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                                                                  EXHIBIT 10.44

                             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE


         SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this "Supplemental Indenture"), dated as of
March 11, 1999 among HS RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
and HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, an Illinois banking corporation, as trustee
under the Indenture referred to below (the "Trustee").

                              W I T N E S S E T H :


         WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the
Trustee an Indenture (as amended from time to time, the "Indenture"), dated as
of November 27, 1996, providing for the issuance of $150,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of 9-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2006;


         WHEREAS, effective December 31, 1998, the Company changed its method of
accounting from the full cost method to the successful efforts method. Two
changes to the Indenture need to be made in order that the Indenture operate
materially as originally intended under the Company's new method of accounting.


         WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee and the
Company are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;


         NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company
and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of
the holders of the Securities as follows:


         1.        Definitions.


                   (a) Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.


                   (b) For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, except
as otherwise herein expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) the terms and expressions used herein shall have the same meanings as
corresponding terms and expressions used in the Indenture; and (ii) the words
"herein," "hereof" and "hereby" and other words of similar import used in this
Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not
to any particular section hereof.







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         2.       Consolidated Net Income.  The definition of Consolidated Net 
Income shall read as follows; with the change indicated by underline:

                  "Consolidated Net Income" of any Person means, for any period,
         the aggregate net income (or net loss, as the case may be) of such
         Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a
         consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that
         there shall be excluded therefrom, without duplication, (i) items
         classified as extraordinary (other than the tax benefit of the
         utilization of net operating loss carry-forwards and alternative
         minimum tax credits); (ii) any gain or loss, net of taxes, on the sale
         or other disposition of assets (including the Capital Stock of any
         other Person) in excess of $1,000,000, from any sale or disposition or
         series of related sales or dispositions (but in no event shall this
         clause (ii) apply to the sale of oil and gas inventories in the
         ordinary course of business); (iii) the net income of any Subsidiary of
         such specified Person to the extent the transfer to that Person of that
         income is restricted by contract or otherwise, except for any cash
         dividends or cash distributions actually paid by such Subsidiary to
         such Person during such period; (iv) the net income (or net loss) of
         any other Person in which such specified Person or any of its
         Restricted Subsidiaries has an ownership interest (which ownership
         interest does not cause the net income of such other Person to be
         consolidated with the net income of such specified Person in accordance
         with GAAP or is an interest in a consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiary),
         except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other cash
         distributions actually paid to such Person or its Restricted
         Subsidiaries by such other Person during such period; (v) the net
         income (or net loss) of any Person acquired by such specified Person or
         any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in a pooling-of-interests
         transaction for any period prior to the date of such acquisition; (vi)
         any gain or loss, net of taxes, realized on the termination of any
         employee pension benefit plan; (vii) any adjustments of a deferred tax
         liability or asset pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting
         Standards No. 109 which result from changes in enacted tax laws or
         rates; (viii) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting
         principles; and (ix) any reduction for exploratory and abandonment
         costs and geological and geophysical costs, net of the income tax
         effect reflecting the income tax rate in the Company's financial
         statements for the applicable period.


         3.       EBITDA.  The definition of EBITDA shall read as follows, with
the change indicated by strikethrough:

                "EBITDA" means with respect to any Person for any period, the
         Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its consolidated Restricted
         Subsidiaries for such period, plus (i) the sum of, to the extent
         reflected in the consolidated income statement of such Person and its
         Restricted Subsidiaries for such period from which Consolidated Net
         Income is determined and deducted in the determination of such
         Consolidated Net Income, without duplication, (A) 


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         income tax expense (but excluding income tax expense relating to (1)
         sales or other disposition of assets (including the Capital Stock of
         any other Person) resulting in a net gain in excess of $1,000,000 and
         (2) the redemption or retirement of any Indebtedness prior to its
         Stated Maturity), (B) Consolidated Interest Expenses, (C) depreciation
         and depletion expense, (D) amortization expense, (E) any loss, net of
         taxes, in connection with the redemption or retirement of any
         Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity, and (F) any other noncash
         charges, including, without limitation, unrealized foreign exchange
         losses; less (ii) the sum of, to the extent reflected in the
         consolidated income statement of such Person and its Restricted
         Subsidiaries for such period from which Consolidated Net Income is
         determined and added in the determination of such Consolidate Net
         Income, without duplication, (A) income tax recovery (but excluding
         income tax recovery relating to (1) sales or other dispositions of
         assets (including the Capital Stock of any other Person) resulting in a
         net loss in excess of $1,000,000 and (2) the redemption or retirement
         of any Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity), (B) any gain, net of
         taxes, in connection with the redemption or retirement of any
         Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity and (C) unrealized foreign
         exchange gains.

         4.Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT
GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT
THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

         5. Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this 
Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them 
together represent the same agreement.

         6. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience
only and shall not effect the construction thereof.


         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.


                                  HS RESOURCES, INC.



                                  By:
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                                     Name:  James E. Duffy
                                     Title: Chief Financial Officer


                                  HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, as Trustee



                                  By:
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                                     Name:  Daniel G. Donovan
                                     Title: Assistant Vice President


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