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Exhibit 10.10

Key Energy Services, Inc.
6 Desta Drive
Midland, Texas 79705

November 22, 2004

Kim B. Clarke
Houston, Texas

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
(this "Agreement")

Dear Kim:

        Key Energy Services, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), with
its principal offices at the address set forth above, and you, an individual
with your address set forth above agree as follows:

        1.    Employment; Term.    The Company agrees to employ you, and you
agree to devote your full time and best efforts to serve as the Company's Vice
President—Chief People Officer having those duties specified from time to time
by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or the Company's Board of Directors
(the "Board"). Your employment will commence effective as of November 22, 2004
(the "Commencement Date") and continue until the close of business on
November 21, 2006, subject to extension as provided in this Section 1, unless
earlier terminated in accordance with this Agreement (the "Initial Employment
Period"). On each November 22nd, commencing with November 22, 2006, the term of
your employment will be automatically extended for a period of twelve
(12) months unless either you or the Company gives written notice to the other,
no later than thirty (30) days prior to the relevant November 22nd that such
automatic extension shall not occur. The Initial Employment Period, together
with any extensions, until termination in accordance herewith is referred to
herein as the "Employment Period." You will, if elected, serve as an officer
and/or director of the Company and its subsidiaries and perform all duties
incident to such offices.

        2.    Salary; Bonus; Expenses.    During the Employment Period, the
Company will pay a salary to you at the annual rate of not less than One Hundred
Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($185,000) per year (the "Base Salary"), payable in
substantially equal installments in accordance with the Company's existing
payroll practices, but no less frequently than monthly. Senior management of the
Company will review your compensation from time to time as it deems appropriate
and may, in its sole discretion, increase the Base Salary if it deems such an
increase advisable. For each fiscal year of the Company commencing after
December 31, 2004, you shall be eligible to participate in incentive plans in
effect from time to time for the Company's executives, key employees and other
persons involved in the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and in the
Company's stock-based incentive plans outstanding from time to time. Under this
plan, you shall be eligible to earn a discretionary cash bonus, in an amount up
to 50% of your Base Salary, the amount of such bonus to be determined by the
senior management of the Company or the Board in their sole discretion, based
upon the level of achievement of certain goals mutually established by you and
the senior management of the Company (subject to Board approval).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amount of cash bonuses that the Company will
pay you during calendar year 2005 will total not less than $69,375 and will be
payable as follows: (i) $46,250 for the six-months ended June 30, 2005, and
(ii) $23,125 for the six-months ended December 31, 2005. Your principal place of
employment shall be in Houston, Texas; however, you shall be required to travel
as necessary for your employment duties assigned to you. You will be reimbursed
by the Company for reasonable travel, lodging, meals and other expenses incurred
by you in connection

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with performing your services hereunder in accordance with the Company's
policies from time to time in effect.

        3.    Vacations; Benefits.    You will be entitled during the Employment
Period to (i) not less than 15 vacation days per calendar year (prorated for any
partial year of service), and (ii) such other fringe benefits, including,
without limitation, group medical and dental, life, accident and disability
insurance, retirement plans and supplemental and excess retirement benefits as
the Company may provide from time to time for its employees generally.

        4.    Stock Options.    As performance-based incentive compensation to
you in connection with your services hereunder, there shall be granted to you,
effective as of the grant date, an incentive stock option (the "Option") to
acquire10,000 shares of the Common Stock, par value $.10 per share, of the
Company (the "Common Stock") at an exercise price per share equal to the Fair
Market Value per Share (as defined in the Key Energy Group, Inc. 1997 Incentive
Plan (the "Incentive Plan")) on the grant date, which shall vest in three equal
installments commencing on the first anniversary of the grant date. The Option
will be granted pursuant to, and subject to, all of the terms and provisions of
the Incentive Plan and the Company's form of stock option agreement. In
addition, you shall receive an additional grant of stock options in such amount
as determined in the sole discretion of the Board no later than April 30, 2005.

        5.    Representations.    You hereby represent and warrant to the
Company that:

        (i)    any employment agreement with your former employer is terminable
at will by you without any penalty, restrictions or limitations on your actions
subsequent to such termination by you;

        (ii)   your termination of any existing employment agreement with your
former employer, your execution and delivery of this Agreement, and your
employment by the Company, do not and will not (1) cause you to breach any
agreements, including without limitation, any agreement not to compete, with any
current or former employers, any other individual, corporation, partnership,
association, trust or any other entity or organization, or (2) create any claims
against the Company at law or in equity, including without limitation, tortious
interference claims, by any former employers, any other individual, corporation,
partnership, association, trust or any other entity or organization; and

        (iii)  you will not use any confidential or proprietary materials,
documents or other property of a former employer in any way which would create a
claim against the Company.

        6.    Termination and Severance.    In the event your employment
hereunder is terminated (i) by the Company for Cause or (ii) by you for any
reason, the Company shall have no further obligations to you except that you
will be entitled to receive (x) any accrued but unpaid salary through your
termination date and (y) any expense reimbursements owed you through the date of
termination. In the event your employment hereunder is terminated by the Company
(i) other than for Cause (including your death or Disability) or
(ii) automatically as a result of the Company providing notice to you that
automatic extension of the Employment Period shall not occur, you will be
entitled to receive (x) severance compensation equal to one (1) times your Base
Salary in effect on the termination date, payable in arrears, in twelve
(12) equal monthly installments commencing at the end of the calendar month in
which the termination date occurs and (y) except in the case of your death,
continue to participate in the Company's health care plans at the same cost to
you as existed immediately prior to your termination for a period of six months
after your termination or until you obtain full-time employment, whichever
occurs first; provided, however, that (A) in the event your employment should be
terminated by the Company other than for Cause within six months following a
Change in Control (defined below) or in anticipation of a Change in Control, you
will be entitled to receive severance compensation equal to two (2) times

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your Base Salary in effect on the termination date payable in one lump sum on
the date of such termination, (B) in the event your employment should be
terminated by the Company as a result of your Disability, then any severance
compensation payable to you shall be reduced by the amount of any disability
insurance proceeds actually paid to you or for your benefit during the said time
period. As used in this Agreement, the term "Cause" shall mean (i) the willful
and continued failure by you to substantially perform your duties hereunder
(other than any such willful or continued failure resulting from your incapacity
due to physical or mental illness or physical injury), (ii) repeated substandard
work performance or repeated unreliability that has not been cured to the
Company's satisfaction after notice of the same as has been provided to you;
(iii) serious workplace misconduct, (iv) your engagement in misconduct that you
know or should know is injurious to the Company, monetarily or otherwise,
including injurious to the reputation of the Company (v) your conviction of a
felony by a court of competent jurisdiction, (vi) fraud or other material
dishonesty against the Company, (vii) the breach of any of the provisions
hereof, or (viii) the violation by you of any of the Company's policies, rules
or regulations from time to time in effect, including without limitation, the
Company's code of conduct and ethics policy, securities trading policy or
anti-trust policy. As used in this Agreement, the term "Change in Control" shall
have that meaning set forth in the Key Energy Group, Inc. 1997 Incentive Plan.
As used in this Agreement, the term "Disability" means total and permanent
disability rendering you unable to perform your obligations and duties hereunder
by reasons of physical or mental illness or injury.

        7.    Limitation on Competition.    During the Employment Period, and
for an additional period (the "Non-Compete Period") of twelve (12) months after
your termination if whether or not you are entitled to receive severance
compensation pursuant to Section 6 hereof, you shall not, directly or
indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Company, participate or
engage in, whether as a director, officer, employee, advisor, lender,
consultant, stockholder, partner, joint venturer, owner or in any other
capacity, any business engaged in the business of furnishing oilfield services
(including, without limitation, fluid hauling and disposal services, trucking
services, frac tank rentals, fishing and rental tools, pressure pumping
services, contract drilling, workover, completion and well maintenance,
construction and field consulting) in any of the onshore or offshore oil or
natural gas producing regions in the continental United States, Canada,
Argentina and Egypt or in any other oil or natural gas producing region
throughout the world in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
affiliates conduct their business or operations during the Employment Period or
the Non-Compete Period (a "Competing Enterprise"); provided, however, that you
shall not be deemed to be participating or engaging in any such business solely
by virtue of your ownership of not more than five percent of any class of stock
or other securities which is publicly traded on a national securities exchange
or in a recognized over-the-counter market. In addition, during the Employment
Period and the Non-Compete Period, you shall not, directly or
indirectly,solicit, raid, entice or otherwise induce any employee of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates to be employed by a Competing
Enterprise or to otherwise leave the employ of the Company.     You hereby agree
and acknowledge that (i) you will have access or otherwise learn or obtain
during your course of employment with the Company confidential information,
which the Company can not adequately protect if you fail to fulfill your
obligations under this Section 7, and (ii) a portion of the consideration to be
paid by the Company to you pursuant to this Agreement is consideration for your
covenants under this Section 7 and such consideration is fair and adequate
whether or not you receive any severance compensation pursuant to Section 6
hereof.

        8.    Confidential Information    

        (a)   You agree that you will not, without the express written consent
of the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the General Counsel of the
Company, directly or indirectly communicate or divulge to, or make available to,
or use for your own benefit or for the benefit of, any competitor or any other
person or entity, any of the Company's trade secrets,

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engineering and reserve data, proprietary data or other confidential information
(hereafter collectively referred to as "confidential information"), which
confidential information was communicated to or otherwise learned or acquired by
you during your employment relationship with the Company, except that you may
disclose confidential information only to the extent that disclosure is required
(i) at the Company's direction or (ii) by a court or other governmental agency
of competent jurisdiction. As long as such matters remain confidential
information, you shall not use such confidential information in any way or in
any capacity other than as expressly consented to by the Chief Executive
Officer, President or General Counsel of the Company.

        (b)   Such confidential information shall be deemed to include any and
all information regarding the Company other than information disclosed in its
public filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such
confidential information includes, but is not limited to, personnel information
(including information relating to any and all aspects of compensation of any
and all employees of the Company), ideas, discoveries, designs, inventions,
improvements, trade secrets, know-how, manufacturing processes, design
specifications, writings and other works of authorship, computer programs,
financial information, accounting information, organizational structure, Company
expenditures, marketing plans, customer lists and data, business plans or
methods and the like, that relate in any manner to the actual or anticipated
business of the Company. The term "confidential information" shall not include
(x) information that was publicly available as of the date of this Agreement or
(y) information that became publicly available after the date hereof other than
by reason of a breach of this Agreement by you.

        (c)   You agree that all records, drawings, data, samples, models,
correspondence, manuals, notes, reports, notebooks, proposals, and any other
documents concerning the Company's customers or products or other technical,
financial or business information used by the Company and any other tangible
materials or copies or extracts of tangible materials regarding the Company's
operations or business, received by you during your employment with the Company
are, and shall be, the property of the Company exclusively. You agree to
immediately return to the Company (or, with the Company's permission, destroy)
all of the material mentioned above, including writing notes, memoranda or notes
taken by you and all tangible materials, including, without limitation,
correspondence, drawings, blueprints, letters, notebooks, reports, flow-charts,
computer programs and data proposals, at the request of the Company. No copies
will be made by you, or retained by you, of any such confidential information,
whether or not developed by you.

        (d)   You agree that you will engage in no act which is intended, or may
reasonably be expected, to materially harm the reputation, business, prospects,
or operations of the Company.

        (e)   The parties agree that all work product conceived, created or
developed by you either solely or jointly with others in the course or as a
result of your employment with the Company is proprietary to Company and
constitutes confidential information subject to this Agreement. The parties
further agree that Company is the sole owner of all such work product.

        9.    Consultation with Legal Counsel; Entire Agreement.    You
acknowledge and agree that you have been provided a reasonable time to review
this Agreement with legal counsel and to consider the terms and provisions of
this Agreement. Both parties acknowledge and agree that they are voluntarily
entering into this Agreement, after consultation with their legal counsel if so
desired, and after full disclosure of all the facts and circumstances
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Agreement and its legal effect. This Agreement contains the entire agreement
between you and the Company.

        10.    Governing Law.    This Agreement will be governed and construed
in accordance with the laws of Texas applicable to agreements made and to be
performed entirely within such state, without giving effect to any choice or
conflicts of laws principles, which would cause the application of the domestic
substantive laws of any other jurisdiction.

        11.    Successors and Assigns.    This Agreement shall be binding upon
and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the successors and
assigns of the parties hereto, which in your case shall include your estate,
heirs, executors, administrators, personal and legal representatives,
distributees, devisees, and legatees.

        12.    Counterparts.    This Agreement may be executed in duplicate
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which,
taken together, shall constitute one agreement.

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        If this Agreement correctly sets forth your understanding of the
agreement between the Company and you, please indicate your agreement hereto by
signing this Agreement in the space for that purpose below.

    KEY ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
 
 
By:
 
/s/  RICHARD J. ALARIO      

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Richard J. Alario,
Chairman, President & CEO ACCEPTED AND AGREED:        
/s/  KIM B. CLARKE      

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KIM B. CLARKE
 
 
 
 

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Key Energy Services, Inc. 6 Desta Drive Midland, Texas 79705
November 22, 2004
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