EXHIBIT 4.9

DATED 9 April 2013

KNOT SHUTTLE TANKERS AS

as
Guarantor

- and -

DNB
BANK ASA

as Security Trustee





GUARANTEE AND
INDEMNITY





in respect of the obligations of Knutsen Shuttle Tankers XII KS

under a US$160,000,000 loan facility relating to

FORTALEZA KNUTSEN and RECIFE KNUTSEN



LOGO



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CONTENTS



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|Clause         |  | Page                                      |   
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|1.             |  | DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION            |    |  | 1  | 
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|2.             |  | GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY                   |    |  | 2  | 
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|3.             |  | CONTINUING SECURITY                       |    |  | 3  | 
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|4.             |  | RESTRICTIONS ON GUARANTOR                 |    |  | 3  | 
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|5.             |  | WAIVER BY GUARANTOR                       |    |  | 4  | 
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|6.             |  | PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION OF FUNDS         |    |  | 4  | 
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|7.             |  | NO SET-OFF, COUNTERCLAIM OR TAX DEDUCTION |    |  | 5  | 
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|8.             |  | PROVISO TO RELEASE OF THIS GUARANTEE      |    |  | 5  | 
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|9.             |  | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES            |    |  | 6  | 
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|10.            |  | UNDERTAKINGS                              |    |  | 7  | 
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|11.            |  | INDEMNITIES AND EXPENSES                  |    |  | 8  | 
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|12.            |  | ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS                 |    |  | 9  | 
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|13.            |  | SET-OFF                                   |    |  | 10 | 
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|14.            |  | MISCELLANEOUS                             |    |  | 10 | 
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|15.            |  | NOTICES                                   |    |  | 10 | 
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|16.            |  | APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION           |    |  | 11 | 
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|EXECUTION PAGE |  |                                           | 13 | 



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THIS GUARANTEE is made on    April 2013

BETWEEN:



|(1) | KNOT SHUTTLE TANKERS AS, a company incorporated under the laws of Norway with organisation number 998 942 829 and having its registered office at Smedasundet 40, 5529 Haugesund, Norway (the
Guarantor); and
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|(2) | DNB BANK ASA, a company incorporated under the laws of Norway acting through its office at Lars Hillesgt, 30, N-5020 Bergen, Norway in its capacity as security trustee for the Banks (the Security
Trustee).
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WHEREAS:



|(A) | By a loan agreement dated 1 December 2009 (as amended by a supplemental agreement dated 14 February 2011, a second supplemental agreement dated 6 July 2012, a third supplemental agreement dated
27 February 2013 and as amended and restated by an amendment and restatement deed dated    April 2013, the Agreement) now made between (1) Knutsen Shuttle Tankers XII KS as borrower (the
Borrower), (2) DNB Bank ASA, Nordea Bank Norge ASA, The Export-Import Bank of China, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited as lenders (the
Lenders), (3) DNB Bank ASA and Nordea Bank Norge ASA as mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners and The Export-Import Bank of China and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as mandated lead arrangers,
(4) DNB Bank ASA as agent (the Agent) and (5) the Security Trustee, the Lenders agreed to make available to the Borrower a term loan facility of up to $160,000,000.
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|(B) | At the request of the Borrower and as additional security for the repayment of the Loan and the payment of interest thereon and all other moneys from time to time due or owing to the Banks or any of them under or
pursuant to the Finance Documents, the Guarantor has agreed to enter into this Guarantee.
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|(C) | This Guarantee forms part of the Trust Property which pursuant to the Agreement the Security Trustee holds on trust for itself and the other Banks.
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IT IS AGREED as follows:



|1. | DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
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|1.1 | Words and expressions defined in the Agreement shall, unless otherwise expressly provided herein or the context otherwise requires, have the same meanings when used in this Guarantee, including the Recitals.
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|1.2 | In this Guarantee:
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| | 1.2.1 | unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa;
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| | 1.2.2 | references to any document include the same as varied, supplemented or replaced from time to time;
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| | 1.2.3 | references to any enactment include re-enactments, amendments and extensions thereof;
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| | 1.2.4 | references to any person include that persons successors and permitted assigns;
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| | 1.2.5 | clause headings are for convenience of reference only and are not to be taken into account in construction; and
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| | 1.2.6 | unless otherwise specified, references to Clauses, Recitals and Schedules are respectively to Clauses of and Recitals and Schedules to this Guarantee.
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|1.3 | Except for the Banks, a person who is not a party to this Guarantee may not enforce, or otherwise have the benefit of, any provision of this Guarantee under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
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|2. | GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY
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|2.1 | The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally:
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| | 2.1.1 | guarantees the due and punctual performance by the Borrower of all the Borrowers obligations under the Finance Documents;
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| | 2.1.2 | undertakes as primary obligor and not as surety only that whenever the Borrower does not pay any part of the Outstanding Indebtedness when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, the Guarantor shall
immediately on demand by the Security Trustee pay that amount to the Security Trustee; and
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| | 2.1.3 | agrees, as a separate and independent stipulation, that if any amounts intended to be guaranteed hereby are not recoverable on the footing of a guarantee, whether by reason of any legal limitation, disability or
incapacity on or of the Borrower or any other fact or circumstance, whether or not known to any Bank or the Guarantor, then such amounts shall nevertheless be recoverable from the Guarantor as sole or principal debtor by way of indemnity and shall
be payable by the Guarantor to the Security Trustee on demand,
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provided that:



| | (a) | the aggregate amount in respect of the Outstanding Indebtedness recoverable from the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall not exceed $141,450,000; and
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| | (b) | the foregoing limitation of liability shall not apply in respect of any interest which accrues under Clause 2.2 or any amounts payable under Clauses 7.2 and 11.
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|2.2 | If the Guarantor fails to pay on the due date any sum (whether of principal, interest or otherwise) due under this Guarantee, interest will accrue, and become payable by it upon the Security Trustees demand, upon
the sum unpaid from and including the date upon which it fell due for payment until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be 2% higher than the rate which would have been
payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted part of the Loan for successive periods, each of a duration selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any such interest shall accrue from day to day, be calculated on
the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360 day year and be compounded at the end of each such period determined by the Agent for so long as it remains unpaid.
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|2.3 | The guarantee contained in this Clause 2 is a guarantee of payment and performance and not of collection.
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|3. | CONTINUING SECURITY
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|3.1 | This Guarantee:
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| | 3.1.1 | is and shall at all times be a continuing security for the payment of the full amount of the Outstanding Indebtedness from time to time;
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| | 3.1.2 | shall not be satisfied by any intermediate payment or satisfaction of any part of the Outstanding Indebtedness;
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| | 3.1.3 | shall be in addition to and shall not merge with or be prejudiced or affected by any other security for the Outstanding Indebtedness which may have been, or may at any time hereafter be, given to the Banks (or any of
them) by the Borrower or any other person.
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|3.2 | The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall not be reduced, discharged or otherwise adversely affected by reason of any act, omission, matter or thing (whether or not known to the Guarantor and/or any
Bank) which, but for this provision, might operate to release the Guarantor from all or part of its liability under this Guarantee including, without limitation:
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| | 3.2.1 | any time or indulgence granted to, or composition with, the Borrower or any other person; or
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| | 3.2.2 | any termination, renewal, extension or variation of any credit, accommodation or facility granted by the Banks (or any of them) to the Borrower or any other person or any amendment of, or the making of any supplement
to, any Finance Document or any other document or security; or
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| | 3.2.3 | the taking, variation, compromise, renewal, enforcement, realisation or release of, or refusal or neglect or failure to take, perfect, release or enforce, any rights, remedies or securities against, or granted by, any
Obligor or other person; or
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| | 3.2.4 | any incapacity, disability, or defect in powers of any Obligor or other person, or any irregular exercise thereof by, or lack of authority of, any person purporting to act on behalf of any Obligor or other person; or
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| | 3.2.5 | any illegality, invalidity, avoidance or unenforceability on any grounds whatsoever of, or of any obligations of any Obligor or other person under, any Finance Document or any other document or security; or
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| | 3.2.6 | the death, liquidation, administration, insolvency, amalgamation, reorganisation or dissolution, or any change in the constitution, name or style, of any Obligor, any Bank or any other person.
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|4. | RESTRICTIONS ON GUARANTOR
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|4.1 | Until the moneys and liabilities hereby guaranteed have been paid and discharged in full, the Guarantor shall not be entitled, nor shall the Guarantor claim, by virtue of any payment made by it under this Guarantee:
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| | 4.1.1 | to exercise any right of subrogation or indemnity or any other right or remedy in relation to any rights, security or moneys held by or recovered or receivable by the Security Trustee or any other Bank under the Finance
Documents; or
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| | 4.1.2 | to exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim against the Borrower or any other Obligor; or
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| | 4.1.3 | to exercise any right of contribution from any other Obligor in respect of the Outstanding Indebtedness; or
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| | 4.1.4 | to receive, claim or have the benefit of any payment, distribution or security from the Borrower or any other Obligor; or
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| | 4.1.5 | unless so directed by the Security Trustee (in which case the Guarantor shall prove in accordance with the Security Trustees directions), to rank as a creditor or have any right of proof in the bankruptcy,
liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower or any other Obligor in competition with the Security Trustee.
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|4.2 | The Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that it has not taken, and undertakes that it will not take, without the prior written consent of the Security Trustee (as directed by the Lenders), any security from the
Borrower or any other Obligor in respect of the Guarantors liability under this Guarantee.
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|4.3 | If the Guarantor is required by the Security Trustee to prove in the bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower or any other Obligor, or receives any payment, distribution or security from the Borrower or any
other Obligor, or exercises any right of set-off or counterclaim, or otherwise acts in breach of any provision of this Clause 4, then in each such case the Guarantor shall hold on trust for the Security Trustee and forthwith pay or transfer (as may
be appropriate) to the Security Trustee any such payment, amount set off, distribution or benefit of such security received by it.
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|5. | WAIVER BY GUARANTOR
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The Guarantor hereby waives any rights which the Guarantor may have
to require the Security Trustee first to enforce any of the other Finance Documents or claim payment from the Borrower or any other person, before enforcing any rights of the Security Trustee against the Guarantor under this Guarantee.



|6. | PAYMENTS AND APPLICATION OF FUNDS
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|6.1 | Unless otherwise specified by the Security Trustee, all moneys to be paid by the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall be paid to the Security Trustee in Dollars on the due date and in same day funds to such account as
the Security Trustee may from time to time notify the Guarantor.
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|6.2 | Subject as provided below, all moneys received or recovered by the Security Trustee pursuant to this Guarantee shall be held by it upon trust, in the first place to pay or make good all costs, expenses and liabilities
whatsoever incurred by the Security Trustee in or about or incidental to the recovery of such moneys, and the balance shall be applied in accordance with Clause 7.2 of the Agreement. The Security Trustee may at its discretion place and keep any
moneys so received or recovered to the credit of a suspense account for so long as the Security Trustee may think fit with a view to preserving the rights of the Security Trustee to prove for the whole of its claims against the Borrower or other
person liable.
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|6.3 | The Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any rights of appropriation to which it may be entitled.
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|7. | NO SET-OFF, COUNTERCLAIM OR TAX DEDUCTION
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|7.1 | All payments to be made by the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall be made without set-off or counterclaim and free and clear of, and without deduction for or on account of, any present or future taxes, unless the
Guarantor is compelled by law to make payment subject to any such tax.
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|7.2 | If the Guarantor is compelled by law to make payment subject to such taxes, the Guarantor will:
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| | 7.2.1 | promptly notify the Security Trustee upon becoming aware of such requirement;
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| | 7.2.2 | pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises;
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| | 7.2.3 | pay the Security Trustee such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the Security Trustee or (if the payment is not due to the Security Trustee for its own account) the Bank beneficially interested in the
payment (the relevant recipient) receives a net amount equal to the full amount which it would have received had such tax deduction not been required to be made; and
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| | 7.2.4 | as soon as reasonably practicable after making the relevant tax deduction, deliver to the Security Trustee for forwarding to the relevant recipient a copy of the receipt from the relevant taxation authority evidencing
that the tax had been paid to such authority.
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|7.3 | If, following any such tax deduction as is referred to in Clause 7.2 from any payment by the Guarantor, the relevant recipient shall receive or be granted a credit against or remission for any taxes payable by it, the
relevant recipient shall, subject to the Guarantor having made any increased payment in accordance with Clause 7.2 and to the extent that the relevant recipient can do so without prejudicing the retention of the amount of such credit or remission
and without prejudice to the right of the relevant recipient to obtain any other relief or allowance which may be available to it, reimburse the Guarantor with such amount as the relevant recipient shall in its absolute discretion certify to be the
proportion of such credit or remission as will leave the relevant recipient (after such reimbursement) in no worse position than it would have been in had there been no such deduction or withholding from the payment to the relevant recipient as
aforesaid. Such reimbursement shall be made forthwith upon the relevant recipient certifying that the amount of such credit or remission has been received by it. Nothing contained in this Guarantee shall oblige any Bank to rearrange its tax affairs
or to disclose any information regarding its tax affairs and computations. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Guarantor shall not by virtue of this Clause 7.3 be entitled to enquire about the tax affairs of any Bank.
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|8. | PROVISO TO RELEASE OF THIS GUARANTEE
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|8.1 | Any release, discharge or settlement between the Guarantor and the Security Trustee in relation to this guarantee shall be conditional on no right,
security, disposition or payment to the Banks (or any of them) by the Guarantor, the Borrower or any other person in respect of the Outstanding Indebtedness being avoided, set aside or ordered to be refunded pursuant to any enactment or law relating
to breach of duty by any person, bankruptcy, liquidation, administration, protection from creditors generally or insolvency or for any other reason. If
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Guarantor as if such release, discharge or settlement had not occurred and any such security, disposition or payment had not been made.
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|9. | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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|9.1 | The Guarantor represents and warrants that the following matters are true at the date of this Guarantee.
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|9.2 | The Guarantor:
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| | 9.2.1 | is a limited liability company which is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Norway;
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| | 9.2.2 | has full power to own its property and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted;
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| | 9.2.3 | has complied with all statutory and other requirements relative to its business;
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| | 9.2.4 | is solvent and not in liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in
respect of it or all or any part of its assets.
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|9.3 | The entry into and performance by the Guarantor of this Guarantee are within the corporate powers of the Guarantor and have been duly authorised by all necessary corporate actions and approvals. In entering into this
Guarantee the Guarantor is acting on its own account and not as agent or nominee of any person.
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|9.4 | The entry into and performance by the Guarantor of this Guarantee do not and will not:
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| | 9.4.1 | contravene in any respect the constitutional documents of the Guarantor or any law, regulation or contractual restriction which does, or may, bind the Guarantor or any of its assets; or
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| | 9.4.2 | result in the creation or imposition of any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance) on any of its assets in favour of any party.
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|9.5 | All licences, authorisations, approvals and consents necessary for the entry into, performance, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Guarantee have been obtained and are in full force and effect
and there has been no breach of any condition or restriction imposed in this respect.
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|9.6 | This Guarantee constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Guarantor enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except insofar as enforcement may be limited by any applicable laws
relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, administration and similar laws affecting creditors rights generally.
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|9.7 | No litigation, arbitration, tax claim or administrative proceeding is current or pending or (to the knowledge of the Guarantor) threatened, which, if adversely determined, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
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|9.8 | No continuing Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred.
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|9.9 | All factual information furnished in writing to any Bank by or on behalf of the Guarantor in connection with the negotiation and preparation of the Finance Documents was (when given) true and correct in all material
respects and there are no other facts or considerations the omission of which would render any such information materially misleading.
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|9.10 | All payments to be made by the Guarantor under this Guarantee may be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for or on account of any taxes, and this Guarantee is not liable to any registration
charge or any stamp, documentary or similar taxes imposed by any authority, including without limitation, in connection with the admissibility in evidence of any thereof.
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|9.11 | The Guarantor has complied in all material respects with all relevant tax laws and regulations applicable to it and its business.
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|9.12 | All of the issued shares in the share capital of the Guarantor are wholly owned, legally and beneficially, directly or indirectly by the Parent Guarantor.
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|9.13 | The payment obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law
applying to companies generally.
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|9.14 | The Guarantor has received a copy of the Agreement and is familiar with and has approved its terms and conditions.
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|9.15 | The Guarantor agrees that the representations set out in this Clause 9 (other than the ones in Clauses 9.5, 9.7, 9.8 and 9.10) shall survive the execution of this Guarantee and shall be deemed to be repeated on each
Interest Date with reference to the facts and circumstances then subsisting, as if made on such date.
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|10. | UNDERTAKINGS
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|10.1 | The undertakings in this Clause 10 shall remain in force from the date of this Guarantee to the end of the Security Period.
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|10.2 | The Guarantor shall:
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| | 10.2.1 | procure the performance and observance by the Borrower of the covenants and obligations imposed upon it under the Finance Documents;
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| | 10.2.2 | maintain its corporate existence as a limited liability company duly organised, validly existing and in good standing in Norway;
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| | 10.2.3 | obtain and maintain in force, and promptly furnish certified copies to the Security Trustee of, all licences, authorisations, approvals and consents, and do all other acts and things, which may from time to time be
necessary or desirable for the continued due performance of its obligations under this Guarantee or which may be required for the validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Guarantee;
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| | 10.2.4 | ensure that its obligations under this Guarantee rank at least pari passu with all its other present, future and/or contingent unsecured and unsubordinated obligations;
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| | 10.2.5 | conduct its business in a proper and efficient manner and not change the nature, organisation or conduct of its business;
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| | 10.2.6 | pay all taxes, assessments and other governmental charges as they fall due, except to the extent that it is contesting the same in good faith by appropriate proceedings and has set aside adequate reserves for their
payment if such proceedings fail;
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| | 10.2.7 | keep proper books of account in respect of its business in accordance with GAAP consistently applied and whenever so requested by the Security Trustee make the same available for inspection by or on behalf of the Agent;
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| | 10.2.8 | inform the Security Trustee promptly of any litigation, arbitration, tax claim or administrative proceeding instituted or (to its knowledge) threatened and of any other occurrence of which it becomes aware which, in any
such case, might have a Material Adverse Effect;
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| | 10.2.9 | promptly after the happening of any Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default, notify the Security Trustee of such event and of the steps (if any) which are being taken to remedy it;
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| | 10.2.10 | promptly provide the Security Trustee with such financial and other information concerning the Group and its affairs as the Security Trustee may from time to time require; and
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| | 10.2.11 | ensure that the Borrower remains its wholly-owned subsidiary.
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|10.3 | The Guarantor shall not without the prior consent of the Security Trustee (as directed by the Lenders):
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| | 10.3.1 | consolidate, amalgamate or merge with any other entity;
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| | 10.3.2 | alter or extend its financial year for the purposes of the preparation of its accounts, or change its auditors; or
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| | 10.3.3 | undertake any transaction with any person, company or other entity which is an affiliate of the Guarantor unless such transaction is conducted at arms length on normal commercial terms.
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|11. | INDEMNITIES AND EXPENSES
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|11.1 | The Guarantor shall pay to the Security Trustee on demand, and indemnify and keep each Bank indemnified against, all costs, charges, expenses, claims, liabilities, losses, duties and fees (including, but not limited to,
legal fees and expenses on a full indemnity basis) and taxes thereon suffered or incurred by the Security Trustee:
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| | 11.1.1 | in the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and registration of this Guarantee and the other Security Documents;
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| | 11.1.2 | in the enforcement or preservation or the attempted enforcement or preservation of any of the rights and powers of the Security Trustee under this Guarantee or of the security constituted by the Security Documents;
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| | 11.1.3 | in connection with any actual or proposed amendment or release of or supplement to this Guarantee, or with any request to the Security Trustee to grant any consent or waiver in respect of any provision of this
Guarantee, whether or not the same is given;
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| | 11.1.4 | arising out of any act or omission made by the Banks (or any of them) in good faith in connection with any of the matters dealt with in this Guarantee.
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|11.2 | The Guarantor shall pay any and all stamp, documentary, registration and like taxes or charges imposed by governmental authorities in relation to this Guarantee and shall indemnify each Bank against any and all
liabilities with respect to, or resulting from, delay or omission on the part of the Guarantor to pay such taxes or charges.
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|11.3 | If any sum due from the Guarantor 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 making or filing a claim or proof against the Guarantor or obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in
relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings, the Guarantor shall as an independent obligation, within 3 Banking Days of demand, indemnify each Bank 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 (a) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange available to that Bank at the time of its receipt
of that Sum.
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|11.4 | The indemnities contained in the Finance Documents shall continue in full force and effect after the full and final discharge of the Outstanding Indebtedness with respect to matters arising prior to such discharge.
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|12. | ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS
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|12.1 | This Guarantee shall be binding upon the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Security Trustee and the other Banks.
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|12.2 | The Guarantor may not assign or transfer all or any of its rights, benefits or obligations under this Guarantee.
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|12.3 | Any Bank may freely assign or transfer or sub-participate all or any of its rights, benefits or obligations under this Guarantee in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Agreement as if the same were, mutatis
mutandis, set out in full in this Guarantee.
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|12.4 | Any Bank may disclose to any potential transferee, assignee or sub-participant, or to any other party with whom it may propose to enter into contractual relations in connection with this Guarantee, such information
about the Guarantor and its business, assets or financial condition as that Bank shall consider appropriate.
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|12.5 | Any Bank may at any time and from time to time change its lending office and/or delegate any one or more of its rights, powers and/or obligations under this Guarantee to any person.
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|12.6 | The Guarantor undertakes to do or to procure all such acts and things and to sign, execute and deliver or procure the signing, execution and delivery of all such instruments and documents as the Security Trustee may
reasonably require for the purpose of perfecting any such assignment, transfer, sub-participation, change or delegation as aforesaid.
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|12.7 | Without prejudice to Clause 12.6, the Guarantor irrevocably authorises the Agent to sign any Transfer Certificate on its behalf.
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|13. | SET-OFF
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|13.1 | A Bank may set off any matured obligation due from the Guarantor under this Guarantee (to the extent beneficially owned by that Bank) against any matured obligation owed by that Bank to the Guarantor, regardless of the
place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Bank may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.
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|14. | MISCELLANEOUS
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|14.1 | No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the Security Trustee, any right or remedy under this Guarantee shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right
or remedy prevent any further or other exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Guarantee are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
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|14.2 | Any waiver by the Security Trustee of any provision of this Guarantee, and any consent or approval given by the Security Trustee hereunder, shall only be effective if given in writing and then only strictly for the
purpose and upon the terms for which it is given. This Guarantee may not be amended or varied orally but only by an instrument signed by or on behalf of each of the parties hereto.
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|14.3 | If at any time one or more of the provisions of this Guarantee is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any law by which it may be governed or affected, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be in any way affected or impaired as a result.
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|14.4 | This Guarantee may be executed in any number of counterparts and all such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute but one and the same instrument.
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|14.5 | A certificate or determination by the Security Trustee or any other Bank as to the amount of the Outstanding Indebtedness or any part thereof, without limitation as to any other matter provided for in this Guarantee or
the other Security Documents, shall (save in case of manifest error) for all purposes be conclusive and binding upon the Guarantor.
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|14.6 | The Guarantor shall, upon demand, and at its own expense, sign, perfect, do, execute and register all such further assurances, documents, acts and things as the Security Trustee may require for the purpose of more
effectually accomplishing or perfecting the transaction or security contemplated by this Guarantee.
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|15. | NOTICES
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|15.1 | All notices (which expression includes any demand, request, consent or other communication) to be given by one party to the other under this Guarantee shall be in writing and (unless delivered personally) shall be given
by telefax or first class pre-paid post (airmail if sent internationally) and be addressed:
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| | 15.1.1 | in the case of the Security Trustee, to it at:
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|                  |  |                    
|----------------- |  | -------------------
|Lars Hillesgt. 30
|N-5020 Bergen    
|Norway           
|                  | 
|Telefax No:       |  | +47 55 21 19 24    
|Attn:             |  | Shipping Department



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| | 15.1.2 | in the case of the Guarantor, to it at:
| | ------ | ---------------------------------------



|               |  |                
|-------------- |  | ---------------
|Smedasundet 40
|5529 Haugesund
|Norway        
|               | 
|Telefax No:    |  | +47 52 70 40 40
|Attn:          |  | Trygve Seglem  

or to such other address and/or number as is notified by one party to the other under this Guarantee.



|15.2 | Notices addressed as provided above shall be deemed to have been duly given when despatched (in the case of telefax), when delivered (in the case of personal delivery), 2 days after posting (in the case of letters sent
within the same country), or 5 days after posting (in the case of letters sent internationally), provided that any notice to the Security Trustee shall be effective only upon its actual receipt by the Security Trustee and then only if it is
expressly marked for the attention of the relevant department or officer named above (or any substitute from time to time notified by the Security Trustee). In each of the above cases any notice received on a non-working day or after business hours
in the country of receipt shall be deemed to be given at the opening of business hours on the next working day in such country.
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|15.3 | All notices and documents to be given or delivered pursuant to or otherwise in relation to this Guarantee shall be in the English language or be accompanied by a certified English translation.
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|16. | APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
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|16.1 | This Guarantee and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
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|16.2 | The Guarantor hereby irrevocably agrees for the exclusive benefit of the Security Trustee that the English courts shall have jurisdiction in relation to any dispute and any suit, action or proceeding (referred to
together in this Clause 16 as Proceedings) which may arise out of or in connection with this Guarantee and/or any of the other Finance Documents to which the Guarantor may be party, and for such purposes irrevocably submits to the
jurisdiction of such courts.
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|16.3 | The Guarantor hereby irrevocably agrees:
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| | 16.3.1 | that, for the purpose of Proceedings in England, any legal process may be served upon SH Process Agents Limited whose registered office is presently at 1 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7SH (Ref: 748/47-03533) who are
hereby authorised to accept service on behalf of the Guarantor, which shall be deemed to be good service on the Guarantor; and
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| | 16.3.2 | that throughout the Security Period the Guarantor will maintain a duly appointed process agent in England, duly notified to the Security Trustee, and that failure by any such process agent to give notice thereof to the
Guarantor shall not impair the validity of such service or of a judgment or order based thereon.
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|16.4 | Nothing in this Clause 16 shall affect the right of the Security Trustee to serve process in any manner permitted by law or limit the right of the Security Trustee to take Proceedings against the Guarantor in any other
court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the taking of Proceedings in one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of Proceedings by the Security Trustee in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.
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The Guarantor shall not commence any Proceedings in any country other than England in relation to any matter arising out of or in connection
with this Guarantee and/or any of the other Security Documents.



|16.5 | The Guarantor irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have on the grounds of inconvenient forum or otherwise to Proceedings being brought in any such court as is referred to in this Clause 16, and
further irrevocably agrees that a judgment or order in any Proceedings brought in the English courts shall be conclusive and binding upon the Guarantor and may be enforced without review in the courts of any other jurisdiction.
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|16.6 | The Guarantor consents generally in respect of any Proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Guarantee and/or any of the other Finance Documents to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process in
connection with such Proceedings, including, without limitation, the making, enforcement or execution against any property or assets whatsoever of any order or judgment which may be made or given in such Proceedings.
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IN WITNESS of which the parties to this Guarantee have executed this Guarantee as a deed the day and year first before written.



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|                                     |  |   |  |                          
|------------------------------------ |  | - |  | -------------------------
|SIGNED AND DELIVERED as aDEED        |  | ) |  |                          
|by                                   |  | ) |  |                          
|duly authorised for and on behalf of |  | ) |  | /s/ BJØRN SANDE URTEGAARD
|KNOT SHUTTLE TANKERS AS              |  | ) |  | Bjørn Sande Urtegaard    
|in the presence of:                  |  | ) |  | Attorney-in-fact         
|                                     |  |  
|Signature:                           |  |   |  |                          
|                                     |  |  
|/s/ ERIK HOFFMANN-DAHL               |  |   |  |                          
|Name:                                |  |   |  |                          
|Erik Hoffmann-Dahl                   |  |   |  |                          
|Occupation:                          |  |   |  |                          
|Associate                            |  |   |  |                          
|Address: Olav Kyrresgt. 11 Norway    |  |   |  |                          
|                                     |  |  
|SIGNED AND DELIVERED as a DEED       |  | ) |  |                          
|by                                   |  | ) |  |                          
|duly authorised for and on behalf of |  | ) |  | /s/ CHRISTIAN FRIIS      
|DNB BANK ASA                         |  | ) |  | Christian Friis          
|in the presence of:                  |  | ) |  | Attorney-in-fact         
|                                     |  |  
|Signature:                           |  |   |  |                          
|                                     |  |  
|/s/ ERIK HOFFMANN-DAHL               |  |   |  |                          
|Name:                                |  |   |  |                          
|Erik Hoffmann-Dahl                   |  |   |  |                          
|Occupation:                          |  |   |  |                          
|Associate                            |  |   |  |                          
|Address: Olav Kyrresgt. 11 Norway    |  |   |  |                          



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