected
aggregate Dollar Amount of all Tranche A Loans and Letters of Credit (other than
Eligible Letters of Credit) outstanding on the first day of that Calculation
Period.
“Tranche A Loan” has the meaning given in Clause 3.2 (Tranche A Loans and
Tranche B Loans).
“Tranche A Maximum Available Amount” means, on any day, an amount (in dollars)
which is the lower of:

(A)   the Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount on that day; and   (B)   the
difference between the Aggregate Commitments on that day and the aggregate
Dollar Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit on that day.

“Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount” means, in relation to any Calculation Period
or any day falling in that Calculation Period, the amount (in dollars) reflected
in each Projection which is the lowest of A, B and C where:

(A)   “A” is calculated by dividing the FLCR Amount in relation to that
Calculation Period by the Applicable Tranche B FLCR; and   (B)   “B” is
calculated by dividing the LLCR Amount in relation to that Calculation Period by
the Applicable Tranche B LLCR; and   (C)   “C” is the maximum aggregate amount
of Loans (in Dollars) which could be outstanding under the Facility without the
Tranche B DSCR for any Calculation Period being less than the Applicable Tranche
B DSCR.

“Tranche B DSCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the debt service
cover ratio for such period being the ratio of N:D as shown in the then current
Projection, where:
“N” is the aggregate of (i) the Projected Net Revenues for such Calculation
Period; (ii) all Hedging Termination Payments which are due and payable to the
Obligors in such Calculation Period; and (iii) the aggregate Dollar Amount of
the amounts standing to the credit of the Proceeds Accounts on the first day of
such Calculation Period which the Technical Bank (acting reasonably) determines
would be available to the Obligors for the purposes of meeting their liabilities
under the Finance Documents and any Permitted Hedging Agreement as they fall due
in such Calculation Period; and
“D” is the aggregate amount of (i) all principal, interest, fees, commission and
other amounts which are due and payable by the Obligors in such Calculation
Period under the Finance Documents (other than any Hedging Costs that are due
and payable under any

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Secured Hedging Agreement) and (ii) all Hedging Termination Payments which are
due and payable by the Obligors in such Calculation Period.
“Tranche B FLCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the ratio of N:D
as shown in the then current Projection, where:
“N” is the FLCR Amount relating to that Calculation Period; and
“D” is the Total Relevant Outstandings outstanding or, as the case may be,
projected to be outstanding on the first day of that Calculation Period.
“Tranche B LLCR” means, in relation to any Calculation Period, the ratio of N:D
as shown in the then current Projection where:
“N” is the LLCR Amount relating to that Calculation Period; and
“D” is the Total Relevant Outstandings outstanding or, as the case may be,
projected to be outstanding on the first day of that Calculation Period.
“Tranche B Loan” has the meaning given in Clause 3.2 (Tranche A Loans and
Tranche B Loans).
“Tranche B Maximum Available Amount” means, on any day, an amount (in dollars)
which is the lower of:

(A)   the Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount on that day; and   (B)   the
difference between the Aggregate Commitments on that day and the aggregate
Dollar Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit on that day.

“Transaction Documents” means the Project Documents and the Finance Documents.
“Transaction Party” means each Obligor and each other party (not being a Finance
Party) who is party to any Finance Document.
“Transfer Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in
Schedule 8 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the
Agent and the Company.
“Transfer Date” means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:

(A)   the proposed Transfer Date specified in the Transfer Certificate; and  
(B)   the date on which the Agent executes the Transfer Certificate.

“Unpaid Sum” means any sum due and payable but unpaid by an Obligor under the
Finance Documents.
“Utilisation” means a Loan or a Letter of Credit.
“Utilisation Date” means the date of a Utilisation, being (a) in the case of any
Loan, the date on which the Loan is made or (b) in the case of any Letter of
Credit, the date on which that Letter of Credit is issued or, as the case may
be, in relation to any Letter of Credit that is being or has been renewed, the
date on which that Letter of Credit is renewed and re-issued.

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“Utilisation Request” means:

  (A)   in relation to any Loan, a notice substantially in the form set out in
Part I (Loans) of Schedule 5 (Utilisation Request); and     (B)   in relation to
any Letter of Credit, a notice substantially in the form set out in Part II
(Letters of Credit) of Schedule 5 (Utilisation Request).

“VAT” means value added tax as provided for in the Value Added Tax Act 1994 and
any other tax of a similar nature.

1.2   Construction

  1.2.1   Unless a contrary indication appears, any reference in this Agreement
to:

  (A)   any Finance Party or any Obligor or Transaction Party shall be construed
so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted
transferees;     (B)   “assets” includes present and future properties, revenues
and rights of every description;     (C)   a “Finance Document” or any other
agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other
agreement or instrument as amended or novated;     (D)   “indebtedness” includes
any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or
repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;     (E)   a
“person” includes any person, firm, company, corporation, government, state or
agency of a state or any association, trust or partnership (whether or not
having separate legal personality) or two or more of the foregoing;     (F)   a
“regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or
guideline (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force
of law, being of a kind that is normally complied with by those to whom it is
addressed) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency,
department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;  
  (G)   “disposal” means a sale, transfer, grant, lease or other disposal,
whether voluntary or involuntary, and “dispose” will be construed accordingly;  
  (H)   a “guarantee” includes any form of indemnity or other assurance against
financial loss (including any obligation to pay, purchase or provide funds for
the purchase of any liability), and the verb “to guarantee” shall be construed
accordingly;     (I)   a provision of law is a reference to that provision as
amended or re-enacted;     (J)   a time of day is a reference to London time;

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  (K)   any matter “including” specific instances or examples of such matter
shall be construed without limitation to the generality of that matter (and
references to “include” shall be construed accordingly);     (L)   the Interest
Period of a Letter of Credit will be construed as a reference to the Term of
that Letter of Credit;     (M)   an amount borrowed includes any amount utilised
by way of Letter of Credit;     (N)   a Utilisation made or to be made to a
Borrower includes a Letter of Credit issued on its behalf;     (O)   a Lender
funding its participation in a Utilisation includes a Lender participating in a
Letter of Credit;     (P)   amounts outstanding under this Agreement include
amounts outstanding under any Letter of Credit;     (Q)   a Borrower “repaying”
or “prepaying” a Letter of Credit means:

  (1)   that Borrower providing cash cover for that Letter of Credit;     (2)  
the maximum amount payable under the Letter of Credit being reduced in
accordance with its terms; or     (3)   the Fronting Bank being satisfied that
it has no further liability under that Letter of Credit,

      and the amount by which a Letter of Credit is repaid or prepaid under
paragraphs (Q)(1) and (Q)(2) above is the amount of the relevant cash cover or,
as the case may be, relevant reduction;     (R)   a Borrower providing “cash
cover” for a Letter of Credit means a Borrower paying an amount in the currency
in which that Letter of Credit is determined to a Cash Collateral Account and
that Borrower shall be regarded as continuing to provide cash cover to the
extent of the amount that remains standing to the credit of that Cash Collateral
Account from time to time;     (S)   “€” or “euro(s)” is to the lawful currency
for the time being of the European Union;     (T)   “$” or “dollars” is to the
lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America;     (U)  
“£” or “sterling” is to the lawful currency for the time being of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and     (V)   “NOK” or “Norwegian
krone” is to the lawful currency for the time being of the Kingdom of Norway.

  1.2.2   Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only.

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  1.2.3   Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance
Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document
has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement.
Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement or unless the contrary is expressly
specified in this Agreement, terms defined in the Intercreditor Agreement shall
have the same meaning when used in this Agreement.     1.2.4   A Potential Event
of Default is “continuing” if it has not been remedied or waived. An Event of
Default is continuing if it has not been waived.     1.2.5   For the purposes of
this Agreement:

  (A)   subject to the first sentence in Clause 7.1.1 (Adoption), a reference to
the then “current Projection” is a reference to the Projection most recently
adopted pursuant to Clause 7.9 (Adoption of Projections); and     (B)   a
reference to the date on which any Projection is “due” to be adopted is a
reference to the Recalculation Date as of which that Projection is to be
prepared and adopted under Clause 7.1.1 (Adoption).

  1.2.6   Any reference in this Agreement to:

  (A)   the Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount or Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount
which is “applicable” on any date or period is a reference to the Tranche A
Borrowing Base Amount or Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount relating to that date
or period as shown in the then current Projection as adjusted at the request of
the Company or the Majority Lenders by the Agent (after consulting with the
Company) to reflect any change in the aggregate amount standing to the credit of
the Cash Collateral Account(s) since the date of the adoption of such Projection
provided that the Agent shall, promptly upon the making of such adjustment,
notify the Company and the Lenders of such adjustment;     (B)   the “face
value” of any Letter of Credit is a reference to the face amount of the Letter
of Credit on the date of its issue (without regard to any cash cover provided or
any claims made thereunder); and     (C)   an “outstanding” amount of a Letter
of Credit at any time is a reference to the maximum amount that is or may be
payable by the Borrower in respect of that Letter of Credit at that time (save
for the purposes of Clause 8.3.2 (Reduction), without regard to any cash cover
provided in relation to such Letter of Credit).

  1.2.7   Unless a contrary intention appears, the obligation(s) of each Obligor
and Transaction Party under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall
remain in force for as long as any amount is outstanding under the Finance
Documents or any Commitment is in force.     1.2.8   The summary set out in
Schedule 11 (Summary of Projections Process) is only a summary of certain
provisions of Clause 7 (Projections) and has been included only for ease of
reference. That Schedule (a) shall be ignored for the purposes of interpreting
the provisions of Clause 7 (Projections) and (b) is not intended to have any
contractual effect.

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1.3   Third party rights

  1.3.1   Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document, a
person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third
Parties) Act 1999 (the “Third Parties Act”) to enforce or to enjoy the benefit
of any term of this Agreement.     1.3.2   Notwithstanding any term of any
Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a Party is not required
to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time.

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THE FACILITY

2.   THE FACILITY   2.1   Facility       Subject to the terms of this Agreement,
the Lenders make available to the Borrowers a multicurrency revolving credit
facility (which may be utilised by way of Loans or Letters of Credit) in an
aggregate amount equal to the Aggregate Commitments from time to time.   2.2  
Finance Parties’ rights and obligations

  2.2.1   The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are
several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance
Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance
Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other
Finance Party under the Finance Documents.     2.2.2   The rights of each
Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and
independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance
Party from an Obligor shall be a separate and independent debt.     2.2.3   A
Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents,
separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents.

3.   PURPOSE   3.1   Purpose

  3.1.1   Each Borrower shall apply the proceeds of the Loans borrowed by it
under the Facility in or towards:

  (A)   the making of payments to Paladin Resources Limited required to be made
under the Acquisition Agreement;     (B)   second, meeting its liabilities under
this Agreement in relation to any Letter of Credit in respect of which demands
have been made;     (C)   third, funding the capital expenditure programme for
the development of the Borrowing Base Assets which has been taken into account
in the then current Projection or has otherwise been approved in writing by the
Technical Bank;     (D)   fourth, to pay items of Gross Expenditure to the
extent reflected in the then current Projection;     (E)   fifth, to pay costs
associated with acquiring the Target Assets;     (F)   sixth, to pay amounts due
under the Finance Documents and any Permitted Hedging Agreement;     (G)  
seventh, to pay exploration, appraisal and development expenditure in respect of
any Petroleum asset in which an Obligor has an interest; and

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  (H)   eighth, for other lawful general corporate purposes of the Obligors.

  3.1.2   Each Borrower shall utilise each Letter of Credit issued under the
Facility at its request in or toward:

  (A)   providing security or credit enhancement for the performance of the
obligations of any Obligor for decommissioning or abandonment liabilities, to
the extent such liabilities have been taken into account in the current
Projection; and     (B)   providing security or credit enhancement for the
performance of the obligations of any Obligor other than those referred to in
Clause 3.1.2(A).

3.2   Tranche A Loans and Tranche B Loans       In each Utilisation Request
relating to a Loan, the relevant Borrower will describe the purpose for which
the Loan is to be drawn and designate the same as a “Tranche A Loan” or a
“Tranche B Loan” provided that no Borrower may request a Tranche B Loan to the
extent that such Loan could in whole or in part be drawn as a Tranche A Loan.  
3.3   Monitoring       No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the
application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.   4.   CONDITIONS
OF UTILISATION   4.1   Initial conditions precedent       No Borrower may
deliver a Utilisation Request unless the Agent has received all of the documents
and other evidence listed in Part I (CPs to first Utilisation Request) of
Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent) in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent. The Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders
promptly upon being so satisfied.   4.2   Further conditions precedent       The
Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation)
and the Fronting Bank shall only be obliged to comply with Clause 6.5 (Issue of
Letters of Credit), in each case, if:

  4.2.1   on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation
Date:

  (A)   in the case of a Rollover Loan or Renewal Letter of Credit, no Event of
Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation and, in the
case of any other Utilisation, no Default is continuing or would result from the
proposed Utilisation; and     (B)   the Repeating Representations to be made by
each Obligor are true in all material respects;

  4.2.2   other than in the case of a Rollover Loan or a Renewal Letter of
Credit any Projection which is due to be adopted by a Recalculation Date has
been adopted in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) by such Recalculation
Date unless:

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  (A)   it has not been so adopted as a result of any failure by any Finance
Party to (i) perform its obligations under this Agreement or (ii) take any
action with respect to the preparation and/or adoption of such Projection that
it is required to take under Clause 7 (Projections) within the timeframes
provided for); or     (B)   it has not been so adopted but the Majority Lenders
(acting reasonably) are of the opinion that if such a Projection were to be
adopted, the conditions set out in Clauses 4.2.4 and 4.2.5 would be satisfied
(taking account of any revised Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount and Tranche B
Borrowing Base Amount resulting from such Projection).

  4.2.3   the aggregate of:

  (A)   the Dollar Amount of the Utilisation proposed to be made on the proposed
Utilisation Date; and     (B)   the aggregate Dollar Amount of all outstanding
Utilisations on the proposed Utilisation Date less the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Utilisations due to be repaid or prepaid on the
proposed Utilisation Date,

      does not exceed the Aggregate Commitments applicable on such proposed
Utilisation Date;     4.2.4   in the case of any proposed Tranche A Loan or any
Letter of Credit which is not an Eligible Letter of Credit the aggregate of:

  (A)   the Dollar Amount of the Utilisation proposed to be made on the proposed
Utilisation Date; and     (B)   the Dollar Amount of all outstanding Tranche A
Loans and all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible Letter of
Credit) at the proposed Utilisation Date less the aggregate Dollar Amount of all
outstanding Tranche A Loans and all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than
any Eligible Letter of Credit) due to be repaid or prepaid on the proposed
Utilisation Date,

      does not exceed the Tranche A Maximum Available Amount applicable on such
proposed Utilisation Date;     4.2.5   In the case of any proposed Tranche B
Loan or any Letter of Credit which is not an Eligible Letter of Credit the
aggregate of:

  (A)   the Dollar Amount of the Utilisation proposed to be made on the proposed
Utilisation Date; and     (B)   the Dollar Amount of all outstanding Loans and
all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible Letter of Credit) at
the proposed Utilisation Date less the aggregate Dollar Amount of all
outstanding Loans and all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible
Letter of Credit) due to be repaid or prepaid on the proposed Utilisation Date,

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      does not exceed the Tranche B Maximum Available Amount applicable on such
proposed Utilisation Date.     4.2.6   In the case of any proposed Utilisation
by way of a Letter of Credit, the aggregate of:

  (A)   the outstanding Dollar Amount of the proposed Letter of Credit; and    
(B)   the aggregate outstanding Dollar Amount of all other outstanding Letters
of Credit on the proposed Utilisation Date,

      does not exceed $60,000,000 or, if less, the Aggregate Commitments
applicable on such proposed Utilisation Date.     4.2.7   In the case of the
first Utilisation, the Agent has received (either before, or simultaneously
with, the making of such Utilisation) all of the documents and other evidence
listed in Part II (CPs to first Utilisation) of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent
and subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.

4.3   Conditions subsequent

  4.3.1   The Obligors undertake to deliver to the Agent, on or before the date
falling thirty days after the date of the first Utilisation hereunder, all of
the documents and other evidence listed in Part III (Conditions Subsequent) of
Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent), save for paragraph 12 thereof,
in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.     4.3.2   The Obligors
undertake to deliver to the Agent, on or before the 31 January 2007, all of the
documents and other evidence listed in paragraph 12 (Corporate status of
Endeavour Energy Norge AS) of Part III (Conditions Subsequent) of Schedule 3
(Conditions precedent and subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the
Agent

4.4   Maximum number of Utilisations       A Borrower may not deliver a
Utilisation Request if as a result of the proposed Utilisation more than 10
Loans or 10 Letters of Credit would be outstanding.

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UTILISATION

5.   UTILISATION — LOANS   5.1   Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Loans    
  A Borrower may request a Loan to be made by delivery to the Agent of a duly
completed Utilisation Request not later than 10.00 a.m. on the fourth Business
Day prior to the proposed Utilisation Date (or such later date as the Lenders
may agree).   5.2   Completion of a Utilisation Request for Loans

  5.2.1   Each Utilisation Request for a Loan is irrevocable and will not be
regarded as having been duly completed unless:

  (A)   it specifies that it is for a Tranche A Loan or a Tranche B Loan;    
(B)   the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability
Period;     (C)   the currency and amount of the Loan comply with Clause 5.3
(Currency and amount);     (D)   the proposed Interest Period complies with
Clause 11 (Interest Periods); and     (E)   it has been duly signed by an
authorised signatory of the relevant Borrower.

  5.2.2   Only one Loan may be requested in each Utilisation Request delivered
under this Clause 5 (Utilisation – Loans).

5.3   Currency and amount

  5.3.1   The currency specified in a Utilisation Request for a Loan must be
dollars, sterling, Norwegian krone or euro.     5.3.2   The amount of the
proposed Loan must:

  (A)   if the currency selected is dollars a minimum of $5,000,000 or, if less,
the maximum amount of the Facility that may be utilised for such Loan under
Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent);     (B)   if the currency selected is
sterling, a minimum of £3,000,000 or, if less, an amount (in sterling) the
Dollar Amount of which is equal to the maximum amount of the Facility that may
be utilised for such Loan under Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent);    
(C)   if the currency selected is euro, a minimum of €5,000,000 or, if less, an
amount (in euro) the Dollar Amount of which is equal to the maximum amount of
the Facility that may be utilised for such Loan under Clause 4.2 (Further
conditions precedent); or

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  (D)   if the currency selected is Norwegian krone, a minimum of NOK 40,000,000
or, if less, an amount (in Norwegian krone) the Dollar Amount of which is equal
to the maximum amount of the Facility that may be utilised for such Loan under
Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent).

5.4   Lenders’ participation

  5.4.1   If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender
shall make its participation in each Loan available by the Utilisation Date
through its Facility Office.     5.4.2   The amount of each Lender’s
participation in each Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its
Available Commitment to the Total Available Commitments immediately prior to
making the Loan.     5.4.3   The Agent shall determine the Dollar Amount of each
Loan which is to be made in a currency other than dollars and shall notify each
Lender of the amount, currency and Dollar Amount of each Loan and the amount of
its participation in that Loan, in each case, not later than 5.00 p.m. on the
third Business Day prior to the Utilisation Date for such Loan or, if (in the
case of any Loan to be made pursuant to Clause 6.9 (Loans to cover demands) it
is not practicable to do so by such third Business Day, as soon as reasonably
practicable after receiving the relevant notice from the Fronting Bank referred
to in Clause 6.9 (Loans to cover demands).

5.5   Deemed Utilisation Requests       Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement, each Utilisation Request that is deemed to be issued pursuant to
Clause 6.9 (Loans to cover demands) shall be deemed to have been issued in
compliance with Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Loans) and
Clause 5.2 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Loans) and all conditions
(including the conditions set out in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent
and subsequent)) that are required to be met in order for each Lender to make
its participation in the Loan requested thereunder to be made available in
accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation) shall be deemed to have been
met on the Utilisation Date for such Loan. The making of such Loan shall not be
construed as a waiver of (i) any such conditions for any other purposes or
(ii) any Default that may be continuing at such time.`   6.   UTILISATION —
LETTERS OF CREDIT   6.1   Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Letters of
Credit

  6.1.1   Subject to Clause 6.1.2, a Borrower may request a Letter of Credit to
be issued by delivery to the Agent and the Fronting Bank of a duly completed
Utilisation Request not later than 10.00 a.m. on the fifth Business Day prior to
the proposed Utilisation Date (or such later date as the Lenders and the
Fronting Bank may agree).     6.1.2   No Borrower may utilise the Facility by
way of Letter of Credit unless it:

  (A)   maintains Cash Collateral Accounts in accordance with the terms hereof;

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  (B)   any decommissioning liabilities which any Eligible Letter of Credit is
to credit enhance the performance of have been included within Gross Expenditure
in the calculation of the Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount and Tranche B
Borrowing Base Amount;     (C)   has entered into a Security Document (in form
and substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee) pursuant to which Security
over such Cash Collateral Accounts is granted to the Security Trustee; and    
(D)   has delivered to the Security Trustee, or procured the delivery to the
Security Trustee, any legal opinion or other document that the Security Trustee
may reasonably require in connection with the entry into such Security Document.

6.2   Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit

  6.2.1   Each Utilisation Request for a Letter of Credit is irrevocable and
will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

  (A)   it specifies that it is for a Letter of Credit;     (B)   the proposed
Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the period from and including the date
of this Agreement to and including the date falling twelve months prior to the
Final Maturity Date;     (C)   the currency and amount of the Letter of Credit
comply with Clause 6.3 (Currency and amount);     (D)   the form of Letter of
Credit is attached (and the same is in the form set out in Part I (Form of
Letter of Credit) or Part II (Form of Standby Letter of Credit) of Schedule 6
(Forms of Letter of Credit) or in such other form as may be agreed between the
Company, the Fronting Bank and the Agent) (such agreement not to be unreasonably
withheld if the form is substantially the same as that set forth in Part I (Form
of Letter of Credit) or Part II (Form of Standby Letter of Credit) of Schedule 6
(Form of Letter of Credit));     (E)   the proposed Expiry Date of the Letter of
Credit falls on or before the fifth Business Day prior to the Final Maturity
Date;     (F)   the delivery instructions for the Letter of Credit are
specified;     (G)   it specifies each of the purposes for which the Letter of
Credit is to be applied and includes (i) a confirmation that each such purpose
complies with Clause 3.1.2 (Purpose) and (ii) an indication as to whether (in
the opinion of the relevant Borrower) such Letter of Credit should be treated as
an Eligible Letter of Credit; and     (H)   it has been duly signed by an
authorised signatory of the relevant Borrower.

  6.2.2   Only one Letter of Credit may be requested in each Utilisation Request
delivered under this Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of Credit).

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6.3   Currency and amount

  6.3.1   The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be dollars,
sterling, Norwegian krone or euro.     6.3.2   The Dollar Amount of the proposed
Letter of Credit must not exceed the maximum amount of the Facility that may be
utilised for such Letter of Credit under Clause 4.2 (Further conditions
precedent).

6.4   Renewal of a Letter of Credit

  6.4.1   Subject to Clause 6.1.2 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Letters
of Credit), a Borrower may request any Letter of Credit issued on its behalf to
be renewed by delivery to the Agent and the Fronting Bank of a Utilisation
Request no earlier than 35 Business Days before the Expiry Date of the relevant
Letter of Credit and no later than 10.00 a.m. on the third Business Day prior to
the Expiry Date of the relevant Letter of Credit.     6.4.2   Each Utilisation
Request relating to the renewal of a Letter of Credit is irrevocable and will
not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

  (A)   it specifies that it is for the renewal of a Letter of Credit;     (B)  
the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the period from and
including the date of this Agreement to and including the date falling twelve
months prior to the Final Maturity Date;     (C)   the currency and amount of
the Letter of Credit comply with Clause 6.3 (Currency and amount);     (D)   a
copy of the relevant Letter of Credit to be renewed is attached;     (E)   the
proposed new Expiry Date of the Letter of Credit falls on or before the fifth
Business Day prior to the Final Maturity Date;     (F)   the delivery
instructions for the Letter of Credit are specified;     (G)   it specifies each
of the purposes for which the Letter of Credit is to be applied and includes
(i) a confirmation that each such purpose complies with Clause 3.1.2 (Purpose)
and (ii) an indication as to whether (in the opinion of the relevant Borrower)
such Letter of Credit should be treated as an Eligible Letter of Credit; and    
(H)   it has been duly signed by an authorised signatory of the relevant
Borrower.

  6.4.3   The terms of each renewed Letter of Credit shall be the same as those
of the relevant Letter of Credit immediately prior to its renewal, except that:

  (A)   its amount may be less than the amount of the Letter of Credit
immediately prior to its renewal if requested by the relevant Borrower in the
Utilisation Request; and

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  (B)   its Term shall start on its Utilisation Date and shall end on the
proposed Expiry Date specified in the relevant Utilisation Request relating to
its renewal.

6.5   Issue of Letters of Credit       If the conditions set out in this
Agreement have been met, the Fronting Bank shall issue or, as the case may be,
renew and re-issue, each Letter of Credit on its proposed Utilisation Date
(provided, in the case of any Renewal Letter of Credit the Utilisation Date of
which falls before the Expiry Date of the relevant Letter of Credit which is
being renewed and replaced by that Renewal Letter of Credit, the Fronting Bank
is satisfied it has no liability under the relevant Letter of Credit being
renewed and replaced).   6.6   Notification of LC issuance       The Agent shall
determine the Dollar Amount of each Letter of Credit which is to be issued in a
currency other than Dollars and notify the Fronting Bank and each Lender of the
details of each requested Letter of Credit and each Lender’s L/C Proportion (as
at the relevant Utilisation Date) with respect to that requested Letter of
Credit no later than 5.00 p.m. on the third Business Day prior to the relevant
Utilisation Date.   6.7   Re-evaluation of Letter of Credit       On each
Scheduled Recalculation Date, the Agent will re-determine, and notify the
Fronting Bank, the Borrower and each Lender of, the Dollar Amount of each Letter
of Credit denominated in a currency other than dollars.   6.8   Claims under a
Letter of Credit

  6.8.1   Each Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally authorises the Fronting
Bank to pay any claim made or purported to be made under a Letter of Credit
requested by it and which appears on its face to be in order (a “claim”).    
6.8.2   Save to the extent that any Loan is made pursuant to Clause 6.9 (Loans
to cover demands) in respect of a claim, each Borrower which requested a Letter
of Credit shall immediately on demand pay to the Agent for the Fronting Bank an
amount equal to the amount of any claim.     6.8.3   Each Borrower acknowledges
that the Fronting Bank:

  (A)   is not obliged to carry out any investigation or seek any confirmation
from any other person before paying a claim; and     (B)   deals in documents
only and will not be concerned with the legality of a claim or any underlying
transaction or any available set-off, counterclaim or other defence of any
person.

  6.8.4   The obligations of a Borrower under this Clause 6 (Utilisation –
Letters of Credit) will not be affected by:

  (A)   the sufficiency, accuracy or genuineness of any claim or any other
document; or

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  (B)   any incapacity of, or limitation on the powers of, any person signing a
claim or other document.

6.9   Loans to cover demands

  6.9.1   The Fronting Bank shall promptly issue a notice (a “claim notice”) to
the Agent and the Company to notify them of (i) any claim made under any Letter
of Credit; (ii) the amount of that claim (in the currency in which it is due to
be paid); and (iii) the date on which it is due to pay that claim. Any failure
by the Fronting Bank to provide any claim notice in accordance with this Clause
6.9.1 shall not release the Obligors and the other Lenders from their
obligations and liabilities under this Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of
Credit) or otherwise prejudice such obligations and liabilities.     6.9.2   If
a claim notice has been issued, the Borrower at whose request the relevant
Letter of Credit was issued shall be deemed to have issued a Utilisation Request
for a Loan on the later of (a) the date on which that claim notice is issued and
(b) 10.00 a.m. on the third Business Day prior to the date on which the Fronting
Bank is due to pay the relevant claim. The amount of such a proposed Loan shall
be equal to the amount of the claim specified in the claim notice (and such Loan
shall be in the same currency as that in which the claim is to be paid). The
Utilisation Date for such a proposed Loan shall be (i) the date specified in the
claim notice as the date on which the relevant claim is due to be paid or
(ii) if later, the fourth Business Day after the date on which the claim notice
was issued. The Interest Period for such a Loan shall be determined by the Agent
(in consultation with the Company). Such Loan shall be deemed to be a Tranche A
Loan to the extent the amount in question could have been drawn in accordance
with Clause 4.2.4 and a Tranche B Loan as to any balance.

6.10   Indemnities

  6.10.1   Save to the extent that any Loan is made pursuant to Clause 6.9
(Loans to cover demands) in respect of any claim, each Borrower shall
immediately on demand indemnify the Fronting Bank against payment made, or any
cost, loss or liability incurred, by the Fronting Bank (otherwise than by reason
of the Fronting Bank’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct) in acting as the
Fronting Bank under any Letter of Credit requested by that Borrower.     6.10.2
  Save to the extent that any Loan is made pursuant to Clause 6.9 (Loans to
cover demands) in respect of any claim, each Lender shall (according to its L/C
Proportion) immediately on demand indemnify the Fronting Bank against any
payment made, or cost, loss or liability incurred, by the Fronting Bank
(otherwise than by reason of the Fronting Bank’s gross negligence or wilful
misconduct) in acting as the Fronting Bank under any Letter of Credit (save to
the extent that the Fronting Bank has been reimbursed by an Obligor pursuant to
a Finance Document).     6.10.3   If any Lender is not permitted (by its
constitutional documents or any applicable law) to comply with Clause 6.10.2,
then that Lender will not be obliged to comply with Clause 6.10.2 and shall
instead be deemed to have taken, on the first day of the Term of that Letter of
Credit (or if later, on the date the Lender’s participation in that Letter of
Credit is transferred or assigned to the Lender in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement), an undivided interest and participation in that Letter

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      of Credit in an amount equal to its L/C Proportion of that Letter of
Credit. On receipt of demand from the Agent, that Lender shall pay to the Agent
(for the account of the Fronting Bank) an amount equal to its L/C Proportion of
the total amount demanded under Clause 6.10.2.     6.10.4   The Borrower which
requested a Letter of Credit shall immediately on demand reimburse any Lender
for any payment it makes to the Fronting Bank under this Clause 6.10
(Indemnities) in respect of that Letter of Credit.     6.10.5   The obligations
of the Borrowers and each Lender under this Clause 6.10 (Indemnities) are
continuing obligations and will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable
by that Lender in respect of any Letter of Credit, regardless of any
intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.     6.10.6   The
obligations of any Lender under this Clause 6.10 (Indemnities) will not be
affected by any act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this Clause
6.10.6, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this
Clause 6.10 (Indemnities) (without limitation and whether or not known to it or
any other person) including:

  (A)   any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any
Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or other person;     (B)   the
release of any other Obligor or any other person under the terms of any
composition or arrangement with any creditor or any other person;     (C)   the
taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or
neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over
assets of, any Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or other
person;     (D)   any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or
other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the
full value of any security;     (E)   any incapacity or lack of power, authority
or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an
Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or any other person;     (F)  
any amendment (however fundamental) or replacement of a Finance Document, any
Letter of Credit or any other document or security;     (G)   any
unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under
any Finance Document, any Letter of Credit or any other document or security; or
    (H)   any insolvency or similar proceedings.

6.11   Ratings criteria

  6.11.1   If the Fronting Bank so requests at any time in relation to any
Letter of Credit, any Lender that does not meet the minimum rating criteria
shall provide Lender Cash Collateral (within three Business Days of a request
from the Fronting Bank) in

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      amount equal to that Lender’s L/C Proportion of the relevant outstanding
amount of that Letter of Credit.     6.11.2   For these purposes:

  (A)   the “minimum rating criteria” means a senior, unsecured and unguaranteed
long-term corporate debt rating of at least A3 with Moody’s Investors Service
Inc. or A- with Standard and Poor’s Rating Group or such other lower credit
rating as may be acceptable to the Fronting Bank;     (B)   the “relevant
outstanding amount” of any Letter of Credit means the outstanding amount of that
Letter of Credit less the amount of any cash cover for that Letter of Credit
that has been provided by a Borrower; and     (C)   a Lender providing “Lender
Cash Collateral” in relation to any Letter of Credit means that Lender paying an
amount in the currency in which that Letter of Credit is denominated to an
interest-bearing account in the name of that Lender and the following conditions
are met:

  (1)   the account is with the Fronting Bank;     (2)   withdrawals from the
account may only be made:

  (a)   to pay the Fronting Bank amounts due and payable to it by that Lender
under Clause 6.10 (Indemnities) in respect of that Letter of Credit until no
amount is or may be outstanding under that Letter of Credit;     (b)   (to the
extent that such Letter of Credit has been subsequently repaid or prepaid) to
repay that Lender an amount equal to that Lender’s L/C Proportion of the amount
of such repayment or prepayment; or     (c)   (to the extent that that Lender’s
Commitment is reduced and the same results in a change to its L/C Proportion) to
repay that Lender the amount by which (i) the amount standing to the credit of
the account exceeds (ii) the amount equal to that Lender’s L/C Proportion (after
the relevant reduction in its Commitment) of the relevant outstanding amount of
that Letter of Credit;

  (3)   (subject to condition (4) below) that Lender has executed a security
document over that account, in form and substance satisfactory to the Fronting
Bank creating first ranking Security over that account; and     (4)   any
Security granted pursuant to condition (3) above shall be released to such
extent as may be necessary to allow any repayments to that Lender permitted
under condition (2)(b) or (c) above.

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6.12   Rights of contribution       No Obligor will be entitled to any right of
contribution or indemnity from any Finance Party in respect of any payment it
may make under this Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of Credit).   6.13   Cash
Collateral for Letters of Credit

  6.13.1   Each Borrower at whose request an Eligible Letter of Credit for the
purposes described in Clause 3.1.2(A) (Purpose) has been issued shall ensure at
all times that the aggregate of any cash cover provided in relation to such
Letter of Credit is at least equal to the Reserve Amount relating to such Letter
of Credit.     6.13.2   For the purposes of this Agreement “Reserve Amount”
means, in relation to any Eligible Letter of Credit issued for the purposes
described in 3.1.2(A) (Purpose) and the Borrowing Base Asset in respect of which
such Letter of Credit has been issued:

  (A)   at any time on or after the date (the “first cut-off date”) falling one
year prior to the Abandonment Date in respect of the Borrowing Base Asset in
respect of which such Letter of Credit has been issued, an amount equal to the
outstanding amount of that Letter of Credit;     (B)   in the period commencing
on the date (the “second cut-off date”) falling 2 years prior to the Abandonment
Date in respect of the Borrowing Base Asset in respect of which such Letter of
Credit has been issued and ending on the day before the first cut-off date, an
amount equal to 75% of the outstanding amount of that Letter of Credit;     (C)
  in the period commencing on the date (the “third cut-off date”) falling
4 years prior to the Abandonment Date in respect of the Borrowing Base Asset in
respect of which such Letter of Credit has been issued and ending on the day
before the second cut-off date, 50% of the outstanding amount of that Letter of
Credit; and     (D)   in the period commencing on the date falling 5 years prior
to the Abandonment Date in respect of the Borrowing Base Asset in respect of
which such Letter of Credit has been issued and ending on the day before the
third cut-off date, an amount equal to 25% of the outstanding amount of that
Letter of Credit.

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PROJECTIONS

7.   PROJECTIONS   7.1   Adoption

  7.1.1   Until the adoption of the first new Projection in accordance with this
Clause 7 (Projections), the Initial Projection shall be the current Projection
for the purposes of this Agreement. A new Projection shall be prepared in
accordance with this Clause 7 (Projections) and (subject to Clause 7.9 (Adoption
of Projections)) adopted as of:

  (A)   subject to Clause 7.1.3, each Scheduled Recalculation Date; and     (B)
  subject to Clause 7.1.4, each Interim Recalculation Date:

  (1)   if the Company, the Agent (on the instructions of Majority Lenders) or
the Technical Bank so request(s) and supports such request with reasonable and
material circumstances for the same;     (2)   following any request by the
Company:

  (a)   for any Petroleum Asset owned by a member of the Borrower Group to be
designated a Borrowing Base Asset; or     (b)   for any Borrowing Base Asset to
cease to be designated a Borrowing Base Asset; or     (c)   following receipt by
the Company of any new Reserves Report.

  7.1.2   Promptly following any request for a new Projection pursuant to Clause
7.1.1(B), the Agent shall (after consulting with the Company and the Technical
Bank) specify and notify the Company and the Technical Bank of (a) the date as
of which such Projection is to be prepared and adopted and (b) the first
Calculation Period that is to be shown in such Projection.     7.1.3   If any
Interim Projection (other than a Disposal Projection) is adopted not more than
two months prior to any Scheduled Recalculation Date or is in preparation not
more than two months prior to any Scheduled Recalculation Date with the
intention of adopting the same by that Scheduled Recalculation Date, the
Scheduled Projection that was scheduled to be prepared pursuant to Clause
7.1.1(A) for adoption by that Scheduled Recalculation Date shall not be
prepared.     7.1.4   No more than one request for an Interim Projection may be
made pursuant to Clause 7.1.1(B)(1) by either the Technical Bank or the Agent,
on the one hand, or the Company, on the other hand during any one Calculation
Period.     7.1.5   For the purposes of this Agreement “Disposal Projection”
means any Interim Projection which is being prepared or to be adopted (as the
case may be) pursuant to Clause 7.1.1(B)(2)(b) following any request by the
Company for any Borrowing Base Asset to cease to be designated a Borrowing Base
Asset.

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7.2   Content

  7.2.1   Each Projection and draft Projection prepared pursuant to this Clause
7 (Projections) must:

  (A)   be prepared using the Computer Model;     (B)   be in a form similar to
the Initial Projection (or such other form as the Agent, acting reasonably, may
approve) and include the same type of information (and in the same level of
detail) as that included in the Initial Projection;     (C)   be prepared on the
basis of the Assumptions that are proposed, approved, agreed and/or determined
in accordance with this Clause 7 (Projections);     (D)   without prejudice to
Clause 7.2.1(B), include:

  (1)   details of all the Assumptions on which it is based;     (2)  
calculations of:

  (a)   the Projected Net Revenues for each Calculation Period ending on or
before the Calculation End Date;     (b)   the FLCR Amount and the LLCR Amount
relating to each Calculation Period ending on or before the Calculation End
Date;     (c)   the Tranche A FLCR, Tranche A LLCR, Tranche B FLCR, Tranche B
LLCR, Tranche A DSCR and Tranche B DSCR for each Calculation Period ending on or
before the Calculation End Date;     (d)   the Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount
and the Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount for each Calculation Period commencing
on or before the Final Maturity Date.

  7.2.2   The first Calculation Period shown in each Projection and draft
Projection prepared pursuant to this Clause 7 (Projections) shall be:

  (A)   in the case of any Scheduled Projection, the Calculation Period in which
the Scheduled Recalculation Date on which that Scheduled Projection is due to be
adopted occurs; and     (B)   in the case of any Interim Projection, the
Calculation Period specified by the Agent pursuant to Clause 7.1.2 (Adoption).

7.3   Key principles       In (i) proposing, agreeing and/or determining
Assumptions, (ii) preparing and/or approving any Projection or draft Projection
or (iii) otherwise carrying out their obligations, and exercising their rights,
under this Clause 7 (Projections), the Parties shall have regard to and comply
with the following principles:

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  7.3.1   Each Projection shall be based on:

  (A)   to the extent that such Probable Reserves have been validated, or
adjusted by, the Technical Bank (acting reasonably), the Probable Reserves of
each Borrowing Base Asset that the Technical Bank (acting reasonably) is
satisfied is in commercial production; and     (B)   the Proven Reserves of any
other Borrowing Base Asset, or

      such other reserves as may be agreed between the Company and the Technical
Bank.     7.3.2   Each Projection must disregard any income or expenditure of
any member of the Borrower Group that is not Gross Income or Gross Expenditure.
    7.3.3   Each Projection must disregard any VAT or similar tax which is
payable in respect of any Gross Income or Gross Expenditure except to the extent
that:

  (A)   such VAT or similar tax will be payable by any member of the Borrower
Group and is not effectively recoverable by it in full; or     (B)   the Company
can demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agent that such VAT or
similar tax is a refund of VAT or similar tax payable to any member of the
Borrower Group.

  7.3.4   Each Projection must, in projecting interest rates and Petroleum sale
prices, take due account of the terms of any existing Permitted Hedging
Agreement and all relevant circumstances provided that any benefit of any
Permitted Hedging Agreement shall only be taken into account if the counterparty
to such Permitted Hedging Agreement is a person that, or whose obligations under
the relevant Hedging Agreement are guaranteed upon terms satisfactory to the
Agent by a person that, has (i) a senior, unsecured and unguaranteed long-term
corporate debt rating of at least A3 with Moody’s Investors Service Inc., A-
with Standard and Poor’s Rating Group or with Fitch Ratings or (ii) has such
other credit rating approved by the Majority Lenders.     7.3.5   All figures
for Taxes included in any Projection must be based on tax legislation in force
on the relevant Recalculation Date on which that Projection is due to be adopted
and on any official announcements or publications in force as at such date
stating that such legislation is to be altered, supplemented or replaced in
whole or in part.     7.3.6   For the purposes of calculating the Tranche A
LLCR, Tranche A FLCR, Tranche B LLCR, Tranche B FLCR, Tranche A DSCR, Tranche B
DSCR, Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount or Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount
relating to any Calculation Period:

  (A)   any revenue or outgoings attributable to any Borrowing Base Asset
projected to arise on or after the Abandonment Date for that Borrowing Base
Asset shall be disregarded save for any outgoings (the “abandonment outgoings”)
projected to arise after such Abandonment Date that are connected with the
abandonment of that Borrowing Base Asset; and

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  (B)   account shall be taken of the tax treatment relating to such abandonment
outgoings.

  7.3.7   The opening cash balance(s) and the closing cash balance(s) for each
Calculation Period shown in any Projection shall reflect the actual or projected
book cash balances of the Obligors only (in each case, as adjusted for any VAT
payable and/or receivable).     7.3.8   The discount rate to be used in
calculating the FLCR Amount and LLCR Amount will be the higher of (i) 7 per cent
per annum and (ii) 3 months $ LIBOR as determined by the Agent plus 1.30 per
cent per annum.     7.3.9   Where a Letter of Credit has or is to be issued
pursuant to Clause 3.1.2(A) the face amount of which exceeds the estimates of
the Company and the Technical Bank in respect of the underlying decommissioning
or abandonment liability in question the corresponding Technical Assumption for
such decommissioning or abandonment liability may, at the request of the
Company, be similarly increased.

7.4   Preparatory steps

  7.4.1   In relation to each new Projection (other than a Disposal Projection)
that is to be adopted under this Clause 7 (Projections):

  (A)   the Agent shall, no later than 45 days before each Recalculation Date,
submit to the Company its proposals for the Economic Assumptions to be used for
the Projection due to be adopted on such Recalculation Date; and     (B)   the
Company shall, no later than 40 days before each Recalculation Date, submit to
the Technical Bank its proposals for the Technical Assumptions to be used for
the Projection due to be adopted on such Recalculation Date.

  7.4.2   The Company and the Agent (each acting reasonably) shall seek to agree
the Economic Assumptions to be used for each Projection (other than a Disposal
Projection) based on the proposals submitted in accordance with Clause 7.4.1(A)
by the date falling 30 days before the Recalculation Date on which that
Projection is due to be adopted. If any of the Economic Assumptions have not
been agreed between the Company and the Agent by such date, then on the day
following such date, the Agent shall submit the Company’s proposals for any such
Economic Assumption to the Lenders for their consideration in accordance with
Clause 7.6 (Consideration by Lenders). If the Majority Lenders approve, or are
deemed to have approved the relevant Economic Assumption, then the draft
Projection shall be prepared using that Economic Assumption. If on the other
hand the Majority Lenders do not approve the relevant Economic Assumption, then
the draft Projection shall be prepared using the Economic Assumption specified
by the Agent (acting reasonably).     7.4.3   The Company and the Technical Bank
(each acting reasonably) shall seek to agree the Technical Assumptions to be
used for each draft Projection (other than a Disposal Projection) based on the
proposals submitted in accordance with Clause 7.4.1(B) by the date falling
21 days before the Recalculation Date on which that Projection is due to be
adopted. If any of the Technical Assumptions have not been agreed between the
Company and the Technical Bank by such date, then the

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      Technical Assumptions to be used in the preparation of the relevant draft
Projection shall be specified by the Technical Bank (acting reasonably).    
7.4.4   The Company shall, no later than 28 days before each Recalculation Date,
provide the Agent with the senior, unsecured and unguaranteed long-term
corporate debt rating of each counterparty to each existing Permitted Hedging
Agreement to which any member of the Borrower Group is a party if the benefit of
such Permitted Hedging Agreement is to be taken into account in the new
Projection that is due to be adopted on such Recalculation Date. The Company
shall promptly notify the Agent if, following the provision of any such
information to the Agent, it becomes aware of any change in any such credit
rating.

7.5   Draft Projections

  7.5.1   The Company shall (in consultation with the Technical Bank and the
Agent):

  (A)   in the case of any Projection other than a Disposal Projection, prepare
a draft Projection using:

  (1)   all the Assumptions that have been agreed between the Company and the
Agent or Technical Bank pursuant to Clauses 7.4.2 and 7.4.3 (Preparatory steps);
and     (2)   to the extent that the Company and the Agent or Technical Bank, as
appropriate, have not been able to reach agreement on any such Assumptions, such
Assumptions as determined in accordance with Clauses 7.4.2 or 7.4.3 (Preparatory
steps); and

  (B)   in the case of any Disposal Projection, prepare a draft Disposal
Projection:

  (1)   on the basis that the relevant Borrowing Base Asset(s) have ceased to be
so designated; and     (2)   otherwise using all of the Assumptions that were
used for the purposes of the then current Projection which the relevant Disposal
Projection is intended to supersede.

  7.5.2   If the Company has made a request under Clause 7.10 (Asset base) then,
at the Technical Bank’s option:

  (A)   the draft Projection shall be prepared on the basis that the relevant
Petroleum Asset(s) have been designated as Borrowing Base Asset(s) and/or as the
case may be, the relevant Borrowing Base Asset(s) have ceased to be so
designated; or

  (B)   the Company (in consultation with the Technical Bank) shall prepare:

  (1)   a draft Projection on the basis that the relevant Petroleum Asset(s)
have been designated as Borrowing Base Asset(s) and/or, as the case may be, the
relevant Borrowing Base Asset(s) have ceased to be so designated; and

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  (2)   a further draft Projection on the basis that no new Petroleum Asset(s)
will be designated as Borrowing Base Asset(s) and no current Borrowing Base
Asset(s) will cease to be so designated.

  7.5.3   If the Company has made a request under Clause 7.1.1(B)(2)(a)
(Adoption), the draft Projection shall be prepared on the basis that the
relevant Petroleum Asset(s) have been designated as Borrowing Base Asset(s).    
7.5.4   The Company and the Agent will endeavour to ensure that each draft
Projection is delivered to each Lender no later than 14 days prior to the
Recalculation Date on which such Projection is due to be adopted.     7.5.5  
Each draft Projection must be accompanied by details of the conditions (“CPs”)
(if any) that the Technical Bank and Agent consider necessary to be satisfied in
order for (if the Company has made a request under Clause 7.10.1 (Asset base) or
the draft Projection is being prepared pursuant to Clause 7.1.1(B)(2)
(Adoption)), the relevant Petroleum Asset(s) to be designated as Borrowing Base
Asset(s) and/or, as the case may be, the relevant Borrowing Base Asset(s) to
cease to be so designated (provided that no CPs shall be required to be
satisfied in relation to any Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so designated
if, in accordance with Clause 7.6.4 (Consideration by Lenders), no Lender is
entitled to withhold its consent to such Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so
designated).

7.6   Consideration by Lenders

  7.6.1   Each Lender may, within 10 days of receiving the draft Projection and
other information under Clause 7.5 (Draft Projections) or, in the case of the
submission of an Economic Assumption pursuant to Clause 7.4.2 (Preparatory
steps), the relevant proposed Economic Assumption, inform the Agent whether or
not it approves of (as the case may be):

  (A)   (save in the case of any Disposal Projection) the adoption of each of
the Assumptions used in the preparation of that draft Projection;     (B)   any
relevant Petroleum Asset being designated as a Borrowing Base Asset and to the
CPs relating thereto (if any);     (C)   a Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so
designated and to the CPs relating thereto (if any); and     (D)   in the case
of an Economic Assumption delivered pursuant to Clause 7.4.2 (Preparatory
steps), the relevant Economic Assumption.

  7.6.2   If, pursuant to clause 7.6.1, a Lender informs the Agent that it does
not approve of any Assumption(s), that Lender shall state the Assumption(s) it
does not approve and its reason(s) for not approving.     7.6.3   Any Lender
that does not inform the Agent to the contrary within 10 days of receiving the
draft Projection and other information under Clause 7.5 (Draft Projections) or,
in the case of the submission of an Economic Assumption pursuant to Clause 7.4.2
(Preparatory steps), the relevant proposed Economic Assumption, shall be deemed
to have approved of (as the case may be):

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  (A)   the adoption of all of the Assumptions used in the preparation of that
draft Projection; and/or     (B)   any proposed Petroleum Asset being designated
a Borrowing Base Asset and to the CPs relating thereto (if any); and/or     (C)
  the relevant Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so designated and to the CPs
relating thereto (if any); and/or     (D)   in the case of an Economic
Assumption submitted pursuant to Clause 7.4.2 (Preparatory steps), the relevant
Economic Assumption.

  7.6.4   Where a draft Disposal Projection has been delivered to the Lenders
the Lenders shall be deemed to have approved all of the Assumptions used in the
preparation of such draft Disposal Projection provided that such draft Disposal
Projection was prepared in accordance with Clause 7.5.1(B) (Draft Projections).

7.7   Lenders approve       If (as the case may be):

  7.7.1   the Majority Lenders approve, or are deemed to have approved, the use
of each of the Assumptions for the preparation of the relevant Projection;
and/or     7.7.2   the Majority Lenders approve, or are deemed to have approved,
any Petroleum Asset being designated a Borrowing Base Asset and the CPs relating
thereto; and/or     7.7.3   the Majority Lenders approve, or are deemed to have
approved, any existing Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so designated and the
CPs relating thereto and/or     7.7.4   the Majority Lenders approve, or are
deemed to have approved, any proposed Economic Assumption submitted pursuant to
Clause 7.4.2 (Preparatory steps),

    then (as the case may be):

  7.7.5   the draft Projection shall be adopted in accordance with Clause 7.9
(Adoption of Projections); and/or     7.7.6   the draft Projection shall be
adopted in accordance with Clause 7.9 (Adoption of Projections) and the proposed
new Petroleum Asset shall become a Borrowing Base Asset (upon satisfaction of
such CPs); and/or     7.7.7   the draft Projection shall be adopted in
accordance with Clause 7.9 (Adoption of Projections) and the relevant existing
Borrowing Base Asset shall cease to be a Borrowing Base Asset (upon satisfaction
of such CPs); and/or     7.7.8   the relevant proposed Economic Assumption
submitted pursuant to Clause 7.4.2 (Preparatory steps) shall be used in the
preparation of the relevant draft Projection.

7.8   Lenders do not approve

  7.8.1   If the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) do not approve, or are not
deemed to have so approved, any of the Assumptions used in any Projection
delivered to the

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      Lenders for consideration pursuant to Clause 7.6 (Consideration by
Lenders), then the Agent and Technical Bank will (in consultation with the
Lenders) promptly prepare a new draft Projection to the satisfaction of the
Majority Lenders (acting reasonably).     7.8.2   The Agent, the Technical Bank
and the Lenders shall consult with each other with a view to ensuring that each
draft Projection is prepared in a timely manner.     7.8.3   If the Majority
Lenders (i) do not approve, or are not deemed to have approved, the designation
of any Petroleum Asset as a Borrowing Base Asset or (ii) require conditions
which (a) are more onerous than the CPs relating thereto in order for such
designation to be effected and (b) are not acceptable to the Company, then:

  (A)   if the Company has made a request under Clause 7.10.1 (Asset base), the
Company will (in consultation with the Technical Bank and Agent) promptly
prepare a new draft Projection:

  (1)   based on the Assumptions that have been agreed, approved or determined
in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Clause 7 (Projections); and
    (2)   that does not take account of the proposed Petroleum Asset as a
Borrowing Base Asset; or

  (B)   if the draft Projection was prepared pursuant to Clause 7.1.1(B)(2)(a)
(Adoption), the then current Projection shall remain in full force and continue
to be the current Projection.

  7.8.4   If the Majority Lenders (i) do not approve, or are not deemed to have
approved, of an existing Borrowing Base Asset ceasing to be so designated or
(ii) require conditions which (a) are more onerous than the CPs relating thereto
in order for such designation to cease and (b) are not acceptable to the
Company, then:

  (A)   (in the case of any Projection other than a Disposal Projection) the
Company will (in consultation with the Technical Bank and Agent) promptly
prepare a new draft Projection:

  (1)   based on the Assumptions that have been agreed, approved or determined
in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Clause 7 (Projections); and
    (2)   that takes account of the relevant Borrowing Base Asset as a Borrowing
Base Asset; and

  (B)   in the case of a Disposal Projection, the then current Projection which
was intended to be superseded by such Disposal Projection shall remain in force
and continue to be the current Projection.

7.9   Adoption of Projections

  7.9.1   Subject to Clauses 7.8.3(B) and 7.8.4(B) (Lenders do not approve),
each draft Projection prepared pursuant to (as the case may be) Clauses 7.5
(Draft Projections) and 7.8 (Lenders do not approve) will not be adopted as the
current Projection for the purposes of this Agreement until the latest of:

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  (A)   the relevant Recalculation Date on which the relevant Projection is due
to be adopted;     (B)   the date on which any relevant CPs (together with any
additional conditions that the Majority Lenders may require in accordance with
the preceding provisions of this Clause 7 (Projections)) are satisfied; and    
(C)   in the case of a draft Projection prepared pursuant to Clause 7.8 (Lenders
do not approve), the date on which the Technical Bank and Agent confirm that
they have verified that the relevant draft Projection has been prepared to their
satisfaction in accordance with the requirements of this Clause 7 (Projections).

  7.9.2   Upon such adoption of the Projection, the Agent shall inform the
Lenders and the Company accordingly and shall distribute a copy of that
Projection to each of them.

7.10   Asset base

  7.10.1   On or before the date falling 14 days before the date on which the
Agent is due to submit its proposals in respect of the Economic Assumptions to
be used for any Projection pursuant to Clause 7.4 (Preparatory steps), the
Company may submit a request to the Agent and the Technical Bank for any
Petroleum Asset owned by a member of the Borrower Group to be designated a
Borrowing Base Asset and/or for any existing Borrowing Base Asset to cease to be
designated a Borrowing Base Asset.     7.10.2   If the Company has made a
request under Clause 7.10.1 for any Petroleum Asset to be designated a Borrowing
Base Asset or a Projection is being prepared pursuant to Clause 7.1.1(B)(2)(a)
(Adoption), it must, promptly following any request for the same by the Agent
and/or the Technical Bank deliver to the Agent and the Technical Bank all such
information, documentation and evidence as the Technical Bank and/or the Agent
may reasonably require with respect to such Petroleum Asset.

7.11   Computer Model

  7.11.1   The Company may, with the consent of the Agent (such consent not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed), make amendments to the Computer Model from
time to time to correct any deficiencies in such Computer Model (including any
conflict between the Computer Model and any Project Document) or otherwise to
reflect any changes in circumstance since the date of this Agreement.     7.11.2
  Following any material amendment to the Computer Model, the Majority Lenders
may request for the amended Computer Model to be audited. If the Majority
Lenders so request, the amended Computer Model shall forthwith be audited (at
the cost of the Company) by a firm of model auditors approved by the Majority
Lenders. Where an audit has been so requested, until a satisfactory audit in
relation to the amended Computer Model has been delivered to the Majority
Lenders, the existing unamended version shall continue to be the “Computer
Model” for the purpose of this Agreement.

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REPAYMENT, PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION

8.   REPAYMENT

8.1   Reduction of Facility       The Aggregate Commitments shall reduce to zero
on the Final Maturity Date.   8.2   Repayment of Loans

  8.2.1   Each Borrower which has drawn a Loan shall repay that Loan on the last
day of its Interest Period.     8.2.2   Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement, all Utilisations and other amounts outstanding under the
Facility shall be repaid on the Final Maturity Date.

8.3   Reduction

  8.3.1   The Borrowers shall repay such amount of the Utilisations as is
required to ensure that at all times the aggregate Dollar Amount of the
Utilisations does not exceed the Aggregate Commitments at that time.     8.3.2  
On each Scheduled Recalculation Date or other date on which a Projection is
adopted in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections) (or, if the same is not a
Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day), the Borrowers shall repay
(i) such amount of the Utilisations as is required to reduce the Total Relevant
Outstandings to the Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount applicable on the day after
such date and (ii) such amounts of the Tranche A Loans and the outstanding
Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible Letter of Credit) as is required to
reduce the Dollar Amount of all outstanding Tranche A Loans and outstanding
Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible Letter of Credit) to the Tranche A
Borrowing Base Amount applicable on the day after such date. For this purpose,
the amount outstanding under any Letter of Credit shall be deemed to have been
reduced by the amount of any cash cover for such Letter of Credit.     8.3.3  
Any repayments under Clause 8.3.1 or Clause 8.3.2 of Utilisations shall be
applied:

  (A)   first, towards Tranche B Loans,     (B)   (if there are no outstanding
Tranche B Loans) second, towards Tranche A Loans; and     (C)   (if there are no
outstanding Loans) third, towards repayment of Letters of Credit.

  8.3.4   Any repayment of Letters of Credit provided under Clause 8.3.1 or
Clause 8.3.2 shall be applied towards such Letters of Credit as the Agent and
the Fronting Bank (both acting in consultation with the Company) shall
determine.

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9.   PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION   9.1   Illegality

  9.1.1   If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to
perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or
maintain its participation in any Utilisation:

  (A)   that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that
event;     (B)   upon the Agent notifying the Company, the Commitment of that
Lender in respect of each Specified Period will be immediately cancelled; and  
  (C)   each Borrower shall repay that Lender’s participation in the
Utilisations made to that Borrower on the last day of the Interest Period for
each Utilisation occurring after the Agent has notified the Company or, if
earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notice delivered to the Agent
(being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by
law).

  9.1.2   If it becomes unlawful for the Fronting Bank to issue Letters of
Credit, the Fronting Bank shall notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that
event, and upon the Agent notifying the Company, the Facility shall cease to be
available for the issue of Letters of Credit until the appointment of a
replacement Fronting Bank pursuant to Clause 28.19 (Replacement of Fronting
Bank) for whom it is lawful to issue Letters of Credit.     9.1.3   If it
becomes unlawful for the Fronting Bank to maintain outstanding any Letter of
Credit the relevant Borrower(s) will use their best endeavours to ensure the
release of the liability of the Fronting Bank under each such Letter of Credit
or, failing this, the relevant Borrower(s) shall repay or prepay the share of
each Lender in each such Letter of Credit on the date specified by the Fronting
Bank (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period
permitted by law).

9.2   Change of control

  9.2.1   If any person or group of persons acting in concert gains control of
an Obligor:

  (A)   the Company shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that
event;     (B)   if the Majority Lenders so require, the Agent shall, by not
less than fifteen Business Days notice to the Company, cancel the Facility and
declare (1) all outstanding Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other
amounts accrued under the Finance Documents immediately due and payable and
(2) full cash cover in respect of each Letter of Credit immediately due and
payable, whereupon the Facility will be cancelled and all such outstanding
amounts will become immediately due and payable.

  9.2.2   For the purposes of Clause 9.2.1, “control” has the meaning given to
such term in Section 416 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (whether
or not that Act applies to any Obligor).

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  9.2.3   For the purposes of Clause 9.2.1, “acting in concert” has the meaning
given to such term in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers and the
presumptions specified therein in relation to the term “acting in concert” shall
apply to such term as used in this Agreement (whether or not that code applies
to any Obligor).

9.3   Voluntary cancellation

  9.3.1   The Company may, if it gives the Agent not less than three Business
Days’ (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice,
cancel the whole or any part (being a minimum amount of $5,000,000) of the
unutilised Aggregate Commitments.     9.3.2   On the date of the cancellation of
any unutilised Aggregate Commitments pursuant to Clause 9.3.1:

  (A)   the Commitment of each Lender for the Specified Period in which the date
of such cancellation occurs shall be reduced rateably; and     (B)   if, as a
result of the reduction of any Lender’s Commitment for that Specified Period
(the “relevant Specified Period”) pursuant to Clause 9.3.2(A), that Lender’s
Commitment for any subsequent Specified Period exceeds that reduced Commitment
for the relevant Specified Period, that Lender’s Commitment for each such
subsequent Specified Period shall be reduced to an amount equal to that reduced
Commitment for the relevant Specified Period.

9.4   Voluntary Prepayment of Loans       The Borrower to which a Loan has been
made may, if it gives the Agent not less than three Business Days’ (or such
shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, prepay the whole
or any part of a Loan (but if in part, being an amount that reduces the Dollar
Amount of the Loan by a minimum amount of $5,000,000).   9.5   Right of
repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender

  9.5.1   If:

  (A)   any sum payable to any Lender by an Obligor is required to be increased
under Clause 14.2.3 (Tax gross-up); or     (B)   any Lender claims
indemnification from the Company under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) or Clause
15.1 (Increased costs),

      The Company may, whilst the circumstance giving rise to the requirement or
indemnification continues, give the Agent notice of cancellation of the
Commitments of that Lender and its intention to procure the repayment of that
Lender’s participation in the Utilisations.     9.5.2   On receipt of a notice
referred to in Clause 9.5.1, the Commitment of that Lender for each Specified
Period shall immediately be reduced to zero.     9.5.3   On the last day of each
Interest Period which ends after the Company has given notice under Clause 9.5.1
(or, if earlier, the date specified by the Company] in that

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      notice), each Borrower to which a Loan is outstanding shall repay that
Lender’s participation in that Loan.

  9.5.4   The Company shall, on demand made by the Agent following the receipt
by it of any notice referred to in Clause 9.5.1, provide or procure the
provision of cash cover for the amount of the relevant Lender’s aggregate
participation in all outstanding Letters of Credit.

9.6   Restrictions

  9.6.1   Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this
Clause 9 (Prepayment and cancellation) shall be irrevocable and, unless a
contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates
upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount
of that cancellation or prepayment.     9.6.2   Any prepayment under this
Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid
and, subject to any Break Costs, without premium or penalty.     9.6.3   Any
part of the Facility which is prepaid may be reborrowed in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement.     9.6.4   The Borrowers shall not repay or prepay all
or any part of the Utilisations or cancel all or any part of the Commitments
except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement.
    9.6.5   No amount of the Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be
subsequently reinstated.     9.6.6   If the Agent receives a notice under this
Clause 9 (Prepayment and cancellation) it shall promptly forward a copy of that
notice to either the Company or the affected Lender, as appropriate.

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COSTS OF UTILISATION

10.   INTEREST   10.1   Calculation of interest       The rate of interest on
each Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the
aggregate of the applicable:

  10.1.1   Margin;     10.1.2   LIBOR or, in relation to any Loan in euro,
EURIBOR or, in relation to any Loan in Norwegian krone, NIBOR; and     10.1.3  
Mandatory Cost, if any.

10.2   Payment of interest       The Borrower to which a Loan has been made
shall pay accrued interest on that Loan on the last day of each Interest Period
(and, if the Interest Period is longer than six Months, on the dates falling at
six monthly intervals after the first day of the Interest Period).   10.3  
Default interest

  10.3.1   If an Obligor fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance
Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the
due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a
rate which, subject to Clause 10.3.2, is two per cent. per annum higher than the
rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period
of non-payment, constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for
successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Agent (acting
reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 10.3 (Default interest)
shall be immediately payable by the Obligor on demand by the Agent.     10.3.2  
If any overdue amount consists of all or part of a Loan which became due on a
day which was not the last day of an Interest Period relating to that Loan:

  (A)   the first Interest Period for that overdue amount shall have a duration
equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to that
Loan; and     (B)   the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during
that first Interest Period shall be two per cent. higher than the rate which
would have applied if the overdue amount had not become due.

  10.3.3   Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an overdue amount will be
compounded with the overdue amount at the end of each Interest Period applicable
to that overdue amount but will remain immediately due and payable.

10.4   Notification of rates of interest       The Agent shall promptly notify
the Lenders and the relevant Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest
under this Agreement.

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11.   INTEREST PERIODS

11.1   Selection of Interest Periods

  11.1.1   A Borrower (or the Company on behalf of a Borrower) may select an
Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan.     11.1.2
  Subject to this Clause 11 (Interest Periods), and the penultimate sentence in
Clause 6.9.2 (Loan to cover demands) a Borrower (or the Company on its behalf)
may select an Interest Period of one, two, three or six Months or any other
period agreed between the Company and the Agent (acting on the instructions of
all the Lenders) provided that prior to the Syndication Date, a Borrower may
only select Interest Periods which have been approved by the Agent (in
consultation with the Mandated Lead Arrangers).     11.1.3   A Borrower (or the
Company on its behalf) may, in relation to any Loan, select an Interest Period
of less than six Months which does not coincide with the periods specified in
Clause 11.1.2 for the purpose of ensuring that (a) the last day of such Interest
Period coincides with a Scheduled Recalculation Date and (b) that there are
sufficient Loans (with an aggregate Dollar Amount equal to or greater than the
amount required to be repaid under Clause 8.3 (Reduction) on such Scheduled
Recalculation Date) which have an Interest Period ending on such Scheduled
Recalculation Date.     11.1.4   An Interest Period for a Loan shall not extend
beyond the Final Maturity Date.     11.1.5   Each Interest Period for a Loan
shall start on the Utilisation Date.     11.1.6   A Loan has one Interest Period
only.

11.2   Changes to Interest Periods

  11.2.1   Prior to determining the interest rate for a Loan, the Agent may
shorten an Interest Period for any Loan to ensure that (a) the last day of such
Interest Period coincides with a Scheduled Recalculation Date and (b) that there
are sufficient Loans (with an aggregate Dollar Amount equal to or greater than
the amount required to be repaid under Clause 8.3 (Reduction) on such Scheduled
Recalculation Date) which have an Interest Period ending on such Scheduled
Recalculation Date.

  11.2.2   If the Agent makes any of the changes to an Interest Period referred
to in this Clause 11.2, it shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders.

11.3   Non-Business Days       If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a
day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the
next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding
Business Day (if there is not).

12.   CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST   12.1   Absence of quotations    
  Subject to Clause 12.2 (Market disruption), if LIBOR or, if applicable,
EURIBOR or NIBOR is to be determined by reference to the Reference Banks but a
Reference Bank

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    does not supply a quotation by 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation
Day, LIBOR or EURIBOR or NIBOR shall be determined on the basis of the
quotations of the remaining Reference Banks.   12.2   Market disruption

  12.2.1   If a Market Disruption Event occurs in relation to a Loan for any
Interest Period, then the rate of interest on each Lender’s share of that Loan
for the Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of:

  (A)   the Margin;     (B)   the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as
soon as practicable and in any event before interest is due to be paid in
respect of that Interest Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate
per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan from
whatever source it may reasonably select; and     (C)   the Mandatory Cost, if
any, applicable to that Lender’s participation in the Loan.

  12.2.2   In this Agreement “Market Disruption Event” means:

  (A)   at or about noon on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period
the Screen Rate is not available and none or only one of the Reference Banks
supplies a rate to the Agent to determine LIBOR or, if applicable, EURIBOR or
NIBOR for the relevant currency and Interest Period; or     (B)   before close
of business in London on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period, the
Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in a
Loan exceed 30 per cent. of that Loan) that the cost to it or them of obtaining
matching deposits in the Relevant Interbank Market would be in excess of LIBOR
or, if applicable, EURIBOR or NIBOR.

12.3   Alternative basis of interest or funding

  12.3.1   If a Market Disruption Event occurs and the Agent or the Company so
requires, the Agent and the Company shall enter into negotiations (for a period
of not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for
determining the rate of interest.     12.3.2   Any alternative basis agreed
pursuant to Clause 12.3.1 shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and
the Company, be binding on all Parties.

12.4   Break Costs

  12.4.1   Each Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand by a
Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or
any part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by that Borrower on a day other than
the last day of an Interest Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum.

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  12.4.2   Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand
by the Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs for
any Interest Period in which they accrue and showing how that amount was
calculated.

13.   FEES

13.1   Commitment fee       The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent (for the
account of each Lender) in respect of each Fee Period:

  13.1.1   a fee computed at the applicable Unavailable Rate on the daily amount
(if any) of the Unavailable Portion; and     13.1.2   a fee computed at the
applicable Unutilised Rate on the daily amount (if any) of the Unused Portion.

13.2   LC commission       Each Borrower shall, in respect of each Letter of
Credit requested by it, pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) in
respect of each Fee Period:

  13.2.1   a letter of credit commission at the Margin applicable to Letters of
Credit on the daily amount (if any) by which the LC Exposure exceeds the amount
of cash cover provided for that Letter of Credit; and     13.2.2   a letter of
credit commission at the rate of 0.30 per cent. per annum on the daily amount of
the LC Exposure in respect of which cash cover has been provided.

13.3   Computation and payment

  13.3.1   Any commitment fee and/or letter of credit commission payable under
this Clause 13 (Fees) must be paid by the relevant Borrower(s) within two
Business Days after receipt by the Company of the calculation of such commitment
fee or, as the case may be, such letter of credit commission from the Agent
under Clause 13.3.3.     13.3.2   Any such commitment fee must be paid in
dollars and any such letter of credit commission must be paid in the currency in
which the Letter of Credit to which it relates is denominated.     13.3.3   The
Agent shall calculate the commitment fee and/or the letter of credit commission
payable for each Fee Period and shall notify the Company of the same within five
Business Days after the end of the relevant Fee Period. Each such calculation
shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive evidence of the amount
thereof.

13.4   Definitions       For the purposes of this Agreement:

  13.4.1   “Fee Period” means:

  (A)   in relation to the commitment fee payable under Clause 13.1 (Commitment
fee):

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  (1)   the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the
first quarter date to occur thereafter; and thereafter,     (2)   each
successive period of three months (or, in the case of the last such period,
less) commencing on the day after a quarter date and ending on the first quarter
date to occur thereafter (or, in the case of the last such period, on the Final
Maturity Date); and

  (B)   in relation to the letter of credit commission payable under Clause 13.2
(LC commission) with respect to each Letter of Credit:

  (1)   the period commencing on the date of issue of that Letter of Credit and
ending on the first quarter date to occur thereafter; and thereafter,     (2)  
each successive period of three months (or, in the case of the last such period,
less) commencing on the day after a quarter date and ending on the first quarter
date to occur thereafter (or, in the case of the last such period, the Expiry
Date of the relevant Letter of Credit),

      where, for these purposes, “quarter date” means 31 March, 30 June, 30
September or 31 December.     13.4.2   “LC Exposure” means, in relation to each
Letter of Credit, the daily difference between (a) the face value of that Letter
of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of all claims thereunder that have been
paid.     13.4.3   “Unavailable Rate” means, in relation to any day in any Fee
Period, the percentage rate per annum calculated by multiplying the Margin
applicable to Letters of Credit on that day by 0.25.     13.4.4   “Unutilised
Rate” means, in relation to any day in any Fee Period, the percentage rate per
annum calculated by multiplying the Margin applicable to Letters of Credit on
that day by 0.5.     13.4.5   “Unused Portion” means the positive difference (if
any) between A and B where:

  (A)   “A” is the lower of (i) Aggregate Commitments and (ii) the aggregate of
(a) the Tranche B Borrowing Base Amount and (b) the difference between
$60,000,000 and the outstanding Dollar Amount of all Letters of Credit (other
than any Eligible Letter of Credit); and     (B)   “B” is the aggregate
outstanding Dollar Amount of all Utilisations.

  13.4.6   “Unavailable Portion” means the positive difference (if any) between
(i) Aggregate Commitments and (ii) the aggregate of (a) the Tranche B Borrowing
Base Amount and (b) the difference between $60,000,000 and the outstanding
Dollar Amount of all Letters of Credit (other than any Eligible Letter of
Credit).

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13.5   Other fees and costs       The Borrowers will pay to the relevant Finance
Parties the relevant fees and other costs and expenses in the amounts and at the
times set out in the Fee Letters and the Commitment Letter.   13.6   Independent
Engineer and other representatives

  13.6.1   Subject to Clause 13.6.2 below, the Company shall, (or shall procure
that an Obligor will) within five Business Days of demand by the Agent, the
Security Trustee or the Technical Bank, pay, or reimburse the relevant
Administrative Finance Party for any payments that it has made in relation to,
any reasonable fees, costs and expenses that the relevant Administrative Finance
Party has properly incurred in connection with (a) the performance by the
Independent Engineer of its functions pursuant to the Finance Documents and/or
(b) the appointment by such Administrative Finance Party of any legal adviser,
insurance adviser, environmental consultant, engineering consultant, model
auditor or tax model auditor, in each case, in connection with the exercise of
its rights and discretions or the performance of its duties and obligations,
under the Finance Documents.     13.6.2   Save to the extent that such fees,
costs and expenses have been incurred in circumstances where a Default has
occurred, the Company shall only be obliged to pay or reimburse (or shall
procure that an Obligor will pay or reimburse) the relevant Administrative
Finance Party for any fees, costs and expenses incurred by it if the Company has
approved the appointment of the relevant Independent Engineer, adviser,
consultant or auditor and the terms (including fees) of the appointment (such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

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ADDITIONAL PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

14.   TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES   14.1   Definitions

  14.1.1   In this Agreement:         “Protected Party” means a Finance Party
which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to make any payment,
for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum
deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance
Document.         “Qualifying Lender” means:

  (A)   a Lender (other than a Lender within paragraph (B) below) which is
beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an
advance under a Finance Document and is:

  (1)   a Lender:

  (a)   which is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 349 of the Taxes
Act) making an advance under a Finance Document; or     (b)   in respect of an
advance made under a Finance Document by a person that was a bank (as defined
for the purpose of section 349 of the Taxes Act) at the time that that advance
was made,

      and which is within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as
respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance; or     (2)  
a Lender which is:

  (a)   a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax
purposes;     (b)   a partnership each member of which is

  (i)   a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax
purposes; or     (ii)   a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which
carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and
which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (for the purposes
of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) the whole of any share of interest payable in
respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of sections 114 and 115 of
the Taxes Act;

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  (c)   a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade
in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into
account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable
profits (for the purposes of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) of that company; or

  (3)   a Treaty Lender; or

  (B)   a building society (as defined for the purpose of Section 477A of the
Taxes Act).         “Tax Confirmation” means a confirmation by a Lender that the
person beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an
advance under a Finance Document is:     (A)   a company resident in the United
Kingdom, for United Kingdom tax purposes; or     (B)   a partnership each member
of which is:

  (1)   a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or     (2)   a company not
so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom
through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its
chargeable profits (for the purposes of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) the
whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to
it by reason of sections 114 and 115 of the Taxes Act; or

  (C)   a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade
in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into
account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable
profits (for the purposes of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) of that company.

      “Tax Credit” means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment
of any Tax.         “Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding for or on
account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document.         “Tax Payment”
means either the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party
under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity).
        “Treaty Lender” means a Lender which:

  (A)   in the case of an Obligor which is resident in the United Kingdom, is
treated as a resident of a Treaty State for the purposes of the Treaty and does
not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment
with which that Lender’s participation in the Loan is effectively connected; or

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  (B)   in the case of an Obligor which is not resident in the United Kingdom,
is treated as resident in a jurisdiction which has a double taxation agreement
with the jurisdiction in which the Obligor is resident or treated as resident,
which double tax treaty makes provision (subject to satisfaction of any
conditions provided therein) for full exemption from Tax Deductions imposed by
the jurisdiction in which the Obligor is resident or treated as resident.

      “Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a
“Treaty”) with the United Kingdom which (subject to satisfaction of any
conditions provided for therein) makes provision for full exemption from tax
imposed by the United Kingdom on interest.         “UK Non-Bank Lender” means:

  (A)   where a Lender becomes a Party on the day on which this Agreement is
entered into, a Lender listed in Schedule 2 (The Original Lenders) and
identified as a “UK Non-Bank Lender” in that Schedule; and     (B)   where a
Lender becomes a Party after the day on which this Agreement is entered into, a
Lender which gives a Tax Confirmation in the Transfer Certificate which it
executes on becoming a Party.

  14.1.2   Unless a contrary indication appears, in this Clause 14 (Tax gross-up
and indemnities) a reference to “determines” or “determined” means a
determination made in the absolute discretion of the person making the
determination.

14.2   Tax gross-up

  14.2.1   Each Obligor shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax
Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.     14.2.2   The Company
shall promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction (or
that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the
Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the Agent on becoming so
aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Agent receives such
notification from a Lender it shall notify the Company and that Obligor.    
14.2.3   If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the
amount of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount
which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment
which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.     14.2.4   An
Obligor is not required to make an increased payment to a Lender under Clause
14.2.3 above for a Tax Deduction in respect of tax imposed by the United Kingdom
from a payment of interest on a Loan, if on the date on which the payment falls
due:

  (A)   the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax
Deduction if it was a Qualifying Lender, but on that date that Lender is not or
has ceased to be a Qualifying Lender other than as a result of any change after
the date it became a Lender under this Agreement in (or in

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      the interpretation, administration, or application of) any law or Treaty,
or any published practice or concession of any relevant taxing authority; or

  (B)    

  (1)   the relevant Lender is a Qualifying Lender solely under paragraph (A)(2)
of the definition of “Qualifying Lender” set out in Clause 14.1.1 (Definitions);
    (2)   the Board of the Inland Revenue has given (and not revoked) a
direction (a “Direction”) under section 349C of the Taxes Act (as that provision
has effect on the date on which the relevant Lender became a Party to this
Agreement) which relates to that payment and that Lender has received from that
Obligor or the Company a certified copy of that Direction; and     (3)   the
payment could have been made to the Lender without any Tax Deduction in the
absence of that Direction; or

  (C)   the relevant Lender is a Qualifying Lender solely under paragraph (A)(2)
of the definition of “Qualifying Lender” set out in Clause 14.1.1 (Definitions)
and it has not, other than by reason of any change after the date of this
Agreement in (or in the interpretation, administration, or application of) any
law, or any published practice or concession of any relevant taxing authority,
given a Tax Confirmation to the Company; or     (D)   the relevant Lender is a
Treaty Lender and the Obligor making the payment is able to demonstrate that the
payment could have been made to the Lender without the Tax Deduction had that
Lender complied with its obligations under Clause 14.2.7 below.

  14.2.5   If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor shall
make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax
Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law.    
14.2.6   Within thirty days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment
required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax
Deduction shall deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the
payment evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the Tax
Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the
relevant taxing authority.     14.2.7   A Treaty Lender and each Obligor which
makes a payment to which that Treaty Lender is entitled shall co-operate in
completing any procedural formalities necessary for that Obligor to obtain
authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction.     14.2.8   A UK
Non-Bank Lender which becomes a Party on the day on which this Agreement is
entered into gives a Tax Confirmation to the Company by entering into this
Agreement.     14.2.9   A UK Non-Bank Lender shall promptly notify the Company
and the Agent if there is any change in the position from that set out in the
Tax Confirmation.     14.2.10   Each Lender that:

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  (A)   is a Lender as at the date of this Agreement confirms on the date of
this Agreement; or     (B)   becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement
confirms on the date on which it becomes a Lender pursuant to Clause 26 (Changes
to the Lenders),

      that it is a Qualifying Lender. A Lender will notify the Agent if it
ceases to be a Qualifying Lender at any time. The Agent will promptly upon
receipt of any such notification provide the Company a copy of the same.

14.3   Tax indemnity

  14.3.1   The Company shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will) (within
three Business Days of demand by the Agent, such demand to be accompanied by a
written calculation of the amount claimed by the Protected Party) pay to a
Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that
Protected Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered
for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance
Document.     14.3.2   Clause 14.3.1 above shall not apply:

  (A)   with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:

  (1)   under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is
incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that
Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or     (2)   under the
law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party’s Facility Office is located
in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction,

      if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income
received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by
that Finance Party; or     (B)   to the extent a loss, liability or cost:

  (1)   is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 14.2 (Tax
gross-up); or     (2)   would have been compensated for by an increased payment
under Clause 14.2 (Tax gross-up) but was not so compensated solely because one
of the exclusions in Clause 14.2.4 (Tax gross-up) applied.

  14.3.3   A Protected Party making, or intending to make a claim under Clause
14.3.1 above shall promptly notify the Agent of the event which will give, or
has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the
Company.     14.3.4   A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from an
Obligor under this Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity), notify the Agent.

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14.4   Tax Credit       If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant
Finance Party determines that:

  14.4.1   a Tax Credit is attributable either to an increased payment of which
that Tax Payment forms part, or to that Tax Payment; and     14.4.2   that
Finance Party has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit,

    the Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Obligor which that Finance
Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax
position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be
made by the Obligor.   14.5   Stamp taxes       The Company shall (or shall
procure that an Obligor will) pay and, within three Business Days of demand,
indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability that Finance
Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes
payable in respect of any Finance Document (other than a Transfer Certificate).
  14.6   Value added tax

  14.6.1   All amounts set out, or expressed to be payable under a Finance
Document by any Party to a Finance Party which (in whole or in part) constitute
the consideration for VAT purposes shall be deemed to be exclusive of any VAT
which is chargeable on such supply, and accordingly, subject to Clause 14.6.3
(Value added tax), if VAT is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party
to any Party under a Finance Document, that Party shall pay to the Finance Party
(in addition to and at the same time as paying the consideration) an amount
equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Finance Party shall promptly provide an
appropriate VAT invoice to such Party).     14.6.2   If VAT is chargeable on any
supply made by any Finance Party (the “Supplier”) to any other Finance Party
(the “Recipient”) under a Finance Document, and any Party (the “Relevant Party”)
is required by the terms of any Finance Document to pay an amount equal to the
consideration for such supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to
reimburse the Recipient in respect of that consideration), such Party shall also
pay to the Supplier (in addition to and at the same time as paying such amount)
an amount equal to the amount of such VAT. The Recipient will promptly pay to
the Relevant Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment from the relevant
tax authority which it reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on
that supply.     14.6.3   Where a Finance Document requires any Party to
reimburse a Finance Party for any costs or expenses, that Party shall also at
the same time pay and indemnify the Finance Party against all VAT incurred by
the Finance Party in respect of the costs or expenses to the extent that the
Finance Party reasonably determines that neither it nor any other member of any
group of which it is a member for VAT purposes is entitled to credit or
repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of the VAT.

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15.   INCREASED COSTS   15.1   Increased costs

  15.1.1   Subject to Clause 15.3 (Exceptions), the Company shall (or shall
procure that an Obligor will), within three Business Days of a demand by the
Agent, pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs
incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of (i) the
introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or
application of) any law or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or
regulation made after the date of this Agreement.     15.1.2   In this Agreement
“Increased Costs” means:

  (A)   a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance
Party’s (or its Affiliate’s) overall capital;     (B)   an additional or
increased cost; or     (C)   a reduction of any amount due and payable under any
Finance Document,

    which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to
the extent that it is attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its
Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document
or Letter of Credit.   15.2   Increased cost claims

  15.2.1   A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 15.1
(Increased costs) shall notify the Agent of the event giving rise to the claim,
following which the Agent shall promptly notify the Company.     15.2.2   Each
Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent or the
Company, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs and
setting out the calculation of such amount in reasonable detail.

15.3   Exceptions

  15.3.1   Clause 15.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any
Increased Cost is:

  (A)   attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an
Obligor;     (B)   compensated for by Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have
been compensated for under Clause 14.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so
compensated solely because any of the exclusions in Clause 14.3.2 (Tax
indemnity) applied);     (C)   compensated for by the payment of the Mandatory
Cost;     (D)   attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party
or its Affiliates of any law or regulation or any Finance Document to which it
is a party; or

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  (E)   attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with
the Basle II Accord or any law or regulation which implements the Basle II
Accord.

  15.3.2   In this Clause 15.3 (Exceptions):

  (A)   a reference to a “Tax Deduction” has the same meaning given to the term
in Clause 14.1 (Definitions); and     (B)   “Basle II Accord” means the paper
titled “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards,
a Revised Framework” published by the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision in
June 2004 in the form existing as at the date of this Agreement.

16.   OTHER INDEMNITIES   16.1   Currency indemnity

  16.1.1   If any sum due from an Obligor under the Finance Documents (a “Sum”),
or any order, judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be
converted from the currency (the “First Currency”) in which that Sum is payable
into another currency (the “Second Currency”) for the purpose of:

  (A)   making or filing a claim or proof against that Obligor;     (B)  
obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation
or arbitration proceedings,

      that Obligor shall as an independent obligation, within three Business
Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party to whom that Sum is due against any
cost, loss or liability arising out of or as a result of the conversion
including any discrepancy between (i) the rate of exchange used to convert that
Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (ii) the rate or rates
of exchange available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum.    
16.1.2   Without prejudice to Clause 16.1.1, each Obligor shall as an
independent obligation, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each
Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability which that Finance Party
incurs as a result of that Finance Party receiving an amount in respect of that
Obligor’s liability under any Finance Document in a currency other than the
currency in which that liability is expressed to be payable under that Finance
Document.     16.1.3   Each Obligor waives any right it may have in any
jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or
currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.

16.2   Other indemnities       The Company shall (or shall procure that an
Obligor will), within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance
Party against any cost, loss or liability incurred by that Finance Party as a
result of:

  16.2.1   the occurrence of any Event of Default;

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  16.2.2   a failure by an Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance
Document on its due date, including without limitation, any cost, loss or
liability arising as a result of Clause 30 (Sharing among the Finance Parties);
    16.2.3   funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a
Utilisation requested by a Borrower in a Utilisation Request but not made by
reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement
(other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone);    
16.2.4   a Utilisation (or part of a Utilisation) not being prepaid in
accordance with a notice of prepayment given hereunder; or     16.2.5   the
release of any Security constituted by any Finance Document or any release of
any Obligor which is permitted under the Finance Documents.

16.3   Indemnity to the Agent       The Company shall (or shall procure that an
Obligor will) promptly indemnify the Agent against any cost, loss or liability
incurred by the Agent (acting reasonably) as a result of:

  16.3.1   investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; or
    16.3.2   acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it
reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised.

17.   MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS   17.1   Mitigation

  17.1.1   Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Company, take all
reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would
result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled
pursuant to, any of Clause 9.1 (Illegality), Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and
indemnities), Clause 15 (Increased costs) or paragraph 3 of Schedule 7
(Mandatory Cost Formulae) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights
and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility
Office.     17.1.2   Clause 17.1.1 does not in any way limit the obligations of
any Obligor under the Finance Documents.

17.2   Limitation of liability

  17.2.1   The Company shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will) indemnify
each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that
Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause 17.1 (Mitigation).  
  17.2.2   A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 17.1
(Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do
so might be prejudicial to it.

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18.   COSTS AND EXPENSES   18.1   Transaction expenses       The Company shall
(or shall procure that an Obligor will) promptly on demand pay the
Administrative Finance Parties the amount of all costs and expenses (including
legal fees) reasonably incurred by any of them in connection with:

  18.1.1   the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and syndication of:

  (A)   this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement;
and     (B)   any other Finance Documents (other than a Transfer Certificate and
BOS Counter-Indemnity) executed after the date of this Agreement;

  18.1.2   the designation or de-designation of any Petroleum Assets as
Borrowing Base Assets; and     18.1.3   the completion of the transactions and
perfection of the Security intended to be created pursuant to the Security
Documents,

    subject to any applicable cap agreed between the Company and the Agent.  
18.2   Amendment costs       If (a) a relevant party requests an amendment,
waiver or consent to any Finance Document or (b) an amendment is required
pursuant to Clause 31.9 (Change of currency), the Obligors shall, within three
Business Days of demand, reimburse the Finance Parties for the amount of all
costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by the Finance
Parties in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request
or requirement. For the purposes of this Clause, “relevant party” means any
Obligor or any other party (other than a Finance Party) to a Finance Document.  
18.3   Enforcement costs       The Company shall (or shall procure that an
Obligor will), within three Business Days of demand, pay to each Finance Party
the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that
Finance Party in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any
rights under, any Finance Document.

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GUARANTEE

19.   GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY   19.1   Guarantee and indemnity       Each
Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally jointly and severally:

  19.1.1   guarantees to each Finance Party punctual performance by each other
Obligor of all that other Obligor’s obligations under the Finance Documents;    
19.1.2   undertakes with each Finance Party that whenever an Obligor does not
pay any amount when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, that
Guarantor shall immediately on demand pay that amount as if it was the principal
obligor; and     19.1.3   indemnifies each Finance Party immediately on demand
against any cost, loss or liability suffered by that Finance Party if any
obligation guaranteed by it is or becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal. The
amount of the cost, loss or liability shall be equal to the amount which that
Finance Party would otherwise have been entitled to recover.

19.2   Continuing guarantee       This guarantee is a continuing guarantee and
will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable by any Obligor under the
Finance Documents, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole
or in part.   19.3   Reinstatement       If any payment by an Obligor or any
discharge given by a Finance Party (whether in respect of the obligations of any
Obligor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or
reduced as a result of insolvency or any similar event:

  19.3.1   the liability of each Obligor shall continue as if the payment,
discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred; and     19.3.2   each
Finance Party shall be entitled to recover the value or amount of that security
or payment from each Obligor, as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or
reduction had not occurred.

19.4   Waiver of defences       The obligations of each Guarantor under this
Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity) will not be affected by an act, omission,
matter or thing which, but for this Clause 19.4, would reduce, release or
prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity)
(without limitation and whether or not known to it or any Finance Party)
including:

  19.4.1   any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any
Obligor or other person;     19.4.2   the release of any other Obligor or any
other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor
of any Obligor or other person;

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  19.4.3   the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of,
or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or
security over assets of, any Obligor or other person or any non-presentation or
non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any
instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security;     19.4.4
  any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or
dissolution or change in the members or status of an Obligor or any other
person;     19.4.5   any amendment (however fundamental) or replacement of a
Finance Document or any other document or security;     19.4.6   any
unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under
any Finance Document or any other document or security; or     19.4.7   any
insolvency or similar proceedings.

19.5   Immediate recourse       Each Guarantor waives any right it may have of
first requiring any Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to
proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from
any person before claiming from that Guarantor under this Clause 19 (Guarantee
and indemnity). This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of
a Finance Document to the contrary.   19.6   Appropriations       Until all
amounts which may be or become payable by the Obligors under or in connection
with the Finance Documents have been irrevocably paid in full, each Finance
Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) may:

  19.6.1   refrain from applying or enforcing any other moneys, security or
rights held or received by that Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its
behalf) in respect of those amounts, or apply and enforce the same in such
manner and order as it sees fit (whether against those amounts or otherwise) and
no Guarantor shall be entitled to the benefit of the same; and     19.6.2   hold
in an interest-bearing suspense account any moneys received from any Guarantor
or on account of any Guarantor’s liability under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and
indemnity).

19.7   Deferral of Guarantors’ rights       Until all amounts which may be or
become payable by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents
have been irrevocably paid in full and unless the Agent otherwise directs, no
Guarantor will exercise any rights which it may have by reason of performance by
it of its obligations under the Finance Documents:

  19.7.1   to be indemnified by an Obligor;     19.7.2   to claim any
contribution from any other guarantor of any Obligor’s obligations under the
Finance Documents; and/or

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  19.7.3   to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of
subrogation or otherwise) of any rights of the Finance Parties under the Finance
Documents or of any other guarantee or security taken pursuant to, or in
connection with, the Finance Documents by any Finance Party.

19.8   Release of Guarantors’ right of contribution       If any Guarantor (a
“Retiring Guarantor”) ceases to be a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of
the Finance Documents for the purpose of any sale or other disposal of that
Retiring Guarantor that is permitted under the terms of the Finance Documents,
then on the date such Retiring Guarantor ceases to be a Guarantor:

  19.8.1   that Retiring Guarantor is released by each other Guarantor from any
liability (whether past, present or future and whether actual or contingent) to
make a contribution to any other Guarantor arising by reason of the performance
by any other Guarantor of its obligations under the Finance Documents; and    
19.8.2   each other Guarantor waives any rights it may have by reason of the
performance of its obligations under the Finance Documents to take the benefit
(in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any
rights of the Finance Parties under any Finance Document or of any other
security taken pursuant to, or in connection with, any Finance Document where
such rights or security are granted by or in relation to the assets of the
Retiring Guarantor.

19.9   Additional security       This guarantee is in addition to and is not in
any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held
by any Finance Party.   19.10   Limitation of guarantee       Notwithstanding
any other provision of any Finance Document, the amount guaranteed by each
Guarantor hereunder shall be limited to the extent, if any, required so that its
obligations under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity) shall not be subject
to avoidance under Section 548 of Title 11 of the United States Code, or to
being set aside or annulled under any applicable law or regulation relating to
fraud on creditors. In determining the limitations, if any, on the amount of any
Guarantor’s obligations hereunder pursuant to the preceding sentence, it is the
intention of the parties hereto that any rights of subrogation or contribution
which such Guarantor may have under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity),
any other agreement or applicable law or regulation shall be taken into account.
  20.   PROJECT ACCOUNTS   20.1   General

  20.1.1   The provision of this Clause 20 (Project Accounts) shall apply from
the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is or may be outstanding
under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.     20.1.2   Each
Obligor which is a member of the Borrower Group, other than Endeavour Energy
Netherlands B.V., shall maintain Proceeds Accounts and Cash Collateral Accounts
in accordance with Clause 20.3 (Proceeds Accounts) and Clause 20.4

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      (Cash Collateral Accounts), in each case, with the Account Bank in London
or such other location as the Agent, the Account Bank and the Company may agree.
    20.1.3   Each relevant Obligor shall give such notices as the Security
Trustee may require in connection with the perfection or protection of the
Secured Creditors’ security over the Project Accounts or for the purpose of
giving effect to the provisions of this Clause 20 (Project Accounts).     20.1.4
  Each Project Account (and each sub account) will be a separate account at the
Account Bank. A Project Account must be divided into separate sub accounts if
the Security Trustee so requires.     20.1.5   Each Project Account must be
denominated in sterling, dollars, Norwegian krone or euros or such other
currencies as may be agreed between the relevant Obligor, the Security Trustee
and the Account Bank holding such Project Account (each, a “permitted
currency”). If any relevant Obligor or the Account Bank receives any moneys for
crediting to a Project Account in a currency other than a permitted currency,
that Obligor must convert those moneys into a permitted currency (at the Account
Bank’s prevailing rates for comparable transactions) on the date on which they
are received. The amount must be paid into the relevant Project Account
immediately after it is converted into a permitted currency.     20.1.6   The
restrictions on the withdrawal of funds from Project Accounts contained in this
Agreement will not affect the obligations of the Obligors to make all payments
required to be made to the Secured Creditors on the respective due dates for
payment in accordance with the Finance Documents.     20.1.7   The detailed
operating procedures for the Project Accounts will be agreed (with the consent
of the Security Trustee) from time to time between the Company and the Account
Bank. In the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and those
procedures, this Agreement will prevail.     20.1.8   Each Obligor that has a
Project Account must pay to the Account Bank such transaction charges and other
fees as the Company and the Account Bank, both acting reasonably, may from time
to time agree.     20.1.9   The Account Bank will not be obliged to make
available to any Obligor any sum which it is expecting to receive for the
account of that Obligor until it has been able to establish that it has received
that sum.     20.1.10   Neither the ability of the Obligors to make any
withdrawal from a Project Account in accordance with this Agreement nor any such
withdrawal will be construed as a waiver by any Secured Creditor of any Security
over the Project Accounts.

20.2   Withdrawals

  20.2.1   No payments to, or withdrawals from, any Project Account may be made
except as expressly permitted by this Agreement.     20.2.2   No Obligor will
request, and (in the case of Clause 20.2.2(B) only) the Account Bank shall not
permit, any withdrawal to be made from any Project Account:

  (A)   to the extent that such Project Account would become overdrawn as a
result; or

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  (B)   if, prior to the date of the relevant proposed withdrawal, the Security
Trustee notifies the Account Bank that the withdrawal is not or would not be
permitted under any Finance Document,

      provided that nothing in this Clause 20.2.2 will prevent the Account Bank
complying with its obligations under law.     20.2.3   No Obligor may make any
withdrawal from a Project Account at any time whilst a Default is continuing (or
if any such Default would result from the withdrawal) except:

  (A)   subject to Clause 20.2.4, in the case of the Proceeds Accounts, as
expressly permitted under Clause 20.3 (Proceeds Accounts); or     (B)   with the
Security Trustee’s specific consent.

  20.2.4   If the Enforcement Date has occurred:

  (A)   no amount will be payable to any Obligor, or may be withdrawn by any
Obligor, with respect to the Project Accounts; and     (B)   the Security
Trustee will be entitled (but not obliged) without prior notice to, or the
consent of, any Obligor to be the sole signatory on the Project Accounts.

  20.2.5   The Security Trustee shall promptly notify the Account Bank of the
occurrence of the Enforcement Date and the Account Bank shall be entitled to
treat any notice issued to it under this Clause 20.2.5 at face value.

20.3   Proceeds Accounts

  20.3.1   Each Obligor which is a member of the Borrower Group, other than
Endeavour Energy Netherlands B.V., shall:

  (A)   maintain with the Account Bank, accounts the names of which shall
include the designation “Proceeds “ (each a “Proceeds Account”); and     (B)  
procure that all amounts received by it (or to its order) are paid directly to
the Proceeds Accounts maintained by it save to the extent that any Project
Document requires such amounts to be credited to a joint account of the relevant
Obligor and its co-venturers.

  20.3.2   Subject to Clause 20.2 (Withdrawals) and Clause 20.3.3, an Obligor
may withdraw amounts from the Proceeds Accounts maintained by it at any time and
for any purposes.     20.3.3   Subject to Clause 20.2 (Withdrawals), if any
Default has occurred and is continuing, an Obligor may only withdraw amounts
from the Proceeds Accounts maintained by it at the following times and for the
following purposes:

  (A)   first, at any time, in or towards payment of any items of Permitted
Expenditure but, unless the Security Trustee otherwise agrees, only to the
extent that such item of Permitted Expenditure does not exceed 110% of the
amount that has been provided for in the then current Projection;

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  (B)   second, at any time, in or towards payment pro rata of any fees,
commission, costs and expenses, accrued interest or Hedging Costs due but unpaid
under the Finance Documents and the Secured Hedging Agreements;     (C)   third,
at any time, in or towards payment pro rata of (i) any principal (including
amounts payable under clause 6.8 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) or clause
6.10 (Indemnities)), and any cash cover in respect of any Letter of Credit, due
but unpaid under the Finance Documents and (ii) any Hedging Termination Payments
due to any Hedging Bank but unpaid under any Secured Hedging Agreement to the
extent that such Hedging Termination Payments have fallen due for payment as a
result of the termination of such Secured Hedging Agreement by that Hedging
Bank; and     (D)   fourth, at any time, in or towards payment of any dividend
or distribution that has been declared prior to the occurrence of any such
Default.

  20.3.4   Any such withdrawals from a Proceeds Account may only be made in the
order of priority set out in Clause 20.3.3 so that no withdrawal may be made for
a purpose set out in any paragraph or sub-paragraph of Clause 20.3.3 if any
amount of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph or sub-paragraph is due
but unpaid.     20.3.5   Each Obligor may, at any time, transfer amounts from a
Proceeds Account maintained by it which is denominated in any one currency to
any other Proceeds Account maintained by it which is denominated in another
currency.     20.3.6   For the purpose of this Agreement, “Permitted
Expenditure” means, in relation to any Obligor at any time:

  (A)   any costs of abandonment and payments to make provision for abandonment
costs in accordance with all relevant laws, regulations and the relevant Project
Documents relating to the whole or any part of any Borrowing Base Asset, or any
physical assets associated with it (including contributions to a sinking fund),
in each case, payable by that Obligor at such time;     (B)   any transportation
tariffs and sales and marketing costs relating to the Petroleum derived from any
Borrowing Base Asset that is payable by that Obligor at such time;     (C)   any
capital expenditure in respect of any Borrowing Base Asset which that Obligor is
required to meet at such time in order to generate or sustain the production
profiles for that Borrowing Base Asset which have been used as an Assumption,
and are reflected in, the then current Projection;     (D)   any operating costs
relating to any Borrowing Base Asset payable by that Obligor at such time;    
(E)   any royalties under any Petroleum production licence relating to any
Borrowing Base Asset payable by that Obligor at such time;

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  (F)   any Taxes attributable to, or in connection with, any Borrowing Base
Asset payable by that Obligor at such time;     (G)   any exploration and
appraisal expenditure on any Borrowing Base Asset payable by that Obligor at
such time but only to the extent that (a) the Obligor was committed to meet such
expenditure prior to the occurrence of the relevant Default and (b) such
expenditure cannot be funded from any other existing cash balances of the Group;
and     (H)   any general and administrative expenditure payable by that Obligor
at such time but only to the extent that the same is attributable to a Borrowing
Base Asset.

20.4   Cash Collateral Accounts

  20.4.1   Any Borrower that wishes to request a Letter of Credit shall:

  (A)   maintain with the Account Bank accounts each designated as “Cash
Collateral” (the “Cash Collateral Account”) with the Account Bank; and     (B)  
procure that all amounts of cash cover that it is required to provide under this
Agreement (or otherwise elects to provide) in relation to any Letter of Credit
are paid into such Cash Collateral Accounts.

  20.4.2   Subject to Clause 20.2 (Withdrawals) and unless the Agent otherwise
consents, an Obligor may only withdraw amounts from the Cash Collateral Accounts
maintained by it at the following times and for the following purposes:

  (A)   first, at any time, in or towards the payment to any Lender of amounts
due and payable to it under this Agreement in respect of the relevant Letter of
Credit for which cash cover has been provided; and     (B)   second, at any time
when:

  (1)   no Default has occurred and is continuing; and     (2)   the aggregate
amount standing to the credit of all the Cash Collateral Accounts maintained by
that Obligor exceeds the aggregate amount of cash cover that it is, at that
time, required to provide in respect of all Letters of Credit that have been
issued at its request,

      in or towards payment to any Proceeds Account maintained by it.

  20.4.3   Any such withdrawals from a Cash Collateral Account may only be made
in the order of priority set out in Clause 20.4.2 so that no withdrawal may be
made for a purpose set out in any paragraph or sub-paragraph of Clause 20.4.2 if
any amount of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph or sub-paragraph is
due but unpaid.     20.4.4   The Fronting Bank shall be entitled to request the
Account Bank to withdraw from any Cash Collateral Account any amount due to it
in respect of a Letter of Credit which remains unpaid by the Borrowers (and the
Account Bank shall comply with any direction to it by the Fronting Bank for such
withdrawal(s)).

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20.5   Administration and miscellaneous

  20.5.1   Each Obligor shall provide the Agent and/or the Security Trustee and
any of their representatives with access on reasonable notice and during normal
business hours to review the books and records of its Project Accounts. The
Account Bank must, and each relevant Obligor authorises the Account Bank to,
give the Agent and the Security Trustee and their representatives unrestricted
access to review such books and records held by the Account Bank.     20.5.2  
The Account Bank must provide to the Company and, at the request of any of the
Agent, the Security Trustee or the Fronting Bank to such other party, not less
than five Business Days after the end of each month, a full statement of all
payments into and from the Project Accounts.     20.5.3   Except where this
Agreement specifically provides otherwise, no Obligor may exercise any right
which it may have under any applicable law to direct the Account Bank to
transfer any amount standing to the credit of a Project Account to it or to its
order. The Account Bank must notify the Agent and the Security Trustee if any
Obligor purports to exercise any such right.     20.5.4   The Account Bank will
not be under any obligation to monitor withdrawals from the Project Accounts or
enquire as to the purpose of any withdrawal from a Project Account.     20.5.5  
The Account Bank must notify the Agent and the Security Trustee promptly if it
becomes aware of the occurrence of a Default.     20.5.6   The Account Bank must
not be required to act in a manner inconsistent with the Finance Documents.    
20.5.7   Each sum credited to a Project Account will, from the time it is
credited until the time it is withdrawn, bear interest at such rate as the
relevant Obligor may from time to time agree with the Account Bank. Such
interest will be credited to the relevant Project Account.

20.6   Security

  20.6.1   Each Obligor shall, to the extent that such Security has not been
effected under the terms of an existing Security Document, enter into a Security
Document (in form and substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee acting
reasonably) for the purposes of creating Security over each of the Project
Accounts maintained by it (and the sums standing to the credit of such Project
Accounts) in favour of the Security Trustee and deliver to the Security Trustee,
or procure the delivery to the Security Trustee of, any legal opinion or other
document that the Security Trustee may reasonably require in connection with the
entry into such Security Document. Such Security must be granted and each such
legal opinion or other document must be delivered:

  (A)   in the case of any Project Accounts which are in existence on the date
of this Agreement, on or before the date of the first Utilisation hereunder; and
    (B)   in the case of any other Project Account, on the date on which such
Project Account is opened.

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  20.6.2   On the date on which such Security is granted in favour of the
Security Trustee, the Account Bank is deemed to have acknowledged that it has
received notice that each Project Account held by it is the subject of Security
in favour of the Security Trustee.     20.6.3   The Account Bank acknowledges
that it is not entitled to, and undertakes not to, claim or exercise any lien,
right of set-off, right to combine or consolidate accounts or any other right,
remedy or security over, against or with respect to any Project Account held by
it (save to set-off, from any Proceeds Account, transaction fees incurred by it
in exercise of its obligations under this Agreement) or moneys standing to the
credit of any such Project Account (or in the course of being credited to it),
in each case, without the consent of the Security Trustee.     20.6.4   The
Account Bank confirms that it has received no other notice of any Security in
respect of any Project Account held by it in favour of any person other than the
Security Trustee.

20.7   Protection of Account Bank

  20.7.1   The Obligors must indemnify the Account Bank against any cost, loss
or liability incurred by the Account Bank (otherwise than by reason of its gross
negligence or wilful misconduct) in acting as the Account Bank under or in
connection with the Finance Documents.     20.7.2   The Account Bank:

  (A)   is not responsible to any other Finance Party for the adequacy, accuracy
and/or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by it,
an Obligor or any other person given in or in connection with any Finance
Document or the Information Memorandum (save for the statements provided by it
pursuant to Clause 20.5 (Administration and miscellaneous)); or     (B)   is not
responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or
enforceability of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or
document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of or in connection with
any Finance Document.

20.8   Resignation of Account Bank

  20.8.1   The Account Bank (including any replacement Account Bank that is
appointed in accordance with this Clause 20.7 (Resignation of Account Bank))
must at all times be an institution approved, licensed and authorised to accept
deposits in each location where any Project Accounts are held.     20.8.2   The
Account Bank may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates acting through an
office in the United Kingdom or such other location as the Agent, the Account
Bank and the Company may agree as successor by giving notice to the other
Finance Parties and the Company.     20.8.3   Alternatively the Account Bank may
resign by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company, in which
case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Company) may appoint a
successor Account Bank.

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  20.8.4   The retiring Account Bank shall, at its own cost (unless required to
resign pursuant to Clause 20.8.7 in which case the costs will be borne by the
Company), make available to the successor Account Bank such documents and
records and provide such assistance as the successor Account Bank may reasonably
request for the purposes of performing its functions as the Account Bank under
the Finance Documents.     20.8.5   The Account Bank’s resignation notice shall
only take effect upon the successor Account Bank:

  (A)   notifying all the Parties that it accepts its appointment; and     (B)  
completing all such steps as may reasonably be required by the Majority Lenders
in order to ensure that (1) it accedes, and becomes a party, to all relevant
Finance Documents in its capacity as an Account Bank; (2) the proceeds of all
Project Accounts held by the retiring Account Bank are transferred to the
corresponding Project Accounts to be held with the successor Account Bank; and
(3) the Secured Creditors have valid and enforceable Security over (i) the
Project Accounts that are held, or to be held by, the successor Account Bank and
(ii) the amounts standing the credit of such Project Accounts.

  20.8.6   Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Account Bank shall
be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents
(in its capacity as Account Bank) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of
Clause 28.11 (Lenders’ Indemnity) and Clause 20.7 (Protection of Account Bank).
Its successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and
obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been
an original Party.     20.8.7   After consultation with the Company, the
Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Account Bank, require it to resign in
accordance with Clause 20.8.3 above. In this event, the Account Bank shall
resign in accordance with Clause 20.8.3 above.

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REPRESENTATIONS, UNDERTAKINGS AND EVENTS OF DEFAULT

21.   REPRESENTATIONS   21.1   Timing of representations

  21.1.1   Subject to Clauses 21.1.3, 21.1.4 and 21.1.5, each Obligor makes the
representations and warranties set out in this Clauses 21 to each Finance Party
on the date of this Agreement save for those set out in Clause 21.27
(Information Memorandum) which it makes to each Finance Party on the Syndication
Date.     21.1.2   In addition, subject to Clauses 21.1.3, 21.1.4 and 21.1.5,
the Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by each Obligor by reference
to the facts and circumstances then existing on:

  (A)   the date of each Utilisation Request and the first day of each
(i) Interest Period and (ii) Term; and     (B)   in the case of an Additional
Obligor, the day on which the company becomes (or it is proposed that the
company becomes) an Additional Obligor.

  21.1.3   Talisman Expro Limited makes the representations and warranties set
out in this Clause 21 (Representations) to each Finance Party on the date (the
“accession date") on which it becomes a Party hereto as an Obligor pursuant to
Clause 4.3 (Conditions subsequent) provided that:

  (A)   in making such representations and warranties and in making the
Repeating Representations at any time prior to the date which falls 90 days
after the accession date, Talisman Expro Limited shall (in relation to the
Limited Representations) only make, or be deemed to make, such representations
and warranties insofar as it is aware of the matters specified therein;     (B)
  for the purposes of the representation and warranties made, or deemed to be
made, by Talisman Expro Limited, any references to “date of this Agreement”
shall be replaced with a reference to “the accession date”; and

  21.1.4   In making the Limited Representations at any time prior to the date
which falls 90 days after the date of this Agreement, each Obligor (other than
Talisman Expro Limited) shall, to the extent that such with representations and
warranties relate to Talisman Expro Limited, only make, or be deemed to make,
such representations and warranties in so far as it is aware of the matters
specified therein.     21.1.5   For the purposes of Clauses 21.1.3 and 21.1.4,
“Limited Representations” means:

  (A)   each representation and warranty set out in Clauses 21.8.2 (No default),
21.9.2 (Authorisations), 21.9.3 (Authorisations), 21.13 (Information Package),
21.17 (Borrowing Base Assets), 21.18 (Copies of Project Documents), 21.19 (Laws
and regulations) and 21.25 (No Security);

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  (B)   to the extent that the same relates to any Project Document, the
representation and warranty set out in Clause 21.4 (legal validity).

21.2   Status

  21.2.1   It, and each member of the Group party to a Transaction Document is a
limited liability company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws
of its jurisdiction of incorporation.     21.2.2   It, and each member of the
Group party to a Transaction Document has the power to own its assets and carry
on its business as it is being conducted.

21.3   Powers and authority       It, and each member of the Group party to a
Finance Document or material Project Document, has the power to enter into and
perform, and has taken all necessary action to authorise the entry into, and
performance of, the Finance Documents or material Project Documents to which it
is a party and the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents or
material Project Documents.   21.4   Legal validity       Subject to any general
principles of law limiting its obligations or the obligations of any member of
the Group and specifically referred to in any legal opinion required, and
delivered to the Agent, under this Agreement, each Finance Document and, to the
best of its knowledge (after due enquiry), each material Project Document to
which it, or any member of the Group, is a party:

  21.4.1   is in full force and effect; and     21.4.2   is its legally binding,
valid and enforceable obligation or, as the case may be, the legally binding,
valid and enforceable obligation of that member of the Group,

    and no person is in default under any Finance Document or material Project
Document.   21.5   Non-conflict       Subject to any general principles of law
specifically referred to in the Norwegian legal opinion described in paragraph
11.5 of Part I of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent) the entry
into and performance by it of, or any Transaction Party of, and the transactions
contemplated by, the Finance Documents, do not conflict with:

  21.5.1   any law or regulation applicable to it or any member of the Group
party to such documents;     21.5.2   its constitutional documents or the
constitutional documents of any member of the Group party to such documents; or
    21.5.3   any document which is binding upon (i) it or any of its assets or
(ii) any member of the Group or any assets of any member of the Group.

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21.6   Pari passu ranking       Its payment obligations, and the payment
obligations of each Transaction Party, under the Finance Documents rank at least
pari passu with all its other present unsecured obligations, except for
obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.   21.7
  Insolvency       As at the date of this Agreement and, in the case of any
member of the Borrower Group which does not have an interest in any Borrowing
Base Asset at the date of this Agreement, the date on which any Petroleum Asset
owned by such member of the Borrower Group becomes a Borrowing Base Asset,
neither it nor any member of the Group has taken any steps, and (after due
enquiry) it is not aware of any steps having been taken for:

  21.7.1   the winding-up, administration, or dissolution of it or any member of
the Group (or any of their respective assets); or     21.7.2   the appointment
of any Insolvency Officer in relation to it or any member of the Group or their
respective assets,

    or any analogous step in any jurisdiction.   21.8   No default

  21.8.1   No Event of Default and, on the date of this Agreement, no Default
has occurred and is continuing or will result from the execution of, or the
performance of any transaction contemplated by, any Finance Document and so far
as it is aware no circumstances exist which threaten the foregoing.     21.8.2  
No other event is outstanding which constitutes a default under any document
which is binding on it, or any member of the Group or any of its assets or any
assets of any member of the Group, in each case, to an extent or in a manner
which is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.

21.9   Authorisations

  21.9.1   As at the date of a Finance Document and the date on which any
Petroleum Asset becomes a Borrowing Base Asset, except for registration of any
relevant Security Document, all Authorisations required by it, or any
Transaction Party in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and
enforceability of, and the transactions contemplated by, that Finance Document
have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) and are in full force and
effect, and to the best of its knowledge (after due enquiry), no steps have been
or are being taken for the revocation, variation or refusal of any such
Authorisation.     21.9.2   As at the date of this Agreement and the date on
which any Petroleum Asset becomes a Borrowing Base Asset, all material
Authorisations required by it or any member of the Group in connection with:

  (A)   the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of; and     (B)
  the transactions (including the exploitation of the Borrowing Base Assets)
contemplated by,

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      each of the material Project Documents to which it or any member of the
Group is a party have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) (or, in
relation to the matters referred to at paragraph (B) above, if not yet required,
there is no reason to believe that they will not be obtained in satisfactory
terms at the time they are required) and are in full force and effect and, to
the best of its knowledge (after due enquiry), no steps have been taken to
revoke or amend such Authorisations.     21.9.3   As at the date of this
Agreement and the date on which any Petroleum Asset becomes a Borrowing Base
Asset, all material Authorisations required by it, or any member of the Group in
connection with the exploitation of the Borrowing Base Assets as contemplated by
the Finance Documents and each Projection, have been obtained or effected (as
appropriate) and are in full force and effect and, to the best of its knowledge
(after due enquiry), no steps have been taken to revoke or amend such
Authorisations.

21.10   Financial statements       Its audited financial statements or, in the
case of the Company, its audited consolidated financial statements most recently
delivered to the Agent:

  21.10.1   have been prepared in accordance with GAAP/IFRS, consistently
applied; and     21.10.2   give a true and fair view of its financial condition
as at the date to which they were drawn up,

    except, in each case, as disclosed to the contrary in those financial
statements.   21.11   No Material Adverse Change       As at the date of this
Agreement, there has been no Material Adverse Change.   21.12   Litigation      
No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings are current or, to its
knowledge, pending or threatened which, if adversely determined, would be
reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.   21.13   Information
Package

  21.13.1   The factual information contained in the Information Package was
true and accurate in all material respects as at its date or (if appropriate) as
at the date (if any) at which it is stated to be given.     21.13.2   The
Information Package contains all information regarding each Obligor and the
Borrowing Base Assets which is material as at its date or (if appropriate) as at
the date (if any) at which it is stated to be given.     21.13.3   The
estimates, forecasts and financial projections contained in the Information
Package have been prepared, in good faith and with due care on the basis of
recent historical information and assumptions believed by the Obligors to be
reasonable as at the date it is stated to be given.     21.13.4   Each estimate,
forecast and expression of opinion or intention contained in the Information
Package was made in good faith, with due care and after careful

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      consideration and enquiry and is believed by the Obligors to be reasonable
as at the date at which it is stated to be given.     21.13.5   The Information
Package did not, when provided, omit any information which, if disclosed, would
make the Information Package untrue or misleading in any material respect.    
21.13.6   As at the date of this Agreement, nothing has occurred which, if
disclosed, would make the Information Package untrue or misleading in any
material respect.

21.14   Security       Subject to:

  (i)   any qualifications as to matters of law set out in any legal opinion
required, and delivered to the Agent, under this Agreement;     (ii)   any
required registration of any Security Document;     (iii)   the delivery of any
notices required to be delivered pursuant to the Security Documents which has
not been delivered on the date that this representation and warranty is, or is
deemed to be, given; and     (iv)   any rights of forfeiture (or similar rights)
of the counterparties to the Project Documents,

      each Security Document to which it or any Transaction Party is a party:  
  21.14.1   confers the Security of the type it purports to create over the
assets over which a Security is purported to be given by that Security Document
and subject as provided at Clause 21.17.2 each such Security is first ranking;  
  21.14.2   is valid and enforceable against (i) it or, as the case may be, the
relevant Transaction Party which is party thereto, and (ii) its or, as the case
may be, such Transaction Party ‘s Insolvency Officers and creditors; and    
21.14.3   is not capable of being avoided or set aside, whether in the winding
up, administration, or dissolution or otherwise of it (or any of its assets) or,
as the case may be, such Transaction Party (or any such Transaction Party’s
assets).

21.15   Environmental matters

  21.15.1   To the best of its knowledge (after due enquiry) it has obtained all
material Environmental Licences required by it in connection with each of the
Borrowing Base Assets in which it has an interest and their exploitation and has
at all times complied in all material respects with all those Environmental
Licences and it and each other member of the Group has complied in all material
respects with all applicable Environmental Laws.     21.15.2   To the best of
its knowledge (after due enquiry) there is no material environmental
contamination on any site connected with any Borrowing Base Asset or in which it
or any member of the Group has an interest.

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  21.15.3   To the best of its knowledge (after due enquiry) there are no
material Environmental Claims current, or to its knowledge, pending or
threatened, connected with it, any member of the Group or any of the Borrowing
Base Assets.

21.16   Projections and Computer Model

  21.16.1   The then current Projection:

  (A)   is based on reasonable assumptions;     (B)   is consistent with the
provisions of the Transaction Documents in all material respects;     (C)   to
the extent prepared by the Obligors has been prepared in good faith and with due
care; and     (D)   fairly represents the Obligors’ expectations as at the date
the Projection is produced and adopted,

      except, in the case of Clauses 21.16.1(A) and 21.16.1(D), to the extent
the Obligors’ assumptions and expectations differ from those of the Majority
Lenders or the Technical Bank (as the case may be).     21.16.2   The Computer
Model:

  (A)   has been prepared in good faith and with due care;     (B)   is
consistent with the provisions of the Transaction Documents in all material
respects; and     (C)   is accurate and does not contain any error which would
render any information produced by the Computer Model misleading in any material
respect.

21.17   Borrowing Base Assets

  21.17.1   The Obligors own, or have sufficient access to and the right to use
all assets necessary for the exploitation of each Borrowing Base Asset as
contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the then current Projection.    
21.17.2   Save as disclosed in Section C of the Due Diligence Report, to the
best of its knowledge (after due enquiry), the Obligors are the absolute legal
and beneficial owner of each Borrowing Base Asset free from any Security or
other interest of any kind (other than (i) the interests of co-venturers under
the Project Documents relating to that Borrowing Base Asset, (ii) the Security
under the Security Documents or (iii) the Security permitted under Clause 23.4
(Negative pledge)) and no member of the Group is under any obligation to create
any Security over any Borrowing Base Asset (except by virtue of any Security
Document or as permitted under Clause 23.4 (Negative pledge)).     21.17.3   So
far as it is aware, no event or circumstance exists which entitles any person to
terminate or suspend any Authorisation of a kind referred to in Clause 21.9.2
(Authorisations).

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21.18   Copies of Project Documents       Save as disclosed in Section A of the
Due Diligence Report, each copy of a Project Document delivered to the Agent by
it is, at the time it is delivered, a correct and complete copy of the relevant
document as in force at that time.   21.19   Laws and regulations       Subject
to any general principles of law specifically referred to in the Norwegian legal
opinion described in paragraph 11.5 of Part I of Schedule 3 (Conditions
precedent and subsequent) it and each member of the Group, is in compliance in
all material respects with all applicable laws and regulations including any
applicable tax laws and regulations.   21.20   Insurances

  21.20.1   All Insurances which are at any time required to be maintained or
effected by it, or any member of the Group, pursuant to the Finance Documents
are in full force and effect at that time, and to the best of its knowledge
(after due enquiry), no event or circumstance has occurred, nor has there been
any omission to disclose a fact, which would in either case entitle any insurer
under those Insurances to avoid its liability or otherwise reduce its liability.
    21.20.2   The Security Trustee (as security trustee for the Secured
Creditors) will, on and from the first Utilisation Date, be named as co-insured
in relation to all such Insurances.

21.21   No immunity

  21.21.1   It, and each member of the Group party to a Transaction Document is
subject to civil commercial law in respect of its obligations under the
Transaction Documents.     21.21.2   None of it, any other member of the Group
party to a Transaction Document, any of its assets, or any assets of any other
member of the Group party to a Transaction Document, is entitled to any right of
immunity, and the entry into and performance by it, and each member of the Group
party to a Transaction Document, of the Transaction Documents to which it or, as
the case may be, that member of the Group, is a party constitute private and
commercial acts.

21.22   Governing law and enforcement       Subject to any qualifications as to
matters of law set out in any legal opinion required, and delivered to the
Agent, under this Agreement:

  21.22.1   the relevant law chosen as the governing law of each of the Finance
Documents to which it, or any member of the Group, is a party will be recognised
and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation or, as the case may be, the
jurisdiction of incorporation of such member of the Group;     21.22.2   the
submission by it, or any member of the Group, to the jurisdiction of the courts
of England under any relevant Finance Document to which it or, as the case may
be, such member of the Group, is a party and any undertaking given in any
Finance Document by it, or any member of the Group, not to claim any immunity,
in each case, is legal, valid and binding under the law of its jurisdiction of
incorporation or,

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      as the case may be, the jurisdiction of incorporation of such member of
the Group; and     21.22.3   any judgment obtained in England in relation to a
Finance Document to which it, or any member of the Group, is a party will be
recognised and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation or, as the case may
be, the jurisdiction of incorporation of such member of the Group.

21.23   Deduction of Tax       As at the date of this Agreement it is not
required under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation to make any
deduction for or on account of Tax from any payment that it may make under any
Finance Document.   21.24   Ownership structure

  21.24.1   As at the date of this Agreement, each of the Company’s
Subsidiaries, apart from Endeavour Energy Norge AS, are Original Guarantors.    
21.24.2   As at the date of this Agreement, the ownership structure of the Group
is as set out in Schedule 12 (Group Structure).

21.25   No Security       No Security (or agreement to create the same) exists
over any of its assets or any assets of any member of the Group save, in each
case, as permitted under Clause 23.4 (Negative pledge).   21.26   Share Security
      Each member of the Group that has entered into any Security Document for
the purposes of granting Security over its shares in another member of the Group
is the legal and beneficial owner of all of such shares and other assets (the
“charged assets”) secured, or purported to be secured, under such Security
Document free from any Security (other than the relevant Security created
pursuant to that Security Document); and the charged assets are free from any
restrictions as to transfer or registration and are not subject to any calls or
other liability to pay money.   21.27   Information Memorandum

  21.27.1   The factual information contained in the Information Memorandum was
true and accurate in all material respects as at its date or (if appropriate) as
at the date (if any) at which it is stated to be given;     21.27.2   The
Information Memorandum contains all information regarding each Obligor and the
Borrowing Base Assets which is material as at its date or (if appropriate) as at
the date (if any) at which it is stated to be given;     21.27.3   The
estimates, forecasts and financial projections contained in the Information
Memorandum have been prepared, in good faith and with due care on the basis of
recent historical information and assumptions believed by the Obligors to be
reasonable as at the date it is stated to be given;

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  21.27.4   Each estimate, forecast and expression of opinion or intention
contained in the Information Memorandum was made in good faith, with due care
and after careful consideration and enquiry and is believed by the Obligors to
be reasonable as at the date at which it is stated to be given;     21.27.5  
The Information Memorandum did not, when provided, omit any information which,
if disclosed, would make the Information Memorandum untrue or misleading in any
material respect; and     21.27.6   As at the Syndication Date, nothing has
occurred which, if disclosed, would make the Information Memorandum untrue or
misleading in any material respect.

21.28   Dutch Work’s Council Act       None of the Obligors incorporated in The
Netherlands is required to obtain advice from any works council within the
meaning of the Dutch Works Council Act (Wet op de Ondernemingsraden).   21.29  
Final Salary Pension Schemes       No member of the Group has at any time
operated a final salary pension scheme.   21.30   Professional Market Policy    
  For the purpose of the Dutch Banking Act, each Dutch Obligor:

  21.30.1   represents and warrants to the Finance Parties on the date of this
Agreement that it has verified the status of each person which is a Lender under
this Agreement on such date and each such Lender is a PMP; and     21.30.2   if
on the date on which a party becomes a Lender, it is a requirement of
Netherlands law that such party is a PMP, represents and warrants to the Finance
Parties that it has verified the status of such party on such date and each such
party is a PMP.

22.   INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS   22.1   Financial statements

  22.1.1   The Company must supply to the Agent (in sufficient copies for all
the Lenders if the Agent so requests):

  (A)   its audited consolidated financial statements for each of its financial
years; and     (B)   its unaudited consolidated financial statements for each
six month period in each of its financial years.

  22.1.2   In addition, if the Agent so requests, each Obligor (other than the
Company) must supply to the Agent (in sufficient copies for all the Lenders if
the Agent so requests):

  (A)   its financial statements (or, if the same have been audited, audited
financial statements) for each of its financial years; and

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  (B)   its unaudited financial statements for each six month period in each of
its financial years.

  22.1.3   All financial statements for any financial year ending on or after
31st December 2005 must be supplied as soon as they are available and:

  (A)   in the case of audited financial statements or audited consolidated
financial statements of the Company, within 120 days;     (B)   in the case of
audited financial statements or audited consolidated financial statements of
each Obligor (other than the Company), within 180 days or, in the case only of
Endeavour Energy UK Limited and Talisman Expro Limited or any other Obligor
incorporated in England and Wales, 304 days;     (C)   in the case of unaudited
financial statements or unaudited consolidated financial statements of the
Company, within 90 days; and     (D)   in the case of unaudited financial
statements or unaudited consolidated financial statements of each Obligor (other
than the Company), within 120 days,

      of the end of the relevant financial period.     22.1.4   The Company must
supply to the Agent, with each set of financial statements it supplies in
accordance with Clause 22.1.2 and Clause 22.1.3, a certificate signed by a
director of the Company (in form satisfactory to the Agent demonstrating the
compliance of the Group with Clause 24 (Financial Covenants) or, if it is not in
compliance, stating this fact together with a brief explanation therefor.

22.2   Form of financial statements

  22.2.1   Each Obligor must ensure that each set of financial statements
supplied under this Agreement is prepared using GAAP/IFRS and gives (if audited)
a true and fair view of, or (if unaudited) fairly represents, the financial
condition (consolidated or otherwise) of the relevant person as at the date and
for the period in respect of which those financial statements were drawn up.    
22.2.2   Each Obligor must notify the Agent of any change to GAAP/IFRS,
accounting practices or reference periods which affect the basis on which its
audited consolidated financial statements or audited financial statements are
prepared.     22.2.3   If requested by the Agent, the relevant Obligor must
supply to the Agent:

  (A)   a full description of any change notified under Clause 22.2.2; and    
(B)   sufficient information to enable the Finance Parties to make a proper
comparison between the financial position shown by the set of financial
statements prepared on the changed basis and its most recent audited
consolidated financial statements or, as the case may be, audited financial
statements delivered to the Agent under this Agreement.

  22.2.4   If requested by the Agent, the Company must enter into discussions
for a period of not more than 30 days with a view to agreeing any amendments
required to be

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      made to this Agreement to place the relevant Obligor and the Finance
Parties in the same position as they would have been in if the change notified
under Clause 22.2.2 had not happened. Any agreement between the Company and the
Agent will, with the prior consent of the Majority Lenders, be binding on all
the Parties.     22.2.5   If no agreement is reached under Clause 22.2.4 on the
required amendments to this Agreement, the Company must ensure that its auditors
certify those amendments required to be made to this agreement to place the
relevant Obligor and the Finance Parties in the same position as they would have
been in if the change notified under Clause 22.2.2 had not happened. The
certificate of the auditors will, in the absence of manifest error, be binding
on all the Parties.

22.3   Information: miscellaneous       Each Obligor must supply, and the
Company must procure that each member of the Group supplies, to the Agent (in
sufficient copies for all the Lenders if the Agent so requests):

  22.3.1   copies of all documents dispatched by it to its creditors generally
or any class of them or required by its constitutional documents or law to be
dispatched to its shareholders (or any class of them) in their capacity as such,
in each case, at the same time as they are dispatched;     22.3.2   promptly
upon becoming aware of them, details of any litigation, arbitration or
administrative proceedings relating to it which are current, threatened or
pending which, if adversely determined, is reasonably likely to result in a
Material Adverse Change;     22.3.3   promptly upon becoming aware of them,
details of any potential or actual material warranty claim or any other material
claim or dispute relating to it under any Transaction Document;     22.3.4  
promptly upon becoming aware of it, any incident involving any material physical
damage to a Borrowing Base Asset in which it has an interest and its proposal
for reinstatement;     22.3.5   promptly upon changing its financial year end,
details of the same; and     22.3.6   promptly on request, such further
information regarding its financial condition and operations as any Finance
Party through the Agent may reasonably request.

22.4   Information: Borrowing Base Assets       The Company shall supply to the
Agent or, in the case of Clause 22.4.1, the Technical Bank (in sufficient copies
for all of the Lenders if the Agent or, as the case may be, the Technical Bank,
so request(s)):

  22.4.1   promptly upon receipt by it or any member of the Group, a copy of:

  (A)   any production reports, budgets prepared by any operator, any minutes of
operating committee meetings or any other document as the Technical Bank may
reasonably request from time to time, in each case, relating to any Borrowing
Base Asset; and

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  (B)   any other information relating to a Borrowing Base Asset or a member of
the Group that could change any Assumption in the then current Projection (in a
material respect) or impose any additional material liability on any member of
the Group;

  22.4.2   promptly upon request by the Agent:

  (A)   a copy of any Project Document; and     (B)   such information as the
Lenders may reasonably require in respect of a Borrowing Base Asset or any
member of the Group;

  22.4.3   not less than 14 days before any member of the Group enters into any
new material Project Document or any material amendment to any existing Project
Document, details of that Project Document or material amendment; and     22.4.4
  promptly upon receipt by an Obligor, or any member of the Group, a certified
copy of any material Authorisation required under any law or regulation
(including Environmental Laws and Environmental Licences) to enable that Obligor
or member of the Group to perform its obligations under, or for the validity or
enforceability of, any Finance Document.

22.5   Information: Projections and Reserves Reports

  22.5.1   The Company shall commission, at the expense of the Obligors, the
Independent Engineer to prepare a Reserves Report:

  (A)   on an annual basis for the purposes of the Scheduled Projections to be
adopted in accordance with Clause 7 (Projections);     (B)   if at any time the
Company makes a request for a Petroleum Asset to be designated a Borrowing Base
Asset;     (C)   if the Technical Bank so requests at any other time following
the occurrence of an event which in the reasonable opinion of the Technical Bank
has, or is likely to have, a material adverse effect on the risk profile of the
Group; and     (D)   if at any time the Company notifies the Technical Bank and
Agent that an event has happened or a circumstance has arisen that will have a
material impact on the FLCR Amount and/or LLCR Amount and that it wishes for
such event or circumstance to be taken into account for the purposes of the next
Scheduled Projection.

  22.5.2   The Company shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that each
Reserves Report which is commissioned and prepared:

  (A)   pursuant to Clause 22.5.1(A), is delivered to the Technical Bank and the
Agent on or before 15th February of each year if the same is to be taken into
account for the purposes of the Scheduled Projection that is due to be adopted
on 1st April of such year (with the first such report following drawdown
hereunder being delivered on or before 15th February 2007.

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  (B)   pursuant to Clause 22.5.1(B), is delivered to the Technical Bank and the
Agent within 21 days of the relevant request being made by the Company;     (C)
  pursuant to Clause 22.5.1(C), is delivered to the Technical Bank and the Agent
within 40 days (or such shorter period as may be reasonably practicable) of the
relevant request being made by the Technical Bank; and     (D)   pursuant to
Clause 22.5.1(D), is delivered to the Technical Bank and the Agent no later than
40 days before the relevant Scheduled Recalculation Date on which the relevant
Scheduled Projection is due to be adopted.

  22.5.3   The Company shall, at its expense, prepare or procure the preparation
of Borrower Updates and deliver each such Borrower Update to the Technical Bank
and the Agent on or before 15 August in each year (unless a Reserves Report is
scheduled pursuant to Clause 22.5.2 to be delivered to the Technical Bank and
the Agent within one month of such date).     22.5.4   The Company shall supply,
and shall procure that each member of the Group supplies, promptly upon any
request made by the Technical Bank or the Agent in connection with the
procedures provided for in Clause 7 (Projections) and the preparation and/or
adoption of any Projections, all such information and documents as the Agent or
the Technical Bank may reasonably request.

22.6   Notification of Default

  22.6.1   Unless the Agent has already been so notified, an Obligor shall, as
soon as it becomes aware, promptly notify the Agent of any Default (and the
steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).     22.6.2   Promptly on request by
the Agent and together with the financial statements specified in Clause
22.1.2(A) (Financial statements), each Obligor must supply to the Agent a
certificate, signed by two of its authorised signatories on its behalf,
certifying that no Default is outstanding or, if a Default is outstanding,
specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it.

22.7   Use of websites

  22.7.1   Except as provided below, an Obligor may deliver any information
under the Finance Documents to a Lender by posting it on to an electronic
website if:

  (A)   the Agent and the relevant Obligor agree;     (B)   the relevant Obligor
and the Agent designate an electronic website for this purpose;     (C)   both
the relevant Obligor and the Agent are aware of the address of and any relevant
password specifications for the website; and     (D)   the information posted is
in a format agreed between the relevant Obligor and the Agent.

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      The Agent must supply each relevant Lender with the address of and any
relevant password specifications for the website.     22.7.2   Notwithstanding
the above, each relevant Obligor must supply to the Agent in paper form a copy
of any information posted on the website together with sufficient copies for
each Lender:

  (A)   if requested to do so by the Agent; or     (B)   if so required by a
governmental requirement,

      in each case within 10 Business Days of receipt of the request.     22.7.3
  The Agent must promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence, notify the
relevant Obligor and the Lenders if:

  (A)   the website cannot be accessed;     (B)   the website or any information
on the website is infected by any electronic virus or similar software;     (C)
  the relevant password specification for the website is changed; or     (D)  
any information to be supplied under this Agreement is posted on the website or
amended after being posted.

      In the circumstances in paragraphs (A) or (B) above occur, the relevant
Obligor must supply any information required under this Agreement in paper form.

22.8   “Know your customer” checks

  22.8.1   If:

  (A)   the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation,
administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of
this Agreement;     (B)   any change in the status, or the composition of the
shareholders, of an Obligor after the date of this Agreement; or     (C)   a
proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or
transfer,

      obliges the Agent or any other Finance Party (or, in the case of Clause
22.8.1(C) above, any prospective new Lender) to comply with “know your customer”
or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary
information is not already available to it, each Obligor shall promptly upon the
request of the Agent or any Finance Party supply, or procure the supply of, such
documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for
itself or on behalf of any Finance Party) or any Finance Party (for itself or,
in the case of the event described in Clause 22.8.1(C) above, on behalf of any
prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent, such Finance Party or, in the
case of the event described in Clause 22.8.1(C) above, any prospective new
Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know
your

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      customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and
regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
    22.8.2   Each Finance Party shall promptly upon the request of the Agent
supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is
reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the Agent to carry
out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or
other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the
transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.     22.8.3   The Company
shall, by not less than 10 Business Days’ prior written notice to the Agent,
notify the Agent (which shall promptly notify the Finance Parties) of its
intention to request that any Relevant Affiliate becomes an Additional Obligor
pursuant to Clause 27 (Changes to the Obligors).     22.8.4   If the accession
of any person to this Agreement as an Additional Obligor pursuant to Clause 27
(Changes to the Obligors) obliges the Agent or any other Finance Party to comply
with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances
where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Company
shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any other Finance Party supply,
or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably
requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Finance Party) or any
other Finance Party (for itself or on behalf of any prospective new Finance
Party) in order for the Agent or such Finance Party or any prospective new
Finance Party to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with the results of
all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable
laws and regulations pursuant to the accession of such person to this Agreement
as an Additional Obligor.

22.9   Permitted Transactions       Each Obligor shall consult with the Agent
prior to completing any Permitted Transaction described in paragraph (B) or
(C) of the definition of “Permitted Transaction” set out in Clause 1.1
(Definitions) and promptly notify the Agent upon the completion of the same. The
Obligors shall provide such evidence as the Agent (acting reasonably) may
request for the purposes of ensuring that each such Permitted Transaction has
been or, as the case may be, will be, completed upon the terms described in the
relevant paragraph of the definition of “Permitted Transaction” and that the
interests of the Secured Creditors have not been adversely affected.   23.  
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS   23.1   Authorisations       Each Obligor shall, and shall
procure that each member of the Group shall, promptly obtain, maintain and
comply with the terms of any material Authorisation required under any law or
regulation (including Environmental Laws and Environmental Licences):

  23.1.1   to enable it to perform its obligations (or exercise its rights)
under, or for the validity or enforceability of, any Finance Document; or    
23.1.2   to enable it to perform its obligations (or exercise its rights) under,
or for the validity or enforceability of, any other Finance Document or material
Project

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      Document to which it is party or for the exploitation and/or operation of
any Borrowing Base Asset in which it has an interest as contemplated by the
Finance Document or material Project Document and the then current Projection.

23.2   Compliance with laws       Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that
each member of the Group shall, comply in all material respects with all laws
and regulations applicable to it or its assets or activities for the time being.
  23.3   Pari passu ranking       Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that
each member of the Group party to a Finance Document, shall ensure that its
obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with all its
other present and future unsecured obligations, except for obligations
mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.   23.4   Negative
pledge

  23.4.1   Except as provided in Clause 23.4.2:

  (A)   no Obligor may create or allow to exist any Security on, over, or
affecting, any of its assets; and     (B)   each Obligor shall procure that no
member of the Group creates or allows to exist any Security on, over, or
affecting, any of its assets.

  23.4.2   Clause 23.4.1 does not apply to:

  (A)   any Security constituted by the Security Documents or arising under any
other Finance Document;     (B)   any Security comprising a netting or set-off
arrangement entered into by an Obligor or any other member of the Group:

  (1)   in the ordinary course of its banking and trading arrangements for the
purpose of netting debit and credit balances;     (2)   under any Permitted
Hedging Agreement; or     (3)   under any other Hedging Agreement to which any
member of the Group that is not an Obligor is a party;

  (C)   any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of
trading and does not secure any amount more than 30 days overdue;     (D)   any
Security that arises under or pursuant to a Project Document which does not
secure any Financial Indebtedness;     (E)   any Security that are retention of
title or set off arrangements constituted under industry standard conditions for
the supply of goods acquired by any Obligor or any other member of the Group in
the ordinary course of its trading;

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  (F)   any Security arising pursuant to the specific terms of any Equivalent
Field Document which does not secure any Financial Indebtedness;     (G)   any
Security which the Majority Lenders have consented to in writing;     (H)   any
Security securing Financial Indebtedness, the outstanding principal amount of
which (when aggregated with the outstanding principal amount of any other
Financial Indebtedness which has the benefit of any Security given by any member
of the Group other than permitted under paragraphs (A)-(G) above) does not
exceed $250,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies).

  23.4.3   No Obligor may, and each Obligor shall procure that no member of the
Group shall:

  (A)   sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms where
it is or may be leased to or re-acquired or acquired by that company or any
member of the Group or Non Recourse Subsidiary; or     (B)   sell, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms,     in
circumstances where the transaction is entered into primarily as a method of
raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset.

  23.4.4   No Obligor may, and each Obligor shall ensure that no member of the
Group shall, agree to an amendment of any document or enter into a document
which may restrict its ability to create a Security envisaged by a Security
Document.

23.5   Disposals

  23.5.1   Except as provided in Clause 23.5.2, no Obligor may, and each Obligor
shall procure that no member of the Group shall, either in a single transaction
or in a series of transactions and whether related or not, dispose of all or any
part of any Borrowing Base Asset or any interests therein or any of its
shareholding in any person holding any interest in any Borrowing Base Assets.  
  23.5.2   Clause 23.5.1 does not apply to:

  (A)   sales of Petroleum under any Project Document or otherwise on arms’
length terms for cash-only consideration;     (B)   disposals arising solely by
virtue of a unitisation or redetermination of a Borrowing Base Asset;     (C)  
disposals of surplus materials or of materials that are forthwith replaced with
materials of equivalent utility;     (D)   disposals of obsolete or surplus
assets;     (E)   disposals of materials used in the course of its operations
where such disposals are made in the ordinary course of business and on arms’
length terms;

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  (F)   disposals of a Petroleum Asset which has ceased to be designated as a
Borrowing Base Asset where the Dollar Amount of all Utilisations are reduced in
accordance with Clause 8.3 (Reduction) in each case, following the adoption of
the new Projection which takes account of such Petroleum Asset ceasing to be
designated a Borrowing Base Asset;     (G)   any step which is part of a
Permitted Transaction;     (H)   disposals with prior consent of the Majority
Lenders;     (I)   any step which is part of a Permitted Hedging Agreement.

23.6   Financial Indebtedness

  23.6.1   Except as provided in Clause 23.6.2, no Obligor may, and each Obligor
shall procure that no member of the Group shall, at any time incur or have
outstanding any Financial Indebtedness.     23.6.2   Clause 23.6.1 does not
apply to:

  (A)   any Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Finance Documents or;    
(B)   any Financial Indebtedness accruing under the $81,250,000 convertible
senior notes due 2012 of Endeavour International Corporation and any refinancing
thereof providing the principal amount does not exceed $81,250,000.     (C)  
Financial Indebtedness incurred under any Permitted Hedging Agreement or any
guarantee given by a member of the Group in respect of a Permitted Hedging
Agreement;     (D)   any Financial Indebtedness owed by an Obligor to another
Obligor;     (E)   any Financial Indebtedness which is subordinated to amounts
due to the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents pursuant to a
Subordination Agreement approved by the Majority Lenders;     (F)   any
Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Second Lien Facility;     (G)   any
Financial Indebtedness incurred other than under Clauses 23.6.2(A) to (F) which
does not at any time exceed (in aggregate) $10,000,000 (or its equivalent in one
or more other currencies);     (H)   any other Financial Indebtedness incurred
with the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.

23.7   Credits and guarantees

  23.7.1   Except as provided in Clause 23.7.2, no Obligor may, and each Obligor
shall procure that no member of the Group shall, make any loan or extend any
other form of credit or financial accommodation, or give any guarantee of any
person’s Financial Indebtedness, to any person, or otherwise be a creditor in
respect of any Financial Indebtedness of any person.

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  23.7.2   Clause 23.7.1 does not apply to:

  (A)   any loan, credit or financial accommodation to the extent required by or
pursuant to any Project Document or any Equivalent Field Document;     (B)  
trade credit and guarantees on usual commercial terms including guarantees by a
member of the Group of oil and gas trading obligations of any other member of
the Group;     (C)   the guarantee given by the Company to Paladin Resources
Limited under the terms of the Acquisition Agreement;     (D)   any Financial
Indebtedness permitted under Clause 23.6.2 above     (E)   the guarantees given
by the Obligors under Article XII of the Second Lien Facility; and     (F)   any
extension of credit given pursuant to a Permitted Hedging Agreement in relation
to hedge receipts.

23.8   Change of business

  23.8.1   Each Obligor shall procure that no substantial change is made to the
general nature of its business or the business of the Group from that carried on
at the date of this Agreement.     23.8.2   No Obligor shall:

  (A)   carry on any business other than the ownership and exploitation of
interests in Petroleum Assets and the exploration for, and production and
disposal of Petroleum from, the areas covered by the petroleum production
licences for such Petroleum Assets and activities associated with those
activities; or     (B)   own any assets or incur any liabilities except for the
purposes of carrying on that business.

23.9   Corporate existence

  23.9.1   Each Obligor shall maintain, and shall ensure that each member of the
Group maintains, its corporate existence under the laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation and each Obligor shall not, and shall ensure that no member of the
Group will, change its corporate domicile, or attempt to resolve to do so.    
23.9.2   No Obligor may, and each Obligor shall procure that no member of the
Group shall, enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or reconstruction
except a solvent amalgamation, demerger, merger or reconstruction within the
Group with the consent of the Majority Lenders (such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld).     23.9.3   The restrictions in clauses 23.9.1 and
23.9.2 shall not apply to any step or procedure which is part of a Permitted
Transaction.

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23.10   Environmental matters

  23.10.1   Each Obligor shall ensure that it, and the Company shall procure
that each member of the Group is, and has been, in compliance in all material
respects with all Environmental Laws and Environmental Licences applicable to
it.     23.10.2   Each Obligor shall, and the Company shall procure that each
member of the Group, shall promptly upon becoming aware of the same notify the
Agent of:

  (A)   any material Environmental Claim current, or to its knowledge, pending
or threatened; or     (B)   any circumstances reasonably likely to result in an
Environmental Claim.

23.11   Insurance

  23.11.1   Each Obligor shall, and the Company shall procure that each member
of the Group shall:

  (A)   take out and maintain, or caused to be taken out and maintained, with
respect to all of its assets and activities, insurance policies:

  (1)   in such amounts and on such terms and against such risks as are normally
insured against by prudent owners of comparable assets in the region in which
the relevant assets are located or activities are taking place; and     (2)  
against any other risks which the Agent may reasonably require as a result of
any material change(s) in circumstances, risks or the Majority Lenders’
reasonable perception of risk.

  (B)   ensure that each Insurance is maintained:

  (1)   with an insurance company or underwriters acceptable to the Agent
(acting reasonably); and     (2)   otherwise on terms consistent with the good
practice of prudent owners of comparable assets;

  (C)   ensure that moneys received by it under any Insurances relating to third
party liability are applied directly to the person to whom the liability to
which the sum relates was incurred, or to the relevant insured party in
reimbursement of moneys expended in satisfaction of such liability;     (D)  
procure that the Security Trustee (as security trustee for the Secured
Creditors) is, on and from the first Utilisation Date, named as a co-insured
party upon the policy, certificate or cover note relating to each Insurance;    
(E)   not do, or knowingly permit anything to be done, which may make any
Insurance void, voidable, unavailable or unenforceable or render any sum which
may be paid out under such insurance repayable in whole or in part;

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  (F)   promptly pay all premiums, calls and contributions and do all other
things necessary to keep each Insurance maintained in full force and effect;    
(G)   produce to the Agent (i) the policy, certificate or cover note relating to
any Insurance, (ii) the receipt for payment of any premium for any Insurance or
(iii) such other details of any Insurance as the Agent may reasonably request;
and     (H)   if the Security Trustee so requires:

  (1)   enter into a Security Document (in form and substance satisfactory to
the Security Trustee) for the purposes of granting Security over such Insurances
which relate to the Borrowing Base Assets and the proceeds thereof in favour of
the Security Trustee unless such Security has been granted under an existing
Security Document; and     (2)   deliver to the Security Trustee, or procure the
delivery to the Security Trustee of, any legal opinion or other document that
the Security Trustee may reasonably require in connection with the entry into
such Security Document.

  23.11.2   No Finance Party shall have any liability for the payment of
premiums or any other amount owing in respect of any insurance.     23.11.3   If
any Obligor or member of the Group fails to pay any premium relating to any
Insurances, the Agent may, at its sole discretion, pay any premium due and the
Obligors shall immediately pay to the Agent the amount of such premium.

23.12   Project Documents       Each Obligor shall:

  23.12.1   ensure that none of its rights under or in respect of any Project
Document are at any time cancelled, terminated, suspended or limited if the same
would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Change;     23.12.2  
not agree to any waiver, amendment, termination or cancellation of any Project
Document if the same would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Change;     23.12.3   duly and properly perform, in all material respects, its
obligations under the Project Documents (except to the extent, if any, they are
inconsistent with its obligations under the Finance Documents);     23.12.4  
exercise its rights, and (so far as within its power) ensure that others
exercise their respective rights, under and in respect of the Project Documents
consistently with its obligations under the Finance Documents; and     23.12.5  
not enter into any Project Document the entry into, performance, termination or
breach of which would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Change.

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23.13   Borrowing Base Assets       Each Obligor shall:

  23.13.1   exercise such votes and other rights as it may have under the
Project Documents with a view to ensuring (so far as it is able) that each
Borrowing Base Asset is at all times exploited and operated in a reasonable and
prudent manner and in accordance with good industry practice, all applicable
laws and regulations and the provisions of the Project Documents;     23.13.2  
prior to the Abandonment Date forecast in the then current Projection, not
concur in, and shall vote against, any proposal or decision to abandon all or
any material part of any of its Borrowing Base Assets unless the Technical Bank
has confirmed to the Company that if a new Projection (reflecting such an
abandonment) were to be adopted, the same would not result in the Borrowers
having to reduce the Utilisations in accordance with Clause 8.3.2 (Reduction)
following the adoption of that Projection;     23.13.3   not exercise its rights
on any operating or similar committee in a manner that would be materially
prejudicial to the interests of any Finance Party under the Finance Documents;
and     23.13.4   maintain full and proper technical and financial records in
relation to each of its Borrowing Base Assets, and ensure (so far as it is able)
that the Agent (and/or any person nominated by it) is afforded reasonable access
to each of its Borrowing Base Assets and all such records during normal business
hours on reasonable notice.

23.14   Taxes       Each Obligor shall, and the Company shall procure that each
member of the Group shall:

  23.14.1   maintain its tax residence in the relevant country of incorporation;
    23.14.2   procure that all Taxes payable by, or assessed upon, it are paid
when due save to the extent that such payment is being contested in good faith
and being lawfully withheld;     23.14.3   to the fullest extent it is able to
do so, apply any and all tax credits, losses, reliefs or allowances taken into
account in any Projection at any time in the manner, at the time and to the
extent that they were so taken into account;     23.14.4   not surrender or
dispose of any tax credit, loss, relief or allowance to any person other than an
Obligor; and     23.14.5   file all tax returns required to be filed by it in
any jurisdiction within the period required by law.

23.15   Syndication       Each Obligor shall, provide all reasonable assistance
to the Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Finance Parties in effecting the primary
syndication of the Facility, including by:

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  23.15.1   providing such information available to it as may be required by the
Mandated Lead Arrangers or any Lender (acting reasonably) in connection with
syndication of the Facility (including in connection with the preparation,
revision and approval of the Information Memorandum);     23.15.2   making
management and members of staff available at reasonable times and on reasonable
notice for the purposes of making presentations to potential lending
institutions; and     23.15.3   otherwise assisting the Mandated Lead Arrangers
or any Lenders, to the extent reasonably necessary to achieve the successful
syndication of the Facility.

23.16   Security Documents

  23.16.1   Save as disclosed in Section D of the Due Diligence Report and save,
for any registration of the Security Documents which is to be undertaken by the
Lenders’ legal counsel, each Obligor shall, and shall ensure that each member of
the Group party to any Security Document shall, take all such steps (including
the obtaining and/or carrying out of all relevant approvals, filings,
registrations or recordings) as are available to it and as are reasonably
necessary for the purposes of ensuring that each Security Document:

  (A)   confers the Security of the type it purports to create over the assets
over which a Security is purported to be given by that Security Document and
subject to Clause 21.17.2 each such Security is first ranking;     (B)   is
valid and enforceable against the relevant member of the Group which is party
thereto and such Group member’s Insolvency Officers and creditors; and     (C)  
is not capable of being avoided or set aside, whether in the winding up,
administration or dissolution or otherwise of such member of the Group.

  23.16.2   Without prejudice to Clause 23.16.1 each Obligor shall, and shall
ensure that each member of the Group party to any Security Document shall,
promptly pay all stamp, registration and similar taxes and fees that are payable
in connection with each Security Document to which it is a party.

23.17   Petroleum won and saved       Each Obligor shall use all reasonable
endeavours to procure that all Petroleum won and saved from any Borrowing Base
Asset and which it is entitled to lift is dealt with in accordance with good
commercial practice and is sold (whether pursuant to a spot or term contract) on
the best terms (as to price and otherwise) as are reasonably available to
companies of comparable standing to the relevant Obligor at the date the
relevant contract is entered into.

23.18   Capital expenditure       Each Obligor shall, to the extent that the
then current Projection provides for any capital expenditure to be incurred in
any Calculation Period and such capital expenditure has been taken into account
as item “C” in the formulae set out in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) in the
definition of “FLCR Amount” or “LLCR Amount” (as the case may be) for the
purposes of the then applicable Relevant NPV, use reasonable endeavours to
ensure that such capital

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    expenditure is incurred in such period save to the extent that any
developments contemplated in such Projection can be carried out at a lower cost
than provided for in such Projection.   23.19   Ownership       The Company must
(subject only to any Security constituted under any Security Document) at all
times beneficially and legally own (whether directly or indirectly) the whole of
the issued share capital of each Obligor (other than itself).   23.20  
Exploration and appraisal expenditure       No Obligor may, and each Obligor
shall procure that no member of the Group will, enter into any arrangements
whereby it incurs any commitment to meet any exploration and appraisal
expenditure in relation to the Borrowing Base Assets save to the extent that:

  23.20.1   (in relation to any exploration and appraisal expenditure to be
incurred in any Calculation Period) the Borrowers have demonstrated to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Technical Bank that:

  (A)   any such expenditure can be funded out of amounts standing to the credit
of the Proceeds Accounts and any other accounts of any other members of the
Borrower Group (other than any Cash Collateral Accounts) on the first day of
that Calculation Period which the Company would otherwise be entitled (pursuant
to Clause 23.21 (Distributions) to pay to its shareholders by way of dividend;  
  (B)   the Group will be able to meet all its other liabilities as they fall
due in that Calculation Period;     (C)   the relevant member(s) of the Group
will be entitled to make such withdrawals from such account(s) to meet such
expenditure when the same falls due for payment; or

  23.20.2   such expenditure does not exceed 110% of the amount that has been
included in the then current Projection.

23.21   Distributions

  23.21.1   At any time while a Default has occurred and is continuing, no
Obligor shall, and the Company shall ensure that no member of the Group shall,
make or pay, or permit to be made or paid, any dividend or distribution (whether
in cash or in kind) in relation to its share capital, any redemption or
reduction of any share capital, any payments in respect of any loans made
available to it by any Affiliate or any other distribution to any of its
shareholders save for any of the foregoing in and among or to the Obligors and
any dividend or distribution that has been declared prior to the occurrence of
any such Default.     23.21.2   No Obligor may, and each Obligor shall ensure
that no member of the Group will, agree to any arrangement (other than the
Finance Documents or the Second Lien Facility) which may restrict its ability to
declare, make or pay any dividend, distribution or any payments referred to in
Clause 23.21.1.

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  23.21.3   No Obligor may, and each Obligor shall ensure that no member of the
Group will, make or pay any dividend or distribution in relation to its share
capital in cash save to the extent the same has been approved by the Agent, at
its sole discretion.

23.22   Hedging

  23.22.1   Each Obligor shall comply with the requirements of Schedule 13
(Hedging Policy).     23.22.2   Promptly upon request, the Company shall provide
to the Agent a report (in a form satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably)
which confirms whether the Obligors are in compliance with the requirements of
Schedule 13 (Hedging Policy).     23.22.3   No Obligor may enter into any
Hedging Agreement unless:

  (A)   such Hedging Agreement has been entered into pursuant to Clause 23.22.1
in connection with the Borrowing Base Assets;     (B)   such Hedging Agreement
has been entered into with a Hedging Bank or such other hedging counterparty
that has a credit rating of at least A3 with Moody’s Investors Service Inc. or
A- with Standard and Poor’s Rating Group or such other lower credit rating as
may be acceptable to the Majority Lenders; and     (C)   in the case of any such
Hedging Agreement with a Hedging Bank, that Hedging Agreement has been entered
into in compliance with the Intercreditor Agreement.

  23.22.4   Each Obligor that enters into a Hedging Agreement on or after the
date of this Agreement shall:

  (A)   enter into a Security Document in form and substance satisfactory to the
Security Trustee for the purposes of granting Security over that Hedging
Agreement in favour of the Security Trustee unless Security over such Hedging
Agreement has been granted to the Security Trustee under any existing Security
Document;     (B)   without prejudice to Clause 23.16.1 (Security Documents),
promptly obtain all such Authorisations as may be necessary in order for such
Security to be granted; and     (C)   deliver to the Security Trustee, or
procure the delivery to the Security Trustee of, any legal opinion or other
document that the Security Trustee may reasonably require in connection with the
entry into such Security Document.

  23.22.5   Save for:

  (A)   any Security that is permitted to be granted pursuant to Clause 23.4
(Negative pledge) in respect of any such Hedging Agreement; and     (B)   any
guarantee that is permitted pursuant to Clause 23.6 (Financial Indebtedness) and
Clause 23.7 (Credits and guarantees) in respect of any such Hedging Agreement,

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      no Obligor may, and each Obligor shall ensure that no member of the Group
shall, enter into any margin call arrangement, post any collateral or credit
support, grant any Security or otherwise give any guarantee or other financial
accommodation in respect of any Hedging Agreement that such Obligor or, as the
case may be, such member of the Group enters into.     23.22.6   The Obligors
shall ensure that no member of the Group (other than an Obligor) enters into any
Hedging Agreement.     23.22.7   No Obligor shall after the date of this
Agreement enter into any Hedging Agreement under any Master Agreement, Schedule
or other agreement in effect prior to the date of this Agreement, except a
Master Agreement in respect of the existing commodity hedges which the Group has
in place with J. Aron and Company (a Goldman Sachs subsidiary).

23.23   Non-Recourse Subsidiaries       Unless the Agent (acting reasonably)
shall otherwise agree in writing, the Company:

  (A)   will procure that (i) no investment in any Non-Recourse Subsidiary is
made by any member of the Group (whether represented by amounts subscribed for
shares, debentures or otherwise howsoever) and (ii) no Non-Recourse Subsidiary
will incur or permit to remain outstanding any indebtedness (whether present,
future, actual or contingent) or other liability to any member of the Group,
unless (x) (in every such case) at the time such investment is made or
indebtedness or other liability is incurred, no Default is continuing and
immediately prior to the making of such investment or such indebtedness or other
liability being incurred a director of the Company has certified on behalf of
the Company that no Default is continuing and (y) the Company would, under the
terms of this Agreement, otherwise be free to pay an amount equal to the amount
of such investment, indebtedness or liability to its shareholders by way of
dividend;     (B)   without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, it
will procure that no member of the Group gives any guarantee, undertaking or
indemnity or undertakes to permit to subsist any other liability whatsoever
contingent or otherwise in favour of or in respect of an obligation of any
Non-Recourse Subsidiary (whether in respect of indebtedness or the performance
of any obligation or otherwise howsoever);     (C)   without prejudice to the
foregoing, it will ensure that all transactions entered into between any member
of the Group and any Non-Recourse Subsidiary (other than the declaration or
payment of any dividend or other distribution by a Non-Recourse Subsidiary to a
member of the Group) shall be on an arms length basis and on normal commercial
terms;     (D)   will ensure that no Non-Recourse Subsidiary acquires any
interest in or entitlement to (or to the revenues from) any asset the revenues
from which were included in a Projection;     (E)   will ensure that no
Non-Recourse Subsidiary itself has any subsidiary other than a subsidiary which
is also a Non-Recourse Subsidiary;

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  (F)   will procure that, insofar as there is a significant risk that it might
materially affect the ability of any Obligor to perform any of their obligations
under the Transaction Documents or might otherwise result in a liability being
imposed on any Finance Party, each Non-Recourse Subsidiary:

  (1)   exercises all its powers to obtain and maintain in full force and effect
all material Authorisations applicable to it and will comply in all material
respects with all conditions and obligations to which such material
Authorisations may be subject;     (2)   carries on its business as a whole in a
prudent manner and uses all reasonable endeavours to procure that each Petroleum
interest of it is operated in accordance with good oilfield practice;     (3)  
promptly pays as and when due, unless and to the extent only that such
royalties, Taxes and duties are being contested by it in good faith, all
royalties, Taxes and duties of whatsoever kind and whether payable in the United
Kingdom or elsewhere; and     (4)   complies with all laws and regulations,
applicable to it (including all Environmental Laws and Licences) in all material
respects;

  (G)   will procure that each Non-Recourse Subsidiary, (i) promptly upon
becoming aware of the same, gives written notice to the Agent of every notice of
default or adverse claim or demand made by any person against such Non-Recourse
Subsidiary affecting any of its assets of whatsoever nature (disregarding for
this purpose any of the aforesaid of a spurious nature) if such default (if
proved) or claim or demand (if successful) is reasonably likely to result in a
liability being imposed on any member of the Group and (ii) diligently takes all
reasonable steps open to such Non-Recourse Subsidiary to remedy any such default
and protect and defend its interest in the relevant asset against any such
adverse claim or demand; and     (H)   will procure that each Non-Recourse
Subsidiary, as soon as reasonably practicable following request by the Agent,
provides to the Agent such information as the Agent may reasonably request for
the purpose of monitoring compliance with the representations, covenants and
other obligations hereunder which have application to Non-Recourse Subsidiaries.

23.24   Technical covenants       The Obligors undertake to procure that at each
Recalculation Date (for each period or date in respect of which such ratio is
shown in the then current Projection) the Tranche A FLCR, Tranche A LLCR,
Tranche A DSCR, Tranche B FLCR, Tranche B LLCR and Tranche B DSCR (as shown in
such Projection) are not less than the relevant multiples shown in Schedule 4
(Applicable Cover Ratios).

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23.25   Director’s Certificate       Endeavour International Holding B.V. shall
deliver to the Agent within seven days prior to each Recalculation Date a
certificate (“Director’s Certificate”) signed by a director on its behalf
substantially in the form of Schedule 15 (Director’s Certificate), each such
Director’s Certificate to be a Finance Document.   24.   FINANCIAL COVENANTS  
24.1   Definitions       In this Clause 24 (Financial covenants):

  24.1.1   “Consolidated Cash and Cash Equivalents” means, at any time:

  (A)   cash in hand or on deposit with any acceptable bank (including cash
collateral balances for decommissioning costs and debt service cash balances);  
  (B)   certificates of deposit, maturing within one year after the relevant
date of calculation, issued by an acceptable bank;     (C)   any investment in
marketable obligations issued or guaranteed by the government of the United
States of America or the U.K. or by an instrumentality or agency of the
government of the United States of America or the U.K. having an equivalent
credit rating;     (D)   open market commercial paper:

  (1)   for which a recognised trading market exists;     (2)   issued in the
United States of America or the U.K.;     (3)   which matures within one year
after the relevant date of calculation; and     (4)   which has a credit rating
of either A 1 by Standard & Poor’s or Fitch or P 1 by Moody’s, or, if no rating
is available in respect of the commercial paper, the issuer of which has, in
respect of its long term debt obligations, an equivalent rating;

  (E)   Sterling bills of exchange eligible for rediscount at the Bank of
England and accepted by an acceptable bank; or     (F)   any other instrument,
security or investment approved by the Majority Lenders,

in each case, to which any member of the Group is beneficially entitled at that
time and which is capable of being applied against Consolidated Total
Borrowings. An “acceptable bank” for this purpose is a commercial bank or trust
company which has a rating of A- or higher by Standard & Poor’s Rating Group or
Fitch or A3 or higher by Moody’s Investors Service Inc. or a comparable rating
from an internationally recognised credit rating agency for its long term debt
obligations or has been approved by the Majority Lenders.

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  24.1.2   “Consolidated EBITDA” means the consolidated gross pre taxation
profits of the Group for a Measurement Period:

  (A)   excluding the gross pre taxation profits of a member of the Group for
that part of that Measurement Period when it was not a member of the Group and
the gross pre taxation profits relating to business or assets acquired by a
member of the Group during that Measurement Period for that part of that
Measurement Period when the business or assets were not owned by a member of the
Group; and     (B)   excluding the gross pre taxation profits attributable to
any member of the Group or to any business or assets sold during that
Measurement Period,

and all as adjusted by:

  (1)   adding back Consolidated Net Interest Payable;     (2)   taking no
account of any exceptional or extraordinary item;     (3)   excluding any amount
attributable to minority interests;     (4)   adding back depreciation,
depletion, amortisation and all exploration and appraisal write-offs;     (5)  
taking no account of any revaluation of an asset or any loss or gain over book
value arising on the disposal of an asset (otherwise than in the ordinary course
of trading) by a member of the Group during that Measurement Period;     (6)  
adding back any non-cash decommissioning charges;     (7)   adding back any
non-cash impairment charges; and     (8)   taking no account of any other
non-cash charges or credits (including any non-cash charges or credits arising
by reason of the operation of IAS 17 or IAS 39).

  24.1.3   “Consolidated Interest Payable” means all interest and other
financing charges (whether, in each case, paid, payable or capitalised) incurred
by the Group during a Measurement Period (excluding any amortisation of any
financing fees which have been paid and any amortisation of any interest related
to decommissioning liabilities).     24.1.4   “Consolidated Interest Receivable”
means all interest and other financing charges received or receivable by the
Group during a Measurement Period.     24.1.5   “Consolidated Net Interest
Payable” means Consolidated Interest Payable less Consolidated Interest
Receivable during the relevant Measurement Period.     24.1.6   “Consolidated
Total Borrowings” means, in respect of the Group, at any time the aggregate of
the following:

  (A)   the outstanding principal amount of any moneys borrowed;

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  (B)   the outstanding principal amount of any acceptance under any acceptance
credit;     (C)   the outstanding principal amount of any bond, note, debenture,
loan stock or other similar instrument;     (D)   the capital element of
indebtedness under a finance or capital lease;     (E)   the outstanding
principal amount of all moneys owing in connection with the sale or discounting
of receivables (otherwise than on a non recourse basis);     (F)   the
outstanding principal amount of any indebtedness arising from any deferred
payment agreements arranged primarily as a method of raising finance or
financing the acquisition of an asset;     (G)   any fixed or minimum premium
payable on the repayment or redemption of any instrument referred to in
paragraph (C) above;     (H)   the outstanding principal amount of any
indebtedness arising in connection with any other transaction (including any
forward sale or purchase agreement) which has the commercial effect of a
borrowing;     (I)   the outstanding amount of any guarantee, indemnity, bond,
letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial
institution in respect of which any member of the Group has provided a
counter-indemnity; and     (J)   the outstanding principal amount of any
indebtedness of any person of a type referred to in paragraphs (A) – (I) above
which is the subject of a guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against
financial loss given by a member of the Group.

  24.1.7   “Consolidated Total Net Borrowings” means at any time Consolidated
Total Borrowings less Consolidated Cash and Cash Equivalents.     24.1.8  
“Current Assets” means, in relation to the Group, the aggregate value of the
current assets which are reasonably expected to be realised, consumed or sold in
the ordinary course of the trading activities of the Group within one year of
the date from which any calculation falls to be made together with cash at bank.
    24.1.9   “Current Liabilities” means, in relation to the Group, the
aggregate value of the current liabilities which are reasonably expected to be
repayable or payable within one year from the date on which any calculation
falls to be made but disregarding any amounts repayable under the Facility which
it is anticipated are to be funded by way of a Rollover Loan.     24.1.10  
“Current Ratio” means the ratio of Current Assets to Current Liabilities.    
24.1.11   “IAS 17” means standard 17 (relating to leases) under IFRS.    
24.1.12   “IAS 39” means standard 39 (relating to financial instruments) under
IFRS.

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  24.1.13   “Measurement Period” means each of the two consecutive six month
periods in a financial year of the Company.

24.2   Interpretation

  24.2.1   Except as provided to the contrary in this Agreement, an accounting
term used in this Clause is to be construed in accordance with the principles
applied in the preparation of the financial statements delivered in accordance
with Clause 22.1 (Financial Statements).     24.2.2   Any amount in a currency
other than dollars is to be taken into account at its dollar equivalent
calculated on the basis of:

  (A)   the Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the relevant
currency in the London foreign exchange market for dollars at or about 11.00
a.m. on the day the relevant amount falls to be calculated; or     (B)   if the
amount is to be calculated on the last day of a financial period of the Company,
the relevant rates of exchange used by the Company in, or in connection with,
its financial statements for that period.

  24.2.3   No item must be credited or deducted more than once in any
calculation under this Clause 24 (Financial Covenant).

24.3   Current Ratio       The Company must ensure that the Current Ratio on the
last day of each Measurement Period is greater than 1.1:1   24.4   Gearing      
The Company must ensure that the ratio of (1) Consolidated Total Net Borrowings
to (2) Consolidated EBITDA on the last day of each Measurement Period is less
than or equal to 3.0:1.   24.5   Compliance       The financial covenant set out
in this Clause 24 (Financial Covenant) shall be tested by reference to each of
the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Clause 22.1
(Financial statements).   24.6   Verification       The Agent may, at any time,
at the Company’s expense, require the auditors of the Company to verify any
figure or calculation made in any certificate delivered pursuant to Clause
22.1.4 (Financial Statements) if it reasonably believes that any such figure or
calculation is incorrect. If the Agent is not satisfied (acting reasonably) with
the verification provided by the auditors, it may, at the Company’s expense,
appoint an independent firm of accountants to investigate and verify the
relevant figures. Such verification shall be conclusive evidence of whether the
Company is in compliance with Clause 24 (Financial Covenant).

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25.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT   25.1   General       Each of the events or
circumstances set out in Clause 25.2 (Non-payment and failure to reduce) to
Clause 25.22 (Inability to discharge liabilities) (inclusive) is an Event of
Default.   25.2   Non-payment and failure to reduce       An Obligor or any
Transaction Party does not pay on the due date any amount payable by it under
the Finance Documents in the manner required under the Finance Documents, unless
the non-payment:

  25.2.1   is caused by technical or administrative error or a Disruption Event;
and     25.2.2   is remedied within two Business Days of the due date.

25.3   Breach of other obligations

  25.3.1   The Company does not comply with any term of Clause 23.24 (Technical
covenants) or Clause 24 (Financial Covenants).     25.3.2   An Obligor or any
Transaction Party does not comply with any other term of the Finance Documents
to which it is a party not already referred to in Clause 25.3.1, unless the
non-compliance:

  (A)   in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, is capable of remedy;
and     (B)   is remedied within 10 Business Days of the earlier of the Agent
giving notice and the relevant Obligor or Transaction Party (as the case may be)
becoming aware of the non-compliance.

25.4   Misrepresentation       A representation made or repeated by any Obligor
or Transaction Party in any Finance Document to which it is a party or in any
document delivered by or on behalf of any Obligor or Transaction Party under any
Finance Document to which it is a party is incorrect in any material respect
when made or deemed to be repeated, unless the circumstances giving rise to the
misrepresentation:

  25.4.1   are capable of remedy; and     25.4.2   are remedied within 10
Business Days of the earlier of the Agent giving notice and the relevant Obligor
or Transaction Party (as the case may be) becoming aware of the
misrepresentation.

25.5   Cross-default

  25.5.1   Any of the following occurs in respect of an Obligor or any other
member of the Group:

  (A)   any of its Financial Indebtedness is not paid when due and payable
(after the expiry of any originally applicable grace period);

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  (B)   any of its Financial Indebtedness:

  (1)   becomes prematurely due and payable;     (2)   is placed on demand; or  
  (3)   is capable of being declared by a creditor to be prematurely due and
payable or being placed on demand,

in each case, as a result of an event of default (howsoever described); or

  (C)   any commitment for its Financial Indebtedness is cancelled or suspended
as a result of an event of default (howsoever described),

unless the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness falling within Clause
25.5.1(A), Clause 25.5.1(B) or Clause 25.5.1(C) (as the case may be) is less
than $10,000,000 (or its equivalent in one or more other currencies).

25.6   Insolvency       Any of the following occurs in respect of an Obligor or
any other member of the Group:

  25.6.1   it is, or is deemed for the purposes of any law to be, unable to pay
its debts as they fall due or insolvent;     25.6.2   it admits its inability to
pay its debts as they fall due;     25.6.3   it suspends making payments on any
of its debts or announces an intention to do so;     25.6.4   by reason of
actual or anticipated financial difficulties, it begins negotiations with any
creditor for the rescheduling of any of its indebtedness; or     25.6.5   a
moratorium is declared in respect of any of its indebtedness.

25.7   Insolvency proceedings

  25.7.1   Except as provided in Clause 25.7.2, any of the following occurs in
respect of an Obligor or any other member of the Group:

  (A)   any step is taken with a view to a faillissement, surséance van
betaling, composition, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its
creditors;     (B)   a meeting of it is convened for the purpose of considering
any resolution for (or to petition for) its winding-up, administration, or
dissolution or any such resolution is passed;     (C)   any person presents a
petition, files an application or takes any other analogous steps for its
winding-up, administration, or dissolution;     (D)   an order for its
winding-up, administration, or dissolution is made;     (E)   any Insolvency
Officer is appointed in respect of it or any of its assets;     (F)   its
directors or other officers request the appointment of an Insolvency Officer;

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  (G)   a notice under section 36 of the Tax Collection Act of The Netherlands
(Invorderingswet 1990) or section 16(d) of the Social Insurance Co-ordination
Act of The Netherlands (Coördinatiewet Sociale Verzekeringen) is filed upon a
member of the Group that is incorporated or established in The Netherlands; or  
  (H)   any other analogous step or procedure is taken in any jurisdiction.

  25.7.2   Clause 25.7.1 does not apply to:

  (A)   any step or procedure which is part of a Permitted Transaction; or    
(B)   a petition for winding-up presented by a creditor which is being contested
in good faith and with due diligence and is discharged or struck out within
14 days; or     (C)   any petition, action, proceeding or step which is
demonstrated by the Company to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agent to be
frivolous, vexatious or otherwise an abuse of process of court.

25.8   Enforcement of security       Any steps are taken to enforce any Security
securing Financial Indebtedness in excess of $5,000,000 (or its equivalent in
one or more other currencies), in aggregate, over any part of the assets of an
Obligor or any other member of the Group.   25.9   Creditors’ process       Any
prejudgment attachment (conservatoir Beslag), expropriation attachment,
sequestration, distress, execution, diligence or analogous event affects any
asset(s) of any Obligor or any other member of the Group having an aggregate
value in excess of $5,000,000 (or its equivalent in one or more other
currencies) and is not discharged within 14 days unless it is any petition,
action, proceeding or step which is demonstrated by the Company to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Agent to be frivolous, vexatious or otherwise an
abuse of process of court.   25.10   Analogous proceedings       There occurs,
in relation to any Obligor or any other member of the Group, any event anywhere
which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, corresponds with any
of those mentioned in Clauses 25.6 (Insolvency) to 25.9 (Creditors’ process)
(inclusive).   25.11   Cessation of business       Any Obligor threatens to
cease to carry on business except as part of a Permitted Transaction.   25.12  
Unlawfulness       It is or becomes unlawful for any Obligor to perform any of
its material obligations under any Project Document.

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Exhibit 10.1

25.13   Effectiveness of Finance Documents

  25.13.1   It is or becomes unlawful for any Obligor or Transaction Party to
perform any of its payment obligations or other material obligations under the
Finance Documents.     25.13.2   Any Finance Document, the guarantee of any
Guarantor or any Security purported to be created or evidenced by any Security
Document is not effective or is unenforceable or is alleged by any Obligor or
any Transaction Party to be ineffective or unenforceable for any reason.    
25.13.3   An Obligor or Transaction Party repudiates a Finance Document or
evidences an intention to repudiate a Finance Document.

25.14   Ownership       Any member of the Group that holds any interests in any
Borrowing Base Assets or Obligor is not or ceases to be a wholly-owned (directly
or indirectly) by the Company.   25.15   Project Documents

  25.15.1   All or any part of any Project Document is not, or ceases to be, a
legal, valid and binding obligation of any person expressed to be party to it in
circumstances which are reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Change.     25.15.2   Any party to any Project Document defaults under that
Project Document in circumstances which are reasonably likely to result in a
Material Adverse Change.     25.15.3   All or any part of any Project Document
is suspended, terminated or revoked in circumstances which are reasonably likely
to result in a Material Adverse Change.

25.16   Borrowing Base Assets

  25.16.1   A decision is taken to abandon a Borrowing Base Asset unless such a
decision was taken in compliance with Clause 23.13.2 (Borrowing Base Assets).  
  25.16.2   All or any part of the interest of any member of the Group in any
Borrowing Base Asset (or any Petroleum or revenues or other moneys arising in
respect of it) is nationalised, expropriated, compulsorily acquired or seized by
any government or any governmental or public sector agency, or any such
government or agency takes, or officially announces that it will take, any step
with a view to any of the foregoing and the same is reasonably likely to result
in a Material Adverse Change.

25.17   Litigation       Any judgment is made or award is issued against any
Obligor in relation to any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings
in an amount equal to or exceeding $10,000,000 (or its equivalent in one or more
other currencies) or any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceeding is
instituted or current in respect of any Obligor or any member of the Group which
would be reasonably likely, if adversely determined, to result in a Material
Adverse Change.

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Exhibit 10.1

25.18   Authorisations       Any Authorisation necessary for the ownership of
any interest in, the development or the operation of, any Borrowing Base Asset
is revoked, cancelled, surrendered, terminated or varied and the same would be
reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.   25.19   Material
Adverse Change       An event occurs which is reasonably likely to result in a
Material Adverse Change as compared to the position as at the date of this
Agreement.   25.20   Qualification of accounts       Any audited financial
statements delivered to the Agent under this Agreement is qualified in any
material way.   25.21   Evidential inadmissibility       At any time any act,
condition or thing required to be done, fulfilled or performed (other than by
the Finance Parties) in order to make each Finance Document to which any Obligor
or Transaction Party is a party admissible in evidence in the country in which
such party is incorporated is not done, fulfilled or performed to the extent or
in a respect such that the effect thereof is materially to impair the legality,
validity or enforceability of the obligations of any Obligor or any Transaction
Party under the Finance Documents.   25.22   Inability to discharge liabilities
      Any Projection adopted pursuant to Clause 7 (Projections) demonstrates
that the Borrower Group will not be able to discharge all its payment
obligations arising prior to the Final Maturity Date as and when the same are
anticipated to fall due.   25.23   Acceleration       On and at any time after
the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing the Agent may, and
shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Company:

  25.23.1   cancel the Aggregate Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be
cancelled; and/or     25.23.2   declare that all or part of the Utilisations,
together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding
under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall
become immediately due and payable; and/or     25.23.3   declare that all or
part of the Utilisations payable on demand, whereupon they shall immediately
become payable on demand by the Agent on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders; and/or     25.23.4   declare that full cash cover in respect of each
Letter of Credit is immediately due and payable whereupon it shall become due
and payable.

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CHANGES TO PARTIES

26.   CHANGES TO THE LENDERS   26.1   Assignments and transfers by the Lenders  
    Subject to this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), a Lender (the “Existing
Lender”) may:

  26.1.1   assign any of its rights; or     26.1.2   transfer by novation any of
its rights and obligations,

to another bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity
which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making,
purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (the “New
Lender”).

26.2   Conditions of assignment or transfer

  26.2.1   The consent of the Fronting Bank is required for any assignment or
transfer by a Lender.     26.2.2   Any Lender wishing to assign or transfer all
or any of its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents shall give the
Company not less than 5 Business Days prior written notice to that effect.    
26.2.3   The consent of the Company is required for an assignment or transfer by
a Lender, unless subject to Clause 26.2.6(B) (a) the assignment or transfer is
to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (b) an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or (c) the assignment or transfer is effected
pursuant to the primary syndication of the Facility.     26.2.4   The consent of
the Company to an assignment or transfer must not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. The Company will be deemed to have given its consent five Business Days
after the Existing Lender has requested it unless consent is expressly refused
by the Company within that time.     26.2.5   The consent of the Company to an
assignment or transfer must not be withheld solely because the assignment or
transfer may result in an increase to the Mandatory Cost.     26.2.6   An
assignment will only be effective:

  (A)   on receipt by the Agent of written confirmation from the New Lender (in
form and substance satisfactory to the Agent) that the New Lender will assume
the same obligations to the other Finance Parties as it would have been under if
it was an Original Lender; and     (B)   on performance by the Agent of all
necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws
and regulations in relation to such assignment to a New Lender, the completion
of which the Agent shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender and the New
Lender.

  26.2.7   At any time whilst it is a requirement of Netherlands law that each
Lender is a PMP, notwithstanding that no consent is required of the Company
under Clause

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26.2.3 in relation to any proposed assignment or transfer, the Company may,
within 5 Business Days of receipt of the relevant notice from the relevant
Lender, object to such assignment or transfer on the sole grounds that the
relevant assignee or transferee is not a PMP.

  26.2.8   If no Objection Notice is received by the relevant Lender within such
5 Business Day period the relevant Lender shall be entitled to proceed with such
assignment or transfer.     26.2.9   If an Objection Notice is received during
such 5 Business Day period, the relevant Lender shall not be entitled to proceed
with such assignment or transfer unless and until it is established that the
relevant assignee or transferee is a PMP.     26.2.10   A transfer will only be
effective if the procedure set out in Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) is
complied with.     26.2.11   If:

  (A)   a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the
Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and     (B)   as a result of
circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, an
Obligor would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting
through its new Facility Office under Clause 14 (Tax gross-up and indemnities)
or Clause 15 (Increased Costs),

then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only
entitled to receive payment under those Clauses to the same extent as the
Existing Lender or Lender acting through its previous Facility Office would have
been if the assignment, transfer or change had not occurred.

  26.2.12   A Lender may not assign or transfer any of its Commitment for any
Specified Period without also assigning or transferring an equal proportion of
the amount of its Commitment for each of the other Specified Periods.    
26.2.13   Where the consent of the Company is required under Clause 26.2.3
above, the assigning or transferring Lender shall provide a copy of the
Company’s response to the Agent. If the Company does not provide a response, the
assigning Lender shall inform the Agent of this fact.

26.3   Assignment or transfer fee       The New Lender shall, on the date upon
which an assignment or transfer takes effect (other than pursuant to the primary
syndication of the Facility), pay to the Agent (for its own account) a fee of
$2,000.   26.4   Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders

  26.4.1   Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender and an
existing Finance Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility to a New Lender for:

  (A)   the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the
Finance Documents or any other documents;

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  (B)   the financial condition of any Obligor or any other member of the Group;
    (C)   the performance and observance by any Obligor or any other member of
the Group of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents;
or     (D)   the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or
in connection with any Finance Document or any other document,

and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.

  26.4.2   Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance
Parties that it:

  (A)   has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation
and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its
related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has
not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender
or any existing Finance Party in connection with any Finance Document; and    
(B)   will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the
creditworthiness of each Obligor and its related entities whilst any amount is
or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.

  26.4.3   Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender or any
existing Finance Party to:

  (A)   accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and
obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 26 (Changes to the
Lenders); or     (B)   support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the
New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Obligor or Transaction Party
of its obligations under the Finance Documents or otherwise.

26.5   Procedure for transfer

  26.5.1   Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of
assignment or transfer) a transfer is effected in accordance with Clause 26.5.3
when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate
delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The Agent shall as
soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Transfer
Certificate appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and
delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Transfer
Certificate.     26.5.2   The Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer
Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is
satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other
similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the
transfer to such New Lender.     26.5.3   On the Transfer Date:

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  (A)   to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks
to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents
each of the Obligors and the Existing Lender shall be released from further
obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and their respective
rights against one another under the Finance Documents shall be cancelled (being
the “Discharged Rights and Obligations”);     (B)   each of the Obligors and the
New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights
against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only
insofar as that Obligor and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same
in place of that Obligor and the Existing Lender;     (C)   the existing Finance
Parties and the New Lender shall acquire the same rights and assume the same
obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the
New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired
or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the existing
Finance Parties and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further
obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and     (D)   the New
Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender”.

26.6   Copy of Transfer Certificates       The Agent shall, as soon as
reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate, send to the
Company a copy of that Transfer Certificate.   26.7   Disclosure of information

  26.7.1   Any Lender may disclose to any of its Affiliates and any other
person:

  (A)   to (or through) whom that Lender assigns or transfers (or may
potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement;     (B)   with (or through) whom that Lender enters into (or may
potentially enter into) any sub-participation in relation to, or any other
transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to, this Agreement
or any Obligor; or     (C)   to whom, and to the extent that, information is
required to be disclosed by any applicable law or regulation,     (D)   which is
a rating agency;     (E)   in connection with any securitisation;     (F)  
which is one of its professional advisers;     (G)   which is a person in whose
favour that Finance Party creates Security over its rights under or in
connection with the Transaction Documents,

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any information about any Obligor, any other member of the Group, the Borrowing
Base Assets, and the Transaction Documents as that Lender shall consider
appropriate if, in relation to Clauses 26.7.1(A), 26.7.1(B), 26.7.1(E) and
26.7.1(G), the person to whom the information is to be given has entered into a
Confidentiality Undertaking.

  26.7.2   In addition, any Lender may disclose any such information to any
person if such disclosure is required to be made (a) in connection with any
litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or (b) to any
governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority.

26.8   Accession of Hedging Banks       A Lender may make a request at any time
for any of its Affiliates that has entered, or is to enter, into a Hedging
Agreement with an Obligor to become a Hedging Bank and such Affiliate may
accede, and become a party, to the Finance Documents as a Hedging Bank, in each
case, in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement.   26.9   Professional
Market Party Representations

      26.9.1

  (A)   Each Lender which is a party to this Agreement on the date hereof
represents and warrants to each Party on the date hereof (i) that it is a PMP
and (ii) that it is aware that it does not benefit from the
(creditor) protection offered by the Dutch Banking Act when lending monies to
persons or entities which are subject to the prohibition of Section 82 of the
Dutch Banking Act;     (B)   if on the date on which a party becomes a Lender,
it is a requirement of Dutch law that such party is a PMP, each such new Lender
represents and warrants to each Party on the date on which it becomes a party to
this Agreement as a Lender that it is a PMP in accordance with paragraph 3 of
the Transfer Certificate; and     (C)   each such Lender or Party acknowledges
that each of the Finance Parties and each Dutch Borrower have relied upon such
representation and warranty and undertakes, to the extent necessary, to provide
its reasonable assistance to each Dutch Borrower in verifying such Lender’s or
Party’s status as a PMP.

  26.9.2   For the purpose of the “wtk” (as defined in the definition of
Exemption Regulation in Clause 1.1 (Definitions)), each Dutch Borrower:

  (A)   represents and warrants to the Finance Parties on the date of this
Agreement that it has verified the status of each person which is a Lender under
a Finance Document on such date and each such Lender is either (i) a PMP in
accordance with the requirements of the Exemption Regulation and the Policy
Guidelines and/or (ii) is exempted from the PMP requirement because it forms a
closed circle (besloten kring) with the relevant Dutch Borrower; and     (B)  
if on the date on which a party becomes a Lender, it is a requirement of Dutch
law that such party is a PMP, represents and warrants to the

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      Finance Parties on the date on which each such party becomes a Lender that
it has verified the status of such party on such date and each such party is
either (i) a PMP in accordance with the requirements of the Exemption Regulation
and the Policy Guidelines and/or (ii) is exempted from the PMP requirement
because it forms a closed circle (besloten kring) with the relevant Dutch
Borrower.

  26.9.3   Notwithstanding any of other provision to the contrary:

  (A)   at any time whilst it is a requirement of Dutch law that each Lender is
a PMP, notwithstanding that no consent is required of the Company under Clause
26.2.3 in relation to any proposed assignment or transfer, the Company may,
within five Business Days of receipt of the relevant notice from the relevant
Lender under Clause 26.2.2, object to such assignment or transfer by notice in
writing to the Lender wishing to effect such assignment or transfer on the sole
grounds that the relevant assignee or transferee is not a PMP;     (B)   if no
such objection is received by the relevant Lender within such five Business Day
period the Lender shall be entitled to proceed with such assignment or transfer;
and     (C)   if such an objection is received during such five Business Day
period the relevant Lender shall not be entitled to proceed with such assignment
or transfer unless and until it is established that the relevant assignee or
transferee is a PMP.

27.   CHANGES TO THE OBLIGORS   27.1   Assignments and transfer by Obligors

  27.1.1   No Obligor may assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights
or obligations under the Finance Documents.     27.1.2   This Clause 27 (Changes
to the Obligors) shall not apply with respect to the accession of Talisman Expro
Limited hereto as an Obligor pursuant to Clause 4.3 (Conditions subsequent).

27.2   Additional Borrowers

  27.2.1   The Company may request that any Relevant Affiliate becomes an
Additional Borrower. That Relevant Affiliate shall become an Additional Borrower
if:

  (A)   all Lenders approve the addition of that Relevant Affiliate,     (B)  
that Relevant Affiliate (a) delivers to the Agent a duly completed and executed
Accession Letter and (b) executes and enters into all other documents and takes
all such other steps as the Agent may reasonably require for the purposes of
ensuring that it accedes and becomes a party to, all relevant Finance Documents
as an Obligor;     (C)   the Company confirms that no Default is continuing or
would occur as a result of that Relevant Affiliate becoming an Additional
Borrower; and

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  (D)   the Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in
Part IV (Conditions precedent required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor)
of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent) in relation to that
Additional Borrower, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.

  27.2.2   The Agent shall, in relation to each proposed Additional Borrower,
notify the Company and the Lenders promptly upon being satisfied that it has
received (in form and substance satisfactory to it) all the documents and other
evidence listed in Part IV (Conditions precedent required to be delivered by an
Additional Obligor) of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent).

27.3   Additional Guarantors

  27.3.1   The Company may request that any Relevant Affiliate becomes an
Additional Guarantor. That Relevant Affiliate shall become an Additional
Guarantor if:

  (A)   that Relevant Affiliate (a) delivers to the Agent a duly completed and
executed Accession Letter and (b) executes and enters into all other documents
and takes all such other steps as the Agent may reasonably require for the
purposes of ensuring that it accedes and becomes a party to, all relevant
Finance Documents as an Obligor; and     (B)   the Agent has received all of the
documents and other evidence listed in Part IV (Conditions precedent required to
be delivered by an Additional Obligor) of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and
subsequent) in relation to that Additional Guarantor, each in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent.

  27.3.2   The Company shall procure that (i) promptly upon any member of the
Group becoming a Material Subsidiary and (ii) prior to any member of the
Borrower Group acquiring a Borrowing Base Asset (if it is not already an
Obligor) it shall become an Additional Guarantor (unless prohibited under the
laws of their jurisdiction of incorporation, despite the Company and such member
of the Group or Borrower Group having used all reasonable endeavours to overcome
such prohibition) and shall ensure that:

  (A)   such member of the group (a) delivers to the Agent a duly completed and
executed Accession Letter and (b) executes and enters into all other documents
and takes all such other steps as the Agent may reasonably require for the
purposes of ensuring that it accedes and becomes a party to, all relevant
Finance Documents as an Additional Guarantor; and     (B)   the Agent receives
all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part IV (Conditions precedent
required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor) of Schedule 3 (Conditions
precedent and subsequent) in relation to that Additional Guarantor, each in form
and substance satisfactory to the Agent.

  27.3.3   The Agent shall, in relation to each proposed Additional Guarantor,
notify the Company and the Lenders promptly upon being satisfied that it has
received (in form and substance satisfactory to it) all the documents and other
evidence listed in

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      Part IV (Conditions precedent required to be delivered by an Additional
Obligor) of Schedule 3 (Conditions precedent and subsequent).

27.4   Repetition of Representations       Delivery of an Accession Letter
constitutes confirmation by the relevant intended Obligor that the Repeating
Representations are true and correct in relation to it as at the date of
delivery as if made by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing.  
27.5   Release of non-asset holding Obligors

  27.5.1   For the purposes of this Clause 27.5 (Release of non-asset holding
Obligors), a “Relevant Obligor” means any Obligor (other than the Company) that
(a) does not have an interest in any Borrowing Base Asset or any person holding
an interest in any Borrowing Base Asset, whether by reason of any Borrowing Base
Asset ceasing to be so designated in accordance with this Agreement or
otherwise) and (b) is not a Material Subsidiary.     27.5.2   The Company may
submit a request to the Agent at any time for any Relevant Obligor to cease to
be an Obligor.     27.5.3   Subject to Clause 27.5.4, as soon as reasonably
practicable after the submission of any such request, the Finance Parties shall
(at the cost and expense of the Obligors) take all such steps as the Company may
reasonably require for the purposes of ensuring:

  (A)   that the Relevant Obligor ceases to be an Obligor for the purposes of
the Finance Documents; and     (B)   the release of any Security under the
Finance Documents granted to the Finance Parties (a) by the Relevant Obligor
over its assets or (b) by any other person over the shares in the Relevant
Obligor.

  27.5.4   A Relevant Obligor may only cease to be an Obligor pursuant to this
Clause 27.5 (Release of non-asset holding Obligors) if:

  (A)   no Default is continuing or would result from it ceasing to be an
Obligor (and the Company confirms that this is the case); and     (B)   (other
than in the case of Talisman Expro Limited) the Majority Lenders consent to such
Relevant Obligor ceasing to be an Obligor; and     (C)   in the case only of
Talisman Expro Limited:

  (1)   the Permitted Transaction described in paragraph (B) of the definition
of “Permitted Transaction” has been completed upon the terms described therein;
    (2)   Talisman Expro Limited is under no actual or contingent obligation as
a Borrower; and     (3)   Talisman Expro Limited has no assets whatsoever,

and, in each case, the Company confirms the same to the Agent.

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THE FINANCE PARTIES

28.   ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCE PARTIES   28.1   General       For the
purposes only of this Clause 28 (Role of the Administrative Finance Parties),
references to the Administrative Finance Parties shall be construed as excluding
the Security Trustee.   28.2   Appointment of the Agent

  28.2.1   Each other Finance Party appoints the Agent to act as its agent under
and in connection with the Finance Documents.     28.2.2   Each other Finance
Party authorises the Agent to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and
discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the
Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities
and discretions.

28.3   Duties of the Agent

  28.3.1   The Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of
any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other Party.
    28.3.2   Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise,
the Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or
completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.     28.3.3   If the
Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a
Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall
promptly notify the other Finance Parties.     28.3.4   If the Agent is aware of
the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable
to a Finance Party (other than the Administrative Finance Parties) under this
Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.     28.3.5   The
Agent’s duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and
administrative in nature.

28.4   Role of the Mandated Lead Arrangers       Except as specifically provided
in the Finance Documents, the Mandated Lead Arrangers have no obligations of any
kind to any other Party under or in connection with any Finance Document.   28.5
  No fiduciary duties

  28.5.1   Nothing in this Agreement constitutes any Administrative Finance
Party as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.     28.5.2   No
Administrative Finance Party shall be bound to account to any Finance Party for
any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.

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28.6   Business with the Group       Each Administrative Finance Party may
accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking
or other business with any Obligor or any other member of the Group.   28.7  
Rights and discretions of the Administrative Finance Parties

  28.7.1   Each Administrative Finance Party may rely on:

  (A)   any representation, notice or document believed by it to be genuine,
correct and appropriately authorised; and     (B)   any statement made by a
director, authorised signatory or employee of any person regarding any matters
which may reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his power
to verify.

  28.7.2   Each Administrative Finance Party may assume (unless it has received
notice to the contrary in its capacity as an Administrative Finance Party) that:

  (A)   no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default
arising under Clause 25.2 (Non-payment and failure to reduce));     (B)   any
right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority
Lenders has not been exercised; and     (C)   any notice or request made by the
Company (other than a Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the
consent and knowledge of all the Obligors.

  28.7.3   Each Administrative Finance Party may engage, pay for and rely on the
advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, surveyors or other experts.    
28.7.4   Each Administrative Finance Party may act in relation to the Finance
Documents through its personnel and agents.     28.7.5   Each Administrative
Finance Party may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably
believes it has received in its capacity as such under this Agreement.    
28.7.6   Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the
contrary, no Administrative Finance Party is obliged to do or omit to do
anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of
any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of
confidentiality.

28.8   Majority Lenders’ instructions

  28.8.1   Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, each of
the Agent and the Technical Bank shall (a) exercise any right, power, authority
or discretion vested in it in such capacity in accordance with any instructions
given to it by the Majority Lenders (or, if so instructed by the Majority
Lenders), refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion
vested in it and (b) not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or
refrains from taking any action) in accordance with an instruction of the
Majority Lenders.

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  28.8.2   Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any
instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Finance
Parties.     28.8.3   Each of the Agent and the Technical Bank may refrain from
acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if
appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received such security as it may require
for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may
incur in complying with the instructions.     28.8.4   In the absence of
instructions from the Majority Lenders, (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) the
Agent or the Technical Bank may act (or refrain from taking action) as it
considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders.     28.8.5   Each of the
Technical Bank and the Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender
(without first obtaining that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration
proceedings relating to any Finance Document.

28.9   Responsibility for documentation       No Administrative Finance Party:

  28.9.1   is responsible to any other Finance Party for the adequacy, accuracy
and/or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by it,
an Obligor or any other person given in or in connection with any Finance
Document or the Information Memorandum; or     28.9.2   is responsible for the
legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance
Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or
executed in anticipation of or in connection with any Finance Document.

28.10   Exclusion of liability

  28.10.1   Without limiting Clause 28.10.2, and without prejudice to the
provisions of paragraph (e) of Clause 31.10 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.)
no Administrative Finance Party will be liable (including, without limitation,
for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) for any action
taken by it under or in connection with any Finance Document, unless directly
caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.     28.10.2   No Party
(other than an Administrative Finance Party) may take any proceedings against
any officer, employee or agent of that Administrative Finance Party in respect
of any claim it might have against that Administrative Finance Party or in
respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in
relation to any Finance Document and any officer, employee or agent of that
Administrative Finance Party may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.3
(Third Party Rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.     28.10.3  
No Administrative Finance Party will be liable for any delay (or any related
consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance
Documents to be paid by that Administrative Finance Party if it has taken all
necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations
or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by
it for that purpose.

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  28.10.4   Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige any Administrative Finance
Party to carry out any “know your customer” or other checks in relation to any
person on behalf of any Finance Party and each Finance Party confirms to the
Administrative Finance Parties that it is solely responsible for any such checks
it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in
relation to such checks made by any Administrative Finance Party.

28.11   Lenders’ indemnity       Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share
of the Aggregate Commitments or, if the Aggregate Commitments are then zero, to
its share of the Aggregate Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to
zero) indemnify each Administrative Finance Party within three Business Days of
demand, against any cost, loss or liability (including, without limitation, for
negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) incurred by that
Administrative Finance Party (otherwise than by reason of its gross negligence
or wilful misconduct) (or, in the case of any cost, loss or liability pursuant
to Clause 31.10 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.) notwithstanding such
Administrative Finance Party’s negligence, gross negligence or any other
category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud
of an Administrative Finance Party in acting in its capacity as such an
Administrative Finance Party (unless that Administrative Finance Party has been
reimbursed for the same by an Obligor). The Obligors shall forthwith on demand
reimburse each Finance Party for any payments made by it under this Clause 28.11
(Lenders’ indemnity).   28.12   Resignation

  28.12.1   Each Administrative Finance Party (other than the Mandated Lead
Arrangers and the Fronting Bank) may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates
acting through an office in the United Kingdom or Paris as successor by giving
notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company.     28.12.2   Alternatively
such an Administrative Finance Party may resign by giving notice to the other
Finance Parties and the Company, in which case the Majority Lenders (after
consultation with the Company) may appoint a successor Administrative Finance
Party.     28.12.3   If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor
Administrative Finance Party in accordance with Clause 28.12.2 within 30 days
after notice of resignation was given, the incumbent Administrative Finance
Party (after consultation with the Company and the Majority Lenders) may appoint
a successor Administrative Finance Party (acting through an office in the United
Kingdom or Paris).     28.12.4   The retiring Administrative Finance Party
shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Administrative Finance
Party such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor
Administrative Finance Party may reasonably request for the purposes of
performing its functions as such an Administrative Finance Party under the
Finance Documents.     28.12.5   An Administrative Finance Party’s resignation
notice shall only take effect upon the successor Administrative Finance Party
(a) notifying all the Parties that it accepts its appointment and (b) completing
all such steps as may reasonably be required by the Agent or (where the
successor Administrative Finance Party is seeking to be appointed as a successor
Agent) the Majority Lenders in order to (1)

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      ensure that it accedes, and becomes a party, to all relevant Finance
Documents in its relevant capacity as that Administrative Finance Party and
(2) facilitate the change in identity of the relevant Administrative Finance
Party.     28.12.6   Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring
Administrative Finance Party shall be discharged from any further obligation in
respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of
this Clause 28 (Role of the Administrative Finance Parties). Its successor and
each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst
themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.
    28.12.7   After consultation with the Company, the Majority Lenders may, by
notice to any Administrative Finance Party (other than the Mandated Lead
Arrangers or the Fronting Bank), require it to resign in accordance with Clause
28.12.2 above. In this event, the relevant Administrative Finance Party shall
resign in accordance with Clause 28.12.2 above.

28.13   Confidentiality

  28.13.1   In acting under the Finance Documents, the relevant division through
which such Administrative Finance Party acts shall be treated as a separate
entity from any other of its divisions or departments.     28.13.2   If
information is received by another division or department of the Administrative
Finance Party, it may be treated as confidential to that relevant division and
the Administrative Finance Party shall not be deemed to have notice of it.

28.14   Relationship with the Lenders

  28.14.1   The Agent may treat each Lender as a Lender, entitled to payments
under this Agreement and acting through its Facility Office unless it has
received not less than five Business Days prior notice from that Lender to the
contrary in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.     28.14.2   Each
Lender shall supply the Agent with any information required by the Agent in
order to calculate the Mandatory Cost in accordance with Schedule 7 (Mandatory
Cost Formulae).

28.15   Credit appraisal by the Lenders       Without affecting the
responsibility of any Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in
connection with any Finance Document, each Finance Party confirms to each
Administrative Finance Party that it has been, and will continue to be, solely
responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all
risks arising under or in connection with any Finance Document including but not
limited to:

  28.15.1   the financial condition, status and nature of each Obligor and each
other member of the Group;     28.15.2   the legality, validity, effectiveness,
adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document and any other agreement,
arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under
or in connection with any Finance Document;

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  28.15.3   whether that Finance Party has recourse, and the nature and extent
of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in
connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the
Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into,
made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance
Document; and     28.15.4   the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the
Information Memorandum and any other information provided by that Administrative
Finance Party, any other Party or by any other person under or in connection
with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance
Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or
executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document.

28.16   Reference Banks       If a Reference Bank (or, if a Reference Bank is
not a Lender, the Lender of which it is an Affiliate) ceases to be a Lender, the
Agent shall (in consultation with the Company) appoint another Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender to replace that Reference Bank.   28.17   Management Time
      Any amount payable to an Administrative Finance Party under Clause 16.3
(Indemnity to the Agent), Clause 18 (Costs and expenses) and Clause 28.11
(Lenders’ indemnity) shall include the reasonable cost of utilising that
Administrative Finance Party’s management time or other resources and will be
calculated on the basis of such reasonable daily or hourly rates as the
Administrative Finance Party may notify to the Company and the Lenders, and is
in addition to any fee paid or payable to Administrative Finance Party under
Clause 13 (Fees).   28.18   Deduction       If any Party owes an amount to the
Agent under the Finance Documents the Agent may, after giving notice to that
Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party
which the Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents
and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For
the purposes of the Finance Documents, that Party shall be regarded as having
received any amount so deducted.   28.19   Replacement of Fronting Bank

  28.19.1   If:

  (A)   the Fronting Bank’s senior unsecured and unguaranteed long-term
corporate debt rating with Moody’s Investors Service Inc. falls below A3 or with
Standard and Poor’s Rating Group falls below A- (or, in either case, such other
rating as may be the minimum rating that the relevant member of the Group is
entitled to offer a beneficiary to whom a Letter of Credit has or is to be
issued (as certified by the Company upon request by the Fronting Bank)); or    
(B)   the Company has received a notice from the Agent pursuant to Clause 9.1.2
(Illegality),

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then (unless the Company, by notice to the Fronting Bank and the Agent,
otherwise requires) the Fronting Bank shall resign as Fronting Bank by giving
notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company, in which case the Company
(after consultation with the Agent) may appoint another Lender (who is willing
to accept such appointment) acting through an office in the United Kingdom to be
a successor Fronting Bank.

  28.19.2   The resignation of the retiring Fronting Bank and the appointment of
any successor Fronting Bank shall both become effective upon the successor
Fronting Bank:

  (A)   notifying all the Parties that it accepts such appointment; and     (B)
  executing and delivering to the Agent duly completed deed(s) or instrument of
accession in such form as the Agent may require and taking all such other steps
as the Agent may require to ensure that (a) it accedes, and becomes a party, to
the relevant Finance Documents, as Fronting Bank and (b) the retiring Fronting
Bank is released from all liability under all outstanding Letters of Credit in
issue at such time,

whereupon the retiring Fronting Bank shall be discharged from any further
obligation in respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the
benefit of this Clause 28 (Role of the Administrative Finance Parties). Its
successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and
obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been
an original Party.

  28.19.3   The successor Fronting Bank shall, immediately following its
appointment, issue to the beneficiary of each outstanding Letter of Credit at
that time, a replacement Letter of Credit.     28.19.4   The Parties shall take
such action as the retiring Fronting Bank, the successor Fronting Bank and the
Agent may consider necessary in order that the Security Documents shall provide
for perfected and enforceable Security in favour of any successor Fronting Bank
and the Finance Parties (including any such action that may be required in order
for any cash cover that has been provided in relation to any outstanding Letters
of Credit and held by the retiring Fronting Bank to be transferred to, and be
held by, the successor Fronting Bank).     28.19.5   The retiring Fronting Bank
shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Fronting Bank such
documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor may
reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Fronting Bank
under the Finance Documents.

28.20   Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Trustee)

  28.20.1   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, each Dutch
Obligor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Security
Trustee, as creditor in its own right and not as representative of the other
Finance Parties, sums equal to and in the currency of each amount payable by
such Dutch Obligor under the Principal Obligations from time to time due in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Principal Obligations (such
payment undertaking being for the purposes of this Clause 28.20, the “Parallel
Debt”).

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  28.20.2   The Security Trustee shall have its own independent right to demand
payment of the Parallel Obligations, irrespective of any discharge of such Dutch
Obligor’s obligation to pay those amounts to the other Finance Parties resulting
from failure by them to take appropriate steps, in insolvency proceedings
affecting that Dutch Obligor, to preserve their entitlement to be paid those
amounts.     28.20.3   Any amount due and payable by a Dutch Obligor to the
Security Trustee under the Parallel Obligations shall be decreased to the extent
that the other Finance Parties have received (and are able to retain) payment in
full of the corresponding outstanding Principal Obligations and any amount due
and payable by a Dutch Obligor to the other Finance Parties under those
Principal Obligations shall be decreased to the extent that the Security Trustee
has received (and is able to retain) payment in full of the corresponding
Parallel Obligations.     28.20.4   The rights of the Finance Parties (other
than the Security Trustee) to receive payment of the Principal Obligations
payable by each Dutch Obligor are several and are separate and independent from,
and without prejudice to, the rights of the Security Trustee to receive payment
under the Parallel Obligations.     28.20.5   All monies received or recovered
by the Security Trustee pursuant to this Clause 28.20 and enforcement proceeds
received or recovered by the Security Trustee pursuant to this Clause 28.20
shall be applied by the Security Trustee in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.     28.20.6   For the purposes of this Clause 28.20 (Parallel Debt
(Covenant to pay the Security Trustee))

  (A)   “Parallel Obligations” means the monetary obligations arising from the
Parallel Debt; and     (B)   “Principal Obligations” means any and all monetary
obligations of the Obligors under or pursuant to the Finance Documents (whether
now existing or hereafter created or arising).

28.21   First Lien Discharge determination       The Agent shall not make a
determination for the purposes of determining the First Lien Discharge Date
under the Intercreditor Agreement unless each of the Hedging Banks has confirmed
to it that all Hedging Debt due to such Hedging Bank has been discharged and
paid in full.   29.   CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES       No
provision of this Agreement will:

  28.1   interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs
(tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;     28.2   oblige any
Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment
available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or     28.3  
oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs
(tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.

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30.   SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES   30.1   Payments to Finance Parties    
  If a Finance Party (a “Recovering Finance Party”) receives or recovers any
amount from an Obligor other than in accordance with Clause 31 (Payment
mechanics) and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents
then:

  30.1.1   the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days,
notify details of the receipt or recovery, to the Agent;     30.1.2   the Agent
shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the
Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been
received or made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 31
(Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on
the Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and     30.1.3  
the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days of demand by the
Agent, pay to the Agent an amount (the “Sharing Payment”) equal to such receipt
or recovery less any amount which the Agent determines may be retained by the
Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance
with Clause 31.5 (Partial payments).

30.2   Redistribution of payments       The Agent shall treat the Sharing
Payment as if it had been paid by the relevant Obligor and distribute it between
the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) in accordance with
Clause 31.5 (Partial payments).   30.3   Recovering Finance Party’s rights

  30.3.1   On a distribution by the Agent under Clause 30.2 (Redistribution of
payments), the Recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the
Finance Parties which have shared in the redistribution.     30.3.2   If and to
the extent that the Recovering Finance Party is not able to rely on its rights
under Clause 30.3.1, the relevant Obligor shall be liable to the Recovering
Finance Party for a debt equal to the Sharing Payment which is immediately due
and payable.

30.4   Reversal of redistribution       If any part of the Sharing Payment
received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes repayable and is
repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:

  30.4.1   each Finance Party which has received a share of the relevant Sharing
Payment pursuant to Clause 30.2 (Redistribution of payments) shall, upon request
of the Agent, pay to the Agent for account of that Recovering Finance Party an
amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment
(together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance
Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that
Recovering Finance Party is required to pay); and

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  30.4.2   that Recovering Finance Party’s rights of subrogation in respect of
any reimbursement shall be cancelled and the relevant Obligor will be liable to
the reimbursing Finance Party for the amount so reimbursed.

30.5   Exceptions

  30.5.1   This Clause 30 (Sharing among the Finance Parties) shall not apply to
the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment
pursuant to this Clause, have a valid and enforceable claim against the relevant
Obligor.     30.5.2   A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with
any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has
received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings,
if:

  (A)   it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration
proceedings; and     (B)   that other Finance Party had an opportunity to
participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon
as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal
or arbitration proceedings.

  30.5.3   The provisions of Clauses 30.1 (Payments to Finance Parties) to 30.4
(Reversal of redistribution) inclusive shall not apply to any payments between
an Obligor and a Finance Party under or in respect of a Secured Hedging
Agreement.

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ADMINISTRATION

31.   PAYMENT MECHANICS   31.1   Payments to the Agent

  31.1.1   On each date on which an Obligor or a Finance Party is required to
make a payment under a Finance Document, that Obligor or Finance Party shall
make the same available to the Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a
Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds
specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of
transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment.     31.1.2  
Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the
country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal financial
centre in a Participating Member State or London) with such bank as the Agent
specifies.

31.2   Distributions by the Agent       Each payment received by the Agent under
the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to Clause 31.3
(Distributions to an Obligor) and Clause 31.4 (Clawback) be made available by
the Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive
payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the
account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the
Agent by not less than five Business Days’ notice with a bank in the principal
financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a
principal financial centre in a Participating Member State or London).   31.3  
Distributions to an Obligor       The Agent may (with the consent of the Obligor
or in accordance with Clause 32 (Set-off)) apply any amount received by it for
that Obligor in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of
receipt) of any amount due from that Obligor under the Finance Documents or in
or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.   31.4  
Clawback

  31.4.1   Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents
for another Party, the Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party
(or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been
able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum.  
  31.4.2   If the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the
case that the Agent had not actually received that amount, then the Party to
whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by
the Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Agent together with interest on
that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Agent,
calculated by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds.

31.5   Partial payments

  31.5.1   If the Agent receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all
the amounts then due and payable by an Obligor under the Finance Documents, the
Agent shall

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      apply that payment towards the obligations of that Obligor under the
Finance Documents in the following order:

  (A)   first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and
expenses of the Administrative Finance Parties under the Finance Documents;    
(B)   secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest,
commitment fees or commission due but unpaid under the Finance Documents;    
(C)   thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal (including
amounts payable under Clause 6.8 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) or Clause
6.10 (Indemnities)) and (to the extent that any Letter(s) of Credit remain(s)
outstanding) any cash cover due but unpaid under the Finance Documents (provided
that, in the case of any cash cover due but unpaid, the same shall be held in
accordance with Clause 31.5.4); and     (D)   fourthly, in or towards payment
pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents.

  31.5.2   The Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the
order set out in Clauses 31.5.1(B) to 31.5.1(D) above.     31.5.3   Clauses
31.5.1 and 31.5.2 above will override any appropriation made by an Obligor.    
31.5.4   Any amount to be distributed, pursuant to Clause 31.5.1(C), with
respect to the payment of any amounts comprising cash cover shall
(notwithstanding Clause 1.2.1(R) (Construction)) be paid to and retained by the
Fronting Bank for the Contingent Indebtedness to be covered by such cash cover.
Any amount so retained by the Fronting Bank as cash cover for the Contingent
Indebtedness shall be applied by the Fronting Bank in the discharge of such
Contingent Indebtedness as the same matures provided that if any such Contingent
Indebtedness expires or matures at less than the aggregate amount of such cash
cover retained by the Fronting Bank, the balance of the cash cover shall be paid
by the Fronting Bank to the Agent for application in accordance with the order
of payment provided for in Clause 31.5.1 (where, for these purposes, “Contingent
Indebtedness” means the liabilities of the Fronting Bank, the Lenders or, as the
case may be, the Obligors, with respect to any outstanding Letter(s) of Credit
which have not matured and remain contingent by reason of such Letter(s) of
Credit being outstanding).     31.5.5   For the purposes of Clause 31.5.1 above:

  (A)   references to “Finance Document” shall exclude any Secured Hedging
Agreement; and     (B)   references to “Finance Party” shall exclude any Hedging
Bank.

31.6   No set-off by Obligors       All payments to be made by an Obligor under
the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and
clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.

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31.7   Business Days

  31.7.1   Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business
Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there
is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).     31.7.2   During any
extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this
Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable
on the original due date.

31.8   Currency of account

  31.8.1   Subject to Clauses 31.8.2 to 31.8.5, dollars is the currency of
account and payment for any sum due from an Obligor under any Finance Document.
    31.8.2   A repayment of a Utilisation or Unpaid Sum or a part of a
Utilisation or Unpaid Sum shall be made in the currency in which that
Utilisation or Unpaid Sum is denominated on its due date. Any cash cover to be
provided in relation to any Letter of Credit shall be made in the currency in
which that Letter of Credit is denominated.     31.8.3   Each payment of
interest shall be made in the currency in which the sum in respect of which the
interest is payable was denominated when that interest accrued.     31.8.4  
Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the
currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.     31.8.5   Any
amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than dollars shall be paid in
that other currency.

31.9   Change of currency

  31.9.1   Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or
currency unit are at the same time recognised by the central bank of any country
as the lawful currency of that country, then:

  (A)   any reference in the Finance Documents to, and any obligations arising
under the Finance Documents in, the currency of that country shall be translated
into, or paid in, the currency or currency unit of that country designated by
the Agent (after consultation with the Company); and     (B)   any translation
from one currency or currency unit to another shall be at the official rate of
exchange recognised by the central bank for the conversion of that currency or
currency unit into the other, rounded up or down by the Agent (acting
reasonably).

  31.9.2   If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will,
to the extent the Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the
Company) specifies to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally
accepted conventions and market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market and
otherwise to reflect the change in currency.

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31.10   Disruption to Payment Systems etc.       If either the Agent determines
(in its discretion) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Agent is
notified by the Company that a Disruption Event has occurred:

  31.10.1   the Agent may, and shall if requested to do so by the Company,
consult with the Company with a view to agreeing with the Company such changes
to the operation or administration of the Facility as the Agent may deem
necessary in the circumstances;     31.10.2   the Agent shall not be obliged to
consult with the Company in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph
31.10.1 if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances
and, in any event, shall have no obligation to agree to such changes;    
31.10.3   the Agent may consult with the Finance Parties in relation to any
changes mentioned in paragraph 31.10.1 but shall not be obliged to do so if, in
its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;     31.10.4  
any such changes agreed upon by the Agent and the Company shall (whether or not
it is finally determined that a Disruption Event has occurred) be binding upon
the Parties as an amendment to (or, as the case may be, waiver of) the terms of
the Finance Documents notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 37 (Amendments
and Waivers);     31.10.5   the Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs
or losses whatsoever (including, without limitation for negligence, gross
negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any
claim based on the fraud of the Agent) arising as a result of its taking, or
failing to take, any actions pursuant to or in connection with this Clause
31.10; and     31.10.6   the Agent shall notify the Finance Parties of all
changes agreed pursuant to paragraph 31.10.4 above.

32.   SET-OFF       A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation due from
an Obligor under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that
Finance Party) against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to that
Obligor, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of
either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance
Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual
course of business for the purpose of the set-off.   33.   NOTICES   33.1   In
writing       Any communication in connection with a Finance Document must be in
writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be given in person, by fax or letter.

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33.2   Contact details

  33.2.1   Except as provided in this Clause 33.2 (Contact details), the contact
details of each Party for all communications in connection with the Finance
Documents are those notified by that Party for this purpose to the Agent on or
before the date it becomes a Party.     33.2.2   Any Party may change its
contact details by giving five Business Days’ notice to the Facility Agent or
(in the case of the Facility Agent) to the other Parties.     33.2.3   Where a
Party nominates a particular department or officer to receive a communication, a
communication will not be effective if it fails to specify that department or
officer.

33.3   Effectiveness

  33.3.1   Except as provided in Clause 33.3.2 and Clause 33.3.3, any
communication in connection with a Finance Document will be deemed to be given
as follows:

  (A)   if delivered in person, at the time of delivery; and     (B)   if by fax
, when received in legible form.

  33.3.2   A communication given under Clause 33.4.1 (Obligors) but received on
a non-working day or after business hours in the place of receipt will only be
deemed to be given on the next working day in that place.     33.3.3   A
communication to any Administrative Finance Party will only be effective on
actual receipt by it.

33.4   Obligors

  33.4.1   All communications under the Finance Documents:

  (A)   to or from the Technical Bank must be sent through the Technical Bank
(provided that the relevant communication is also copied to the Agent);     (B)
  to or from any other Administrative Finance Party (in its capacity as such)
may be made directly to, or as the case may be, come directly from, that
Administrative Finance Party (provided that the relevant communication is also
copied to the Agent); and     (C)   to or from any other Finance Party must be
sent through the Agent.

  33.4.2   All communications under the Finance Documents to or from an Obligor
may be sent through the Company.     33.4.3   Each Obligor (other than the
Company) irrevocably appoints the Company to act as its agent:

  (A)   to give and receive all communications under the Finance Documents;    
(B)   to supply all information concerning itself to any Finance Party; and    
(C)   to sign all documents under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

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  33.4.4   Any communication given to the Company in connection with a Finance
Document will be deemed to have been given also to the other Obligors.    
33.4.5   The Finance Parties may assume that any communication made by the
Company is made with the consent of each other Obligor.

33.5   Electronic Communication

  33.5.1   Any communication to be made between the Agent and a Lender under or
in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other
electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Lender:

  (A)   agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an
accepted form of communication;     (B)   notify each other in writing of their
electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the
sending and receipt of information by that means; and     (C)   notify each
other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by
them.

  33.5.2   Any electronic communication made between the Agent and a Lender will
be effective only when actually received in readable form and in the case of any
electronic communication made by a Lender to the Agent only if it is addressed
in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.

33.6   Language

  33.6.1   Any notice given in connection with a Finance Document must be in
English.     33.6.2   Any other document provided in connection with a Finance
Document must be:

  (A)   in English; or     (B)   (unless the Agent otherwise agrees) accompanied
by a certified English translation. In this case, the English translation
prevails unless the document is a statutory or other official document.

34.   CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES   34.1   Accounts       In any litigation or
arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document,
the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie
evidence of the matters to which they relate.   34.2   Certificates and
Determinations       Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a
rate or amount under any Finance Document is, in the absence of manifest error,
conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.

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34.3   Day count convention       Any interest, commission or fee accruing under
a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and is calculated on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or (in the case of
sterling) 365 days or, in any case where the practice in the Relevant Interbank
Market differs, in accordance with that market practice.   35.   PARTIAL
INVALIDITY       If, at any time, any provision of the Finance Documents is or
becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any
jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining
provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under
the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.   36.
  REMEDIES AND WAIVERS       No failure to exercise, nor any delay in
exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or remedy under the
Finance Documents shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the
exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this
Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by
law.   37.   AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS   37.1   Required consents

  37.1.1   Subject to Clause 37.2 (Exceptions) any term of the Finance Documents
(other than the Intercreditor Agreement) may be amended or waived only with the
consent of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors and any such amendment or
waiver will be binding on all Parties.     37.1.2   Any term of the
Intercreditor Agreement may be amended or waived in accordance with its terms.  
  37.1.3   The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment
or waiver permitted by this Clause.

37.2   Exceptions

  37.2.1   An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which
relates to:

  (A)   the definition of “Majority Lenders” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);    
(B)   an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance
Documents;     (C)   a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of
any payment of principal, interest, fees or commission payable;     (D)   an
increase in or an extension of any Commitment;     (E)   a change to the
Borrowers or Guarantors other than in accordance with Clause 27 (Changes to the
Obligors);

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  (F)   any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders;  
  (G)   Clause 2.2 (Finance Parties’ rights and obligations), Clause 26 (Changes
to the Lenders) or this Clause 37 (Amendments and waivers); or     (H)   the
release of any Security granted under any Security Document save where such
release is required pursuant to the terms of any Finance Document;

shall not be made without the prior consent of all the Lenders.

  37.2.2   An amendment or waiver which related to Clauses 23.6 (Financial
Indebtedness), 23.7 (Credits or Guarantees), 23.24 (Technical Covenants), 24.3
(Current Ratio) or 24.4 (Gearing) shall not be made without the consent of the
Majority Creditors. The “Majority Creditors” for this purpose shall be Lenders
and Hedging Banks the sum of whose:

  (A)   Participation in Utilisations then outstanding;     (B)   Hedge
Termination Payments receivable; and     (C)   Marked to market exposure (if
positive) under Secured Hedging Agreements,

Aggregate more than 66.67% of the sum of the Utilisations then outstanding,
Hedge Termination Amounts payable by the Obligors and market to market positive
exposures under Secured Hedging Agreements

  37.2.3   The Agent shall, in its sole discretion but acting reasonably,
determine the Majority Creditors for the purposes of Clause 37.2.2 and each of
the Obligors, Lenders and Hedging Banks shall provide the Agent with such
information and documents as the Agent may reasonably require for the purposes
of making such determination.     37.2.4   An amendment or waiver which relates
to the rights or obligations of any Administrative Finance Party or Hedging Bank
may not be effected without the consent of that Finance Party.     37.2.5   Any
term of any Fee Letter may be amended or waived without the prior consent of the
Majority Lenders.

38.   COUNTERPARTS       Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of
counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the
counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.

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GOVERNING LAW AND ENFORCEMENT

39.   GOVERNING LAW       This Agreement is governed by English law.   40.  
ENFORCEMENT   40.1   Jurisdiction

  40.1.1   The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any
dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute
regarding the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement) (a
“Dispute”).     40.1.2   The Parties agree that the courts of England are the
most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no
Party will argue to the contrary.     40.1.3   This Clause 40.1 (Jurisdiction)
is for the benefit of the Finance Parties only. As a result, no Finance Party
shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other
courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Finance Parties may
take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

40.2   Service of process       Without prejudice to any other mode of service
allowed under any relevant law, each Obligor (other than an Obligor incorporated
in England and Wales):

  40.2.1   irrevocably appoints Endeavour Energy UK Limited as its agent for
service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in
connection with any Finance Document; and     40.2.2   agrees that failure by a
process agent to notify the relevant Obligor of the process will not invalidate
the proceedings concerned.

    Each of the Obligors expressly agrees and consents to the provisions of this
Clause 40 (Enforcement).   40.3   Waiver of immunity       Each Obligor
irrevocably and unconditionally:

  40.3.1   agrees not to claim any immunity from proceedings brought by a
Finance Party against that Obligor in relation to a Finance Document and to
ensure that no such claim is made on its behalf;     40.3.2   consents generally
to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process in connection with those
proceedings; and     40.3.3   waives all rights of immunity in respect of it or
its assets.

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this
Agreement.

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 1
THE ORIGINAL OBLIGORS
PART I
THE ORIGINAL BORROWERS

                  Registration number (or   Jurisdiction of Name of Original
Borrowers   equivalent, if any)   incorporation
Endeavour International Holding B.V.
  34229293   Netherlands
Endeavour Energy UK Limited
    5030838     England and Wales
Endeavour Energy Norge AS
    934651758     Norway

PART II
THE ORIGINAL GUARANTORS

                  Registration number (or   Jurisdiction of Name of Original
Guarantors   equivalent, if any)   incorporation
Endeavour International Corporation
    C897-2000     Nevada, U.S.A
Endeavour Operating Corporation
    3737839     Delaware, U.S.A
END Operating Management Company
    3900636     Delaware U.S.A.
END Management Company
    3737839     Delaware, U.S.A.
Endeavour International Holding B.V.
    34229293     Netherlands
Endeavour Energy Netherlands B.V.
    34229296     Netherlands
Endeavour Energy UK Limited
    5030838     England and Wales

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SCHEDULE 2
THE ORIGINAL LENDERS

                                      THE GOVERNOR                     AND
COMPANY OF                     THE BANK OF     Aggregate       BNP PARIBAS    
SCOTLAND     Commitments   Specified Period   (dollars)     (dollars)    
(dollars)  
From the date of this Agreement up to and including 31 March 2007
    112,500,000.00       112,500,000.00       225,000,000.00  
From 1 April 2007 up to and including 30 September 2007
    112,500,000.00       112,500,000.00       225,000,000.00  
From 1 October 2007 up to and including 31 March 2008
    95,000,000.00       95,000,000.00       190,000,000.00  
From 1 April 2008 up to and including 30 September 2008
    77,500,000.00       77,500,000.00       155,000,000.00  
From 1 October 2008 up to and including 31 March 2009
    60,000,000.00       60,000,000.00       120,000,000.00  
From 1 April 2009 up to and including 30 September 2009
    42,500,000.00       42,500,000.00       85,000,000.00  
From 1 October 2009 up to and including 31 March 2010
    32,500,000.00       32,500,000.00       65,000,000.00  
From 1 April 2010 up to and including 30 September 2010
    22,500,000.00       22,500,000.00       45,000,000.00  
From 1 October 2010 up to and including 31 March 2011
    15,000,000.00       15,000,000.00       30,000,000.00  
From 1 April 2011 up to and including 30 September 2011
    7,500,000.00       7,500,000.00       15,000,000.00  
On and from the Final Maturity Date
                    0  

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT
Part I
CPs to first Utilisation Request

1.   OBLIGORS AND TRANSACTION PARTIES   1.1   A copy of the constitutional
documents of each Obligor and each Transaction Party.   1.2   A copy of a
resolution of the respective board of directors of each Obligor and each
Transaction Party (or a committee of its board of directors) and of the
respective general meeting of shareholders of each Dutch Obligor:

  1.2.1   approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, such of
the Finance Documents that it is or will become party to;     1.2.2  
authorising a specified person or persons to execute each such document on its
behalf; and     1.2.3   authorising a specified person or persons, on its
behalf, to sign and/or dispatch all other documents and notices to be signed
and/or dispatched by it under or in connection with any such document.

1.3   If applicable, a copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each
relevant Obligor or Transaction Party establishing the committee referred to in
paragraph 1.2 above.   1.4   For each Obligor and each Transaction Party, a
specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolutions referred
to in paragraph 1.2 above.   2.   CERTIFICATES   2.1   A certificate of a person
who is both a director and an authorised signatory of each Obligor certifying on
behalf of that Obligor that:

  2.1.1   the borrowing or, as the case may be, the guaranteeing of the
Aggregate Commitments in full would not cause any borrowing, guaranteeing or
similar limit binding on it to be exceeded; and     2.1.2   each copy document
specified in Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 3 relating to it is correct,
complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of
this Agreement.

2.2   A certificate of a person who is both a director and an authorised
signatory of the Company confirming that no Default has occurred and is
continuing.   3.   FINANCE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS   3.1   Originals of the
following documents duly executed by all parties to them and in full force and
effect:

  3.1.1   the Fee Letters;

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  3.1.2   the Intercreditor Agreement;     3.1.3   any other side letter or
ancillary document the form of which has been agreed between the Company and
Mandated Lead Arrangers on or before the date of this Agreement.

4.   REPORTS ETC.   4.1   The Original Financial Statements for the Company and
each other Obligor.   4.2   A copy of a Projection and the Computer Model used
to prepare that Projection.   4.3   A copy of a report from the Independent
Engineer dated no earlier than December 31, 2005 together with a reliance letter
in respect thereof.   4.4   A copy of a letter addressed to the Agent from the
Group’s insurance brokers confirming, among other things, that (a) the
insurances required hereunder are in place and effective; (b) all premiums
therefor have been paid; and (c) the Security Trustee has been named as
co-insured or additional insured in respect of all such insurances.   4.5   A
due diligence report addressed to BNP Paribas, The Governor and Company of the
Bank of Scotland and the Lenders as at the Syndication Date from Ashurst in
respect of the Borrowing Base Assets dated no earlier than 30 October 2006.  
4.6   A due diligence report addressed to BNP Paribas (as Agent) for itself and
each other Lender as at the Syndication Date from Herbert Smith LLP.   4.7  
Reports from KPMG (addressed to the Agent for itself and each other Lender as at
the Syndication Date) as, respectively, auditors and tax auditors of the
Computer Model.   5.   FEES       Evidence that all fees (including legal fees
and fees due and payable under the Fee Letters) due and payable have been or
will be paid on the first Utilisation Date.   6.   “KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER” CHECKS  
    Confirmation from the Finance Parties that they have completed all “know
your customer” requirements to their satisfaction.   7.   PROJECT ACCOUNTS      
Evidence that each of the Project Accounts has been opened.   8.   SECURITY
DOCUMENTS   8.1   Originals of the following documents duly executed by all
parties to them and (subject to any required registration and/or the delivery of
any required notice) in full force and effect:

  8.1.1   a debenture between Endeavour Energy UK Limited and the Security
Trustee governed by English law;

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  8.1.2   a charge over shares between Endeavour International Holding B.V. and
the Security Trustee governed by English law;     8.1.3   an accounts charge
between and Endeavour Energy Norge AS and the Security Trustee governed by
English law;     8.1.4   a debenture (creating security over accounts and
Hedging Agreements) between Endeavour International Holding B.V. and the
Security Trustee governed by English law;     8.1.5   a share pledge agreement
between Endeavour International Holding B.V. and the Security Trustee governed
by Norwegian law together with the share pledge registration form in the format
set out in Schedule 1 to the share pledge agreement, the power of attorney in
the format set out in schedule 2 to the share pledge agreement and a transcript
from the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) confirming Endeavour
International Holding B.V.’s ownership to the shares and registration of the
pledge in favour of the Security Trustee;     8.1.6   a share pledge agreement
between Endeavour Energy Norge AS and the Security Trustee governed by Norwegian
law together with the share pledge registration form in the format set out in
Schedule 1 to the share pledge agreement, the power of attorney in the format
set out in schedule 2 to the share pledge agreement and a transcript from the
Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) confirming Endeavour International
Holding B.V.’s ownership to the shares and registration of the pledge in favour
of the Security Trustee     8.1.7   a pledge agreement and a charge deed
regarding charge over receivables between Endeavour Energy Norge AS and the
Security Trustee governed by Norwegian law;     8.1.8   an agreement and deed of
pledge of shares between Endeavour International Holding B.V. and the Security
Trustee governed by the laws of The Netherlands.     8.1.9   an agreement and
deed of pledge of shares between Endeavour Energy Netherlands B.V. and the
Security Trustee governed by the laws of The Netherlands; and     8.1.10   a
security agreement between the Guarantors and the Security Trustee governed by
the laws of the State of New York.

8.2   Each of the share certificates, stock transfer forms and notices of
assignment that are required to be delivered pursuant to any Security Document.
  9.   LEGAL OPINIONS   9.1   A legal opinion of Herbert Smith, legal advisers
to the Mandated Lead Arrangers in respect of the laws of England addressed to
the initial Finance Parties and those acceding to the Agreement on primary
syndication.   9.2   A legal opinion of Stibbe, legal advisers to the Mandated
Lead Arrangers in respect of the laws of The Netherlands, addressed to the
initial Finance Parties and those acceding to the Agreement on primary
syndication.

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9.3   A legal opinion of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, legal advisers to the
Mandated Lead Arrangers in respect of the laws of the State of Delaware,
addressed to the initial Finance Parties and those acceding to the Agreement on
primary syndication.   9.4   A legal opinion of Rice, Silbey, Reuther &
Sullivan, legal advisers to the Mandated Lead Arrangers in respect of the laws
of the State of Nevada, addressed to the initial Finance Parties and those
acceding to the Agreement on primary syndication.   9.5   A legal opinion of
Wikborg, Rein & Co., legal advisers to the Mandated Lead Arrangers in respect of
the laws of the Norway, addressed to the initial Finance Parties and those
acceding to the Agreement on primary syndication.   10.   HEDGING       Evidence
that the Hedging Agreements (if any) required under Schedule 13 (Hedging Policy)
to be entered into on or before the first Utilisation Date have been entered
into.   11.   CASH COVER       Evidence that the Cash Collateral Accounts have
been funded in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or will be so
funded on the first Utilisation Date to the extent required in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement.   12.   AUTHORISATIONS   12.1   Confirmation from
the Obligors that all relevant authorisations necessary in connection with the
Transaction Documents have been obtained and are in full force and effect or
will be in full force and effect when required.

SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT
Part II
C.P.s to First Utilisation

1.   ACQUISITION AGREEMENT       Evidence that the Acquisition Agreement has
been unconditionally completed in accordance with its terms and that all
condition to the exercise of the Put Option or Call Option thereunder (whichever
has been exercised) have been fulfilled.   2.   EQUITY CONTRIBUTION       A
letter from the Company, addressed to the Agent, signed by a director of the
Company, confirming an equity contribution to the Company of not less than
US$175,000,000 and confirming that this, taken together with the Facility, the
Second Lien Facility and any cash in hand, is sufficient to complete acquisition
and pay all related fees, commissions and expenses the Second Lien Facility.

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SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT
Part III
Conditions Subsequent

1.   OBLIGORS AND TRANSACTION PARTIES   1.1   A copy of the constitutional
documents of Talisman Expro Limited.   1.2   A copy of a resolution of the board
of directors of Talisman Expro Limited (or a committee of its board of
directors):

  1.2.1   approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, each of
the documents it is or will become party to;     1.2.2   authorising a specified
person or persons to execute each such document on its behalf; and     1.2.3  
authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or
dispatch all other documents and notices to be signed and/or dispatched by it
under or in connection with any such document.     1.3   If applicable, a copy
of a resolution of the board of directors of Talisman Expro Limited establishing
the committee referred to in paragraph 1.2 above.

1.4   A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolutions
referred to in paragraph 1.2 above.   2.   CERTIFICATES   2.1   A certificate of
a person who is both a director and an authorised signatory of Talisman Expro
Limited certifying on behalf of Talisman Expro Limited that:

  2.1.1   the borrowing or, as the case may be, the guaranteeing of the
Aggregate Commitments in full would not cause any borrowing, guaranteeing or
similar limit binding on it to be exceeded; and     2.1.2   each copy document
specified in this Part III (Conditions subsequent) of Schedule 3 is correct,
complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of
this Agreement.

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3.   SECURITY DOCUMENTS   3.1   A debenture between Talisman Expro Limited and
the Security Trustee governed by English law.   3.2   A charge over shares
between Endeavour Energy UK Limited and the Security Trustee governed by English
law.   4.   ACCESSION DOCUMENTS       Evidence that Talisman Expro Limited has
acceded to this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement as an Additional
Borrower and an Additional Guarantor.   5.   LEGAL OPINION       A legal opinion
of Herbert Smith LLP, legal advisers to the Mandated Lead Arrangers in respect
of the laws of England addressed to the Finance Parties and those acceding to
this Agreement on primary syndication in relation to the documents referred to
at 1 and 2 above.   6.   WHITEWASH PROCEDURES   6.1   Evidence that the
requirements of Chapter VI of the Companies Act 1985 have been complied with in
relation to Talisman Expro Limited.   6.2   A letter from Ernst & Young,
auditors to Talisman Expro Limited, addressed to the Mandated Lead Arrangers,
regarding the net assets of Talisman Expro Limited.   7.   NOTICE       Each of
the share certificates, stock transfer forms and notices of assignment that are
required to be delivered pursuant to the Debenture referred to at paragraph 3
above.   8.   PROJECT ACCOUNT       Evidence that Talisman Expro Limited has
opened each Project Account required hereunder.   9.   KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER      
Evidence that all “know your customer” or similar identification procedures
relating to Talisman Expro Limited have been carried out and completed.   10.  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS       The financial statements or, if the same have been
audited, audited financial statements for Talisman Expro Limited for its
financial year ended 31 December 2005.   11.   REGISTRATION OF SECURITY      
Evidence of Registration of all Security Documents referred to in Part I of
Schedule 3 (Conditions Precedent and Subsequent), to the extent required or
recommended by any legal adviser to the Mandated Lead Arrangers to ensure the
same are valid and enforceable.

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12.   CORPORATE STATUS OF ENDEAVOUR ENERGY NORGE AS       Evidence that
Endeavour Energy Norge AS (i) has completed all steps required to procure the
cancellation of all 3,950,385 shares of Endeavour Energy Norge AS that as of the
date of this agreement are owned by Endeavour Energy Norge AS, including but not
limited to documentation that Endeavour Energy Norge AS has held an
extraordinary shareholders meeting where a reduction of the Endeavour Energy
Norge AS’ share capital by cancellation of 3,950,385 shares was resolved,
(ii) has made all the required notifications and/or advertisements in connection
with the two-month notice period following the resolution to reduce the share
capital, and (iii) has registered new articles of association and the reduced
share capital with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and has
registered updated details for number of shares and shareholders with the
Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) showing Endeavour International
Holding B.V. as the only shareholder of Endeavour Energy Norge AS immediately
upon the expiry of the two-month notice period.

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SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT
Part IV
Conditions precedent required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor

1.   An Accession Letter, duly executed by the Additional Obligor and the
Company and duly executed originals of any other documents (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Agent) as may be necessary to ensure that the
Additional Obligors accedes, and becomes a party, to each relevant Finance
Document (“accession documents”).   2.   A copy of the constitutional documents
of the Additional Obligor and any other person (an “Additional Transaction
Party”) entering into any Security Documents referred to in paragraph 12 below.
  3.   A copy of a resolution of the respective board of directors (or
equivalent) of (a) the Additional Obligor and (b) any Additional Transaction
Party, in each case:

  3.1   approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, each of
the documents it is or will become party to (the “Relevant Documents”);     3.2
  authorising a specified person or persons to execute each such Relevant
Document on its behalf; and     3.3   authorising a specified person or persons,
on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all other documents and notices
(including, in relation to an Additional Borrower, any Utilisation Request) to
be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with any such Relevant
Document.

4.   A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution
referred to in paragraph 3 above.   5.   In the case of an Additional Guarantor,
a copy of a resolution signed by all the holders of the issued shares of the
Additional Guarantor, approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated
by, the Finance Documents to which the Additional Guarantor is, or will become,
a party.   6.   A certificate of the Additional Obligor (signed by a director
or, if appropriate, an officer) confirming that borrowing or guaranteeing, as
appropriate, the Aggregate Commitments would not cause any borrowing,
guaranteeing or similar limit binding on it to be exceeded.   7.   A certificate
of an authorised signatory of:

  7.1   the Additional Obligor; and     7.2   each Additional Transaction Party
(if any)

    (in each case) certifying that each copy document listed in this Part IV of
Schedule 3 relating to it is correct, complete and in full force and effect as
at a date no earlier than the date of the Relevant Document(s) to which it is a
party.

8.   A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance
which the Agent considers to be necessary or desirable in connection with the
entry into and

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    performance of the transactions contemplated by each Relevant Document or
for the validity and enforceability of any Relevant Document.   9.   If
available, the latest audited financial statements of the Additional Obligor.  
10.   Such legal opinions in relation to the Additional Obligor, any Additional
Transaction Party and/or the Relevant Documents as the Agent may reasonably
require (together with any documents that may be required for the delivery of
such legal opinions).   11.   If the proposed Additional Obligor is incorporated
in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales, evidence that the process agent
specified in Clause 40.2 (Service of process), if not an Obligor, has accepted
its appointment in relation to the proposed Additional Obligor.   12.   Security
Document(s) creating Security over (a) the entire issued share capital of the
Additional Obligor, (b) the Project Accounts (if any) that the relevant
Additional Obligor will be required to maintain hereunder, and (c) if required
by Majority Lenders, all of the assets of the Additional Obligor, in the case of
(a), (b) and (c) duly executed by the relevant parties in form and substance
satisfactory to the Security Trustee together with:

  12.1   (to the extent applicable) evidence that all approvals, filings,
registrations, recordings and other things necessary or desirable (including the
carrying out of the procedures specified in ss.155-8 of the Companies Act 1985
(if appropriate)) to ensure the validity, effectiveness, priority and
enforceability of each such Security Document have been carried out;     12.2  
copies of each of the notices required to be given under each such Security
Document together with other copies of acknowledgements from each person to whom
notice was given, in the form required by such document; and     12.3   (if
required by the Agent) evidence that the Security Trustee or its nominee has
been entered in the register of members (or equivalent) of such proposed
Additional Obligor as sole shareholder of all its issued share capital.

13.   Evidence that each Project Account (if any) that the relevant Additional
Obligor will be required to maintain hereunder has been opened.

14.   Evidence that all “know your customer” or similar identification
procedures relating to the proposed Additional Obligor or any Additional
Transaction Party have been carried out and completed.

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SCHEDULE 4
APPLICABLE COVER RATIOS

                                                      Applicable     Applicable
    Applicable     Applicable     Applicable     Applicable       Tranche A    
Tranche A     Tranche A     Tranche B     Tranche B     Tranche B       FLCR    
LLCR     DSCR     FLCR     LLCR     DSCR  
From the date hereof until the day before the first Scheduled Recalculation Date
falling on or after the second anniversary of the date of this Agreement
  1.40x     1.20x     1.20x     1.25x     1.15x     1.15x  
 
                                               
On and from the first Scheduled Recalculation Date falling on or after the
second anniversary of the date of this Agreement
  1.50x     1.30x     1.20x     1.30x     1.20x     1.15x  

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 5
UTILISATION REQUEST
Part I
Loans
From: [Borrower]
To: [Agent]
Dated:
Dear Sirs
Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [   ] between, among others,
Endeavour International Corporation, BNP Paribas and the Governor and Company of
the Bank of
Scotland
(as amended from time to time) (the “Agreement”)

1.   We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in
the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a
different meaning in this Utilisation Request.   2.   We wish to borrow a Loan
on the following terms:

         
 
  Proposed Utilisation Date:   [            ] (or, if that is not a Business
Day, the next Business Day)
 
       
 
  Amount:   [      ]
 
       
 
  Currency:   [            ]
 
       
 
  Interest Period:   [            ]

3.   The purpose of the Loan is [            ]. Such Loan is to be [a Tranche A
Loan]*[a Tranche B Loan].

4.   We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions
precedent and subsequent) of the Agreement is satisfied on the date of this
Utilisation Request.   5.   The proceeds of this Loan should be credited to [NB.
specify relevant Proceeds Account].   6.   This Utilisation Request is
irrevocable.

         
 
      Yours faithfully
 
       
 
       
 
      authorised signatory for [name of relevant Borrower]

 

*   Delete whichever is inapplicable.

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 5
UTILISATION REQUEST
Part II
Letters of Credit
From: [Borrower]
To: [Agent]
Dated:
Dear Sirs
Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [            ] between, among
others, Endeavour International Corporation, BNP Paribas and the Governor and
Company of the Bank
of Scotland (as amended from time to time) (the “Agreement”)

1.   We wish to arrange for a Letter of Credit to be [issued][renewed] by the
Fronting Bank on the following terms:

         
 
  Proposed Utilisation Date:   [            ] (or, if that is not a Business
Day, the next Business Day)
 
       
 
  Amount:   [            ]
 
       
 
  Currency:   [            ]
 
       
 
  Expiry Date:   [            ]
 
       
 
  Beneficiary:   [            ]

2.   We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions
precedent and subsequent) of the Agreement is satisfied on the date of this
Utilisation Request.   3.   We confirm that the Letter of Credit will be applied
for the following purpose(s) and that each such purpose complies with Clause
3.1.2 (Purpose) of the Agreement:       [NB. insert description of purpose(s).]
      In our view, this Letter of Credit, should [not]* be treated as an
Eligible Letter of Credit.   4.   We attach a copy of [the proposed Letter of
Credit/the existing Letter of Credit to be renewed].   5.   The Letter of Credit
once [issued]/[renewed] is to be delivered to [NB. Specify detailed delivery
instructions].

 

*   Delete/insert as appropriate.

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6.   This Utilisation Request is irrevocable.

             
 
      Yours faithfully    
 
           
 
           
 
      authorised signatory for
[name of relevant Borrower]    

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 6
FORMS OF LETTER OF CREDIT
PART 1
FORM OF LETTER OF CREDIT
To: [Beneficiary]

     
           (the “Beneficiary”)
  [DATE]

Dear Sirs,
Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit no. [            ]
For the account and at the request of {[Endeavour Entity]} [(acting on behalf of
[            ])], we BNP Paribas Paris (the “Fronting Bank”) hereby issue this
irrevocable standby letter of credit (“Letter of Credit”) [reference number] in
your favour on the following terms and conditions:

1.   DEFINITIONS       In this Letter of Credit:       “Business Day” means a
day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for general
business in London and Paris.       “Demand” means a demand for a payment under
this Letter of Credit in the form of the schedule to this Letter of Credit.    
  “Expiry Date” means [latest date for presentation of demand letter to be
inserted].       “Total L/C Amount” means [amount to be inserted].   2.  
FRONTING BANK’S AGREEMENT   2.1   The Beneficiary may request a drawing or
drawings under this Letter of Credit by giving to the Fronting Bank a duly
completed Demand. A Demand may not be given after the Expiry Date.   2.2   A
Demand must be received at the latest by the Fronting Bank by [5.00] p.m. (Paris
time) on any Business Day falling on or before the Expiry Date.   2.3   Subject
to the terms of this Letter of Credit, the Fronting Bank unconditionally and
irrevocably undertakes to the Beneficiary that, within five Business Days of
receipt by it of a Demand validly presented under this Letter of Credit, it must
pay to the Beneficiary the amount which is demanded for payment in that Demand.
  2.4   The Fronting Bank will not be obliged to make a payment under this
Letter of Credit if as a result the aggregate of all payments made by it under
this Letter of Credit would exceed the Total L/C Amount.

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3.   EXPIRY   3.1   On 5.00 p.m. (Paris time) on the Expiry Date the obligations
of the Fronting Bank under this Letter of Credit will cease with no further
liability on the part of the Fronting Bank except for any Demand validly
presented under the Letter of Credit that remains unpaid.   3.2   The Fronting
Bank will be released from its obligations under this Letter of Credit on the
date prior to the Expiry Date (if any) notified by the Beneficiary to the
Fronting Bank as the date upon which the obligations of the Fronting Bank under
this Letter of Credit are released.   3.3   When the Fronting Bank is no longer
under any obligation under this Letter of Credit, the Beneficiary must return
the original of this Letter of Credit to the Fronting Bank.   4.   PAYMENTS    
  All payments under this Letter of Credit must be made in [currency] and for
value on the due date to the account nominated by the Beneficiary in the Demand.
  5.   DELIVERY OF DEMAND       Each Demand must be in writing, bearing the
Beneficiary’s original handwritten signature, and may be given in person or by
post, and must be received by the Fronting Bank at its address as follows:      
BNP PARIBAS
21 PLACE DU MARCHE SAINT HONORE
F-75031 PARIS CEDEX 01
ATTENTION: Operations Center ECEP/GTS   6.   ASSIGNMENT       The Beneficiary’s
rights under this Letter of Credit may not be assigned or transferred.   7.  
[ISP]/[UCP]1       Except to the extent it is inconsistent with the express
terms of this Letter of Credit, this Letter of Credit is subject to the
[International Standby Practices (ISP 98), International Chamber of Commerce
Publication No. 590]/[the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits
(1993 Revision, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 500)].   8.  
GOVERNING LAW       This Letter of Credit is governed by and shall be construed
in accordance with English law.   9.   JURISDICTION       The English courts
have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute in connection with this Letter
of Credit.

 

1   To be selected.

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      Yours faithfully    
 
           
 
           
 
      For and on behalf of BNP PARIBAS    

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Schedule
FORM OF DEMAND
From: [Beneficiary]
To: BNP PARIBAS
          [Address]
[Dated]
Dear Sirs
Your Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit no. [       ] dated [       ] issued
in favour of [Beneficiary] (the “Letter of Credit”)
We refer to the Letter of Credit. Terms defined in the Letter of Credit have the
same meaning when used in this Demand.

1.   We certify that the sum of [       ] is due [and has remained unpaid for at
least [       ] Business Days] [under [set out underlying contract or
agreement]]. We therefore demand payment of the sum of [       ].   2.   Payment
should be made to the following account:       Name:       Account Number:      
Bank:   3.   The date of this Demand is not later than the Expiry Date.

             
 
      Yours faithfully    
 
           
 
           
 
      authorised signatory for [Beneficiary]    

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SCHEDULE 6
PART II
FORM OF STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT
To: [Beneficiary]

     
      (the “Beneficiary”)
  [DATE]

Dear Sirs,
Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit no. [       ]
For the account and at the request of {[Endeavour Entity]} [(acting on behalf of
[ ])], we BNP Paribas Paris (the “Fronting Bank”) hereby issue this irrevocable
standby letter of credit (“Letter of Credit”) [reference number] in your favour
on the following terms and conditions:

1.   DEFINITIONS       In this Letter of Credit:       “Business Day” means a
day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open for general
business in London and Paris.       “Demand” means a demand for a payment under
this Letter of Credit.       “Expiry Date” means [latest date for presentation
of demand letter to be inserted].       “Total L/C Amount” means [amount to be
inserted].   2.   FRONTING BANK’S AGREEMENT   2.1   The Beneficiary may request
a drawing or drawings under this Letter of Credit by giving to the Fronting Bank
a duly completed Demand. A Demand may not be given after the Expiry Date.   2.2
  A Demand must be received at the latest by the Fronting Bank by 5.00 p.m.
(Paris time) on any Business Day falling on or before the Expiry Date.   2.3  
Subject to the terms of this Letter of Credit, the Fronting Bank unconditionally
and irrevocably undertakes to the Beneficiary that, within five Business Days of
receipt by it of a Demand validly presented under this Letter of Credit, it must
pay to the Beneficiary the amount of the Demand. Demand(s) in excess of the
Total L/C Amount are acceptable, provided that the Fronting Bank shall not be
obliged to make a payment(s) hereunder exceeding in aggregate the Total L/C
Amount.   3.   EXPIRY   3.1   On 5.00 p.m. (Paris time) on the Expiry Date the
obligations of the Fronting Bank under this Letter of Credit will cease with no
further liability on the part of the Fronting Bank except for any Demand validly
presented under the Letter of Credit that remains unpaid.

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3.2   The Fronting Bank will be released from its obligations under this Letter
of Credit on the date prior to the Expiry Date (if any) notified by the
Beneficiary to the Fronting Bank as the date upon which the obligations of the
Fronting Bank under this Letter of Credit are released.   3.3   When the
Fronting Bank is no longer under any obligation under this Letter of Credit, the
Beneficiary must return the original of this Letter of Credit to the Fronting
Bank.   4.   PAYMENTS       All payments under this Letter of Credit must be
made in [currency] and for value on the due date to the account nominated by the
Beneficiary in the Demand.       All issuing banking charges and commissions are
for the account of the applicant. All other charges are for beneficiary’s
account.   5.   DELIVERY OF DEMAND       Each Demand must be presented at our
offices:       BNP PARIBAS
21 PLACE DU MARCHE SAINT HONORE
F-75031 PARIS CEDEX 01
ATTENTION: Operations Center ECEP/GTS       Fax or telex copy of documents is
acceptable for drawing under this Letter of Credit.   6.   ASSIGNMENT       The
Beneficiary’s rights under this Letter of Credit may not be assigned or
transferred.   7.   [ISP]/[UCP]2       Except to the extent it is inconsistent
with the express terms of this Letter of Credit, this Letter of Credit is
subject to the [International Standby Practices (ISP 98), International Chamber
of Commerce Publication No. 590]/[the Uniform Customs and Practice for
Documentary Credits (1993 Revision, International Chamber of Commerce
Publication No. 500)].   8.   GOVERNING LAW       This Letter of Credit is
governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law.   9.  
JURISDICTION       The English courts have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any
dispute in connection with this Letter of Credit.

 

2   To be selected.

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      Yours faithfully    
 
           
 
           
 
      For and on behalf of BNP PARIBAS    

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SCHEDULE 7
MANDATORY COST FORMULAE

1.   The Mandatory Cost is an addition to the interest rate to compensate
lenders for the cost of compliance with (a) the requirements of the Bank of
England and/or the Financial Services Authority (or, in either case, any other
authority which replaces all or any of its functions) or (b) the requirements of
the European Central Bank.   2.   On the first day of each Interest Period (or
as soon as possible thereafter) the Agent shall calculate, as a percentage rate,
a rate (the “Additional Cost Rate”) for each Lender, in accordance with the
paragraphs set out below. The Mandatory Cost will be calculated by the Agent as
a weighted average of the Lenders’ Additional Cost Rates (weighted in proportion
to the percentage participation of each Lender in the relevant Loan) and will be
expressed as a percentage rate per annum.   3.   The Additional Cost Rate for
any Lender lending from a Facility Office in a Participating Member State will
be the percentage notified by that Lender to the Agent. This percentage will be
certified by that Lender in its notice to the Agent to be its reasonable
determination of the cost (expressed as a percentage of that Lender’s
participation in all Loans made from that Facility Office) of complying with the
minimum reserve requirements of the European Central Bank in respect of loans
made from that Facility Office.   4.   The Additional Cost Rate for any Lender
lending from a Facility Office in the United Kingdom will be calculated by the
Agent as follows:   4.1   in relation to a sterling Loan:       AB + C(B-D)+E x
0.01 per cent per annum       100-(A+C)   4.2   in relation to a Loan in any
currency other than sterling:       E x 0.01 per cent per annum.
    300       Where:

         
 
  A   is the percentage of Eligible Liabilities (assuming these to be in excess
of any stated minimum) which that Lender is from time to time required to
maintain as an interest free cash ratio deposit with the Bank of England to
comply with cash ratio requirements.
 
       
 
  B   is the percentage rate of interest (excluding the Margin and the Mandatory
Cost and, if the Loan is an Unpaid Sum, the additional rate of interest
specified in Clause 10.3.1 (Default interest)) payable for the relevant Interest
Period on the Loan.
 
       
 
  C   is the percentage (if any) of Eligible Liabilities which that Lender is
required from time to time to maintain as interest bearing Special Deposits with
the Bank of England.
 
       
 
  D   is the percentage rate per annum payable by the Bank of England to the
Agent on interest bearing Special Deposits.

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  E   is designed to compensate Lenders for amounts payable under the Fees Rules
and is calculated by the Agent as being the average of the most recent rates of
charge supplied by the Reference Banks to the Agent pursuant to paragraph 7
below and expressed in pounds per £1,000,000.

5.   For the purposes of this Schedule:   5.1   “Eligible Liabilities” and
“Special Deposits” have the meanings given to them from time to time under or
pursuant to the Bank of England Act 1998 or (as may be appropriate) by the Bank
of England;   5.2   “Fees Rules” means the rules on periodic fees contained in
the FSA Supervision Manual or such other law or regulation as may be in force
from time to time in respect of the payment of fees for the acceptance of
deposits;   5.3   “Fee Tariffs” means the fee tariffs specified in the Fees
Rules under the activity group A.1 Deposit acceptors (ignoring any minimum fee
or zero rated fee required pursuant to the Fees Rules but taking into account
any applicable discount rate); and   5.4   “Tariff Base” has the meaning given
to it in, and will be calculated in accordance with, the Fees Rules.   6.   In
application of the above formulae, A, B, C and D will be included in the
formulae as percentages (i.e. 5 per cent. will be included in the formula as 5
and not as 0.05). A negative result obtained by subtracting D from B shall be
taken as zero. The resulting figures shall be rounded to four decimal places.  
7.   If requested by the Agent, each Reference Bank shall, as soon as
practicable after publication by the Financial Services Authority, supply to the
Agent, the rate of charge payable by that Reference Bank to the Financial
Services Authority pursuant to the Fees Rules in respect of the relevant
financial year of the Financial Services Authority (calculated for this purpose
by that Reference Bank as being the average of the Fee Tariffs applicable to
that Reference Bank for that financial year) and expressed in pounds per
£1,000,000 of the Tariff Base of that Reference Bank.   8.   Each Lender shall
supply any information required by the Agent for the purpose of calculating its
Additional Cost Rate. In particular, but without limitation, each Lender shall
supply the following information on or prior to the date on which it becomes a
Lender:   8.1   the jurisdiction of its Facility Office; and   8.2   any other
information that the Agent may reasonably require for such purpose.       Each
Lender shall promptly notify the Agent of any change to the information provided
by it pursuant to this paragraph.   9.   The percentages of each Lender for the
purpose of A and C above and the rates of charge of each Reference Bank for the
purpose of E above shall be determined by the Agent based upon the information
supplied to it pursuant to paragraphs 7 and 8 above and on the assumption that,
unless a Lender notifies the Agent to the contrary, each Lender’s obligations in
relation to cash ratio deposits and Special Deposits are the same as those of a

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    typical bank from its jurisdiction of incorporation with a Facility Office
in the same jurisdiction as its Facility Office.   10.   The Agent shall have no
liability to any person if such determination results in an Additional Cost Rate
which over or under compensates any Lender and shall be entitled to assume that
the information provided by any Lender or Reference Bank pursuant to paragraphs
3, 7 and 8 above is true and correct in all respects.   11.   The Agent shall
distribute the additional amounts received as a result of the Mandatory Cost to
the Lenders on the basis of the Additional Cost Rate for each Lender based on
the information provided by each Lender and each Reference Bank pursuant to
paragraphs 3, 7 and 8 above.   12.   Any determination by the Agent pursuant to
this Schedule in relation to a formula, the Mandatory Cost, an Additional Cost
Rate or any amount payable to a Lender shall, in the absence of manifest error,
be conclusive and binding on all Parties.   13.   The Agent may from time to
time, after consultation with the Company and the Lenders, determine and notify
to all Parties any amendments which are required to be made to this Schedule in
order to comply with any change in law, regulation or any requirements from time
to time imposed by the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority or the
European Central Bank (or, in any case, any other authority which replaces all
or any of its functions) and any such determination shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive and binding on all Parties.

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SCHEDULE 8
FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
To: [Agent] and [Security Trustee]
From: [The Existing Lender] (the “Existing Lender”) and [The New Lender] (the
“New Lender”)
Dated:
Dear Sirs
Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [       ] between, among
others, Endeavour International Corporation, BNP Paribas and the Governor and
Company of the Bank
of Scotland
(as amended from time to time) (the “Agreement”)

1.   We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate. Terms defined in
the Agreement have the same meaning in this Transfer Certificate unless given a
different meaning in this Transfer Certificate.   2.   We refer to Clause 26.5
(Procedure for transfer) of the Agreement:

  2.1.   The Existing Lender and the New Lender agree to the Existing Lender
transferring to the New Lender by novation all or part of the Existing Lender’s
Commitment, rights and obligations referred to in the Schedule hereto in
accordance with Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) of the Agreement.     2.2  
The proposed Transfer Date is [      ].     2.3   The Facility Office and
address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the
purposes of Clause 33.2 (Contact details) of the Agreement are set out in the
Schedule.

3.   The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing
Lender’s obligations set out in Clause 25.4 (Limitation of responsibility of
Existing Lenders) of the Agreement and represents and warrants to each Party
that on the date it becomes a party to the Agreement (i) that it is a PMP and
(ii) that it is aware that it does not benefit from the (creditor) protection
offered by the Dutch Banking Act when lending monies to persons or entities
which are subject to the prohibition of Section 82 of the Dutch Banking Act;

    [4. The New Lender confirms that the person beneficially entitled to
interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance
Document is either:

  4.1   a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax
purposes;     4.2   a partnership each member of which is:

  (i)   a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or     (ii)   a company not
so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom
through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its
chargeable profits (for the purposes of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) the
whole of any share of

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      interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of
sections 114 and 115 of the Taxes Act; or

  4.3   a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade
in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into
account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable
profits (for the purposes of section 11(2) of the Taxes Act) of that company.]

     
[4/5.]
  This Transfer Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and
this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a
single copy of this Transfer Certificate.
 
   
[5/6.]
  The New Lender agrees to become a party to, and be bound by the terms of the
Agreement and Intercreditor Agreement as a Lender on and from the Transfer Date.
 
   
[6/7.]
  This Transfer Certificate is governed by English law.

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Exhibit 10.1
THE SCHEDULE
Commitment/rights and obligations to be transferred
[insert relevant details including details of Commitment and participation
amount and whether any
Secured Hedging Agreement is to be transferred]
[Facility Office address, fax number and attention details for notices and
account details for payments.]

     
[Existing Lender]
  [New Lender]
 
   
By:
  By:

This Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Agent and the Transfer Date is
confirmed as [      ].
[Agent]
By:
This Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Security Trustee.
[Security Trustee]
By:

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 9
FORM OF ACCESSION LETTER
To: [Agent] and [Security Trustee]
From: [Subsidiary] and [Company]
Dated:
Dear Sirs
          Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [    ] between,
among
others, Endeavour International Corporation, BNP Paribas and the Governor and
Company of the Bank
of Scotland
(as amended from time to time) (the “Agreement”)

1.   We refer to the Agreement. This is an Accession Letter. Terms defined in
the Agreement have the same meaning in this Accession Letter unless given a
different meaning in this Accession Letter.   2.   [Subsidiary] agrees to become
an Additional [Borrower]/[Guarantor] and to be bound by (i) the terms of the
Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement as an Obligor and (ii) the terms of
the other Finance Documents as an Additional [Borrower]/[Guarantor].
[Subsidiary] is a company duly incorporated under the laws of [name of relevant
jurisdiction].   3.   [Subsidiary’s] administrative details are as follows:    
  Address:       Fax No:       Attention:   4.   This Accession Letter is
governed by English law.

[This Accession Letter has been executed and delivered as a deed on the date
stated at the beginning of this Accession Letter.]3

     
 
  Yours faithfully,
 
   
 
   
authorised signatory for
  authorised signatory for
 
   
[name of relevant Subsidiary]
  [Company]

 

3   If to be entered by way of deed, execution clause to be amended as
appropriate.

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Exhibit 10.1
This Accession Letter is accepted by the Agent and the Security Trustee.
[Agent]
By:
[Security Trustee]
By:

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 10
INITIAL BORROWING BASE ASSETS

                          Field   Block   Licence   Interest (%) 4   Country  
Group entity5
Goldeneye
  20/4b   P592   7.5     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Bittern
  29/1b   P361   2.422     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Alba
  16/2b   P213   2.25     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Caledonia
  16/2b   P213   2.82964     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Ivanhoe
  15/21a and 15/21b   P218 and P588   23.455     England   Talisman Expro
Limited
Rob Roy
  15/21a and 15/21b   P218 and P588   23.455     England   Talisman Expro
Limited
Hamish
  15/21a and 15/21b   P218 and P588   23.455     England   Talisman Expro
Limited
Renee
  15/27   P226   77.5     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Rubie
  15/28b   P339   40.78     England   Talisman Expro Limited
Enoch
  16/13   P219   8     England   Endeavour Energy UK Limited
Brage
  PL053B, PL055, PL055B and PL185   30/6, 31/4 and 31/7   4.44     Norway  
Endeavour Energy Norge AS
Sognefjord
  PL055 and PL055B   31/4   3.2     Norway   Endeavour Energy Norge AS
Njord
  PL132 and PL107   6407/10 and 6407/7   2.5     Norway   Endeavour Energy Norge
AS

 

4   Interest in Field given, rather than interest in the Block.   5   Assuming
due completion of the Acquisition Agreement.

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 11
SUMMARY OF PROJECTIONS PROCESS
The summary set out in this Schedule 11 is only a summary of certain provisions
of Clause 7 (Projections) and has been included only for ease of reference. This
Schedule (a) shall be ignored for the purposes of interpreting the provisions of
Clause 7 (Projections) and (b) is not intended to have any contractual effect.
In the table set out below, “RD” is a reference to any Recalculation Date.

      Date/Period   Action
 
   
RD – 59 days
  Company may submit request for assets to be included/excluded as Borrowing
Base Assets.
 
   
RD – 45 days
  Agent submits Economic Assumptions to Company. This step is not applicable to
Disposal Projections.
 
   
RD – 40 days
  Company submits Technical Assumptions to Technical Bank. This step is not
applicable to Disposal Projections.
 
   
RD – 30 days
  Company and Agent agree Economic Assumptions. This step is not applicable to
Disposal Projections.
 
   
RD – 21 days
  Company and Technical Bank agree Technical Assumptions. This step is not
applicable to Disposal Projections.
 
   
RD – 14 days
  Draft Projection issued to Lenders.
 
   
Within 10 days of receipt of Projection
  Lenders approve Projection.
 
   
RD
  Projection adopted (but note Clause 7.9 (Adoption of Projections)).

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SCHEDULE 12
GROUP STRUCTURE
(FLOW CHART) [h40887h4088701.gif]

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 13
HEDGING POLICY

(A)   The Obligors shall ensure that, by reference to the applicable production
profiles of the Proved Reserves on a rolling three-year basis:

  (i)   no more than 75% shall be hedged by way of swaps or collars; and    
(ii)   not less than 50% shall be hedged by way of options, swaps and collars,
in each case as determined by the Technical Bank.

(B)   No limitation is placed upon the use of put options, however they should
be used only to cover genuine commercial exposure of the Obligors, so that the
Obligors’ obligations in respect of any hedging above will be funded by an
appropriate income stream and provided that no Obligor shall enter into any
hedging arrangements which are speculative rather than relating to any exposure
of the Obligor or which are primarily intended to have the commercial effect of
raising finance.

(C)   It is agreed that hedging counterparties need not be banks, or affiliates
thereof, who are Lenders in the Facility but the Obligors shall ensure that
hedging is undertaken with counterparties with a Standard and Poor’s rating of
A- or greater (or will then benefit of a guarantee or other credit support
provided or issued by a person with the requisite rating). Hedging undertaken
with a lower rated counterparty shall not be reflected in the Projections.

(D)   Any hedging involving a credit exposure (swaps or collars) undertaken with
parties who are not Lenders (or affiliates thereof) will not share in the
security enjoyed by the Lenders.

(E)   The Obligors shall also undertake reasonable measures to mitigate their
exposure to movements in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, to the
extent that such adverse movements would have an adverse impact upon its net
operating income.

(F)   The commodities hedging entered into with J. Aron and Company in respect
of which the confirmations were entered into on or before 15 October 2006 shall
not breach the terms of this Hedging Policy.

(G)   It is acknowledged that the commodities hedging referred to in paragraph
(F) of this Hedging Policy would, but for paragraph (F), breach this Hedging
Policy.

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(H)   The Obligors shall not enter into any further Hedging Agreement until
aggregate hedge volumes are compliant with the parameters set out in paragraphs
(A) to (E) of this Hedging Policy.

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Exhibit 10.1
SCHEDULE 14
MARGIN

1.   The margin (which may fluctuate during the Interest Period of a Loan)
applicable on any day for any Tranche A Loan and any Letter of Credit shall be
the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent by reference to the
following table.

     
Margin if Utilisation Percentage on the Relevant Recalculation Date is less than
50%
  0.90 per cent
 
   
Margin if Utilisation Percentage on the Relevant Recalculation Date is 50% or
more but less than or equal to 75%
  1.10 per cent
 
   
Margin if Utilisation Percentage on the Relevant Recalculation Date is more than
75%
  1.30 per cent

2.   The margin applicable on any day for any Tranche B Loan shall be 1.70 per
cent per annum.   3.   For the purposes of this Agreement:       “Relevant
Recalculation Date” means, in relation to any day, the Recalculation Date
immediately preceding, or coinciding with, such day.       “Utilisation
Percentage” means on any day, the amount (expressed as a percentage) determined
by the Agent in accordance with the following formula:

     
UP =
A x100 B

    where:       “UP” is the relevant amount (expressed as a percentage) to be
determined:       “A” is the aggregate Dollar Amount of all Tranche A Loans and
all outstanding Letters of Credit on that day; and       “B” is the lesser of
(i) the Tranche A Borrowing Base Amount applicable on that day plus $60,000,000
minus the Dollar Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit (other than any
Eligible Letter of Credit) and (ii) the Aggregate Commitments on that day.

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SCHEDULE 15
DIRECTORS CERTIFICATE
From: Endeavour International Holding B.V.
To: [Agent]
Dated:
Dear Sirs

Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated [       ] between, among
others, Endeavour International Corporation, BNP Paribas and the Governor and
Company of the Bank of Scotland (as amended from time to time) (the “Agreement”)

3.   We refer to the Agreement. This is a Director’s Certificate pursuant to
Clause 23.24 (Director’s Certificate). Terms defined in the Agreement have the
same meaning in this Director’s Certificate unless given a different meaning in
this Director’s Certificate.

4.   We represent and warrant, having made due enquiry and on the basis of the
current management accounts and other financial information of each Obligor,
that as at the Recalculation Date immediately following the date hereof the
financial condition of the Obligors is or will be such that they will be able to
perform their payment obligations falling due for payment under the Agreement
and under the Second Lien Facility during the period of six months following
that Recalculation Date;

5.   We repeat the representation made under Clause 21.12 (Litigation) as
defined in the Agreement and certify also to the best of our knowledge that
there is no event, development or circumstance imminent which could result in
such representation failing to be repeated during the period of six months after
date of this letter;

6.   We repeat the representation made under Clause 21.11 (Material Adverse
Change) as defined in the Agreement, and certify also to the best of our
knowledge that there is no event, development or circumstance imminent which
could result in a Material Adverse Change.

             
 
      Yours faithfully    
 
           
 
           
 
      Director    
 
      For Endeavour International Holding B.V.    

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SIGNATORIES
   
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
INTERNATIONAL
  )
CORPORATION
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
OPERATING
  )
CORPORATION
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
END OPERATING
  )
MANAGEMENT
  )
COMPANY
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
END
  )
MANAGEMENT
  )
COMPANY
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
INTERNATIONAL
  )
HOLDING B.V.
  )

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Exhibit 10.1

     
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
ENERGY
  )
NETHERLANDS B.V.
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
ENERGY U.K.
  )
LIMITED
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Lance Gilliland
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )/s/ Don Teague
ENDEAVOUR
  )
ENERGY NORGE AS
  )
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Kevin collonges-Duflouleur
 
  ) Kevin collonges-Duflouleur
for and on behalf of
  )
BNP PARIBAS
  )/s/ Vincent Veron
(in all capacities in which it
  )Vincent Veron
is party to this Agreement)
  )Vice President
 
   
SIGNED by
  ) /s/ Alastair Carmichael
 
  )
for and on behalf of
  )
THE GOVERNOR AND
  )
COMPANY OF THE BANK
  )
OF SCOTLAND
  )
(in all capacities in which it
  )
is party to this Agreement)
  )

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