Exhibit 10.16


    SECOND
      AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

    


    This
      Second Amendment (the "Second Amendment") to that certain employment agreement
      (the "Agreement") dated effective January 1, 2006 by and between Westside
      Energy
      Corporation (the "Company") and Douglas G. Manner (“Manner”) is made and entered
      into as of the 4th
      day of
      April, 2007, but effective as of the 1st
      day of
January,
      2007
      by and
      between the Company and Manner. All capitalized, undefined terms used herein
      shall have the respective meanings given to such terms in the
      Agreement.

    


    Recitals

    


    WHEREAS,
      the Agreement was entered into effective January 1, 2006; and 

    


    WHEREAS,
      the Agreement was first amended effective March 31, 2006 by an instrument
      entitled “FIRST AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT” (for purposes of the
      remainder of this Second Amendment, the term “Agreement” shall mean the
      Agreement as heretofore amended by said First Amendment); and

    


    WHEREAS,
      the
      Company and Manner desire to amend the Agreement upon the terms, provisions
      and
      conditions set forth hereinafter;

    


    Agreement

    


    NOW,
      THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements of the
      Company and Manner to amend the Agreement, the Company and Manner agree as
      follows: 

    


    1. Amendment
      to the Agreement.
      The
      Agreement is hereby amended so that the annual
      salary rate provided for thereunder is increased from $175,000 to
      $275,000.

    


    2. Miscellaneous.
      Except
      as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Agreement is not amended, modified
      or affected by this Second Amendment. Except as expressly set forth herein,
      all
      of the terms, conditions, covenants, representations, warranties and all other
      provisions of the Agreement are herein ratified and confirmed and shall remain
      in full force and effect. On and after the date on which this Second Amendment
      becomes effective, the terms, "Agreement," "hereof," "herein," "hereunder"
      and
      terms of like import, when used herein or in the Agreement shall, except where
      the context otherwise requires, refer to the Agreement, as amended by this
      Second Amendment. This Second Amendment may be executed into one or more
      counterparts, and it shall not be necessary that the signatures of all parties
      hereto be contained on any one counterpart hereof; each counterpart shall be
      deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the
      same
      instrument.

    


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    IN
      WITNESS WHEREOF, this Second Amendment to the Agreement is adopted as of the
      4th
      day of
      April, 2007, but effective as of the 1st
      day of
January,
      2007.
      

    


    "COMPANY"
            "MANNER"

    


    WESTSIDE
      ENERGY CORPORATION

    


    


    By:_________________________________  ____________________________________

    Douglas
      G. Manner 

    Name:______________________________         

    Title:_______________________________