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PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
                                       OF
                                DDJET Limited LLP

                                December 15, 2006

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ARTICLE I       DEFINED TERMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    1

    Section 1.1.     Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    1

    Section 1.2.     References, Gender, Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   17

ARTICLE II      ORGANIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   17

    Section 2.1.     Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   17

    Section 2.2.     Name; Registered Office; Principal Place of Business. . . . .   17

    Section 2.3.     Purposes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   18

    Section 2.4.     Term. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   18

    Section 2.5.     Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   18

    Section 2.6.     Insurance or Financial Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . .   18

ARTICLE III     PARTNERSHIP SHARES; CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS; AND
                FUNDING MATTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   19

    Section 3.1.     Partnership Shares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   19

    Section 3.2.     Capital Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   24

    Section 3.3.     Capital Contribution Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   25

    Section 3.4.     Contribution Loans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   30

    Section 3.5.     Optional Initial Funding of Acquisitions. . . . . . . . . . .   31

    Section 3.6.     Special Warranties, Assumptions, Indemnities, Limitations and
                     Disclaimers regarding Contributed Assets. . . . . . . . . . .   32

    Section 3.7.     Prior Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   35

    Section 3.8.     True-up of Pre-Formation Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   36

ARTICLE IV      PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   36

    Section 4.1.     Partnership Share of Production and Distributions . . . . . .   36

    Section 4.2.     Application to Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   38

    Section 4.3.     Distributions of Partnership Assets In Kind . . . . . . . . .   38

    Section 4.4.     DFW Reversionary Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   39

ARTICLE V       CAPITAL ACCOUNTS AND TAX MATTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   40

    Section 5.1.     Tax Matters Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   40

    Section 5.2.     Income Tax Compliance and Capital Accounts. . . . . . . . . .   41

    Section 5.3.     Tax and FMV Capital Account Elections . . . . . . . . . . . .   42

    Section 5.4.     FMV Capital Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   43

    Section 5.5.     Partnership Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   44

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ARTICLE VI      MANAGEMENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   45

    Section 6.1.     Partnership Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   45

    Section 6.2.     Management Committee; General Partner's Duties. . . . . . . .   45

    Section 6.3.     Management Committee Representatives and Alternates . . . . .   46

    Section 6.4.     Chairman and Deputy Chairman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   47

    Section 6.5.     Quorum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   47

    Section 6.6.     Voting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   47

    Section 6.7.     Meetings of Management Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   48

    Section 6.8.     Votes Without a Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   49

    Section 6.9.     Project Manager, Staff and Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . .   49

    Section 6.10.    Programs and Budgets; Acquisitions; Operations. . . . . . . .   51

    Section 6.11.    Matters Requiring Unanimous Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . .   53

ARTICLE VII     OPERATIONS AND SERVICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   54

    Section 7.1.     Operating Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   54

    Section 7.2.     Duties of General Partner as Operator . . . . . . . . . . . .   54

    Section 7.3.     Standard of Responsibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   56

    Section 7.4.     Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   57

    Section 7.5.     Conflicts with Operating Agreement Terms. . . . . . . . . . .   57

    Section 7.6.     Service Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58

    Section 7.7.     Maintenance of Private Line Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58

    Section 7.8.     Local Government Approvals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58

ARTICLE VIII    PARTNERSHIP FUNDS AND EXPENDITURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58

    Section 8.1.     Operating Area Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58

    Section 8.2.     Bank Accounts; Investment of Funds. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   60

    Section 8.3.     Cash Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   60

ARTICLE IX      BOOKS AND RECORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   61

    Section 9.1.     Book and Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   61

    Section 9.2.     Audits, Adjustments and Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . .   61

    Section 9.3.     Fiscal Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   62

    Section 9.4.     Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   62

ARTICLE X       COMPETITION; INDEMNIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   63

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    Section 10.1.    Other Business of Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   63

    Section 10.2.    Third Party Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   63

    Section 10.3.    Indemnification and Defense Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . .   63

ARTICLE XI      AREA OF INTEREST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   66

ARTICLE XII     DISPOSITION OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   67

    Section 12.1.    Restrictions on Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   67

    Section 12.2.    Additional and Substituted Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . .   67

    Section 12.3.    Partnership Interest Transferred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   67

    Section 12.4.    Preferential Right to Purchase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   68

ARTICLE XIII    WINDING UP AND LIQUIDATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   70

    Section 13.1.    Winding Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   70

    Section 13.2.    Continuation of Partnership; Option Regarding Bankrupt Partner  71

    Section 13.3.    Priority of Distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   73

    Section 13.4.    Liquidation of Partnership Business . . . . . . . . . . . . .   74

    Section 13.5.    Certificate of Termination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   76

ARTICLE XIV     CONFIDENTIALITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   76

    Section 14.1.    Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   76

    Section 14.2.    News Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   76

ARTICLE XV      MISCELLANEOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77

    Section 15.1.    Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77

    Section 15.2.    Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77

    Section 15.3.    Entire Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77

    Section 15.4.    Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77

    Section 15.5.    Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   78

    Section 15.6.    Headings; Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   78

    Section 15.7.    Amendments and Waivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   78

    Section 15.8.    Exhibits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   78

    Section 15.9.    Agreement for the Partners' Benefit Only. . . . . . . . . . .   78

    Section 15.10.   Severability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   79

    Section 15.11.   Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   79

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    Section 15.12.   Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   80

    Section 15.13.   Business Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   80

    Section 15.14.   Affiliates of Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   80

    Section 15.15.   Determination of FMV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   80
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                              ANNEXES AND EXHIBITS

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ANNEX A    INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS
EXHIBIT A  CONTRACT AREA
EXHIBIT B  INITIAL LEASES
EXHIBIT C  INITIAL PIPELINE ASSETS
EXHIBIT D  INITIAL BUDGET
EXHIBIT E  THE OPERATING AGREEMENT TERMS
EXHIBIT F  HARDING ENERGY SERVICE CONTRACT
EXHIBIT G  CARRIED ACQUISITION FINANCING CONDITIONS
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                              PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
                                       OF
                                DDJET Limited LLP

     THIS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT OF DDJET Limited LLP, dated as of December 15,
2006, is by and between Metroplex Barnett Shale LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, as General Partner ("Metroplex"), Cinco County Barnett Shale,
LLC, a Texas limited liability company, as a Limited Partner ("Cinco County"),
and Barnett Petrosearch, L.L.C., a Texas limited liability company, as a Limited
Partner ("Petrosearch").

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     WHEREAS,  the  Partners  desire  to  form  the  Partnership (i) to acquire,
explore,  develop,  own and operate Hydrocarbon Interests in portions of Collin,
Dallas,  Denton,  Ellis,  Hill,  Johnson,  Navarro  and Tarrant Counties, Texas,
covering  the areas expressly identified on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a
part  hereof  for  all  purposes  (the  "Contract  Area")  and  (ii) to acquire,
construct,  own  and  operate pipeline assets for the evacuation of hydrocarbons
produced  from  the  Hydrocarbon  Interests  of  the  Partnership;

     WHEREAS,  Metroplex,  Cinco  County  and  Petrosearch  each  own  certain
Hydrocarbon  Interests  which  each wishes to contribute to the Partnership, and
Metroplex  owns  certain  pipeline  assets  which it wishes to contribute to the
Partnership;

     WHEREAS,  in  furtherance of the foregoing, the Partners desire to form the
Partnership  as  a limited partnership and a limited liability partnership under
the  Laws of the State of Texas for the purposes and on the terms and conditions
herein  provided;

                                    AGREEMENT
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     NOW  THEREFORE,  in  consideration  of the mutual promises made herein, the
Partners,  intending  to  be  legally  bound,  hereby  agree  as  follows:

                                    ARTICLE I
                                  DEFINED TERMS
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     Section  1.1.  Definitions.  The  defined  terms  used  in  this  Agreement
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(including  the recitals) shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the
meanings  specified  in  this Article I, with each such definition being equally
applicable  both  to  the singular and the plural forms of the terms so defined.

     "Accounting  Procedure"  means  the  Accounting  Procedure  attached to and
included  in  the  Operating  Agreement  Terms.

     "Act" means the Texas Limited Partnership Law, a Part of the Texas Business
Organization  Code,  as  amended.

     "Additional  Contributions"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in
Section  3.2(c).

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     "AFE"  means  an authorization for expenditure setting forth the reasonably
estimated  and  itemized  costs  and  expenses  of  a  proposed  operation.

     "Affiliate" with respect to:

     (a)  Cinco County, shall mean (i) a Person that Controls, is Controlled by,
          or is under common Control with Cinco County and (ii) any Cinco County
          Executive  Officer;

     (b)  Petrosearch,  shall mean (i) a Person that Controls, is Controlled by,
          or  is  under common Control with Petrosearch and (ii) any Petrosearch
          Executive  Officer;

     (c)  Metroplex,  shall mean a Person that Controls, is Controlled by, or is
          under  common  Control  with  Metroplex;  and

     (d)  any other Person, shall mean a Person that Controls, is Controlled by,
          or  is  under  common  Control  with  such  other  Person.

No  Person shall be deemed an Affiliate of any Partner by reason of the exercise
or existence of rights, interests or remedies under this Agreement. For purposes
of  Section  6.10(b) and Articles XI and XIV, (i) an "Affiliate" of Cinco County
and any of its successors or assigns hereunder shall also include (1) any Person
that,  directly  or  indirectly,  owns a 10% or greater equity, profits, income,
revenue  or similar interest in Cinco County or any of its successors or assigns
hereunder,  (2) Harding Company, a Texas corporation, and (3) Harding Energy and
(ii)  an  "Affiliate"  of  Petrosearch  and  any  of  its  successors or assigns
hereunder shall also include any Person that, directly or indirectly, owns a 10%
or  greater  equity, profits, income, revenue or similar interest in Petrosearch
or  any  of  its  successors  or  assigns  hereunder.

     "Agreed  Rate"  with  respect  to  any  calendar  month,  means a per annum
interest  rate  equal  to the lesser of (i) the LIBOR Rate in effect on the last
day  of  such calendar month (or the previous banking day if the last day of the
calendar  month  is not a banking day) plus 6-1/2% or (ii) the maximum amount of
interest  allowed  by  Law.

     "Agreement"  means  this Partnership Agreement of DDJET Limited LLP, as the
same  may from time to time be amended upon the written consent of all Partners.

     "Application"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  such  term in Section 2.5.

     "Appraiser"  means  a  nationally  recognized  independent  appraisal  firm
recognized  as  expert  in  rendering  valuation  opinions  on  the  assets  or
transactions  for  which  the  appraisal  is  sought.

     "Assumed  Environmental  Liabilities"  means  all  Costs  of Compliance and
Environmental  Liabilities,  other  than the Retained Environmental Liabilities.

     "Assumed  Liabilities"  means  (i)  all  Liabilities which accrue after the
Effective  Date in connection with the ownership or operation of the Contributed
Assets,  including all obligations of the Contributing Partner or its Affiliates
which  arise  or  accrue  under  the  Hydrocarbon

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Interests  and  all  contracts  included  in  the  Contributed  Assets, (ii) all
Post-Effective  Date  Liabilities,  and  (iii)  all  Assumed  Environmental
Liabilities.  If  a  portion  of  the  Contributed  Assets  reverts  back to the
Contributing  Partner  or  is  distributed  (or deemed distributed) in kind to a
Partner  pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, then the "Assumed Liabilities"
with  respect to such reverted or distributed (or deemed distributed) portion of
the  Contributed  Assets  shall be limited to those Assumed Liabilities that (a)
accrue  after  the  Effective  Date  and  before such portion of the Contributed
Assets reverts or is distributed (or deemed distributed) in kind to a Partner or
(b)  are incurred or imposed as a result of injury, death or damage to person or
property  occurring  after  the  Effective  Date  and before such portion of the
Contributed  Assets reverts or is distributed (or deemed distributed) in kind to
a  Partner.

     "Bankrupt  Partner"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in Section
13.2(b).

     "Bankruptcy  Option  Period"  shall  have the meaning given to such term in
Section  13.2(b).

     "BIPL  Option"  means the Partnership's contractual option right to acquire
an  undivided  interest  in  the  ROW and to build a single natural gas pipeline
within  the  ROW on the terms and subject to the conditions provided in the BIPL
Option  Agreement.

     "BIPL  Option  Agreement"  means  that certain Option Agreement between the
Partnership  and  Metroplex, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H, which the
Partnership  and  Metroplex  agree  to  execute  within  5  Business Days hereof
pursuant  to which Metroplex shall grant to the Partnership the option to elect,
within  a  period  of  three (3) years from the date of this Agreement, to lay a
single  natural  gas pipeline within that portion of the right-of-way associated
with  the BIPL Pipeline that extends from the fence line on the southern side of
the  ExxonMobil  Irving  Terminal  to  the  point  of intersection of the Keller
Pipeline  with said BIPL Pipeline (such portion being referred to as the "ROW");
provided,  however,  that  (i) the Partnership shall have such right only to the
extent  the  ROW has and includes validly existing multiple line rights and such
multiple  line rights permit the owner of the ROW to assign to Metroplex (or its
Affiliate or the Partnership), and permit Metroplex (or its Affiliate) to assign
to  the  Partnership,  an  undivided  portion  of  ROW  without  any  further or
additional  compensation  or  obligations  to  (or  consent  or approval of) any
landowner  or  grantor  of all or any part of the ROW and (ii) the assignment of
such  undivided interest to the Partnership shall not include any interest in or
right  to  use  any other pipelines, fixtures, improvements, equipment, personal
property  or  other facilities that are currently located within the ROW or that
the  owner  of  the  BIPL  Pipeline or its successors or assigns (other than the
Partnership) may hereafter build, install or otherwise place within the ROW. The
terms  for  exercise  of this option, the terms regarding the portion of the ROW
that  the  Partnership will be permitted to use, and the rules, restrictions and
responsibilities  regarding  multiple party use of the ROW are set forth in said
Option  Agreement.

     "BIPL  Pipeline"  means  EMPCo's  Baytown  to  Irving  Pipeline.

     "Business  Day"  means  any  day  which  is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal
holiday  recognized by the government of the State of Texas or the government of
the  United  States  of  America.

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     "Capital  Transaction"  means  any  transaction  that  results  in  the
Partnership's  receipt  of  cash  or  other  consideration  other  than  capital
contributions, including proceeds of sales or exchanges or other dispositions of
property  not  in  the ordinary course of business, condemnations, recoveries of
damage  awards,  and  insurance  proceeds  that,  in  accordance  with generally
accepted  accounting  principles,  are  considered  capital  in  nature.

     "Carried  Acquisition" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.5.

     "Carried  Acquisition  Financing  Conditions" shall mean those covenants of
Cinco  County and other terms and conditions as set forth in Exhibit G which are
applicable  to  the financing of Carried Acquisitions by Metroplex under Section
3.5  and  are  conditions  to  the  option  under  Section  3.1(c).

     "Carried Acquisition Repayment Amount" shall have the meaning given to such
term  in  Section  3.5.

     "Certificate"  means the certificate of formation filed pursuant to the Act
by the General Partner with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas to form
the  Partnership  as a limited partnership, as such certificate of formation may
be  amended  from  time  to  time.

     "Chairman"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such term in Section 6.4.

     "Change  of  Control"  with  respect  to a Person, shall mean any direct or
indirect  change  in  Control  of  that  Person (whether through merger, sale of
shares  or other equity interests, or otherwise) through a single transaction or
series  of  related  transactions,  from  one or more transferors to one or more
transferees;  provided, however, that (i) a reduction in ownership of the Voting
Stock of a Person from more than fifty percent (50%) of the Voting Stock of such
Person  to  fifty  percent  (50%)  of  the Voting Stock of such Person shall not
constitute  a Change of Control of such Person and (ii) an increase in ownership
of  the  Voting Stock of a Person from fifty percent (50%) or less of the Voting
Stock  of  such  Person  to more than fifty percent (50%) of the Voting Stock of
such Person shall constitute a Change of Control of such Person. Notwithstanding
the  foregoing,  a change in Control of the Ultimate Publicly Traded Parent of a
Person  shall  not  constitute  a  Change  of  Control  of  such  Person.

     "Cinco  County"  shall have the meaning given to such term in the preamble.

     "Cinco  County  Executive  Officer"  means (a) the chairman, vice chairman,
president,  executive  vice  president,  senior  vice president, vice president,
assistant  vice  president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant
treasurer,  principal  executive officer, principal operating officer, principal
financial  officer,  principal  accounting  officer,  principal  legal  officer,
principal  administrative officer, principal risk control or compliance officer,
principal  regulatory officer, managing partner, general partner, administrative
partner,  managing  director,  principal  or  proprietor  of Cinco County or any
Affiliate  of  Cinco County, (b) any Person who routinely performs management or
executive  duties or functions for Cinco County or any Affiliate of Cinco County
that  are  substantially  similar  to  the organizational roles and functions of
Persons  described in subpart (a) of this definition, or (c) any Person who is a
spouse,  sibling, offspring or grandchild, or a spouse of any sibling, offspring
or grandchild, of any individual identified in either subpart (a) or (b) of this
definition.

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     "Claim  Notice"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such term in Section
10.3(a).

     "Code"  means  the  Internal  Revenue  Code  of  1986,  as  amended.

     "Consequential  Loss" means any Liabilities caused (directly or indirectly)
by  any  of  the  following  arising out of, relating to, or connected with this
Agreement,  the  operations  carried  out  under this Agreement, any Contributed
Asset  or  any  Partnership  Asset:  (i)  reservoir  or  formation  damage; (ii)
inability to produce, use or dispose of Hydrocarbons; (iii) loss or deferment of
income; (iv) punitive damages; or (v) other indirect or consequential damages or
losses  whether  or  not  similar  to  the  foregoing.

     "Continuing  Partner"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
13.2(a).

     "Contract  Area" shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals.

     "Contributed  Assets"  mean  (i)  the  Initial  Leases and (ii) the Initial
Pipeline  Assets.

     "Contributing  Partner"  means  a Partner who has contributed (or caused an
Affiliate  of  such Partner to contribute) or agreed to contribute (or agreed to
cause  an  Affiliate of such Partner to contribute) a portion of the Contributed
Assets  to  the Partnership; provided that such Partner shall be a "Contributing
Partner"  only  with  respect to the portion of the Contributed Assets that such
Partner  has  contributed (or caused an Affiliate of such Partner to contribute)
or  agreed  to  contribute  (or  agreed to cause an Affiliate of such Partner to
contribute)  to  the  Partnership.  Contributed Assets that a Partner causes its
Affiliate  to  contribute  to  the  Partnership  shall  be  deemed  to have been
contributed  by  such  Partner.

     "Contribution  Loan"  shall  have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.4.

     "Control"  with  respect to a specified Person, shall mean the ownership by
any Person or any group of Persons who are Affiliates of each other, directly or
indirectly,  of  more  than  fifty  percent  (50%)  of  the Voting Stock of such
specified  Person.  "Controls",  "Controlled  by" and other derivatives shall be
construed  accordingly.

     "Costs  of  Compliance"  means  all  costs,  capital  expenditures,  fees,
penalties,  fines  and  expenditures  of  any kind (i) associated with attaining
compliance  of  the  Contributed Assets with any Environmental Law to the extent
the Contributed Assets were not in compliance with any such Environmental Law as
of  the  Effective  Date  and/or  (ii)  required  to  obtain, amend or renew any
Environmental  Permit  which  is  necessary for the Partnership to own, conduct,
operate  or  use  the  Contributed  Assets  as  of  the  Effective  Date.

     "Credit  Balance Date" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(4).

     "Debit  Balance  Date" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(4).

     "Default  Rate"  with  respect  to  any  calendar  month, means a per annum
interest  rate  equal  to the lesser of (i) the LIBOR Rate in effect on the last
day  of  such calendar month (or the previous banking day if the last day of the
calendar  month  is  not  a  banking day) plus 15% or (ii) the maximum amount of
interest  allowed  by  Law.

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     "Delivery Point" means the point of interconnection between any Partnership
Pipeline  and the facilities of third party pipeline transporters into which the
Partnership's natural gas (or products derived from processing the Partnership's
Hydrocarbons)  are  delivered.

     "Deputy Chairman" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 6.4.

     "DFW  Pipeline"  means  Metroplex's  currently  existing  and  idle  DFW 8"
pipeline extending from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to the northern fence line
of the ExxonMobil Irving Terminal (together with all directly related equipment,
fixtures,  facilities,  rights-of-way,  leases, easements, servitudes, licenses,
permits, privileges, prescriptive rights, rights of ingress and egress and other
rights,  titles  and  interests  used  for  the construction, laying, operation,
replacement and maintenance of said pipeline) as more fully described in Exhibit
C,  subject  to  the  DFW  Reversionary  Interest.

     "DFW  Reversionary  Date"  shall  have  the  meaning  given to such term in
Section  4.4(b).

     "DFW Reversionary Interest" means the vested right and option of Metroplex,
exercisable  by  Metroplex in accordance with Section 4.4, to acquire all right,
title  and  interest  in  and  to  the  DFW  Pipeline  if within three (3) years
following  the date of this Agreement a written plan for use of the DFW Pipeline
has not been approved by a written agreement signed by a Majority in Interest of
the Partners which written agreement expressly stipulates that such written plan
for  use  satisfies  this  requirement.

     "E&P  Agreement"  means  that  certain  Lease  Acquisition  and Exploration
Agreement  -  Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, and Tarrant Counties, Texas, dated
June  29,  2005,  as  amended  by  that  certain Purchase and Sale Agreement and
Amendment  of  Lease  Acquisition  and  Exploration  Agreement - Dallas, Denton,
Ellis,  Johnson,  and  Tarrant  Counties,  Texas,  dated  June  12,  2006.

     "Effective  Date"  means  the  date the Certificate is first properly filed
with  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  State of Texas as required by the Act.
Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  the  "Effective  Date"  when  used herein with
respect  to  any  rights,  interests  and  assets  hereafter  acquired  by  the
Partnership under the BIPL Option Agreement in connection with the Partnership's
exercise  and closing of the BIPL Option shall be the date of the closing of the
BIPL  Option.

     "Election  Period"  shall  have  the  meaning given to such term in Section
10.3(a).

     "Emergencies" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 6.10(c).

     "EMPCo"  means  ExxonMobil  Pipeline  Company.

     "Environmental  Law"  means  any  federal,  state  or  local  statute, law,
regulation,  ordinance, rule, order or decree relating to (i) the control of any
potential  pollutant  or  protection of the environment, including air, water or
land,  (ii)  the  generation,  handling,  treatment,  storage,  disposal  or
transportation  of  waste  materials,  or (iii) the regulation of or exposure to
hazardous,  toxic  or  other  substances  alleged  to  be  harmful.

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     "Environmental  Liabilities"  means  any  and  all  Liabilities  (including
Remedial  Work)  incurred  or  imposed  (a)  pursuant  to  any  order,  notice,
injunction,  judgment or similar ruling arising out of or in connection with any
Environmental  Law  or  (b) pursuant to any claim by a Governmental Authority or
other  Person  for  personal  injury,  death, property damage, damage to natural
resources  or  Remedial Work to the extent arising out of a Release or migration
of  Hazardous  Substances.

     "Environmental  Loss"  means  any  loss, damage, cost, expense or liability
(other  than  Consequential  Loss)  caused  by  a  discharge  of  Hydrocarbons,
pollutants  or other contaminants into or onto any medium (such as land, surface
water,  ground  water and/or air) arising out of, relating to, or connected with
this Agreement or the operations carried out under this Agreement, including any
of  the following: (i) injury or damage to, or destruction of, natural resources
or  real  or  personal  property;  (ii)  cost  of pollution control, cleanup and
removal;  (iii)  cost  of  restoration  of  natural  resources;  and (iv) fines,
penalties  or  other  assessments.

     "Final  Option Payout" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(4).

     "First  Option Payout" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(4).

     "FMV"  means  fair market value of a Partnership Share, the DFW Pipeline, a
Partnership  Asset,  or  another  asset or property, as the context requires, as
determined  by agreement of the Partners or by an Appraiser, except as otherwise
provided  in  this  Agreement.  In  determining  the  fair  market  value  of  a
Partnership  Share,  an  Appraiser  shall  take  into consideration, among other
relevant  matters,  the  following factors or attributes: controlling interests,
minority  interests,  illiquidity, and adjustments for abnormal or non-recurring
amounts  or  activities. Provisions for determining FMV are included in Sections
3.3(c),  4.4,  5.4(b),  5.5(a)(1),  13.2(a),  13.2(b),  13.3(f)  and  15.15.

     "Forfeited  Interests" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.3(c).

     "General  Partner"  means  Metroplex.

     "Governmental  Authority"  means  any  federal,  state or local government,
governmental  department,  commission,  board,  bureau,  agency,  regulatory
authority,  instrumentality,  or  judicial  or  administrative  body  having
jurisdiction  over  the  Partnership,  the  Partnership  Assets or the matter or
matters  in  question.

     "Harding  Energy"  means  Harding  Energy  Partners,  LLC,  a Texas limited
liability  company.

     "Harding  Key  Personnel"  means  R.  W.  Harding.

     "Hazardous  Substances"  means (i) any chemicals, materials, substances, or
items in any form, whether solid, liquid, gaseous, semisolid, or any combination
thereof,  whether  waste materials, raw materials, chemicals, finished products,
by-products,  or  any  other materials or articles, which are listed, defined or
otherwise  designated  as hazardous, toxic or dangerous under Environmental Law,
including  asbestos,  urea  formaldehyde  foam  insulation,  and lead-containing
paints  or  coatings,  (ii)  any  petroleum,  petroleum  derivatives,  petroleum
products  or  by-products

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of  petroleum refining, and (iii) any other chemical, substance or waste that is
regulated  by Environmental Law, including any hazardous waste, as defined by 42
U.S.C.  Sec.6903(5),  any  hazardous  substance  as  defined  by  42  U.S.C.
Sec.9601(14),  and  any  pollutant  or  contaminant  as  defined  by  42  U.S.C.
Sec.9601(33).

     "Hydrocarbon  Interest"  means any right, title or interest in, to or under
any oil, gas and/or Hydrocarbon lease, leasehold interest, mineral fee interest,
royalty  interest,  overriding royalty interest, production payment, net profits
interest  and  any other right, title or interest evidencing or creating a right
or  interest  in,  or any right to produce or receive the proceeds of production
of, any Hydrocarbons in place and located in the Contract Area, and any economic
or  contractual  rights,  options  or  interests in and to any of the foregoing,
including  interests  therein  pursuant  to  any  participation,  joint venture,
farm-in,  farm-out,  option,  operating  or  other  agreement and all rights and
interests  attributable  or  allocable  thereto  by  virtue  of  any  pooling,
unitization,  communitization,  processing,  production  sharing  or  similar
agreement,  order  or  declaration.

     "Hydrocarbons" means (a) crude oil, natural gas and other liquid or gaseous
hydrocarbons  and  (b)  all  minerals and substances produced with or extracted,
separated,  processed or produced from crude oil, natural gas or other liquid or
gaseous  hydrocarbons.

     "IDC"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to such term in Section 5.3(a)(1).

     "Improvements"  shall mean any Pipeline Interest that is incorporated in or
in  any manner becomes a part of the Initial Pipeline Assets after the Effective
Date.

     "Indemnified  Claim"  shall  have the meaning given to such term in Section
10.3(a).

     "Indemnified Employee" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
15.9.

     "Indemnified  Person"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
10.3(a).

     "Indemnified  Personnel"  means, with respect to any Partner, such Partner,
any  successor  or  permitted  assign  of  such  Partner,  any Affiliate of such
Partner,  and  each  of  their  respective  directors,  officers,  employees,
representatives  and  agents.

     "Indemnifying  Person" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
10.3(a).

     "Indemnitees"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 7.3(c).

     "Initial  Budget"  shall  have  the  meaning  given to such term in Section
3.2(b).

     "Initial  Commitment"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.2(b).

     "Initial  Leases"  means  the Hydrocarbon Interests described in Exhibit B,
together  with  (i)  any  other Hydrocarbon Interests and (ii) any wells, tanks,
flow  lines,  equipment, fixtures, facilities, surface use agreements, rights of
way,  road  easements,  pipeline  easements,  pipeline  use,  handling  and
transportation  agreements,  seismic  data,  seismic  permits,  seismic options,
geological  data  and  information,  drilling  rig contracts and options and all
other  agreements,  in each case under (i) or (ii), acquired by Harding Company,
Cinco  County  or  Exxon  Mobil

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Corporation  pursuant  to  the  E&P  Agreement  or  by, through or under Harding
Company,  Cinco County or Exxon Mobil Corporation pursuant to the E&P Agreement.

     "Initial  Pipeline  Assets"  means (i) the DFW Pipeline (subject to the DFW
Reversionary Interest), (ii) the Keller Pipeline, (iii) the BIPL Option (subject
to  the  terms and conditions of the BIPL Option Agreement), and (iv) subject to
the  Partnership's  timely exercise and closing of the BIPL Option in accordance
with  the  terms  of the BIPL Option Agreement, all rights, interests and assets
hereafter  acquired  by  the  Partnership  under  the  BIPL  Option Agreement in
connection  with  the  Partnership's  exercise  and  closing of the BIPL Option.

     "Keller  Pipeline"  means  Metroplex's  currently  existing  8"  pipeline
extending  from  Mobil  Pipe  Line  Company's Keller Station to the point within
Mobil  Pipe Line Company's Corsicana Station where said pipeline connects to the
8"  pigging  station  (together  with  all directly related equipment, fixtures,
facilities,  rights-of-way,  leases,  easements,  servitudes, licenses, permits,
privileges,  prescriptive rights, rights of ingress and egress and other rights,
titles  and  interests used for the construction, laying, operation, replacement
and  maintenance  of  said  pipeline)  as  more  fully  described  in Exhibit C.

     "Law"  means  any statute, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, ruling, order,
writ,  injunction,  decree  or  other  official  act  of  or by any Governmental
Authority applicable to the Partnership, the Partnership Assets or the matter or
matters  in  question,  whether now in effect or hereafter existing from time to
time.

     "Liabilities"  means  claims,  suits,  actions,  proceedings,  hearings,
investigations,  charges,  complaints,  liabilities,  damages, fines, penalties,
judgments,  prejudgment  and  post-judgment interest, assessments, liens, costs,
expenses  (including,  without  limitation,  reasonable  attorneys'  fees  and
expenses)  and  losses.

     "LIBOR  Rate" means, for the day in question or the previous banking day if
the day in question is not a banking day, the rate per annum (rounded upward, if
not  an  integral multiple of 1/100 of 1%, to the nearest 1/100 of 1% per annum)
appearing  on  Bloomberg  screen  "BBAM 1" (or any successor page) as the London
interbank  offered  rate  for  one  (1)  month  deposits  in  U.S.  Dollars  at
approximately  11:00  a.m.  (London  time)  of  such  day.

     "Limited  Partners"  means  Cinco County and Petrosearch, together with any
Person  who  is  hereafter  admitted  to  the  Partnership  as  an additional or
substituted limited partner pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement  and  excluding  any  Person who hereafter withdraws from or otherwise
ceases  to  be a limited partner of the Partnership in accordance with the terms
of  this  Agreement,  in  each  case  from and after the time of such admission,
withdrawal  or  other  action  or  event.

     "Liquidator"  shall  have  the  meaning given to such term in Section 13.4.

     "Major  Operations"  means any operation or project reasonably estimated to
require  an  expenditure  by  the  Partnership  in  excess  of  $7,500,000.

     "Majority  in  Interest"  means,  with  respect  to  the  Partners  (or the
Partnership  Shares),  such  of  the  Partners  as  shall  own  (or  such of the
Partnership  Shares  as  shall  constitute),  at  the

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time  of  determination,  Partnership Shares aggregating not less than fifty-one
percent  (51%)  of  all  Partnership  Shares  owned  by  Partners (excluding any
Partnership  Shares  held  by  assignees  who  have  not  been  admitted  to the
Partnership  as  additional  or  substitute  Partners).  The  term  "Majority in
Interest"  when  used  herein with respect to a class not including all Partners
(such as the Partner(s) who are participating or consenting parties with respect
to  a  Non-Consent  Operation),  means such of the Partners within such class as
shall own, at the time of determination, Partnership Shares aggregating not less
than fifty-one percent (51%) of all Partnership Shares owned by Partners in such
class.

     "Management  Accounts" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
8.2.

     "Management Committee" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
6.2.

     "Metroplex"  shall  have  the  meaning  given to such term in the preamble.

     "Net  Capital  Proceeds"  means the proceeds received by the Partnership in
connection  with  a  Capital Transaction after the payment of costs and expenses
incurred  by  the  Partnership  in  connection  with  such  Capital Transaction,
including  brokers'  commissions,  other  closing  costs,  and  the  cost of any
alteration,  improvement,  restoration,  or  repair  of any Partnership property
necessitated  by  or  incurred  in  connection  with  such  Capital Transaction.

     "Non-Bankrupt Partner" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
13.2(b).

     "Non-Consent Area" means any portion of the Hydrocarbon Interests which are
owned  as  Partnership  Assets  from  time  to  time  as  to which a Non-Consent
Operation  is  conducted or occurs or any subdivided portion of such Hydrocarbon
Interests  as  to  which  the  Partners voluntarily elect to revise or specially
allocate  their  Partnership  Shares  as  may  be permitted hereunder. By way of
example,  if  the  Partners'  Partnership Shares with respect to any Hydrocarbon
Interests are revised or adjusted pursuant to Section 3.1(b) with respect to any
part  of  the Hydrocarbon Interests as a result of a Non-Consent Operation, such
part  of  the  Hydrocarbon  Interests shall be considered a separate Non-Consent
Area.

     "Non-Consent  Operation"  means  any  drilling,  completion,  recompletion,
deepening,  sidetracking,  reworking  or  other operation with respect to an oil
and/or  gas well or a proposed oil and/or gas well under the Operating Agreement
Terms,  the  costs  of  which are chargeable or allocable to the account of less
than  all of the Partners as a result of an election by a Partner to participate
or  not to participate in such operation. As used in this Agreement, Non-Consent
Operation  shall  not  include  an  operation,  activity  or action in which the
Partnership  does  not  participate.

     "Offered  Interest"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in Section
12.4(a).

     "Offerees"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in Section 12.4(a).

     "Offeror"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such term in Section 12.4.

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     "Operating Agreement Terms" means the terms and conditions contained in the
form  of  Operating  Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit E, including the terms
and  provisions  of  any Exhibit thereto (including the Accounting Procedure and
the  Gas  Balancing  Agreement).

     "Operating Area" means any of the following, considered separately from the
others together with the Hydrocarbon Interests or Pipeline Interests assigned or
attributable  thereto:  (a)  the  Contract  Area less and except any Non-Consent
Area(s),  or  (b)  any  Non-Consent  Area(s)

     "Operator"  means, with respect to any Operating Area, the General Partner,
but  only to the extent that the General Partner is acting in the capacity of an
operator  of  Partnership  Assets assigned to the Operating Area, and not in its
general  capacity  as  a  Partner  of  the  Partnership.

     "Option  Cap  Amount"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(1).

     "Option  Payout  Account Balance" shall have the meaning given to such term
in  Section  3.1(c)(4).

     "Option  Payout  Account"  shall  have  the  meaning  given to such term in
Section  3.1(c)(3).

     "Option  Period"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to such term in Section
6.10(b).

     "Option  Production  Share"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in
Section  3.1(c)(2).

     "Option  Recovery  Period"  shall  have  the  meaning given to such term in
Section  3.1(c)(4).

     "Option  Well"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such  term in Section
3.1(c)(1).

     "Partner"  means  Metroplex,  Cinco  County  or Petrosearch, and any Person
subsequently admitted to the Partnership as an additional or substituted partner
upon  the  unanimous  written  consent  of  the  then  existing  Partners.

     "Partnership"  means the Texas limited liability limited partnership formed
by  this Agreement and pursuant to the Certificate, as said partnership may from
time  to  time  be  constituted.

     "Partnership  Pipelines" means the Initial Pipeline Assets and all Pipeline
Interests  acquired  or  constructed  by  the  Partnership  for  the  gathering,
evacuation or transportation of the Hydrocarbons produced from the Partnership's
Hydrocarbon  Interests  (or  the  products  processed therefrom), including such
additional  Pipeline Interests that the Partnership may acquire and construct in
connection  with  the  Partnership's  subsequent  exercise  of  the  BIPL Option
pursuant  to  the  BIPL  Option  Agreement.

     "Partnership  Assets"  means  any  Hydrocarbon  Interests  or  Partnership
Pipelines,  or  any  part  thereof  or  interest therein, or any other property,
asset,  right  or  interest,  now  or  hereafter  owned, held or acquired by the
Partnership,  whether  by  contribution, purchase or otherwise, on behalf of the
Partnership.

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     "Partnership  Share"  means  the interest of a Partner in the equity of the
Partnership,  stated  as  a  fraction  or  a  percentage  and, for all Partners,
aggregating  100%. The initial Partnership Share of each Partner is set forth in
Section 3.1(a) and is subject to adjustment or revision pursuant to Article III.

     "Permitted Encumbrances" means (a) as to the Initial Leases, the overriding
royalty  interests,  burdens  and  other encumbrances expressly provided for and
permitted  by  the terms of the E&P Agreement and (b) as to the Initial Pipeline
Assets,  all  agreements, instruments, documents, liens, encumbrances, and other
matters  which are validly existing and affect the Initial Pipeline Assets as of
the  date  of  acquisition thereof by the Partnership, excluding, in the case of
the  Initial  Pipeline  Assets,  (i)  any rental, royalty, overriding royalty or
similar  payment  in  favor  of Metroplex or its Affiliates, without limiting or
affecting  the  Partnership's  obligation  to  pay or reimburse Metroplex or its
Affiliates  for  the  Partnership's share of third party obligations relating to
the  shared  ROW,  (ii)  any  liens,  security  interests,  pledges,  collateral
assignments and other encumbrances securing the payment of borrowed money or any
guarantee of the payment of borrowed money, and (iii) any pipeline use, handling
and  transportation  agreements,  easements, rights-of-way, servitudes, permits,
licenses,  surface  leases  and  other  rights  in  favor  of  Metroplex  or its
Affiliates  with  respect  to  the  Initial  Pipeline  Assets to the extent such
matters  would  reasonably be expected to interfere in any material respect with
the  Partnership's  use  or  operation of the Initial Pipeline Assets; provided,
however,  all  easements,  rights-of-way, servitudes, permits, licenses, surface
leases  and  other rights in favor of Metroplex or its Affiliates under the BIPL
Option Agreement and/or the easement sharing, joint use and occupancy agreements
with  respect  to the ROW as contemplated by the BIPL Option Agreement shall all
be  deemed  to  be  Permitted  Encumbrances.  This  Agreement  and  all  rights,
interests,  liens,  security  interests,  encumbrances  and  agreements created,
granted  or  contemplated  by  this  Agreement  shall be Permitted Encumbrances.

     "Person"  means  any  Governmental  Authority  or  any  individual,  firm,
partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, joint venture,
trust,  unincorporated  organization  or  other  entity  or  organization.

     "Petrosearch"  shall  have  the meaning given to such term in the preamble.

     "Petrosearch  Executive  Officer"  means  (a)  the chairman, vice chairman,
president,  executive  vice  president,  senior  vice president, vice president,
assistant  vice  president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant
treasurer,  principal  executive officer, principal operating officer, principal
financial  officer,  principal  accounting  officer,  principal  legal  officer,
principal  administrative officer, principal risk control or compliance officer,
principal  regulatory officer, managing partner, general partner, administrative
partner,  managing  director,  principal  or  proprietor  of  Petrosearch or any
Affiliate  of  Petrosearch,  (b) any Person who routinely performs management or
executive  duties  or  functions for Petrosearch or any Affiliate of Petrosearch
that  are  substantially  similar  to  the organizational roles and functions of
Persons  described in subpart (a) of this definition, or (c) any Person who is a
spouse,  sibling, offspring or grandchild, or a spouse of any sibling, offspring
or grandchild, of any individual identified in either subpart (a) or (b) of this
definition.

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     "Pipeline  Interest" means any pipeline or pipeline assets now or hereafter
owned  or  held  as  Partnership  Assets  and  used  for  purposes of gathering,
evacuation  or  transportation  of  Hydrocarbons  produced  from the Hydrocarbon
Interests  owned  or  held  by  the Partnership or any lands pooled, unitized or
otherwise  combined  with  such  Hydrocarbon  Interests  or  any  part  thereof,
including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  following:

     (a)     Any  pipeline  systems  or  facilities for gathering, evacuation or
transportation of Hydrocarbons, including main lines, lateral lines, loop lines,
tap  lines, sales lines, residue return lines and other pipelines, together with
all  property and equipment of every kind or character, real, personal or mixed,
incorporated  in  or in any manner constituting or comprising a part of any such
pipeline  system  or  pipeline  facilities;

     (b)     All tracts and parcels of land, including fee lands, rights-of-way,
leases,  easements,  servitudes,  licenses,  permits,  privileges,  prescriptive
rights and other rights, titles and interests of every kind, nature, description
or  character,  used  for  the  construction, laying, operation, replacement and
maintenance  of  said  pipelines,  systems  and  facilities;

     (c)     All  plants,  stations, offices, buildings, structures, facilities,
improvements,  equipment and fixtures of every kind and nature forming a part of
said  pipelines,  systems  and  facilities,  including,  but not limited to, (i)
pumping  stations  and  facilities,  (ii)  metering and measurement stations and
facilities,  (iv)  regulating stations and facilities, (v) distribution systems,
(vi)  compressors and compression stations and facilities, (vii) dehydrators and
dehydration  plants  and facilities, (viii) treating plants and facilities, (ix)
computers  and  computer  facilities,  (x) supply systems, (xi) natural gasoline
extraction  and  other  processing  plants  and  facilities,  (xii)  loading and
unloading  facilities,  (xiii)  absorption  towers,  (xiv) cycling and recycling
units,  (xv)  /power  houses,  water/sewage facilities, (xvi) steam heat and hot
water  plants,  and  (xvii)  service  systems;

     (d)     All  telephone,  telegraph,  fiber  optic  and  other lines, poles,
transmission  towers,  equipment,  appliances  and  systems used for purposes of
telecommunication  or electronic data transmission in connection with or forming
any  part  of  said  pipelines,  systems  and  facilities;

     (e)     All  franchises, privileges, licenses, permits, leases and consents
covering  operations  for the construction, laying, maintenance and operation of
said  pipelines,  systems  and  facilities  in, or over and under, lands, roads,
highways,  railroads,  rivers,  bridges,  levies,  culverts,  public  grounds or
structures  or  elsewhere;  and

     (f)     All  judgments,  awards  of  damages,  settlements  and  other
compensation  made  resulting from condemnation proceedings or the taking of the
properties,  rights  and  privileges  in any manner constituting or comprising a
part  of  any  such  pipeline  system or pipeline facilities or any appurtenance
thereto  under  the power of condemnation or eminent domain or under any similar
power  or right (including any award from any Governmental Authority at any time
after  the  allowance  of  the  claim  therefor, the ascertainment of the amount
thereof  and  the  issuance  of  the  warrant  for the payment thereof), whether
permanent  or  temporary  or  for  any  damage (whether caused by such taking or
otherwise)  to  said  properties,  rights,  interests and privileges or any part
thereof,  or to any rights appurtenant any of the foregoing, including severance
and  consequential  damages  and  any  awards  for  change  of grade of streets.

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     "Post-Effective  Date Liabilities" means Liabilities incurred or imposed as
a  result  of  injury, death or damage to person or property occurring after the
Effective  Date  to  the extent arising out of or attributable to the ownership,
operation,  care,  custody,  control,  construction,  maintenance,  occupancy,
condition  or  use  of  the  Contributed  Assets (regardless of whether any such
condition  existed  prior  to  the Effective Date or resulted from any action or
inaction  prior  to  the Effective Date), it being agreed that such injuries and
damages  which  are  of  a  continuous  or  ongoing  nature  and extend over the
Effective  Date  shall be apportioned between Pre-Effective Date Liabilities and
Post-Effective  Date  Liabilities on the basis of the respective portions of the
injury  or  damage  suffered  before  or  after  the  Effective  Date,  with
Post-Effective  Date  Liabilities  including  only that portion of the injury or
damage suffered after the Effective Date; provided, however, that Post-Effective
Date  Liabilities  shall  not  include any Environmental Liabilities or Costs of
Compliance.

     "Pre-Effective Date Liabilities" means Liabilities incurred or imposed as a
result  of  injury,  death  or damage to person or property occurring before the
Effective  Date  to  the extent arising out of or attributable to the ownership,
operation,  care,  custody,  control,  construction,  maintenance,  occupancy,
condition  or  use of the Contributed Assets, it being agreed that such injuries
and  damages  which  are  of  a continuous or ongoing nature and extend over the
Effective  Date  shall be apportioned between Pre-Effective Date Liabilities and
Post-Effective  Date  Liabilities on the basis of the respective portions of the
injury or damage suffered before or after the Effective Date, with Pre-Effective
Date  Liabilities  including  only that portion of the injury or damage suffered
before  the  Effective  Date;  provided,  however,  that  Pre-Effective  Date
Liabilities  shall  not  include  any  Environmental  Liabilities  or  Costs  of
Compliance.

     "Prior  Covenants and Warranties" shall have the meaning given to such term
in  Section  3.6(a).

     "Production  Shares"  shall  have the meaning given to such term in Section
4.1(a).

     "Program  and  Budget" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
6.10(a)(1).

     "Project Manager" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 6.9.

     "Qualified  Well"  shall  have  the  meaning  given to such term in Section
3.1(c)(1).

     "Release" shall have the meaning set forth in Environmental Laws, including
without  limitation  the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability  Act,  as  amended, at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601(22) and any analogous state
Laws,  but  also shall include any threatened Release and the spilling, leaking,
pumping,  pouring,  emitting,  emptying,  discharging,  injecting,  escaping,
leaching, dumping or disposing of a Hazardous Substance into the environment, as
well  as  the  migration  or  movement  of  Hazardous  Substances.

     "Remaining  Partners"  shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
13.2(a).

     "Remedial  Work"  means  action  of  any  kind  to address a Release or the
presence  of  Hazardous Substances at, on, in, upon, over, across, under, within
or  migrating  from  the  real  property  included  in  the  Contributed Assets,
including  all  investigative,  site  monitoring,  restoration,  abatement,
detoxification,  containment,  handling,  treatment,  removal,  storage,

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decontamination,  clean-up,  transport,  disposal  or  other  ameliorative work,
corrective  action or response action required by (a) any Environmental Law, (b)
any  order  or  request  of any federal, state or local agency, or (c) any final
judgment,  consent  decree,  settlement  or  compromise  with  respect  to  any
Environmental  Law.

     "Retained  Environmental  Liabilities"  means:

     (a)     Environmental  Liabilities  (including response costs imposed under
the  Comprehensive  Environmental  Response,  Compensation and Liability Act, as
amended,  42  U.S.C. Sec.Sec. 9601 et seq., or its state or local counterpart or
any other similar Environmental Law) to the extent resulting or arising from, or
attributable  to, (i) an off-site abandonment or storage of Hazardous Substances
or  a  Release  from an off-site abandonment or storage facility, in either case
occurring  prior  to  the  Effective  Date  in  connection  with  the ownership,
operation  or  use  of the Contributed Assets, or (ii) the treatment, storage or
disposal  of  Hazardous  Substances  generated in connection with the ownership,
operation  or use of the Contributed Assets that are sent for treatment, storage
or  disposal  at  an  off-site  facility  prior  to  the  Effective  Date;

     (b)     Environmental  Liabilities  resulting  or  arising  from,  or
attributable  to, any bodily injury or death occurring before the Effective Date
to  the  extent  resulting  or  arising from, or attributable to, exposure to or
contamination  by  Hazardous Substances arising from the ownership, operation or
use  of  the  Contributed Assets prior to the Effective Date; provided, however,
that  such  injuries and damages which are of a continuous or ongoing nature and
extend  over  the  Effective  Date  shall  be  apportioned  between  Assumed
Environmental Liabilities and Retained Environmental Liabilities on the basis of
the  respective  portions  of  the injury or damage suffered before or after the
Effective  Date,  with  Retained  Environmental  Liabilities including only that
portion  of  the  injury  or  damage  suffered  before  the  Effective Date; and

     (c)     any  monetary  fine or penalty for violations of Environmental Laws
to  the  extent  resulting  or  arising from, or attributable to, the ownership,
operation  or use of the Contributed Assets prior to the Effective Date, but not
including  any monetary fine or penalty from violations of Environmental Laws to
the  extent  resulting  or  arising  from, or attributable to, the continuation,
expansion,  change  or  aggravation  after  the Effective Date of any condition,
operating  practice,  course  of  conduct, activity or circumstance that existed
before  the  Effective  Date.

     "ROW"  shall  have the meaning given to such term in the definition of BIPL
Option  Agreement.

     The  terms  "sale,"  "sell"  and  derivatives of such terms, when used with
respect  to  a  Partnership Share or any part thereof or interest therein, shall
mean  any  sale or other transfer for value of all or any portion of an interest
in  a  Partnership  Share. Any transaction resulting in a Change of Control with
respect  to  a Partner shall be deemed to constitute the sale by such Partner of
its  Partnership  Share.

     "Senior  Supervisory  Personnel"  means, with respect to a Partner, (i) the
Project  Manager,  (ii)  any manager who directly reports to the Project Manager
that  is  responsible  for  exploration,  appraisal,  development  or production
operations,  (iii)  any  individual  who  functions  for  such

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Partner  or  one  of  its Affiliates at a senior management or supervisory level
equivalent  to or superior to the Project Manager or direct report positions and
is responsible for exploration, appraisal, development or production operations,
or  (iv)  any  officer  or  director  of  such Partner or one of its Affiliates.

     "Service  Contract"  means  a  contract  for  services  entered into by the
Partnership  with  a Partner or an Affiliate of a Partner to provide services to
the  Partnership.

     "Service  Contractor"  means  the  contractor  providing  services  under a
Service  Contract.

     "Staff"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such  term  in  Section 6.9.

     "Tax"  or  "Taxes" shall mean any and all federal, state, local and foreign
taxes,  assessments  and  other  governmental  charges,  duties, impositions and
liabilities,  including  taxes based upon or measured by gross receipts, income,
profits,  sales,  use  and  occupation,  and  value added, ad valorem, transfer,
franchise,  withholding,  payroll,  recapture,  employment,  excise and property
taxes  or  other  tax  of  any  kind  whatsoever.

     "Tax  Return" shall mean any return, declaration, report, claim for refund,
or  information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or
attachment  thereto,  and  including  any  amendment  thereof.

     "Term"  shall mean that period of time commencing on the Effective Date and
continuing  until the earlier of (i) the expiration of all Hydrocarbon Interests
held  by  the  Partnership,  (ii)  the  sale  or  other  disposition  of  all or
substantially  all  of  the  Partnership  Assets,  or  (iii) the election of all
Partners  to  terminate  the  Partnership.

     "TGPL"  means  the  Texas  General  Partnership  Law,  a  Part of the Texas
Business  Organization  Code,  as  amended.

     "TMP"  shall  have  the  meaning  given  to  such  term  in Section 5.1(a).

     "Transfer  Notice"  shall  have  the  meaning given to such term in Section
12.4.

     "Treasury  Regulations"  means  the  income  tax  regulations,  including
temporary  regulations,  promulgated under the Code, as those regulations may be
amended  from  time  to  time. Any reference herein to a specific section of the
Treasury  Regulations  shall include any corresponding provisions of succeeding,
similar,  substitute,  temporary  or  final  Treasury  Regulations.

     The  "Ultimate Publicly Traded Parent," if any, with respect to a specified
Person  shall  be  the  Person  that  (a)  is  a publicly traded company and (b)
Controls  such  specified  Person; provided, however, that no Person shall be an
Ultimate  Publicly  Traded Parent if it is Controlled by any Person or any group
of  Persons  who  are  Affiliates  of  each other. As used in this definition, a
"publicly  traded company" means a public company whose shares of stock or other
equity  interests  are regularly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, American
Stock  Exchange,  NASDAQ,  London Stock Exchange, NASD Over-The-Counter Bulletin
Board  or  other  similar public stock exchange or public over the counter stock
exchange.

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     "Voting  Stock"  shall  mean  capital  stock  issued  by a corporation, the
limited  liability  company  interests  of  a  limited  liability company or the
equivalent  interests  in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily,
in  the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors
(or  persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even though the right
so  to  vote  has  been  suspended  by  the  happening  of  such  a contingency.

     "Working Capital Loan" shall have the meaning given to such term in Section
8.3.

     "Working Capital Requirements" shall have the meaning given to such term in
Section  8.3.

     Other  capitalized terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement shall have the
meanings  so  given  them.

     Section 1.2.  References, Gender, Number.  All references in this Agreement
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to  an  "Article," "Section," or "subsection" shall be to an Article, Section or
subsection of this Agreement, unless the context requires otherwise.  Unless the
context  otherwise  requires, the words "this Agreement," "hereof," "hereunder,"
"herein,"  "hereby," or words of similar import shall refer to this Agreement as
a  whole  and  not to a particular Article, Section, subsection, clause or other
subdivision  hereof.  Whenever the context requires, the words used herein shall
include  the  masculine,  feminine  and  neuter gender, and the singular and the
plural.  When  used  herein,  the  words "including" or "include" or derivatives
thereof  shall  mean  including  or  include  without  limitation.

                                   ARTICLE II
                                  ORGANIZATION
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     Section  2.1.  Formation.  The  Partners do hereby form a limited liability
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limited  partnership  under  and  pursuant  to the provisions of the Act and the
TGPL,  with  such  formation being effective upon the first proper filing of the
Certificate  by  the General Partner with the Secretary of State of the State of
Texas.  The  rights  and liabilities of the Partners shall be as provided in the
Act and the TGPL except as herein otherwise expressly provided.  Metroplex shall
be the general partner of the Partnership and Cinco County and Petrosearch shall
be  limited  partners  in  the  Partnership.

     Section  2.2.  Name;  Registered  Office;  Principal  Place  of  Business.
                    ----------------------------------------------------------

     (a)     Partnership  Name.  The  name  of  the  Partnership shall be "DDJET
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Limited  LLP".

     (b)     Registered Office; Principal Place of Business.  The address of the
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Partnership's  registered  office  shall be 222 Benmar, Houston, Texas 77060, or
such  other  place  as  the General Partner shall determine, and the name of the
Partnership's  registered  agent for service of process on the Partnership shall
be  the General Partner.  The Partnership's principal place of business shall be
at  222  Benmar,  Houston,  Texas  77060,  or  such other place or places as the
General Partner shall determine.  The Partnership may have such other offices as
the  General  Partner  shall  designate  from  time  to  time.

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     Section 2.3. Purposes. The purpose and business of the Partnership is to do
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any  of  the  following  within  or  relating  to the Contract Area: (i) acquire
Hydrocarbon  Interests  by purchase, lease, farm-in, exchange or any other means
or methods, (ii) acquire, construct and install pipelines and pipeline assets to
gather,  evacuate  and  transport  Hydrocarbons  produced  from  the Hydrocarbon
Interests  held  by  the  Partnership or any lands pooled, unitized or otherwise
combined  with  the  Hydrocarbon  Interests  held by the Partnership or any part
thereof,  (iii)  own,  explore,  develop,  produce,  improve, operate, maintain,
manage,  repair,  rebuild,  alter,  replace  and  otherwise  use,  deal with and
administer  any  properties  or  assets  acquired by the Partnership pursuant to
clauses  (i)  and/or  (ii)  above, including, without limitation, the producing,
storing,  processing, transporting, marketing, trading or otherwise dealing with
or  handling  of any Hydrocarbons, (iv) sell, lease, sublease, assign, mortgage,
pledge,  hypothecate,  encumber, pool, unitize, combine, abandon or transfer any
properties  or  assets of the Partnership or any interest therein, (v) generally
engage  in  the  Hydrocarbon exploration, development, production, gathering and
evacuation  business  with  respect  to the properties or assets acquired by the
Partnership  pursuant  to clauses (i) and/or (ii) above, (vi) accomplish, pursue
or engage in any of the activities described in this Section alone or with other
Persons pursuant to or by means of any contract or any corporation, partnership,
joint  venture,  trust,  unincorporated  organization  or  other  entity  or
organization,  (vii)  any  and  all activities permitted under the Act, provided
that the undertaking of such other permitted activities has been approved by the
unanimous  vote  of  the  Partners;  and (viii) engage in any and all activities
related  or  incident  to  any  of  the foregoing activities, including, without
limitation,  the  acquisition, lease or license of properties and assets related
or  incident  to  such  activities.

     Section 2.4. Term. The Partnership shall commence on the Effective Date and
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shall continue in full force and effect until expiration of the Term, unless the
winding  up  of  the  business of the Partnership is required at an earlier date
pursuant  to  Article  XIII.

     Section  2.5.  Application.  As permitted by Section 153.351 of the Act and
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Section 152.805 of the TGPL, the General Partner shall execute and file with the
Secretary  of  State of the State of Texas in accordance with Section 152.802 of
the  TGPL  an  application  (the "Application") to register the Partnership as a
limited  liability partnership, and the General Partner shall file such renewals
of  the  Application  as  required  by  the  TGPL  to maintain the Partnership's
registration  as  a  limited  liability  partnership.  The  Application, and any
renewals of the Application, shall contain such information required by the TGPL
and  such  other  information  as the General Partner may deem appropriate.  The
Partnership  may  not  conduct  business until the Application has been properly
filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  State  of  Texas.

     Section  2.6.  Insurance  or  Financial  Responsibility.  In  order for the
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Partnership  to  maintain  its  qualification as a limited liability partnership
under  the TGPL, the Partnership shall at all times comply with the insurance or
financial  responsibility  requirements  of  Section 152.804 of the TGPL and all
other  requirements  provided  in  the  TGPL  to  maintain  such  qualification.

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                                   ARTICLE III
                               PARTNERSHIP SHARES;
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                   CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS; AND FUNDING MATTERS
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     Section  3.1.  Partnership  Shares.
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     (a)     Standard Partnership Shares.  Subject to adjustments, revisions and
             ---------------------------
special  allocations pursuant to other provisions hereof, the Partnership Shares
of  the  Partners  in  the  Partnership  are  as  follows:

                        Metroplex              80%

                        Cinco  County          14.45545%

                        Petrosearch            5.54455%

     (b)     Special  Partnership  Shares.  If  a  Partner  elects  to cause the
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Partnership to conduct or participate in a Non-Consent Operation (or a Partner's
election  to  be a non-participating or non-consenting party causes an operation
to  be a Non-Consent Operation) with respect to an Non-Consent Area as permitted
under  the Operating Agreement Terms and Section 6.10(c), the Partnership Shares
of  the  Partners shall be adjusted and revised with respect to such Non-Consent
Operation  and  the Non-Consent Area to which such Non-Consent Operation relates
as  follows:

          (1)     Each  Partner  shall  have  a  Partnership Share (which may be
reduced  to  zero)  with respect to such Non-Consent Operation (and such related
Non-Consent  Area),  and  with  respect  to  each  item  of  costs,  expenses,
liabilities,  claims,  damages,  Hydrocarbon  production,  revenues and economic
interests  attributable  to  such  Non-Consent  Operation  and  Non-Consent Area
(including  the costs, expenses, liabilities, claims and damages attributable or
relating  to  the  gathering,  evacuation,  transportation, storage, processing,
treating,  compressing,  dehydrating,  handling  and  other  dealing  with  the
Hydrocarbon  production  (and  the  products  therefrom)  attributable  to  such
Non-Consent  Operation  or Non-Consent Area), that is equal to the percentage of
such  item  which  such  Partner  would  be  obligated to bear or be entitled to
receive  or  be  allocated pursuant to the Operating Agreement Terms if (i) each
Partner,  without  regard  to  the Partnership, was a party to a joint operating
agreement  the  terms  of  which  were  substantially identical to the Operating
Agreement  Terms,  (ii)  each Partner's Partnership Share, without regard to the
Partnership,  was  treated  for all purposes as an undivided interest in oil and
gas  rights  in  such Non-Consent Area, (iii) General Partner (without regard to
the  Partnership)  was the Operator of such Non-Consent Area, (iv) prior to such
Partner's  election  or  agreement  regarding  such  Non-Consent Operation, each
Partner, without regard to the Partnership, held and owned a percentage interest
in  such  Non-Consent Area equal to its Partnership Share, and (v) each Partner,
without  regard  to the Partnership, made separate elections under the Operating
Agreement  Terms  with  respect  to  its percentage interest in such Non-Consent
Area.  If  the  Partners  make separate elections regarding the reinstatement of
their  interests  regarding  a  Non-Consent  Operation pursuant to the Operating
Agreement  Terms,  such separate elections shall be reflected in the adjustments
to  their  respective  Partnership  Shares  pursuant  to  this  Section  3.1(b).

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          (2)     The  Partnership  shall  maintain  separate  books,  financial
records  and  accounts  for  each Non-Consent Operation and for each Non-Consent
Area to which such Non-Consent Operation relates.  At such time, if ever, as all
Partners'  percentage  interests  (as  provided  in  clause (1) above) under the
Operating  Agreement  Terms  with  respect  to  such  Non-Consent  Operation are
reinstated  or  revert  to  their  original  percentage  interests prior to such
Non-Consent  Operation (taking into account any subsequent voluntary assignments
or  transfers which may be permitted hereunder), the Partnership shall no longer
maintain  separate  books,  financial  records and accounts with respect to such
Non-Consent  Operation.

          (3)     The  foregoing  adjustments  and  revisions  to  the Partners'
Partnership  Shares  with respect to a Non-Consent Operation and the Non-Consent
Area  to which such Non-Consent Operation relates shall not affect the Partners'
Partnership  Shares  with respect to other Partnership Assets, any voting rights
hereunder  with respect to other Partnership Assets, or the Initial Commitments.

     (c)     Optional  Partnership  Share.
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          (1)     At  the  option  of  Cinco County, exercised on a well by well
basis,  Metroplex  shall be obligated, subject to the Option Cap Amount, to bear
and  pay,  as  a  capital  contribution  of  Metroplex to the Partnership, fifty
percent  (50%) of all drilling, completion and equipping costs (and plugging and
abandonment  costs if a dry hole) that Cinco County would otherwise be obligated
to bear and pay, as a capital contribution of Cinco County to the Partnership on
account  of Cinco County's 14.45545% standard Partnership Share, with respect to
any  one  or  more  Qualified  Wells  in  which  both Metroplex and Cinco County
participate pursuant to Section 8.1.  "Qualified Well" means any of the first 35
oil  and/or  gas  wells  in  which the Partnership participates that are spudded
after  the  Effective  Date.  Metroplex shall not be obligated to bear more than
50%  of  Cinco  County's 14.45545% standard Partnership Share of such well costs
notwithstanding that Cinco County's Partnership Share with respect to a well may
increase  if  such  well  is a Non-Consent Operation or that Cinco County may be
obligated  to  pay  more  than  14.45545%  of  any  costs as a result of another
Partner's  default.  Cinco  County must make a separate election with respect to
each  Qualified  Well  as  to which it wishes to exercise this option by written
notice  delivered to Metroplex prior to the date on which such Qualified Well is
spudded.  To  be  effective,  the  notice of Cinco County exercising this option
must  identify  the Qualified Well and state that Cinco County is exercising its
option  under  this  Section  3.1(c)  with respect to such Qualified Well.  Once
made,  an  election  is  irrevocable  without  the  consent  of Metroplex.  Each
Qualified  Well  as  to  which  Cinco  County timely exercises its option in the
manner  required  under  this  Section 3.1(c) shall be referred to as an "Option
Well".  If  Cinco  County fails to exercise its option under this Section 3.1(c)
with  respect  to any Qualified Well by written notice delivered to Metroplex as
required  above  prior to the spudding of such Qualified Well, Cinco County will
be  deemed  to  have  elected  not  to  exercise its option with respect to such
Qualified  Well  and  such  Qualified  Well  shall  not  be  an  Option  Well.
Notwithstanding  anything  to  the contrary in this Section 3.1(c), Cinco County
shall  not  be allowed to exercise its option with respect to any Qualified Well
pursuant  to  this  Section  3.1(c) at any time in which (i) Cinco County or any
Affiliate  of  Cinco County is in breach or default of any duty or obligation to
the  Partnership,  Metroplex or any Affiliate of Metroplex under this Agreement,
any Service Contract, or otherwise, or (ii) Cinco County fails to satisfy any of
the  Carried  Acquisition  Financing  Conditions.  When  the aggregate amount of
drilling,  completion

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and  equipping costs (and plugging and abandonment costs if a dry hole) incurred
by  Metroplex  with  respect  to  50%  of  Cinco  County's  14.45545%  standard
Partnership  Share  in the Option Wells has reached $10,000,000 (the "Option Cap
Amount"), Metroplex will not be obligated to bear and pay any further costs with
respect  to  50%  of  Cinco County's 14.45545% standard Partnership Share in the
Option  Wells,  and  all further costs with respect to the Option Wells shall be
borne  by  Cinco  County.  Cinco County's option under this Section 3.1(c) shall
cease  when  the  Option Cap Amount is reached with respect to the Option Wells.

          (2)     If  Cinco  County  timely  exercises  its  option  pursuant to
Section  3.1(c)(1)  with  respect  to  an  Option Well, (i) until the Option Cap
Amount is reached with respect to the Option Wells, Metroplex shall be obligated
to  bear  and pay, as an increase to Metroplex's Partnership Share, 7.227725% of
the  Partnership's  share  of  all drilling, completion and equipping costs (and
plugging  and  abandonment costs if a dry hole) with respect to such Option Well
that Cinco County would otherwise be obligated to bear and pay on account of 50%
of  Cinco County's 14.45545% standard Partnership Share, (ii) during each Option
Recovery  Period,  Metroplex  shall  be  entitled  to receive, as an increase to
Metroplex's  Partnership  Share  and  Production  Share,  5.0594075%  of  the
Partnership's  share (i.e., 35% of Cinco County's 14.45545% standard Partnership
Share  and  Production  Share)  of  all Hydrocarbon production and products with
respect  to  all  Partnership  wells  (the "Option Production Share") that Cinco
County  would  otherwise  be  entitled  to receive, and (iii) during each Option
Recovery Period, Metroplex shall be obligated to bear and pay, as an increase to
Metroplex's  Partnership  Share,  the  Partnership's  share  of  all  severance,
production  and  other  similar taxes, royalties, overriding royalties and other
burdens  on  the  Option Production Share which are debited to the Option Payout
Account  pursuant  to Section 3.1(c)(3).  Immediately upon Cinco County's timely
exercise  of  its option pursuant to Section 3.1(c)(1) with respect to an Option
Well  and  during  the applicable periods provided in this Section 3.1(c)(2) and
Section  3.1(c)(3),  Metroplex's  Partnership  Share  and  Production Share with
respect  to  all  Partnership wells shall be increased to the extent provided in
this Section 3.1(c)(2) and Cinco County's Partnership Share and Production Share
with  respect  to  all  Partnership  wells  shall be reduced by such increase in
Metroplex's  Partnership  Share  and  Production  Share  with  respect  to  all
Partnership  wells.  Metroplex's  Partnership  Share,  however,  shall  not  be
increased  under  this  Section 3.1(c) with respect to any costs with respect to
the  Partnership  wells  or the Hydrocarbon production and products with respect
thereto,  other than those costs with respect to the Option Wells and the Option
Production  Share  specifically  provided  in clauses (i) and (iii) of the first
sentence  of  this  Section  3.1(c)(2).  Cinco  County's Partnership Share shall
remain  the  same with respect to, and Cinco County shall remain responsible for
its  Partnership Share of, all other costs with respect to each Partnership well
and  the Hydrocarbon production and products with respect thereto, including (x)
all  costs  of  operation,  maintenance,  reworking,  recompletion, re-drilling,
re-equipping,  deepening,  plugging  back,  plugging and abandonment (except dry
hole  costs  for  an  Option  Well),  treating,  processing,  gathering  and
transportation,  including  with respect to the Option Production Share, and (y)
after  the  Option  Cap  Amount is reached with respect to the Option Wells, all
drilling,  completion and equipping costs (and plugging and abandonment costs if
a  dry hole) with respect to the Option Wells.  Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement  to  the contrary, Metroplex's rights and interests under this Section
3.1(c)  with  respect  to Cinco County's Partnership Share and Production Share,
including  the  increases  in Metroplex's Partnership Share and Production Share
provided  for in this Section 3.1(c)(2), shall have priority and preference over
all  other claims, liens, security interests, rights, interests and encumbrances

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whatsoever  in,  to  or against Cinco County or Cinco County's Partnership Share
and  Production  Share, whether provided for or arising under or outside of this
Agreement,  at  Law  or otherwise or arising or created prior to any election by
Cinco  County  under  this  Section  3.1(c).

          (3)     Metroplex  shall  maintain  a  single  payout account ("Option
Payout Account").  The Option Payout Account shall be established as of the date
on  which  the  first  costs were incurred with respect to the first Option Well
(even  though  such  costs may have been incurred prior to the time Cinco County
makes an election under this Section 3.1(c)).  At the end of each calendar month
after  establishment of the Option Payout Account and until Final Option Payout,
the  Option  Payout  Account  shall  be debited and credited as provided in this
Section  3.1(c)(3).  At the end of each calendar month during an Option Recovery
Period,  the  Option  Payout  Account  shall be credited with all sales proceeds
received  during  such  month by Metroplex with respect to the Option Production
Share,  calculated  at  the  point  the  Option Production Share is delivered to
Metroplex  pursuant  to  Section 4.1, or the market value thereof if such Option
Production  Share  is  not sold by Metroplex.  At the end of each calendar month
until  Final  Option Payout, the Option Payout Account shall be debited with the
following:

               (i)     7.227725%  of  the  Partnership's  share of all drilling,
          completion  and equipping costs (and plugging and abandonment costs if
          a  dry  hole)  with  respect  to  any Option Well incurred during such
          calendar  month;  provided  that the aggregate amount of costs debited
          with respect to the Option Wells pursuant to this clause (i) shall not
          exceed  the  Option  Cap  Amount,  and

               (ii)     an  amount  calculated  like  interest,  compounded
          quarterly,  at the Agreed Rate on the Option Payout Account Balance as
          of  the  end  of  each  calendar  month.

At  the  end of each calendar month during an Option Recovery Period, the Option
Payout  Account  shall  be  debited  with  the  following:

               (A)     the severance, production and other similar taxes
          (other than income, franchise and similar taxes) payable on the Option
          Production  Share  produced  during  such  calendar  month,

               (B)     the  lessors'  royalties  on  the Option Production Share
          produced  during  such  calendar  month,  and

               (C)     any  overriding  royalties,  net profits  interests,
          production  payments  and  like burdens on the Option Production Share
          produced  during  such  calendar  month  which  burden or encumber the
          Partnership's  interest  in  such  production.

An  amount  equal  to  the  excess of the aggregate amount of the credits to the
Option  Payout  Account  over the aggregate amount of the debits charged against
the  Option  Payout  Account  as of the First Option Payout and as of any Credit
Balance  Date  shall be paid by Metroplex to Cinco County, and the Option Payout
Account shall be debited with the amount paid by Metroplex to Cinco County so as
to bring the balance in the Option Payout Account to zero as of the First Option
Payout  or  such  Credit  Balance  Date,  as the case may be. The portion of the
Option  Production  Share received and sold by Metroplex which gives rise to the
amount  paid  by

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Metroplex  to Cinco County pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be deemed to
have  been  distributed  by  the  Partnership  to Cinco County as Cinco County's
Production  Share  and  sold  by  Metroplex  on  behalf  of  Cinco  County.

          (4)     The  following  additional  defined  terms  are  used  in this
Section 3.1(c):

               (i)     "First  Option Payout" means the first point in time when
          there is a credit balance in the Option Payout Account at the end of a
          calendar  month  (after  all  debits  and credits with respect to such
          calendar  month  have  been  debited  or credited to the Option Payout
          Account).

               (ii)     Following  the First Option Payout, any point in time at
          the end of a calendar month (after all debits and credits with respect
          to  such  calendar  month  have been debited or credited to the Option
          Payout Account) when the aggregate amount of the credits to the Option
          Payout Account ceases to be equal to or in excess of (and becomes less
          than)  the  aggregate  amount of the debits charged against the Option
          Payout  Account shall be referred to herein as a "Debit Balance Date."

               (iii)     Conversely,  following  the  First  Option  Payout, any
          point  in  time  at  the end of a calendar month (after all debits and
          credits  with  respect  to  such  calendar  month have been debited or
          credited  to  the  Option Payout Account) when the aggregate amount of
          the  credits  to the Option Payout Account ceases to be less than (and
          becomes  equal  to or in excess of) the aggregate amount of the debits
          charged  against the Option Payout Account shall be referred to herein
          as  a  "Credit  Balance  Date."

               (iv)     "Option  Recovery  Period"  means  any  of the following
          respective  periods:  (a)  the  period  from  the establishment of the
          Option Payout Account to and including the First Option Payout and (b)
          each  period  from  and  including  the  first day of a calendar month
          following  a  Debit  Balance  Date  to  and  including the next Credit
          Balance  Date.

               (v)     "Final  Option  Payout"  means the First Option Payout or
          the first Credit Balance Date, as the case may be, occurring after all
          Qualified  Wells  have  been  spudded and all drilling, completion and
          equipping  costs  (and  plugging  and abandonment costs if a dry hole)
          with  respect  to  such  Qualified  Wells  have  been  incurred by the
          Partnership  and  the applicable shares of all such costs with respect
          to  such  Qualified  Wells which are Option Wells have been debited to
          the  Option  Payout  Account  in  accordance  with  Section 3.1(c)(3).

               (vi)     "Option  Payout  Account  Balance"  means,  as  of  a
          particular  date,  the  aggregate amount of the debits charged against
          the Option Payout Account as of such date less the aggregate amount of
          the  credits  to  the  Option  Payout  Account  as  of  such  date, in
          accordance with Section 3.1(c). For purposes of Section 3.1(c)(3)(ii),
          the Option Payout Account Balance will be deemed to be zero at the end
          of  a  calendar  month  if,  prior  the  calculation  under  Section

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          3.1(c)(3)(ii)  for  such month, the aggregate amount of credits to the
          Option  Payout  Account  as  of  the  end  of  such  month exceeds the
          aggregate  amount  of debits charged against the Option Payout Account
          as  of  the  end  of  such  month.

     Section  3.2.  Capital  Contributions.
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     (a)     Initial  Capital.  Effective as of the Effective Date, each Partner
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hereby  contributes  as  its initial capital contribution the property described
next  to  such  Partner's  name  on  Annex  A,  which  also sets forth as of the
Effective  Date  the  FMV  of each such contributed property as agreed to by the
Partners.  Within  ninety  (90)  days following the Effective Date, each Partner
will  execute and deliver (or cause one or more of its Affiliates to execute and
deliver) to the Partnership such assignments, deeds and other conveyances as are
reasonably necessary to transfer legal or record title to the Partnership in the
aforesaid  property  that  such  Partner  has  contributed  to  the Partnership;
provided,  however,  that  such requirement to transfer legal or record title to
the  Partnership  and such transfer documents shall not vary or change the terms
and  provisions  of  this  Agreement  or  the  Partners'  and  the Partnership's
respective  obligations under this Agreement, including the terms and provisions
of  Section  3.6.  All  rights,  interests  and assets hereafter acquired by the
Partnership under the BIPL Option Agreement in connection with the Partnership's
exercise and closing of the BIPL Option shall be deemed to have been contributed
to  the  Partnership by Metroplex upon the Partnership's exercise and closing of
the  BIPL  Option.  The  exercise or non-exercise by the Partnership of the BIPL
Option  will  not cause or result in any adjustment of the Partnership Shares of
the  Partners.  Similarly,  the deemed reversion to the Partners and acquisition
by  Metroplex of the DFW Pipeline pursuant to the DFW Reversionary Interest will
not cause or result in any adjustment of the Partnership Shares of the Partners.

     (b)     Initial  Commitments.  Each  Partner agrees to make additional cash
             --------------------
capital  contributions  to  the  Partnership  which  in  the aggregate equal its
Partnership  Share  of  $566,900,000  (its "Initial Commitment").  The Partners'
Initial  Commitments  shall  be  due  and payable pro rata in the ratio of their
Partnership  Shares and are contemplated to become due and payable in accordance
with  the  plan, budget and schedule set forth in Exhibit D hereto (the "Initial
Budget").  The  Initial  Budget is an estimate of the expected costs required to
operate  the  Partnership  from  the  Effective Date until the end of 2008.  The
Partners  recognize  that it is not possible to predict the exact nature, timing
and  amounts  of  the required costs set forth in the Initial Budget.  Thus, the
exact  nature,  timing  and amounts of such costs (and the timing and amounts of
the  Initial Commitments necessary to fund such costs) will be determined by the
Management  Committee;  provided,  however,  the  Management  Committee shall be
obligated to abide by any milestones or conditions specifically set forth in the
Initial  Budget  that  are  required  to  be met before certain expenditures are
required to be made.  At least thirty (30) days prior to the date of anticipated
expenditure  of  any  cost  projected  in  the  Initial  Budget,  the Management
Committee  shall  give  each  Partner  notice of the exact amount required to be
contributed  by it as part of its Initial Commitment.  Each Partner's payment of
such  portion  of  its  Initial  Commitment  shall  be  due  and  payable to the
Partnership on the fifth (5th) day preceding the date of anticipated expenditure
of such cost; provided that, if the Management Committee elects not to make such
expenditure  or  such  expenditure  is postponed for more than ninety (90) days,
each  Partner's  payment  of  such  portion  of  its Initial Commitment shall be
refunded  (without interest thereon), but each Partner shall remain obligated to
contribute  the  balance  and  any  refunded  portion of its Initial Commitment.

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     (c)     Additional  Capital  Contributions.  In  addition  to  the  Initial
             ----------------------------------
Commitment  and  any  mandatory  additional capital contributions required to be
made  pursuant  to  this  Agreement,  each  Partner  shall  be obligated to make
additional  capital contributions to the Partnership as may from time to time be
necessary  to  meet  its  obligations  in  Article  III  and  Article  VIII (its
"Additional  Contributions").

     (d)     Non-Consent  Operations Capital Contributions.  If a Partner elects
             ---------------------------------------------
to  cause  the  Partnership to conduct or participate in a Non-Consent Operation
(or  a  Partner's  election  to  be  a non-participating or non-consenting party
causes an operation to be a Non-Consent Operation) with respect to a Non-Consent
Area  as permitted under the Operating Agreement Terms and Section 6.10(c), each
Partner  who  elects  to cause the Partnership to conduct or participate in such
Non-Consent  Operation  agrees  to make additional cash capital contributions to
the  Partnership  of  its Partnership Share of all costs, expenses, liabilities,
claims and damages which the Partnership or any Partner becomes obligated to pay
as  a  result  of  such  Non-Consent  Operation.  Any  such  additional  capital
contributions  which are to be paid to the Partnership pursuant to the foregoing
shall  be  due and payable by such Partner (i) within 10 days after such Partner
receives  notice  from  the  General Partner of the amount of additional capital
contributions  which  are required with respect to such Non-Consent Operation or
(ii) two (2) Business Days prior to such later date on which such Partner (as if
such Partner were directly participating in such Non-Consent Operation as to its
Partnership Share) would be obligated under the Operating Agreement Terms to pay
the  amounts  with  respect to such Non-Consent Operation which give rise to the
need  for  such  additional  capital  contributions.

     (e)     Payment.  To  the  extent  not  paid  to  the Partnership under the
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Operating  Agreement  Terms,  all  capital  contributions  following the initial
capital  contributions  (including  the  Initial  Commitments and the Additional
Contributions) shall be paid by wire transfer of the capital contribution amount
in  immediately available funds to the bank account from time to time designated
by  the  General  Partner  for the deposit of Partnership capital contributions.

     Section  3.3.  Capital  Contribution  Defaults.  All  capital contributions
                    -------------------------------
which are not paid when due shall bear interest from the date due at the Default
Rate  until  paid.  In  the  event  that  a  Partner defaults in its obligations
hereunder  to  make  or pay contributions to Partnership capital or any interest
accruing  thereon,  the  Management  Committee (excluding the representative and
alternate  of  such  defaulting  Partner)  may  enforce such obligations in such
manner  as may be permitted by Law and may exercise on behalf of the Partnership
all  rights  and  remedies  with  respect to such obligations and all collateral
securing  the  same  as  may  be  provided  by  Law  or  under the terms of this
Agreement.  All  reasonable  costs  and  expenses, including attorneys' fees and
expenses,  incurred  by  the  Partnership  or  such  committee in enforcing such
obligations,  realizing  on any security therefor or otherwise exercising any of
the  Partnership's  rights or remedies with respect thereto shall be included in
such obligations and paid by such defaulting Partner.  In addition to and not in
lieu  of any other rights and remedies, each Partner hereby grants the following
rights  and  remedies:

     (a)     Lien  and  Security  Interest.  Each  Partner  hereby  grants  the
             -----------------------------
Partnership  a  lien  and  security  interest  in such Partner's interest in the
Partnership  from time to time existing and in and to all assets attributable to
and  proceeds  of and from such interest (including its Production Share and all
other  Partnership  distributions)  to secure the payment by such Partner of its
obligations

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hereunder  to  make  capital  contributions  to the Partnership, to pay interest
accruing  thereon  and to pay collection costs and expenses provided for herein,
all  in  accordance  with  and  subject  to  the provisions of the Texas Uniform
Commercial Code and other Laws; and the Partnership shall be entitled to all the
rights and remedies of a lien holder and secured party in the event of a default
by  a  debtor  under the provisions of such Laws, including (but not limited to)
the  right  and  power to offer for sale and to sell the Partnership interest of
such  Partner  as  may  be  provided  in  such  Laws.  The  Management Committee
(excluding  the  representative  and  alternate  of  such defaulting Partner) is
hereby  authorized  to  take  all  actions  which  such  committee,  in its sole
discretion, deems necessary or expedient to enforce the Partnership's rights and
remedies  as  a  lien holder and secured party under such Laws.  Notwithstanding
any  foreclosure,  such  Partner  whose interest is foreclosed upon shall remain
liable  for  any  deficiency  on such foreclosure.  At any time and from time to
time,  upon  the  written request of the Partnership or any Partner, any Partner
will  promptly  and  duly  execute  and  deliver  such  further  instruments and
documents  and  take  such  further  action as the Partnership or the applicable
Partner  may  reasonably  request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the
full  benefits  of the liens and security interests granted under this Agreement
(including  Sections  3.3,  3.4  and  3.5)  and  of the rights and powers herein
granted,  including the filing of any financing or continuation statements under
the  Uniform  Commercial  Code in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the
liens and security interests created hereby.  Each Partner hereby authorizes the
Partnership,  any  other  Partner  or  either  of  their  respective  counsel or
representative,  at any time and from time to time, to file financing statements
and  amendments  to financing statements that describe the collateral covered by
such  financing  statements  in  such  jurisdictions as the Partnership or other
Partner may reasonably deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect the liens
and security interests granted under this Agreement (including Sections 3.3, 3.4
and  3.5).  Each  Partner  hereby  further authorizes the Partnership, any other
Partner or either of their respective counsel or representative, at any time and
from  time  to  time, to file continuation statements with respect to previously
filed  financing  statements.  A  photographic  or  other  reproduction  of this
Agreement,  including  Exhibits  A,  B,  C  and  E (but not any other annexes or
exhibits  hereto), will be sufficient as a financing statement for filing in any
jurisdiction.

     (b)     Partnership  Distributions and Payments.  Subject to the priorities
             ---------------------------------------
set  forth in Section 4.2, if a Partner defaults in its obligations hereunder to
make  or  pay  contributions  to  Partnership  capital  or any interest accruing
thereon  when  due hereunder, then until such capital contribution, all interest
accruing  thereon  and  all  collection  costs and expenses provided herein with
respect  thereto  shall  be  paid  in  full:

          (1)     at  the  option  of  the  Management  Committee (excluding the
representative  and  alternate  of such defaulting Partner), (i) all or any part
the  defaulting  Partner's  distributed  share  of  Hydrocarbon  production  and
products  may  be sold, on behalf of such defaulting Partner, by the Partnership
(or  by  the  non-defaulting  Partner(s)  who  make  a Contribution Loan to such
defaulting  Partner pursuant to Section 3.4) and for such purpose the defaulting
Partner  grants an irrevocable power of attorney coupled with an interest to the
Partnership  and  such non-defaulting Partner(s), or (ii) all or any part of the
share  of  Hydrocarbon  production and products to which such defaulting Partner
would  otherwise  be  entitled  may  be  retained  by  the  Partnership,

          (2)     (i)  all  proceeds  of  the  sales of the defaulting Partner's
distributed  share of Hydrocarbon production and products (net of all reasonable
expenses  of  such  sales),  (ii)  all

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proceeds  of  the  sales  of  the  share  of Hydrocarbon production and products
retained  by  the  Partnership  pursuant  to  clause  (1)(ii)  above (net of all
reasonable  expenses  of  such  sales),  and  (iii)  all  other distributions or
payments  which  would  otherwise  be  made  or  paid by the Partnership to such
defaulting  Partner  shall  be  applied  to  such  unpaid  capital contribution,
interest  and  collection  costs  and expenses in such order and priority as the
Management  Committee  (excluding  the  representative  and  alternate  of  such
defaulting  Partner)  may  elect, subject to the priorities set forth in Section
4.2,  and

          (3)     the  balance  thereof  shall  be  applied  or  distributed  in
accordance  with  the  other  provisions  of  this  Agreement,  subject  to  the
priorities  set  forth  in  Section  4.2.

     (c)     Expulsion.  If  a  Partner defaults in the timely payment of all or
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any  part  of  its  Initial  Commitment  or  any  mandatory  additional  capital
contributions it is required to make hereunder (including any additional capital
contribution  required to be made by Cinco County in connection with any Carried
Acquisition  under Section 3.5) when due and such default continues for a period
of  sixty (60) days after the Management Committee (excluding the representative
and  alternate  of  such  defaulting  Partner) has given such defaulting Partner
written  notice  stating  that  such Partner has defaulted in paying its Initial
Commitment  and/or  any  mandatory additional capital contribution and that such
Partner  is  subject to being expelled from the Partnership if such Partner does
not  immediately  pay  its  Initial  Commitment and/or such mandatory additional
capital  contribution,  then  the  Management  Committee  (excluding  the
representative and alternate of such defaulting Partner) may elect to expel such
defaulting Partner from the Partnership at any time after the expiration of said
60-day  period and prior to the time such defaulting Partner cures such default.
In  the  event  the  Management  Committee (as so constituted) elects to expel a
Partner  from  the  Partnership  as  permitted  by  the preceding sentence, then
effective  as  of such election and without any further action being required of
the Management Committee, such Partner shall automatically cease to be a Partner
in  the  Partnership  and  shall  permanently and irrevocably forfeit its entire
Partnership  Share  and  all  of  its  right,  title  and interest in and to the
Partnership  and  all  Partnership  Assets to the remaining Partners ("Forfeited
Interests").  The  remaining  Partners shall receive and own Forfeited Interests
in  the  ratio  of their respective Partnership Shares; provided that, if one or
more  Partners  elect to make Contribution Loans in connection with such default
as  permitted  in Section 3.4 and one or more Partners do not elect to make such
Contribution  Loans, such Forfeited Interests shall be received and owned by the
Partner  or Partners making such Contribution Loans in the ratio that such loans
are  made  by  such  Partner(s).  Upon  the effective transfer of such Forfeited
Interests  to the non-defaulting Partners in accordance with the foregoing, such
Contribution  Loans  shall  be deemed fully discharged and satisfied, except for
purposes  of  Section  3.3(c)(4).  Without  limiting the foregoing, each Partner
hereby  grants  the  Management  Committee  (as  so constituted) an irrevocable,
special  power  of  attorney,  coupled with an interest, which shall survive the
dissolution, bankruptcy or legal disability of such Partner, to take all actions
necessary  on its behalf, if any, to evidence the expulsion of such Partner from
the  Partnership  and to transfer or otherwise deal with its Forfeited Interests
as provided in this Section should such Partner thus become a defaulting Partner
and  be  expelled  from  the  Partnership,  including,  without  limitation, the
execution,  delivery  and  filing  of  such  certificates,  affidavits and other
instruments  or  documents  as  the Management Committee (as so constituted) may
deem  necessary  or  desirable  to evidence that such Partner has ceased to be a
Partner  of  the  Partnership.  If  a  defaulting  Partner  is expelled from the
Partnership  and  its  Forfeited  Interests forfeited pursuant to the foregoing,
such  Partner  shall  be  released  from  its

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obligation  to  pay  any  portion  of  its  Initial Commitment and any mandatory
additional  capital  contribution,  together with any interest accruing thereon,
which  has  not  theretofore  been  paid  to  the  Partnership, but shall not be
released  from  any  of  its  obligations  set  forth in this Section 3.3 or any
reasonable  costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees and expenses, incurred
by  the  Partnership,  the  General  Partner  or the Management Committee (as so
constituted)  in  exercising  or enforcing any rights and remedies in connection
with  such  default.  Notwithstanding  the  expulsion  of  a  defaulting Partner
pursuant  to  this  Section and the forfeiture by such defaulting Partner of its
Forfeited  Interests, such defaulting Partner (i) shall have, and shall continue
to  be  liable  to  the Partnership and the other Partners for, all obligations,
liabilities, costs, expenses, losses and damages provided in Sections 3.3(c)(1),
3.3(c)(2)  and 3.3(c)(3) and (ii) shall have the rights under Section 3.3(c)(4).

          (1)     All  additional  or increased costs or expenses and all actual
losses  or damages, excluding any damages for lost profits, incurred or suffered
by  the  Partnership  or  any  Partner  as a result of such Partner's default in
paying all or any portion of its Initial Commitment or Additional Contributions;
provided,  however,  that following the forfeiture by such defaulting Partner of
its  Forfeited  Interests,  such  defaulting  Partner  shall  no longer have any
liability  to  pay  any  portion  of  its  Initial  Commitment  or  Additional
Contributions  on  which  it  defaulted.

          (2)     If  within  two  (2)  years  after  the  effective date of the
expulsion  of such Partner from the Partnership on account of non-payment of all
or  part  of its Initial Commitment or any Additional Contributions, such former
Partner  or  any  Affiliate  of  such  former Partner (or any partnership, joint
venture,  association  or other investment group in which such former Partner or
such  Affiliate  is  a  member)  directly or indirectly acquires any Hydrocarbon
Interest  or any Pipeline Interest in all or any part of the Contract Area, such
Hydrocarbon  Interest  or  Pipeline  Interest  shall  be  deemed  a  Partnership
opportunity  and shall be offered to the Partnership by notice in writing within
30  days  after  such acquisition, for an amount equal to the actual acquisition
cost  therefor  to  such former Partner or its Affiliate.  The Partnership shall
have  thirty  (30)  days  after  receipt  of such notice in which to accept such
offer.  If such offer is accepted such Hydrocarbon Interest or Pipeline Interest
shall  be  promptly  conveyed  to  the  Partnership free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances,  royalties  and  burdens  created by, through or under such former
Partner  or  any  of  its  Affiliates  (other  than those existing prior to such
acquisition  or  created  in favor of non-Affiliates of such former Partner as a
condition  to  such  acquisition)  and the Partnership shall pay the acquisition
cost  therefor.  The  notice  of  such  acquisition  shall  include all relevant
information  regarding  such  investment  (other  than  proprietary geophysical,
geological,  engineering, financial and other data of such former Partner or its
Affiliates  which  was not generated at Partnership expense), but shall include,
without  limitation,  (i) an itemized breakdown of the acquisition cost thereof,
(ii)  copies  of  all  agreements,  leases,  deeds,  conveyances, rights-of-way,
easements,  assignments,  judgments,  decrees,  or other instruments evidencing,
creating,  transferring  or  assigning  the  Hydrocarbon  Interest  or  Pipeline
Interest,  and  (iii)  copies  of  all  agreements and obligations which must be
assumed  or  performed in connection with acquiring said Hydrocarbon Interest or
Pipeline  Interest.

          (3)     Upon  its  expulsion from the Partnership, such former Partner
shall immediately deliver to the Partnership all information and data (including
all copies thereof in whatsoever form or medium) generated or reproduced by such
former Partner or any of its Affiliates in connection with such former Partner's
investment  in  the  Partnership  or  its  activities

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on  behalf  of  or  as  a  Partner  of  the  Partnership, other than proprietary
geophysical,  geological,  engineering  and other data of such former Partner or
its  Affiliates  which  was  not  generated  at Partnership expense.  During the
period  commencing  with the effective date of such Partner's expulsion from the
Partnership  and  extending  for  a  period  of three (3) years thereafter, such
former  Partner  and its Affiliates shall keep all information and data referred
to  in  this Section 3.3(c)(3) strictly confidential and shall not in any manner
use,  broker,  trade  on,  profit  by,  disclose  or  disseminate  any  of  such
information  or  data;  provided  that,  these  restrictions  shall not apply to
information and data which (i) has entered into the public domain without breach
of  the  provisions  of this Section 3.3(c)(3), (ii) was received by such former
Partner  or  any of its Affiliates from a third party not under an obligation of
confidentiality  to  the  Partnership  or any other Partner with respect thereto
prior  to  the  time such former Partner or its Affiliate received, generated or
reproduced  such  information  or  data  in the manner referred to above in this
Section  3.3(c)(3), or (iii) is required to be disclosed by any Law or the rules
and  regulations  of any governmental agency or any stock exchange applicable to
such  former  Partner  or such Affiliate; provided that, such former Partner and
its Affiliates shall use their best efforts to give the Partnership at least ten
(10)  days  prior notice of any disclosure under this clause (iii).  Such former
Partner  and  each  Affiliate  of  such former Partner shall take all reasonable
steps  to require its employees and consultants to be bound by the provisions of
this  Section  3.3(c)(3)  in  the  same  manner  as  it  is  bound  hereunder.

          (4)     A  defaulting  Partner  who  forfeits  its  Partnership  Share
pursuant  to  this  Section 3.3(c), shall be entitled to be paid by the Partners
who receive such forfeited Partnership Share, in the ratio in which they receive
such forfeited Partnership Share, a cash amount equal to the positive number, if
any,  obtained  by subtracting the amount determined under Section 3.3(c)(4)(ii)
below  from  the  amount  determined  under  Section  3.3(c)(4)(i)  below.  If a
negative  number  is obtained by subtracting the amount determined under Section
3.3(c)(4)(ii) below from the amount determined under Section 3.3(c)(4)(i) below,
then  no  payment  will  be  due  under  this  Section  3.3(c)(4).

               (i)     An  amount  equal to the FMV of the forfeited Partnership
          Share  as  of  the  effective  date of the expulsion of the defaulting
          Partner less (x) the amount of all capital contributions on which such
          defaulting  Partner  has  defaulted,  together  with interest accruing
          thereon (including, without duplication, the principal and interest on
          all  Contribution  Loans  made  on  account  of  any  default  by such
          defaulting  Partner),  reduced  by  any payments actually made by such
          defaulting Partner on such capital contributions or Contribution Loans
          and  any  amounts  applied  to the payment thereof pursuant to Section
          4.2,  (y)  the amount of all costs incurred by the Partnership and the
          other  Partners  in  determining  the amount payable to the defaulting
          Partner  under  this Section 3.3(c)(4), including reasonable appraisal
          fees  and  attorneys'  fees,  and  (z)  at the option of any remaining
          Partner  who  receives  such  forfeited  Partnership Share, any of the
          amounts  for  which  such  defaulting  Partner  remains  liable to the
          Partnership  or  the  remaining Partners following its expulsion under
          this  Section  3.3(c).

               (ii)     An  amount  equal  to 30% of the amount determined under
          Section  3.3(c)(4)(i)  above.

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The  FMV  of  the  forfeited  Partnership  Share as of the effective date of the
expulsion  of  the  defaulting  Partner  shall  be  determined  by the unanimous
agreement  of the defaulting Partner and the remaining Partners who receive such
forfeited  Partnership  Share  or  by  an  Appraiser  selected  by  a
Majority-in-Interest  of  the  remaining  Partners  who  receive  such forfeited
Partnership Share (or pursuant to the procedure provided in Section 15.15 if the
unanimous agreement of the defaulting Partner and such remaining Partners is not
obtained  or  a  Majority-in-Interest  of  such remaining Partners are unable to
agree  upon  an Appraiser).  The amount, if any, to which the defaulting Partner
is  entitled pursuant to this Section 3.3(c)(4) shall be severally (not jointly)
due  and payable to the defaulting Partner by the remaining Partners who receive
such  forfeited  Partnership  Share,  in  the  ratio they receive such forfeited
Partnership  Share,  within  fifteen  (15)  days  after  the amount to which the
defaulting  Partner  is  entitled pursuant to this Section 3.3(c)(4) has been so
agreed  or  determined.  If an amount is paid to the defaulting Partner pursuant
to  this  Section  3.3(c)(4)  and  any amounts are actually deducted pursuant to
Section  3.3(c)(4)(i)(z)  in  connection  with determining such amount, then the
defaulting Partner shall be released from liability for all amounts which are so
deducted  pursuant  to  Section  3.3(c)(4)(i)(z).

     (d)     Additional  Remedies Pursuant to the Operating Agreement Terms.  In
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addition  to  the  remedies  available  hereunder,  the  Partnership  and  the
non-defaulting  Partners  shall  also  have  all  other lien rights and security
interests on, and any other remedies with respect to, any defaulting Partner and
its  Partnership  Share with respect to any Operating Area which the Partnership
or the non-defaulting Partners would have under the Operating Agreement Terms if
(i)  each  Partner,  without  regard  to the Partnership, was a party to a joint
operating  agreement  the  terms  of  which  were substantially identical to the
Operating Agreement Terms, (ii) each Partner's Partnership Share with respect to
any  Operating  Area,  without  regard  to  the Partnership, was treated for all
purposes  as  an undivided interest in oil and gas rights in the Operating Area,
and  (iii)  the  General  Partner  (without  regard  to the Partnership) was the
Operator  of  the  Operating  Area.

     Section 3.4.  Contribution Loans.  If any Partner defaults in making all or
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any portion of its capital contributions required by Section 3.2, the Management
Committee (excluding the representative and alternate of the defaulting Partner)
may  require each non-defaulting Partner to make a loan ("Contribution Loan") to
the  Partnership  or  such  defaulting  Partner  in  an  amount  equal  to  such
non-defaulting  Partner's  proportionate  share  of  such  unpaid  capital
contribution.  A  non-defaulting  Partner's proportionate share shall be (i) the
ratio  of  its Partnership Share to the Partnership Shares of all non-defaulting
Partners  or (ii) if such default is with respect to a specific Non-Consent Area
in  which  the  Partnership Shares are not in the standard ratios provided under
Section 3.1(a) as a result of a Non-Consent Operation or otherwise, the ratio of
its  Partnership  Share with respect to such Non-Consent Area to the Partnership
Shares of all non-defaulting Partners with respect to such Non-Consent Area.  If
any non-defaulting Partner with a Partnership Share with respect to the specific
Non-Consent  Area to which such capital contribution default relates defaults in
its obligation to make such Contribution Loan, the other non-defaulting Partners
with Partnership Shares with respect to such Non-Consent Area shall be obligated
to  make  Contribution  Loans  to  cover  such  default  in  the  ratio of their
Partnership  Shares with respect to such Non-Consent Area.  If all Partners with
Partnership  Shares  with  respect  to  such  Non-Consent  Area default in their
obligation  to make such Contribution Loans, the Management Committee (excluding
the  representatives and alternates of the defaulting Partners) may require each
non-defaulting  Partner  (whether  or  not  it  has  a  Partnership  Share  in

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such  Non-Consent  Area)  to  make a Contribution Loan in an amount equal to its
proportionate  share  (determined under clause (i) above) of such defaulted upon
Contribution  Loans.  The  Contribution Loans shall bear interest at the Default
Rate.  Subject to the priorities set forth in Section 4.2, each Partner making a
Contribution  Loan  shall  have and is hereby granted, proportionately with each
other  Partner  making  a  Contribution  Loan,  the  same  rights,  remedies and
collateral  with  respect  to  the  Contribution  Loan  as  are  granted  to the
Partnership  under  Section  3.3  with  respect  to  the  defaulted-upon capital
contribution  giving  rise to such Contribution Loan, including (i) the right to
sell  its  proportionate  share of the defaulting Partner's distributed share of
Hydrocarbon production and products on behalf of the defaulting Partner and (ii)
the  right  to  repayment  out  of  a  proportionate  share of (1) the net sales
proceeds  of  the  defaulting  Partner's distributed share of all production and
products,  after  deducting  all  reasonable expenses of such sales, (2) the net
sales  proceeds  of the defaulting Partner's share of Hydrocarbon production and
products that are retained by the Partnership pursuant to Section 3.3(b)(1)(ii),
after  deducting  all  reasonable  expenses  of  such  sales,  and (3) all other
distributions  or  payments  which  would  otherwise  be  made  or  paid to such
defaulting  Partner  under  this  Agreement  or  by  the  Partnership.

     Section  3.5.  Optional  Initial Funding of Acquisitions.  Upon the written
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request  of Cinco County, Metroplex shall make on behalf of Cinco County, and as
a  loan  to  Cinco  County,  all  additional  capital  contributions  that  the
Partnership  Agreement  requires  Cinco  County  to  make to the Partnership for
acquisition  costs  relating to the acquisition of Hydrocarbon Interests located
within  the Contract Area (each such acquisition being referred to as a "Carried
Acquisition")  during  the  time  period  between  the  date  on which Metroplex
receives such written request and the expiration of the second (2nd) year of the
Term;  provided,  however,  that  Metroplex  shall  not  be required to make any
additional  capital  contribution  on  Cinco County's behalf with respect to any
Carried  Acquisition  at  any time in which (a) Cinco County or any Affiliate of
Cinco  County  is  in  breach  or  default  of  any  duty  or  obligation to the
Partnership,  Metroplex  or any Affiliate of Metroplex under this Agreement, any
Service  Contract, or otherwise, or (b) Cinco County fails to satisfy any of the
Carried Acquisition Financing Conditions.  In respect of each additional capital
contribution  so  made  by  Metroplex on Cinco County's behalf with respect to a
Carried Acquisition of a Hydrocarbon Interest, Cinco County shall be required to
reimburse  and  pay Metroplex an amount equal to the amount so paid by Metroplex
(together  with  any interest, costs and expenses which may become payable after
default  by  Cinco  County  under  this  Section  3.5,  the "Carried Acquisition
Repayment  Amount")  prior  to the earlier of (i) two hundred seventy (270) days
after the date Metroplex made such additional capital contribution in respect of
a  Carried  Acquisition of a Hydrocarbon Interest, (ii) within five (5) Business
Days  of  the date Cinco County receives written notice from the General Partner
providing  that  the first well on such Hydrocarbon Interest (or any land pooled
or  unitized  therewith) has spud, or (iii) the date on which Cinco County fails
to  satisfy  any  of  the Carried Acquisition Financing Conditions (the "Carried
Acquisition Expiration Date" ).  If Cinco County fails to pay any portion of the
Carried  Acquisition  Repayment  Amount  when due, (x) the unpaid portion of the
Carried  Acquisition  Repayment  Amount shall bear interest from the date due at
the Default Rate until paid, (y) Cinco County shall pay all reasonable costs and
expenses,  including  attorneys'  fees  and  expenses,  incurred by Metroplex in
enforcing  payment  by  Cinco County of the Carried Acquisition Repayment Amount
and  such  accrued  interest,  realizing  on any security therefor and otherwise
exercising  any  of Metroplex's rights or remedies with respect thereto, and (z)
all  such  interest, costs and expenses shall be included in Carried Acquisition
Repayment  Amount  and  paid  by

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Cinco  County.  Subject  to  the  priorities  set forth in Section 4.2, if Cinco
County  fails to pay Metroplex any Carried Acquisition Repayment Amount when due
hereunder,  then  until all Carried Acquisition Repayment Amounts have been paid
in  full  by  Cinco  County:

          (1)     at  the  option  of  Metroplex,  (i)  all or any part of Cinco
County's  distributed  share of Hydrocarbon production and products may be sold,
on behalf of Cinco County, by Metroplex and for such purpose Cinco County grants
an  irrevocable power of attorney coupled with an interest to Metroplex, or (ii)
all  or  any  part  of the share of Hydrocarbon production and products to which
Cinco  County  would  otherwise  be  entitled  may  be distributed to Metroplex,

          (2)     (i)  all  proceeds  of the sales of Cinco County's distributed
share  of Hydrocarbon production and products (net of all reasonable expenses of
such  sales),  (ii)  all  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  the share of Hydrocarbon
production  and  products  distributed  to  Metroplex pursuant to clause (1)(ii)
above  (net  of  all  reasonable  expenses  of  such sales), and (iii) all other
distributions  or  payments  which  would  otherwise  be  made  or  paid  by the
Partnership  to  Cinco  County shall be applied to Cinco County's obligations to
reimburse  and pay Metroplex for the Carried Acquisition Repayment Amounts under
this  Section  in  such  order  and  priority  as  Metroplex  may  elect,  and

          (3)     the  balance  thereof  shall  be  applied  or  distributed  in
accordance  with  the  other  provisions  of  this  Agreement,  subject  to  the
priorities  set  forth  in  Section  4.2.

In  addition  to  all other remedies available to Metroplex, Cinco County hereby
grants Metroplex a lien and security interest in its interest in the Partnership
and  in and to all assets attributable to and proceeds of and from such interest
(including  its  Production  Share  and  all other Partnership distributions) to
secure  the payment by Cinco County of the Carried Acquisition Repayment Amount,
all  in  accordance  with  and  subject  to  the provisions of the Texas Uniform
Commercial  Code  and  other  Laws;  and  Metroplex and the Partnership shall be
entitled  to  all  the rights and remedies of a lien holder and secured party in
the  event of a default by a debtor under the provisions of such Laws, including
(but  not  limited  to)  the  right  and power to offer for sale and to sell the
Partnership  interest  of  Cinco  County  as  may  be  provided  in  such  Laws.

     Section 3.6.  Special Warranties, Assumptions, Indemnities, Limitations and
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Disclaimers  regarding  Contributed  Assets.
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     (a)     Special  Warranty  of Title.  Each Contributing Partner, in respect
             ---------------------------
to  the  portion  of  the  Contributed Assets that such Contributing Partner has
contributed  (or  caused  to be contributed by an Affiliate of such Contributing
Partner)  or  agreed  to  contribute (or agreed to cause to be contributed by an
Affiliate  of  such Contributing Partner) to the Partnership pursuant to Section
3.2(a),  (i) does hereby bind itself, its successors and assigns, to WARRANT and
FOREVER  DEFEND all and singular such portion of the Contributed Assets unto the
Partnership,  its  successors  and  assigns,  against  every  person  whomsoever
lawfully  claiming  or  to claim the same or any part thereof or any interest or
encumbrance  therein  by,  through  or  under  such  Contributing Partner or its
Affiliates,  but not otherwise; subject, however, to the Permitted Encumbrances,
and  (ii) does hereby represent and warrant to the Partnership that such portion
of the Contributed Assets is not subject to any sales, assignments, gas contract
dedications,  calls  on  production,  liens,  security interests or encumbrances
created  by,  through  or  under  such

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Contributing  Partner  or its Affiliates, except for the Permitted Encumbrances.
To  the  extent  transferable and without any direct or indirect liability to or
obligation  of  such  Contributing  Partner  or  any  of  its  Affiliates,  each
Contributing  Partner  hereby  transfers and conveys unto the Partnership all of
its  rights  under  and  by  virtue  of all covenants and warranties, express or
implied,  pertaining  to  the  portion  of  the  Contributed  Assets  that  such
Contributing  Partner  has  contributed  or  agreed  to contribute (or caused or
agreed to cause to be contributed) to the Partnership pursuant to Section 3.2(a)
that  have  heretofore  been  made  by  any  of  such  Contributing  Partner's
predecessors  in  title  (other than any Affiliate of such Contributing Partner)
(collectively, the "Prior Covenants and Warranties").  Subject to the foregoing,
each  Contributing Partner's contribution of a portion of the Contributed Assets
to  the  Partnership  is  made  with  full  substitution  and subrogation of the
Partnership  in,  to,  under and by virtue of the Prior Covenants and Warranties
and  with  full  subrogation (to the extent transferable) to any rights accruing
under  the  statutes  of  limitations, prescription and repose under the laws of
Texas.

     (b)     Assumption  by Partnership.  From and after the Effective Date, the
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Partnership  assumes and agrees to fulfill, perform, pay and discharge (or cause
to  be fulfilled, performed, paid or discharged) all of the Assumed Liabilities,
known  or unknown and regardless of whether such Assumed Liabilities arose prior
to,  on  or  after  the  Effective  Date.

     (c)     Indemnification  regarding  Contributed  Assets.
             -----------------------------------------------

          (1)     Indemnification  by  Contributing Partner.  From and after the
                  -----------------------------------------
Effective  Date,  each  Contributing  Partner,  in respect to the portion of the
Contributed  Assets that such Contributing Partner has contributed (or caused to
be  contributed  by  an  Affiliate  of  such  Contributing Partner) or agreed to
contribute  (or  agreed  to  cause  to  be  contributed  by an Affiliate of such
Contributing  Partner)  to  the  Partnership  pursuant  to Section 3.2(a), shall
indemnify,  hold  harmless and defend the Partnership, the Partners, each of the
respective  directors,  officers,  employees,  representatives and agents of the
Partnership  and/or  the  Partners, and each of the heirs, executors, successors
and  assigns of any of the foregoing from and against (a) the Pre-Effective Date
Liabilities  (excluding  any Consequential Loss) with respect to such portion of
the Contributed Assets and (b) the Retained Environmental Liabilities (excluding
any  Consequential Loss) with respect to such portion of the Contributed Assets.

          (2)     Indemnification  and  Release  by Partnership.  From and after
                  ---------------------------------------------
the  Effective  Date,  the  Partnership,  in  respect  to  the  portion  of  the
Contributed  Assets that each Contributing Partner has contributed (or caused to
be  contributed  by  an  Affiliate  of  such  Contributing Partner) or agreed to
contribute  (or  agreed  to  cause  to  be  contributed  by an Affiliate of such
Contributing  Partner)  to  the  Partnership  pursuant  to Section 3.2(a), shall
indemnify,  hold  harmless and defend such Contributing Partner, its Affiliates,
each  of  the  respective  directors,  officers,  employees, representatives and
agents  of  such  Contributing  Partner  and/or  its Affiliates, and each of the
heirs,  executors,  successors  and  assigns  of  any  of the foregoing from and
against  the Assumed Liabilities (excluding any Consequential Loss) with respect
to  such  portion  of  the  Contributed  Assets,  EVEN  THOUGH  ANY SUCH ASSUMED
                                                  ------------------------------
LIABILITY  MAY  BE  CAUSED  IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY A PRE-EXISTING DEFECT, OR THE
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NEGLIGENCE  (WHETHER  SOLE,  JOINT  OR  CONCURRENT),  GROSS  NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL
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MISCONDUCT,  STRICT  LIABILITY  OR  OTHER  LEGAL  FAULT  OF ANY SUCH INDEMNIFIED
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PERSONS.  Except  for  the  Retained  Environmental Liabilities to the extent of
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each  Contributing  Partner's  respective  indemnity  obligations  under Section
3.6(c)(1),  from  and after the Effective Date, the Partnership and the Partners
(for  themselves  and as a binding covenant by and upon all Persons claiming any
interest  in the Contributing Assets or the Partnership by, through or under any
of  them) releases, acquits and forever discharges all Contributing Partners and
their  Affiliates  from  any  and  all  claims,  demands and causes of action of
whatsoever  nature,  including  all  claims,  demands  and  causes of action for
contribution  and indemnity under statute or common law, which could be asserted
now or in the future and that relate to or in any way arise out of Environmental
Liabilities  or  environmental  matters  relating  to  or  arising  out  of  the
ownership,  operation,  care,  custody,  control,  construction,  maintenance,
occupancy,  condition  or  use of any of the Contributed Assets on or before the
Effective  Date,  and  covenants not to sue or institute arbitration against any
such released Persons with respect to any such matters.  Nothing in this Section
3.6(c)(2)  shall be deemed to relieve or release a Contributing Partner from its
Partnership  Share  of any obligations or Liabilities of the Partnership (or its
obligation  to  make  capital contributions to the Partnership on account of its
Partnership  Share).

     (d)     Limitations  and  Disclaimers.
             -----------------------------

          (1)     NOTWITHSTANDING  ANYTHING  CONTAINED  TO  THE  CONTRARY IN ANY
OTHER  PROVISION  OF THIS AGREEMENT, IT IS THE EXPLICIT INTENT AND UNDERSTANDING
OF  EACH  PARTY HERETO THAT NO CONTRIBUTING PARTNER IS MAKING ANY REPRESENTATION
OR  WARRANTY  WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT
TO  ANY  PORTION  OF  THE  CONTRIBUTED  ASSETS  BEYOND  THOSE REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES  EXPRESSLY  GIVEN  BY  IT  IN  THIS  AGREEMENT  WITH  RESPECT TO SUCH
CONTRIBUTED  ASSETS,  AND  IT  IS UNDERSTOOD THAT, WITHOUT LIMITING SUCH EXPRESS
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, THE PARTNERSHIP TAKES THE CONTRIBUTED ASSETS "AS
IS"  AND  "WHERE  IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS".  WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF
THE  IMMEDIATELY  PRECEDING  SENTENCE  OR  ANY  REPRESENTATIONS  OR  WARRANTIES
EXPRESSLY  GIVEN  BY A CONTRIBUTING PARTNER IN THIS AGREEMENT, EACH CONTRIBUTING
PARTNER  HEREBY  (I)  EXPRESSLY  DISCLAIMS  AND  NEGATES  ANY  REPRESENTATION OR
WARRANTY,  EXPRESS  OR IMPLIED, AT COMMON LAW, BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, RELATING
TO  (A)  THE  CONDITION,  USEFULNESS  OR  ADEQUACY  OF  THE  CONTRIBUTED  ASSETS
(INCLUDING,  WITHOUT  LIMITATION,  ANY  IMPLIED  OR EXPRESS WARRANTY OF QUALITY,
MERCHANTABILITY  OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR OF CONFORMITY TO MODELS
OR  SAMPLES OF MATERIALS, OR THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF ANY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
IN  OR  ON,  OR  DISPOSED  OF  OR  DISCHARGED  OR RELEASED FROM, THE CONTRIBUTED
ASSETS), (B) ANY INFRINGEMENT BY A CONTRIBUTING PARTNER OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES
OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, THIRD PARTY TECHNOLOGY OR PROPRIETARY RIGHT OF ANY
THIRD  PARTY  OR  (C)  THE  ACCURACY,  SPECIFICATIONS,  QUALITY,  FITNESS,
MERCHANTABILITY,  REPRODUCIBILITY OR CORRECTNESS OF DATA, PRODUCTS OR RESULTS OF
ANY  INTELLECTUAL  PROPERTY,  TECHNOLOGY  OR  THIRD  PARTY

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TECHNOLOGY;  AND  (II)  NEGATES  ANY RIGHTS OF THE PARTNERSHIP UNDER STATUTES TO
CLAIM  DIMINUTION OF CONSIDERATION AND ANY CLAIMS BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR DAMAGES
BECAUSE  OF  LATENT  VICES  OR  DEFECTS,  WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, IT BEING THE
INTENTION OF THE PARTNERSHIP AND ALL PARTNERS THAT THE CONTRIBUTED ASSETS ARE TO
BE  ACCEPTED  BY THE PARTNERSHIP IN THEIR CONDITION AND STATE OF REPAIR EXISTING
AS  OF  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE.

          (2)     Deceptive  Trade  Practices  Act  Waiver.
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                            WAIVER OF CONSUMER RIGHTS

     EACH  PARTNER WAIVES ANY RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTRIBUTED ASSETS
     THAT  IT  MAY  HAVE  UNDER  THE  DECEPTIVE  TRADE PRACTICES - CONSUMER
     PROTECTION ACT, SECTION 17.41 ET SEQ., BUSINESS & COMMERCE CODE, A LAW
     THAT  GIVES  CONSUMERS  SPECIAL  RIGHTS  AND  PROTECTIONS.  AFTER
     CONSULTATION  WITH  AN  ATTORNEY OF SUCH PARTNER'S OWN SELECTION, EACH
     PARTNER  VOLUNTARILY  CONSENTS  TO  THIS  WAIVER.

     (e)     Exceptions  for  E&P  Agreement  Activities  and  Operations.
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Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  nothing  in  this Section 3.6 shall release or
discharge Harding Company, Cinco County or Cinco County's Affiliates (or require
the  Partnership  or  the  Partners  to indemnify, hold harmless or defend Cinco
County,  Cinco  County's  Affiliates, any of the respective directors, officers,
employees,  representatives and agents of Cinco County and/or its Affiliates, or
any  of  the  heirs,  executors, successors and assigns of any of the foregoing)
from and against any obligations or Liabilities of Harding Company, Cinco County
or  Cinco  County's  Affiliates under the E&P Agreement, the operating agreement
applicable  under  the  E&P  Agreement  or  any  Service  Contract.

     Section  3.7.  Prior  Agreements.  The  Partners acknowledge and agree that
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(a)  the  E&P  Agreement, (b) that certain Memorandum of Understanding Regarding
Gas  Evacuation  from ExxonMobil and Harding Barnett Shale E&P Venture signed on
June  24,  2005,  by  Harding  Company and Exxon Mobil Corporation, and (c) that
certain  Heads  of Agreement between Harding Company and Exxon Mobil Corporation
dated  as of May 9, 2006, by and among Harding Company, Exxon Mobil Corporation,
PetroSearch Energy Corporation, PS Gas, LLC (individually and as general partner
on  behalf  of  PS  Gas  Partners,  LP)  and  Eagle Oil & Gas Co. have each been
superseded  and  replaced  by  this Agreement upon the Effective Date; provided,
however,  that  such  superseding  and  replacement  shall  not  (i) release any
obligations, liabilities, rights and remedies arising out of any audit under the
E&P  Agreement with respect to the period prior to the Effective Date or arising
out  of  any  breach  of, or failure to comply with, the E&P Agreement occurring
prior  to  the  Effective  Date  (including  the  continuation thereof after the
Effective  Date), (ii) release any obligations, liabilities, rights and remedies
arising  out of any audit under the E&P Agreement with respect to the operations
relating  to  the  Delayed  Initial  Leases  or arising out of any breach of, or
failure  to  comply  with,  the  E&P  Agreement  occurring  with  respect to the
operations  relating  to  the Delayed Initial Leases (including the continuation

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thereof after completion of such operations), or (iii) release, impair or affect
the  covenants  and  agreements  contained  in  Articles  32  and  40 of the E&P
Agreement,  each  of  which  shall  survive  the execution of this Agreement and
continue  in  full  force  and  effect.

     Section 3.8.  True-up of Pre-Formation Costs.  The Partners acknowledge and
                   ------------------------------
agree  that  certain  pre-formation costs of the Partnership with respect to the
Contributed  Assets  were incurred after May 1, 2006, and prior to the Effective
Date in a disproportionate amount by the Partners or their Affiliates.  In order
that  each  Partner  will  bear  these  pre-formation  costs with respect to the
Contributed  Assets  in  proportion  to  its  Partnership  Share, Metroplex will
contribute  $2,682,123.62  with  respect to the period from May 1, 2006, through
October  31, 2006 (plus an amount with respect to the period after October 31 to
the  Effective  Date which will be calculated using the same methodology as that
used  for  the  period from May 1 through October 31) to the Partnership and the
Partnership  will  immediately distribute these amounts to Cinco County who will
be  solely responsible for reimbursing its Affiliates, including Harding Company
and  Petrosearch Energy Corporation, for their disproportionate payment of these
pre-formation  costs.  For  convenience  and  to expedite the transfer of funds,
Metroplex  may pay these amounts directly to Harding Company (who will be solely
responsible  for  reimbursing  Petrosearch  Energy  Corporation),  however, such
payment  shall  for all purposes be deemed to have been contributed by Metroplex
to  the  Partnership  and  distributed by the Partnership to Cinco County who is
solely  responsible  for reimbursement of Harding Company and Petrosearch Energy
Corporation.  The  costs  on  which  these amounts are based shall be subject to
audit  and  adjustment  under  the  terms  of the E&P Agreement.  The payment by
Metroplex  under  this  Section  shall  be  made by wire transfer of immediately
available  funds  within  five  (5)  Business  Days  after the execution of this
Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE IV
                          PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTIONS
                          ----------------------------

     Section  4.1.  Partnership  Share  of  Production  and  Distributions.
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     (a)     Except  as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Partner shall
have  the  right  and  obligation  to  take, as an in kind distribution from the
Partnership  to  such  Partner,  and  to  separately  dispose  of its applicable
Partnership  Share  of  total Hydrocarbon production of the Partnership from the
Hydrocarbon  Interests  held by the Partnership in each Operating Area, together
with  its  applicable  Partnership  Share  of  all  products processed from such
Hydrocarbon  production  prior to the Delivery Points (collectively, "Production
Shares").

     (b)     Each  Partner  shall  take title to and assume the risk of loss for
its  Production Shares, as follows:  (i) with respect to natural gas production,
at the Delivery Points, (ii) with respect to any Hydrocarbons other than natural
gas  production  and  Hydrocarbon products covered by clause (iii) below, at the
wellhead  or  the  outlet  flange  of wellhead storage tanks or wellhead storage
facilities; unless such non-gaseous Hydrocarbons are delivered from the wellhead
or  such  tanks  or  storage  facilities into any Partnership Pipeline, in which
event  each  Partner  will  take  title  to  and  assume  risk  of loss for such
non-gaseous Hydrocarbons at the Delivery Point for such Pipeline; and (iii) with
respect  to  any  Hydrocarbon products (including natural gas liquids) processed
and  extracted  prior  to  the  point of delivery of the Production Share of the
underlying  Hydrocarbons  hereunder,  at  the  outlet  flange  of the applicable
processing  plant,

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unless such Hydrocarbons products are delivered from such outlet flange into any
Partnership  Pipeline, in which event each Partner will take title to and assume
the  risk  of  loss for such Hydrocarbon products at the Delivery Point for such
Pipeline.  Each  Partner  shall be responsible for making all nominations to the
pipelines  and/or  purchasers  receiving  or  taking  its  Production  Share  of
Hydrocarbon  production  or  Hydrocarbon products at the Delivery Points and the
other  points  at which such Partner takes title to its Production Share and for
making  all  other  arrangements  with  respect  to the sale and delivery of its
Production  Share  at  the  Delivery  Points or such other points.  Each Partner
shall  give  the  Operator advance notice of its nominations for the delivery of
its Production Shares in accordance with such nomination and delivery procedures
as  the  Operator  may from time to time reasonably establish in connection with
the  operation  of  the  Partnership  wells,  Partnership  Pipelines  and  other
Partnership  equipment  and  facilities.  Each  Partner shall pay or cause to be
paid all Taxes due on the sale or disposition by such Partner of all Hydrocarbon
production  or  Hydrocarbon  products  distributed  to  such  Partner.

     (c)     Notwithstanding  anything  to the contrary in this Agreement or the
Operating  Agreement  Terms,  no  Partner  will have, claim or assert any right,
title  or  interest  in,  or  any  lien,  charge,  security  interest  or  other
encumbrance  on  or  with  respect  to  its  Production  Shares  of  Hydrocarbon
production  or  Hydrocarbon products prior to such Partner having taken delivery
thereof  under  Section  4.1(b).

     (d)     Should  any  Partner fail to take in kind and separately dispose of
its  Partnership  Share  of  production  or  products  under this Section 4.1 as
aforesaid,  the  Operator  may sell such Partner's production or products to the
extent  permitted  under  the  Operating Agreement Terms, however, any such sale
shall  be only for reasonable periods of time as are consistent with the minimum
needs  of  the  industry  and in no event to exceed twelve (12) months, and with
such  right of sale being revocable by such Partner at will subject to any prior
contractual  commitments.  Subject  to and without limiting the foregoing rights
and  obligations  regarding  each Partner's Production Share of Hydrocarbons and
Hydrocarbon products, each Partner's right to receive any distributions of other
proceeds  or  revenues  attributable to any Operating Area from which such sales
are  made  by  the Operator shall be governed by and made in accordance with the
Operating  Agreement  Terms  with  respect to such Operating Area as if (i) each
Partner,  without  regard  to  the Partnership, was a party to a joint operating
agreement  the  terms  of  which  were  substantially identical to the Operating
Agreement  Terms,  (ii)  each  Partner's  Partnership  Share with respect to any
Operating  Area, without regard to the Partnership, was treated for all purposes
as  an undivided interest in oil and gas rights in the Operating Area, and (iii)
the  General Partner, without regard to the Partnership, was the Operator of the
Operating  Area.  The Partners' shares of production, products and distributions
under  this  Section  4.1 are also subject to Section 4.2 and Article XIII which
shall  control  over  this  Section  4.1.

     (e)     With  respect  to  any  Operating  Area,  the  Partnership  and the
Partners  shall  take  such actions as are reasonably necessary to implement and
comply with the requirements of this Section 4.1 as if (i) each Partner, without
regard  to the Partnership, was a party to a joint operating agreement the terms
of  which  were  substantially  identical to the Operating Agreement Terms, (ii)
each  Partner's  Partnership  Share  with respect to any Operating Area, without
regard to the Partnership, was treated for all purposes as an undivided interest
in  oil  and  gas  rights  in  the

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Operating  Area,  and  (iii)  the  General  Partner,  without  regard  to  the
Partnership,  was  the  Operator  of  the  Operating  Area.

     (f)     From time to time, but not less often than annually, the Management
Committee  shall  review  the  Partnership  accounts  to  determine whether cash
distributions  to  the  Partners  from  sources  not  covered  by  the Operating
Agreement  Terms  are  appropriate.  If the Management Committee determines that
cash distributions from sources not covered by the Operating Agreement Terms are
appropriate,  such  distributions  shall be made pro rata to the Partners in the
ratio  of their Partnership Shares, subject to the provisions of Section 4.2 and
Article  XIII.

     Section  4.2.  Application  to  Defaults.  The  Production  Shares  of
                    -------------------------
Hydrocarbon  production  and products and the Partnership Share of distributions
to  which  a  defaulting  Partner would otherwise be entitled under Section 4.1,
shall  instead  be  distributed or dealt with as follows: (a) all or any part of
such Production Shares shall be distributed to the defaulting Partner subject to
the  right  of  the  Partnership  or  the non-defaulting Partner(s) to sell such
Production  Shares of the defaulting Partner on behalf of the defaulting Partner
as provided in Section 3.3 or 3.4 and have the net sale proceeds thereof applied
as provided in Section 3.3 or 3.4, (b) all or any part of such Production Shares
and  other  distributions  shall  be  retained by the Partnership and applied as
provided  in Sections 3.3 and 3.4, (c) all or any part of such Production Shares
and  other  distributions  shall  be  distributed to the holders of Contribution
Loans  occasioned  by  such Partner's default and applied as provided in Section
3.3  or  3.4,  (d)  in  the case of a failure by Cinco County to pay any Carried
Acquisition  Repayment  Amount,  at Metroplex's option, all or any part of Cinco
County's  Production  Shares shall be distributed to Cinco County subject to the
right  of  Metroplex to sell Cinco County's Production Shares on behalf of Cinco
County  as provided in Section 3.5, and/or (e) in the case of a failure by Cinco
County  to  pay any Carried Acquisition Repayment Amount, at Metroplex's option,
all  or  any part of Cinco County's Production Shares and/or and the Partnership
Share  of  distributions to which Cinco County would otherwise be entitled shall
be  distributed  to  Metroplex  pursuant  to  Section  3.5.  If the amount to be
retained  or  paid  pursuant  to the foregoing is insufficient to pay all amount
owing by such defaulting Partner on such Contribution Loans or to Metroplex, the
amount  available shall be applied in the following order of priority (1) first,
to  Metroplex  to  pay  any Carried Acquisition Repayment Amounts required to be
distributed  to  Metroplex  under Section 3.5, (2) second, pro rata to repay and
retire the Contribution Loans with respect to such defaulting Partner which were
first  required  by  the Management Committee, (3) third, in a similar manner to
repay  and  retire the remaining Contribution Loans in the order of the dates on
which  they  were  required  by  the Management Committee, and (4) fourth, to be
retained  by  the  Partnership  and  applied  to  the unpaid obligations of such
defaulting  Partner  to  the  Partnership.

     Section  4.3.  Distributions  of  Partnership  Assets  In  Kind.  Except as
                    ------------------------------------------------
otherwise  provided  in this Article IV, any in kind distribution of Partnership
Assets  shall  be  made  to  the  Partners  as  follows:

     (a)     To  the extent possible and except as otherwise provided in Section
4.3(b),  each  Partnership  Asset  shall  be  distributed  to  the  Partners  in
proportion  to  their  contributions  to  the  cost  of  such Partnership Asset.

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     (b)     Notwithstanding Section 4.3(a), upon winding up of the Partnership,
all  or any part of the Initial Pipeline Assets and Improvements, at Metroplex's
option,  shall  be  distributed  solely  to  Metroplex.

     Section  4.4.  DFW  Reversionary  Interest.
                    ---------------------------

     (a)     If  within  three  (3) years following the date of this Agreement a
written  plan  for  use  of  the DFW Pipeline has not been approved by a written
agreement  signed  by  a  Majority  in  Interest  of  the Partners which written
agreement  expressly  stipulates  that  such written plan for use satisfies this
requirement,  Metroplex  may  exercise the DFW Reversionary Interest at any time
within  a  two  (2)  year period that commences upon the expiration of three (3)
years  following  the  date  of  this Agreement, by giving written notice to the
other  Partners  of  Metroplex's  election  to  exercise  the  DFW  Reversionary
Interest.  If  Metroplex  fails  to  exercise  the  DFW Reversionary Interest by
giving the aforesaid notice within said 2-year period, then the DFW Reversionary
Interest  shall  terminate  and  be  of  no  further  force  and  effect.

     (b)     If  Metroplex  timely  exercises  the  DFW Reversionary Interest in
accordance  with  Section  4.4(a),  then  the  DFW Pipeline will be deemed to be
distributed  to  the  Partners  in  proportion  to  their Partnership Shares and
Metroplex  shall  be  deemed to have acquired the undivided interests in the DFW
Pipeline  deemed  distributed  to  the  other  Partners in consideration for the
payment  by Metroplex to each other Partner of that percentage of the FMV of the
DFW  Pipeline (as determined below) which is equal to the percentage interest in
the  DFW  Pipeline deemed distributed to such other Partner.  The FMV of the DFW
Pipeline  shall  be  determined  as of the date (the "DFW Reversionary Date") on
which  Metroplex  gives  notice  to  the  Partners  of  its  exercise of the DFW
Reversionary  Interest.  The  FMV of the DFW Pipeline as of the DFW Reversionary
Date  shall  be  determined  by the unanimous agreement of all Partners or by an
Appraiser  selected  by  at least two Partners having a Majority-in-Interest (or
pursuant  to  the procedure provided in Section 15.15 if the unanimous agreement
of  all  Partners  is  not  obtained  or  at  least  two  Partners  having  a
Majority-in-Interest  are  unable  to  agree  upon an Appraiser).  The aforesaid
payment by Metroplex of a percentage of the FMV of the DFW Pipeline to the other
Partners  shall  be  due  and  payable by Metroplex to the other Partners within
fifteen  (15)  days  after  said  FMV  has  been  so  agreed  or  determined.

     (c)     If  Metroplex  timely  exercises  the  DFW Reversionary Interest in
accordance  with  Section  4.4(a):

          (1)     the  DFW  Pipeline shall be deemed distributed to the Partners
and  acquired  by  Metroplex  as  of  the  DFW  Reversionary  Date;

          (2)     the  Partnership  and  the Partners shall promptly execute and
deliver all assignments, conveyances and other transfer documents that Metroplex
may  reasonably  request to transfer legal, record and all other title in and to
the  DFW  Pipeline  to  Metroplex,  free and clear of any obligations, liens and
encumbrances created by, through or under the Partnership or the other Partners;
and

          (3)     in  connection  with  such  assignments, conveyances and other
transfers  of  the  DFW  Pipeline  from  the  Partnership  to  Metroplex,

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               (i)     the  Partnership  (and  each  of  the  other  Partners if
          requested by Metroplex) shall bind itself, its successors and assigns,
          to  WARRANT  and FOREVER DEFEND all and singular the DFW Pipeline unto
          Metroplex, its successors and assigns, against every person whomsoever
          lawfully  claiming  or  to  claim  the same or any part thereof or any
          interest  or  encumbrance therein by, through or under the Partnership
          (or  such  other  Partner, as the case may be), but not otherwise; and

               (ii)     Metroplex,  for  the sole benefit of the Partnership and
          its  Partners,  shall  assume  and  agree to fulfill, perform, pay and
          discharge  (or  cause  to be fulfilled, performed, paid or discharged)
          (x)all  Liabilities  which  accrue  after the DFW Reversionary Date in
          connection with the ownership or operation of the DFW Pipeline and (y)
          all  Liabilities  with  respect  to the DFW Pipeline which constituted
          "Assumed  Liabilities"  prior  to  such  deemed  distribution  to  the
          Partners and acquisition by Metroplex, but which ceased to be "Assumed
          Liabilities" upon such deemed distribution and acquisition as provided
          in  the  definition  of  Assumed  Liabilities.

                                    ARTICLE V
                        CAPITAL ACCOUNTS AND TAX MATTERS
                        --------------------------------

     Section  5.1.  Tax  Matters  Partner.
                    ---------------------

     (a)     The  General  Partner shall be the "tax matters partner" as defined
in Code Section 6231(a) (the "TMP") and shall be responsible for compliance with
all Tax reporting obligations of the Partnership.  In the event of any change in
the  TMP,  the  Partner  serving as TMP at the beginning of a given taxable year
shall  continue  as  TMP  with  respect  to  all  matters  concerning such year.

     (b)     The  TMP  shall  not  be  required  to  incur  any expenses for the
preparation for, or pursuance of, administrative or judicial proceedings, unless
the  Partners  agree  on  a  method  for  sharing  such  expenses.

     (c)     The  Partners  shall  furnish  the  TMP,  within two weeks from the
receipt of the request, the information the TMP may reasonably request to comply
with the requirements on furnishing information to the Internal Revenue Service.

     (d)     The  TMP  shall  not  agree  to  any  extension  of  the statute of
limitations  for  making  assessments on behalf of the Partnership without first
obtaining the written consent of all Partners.  The TMP shall not bind any other
Partner  to  a  settlement agreement in Tax audits without obtaining the written
concurrence  of  any  such  Partner.

     (e)     Any  other  Partner who enters into a settlement agreement with the
Secretary  of  the Treasury with respect to any partnership items, as defined in
Code  Section  6231(a)(3),  shall  notify the other Partners of the terms within
ninety  (90)  days  from  the  date  of  such  settlement.

     (f)     If  any  Partner intends to file a notice of inconsistent treatment
under  Code  Section  6222(b),  such  Partner shall, prior to the filing of such
notice,  notify  the  TMP  of  the  (actual  or

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potential)  inconsistency  of  the Partner's intended treatment of a partnership
item  with  the  treatment  of that item by the Partnership.  Within one week of
receipt  the  TMP shall remit copies of such notification to the other Partners.
If  an inconsistency notice is filed solely because a Partner has not received a
Schedule  K-1  in  time for filing of its income Tax Return, the TMP need not be
notified.

     (g)     No  Partner  shall file pursuant to Code Section 6227 a request for
an  administrative  adjustment  of  partnership items (the "RFAA") without first
notifying  all  other  Partners.  If all other Partners agree with the requested
adjustment,  the  TMP  shall  file  the  RFAA  on behalf of the Partnership.  If
unanimous  consent is not obtained within forty-five (45) days from such notice,
or  within the period required to timely file the RFAA, if shorter, any Partner,
including  the  TMP,  may  file  a  RFAA  on  its  own  behalf.

     (h)     Any Partner intending to file with respect to any partnership item,
or  any  other  Tax  matter  involving  the  Partnership,  a petition under Code
Sections  6226,  6228,  or  any other provision, shall notify the other Partners
prior  to such filing of the nature of the contemplated proceeding.  In the case
where  the TMP is the Partner intending to file such petition, such notice shall
be  given within a reasonable time to allow the other Partners to participate in
the  choice of the forum for such petition.  If the Partners do not agree on the
appropriate  forum,  then  the  forum  shall  be  chosen by majority vote.  Each
Partner  shall  have  a  vote  in accordance with its standard Partnership Share
under  Section  3.1(a)  at the beginning of the year under audit.  If a majority
vote  is  not  reached  by  the  Partners, the TMP shall choose the forum.  If a
Partner  intends  to  seek  review of any court decision rendered as a result of
such  proceeding,  the  Partner shall notify the other Partners prior to seeking
such  review.

     Section  5.2.  Income  Tax  Compliance  and  Capital  Accounts.
                    -----------------------------------------------

     (a)     Tax  Returns.  The  TMP is authorized to prepare and file, or cause
             ------------
to  be  prepared  and  filed,  all  Tax  Returns  required  to  be  filed by the
Partnership,  and  the  TMP is further authorized to execute such Tax Returns on
behalf  of  the Partnership and the Partners. Not less than forty-five (45) days
prior  to  the  due  date (including extensions) of filing any federal, state or
local  income Tax Return, the TMP shall submit to each Partner for review a copy
of  such  income  Tax  Return  as  proposed.

     (b)     Fair  Market  Value  Capital Accounts.  The TMP shall establish and
             -------------------------------------
maintain,  or  cause  to  be  established and maintained, for each Partner a FMV
capital  account  and a federal income Tax basis capital account.  Upon request,
the  TMP  shall submit to each Partner along with a copy of any proposed federal
income  Tax Return an accounting of such Partner's FMV capital account as of the
end  of  the  period  for  such  Tax  Return.

     (c)     Information  Requests.  In addition to any obligation under Section
             ---------------------
5.1(c), each Partner agrees to furnish to the TMP not later than sixty (60) days
before  the  due  date (including extensions) of any Tax Return such information
relating to the operations conducted under this Agreement as may be required for
the  proper  preparation of such Tax Returns.  Similarly, each Partner agrees to
furnish  timely to the TMP, as requested, any information and data necessary for
the  preparation  and/or filing of other required reports and notifications, and
for  the  computation

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of  the  capital  accounts.  As  provided  in  Code  Section 6050K(c), a Partner
transferring  its Partnership Share must notify the TMP to allow compliance with
Code  Section  6050K(a).

     (d)     Best  Efforts  Without  Liability.  The  TMP and the other Partners
             ---------------------------------
shall  use  its/their  best  efforts to comply with responsibilities outlined in
this  Section  5.2,  and  with respect to the service as TMP as outlined Section
5.1, and in doing so shall incur no liability to any other Partner. The Partners
agree  to  timely  provide  to  the  TMP  such  powers  of  attorney  or similar
authorizations  that  may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this ARTICLE
V.

     Section  5.3.  Tax  and  FMV  Capital  Account  Elections.
                    ------------------------------------------

     (a)     General  Elections.  For both income Tax Return and capital account
             ------------------
purposes,  the  Partnership  shall  elect:

          (1)     to  deduct  when  incurred intangible drilling and development
costs  ("IDC");

          (2)     to  use  the  maximum allowable accelerated tax method and the
shortest  permissible  tax  life  for  depreciation;

          (3)     the  accrual  method  of  accounting;

          (4)     to  report  income  on  a  calendar  year  basis;

          (5)     upon  request  by  any Partner, to make an election under Code
Section  754  and  the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder to adjust the
bases  of  the  Partnership's  properties  under  Code  Sections  734  and  743;

          (6)     to  elect  to  deduct  the  organizational  expenses  of  the
Partnership  as  permitted  by  Code  Section  709(b);  and

          (7)     to  elect  to  deduct  the  start-up  expenditures  of  the
Partnership  as  permitted  by  Code  Section  195(b).

Neither the Partnership nor any Partner may make an election for the Partnership
to be excluded from the application of the provisions of Subchapter K of Chapter
1  of  Subtitle A of the Code or similar provisions of applicable state Law, and
no provision of this Agreement shall be construed to sanction or approve such an
election.

     (b)     Depletion.  Solely  for  FMV  capital  account  purposes, depletion
             ---------
shall  be  calculated  by  using  simulated cost depletion within the meaning of
Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(k)(2), unless the General Partner
elects  to  use  simulated  percentage  depletion.  The simulated cost depletion
allowance  shall  be  determined under the principles of Code Section 612 and be
based  on  the  FMV capital account basis of each lease.  Solely for purposes of
this  calculation,  remaining  reserves  shall be determined consistently by the
TMP.

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     (c)     Consent  Requirements  For  Subsequent  Tax  Or FMV Capital Account
             -------------------------------------------------------------------
Elections.  Future  elections,  in  addition to or in amendment of those in this
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Agreement,  must be approved by the affirmative vote of one (1) or more Partners
owning  a  Majority  in  Interest.

     (d)     Capital  Contributions and FMV Capital Accounts.  The provisions of
             -----------------------------------------------
this  Section  5.3  and  any  other provisions of this Agreement relating to the
maintenance  of  the  capital  accounts  are  intended  to  comply with Treasury
Regulations  Section 1.704-1(b) and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner
consistent  with  such  Treasury  Regulations.

     Section  5.4.  FMV  Capital  Accounts.
                    ----------------------

     (a)     The  FMV  capital  accounts  shall  be  increased  and decreased as
follows:

          (1)     The  FMV  capital  account of a Partner shall be increased by:

               (i)     the  amount  of  money  and  the  FMV  (as of the date of
          contribution)  of  any  property  contributed  by  such Partner to the
          Partnership (net of liabilities assumed by the Partnership or to which
          the  contributed  property  is  subject);

               (ii)     that  Partner's  share of Partnership items of income or
          gain,  allocated  in  accordance  with  Section  5.5(a);  and

               (iii)     that  Partner's  share of any Code Section 705(a)(1)(B)
          item.

          (2)     The  FMV  capital  account of a Partner shall be decreased by:

               (i)     the  amount  of money and the FMV of property distributed
          to  a  Partner (net of liabilities assumed by such Partner or to which
          the  property  is  subject);

               (ii)     that  Partner's  Section  5.5(a)  allocated  share  of
          Partnership  loss  and  deductions,  or  items  thereof;  and

               (iii)     that  Partner's  share of any Code Section 705(a)(2)(B)
          item.

     (b)     Except  with  respect  to  the initial capital contributions of the
Partners set forth on Annex A,"FMV" when it applies to property contributed by a
Partner  to the Partnership shall be assumed, for purposes of Section 5.4(a), to
equal  the  adjusted  tax  basis,  as  defined  in Code Section 1011, unless the
Partners  agree  otherwise.

     (c)     As  provided  in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(e),
upon  distribution  of Partnership Assets to a Partner the capital accounts will
be adjusted to reflect the manner in which the unrealized income, gain, loss and
deduction  inherent  in  distributed  property  (not previously reflected in the
capital  accounts)  would  be  allocated  among  the  Partners  if  there were a
disposition  of  such  property  at  its  FMV  as  of  the time of distribution.
Furthermore,  under  the  rules  of  Treasury  Regulations  Section
1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f),  the  FMV  capital  accounts  shall be revalued at certain
times  to  reflect value changes of the Partnership Assets.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, since the FMV capital accounts of the Partners would be increased and
decreased  by

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the  same  amount  with  respect to production taken in kind by the Partners, no
adjustment  to  the  FMV capital accounts of the Partners shall be required upon
the  distribution  of  production  taken  in  kind.

     Section  5.5.  Partnership  Allocations.
                    ------------------------

     (a)     FMV  Capital Account Allocations.  Each item of income, gain, loss,
             --------------------------------
or  deduction  shall  be  allocated  to  each  Partner  as  follows:

          (1)     Actual  or deemed income from the sale, exchange, distribution
or other disposition of production shall be allocated to the Partner entitled to
such  production  or  the proceeds from the sale of such production.  The amount
received  from  the  sale  of production and the amount of the FMV of production
taken  in  kind  by  the  Partners are deemed to be identical; accordingly, such
items  may  be  omitted  from  the adjustments made to the Partners' FMV capital
accounts.

          (2)     Exploration cost, IDC, operating and maintenance cost shall be
allocated  to  each  Partner  in accordance with its respective contribution, or
obligation  to  contribute,  to  such  cost.

          (3)     Depreciation  shall be allocated to each Partner in accordance
with  its  contribution,  or  obligation  to  contribute,  to  the  cost  of the
underlying  asset.

          (4)     Simulated  depletion  shall  be  allocated  to each Partner in
accordance  with  its  FMV  capital  account  adjusted basis in each Partnership
Hydrocarbon  Interest.

          (5)     Loss  (or  simulated  loss)  upon  the  sale,  exchange,
distribution,  abandonment  or  other  disposition  of depreciable or depletable
property shall be allocated to the Partners in the ratio of their respective FMV
capital  account  adjusted  bases  in  the  depreciable  or depletable property.

          (6)     Gain  (or  simulated  gain)  upon  the  sale,  exchange,
distribution,  or  other disposition of depreciable or depletable property shall
be  allocated  to  the  Partners  in  the  ratio of their respective FMV capital
account adjusted bases in the depreciable or depletable property so that the FMV
capital  account  balances  of  the  Partners  will  most  closely reflect their
respective  percentage  or  fractional  interests  under  the  Agreement.

          (7)     Costs or expenses of any other kind shall be allocated to each
Partner  in  accordance  with  its  respective  contribution,  or  obligation to
contribute,  to  such  costs  or  expense.

          (8)     Any  other  income  item shall be allocated to the Partners in
accordance  with  the  manner  in which such income is realized by each Partner.

     (b)     Tax  Return  and  Tax  Basis  Capital  Account  Allocations.
             -----------------------------------------------------------

          (1)     Unless  otherwise  expressly  provided in this Section 5.5(b),
the  allocations  of the Partnership's items of income, gain, loss, or deduction
for  Tax  Return  and  tax  basis  capital  account  purposes  shall  follow the
principles  of  the  allocations  under  Section  5.5(a).  However,

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the Partnership's gain or loss on the taxable disposition of a Partnership Asset
in  excess of the gain or loss under Section 5.5(a), if any, is allocated to the
contributing  Partner  to  the extent of such Partner's pre-contribution gain or
loss.

          (2)     The  Partners  recognize that under Code Section 613A(c)(7)(D)
the  depletion allowance is to be computed separately by each Partner.  For this
purpose,  each  Partner's  share  of  the adjusted tax basis in each oil and gas
property  shall  be  equal to its contribution to the adjusted tax basis of such
property.

          (3)     Under  Code  Section  613A(c)(7)(D)  gain  or  loss  on  the
disposition  of  an  oil  and  gas property is to be computed separately by each
Partner.  According to Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(4)(v), the amount
realized  shall  be allocated as follows: (i) an amount that represents recovery
of  adjusted  simulated  depletion basis is allocated (without being credited to
the  capital  accounts)  to the Partners in the same proportion as the aggregate
simulated  depletion basis was allocated to such Partners under Section 5.4, and
(ii)  any  remaining  realization  is  allocated  in  accordance  with  Section
5.5(a)(6).

          (4)     Depreciation  shall be allocated to each Partner in accordance
with  its  contribution  to  the  adjusted  tax  basis of the depreciable asset.

          (5)     In  accordance  with Treasury Regulations Section 1.1245-1(e),
depreciation  recapture  shall  be  allocated, to the extent possible, among the
Partners  to  reflect  their  prior  sharing  of  the  depreciation.

          (6)     In  accordance  with  the  principles  of Treasury Regulations
Section  1.1254-5,  any  recapture  of  IDC  is  determined and reported by each
Partner  separately.  Similarly,  any  recapture  of depletion shall be computed
separately  by each Partner, in accordance with its depletion allowance computed
pursuant  to  Section  5.5(b)(2).

          (7)     For  Partnership  Assets  with  FMV  capital  account  values
different  from  their  adjusted  tax  bases,  the  Partners  intend  that  the
allocations described in this Section 5.5(b) constitute a "reasonable method" of
allocating  gain  or  loss  under  Treasury  Regulations  Section 1.704-3(a)(1).

          (8)     Each  Partner  has  the  right to determine the market for its
proportionate share of production.  All items of income, deductions, and credits
arising from such marketing of production shall be recognized by the Partnership
and  shall  be  allocated  to  the  Partner  whose  production  is  so marketed.

                                   ARTICLE VI
                          MANAGEMENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP
                          -----------------------------

     Section  6.1.  Partnership  Assets.  All  Partnership  Assets  shall be the
                    -------------------
property  of the Partnership.  The title to all Partnership Assets shall be held
in  the  name  of  the  Partnership.

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     Section  6.2.  Management  Committee;  General  Partner's  Duties.
                    --------------------------------------------------

     (a)     Except  as  otherwise  set forth herein and to the extent permitted
under  the Act, the General Partner hereby delegates its authority to manage and
control  the  business  and affairs of the Partnership to a management committee
(the "Management Committee"), which shall be comprised of one representative and
one  alternate for each Partner.  Except when the terms of this Agreement or Law
require  the  consent  of  all  of  the  Partners (or a specific majority of the
Partners),  the  Management  Committee  shall  be  responsible  for managing the
business  of the Partnership and shall set policy for the Partnership consistent
with  the  terms  of  this Agreement and the Act, and shall provide guidance and
direction  to  the  General Partner in respect of the business and operations of
the  Partnership.  Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  no member or members of the
Management  Committee  acting  in  the  capacity  as  a member or members of the
Management  Committee  may  conduct any business with third parties on behalf of
the  Partnership, make any representations on behalf of the Partnership to third
parties, execute any agreements with third parties on behalf of the Partnership,
or  otherwise  bind  or  obligate  the Partnership to third parties, such rights
being  reserved  solely  to  the  General  Partner  and  the  officers  of  the
Partnership.

     (b)     Subject  to  the  general  guidance  and  direction of, or policies
established  by,  the  Management  Committee,  the  General  Partner  shall  be
responsible  for  the  day-to-day  management  and  operation of the Partnership
Assets and shall conduct such day-to-day operations in the same manner as if the
General  Partner  were  the  Operator  under  the Operating Agreement Terms, but
subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Agreement.

     (c)     Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this Agreement, (i) the
General  Partner  shall  manage,  operate and maintain the Partnership Assets in
accordance  with  the  health,  safety and environmental policies, standards and
procedures  used  or  employed  by  the  General Partner with respect to similar
properties  and  assets  owned  or  operated  by  the  General  Partner  or  its
Affiliates,  as the General Partner shall interpret and apply the same; and (ii)
the  General  Partner  shall  be  entitled to respond to and manage, without the
consent, approval, intervention or interruption of any Partner or the Management
Committee,  any  circumstance  or  condition  that  the General Partner deems or
considers,  in its good faith judgment, to be hazardous or potentially hazardous
to health, safety or the environment, or as creating any undue risk or threat to
property,  personal  injury  or  human  life.

     (d)     No  assignee  of  any  Partner shall participate in the management,
liquidation or winding up of the Partnership unless such assignee is admitted to
the  Partnership as a substitute or additional Partner pursuant to Section 12.2.

     Section  6.3.  Management  Committee  Representatives  and  Alternates.
                    -------------------------------------------------------

     (a)     Each  Partner  shall designate one representative and one alternate
representative  who  shall  be authorized and empowered to act for and bind such
Partner  on  the Management Committee.  Such designation shall be made by notice
by  the  Partner designating such representative and alternate representative to
each  other  Partner,  stating  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  respective
representative  and  alternate  so  designated.  Any  Partner  may  change  its
representative  or alternate representative at any time by giving like notice to
each  of  the  other  Partners.

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     (b)     The  representative  of  a  Partner  (and  in  the  absence  or
unavailability  of  the  representative,  the  alternative representative of the
Partner)  on  the  Management  Committee  shall have full power and authority to
represent  and  bind  their  respective  Partner in all matters presented to the
Management  Committee,  and all acts done by a representative (or in the absence
or  unavailability of the representative, by the alternate representative) shall
be deemed to be acts of the Partner appointing such representative or alternate;
provided  that,  the  alternate  designated by the Partner shall only act in the
event the representative designated by such Partner is not present or available.

     (c)     Proxies,  consents,  votes,  notices  and  other  actions  taken in
writing  by  a representative of a Partner (and in the absence or unavailability
of  the  representative,  the  alternative representative of the Partner) on the
Management  Committee  shall fully bind such Partner in all matters presented to
the  Management  Committee, and in the event of any conflict between the written
actions  of  a  representative  and  an  alternate of a Partner, the most recent
written  action  taken  before  such  matter  is  acted  upon  by the Management
Committee  shall  control.

     Section  6.4.  Chairman  and  Deputy  Chairman.
                    -------------------------------

     (a)     The  representative  of Metroplex on the Management Committee shall
act  as  chairman  (the  "Chairman")  of  the Management Committee, however, the
Chairman  shall  not  have any greater vote on the Management Committee than the
other  representatives  or  alternates.  All  communications  to  and  from  the
Management  Committee  shall  be  directed to the Chairman or shall come from or
through  the  Chairman, as the case may be, or to, from or through such staff of
the  Management  Committee  as  the  Chairman  may  from time to time designate.

     (b)     The  representative  of  Cinco  County  on the Management Committee
shall  act  as  deputy  chairman  (the  "Deputy  Chairman")  of  the  Management
Committee,  however,  the Deputy Chairman shall not have any greater vote on the
Management  Committee  than  the  other  representatives.

     Section  6.5.  Quorum.  Without limiting the voting requirements of Section
                    ------
6.11,  representatives  of  Partners  holding  a  Majority  in  Interest  of the
Partnership  Shares shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at
any  meeting  of  the  Management  Committee.  Representatives  of  Partners may
participate  in  a meeting of the Management Committee in person, by proxy or by
means  of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of
which  all  persons  participating  in  the  meeting can hear each other.  If no
quorum  is  present  at the time and place of any meeting, such meeting shall be
adjourned  to  reconvene  at  the  same place on a date selected by the Chairman
which  is  not  more  than  fourteen  (14)  days after the original date of such
meeting  (written  notice  of  which  shall  be  given  by  the Chairman to each
Partner).

     Section 6.6.  Voting.  All actions of the Management Committee with respect
                   ------
to  the matters referred to in Section 6.11 shall require and be determined by a
unanimous  vote  of the Partnership Shares and with respect to any other matters
shall  require  and  be  determined  by  a vote of a Majority in Interest of the
Partnership  Shares,  with  the  representative (or alternate as appropriate) of
each  Partner being entitled to vote such Partner's Partnership Share, except in

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instances  where  such  Partner  is  excluded  from  participating  in  such
determination or the Management Committee by other provisions of this Agreement.
Except as provided in Section 6.10(c), the General Partner, before entering into
any  commitment  for  the  account  of  the  Partnership for Major Operations or
incurring  any  expenditure  for  the  account  of  the  Partnership  for  Major
Operations,  shall  submit  to  the  Management  Committee an AFE therefor.  Any
Partner  not represented at a meeting of the Management Committee (but otherwise
entitled  to  vote  thereat)  may vote on any item included in the agenda of the
meeting  by  proxy  or  by letter, facsimile, telex or telegram addressed to the
Chairman;  provided  that,  such  vote  is received by the Chairman prior to the
submission  of  such  item  to a vote.  Any proxy of a Partner (or other written
vote, consent or action of a Partner under this Article VI) shall be in writing,
shall  be  signed  by  such  Partner's  Management  Committee representative (or
alternate  as  appropriate  or,  if  such  representative  and  alternate  are
unavailable,  by  any  other duly authorized representative, agent or officer of
such  Partner),  and  shall  bear  the date of signature.  No proxy may be voted
after thirty (30) days from its date, unless such proxy expressly provides for a
longer  period.  Any  matter  under  this  Agreement requiring a decision of the
Management  Committee  may be taken or approved by the unanimous written consent
of  the  Partners  with  or  without  a  meeting  or  any  notice  of a meeting.

     Section 6.7.  Meetings of Management Committee.  Meetings of the Management
                   --------------------------------
Committee shall be held monthly (or at more frequent intervals as the Management
Committee may decide are necessary to discuss and approve matters brought before
it  for  approval)  until  the  end of 2008, and thereafter at such intervals as
determined  by  the  Management Committee.  At least once each calendar quarter,
shareholders  or  members  of  the  Partners  will have the option to attend the
Management  Committee  meeting  and  enter  into  the  discussion  of the topics
presented  for  approval.  Notwithstanding  such  participation by the Partners'
members  or  shareholders,  all  decisions  of the Management Committee shall be
determined by the vote of the members of the Management Committee.  In addition,
the  Chairman shall call a meeting upon the request of any Partner.  In case the
meeting  is  requested  by  a  Partner,  the  request  for  such  meeting  shall
specifically  set  forth  the  matters  to  be  considered at such meeting.  The
Chairman  shall  give  each  Partner written notice of the date and time of each
meeting  at  least  seven (7) days before the date of such meeting.  Such notice
shall  be  accompanied  by an agenda prepared by the Chairman (provided that the
agenda  may  be  sent to each such member not later than three (3) days prior to
such  meeting)  and  by  such  supplemental  information  as  the Chairman deems
necessary  or as may be requested by the Management Committee.  The agenda for a
meeting  shall  include  all  matters  requested by any Partner by notice to the
Chairman  at least four (4) days prior to such meeting.  Except by the unanimous
vote of members entitled to vote thereon (including members not present, but who
are  entitled to vote thereon), matters not included in the agenda for a meeting
of  the  Management  Committee shall not be considered at any such meeting.  The
Chairman  shall  prepare  a  set  of minutes covering business conducted at each
Management  Committee  meeting and shall furnish a copy thereof to each Partner.
Any  Partner  which does not give the Chairman notice of corrections it believes
necessary  to  such minutes, within twenty-one (21) days after receipt of a copy
of  the  Chairman's  proposed  set  of  minutes (or of any other proposed set of
minutes  following  any  modification  made  by  the Chairman in response to the
objection  of  a  Partner  or  otherwise),  shall be deemed to have approved the
Chairman's  proposed  set  of minutes.  All meetings of the Management Committee
shall  alternate  between  a  location  in the Dallas area (as from time to time
selected  by  the  Management  Committee) and a location in the Houston area (as
from  time  to  time  selected  by  the  Management  Committee),  unless

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otherwise  agreed.  It  is  agreed  that meetings may also be held by means of a
conference  telephone  or similar communications equipment by means of which all
persons  participating  in the meeting can hear each other.  Each representative
may  have  such  advisors as he deems necessary at any meeting of the Management
Committee.  Each Partner shall bear the expense required for its representative,
alternate  and advisors to attend meetings of the Management Committee; provided
that,  any reasonable, direct out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Chairman in
carrying  out  his  duties  as Chairman and the direct out-of-pocket expenses of
meetings  shall  be  borne  by  the  Partnership.

     Section  6.8.  Votes  Without  a  Meeting.  Any matter under this Agreement
                    --------------------------
requiring  a  decision  of  the  Management  Committee  may  be submitted to the
Management  Committee  for  consideration  and  vote  without holding a meeting,
provided that such matter is submitted in writing to all Partners.  Decisions of
the  Management  Committee  required  under Article XI shall be made pursuant to
this Section 6.8 if necessary to comply with the applicable response times under
such  provisions.  Within  ten  (10)  days  after  receipt  of such notice, each
Partner  shall  give  to  each  other  Partner  notice  in  writing of its vote;
provided,  however, that in the event the matter presented for consideration (i)
is  an  emergency  and is so stated in the original notice, said period shall be
reduced  to  48  hours  (exclusive  of  Saturdays,  Sundays  and  legal holidays
recognized  by  the  government  of  the State of Texas or the government of the
United  States  of America) or (ii) is a matter requiring a response pursuant to
Article  XI, said period shall be reduced to the extent necessary to comply with
the  applicable  response  time  provided  in  such  provisions.  Failure of the
Partners  to  receive  any  Partner's  reply  within  the  applicable time above
provided  shall  be  deemed  to be a negative vote of such Partner's Partnership
Share.  Any decision made pursuant to this Section 6.8 without holding a meeting
of  the Management Committee shall be binding on all Partners to the same extent
as  votes  cast at a meeting of Management Committee.  The Chairman shall keep a
written  record  of such vote and furnish a copy thereof to the Partners as soon
as  possible,  but not later than five (5) Business Days after the period within
which  votes  must  be  received  has  expired.

     Section  6.9.  Project  Manager,  Staff  and  Officers.
                    ---------------------------------------

     (a)     Project  Manager  and  Staff.  Metroplex  will  name and appoint an
             ----------------------------
individual  employee  of  Metroplex  or  one  of  its  Affiliates  (the "Project
Manager")  who  will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the General
Partner  with  respect to the management of the Partnership and the operation of
Partnership  Assets,  including the planning and coordination of all Partnership
activities  and  the  direct  responsibility for the Partnership's relationships
with  its  Service  Contractors and other Persons providing services or work for
the  Partnership  or  with respect to Partnership Assets, subject to the general
guidance  and  direction  of  the Management Committee over the General Partner.
The  General  Partner shall appoint the Project Manager as the President or as a
Vice  President  of  the Partnership pursuant to Section 6.9(b).  In addition to
the  Project  Manager, Metroplex shall furnish such other personnel ("Staff") as
may  be  required  to  support  the  Partnership,  including  pipeline,  land,
geological,  geophysical  and  field operations personnel, as well as such other
Staff  as  the  Project  Manager  deems  necessary  to efficiently carry out the
Partnership's  day-to-day  operations  and  activities.  The Project Manager and
Staff  will work onsite in the Contract Area with Harding Energy's personnel, as
required,  for a period of three (3) years from the date of this Agreement.  The
services of the Project Manager, any other officers of the Partnership appointed
pursuant  to  Section  6.9(b),  and  the  Staff  will  be  furnished  to

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the  Partnership  by  the  General Partner under the terms and provisions of the
Accounting Procedure, which shall entitle the General Partner (or its Affiliates
as  applicable)  to  recover  the  costs  for  such  personnel.

     (b)     Officers.
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          (1)     Appointment  and  Tenure.
                  ------------------------

               (i)     The  General  Partner  may,  from  time  to time, appoint
          officers  of  the  Partnership to carry out the day-to-day business of
          the  Partnership,  subject to the direction of the General Partner and
          the  general  guidance  and direction of the Management Committee over
          the  General  Partner.

               (ii)     The  officers  of  the Partnership shall be comprised of
          one  or  more  individuals  appointed from time to time by the General
          Partner.  No  officer  need  be a resident of the State of Texas. Each
          officer  shall  hold  his or her offices for such terms and shall have
          such  authority  and  exercise  such powers and perform such duties as
          shall  be  determined  from  time  to time by the General Partner. Any
          number  of  offices  may  be  held  by  the  same  individual.

               (iii)     The  officers  of  the  Partnership  may  consist  of a
          president and a secretary. The General Partner may also appoint one or
          more  vice  presidents  and assistant secretaries. The General Partner
          may  appoint  such other officers and assistant officers and agents or
          attorneys-in-fact of the Partnership as the General Partner shall from
          time  to  time  deem  necessary.

          (2)     Removal.  Any  officer,  agent  or  attorney-in-fact  of  the
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Partnership  may  be  removed as such at any time by the General Partner, either
with  or  without  cause,  in  the  discretion  of  the  General  Partner.

          (3)     President.  The president shall be the chief executive officer
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of  the  Partnership, shall have general and active management of the day-to-day
business  and  affairs of the Partnership as authorized from time to time by the
General Partner, subject to the general guidance and direction of the Management
Committee  over  the  General  Partner,  and shall be authorized and directed to
implement  all  orders,  resolutions  and  business plans adopted by the General
Partner  or  the  Management  Committee.

          (4)     Vice  Presidents.  The  vice presidents, if any are appointed,
                  ----------------
in  the  order  of  their  seniority, unless otherwise determined by the General
Partner,  shall,  in  the  absence  or  disability of the president, perform the
duties  and  have  the authority and exercise the powers of the president.  They
shall  perform such other duties and have such other authority and powers as the
General Partner may from time to time prescribe, subject to the general guidance
and  direction  of  the  Management  Committee  over  the  General  Partner.

          (5)     Secretary;  Assistant  Secretaries.  The  secretary, if one is
                  ----------------------------------
appointed, shall perform such duties and have such powers as the General Partner
may  from  time to time prescribe, subject to the general guidance and direction
of  the  Management  Committee  over  the  General  Partner.  The  assistant
secretaries,  if  any  are  appointed,  in  the  order  of  their  seniority,

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unless  otherwise  determined  by  the General Partner, shall, in the absence or
disability  of  the secretary, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the
secretary.  The  performance of any act or the execution of any instrument by an
Assistant Secretary in any instance in which such performance or execution would
customarily  have been accomplished by the Secretary shall constitute conclusive
evidence of the absence or disability of the Secretary.  They shall perform such
other  duties and have such other powers as the General Partner may from time to
time  prescribe, subject to the general guidance and direction of the Management
Committee  over  the  General  Partner.

     Section  6.10.  Programs  and  Budgets;  Acquisitions;  Operations.
                     --------------------------------------------------

     (a)     Annual  Program  and  Budget.
             ----------------------------

          (1)     The  Project Manager shall in each calendar year submit to the
Management  Committee  not  later than October 1st a proposed program and budget
("Program  and  Budget") for the next calendar year showing (i) the projects and
other  work  to  be  undertaken,  (ii)  details  of  the number of employees and
contract  office  staff  personnel required, and (iii) such other information as
the  Management Committee may have required the Project Manager to provide.  The
Initial  Budget  shall  constitute  a  Program  and Budget to the extent that it
covers  periods  that  would  otherwise  be  covered  by  a  Program and Budget.

          (2)     Each  proposed  Program  and  Budget  shall  be  subject  to
consideration,  revision  and  approval  by  the  Management  Committee.  The
Management Committee shall consider such Program and Budget and approve the same
with  such  revisions thereto as may be agreed as soon as practicable but in any
event  not  later  than  December 1st.  The Management Committee's approval of a
Program and Budget shall, subject to Sections 6.10(c) and 6.10(d), authorize and
oblige  the  General  Partner  to  proceed  with  such  Program  and  Budget.

     (b)     Acquisitions  of  Hydrocarbon  Interests.  Within  5  Business Days
             ----------------------------------------
after  the  date  of  this Agreement, the Partnership shall enter into a Service
Contract  with Harding Energy requiring Harding Energy, during a three-year term
from and after the date hereof, to seek to acquire Hydrocarbon Interests for the
Partnership  within  the  Contract  Area,  less and except the Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport and buffer zone around the Dallas/Fort Worth International
Airport  as  more  particularly described in the Dallas/Fort Worth International
Airport  request  for  bids  dated  May  8,  2006.  All  Hydrocarbon  Interest
acquisitions  by  the  Partnership  (including  those proposed by Harding Energy
under the Service Contract described in the preceding sentence) must be approved
for  acquisition  by  the  Management  Committee  in accordance with the Initial
Budget or the currently approved Program and Budget.  No Partner will pursue the
acquisition  of  or  acquire,  and each Partner will cause its Affiliates not to
pursue  the acquisition of or acquire, any Hydrocarbon Interests in the Contract
Area  until  they have first made a proposal to (i) the Management Committee for
the  acquisition  of  such  Hydrocarbon  Interest by the Partnership or (ii) the
Project  Manager  to  the  extent that authority to approve such acquisition has
been  delegated  to the Project Manager as hereinafter provided.  The Management
Committee  may delegate authority to the Project Manager to approve acquisitions
of Hydrocarbon Interests in the Contract Area that meet such requirements as the
Management  Committee  may  set forth in such delegation of authority; provided,
however,  that  any  such  delegation of authority must be in writing and may be
revoked  by  the  Management  Committee  at

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any  time.  Each  such  proposal  to  the Management Committee shall include all
relevant  information  regarding  the proposed acquisition which such Partner or
any of its Affiliates have in its possession or under its control, including, to
the  extent  available  to the Partner making the proposal, (i) any geophysical,
geological,  engineering, financial and other data (to the extent the disclosure
thereof  to  the  Partnership  is  not  prohibited  by  bona  fide  third  party
confidentiality restrictions existing prior to the date of this Agreement), (ii)
an itemized breakdown of the estimated acquisition cost thereof, (iii) copies of
all proposed leases, assignments or other instruments evidencing or creating the
Hydrocarbon  Interest,  and  (iv)  copies of all proposed farmout agreements and
other  agreements  to  be  assumed  or performed in connection with acquiring or
earning  said  Hydrocarbon  Interest.  Each such proposal to the Project Manager
shall  include  such  information  as  is  required in the written delegation of
authority  from  the Management Committee to the Project Manager authorizing the
Project Manager to approve such acquisition.  The Management Committee, with the
concurrence  of the Project Manager, or the Project Manager, as the case may be,
shall  have  thirty  (30) days after receipt of such acquisition proposal within
which  to  elect to pursue the acquisition of such Hydrocarbon Interest.  In the
event  the  Partnership  fails  to  elect  to  pursue  the  acquisition  of such
Hydrocarbon  Interest  within  said  30-day  period,  the  Partner  or Partner's
Affiliate  making  the  proposal to the Partnership may acquire such Hydrocarbon
Interest  for  its  own  account  outside  the  Partnership, in which event such
Partner and its Affiliates shall not have any right to evacuate or transport any
natural  gas  produced  from  such  Hydrocarbon  Interest  on  any  Partnership
Pipelines.  If  the  Partner  or Affiliate making such proposal does not acquire
such Hydrocarbon Interest within the one year period (the "Option Period") after
such  proposal  is  made to the Management Committee (or the Project Manager, as
the  case  may be), then a new proposal must be made to the Management Committee
(or  the Project Manager, as the case may be) if such Partner or Affiliate still
wishes to pursue the acquisition of such Hydrocarbon Interest.  If more than one
Partner  or  Partner's  Affiliate  has  made  an  acquisition  proposal  to  the
Management  Committee  within  the  last  one  year  period,  the Partner or its
Affiliate  first making an acquisition proposal to the Management Committee with
respect  to  such  Hydrocarbon  Interest within such one year period may acquire
such  Hydrocarbon  Interest  for  its  own  account.

     (c)     Proposal  and  Approval  of  Well Operations.  Except for blowouts,
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craters  and  other  emergencies  ("Emergencies"),  the  General Partner, before
entering  into  any  commitment  for  the  account  of the Partnership for Major
Operations  for  drilling,  completion,  recompletion,  deepening, sidetracking,
reworking  or  other  operation  with  respect  to  an  oil and/or gas well or a
proposed oil and/or gas well or incurring any expenditure for the account of the
Partnership  for Major Operations for any such operations with respect to an oil
and/or gas well, shall submit to the Partners an AFE therefor in accordance with
the  provisions of the Operating Agreement Terms as if (i) each Partner, without
regard  to the Partnership, was a party to a joint operating agreement the terms
of  which  were  substantially  identical to the Operating Agreement Terms, (ii)
each  Partner's  Partnership  Share  with respect to any Operating Area, without
regard to the Partnership, was treated for all purposes as an undivided interest
in  oil  and  gas  rights  in  the Operating Area covered thereby, and (iii) the
General  Partner,  without  regard  to  the Partnership, was the Operator of the
Operating Area covered thereby.  After the period covered by the Initial Budget,
any  Partner  may propose to the other Partners that the Partnership conduct any
drilling,  completion, recompletion, deepening, sidetracking, reworking or other
operation  with  respect  to an oil and/or gas well or a proposed oil and/or gas
well  (but  not  any other operation) under the Operating Agreement Terms in the
manner  provided  in  the  Operating  Agreement  Terms  as  if  (i)

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each  Partner,  without  regard  to  the  Partnership,  was  a  party to a joint
operating  agreement  the  terms  of  which  were substantially identical to the
Operating Agreement Terms, (ii) each Partner's Partnership Share with respect to
any  Operating  Area,  without  regard  to  the Partnership, was treated for all
purposes  as  an undivided interest in oil and gas rights in the Operating Area,
and  (iii)  the  General  Partner,  without  regard  to the Partnership, was the
Operator  of  the  Operating  Area,  unless  such  operation  conflicts  with an
operation  provided  for  in  the  currently approved Program and Budget then in
effect.  To the extent that a Majority in Interest of the Partners approves such
AFE  or  such  proposed  operation  with respect to a Hydrocarbon Interest or an
Operating  Area under the Operating Agreement Terms as aforesaid (or any Partner
approves  such  proposed  operation  as a Non-Consent Operation, but only if the
conduct  of  such  operation  with  less  than majority or unanimous approval is
permitted under the terms of the Operating Agreement Terms), the General Partner
shall  be  authorized  and  obliged,  in accordance with the Operating Agreement
Terms  for  such  Operating  Area,  to  proceed with such operation or action on
behalf  of  the  Partnership.  Decisions  with  respect  to  the  Partnership's
participation  or  non-participation  in  a  completion  attempt  or  any  other
operation  on  any  well  shall  be  made by the Partners under the terms of the
Operating  Agreement  Terms  as  if  (i)  each  Partner,  without  regard to the
Partnership,  was a party to a joint operating agreement the terms of which were
substantially  identical  to  the Operating Agreement Terms, (ii) each Partner's
Partnership  Share  with  respect  to  any Operating Area, without regard to the
Partnership,  was  treated  for all purposes as an undivided interest in oil and
gas  rights in the Operating Area, and (iii) the General Partner, without regard
to the Partnership, was the Operator of the Operating Area.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing,  (X) no matters which require the unanimous consent of the Management
Committee  under  Section  6.11  may  be proposed or approved under this Section
6.10(c) and (Y) the Partners shall approve all work with respect to an operation
which  is  required  by Law to be performed or carried out by the Partnership or
the  General Partner acting on behalf of the Partnership and no further approval
thereof  shall  be  required  under  this  Section  6.10.

     (d)     Amendment  of  Program and Budget.  At any time the Project Manager
             ---------------------------------
or  a  member  of  the  Management  Committee  may,  by notice to the Management
Committee,  propose  that  an approved Program and Budget (including the Initial
Budget)  be  amended.  To  the  extent  that  an  amendment  is  approved by the
Management  Committee,  the  approved  Program and Budget (including the Initial
Budget)  shall  be  deemed  amended  accordingly,  provided always that any such
amendment  shall not invalidate any authorized commitment or expenditure made by
an  Operator,  the  Project  Manager  or  any  Service Contractor prior thereto.

     (e)     DFW Pipeline Improvements.  After the Effective Date and until such
             -------------------------
time  as  a  written  plan  for  use  of the DFW Pipeline has been approved by a
written  agreement  signed  by  a  Majority  in  Interest  of  the  Partners  as
contemplated  in  the  definition of DFW Reversionary Interest, no improvements,
additions or changes shall be made to the DFW Pipeline, except such maintenance,
repairs,  improvements,  additions,  changes  and  other  actions,  including
acquisitions,  renewals  and  extensions  of rights or way, licenses, permits or
other  authorizations,  as are reasonably necessary to cause the DFW Pipeline to
comply  with  all  Laws, to remain in substantially the same state of repair and
condition,  to  constitute  substantially the same properties and assets, and to
have  substantially  the  same  legal  attributes  as  on  the  Effective  Date.

     Section  6.11.  Matters  Requiring  Unanimous Consent.  Notwithstanding any
                     -------------------------------------
other  provision  herein  and  except  in  instances  where  such Partner or its
representative  or  alternate  is

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excluded from participating in such determination or the Management Committee by
other  provisions  of this Agreement, the express consent of each Partner acting
through  its  representative  or  alternate on the Management Committee shall be
required  in  connection  with  the  following  matters:

     (a)     any  increase  in the amount of the Initial Commitment as set forth
in  Section  3.2(b);

     (b)     any  of  the  following  matters  to the extent not included in the
Initial  Budget:  (i)  construction  of  any  pipeline  costing  in  excess  of
$75,000,000,  (ii)  any  proposed  action (other than construction of pipelines)
that  would cost in excess of $50,000,000, and (iii) any individual well program
costing  in  excess  of $25,000,000; provided, however, that the foregoing shall
not apply to any operation which a Partner reasonably determines is necessary in
order  to (1) preserve, maintain or continue a Hydrocarbon Interest owned by the
Partnership  in  force  and  effect, earn or preserve farmout, option or similar
contractual  rights  then owned by the Partnership, or prevent the reversion (or
required  reassignment)  of  all  or part of a Hydrocarbon Interest owned by the
Partnership  to  a  third  party,  (2)  maintain  a unitized area or any portion
thereof  in  which  the  Partnership  owns  a  Hydrocarbon Interest in force and
effect,  or  (3)  comply  with  an  order  issued  by  a  regulatory body having
jurisdiction with respect to a Hydrocarbon Interest, failing which rights of the
Partnership  with  respect  to  such  Hydrocarbon  Interest  would terminate (an
operation  will be deemed necessary for the purposes of clauses (1), (2) and (3)
above  if  it is proposed by a Partner within the last twelve (12) months on the
primary  term of a Hydrocarbon Interest or within twelve (12) months of the date
such  operation  is  required  to  be  commenced  in  order to earn, preserve or
maintain  or  to  prevent  the  reversion,  reassignment  or termination of such
Hydrocarbon  Interest,  a  unitized  area  or  part  thereof,  or  rights of the
Partnership  relating  to  a  Hydrocarbon  Interest);

     (c)     the  assignment of the Partnership Assets in trust for creditors or
on  the  assignee's  promise  to  pay  the  debts  of  the  Partnership;

     (d)     any  act  which  will  make  it impossible to carry on the ordinary
business  of  the  Partnership;

     (e)     the  amendment  of  this  Agreement;

     (f)     the  contribution  of  any  property (other than cash) as a Capital
Contribution  to  the  Partnership;  and

     (g)     any  other  act  for  which  unanimity is expressly required by the
other  provisions  of  this  Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE VII
                             OPERATIONS AND SERVICES
                             -----------------------

     Section  7.1.  Operating  Areas.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this
                    ----------------
Agreement,  the  Partnership  shall  operate  the  Partnership  Assets  in  each
Operating  Area  as  if (i) the Operating Area and the Hydrocarbon Interests and
Pipeline  Interests  assigned  thereto  hereunder  were within a "Contract Area"
covered  by  the  Operating  Agreement  Terms,  (ii)  the  General  Partner

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was  the Operator of the Operating Area, and (iii) the Partnership was the owner
of  the  Hydrocarbon  Interests  and  Pipeline  Interests  assigned  thereto.

     Section  7.2.  Duties  of  General  Partner  as  Operator.
                    ------------------------------------------

     (a)     Subject  to  the  authority  and  responsibility  granted  to  the
Management Committee under Section 6.2 and this Article VII, the General Partner
shall  carry  out  on  behalf  of  the Partnership all exploration, development,
operational,  production,  maintenance,  protection, abandonment, transportation
and  processing  operations  and  activities  prior  to the Delivery Points with
respect  to the Partnership Assets.  In this capacity, the General Partner shall
conduct  or  perform  such  operations  and  activities  in  accordance  with
instructions  received  from  the  Management  Committee  under  the  Operating
Agreement Terms, as the same shall be applicable to the relevant Operating Area.
Subject  to  the  foregoing  limitations on the General Partner's authority, the
General Partner's duties and responsibilities shall include, without limitation,
the  following  duties  and  responsibilities:

          (1)     Subject  to  policies,  guidelines  and  directives  of  the
Management  Committee,  the  General  Partner  shall  (i) conduct, supervise and
oversee  all  exploration,  development and production operations, including the
supervision and overseeing of the Service Contractor's conduct of services under
a Service Agreement, (ii) provide for the treatment, processing, transportation,
storage  or  other  handling  of  all  production  from  or  attributable to the
Partnership  Assets  prior  to  the  Delivery  Points,  including  entering into
processing,  storage  or transportation agreements on behalf of the Partnership,
(iii)  maintain, operate and repair the facilities and equipment associated with
Partnership  Assets,  and (iv) have the right (but not the obligation) to market
any such production or products processed therefrom on behalf of any Partner who
fails  to  take  in  kind and dispose of its Partnership Share of production and
products  pursuant  to  Section 4.1 (subject to the limitations of Section 4.1),
including  entering  into  production  or  product  sales  contracts.

          (2)     To the extent not required of a Partner or its Affiliate under
the  terms of a Service Contract, the General Partner shall pay on behalf of the
Partnership  all  rentals,  payments and distributions to joint interest owners,
royalties,  overriding  royalties,  production  payments and similar payments on
production,  severance,  excise,  sales,  property  and similar taxes (excluding
income  and  franchise  taxes),  operating  expenses,  drilling,  completion,
equipping,  reworking  and other exploration and development costs and expenses,
and  all  other  costs,  expenses  and  charges  incurred in connection with the
exploration,  development,  operation,  production,  maintenance,  protection or
abandonment  of  the Partnership Assets or the marketing (to the extent provided
in  Section  4.1),  transportation, storage, processing or other handling of the
production  or  products  from  or  attributable  thereto.

          (3)     To the extent not required of a Partner or its Affiliate under
the  terms of a Service Contract, the General Partner shall (i) prepare and file
all  reports  required by Law with respect to its Operating Area and (ii) obtain
all  governmental  permits,  licenses and approvals necessary in connection with
the exploration, development, operation or abandonment of any of the Partnership
Assets.

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          (4)     To the extent not required of a Partner or its Affiliate under
the  terms  of  a  Service  Contract,  the  General  Partner shall represent the
Partnership  in  all  hearings  and  proceedings  before  administrative  bodies
concerning  matters  with  respect to the Partnership or the Partnership Assets,
including,  without  limitation,  unitization, safety and environmental matters.

          (5)     The  General  Partner  shall  keep  or  cause to be kept full,
complete  and  accurate  records of accounts of all transactions conducted by it
with  respect  to  the Partnership and the Partnership Assets, including without
limitation  full  records and accounts of all advances from, and settlements to,
the  Partnership.

          (6)     The  General Partner shall prepare such periodical and special
reports as may be reasonably requested by the Management Committee in respect of
the  activities  of  the  Partnership  or the Partnership Assets and the General
Partner's  operations  and  activities  with  respect  thereto.

          (7)     The  General Partner shall prepare and send invoices and joint
interest  billings  to  the  Partners  as  contemplated  in  Section  8.1.

     (b)     Without  limiting  the  generality  of  Section  7.2 (a) above, the
General Partner shall perform the following duties with respect to the operation
of  the  Partnership  Pipelines:

          (1)     Supervise  the  receipt,  transportation and redelivery of gas
and  other  Hydrocarbons,  including,  receiving  and  confirming  nominations;

          (2)     Employ  or  engage  on behalf of the Partnership all personnel
and  contractors  the General Partner deems appropriate to perform its duties in
operating  the  Partnership Pipelines, except such personnel or contractors that
may  be  employed  by  contractors and subcontractors engaged to perform work in
connection  with  the  Partnership  Pipelines, and pay wages, salaries and other
compensation  of  all  such  personnel  and  contractors;

          (3)     Make all reports and returns required to be made in respect of
the  Partnership  Pipelines  to  any  state  or federal governmental body having
jurisdiction over the Partnership Pipelines or the activities of the Partnership
with  respect  thereto;

          (4)     Apply  for,  acquire  and  maintain  all  requisite permits or
certificates,  if any are or become necessary in respect of the operation of the
Partnership  Pipelines;

          (5)     Keep  an  accurate  and  itemized  record  and  account of all
operation  of  the  Partnership Pipelines, including a record and account of all
expenditures  made  or  incurred;  and

          (6)     Timely  pay  and discharge all liabilities, costs and expenses
incurred in the acquisition, construction, use, operation and maintenance of the
Partnership  Pipelines, and account for and bill each Partner for its respective
Partnership  Share  of  such  costs  and  expenses as part of the joint interest
billings  for  any  Operating  Area(s)  to  which  such  costs  and expenses are
allocable  or  attributable under the terms of this Agreement as supplemented by
the  Operating  Agreement  Terms  (including  the  Accounting  Procedure).

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     Section  7.3.  Standard  of  Responsibility.
                    ----------------------------

     (a)     The  General  Partner  shall  be  obliged  to  perform  the duties,
responsibilities and obligations of the operator of the Partnership Assets under
the  terms  and  provisions  hereof and the Operating Agreement Terms, but shall
only be required to perform the same to the extent that funds therefor have been
furnished  by  the  Partnership  to  the  General  Partner  as  provided in this
Agreement.

     (b)     Except  as  set  out in Section 7.3(d), neither General Partner nor
any  other  Indemnitee  shall  bear  (except  as  a Partner to the extent of its
Partnership  Share)  any  Liability  resulting  from  performing  (or failing to
perform)  the  duties  and functions of General Partner or as Operator under the
terms  hereof  or  the Operating Agreement Terms, and the Indemnitees are hereby
released  from  liability to the Partnership for any and all Liabilities arising
out  of,  incident  to or resulting from such performance or failure to perform,
EVEN  THOUGH  CAUSED  IN  WHOLE  OR  IN  PART  BY  A PRE-EXISTING DEFECT, OR THE
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NEGLIGENCE  (WHETHER  SOLE,  JOINT  OR  CONCURRENT),  GROSS  NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL
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MISCONDUCT,  STRICT  LIABILITY  OR  OTHER LEGAL FAULT OF GENERAL PARTNER (OR ANY
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SUCH  INDEMNITEE).
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     (c)     Except  as  set out in Section 7.3(d), the Partnership shall defend
and  indemnify  the General Partner, the successors and permitted assigns of the
General  Partner,  the  General  Partner's  Affiliates, the Project Manager, any
officers  of  the Partnership, and each of their respective directors, officers,
agents,  representatives,  and employees (collectively, the "Indemnitees"), from
any  and all Liabilities incident to claims, demands or causes of action brought
by  or on behalf of any Person, which claims, demands or causes of action arises
out  of,  are  incident  to  or  result from performing any operation under this
Agreement  or  the  Operating Agreement Terms, EVEN THOUGH CAUSED IN WHOLE OR IN
                                               ---------------------------------
PART  BY  A  PRE-EXISTING  DEFECT,  OR  THE  NEGLIGENCE  (WHETHER SOLE, JOINT OR
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CONCURRENT),  GROSS  NEGLIGENCE,  WILLFUL  MISCONDUCT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER
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LEGAL  FAULT  OF  GENERAL  PARTNER  (OR  SUCH  INDEMNITEE).
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     (d)     Notwithstanding  Section  7.3(b)  or  Section 7.3(c), if any Senior
Supervisory  Personnel  of  General Partner, General Partner's Affiliates or the
Project  Manager  engage  in  gross  negligence  or  willful  misconduct  which
proximately  causes  the  Partnership  to incur Liability for claims, demands or
causes  of  action  referred  to  in  Section 7.3(b) or Section 7.3(c), then, in
addition  to  its  Partnership  Share,  General  Partner  shall  bear  all  such
Liabilities.  Notwithstanding the forgoing, under no circumstances shall General
Partner  (except  as  a  Partner  to the extent of its Partnership Share) or any
other  Indemnitee  bear  any  Consequential  Loss  or  Environmental  Loss.

     (e)     Nothing  in  this  Section  7.3  shall be deemed to relieve General
Partner  from its Partnership Share of any Liability arising out of, incident to
or resulting from performing any operation under this Agreement or the Operating
Agreement  Terms.

     Section  7.4.  Insurance.  The  Partnership  shall  obtain  and  maintain
                    ---------
insurance  in  such  amounts and with such coverages and terms as the Management
Committee  may  from  time  to

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time  direct.  Other insurance may be separately obtained by any Partner for its
sole  benefit  and  at  its  sole  cost.

     Section  7.5.  Conflicts  with  Operating  Agreement  Terms.  The Operating
                    --------------------------------------------
Agreement  Terms  shall supplement the terms and conditions of this Article VII.
To  the  extent  that  any conflict or inconsistency arises or is interpreted to
exist  between  the  terms  and  provisions  of this Agreement and the Operating
Agreement  Terms,  the  terms and provisions of this Agreement shall prevail and
govern  the  resolution  thereof  as  between  the  Partners.

     Section  7.6.  Service  Contracts.
                    ------------------

     (a)     Within  5  Business  Days  after  the  date  of this Agreement, the
Partnership  and  Harding  Energy have agreed to enter into the Service Contract
attached  hereto as Exhibit F for certain services relating to lease acquisition
and  certain  permitting  as  more  specifically  provided therein.  The General
Partner  or  the  Partnership may, without penalty or other cause, terminate any
Service  Contract  with Harding Energy or Harding Energy's successors or assigns
under any Service Contract if any Harding Key Personnel ceases to be employed by
Harding  Energy  or  the  Service  Contractor under such Service Contract or any
Harding  Key  Personnel  fails  to  have significant and material management and
administrative  involvement  in and oversight of the operation and management of
the  services  and  work  under  such  Service  Contract.

     (b)     From  time  to  time with the approval of the Management Committee,
the  Partnership may enter into additional Service Contracts, or renew or extend
the  aforesaid  Service  Contracts.

     Section  7.7.  Maintenance  of  Private  Line  Status.  The  Partnership
                    --------------------------------------
Pipelines will, to the extent possible, be owned, maintained and operated by the
Partnership  in  a  manner  that  will  preserve their private line status.  The
Partnership  shall  not offer to purchase, or carry, third party gas through the
Partnership  Pipelines.  The  Partners commit, on their own behalf and on behalf
of their Affiliates, that they will not seek in any way to cause the Partnership
Pipelines,  or any portion of the same, to become subject to common purchaser or
common  carriage  obligations,  or  public  utility  obligations or otherwise be
obligated  to  carry  natural  gas  other  than  that  of  the  Partnership.

     Section  7.8.  Local  Government Approvals.  If and to the extent requested
                    ---------------------------
by  the  General  Partner,  each  Partner  will reasonably assist (and cause its
Affiliates  to  reasonably assist) the Partnership in obtaining local government
approvals  for  Partnership  operations;  provided,  however,  a Partner and its
Affiliates  will  only be required to provide such assistance to the extent they
can  reasonably and lawfully do so and no Partner or Affiliate will be obligated
to  incur  any  out of pocket expenses or to spend more than a nominal amount of
time  in  connection  with  providing  such  assistance.

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                                  ARTICLE VIII
                       PARTNERSHIP FUNDS AND EXPENDITURES
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     Section  8.1.  Operating  Area  Expenditures.
                    -----------------------------

     (a)     All  costs,  expenses, liabilities, claims and damages attributable
to  operations,  activities  or other matters covered by the Operating Agreement
Terms  with  respect to an Operating Area (including any Non-Consent Area) shall
be paid directly by the Partners in accordance with their respective Partnership
Shares pursuant to the Operating Agreement Terms as if (i) each Partner, without
regard  to the Partnership, was a party to a joint operating agreement the terms
of  which  were  substantially  identical to the Operating Agreement Terms, (ii)
each  Partner's  Partnership  Share  with respect to any Operating Area, without
regard to the Partnership, was treated for all purposes as an undivided interest
in  oil  and  gas  rights  in the Operating Area, and (iii) the General Partner,
without  regard to the Partnership, was the Operator of the Operating Area.  The
General  Partner  will  prepare and send invoices and joint interest billings to
the  Partners for their respective Partnership Shares of all costs, expenses and
payments  incurred  or  made  or  anticipated  to  be incurred or made under the
Operating  Agreement  Terms  applicable  to  each relevant Operating Area in the
manner  provided  in  the  Operating  Agreement  Terms (including the Accounting
Procedure)  as  if  the Partners were parties to a joint operating agreement the
terms  and  conditions  of  which  were substantially identical to the Operating
Agreement  Terms  and  directly held their Partnership Shares in the Hydrocarbon
Interests and other Partnership Assets operated or administered pursuant to such
joint  operating  agreement.

     (b)     In  this  regard,  the  Operator will pay all royalties, overriding
royalties,  production  payments,  and  production  and  severance  taxes due on
Partnership  production  with  respect to any month and in the invoices or joint
interest  billings  sent to the Partners under the Accounting Procedure for such
month  (i)  Operator  will  bill  each  Partner for such Partner's share of such
payments  on  a basis that leaves such Partner in the same financial position it
would  be in if it were directly paying such payments on the production it takes
with  respect  to such month, but without limiting each Partner's responsibility
under  Article VII.B. of the Operating Agreement Terms and (ii) if the amount of
Partnership  production  with respect to such month exceeds the aggregate amount
of  production  taken  by the Partners with respect to such month, Operator will
bill  each  Partner  for such Partner's Partnership Share of the amount by which
all  royalties,  overriding  royalties,  production payments, and production and
severance  taxes  paid  on  Partnership  production  with  respect to such month
exceeds  the  amounts  billed  to the Partners under clause (i) of this sentence
with  respect to such month; provided, however, if a Partner's Partnership Share
is  not the same with respect to all Partnership production with respect to such
month  the  reimbursements  required  under  this  clause (ii) shall be made and
allocated in a manner consistent with Section 3.1(b) and (c).  Each Partner will
promptly,  by  the  15th calendar day following the month of production, provide
the Operator with all information regarding the production such Partner takes as
is  necessary  for  the  Operator  to  determine,  calculate  and timely pay all
obligations  of  the  Partnership  with  respect  to the production such Partner
takes.

     (c)     The  terms and provisions of the Accounting Procedure shall entitle
the  Operator  to  recover  all its costs of operations and activities under the
Operating  Agreement  Terms, including the costs for the Operator's personnel as
more  specifically  provided  therein.

     (d)     Any amount paid by a Partner to the General Partner pursuant to any
such  invoice  or  joint  interest  billing  shall be deemed to be (i) a capital
contribution  from  such  Partner  to  the Partnership and (ii) a payment by the
Partnership  to  the General Partner of all or part (as the case may be) of such
invoice  or  joint  interest  billing.  Without requiring the actual transfer of
funds,

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the  General Partner, at its option, may credit the General Partner with payment
of  all or part of the amount owed by the General Partner on any such invoice or
joint  interest  billing  and the amount so credited shall be deemed to be (i) a
capital  contribution  from  the  General  Partner to the Partnership and (ii) a
payment  by  the  Partnership to the General Partner of all or part (as the case
may  be)  of such invoice or joint interest billing. A Partner's payment of such
invoices  and  joint  interest  billings of the General Partner shall be applied
toward  such  Partner's Initial Commitment to the extent such invoices and joint
interest  billings  are  for  expenditures  provided  for in the Initial Budget.

     Section  8.2.  Bank  Accounts;  Investment  of  Funds.  Neither the General
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Partner  nor  the  Partnership  shall  be required to maintain any separate bank
account,  depository  account, investment account or other financial account for
the  deposit  of Partnership funds.  The deposit of Partnership funds in any one
or  more  bank, depository, investment or other financial accounts maintained by
the General Partner or any Affiliate of the General Partner, and the commingling
of Partnership funds in such accounts with the funds of the General Partner, any
Affiliate  of  the  General Partner or any other Person, is expressly authorized
and  permitted;  provided  that  the General Partner shall at all times maintain
complete  books  and  records  which  properly  identify  and  account  for  all
Partnership  funds which are held in such accounts.  The General Partner, at the
General  Partner's  sole  option,  may  from  time  to time maintain one or more
separate  bank,  depository,  investment  or  other  financial  accounts  (the
"Management  Accounts")  for  the  exclusive  deposit of Partnership funds.  All
withdrawals  from  any  Management Account shall be made by the Project Manager,
the  President  or any Vice President of the Partnership, the General Partner or
such  person or persons as may be duly authorized by the General Partner to sign
checks  and make withdrawals on behalf of the Partnership.  Partnership funds in
any Management Account shall not be commingled with those of any other Person or
employed in any manner except for the exclusive benefit of the Partnership.  All
Partnership reserves and other funds not needed for payment of expenses or costs
shall  be  invested by the Management Committee as it may determine from time to
time.

     Section  8.3.  Cash  Management.  To  the  extent  not paid directly by the
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Partners  as provided in Section 8.1, the Management Committee may request funds
from  the Partners (i) to pay bonuses and other acquisition costs of Partnership
assets,  including  costs  and  expenses  incurred in acquiring, negotiating and
attempting  to acquire Partnership assets, (ii) to pay any Partnership costs and
expenses  not  covered  by  the  Operating  Agreement Terms, and (iii) to pay or
provide  a  reserve for the payment of costs and expenses of the Partnership not
covered  by  the  Operating Agreement Terms which are due or anticipated to come
due  within  30  days  (or  such  other  period  as the Management Committee may
designate).  To  the  extent  funds  of  the  Partnership  at  any  time are not
sufficient  to  pay  or  provide  a  reserve  for  the  payment  of  the amounts
anticipated to be needed for the purposes provided in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii)
above  within the next 30 days (or such other period as the Management Committee
may  designate) or any Partner fails to pay its Partnership Share of any amounts
owing  under the Operating Agreement Terms with respect to any Operating Area or
otherwise  owing by it pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.3,
the  amount of such deficiency (a "Working Capital Requirement") may be obtained
by  the  Management Committee by (a) requiring the Partners to make cash capital
contributions  to  the  Partnership equal to all or part of such Working Capital
Requirement,  with  each  Partner  being  required to contribute its Partnership
Share  of  the  capital  contributions  so required with respect to such Working
Capital  Requirement,  (b)  causing  the

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Partnership  to  borrow  all  or part of such Working Capital Requirement and to
secure  such  borrowing by any property or assets of the Partnership, subject to
the  limitations on borrowing contained in this Agreement, or (c) requiring each
Partner  to  make  a  loan  (a "Working Capital Loan") to the Partnership of its
Partnership  Share  of  all  or part of such Working Capital Requirement on such
terms and conditions as the Management Committee shall determine; provided that,
no  Partner  will  be required to make a Working Capital Loan in an amount or on
terms  and  conditions  which differ from the corresponding Working Capital Loan
required of another Partner (except for differences attributable to such Partner
having  a  different  Partnership  Share with respect to the amount owing).  The
Management  Committee  shall require Working Capital Loans or additional capital
contributions to be due and payable to the Partnership at least seven days prior
to  the  date  such  funds  are  needed  to  pay  a Working Capital Requirement.

                                   ARTICLE IX
                                BOOKS AND RECORDS
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     Section  9.1.  Book  and Records.  Proper and complete records and books of
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account  shall  be  kept  by the Partnership in which shall be entered fully and
accurately  all  transactions  and  other  matters relative to the Partnership's
business  as are usually entered into records and books of account maintained by
persons  engaged  in businesses of like character.  Such books and records shall
include the books and records required to be maintained by the Partnership under
Section 153.551 of the Act.  The Partnership books and records shall be prepared
on  such  basis  as  shall  be  from  time  to time determined by the Management
Committee.  Partnership  books  and  records  relating to Partnership operations
with  respect to each Operating Area shall be maintained at the principal office
of  the  General  Partner and at such field offices as the General Partner deems
desirable.  Other  Partnership  books  and records (including such duplicates of
the  General  Partner's records as the Management Committee may desire) shall be
at  all  times  maintained at the principal office of the Partnership or at such
other  place  as  the  Management  Committee  may  determine  from time to time.

     Section  9.2.  Audits,  Adjustments  and  Inspections.  Audits  of  and
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adjustments  to  the  "Joint  Account"  under  the  Accounting  Procedure or any
invoices,  bills  or  statements  rendered  by  the  Operator  pursuant  to  the
Accounting  Procedure  shall  be  permitted  only  to the extent provided in the
Accounting  Procedure  and  shall be subject to the limitations and presumptions
which  are  applicable  to audits and adjustments to accounts, statements and/or
bills  under  the  Accounting  Procedure.  Audits  and  inspections  of,  and
adjustments  to,  accounts  of  the  Partnership  and  any  invoices,  bills  or
statements  rendered  by the General Partner to the Partners with respect to the
accounts of the Partnership (other than the "Joint Account" under the Accounting
Procedure or any invoices, bills or statements rendered by the Operator pursuant
to  the  Accounting  Procedure)  shall  be subject to the following limitations,
presumptions  and  other  provisions:

     (a)     Payment of any invoices or bills by a Partner to the Partnership or
to  the General Partner pursuant to this Agreement shall not prejudice the right
of  any  Partner  to  protest  or  question  the  correctness thereof; provided,
however,  all  invoices, bills and statements rendered by the Partnership or the
General  Partner  to  a  Partner  during any calendar year shall conclusively be
presumed  to be true and correct after twenty-four (24) months following the end
of  any  such  calendar  year, unless (i) within the said twenty-four (24) month
period  the  Partner  takes  written  exception  thereto  and makes claim on the
Partnership  or  the  General  Partner  (as  appropriate)  for

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adjustment  or  (ii) the exceptions and adjustments relate to royalty and/or tax
adjustments  required by regulations of Governmental Authority or applicable law
or  third  party  contract  provisions.  No  adjustment favorable to the General
Partner  shall  be  made  unless  it  is made within the same prescribed period.

     (b)     A  Partner,  upon  notice in writing to the General Partner and all
other  Partners,  shall  have  the right to audit the Partnership's accounts and
records for any calendar year within the twenty-four (24) month period following
the  end  of such calendar year; provided, however, the making of an audit shall
not  extend  the time for the taking of written exception to and the adjustments
of accounts as provided for in paragraph (a) above.  Where more than one Partner
elects  to  conduct an audit pursuant to this paragraph, the Partners shall make
every  reasonable  effort to conduct a joint audit in a manner which will result
in  a  minimum of inconvenience to the General Partner and the Partnership.  All
audit  costs  incurred  under  this  paragraph  shall be borne by (and specially
allocated  to)  the Partner or Partners who elect to conduct such audit pursuant
to this paragraph, unless all of the Partners agree to share in the cost of such
audit.  The audits shall not be conducted more than once each year without prior
approval  of  the  General  Partner,  except  upon the withdrawal of the General
Partner  as general partner of the Partnership.  The General Partner shall reply
in  writing  to  an  audit  report issued in connection with an audit under this
paragraph  within  180  days  after  receipt  of  such  report.

     (c)     Without limiting the independent audit rights of the Partners under
paragraph (b) above, the Management Committee may elect to cause the Partnership
accounts  and  records  for  any  calendar  year  to be audited on behalf of the
Partnership  and  at  the expense of the Partnership by an independent certified
public  accountant  or accounting firm selected by the Management Committee.  In
such  event,  a copy of the audit report rendered by such independent accountant
or  accounting  firm  shall  be  furnished  by  the General Partner to the other
Partners  promptly  after  the  same  has  been received by the General Partner.

     (d)     Subject  to the foregoing limitations and any other limitations set
forth  in  this  Agreement,  each  Partner and/or such Partner's duly authorized
representative,  at such Partner's expense, shall also have the right, power and
authority  to inspect (but not audit) and copy, at any and all reasonable times,
the  books,  records  and  accounts  of  the  Partnership (other than the "Joint
Account"  under  the  Accounting  Procedure or any invoices, bills or statements
rendered  by  the  Operator  pursuant  to  the  Accounting  Procedure).

     Section 9.3.  Fiscal Year.  The fiscal year of the Partnership shall end on
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December  31  in  each  year.

     Section  9.4.  Reports. Within 90 days after the close of the Partnership's
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fiscal  year,  the  Management  Committee  shall  send to each Partner an annual
report.  The annual report shall contain financial statements which will include
a  balance  sheet  and  statements  of  income,  partners' equity and changes in
financial  position  prepared  on  an accrual basis in accordance with generally
accepted  accounting  principles  (reconciled  to the Partnership's tax basis of
accounting  if  necessary),  accompanied  by  an  opinion  by  the  independent
accountants  selected  by  the Management Committee on the financial information
contained  therein.  The  Partnership shall furnish the Partners such additional
reports  and statements regarding the business and affairs of the Partnership as
the  Management  Committee  may  from  time  to  time  determine.

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                                    ARTICLE X
                          COMPETITION; INDEMNIFICATION
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     Section 10.1.  Other Business of Partners.  The Partners recognize that the
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Partners and/or their Affiliates are currently, and will continue to be, engaged
in the oil, gas and Hydrocarbon exploration, development and production business
in various parts of the United States of America and may now or in the future be
engaged  in  such  business  in  some  of  the same areas or fields in which the
Partnership  acquires Hydrocarbon Interests pursuant to this Agreement.  Subject
to  compliance  with  the  express  terms  of this Agreement, including, without
limitation, Section 6.10(b) and Section 14.1 and Article XI, any Partner and any
Affiliate of any Partner may engage in or possess any interest in other business
ventures  of  any  kind,  nature  or  description, independently or with others,
including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  ownership,  acquisition,  operation,
development,  financing,  leasing,  processing,  refining,  transportation,
marketing,  management  and syndication of Hydrocarbon Interests or Hydrocarbons
or  pipelines,  for  its  own  account  or  for the account of others within the
Contract Area and Operating Areas.  Subject to compliance with the express terms
of  this  Agreement,  neither  the  Partnership  nor any Partners shall have any
rights  or obligations in or to such independent ventures or the income, profits
or  losses  derived  therefrom.

     Section  10.2. Third Party Actions. The Partnership shall defend, indemnify
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and  hold  harmless  each Partner and its Indemnified Personnel from and against
any  and  all Liabilities (INCLUDING THOSE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SIMPLE NEGLIGENCE
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(WHETHER  SOLE,  JOINT OR CONCURRENT) OR STRICT LIABILITY OF SUCH PARTNER OR ITS
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INDEMNIFIED PERSONNEL) to the extent the same (i) are attributable to any claim,
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charge,  action,  suit or proceeding threatened, made or instituted against such
Partner  or  its  Indemnified  Personnel  by any Governmental Authority or other
Person  (other  than  the  Partnership,  such  Partner  or any Affiliate of such
Partner),  (ii)  arise  out of or are attributable to such Partner's status as a
Partner  in  the  Partnership  or any business or activities of the Partnership,
(iii)  are  not  attributable  to  actions  by  such  Partner or its Indemnified
Personnel  which are outside the scope of authority conferred on such Partner or
its  Indemnified  Personnel  hereunder,  and  (iv)  are not attributable to such
Partner's or its Indemnified Personnel's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The  indemnification  provisions of this Article X are in addition to and not in
lieu  of  other  indemnification  provisions  contained  in  this  Agreement.

     Section  10.3.  Indemnification  and  Defense  Procedures.  All  claims for
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indemnification  under Sections 3.6(c), 7.3(c) and/or 10.2 shall be asserted and
resolved  as  follows:

     (a)     If  a third-party claim for which a Person is entitled to indemnity
(an  "Indemnified  Person")  under  Sections  3.6(c),  7.3(c)  and/or  10.2  (an
"Indemnified  Claim")  is  made  against an Indemnified Person, and if a Partner
intends  to  seek  indemnity  with  respect  thereto  by or from the Partnership
pursuant  to  Sections  3.6(c)(2),  7.3(c)  and/or  10.2  or  the  applicable
Contributing  Partner  pursuant  to  Section  3.6(c)(1)  (the Partnership or the
applicable  Contributing Partner responsible for such indemnity obligation being
referred  to  as  the  "Indemnifying Person"), then the Partner electing to seek
indemnity  on  behalf  of such Indemnified Person shall promptly transmit to the
Indemnifying  Person  a  written  notice  ("Claim  Notice")  (i)  notifying  the
Indemnifying Person of such Indemnified Claim and request indemnity on behalf of
such  Indemnified  Person  with respect to such Indemnified Claim under Sections
3.6(c),  7.3(c)  and/or

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10.2,  as  the  case  may  be, (ii) setting forth the full name, address for all
notices  and  the  authorized  representatives  of  such Indemnified Person with
respect to such Indemnified Claim, and (iii) describing in reasonable detail the
nature  of  the  Indemnified  Claim,  including a copy of all papers served with
respect  to  such  Indemnified  Claim (if any) and the basis of such request for
indemnification  under  Sections 3.6(c), 7.3(c) and/or 10.2, as the case may be.
Failure  to provide such Claim Notice promptly shall not affect the right of the
Indemnified  Person  to  indemnification  hereunder  except  to  the  extent the
Indemnifying  Person  is  prejudiced  thereby;  provided  that, the Indemnifying
Person shall not be obligated to defend, indemnify or otherwise hold harmless an
Indemnified  Person  with  respect  to  a third party claim until a Claim Notice
meeting  the  foregoing  requirements is furnished to the Indemnifying Person by
the  Partner  seeking  indemnity hereunder.  Within 30 days after receipt of any
Claim  Notice  (the "Election Period"), the Indemnifying Person shall notify the
Partner  who  sent the Claim Notice (A) whether the Indemnifying Person disputes
its  potential  liability  to  indemnify  the  Indemnified Person under Sections
3.6(c), 7.3(c) and/or 10.2, as the case may be, with respect to such third party
claim  and (B) whether the Indemnifying Person desires to defend the Indemnified
Person against such third-party claim; provided that, if the Indemnifying Person
fails  to  so  notify  the  Indemnified  Person  during the Election Period, the
Indemnifying  Person  shall  be deemed to have elected to dispute such liability
and  not  to  defend  against  such  third-party  claim.

     (b)     If  the Indemnifying Person notifies the Partner who sent the Claim
Notice  within  the  Election  Period  that the Indemnifying Person (i) does not
dispute its liability to indemnify the Indemnified Person under Sections 3.6(c),
7.3(c) and/or 10.2, as the case may be (or reserves the right to dispute whether
such  claim  is  an Indemnified Claim under Sections 3.6(c), 7.3(c) and/or 10.2)
and (ii) elects to assume the defense of such Indemnified Person with respect to
such  third-party  claim,  then  the Indemnifying Person shall have the right to
defend,  at its sole cost and expense, such third-party claim by all appropriate
proceedings,  which  proceedings  shall  be  prosecuted  diligently  by  the
Indemnifying  Person  to  a final conclusion or settled at the discretion of the
Indemnifying  Person  in accordance with this Section 10.3.  If the Indemnifying
Person  elects pursuant to the foregoing to assume the defense of an Indemnified
Person  with respect to a third-party claim which is subsequently determined not
to  be  an  Indemnified  Claim, the Indemnifying Person shall not be entitled to
recover  from  the  Indemnified  Person  the  costs and expenses incurred by the
Indemnifying  Person  in  providing such defense.  The Indemnifying Person shall
have  full  control of such defense and proceedings, including any compromise or
settlement  thereof;  provided that the Indemnifying Person shall not enter into
any  settlement agreement (or settle or compromise any such third-party claim in
a  manner)  which  provides for or results in any payment by or liability of the
Indemnified  Person  of  or for any damages or other amount, any lien, charge or
encumbrance  on  any  property  of  the  Indemnified  Person,  any  finding  of
responsibility  or  liability  on  the  part  of  the  Indemnified Person or any
sanction  or  restriction  upon  the  conduct of any business by the Indemnified
Person  without  the  Indemnified  Person's express prior written consent, which
consent  shall  not  be unreasonably withheld.  The Indemnified Person is hereby
authorized, at the sole cost and expense of the Indemnifying Person (but only if
the  Indemnified  Person  is actually entitled to indemnification hereunder), to
file,  during  the  Election Period, any motion, answer or other pleadings which
the  Indemnified  Person  shall  deem  necessary  or  appropriate to protect its
interests  or those of the Indemnifying Person and not reasonably expected to be
prejudicial  to  the  Indemnifying  Person.  If  requested  by  the Indemnifying
Person,  the  Indemnified  Person  agrees,  at  the sole cost and expense of the
Indemnifying  Person,  to cooperate with the Indemnifying Person and its counsel
in  contesting

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any  such  third-party  claim  which  the Indemnifying Person elects to contest,
including  the making of any related counterclaim or cross-complaint against any
Person  (other  than  the  Indemnified Person, any Indemnified Personnel and any
Indemnitee).  The  Indemnified  Person  may participate in, but not control, any
defense  or  settlement  of any third party claim controlled by the Indemnifying
Person  pursuant to this Section 10.3, and the Indemnified Person shall bear its
own  costs  and expenses with respect to such participation.  The prosecution of
the  defense  of a third party claim with reasonable diligence shall include the
taking  of  such  action  (including  the  posting  of  a bond, deposit or other
security)  as may be necessary to prevent any action to foreclose a lien against
or  attachment  of  the  property  of the Indemnified Person for payment of such
third  party  claim.

     (c)     If the Indemnifying Person (i) fails to notify the Partner who sent
the  Claim Notice within the Election Period that the Indemnifying Person elects
to  defend  the  Indemnified  Person  pursuant to Section 10.3 or (ii) elects to
defend  the  Indemnified  Person pursuant to Section 10.3 but fails to prosecute
the  defense  of (or to settle) the third-party claim with reasonable diligence,
then the Indemnified Person shall have the right to defend, at the sole cost and
expense  of  the  Indemnifying  Person  (but  only  if the Indemnified Person is
actually  entitled  to  indemnification hereunder), the third-party claim by all
appropriate  proceedings,  which  proceedings  shall  be promptly and vigorously
prosecuted  by  the  Indemnified  Person  to a final conclusion or settled.  The
Indemnified  Person  shall  have  full  control of such defense and proceedings;
provided, however, that the Indemnified Person may not enter into any compromise
or  settlement  of  such  third-party  claim,  without the Indemnifying Person's
express  written  consent,  which  shall  not  be  unreasonably  withheld.  The
Indemnifying  Person  may  participate  in,  but  not  control,  any  defense or
settlement  controlled  by the Indemnified Person pursuant to this Section 10.3,
and  the  Indemnifying Person shall bear its own costs and expenses with respect
to  such  participation.

     (d)     If  an  Indemnified  Person is entitled to indemnity under Sections
3.6(c),  7.3(c) and/or 10.2 for a claim or other matter which does not involve a
third-party  claim, and if any Partner intends to seek indemnity on behalf of an
Indemnified  Person  with  respect  thereto  by  or from the Indemnifying Person
pursuant  to  Sections  3.6(c), 7.3(c) and/or 10.2, then the Partner electing to
seek indemnity on behalf of an Indemnified Person shall promptly transmit to the
Indemnifying  Person a written notice describing in reasonable detail the nature
of  such  claim  or  other matter, the Indemnified Person's best estimate of the
amount  of  damages attributable to such claim or other matter and the basis for
the  Indemnified  Person's entitlement to indemnification under Sections 3.6(c),
7.3(c)  and/or  10.2,  as  the  case may be. If the Indemnifying Person does not
notify  the Partner who sent such notice within 30 days from its receipt of such
notice  that  the Indemnifying Person does not dispute such claim for indemnity,
the  Indemnifying  Person  shall  be  deemed  to  have  disputed  such  claim.

     (e)     To the extent any claim, action, suit or proceeding includes one or
more  Indemnified  Claims  with respect to an Indemnified Person and one or more
third-party  claims  which  are  not  Indemnified  Claims  with  respect to such
Indemnified Person, any such non-Indemnified Claim insofar as it is with respect
to  such  Indemnified  Person  shall not be covered by the indemnity in Sections
3.6(c),  7.3(c)  and/or  10.2, the Indemnifying Person shall not be obligated to
undertake, conduct and control the defense or settlement of such non-Indemnified
Claim  insofar  as  it  is  with  respect  to  such Indemnified Person, and such
Indemnified  Person  shall

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be responsible for its own defense and settlement of such non-Indemnified Claim.
The  seeking  by  a  Partner of indemnity hereunder on behalf of any Indemnified
Person  with respect to any third-party claim or other claim or matter shall not
prevent such Partner from then or thereafter also seeking indemnity hereunder on
behalf of any other Indemnified Person with respect to such third-party claim or
other  claim  or  matter  and  shall  not prevent the other Partner from seeking
indemnity hereunder on behalf of any Indemnified Person with respect to the same
third-party  claim  or  other  claim  or  matter.

                                   ARTICLE XI
                                AREA OF INTEREST
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     If  during  the Term, any Partner or an Affiliate of any Partner acquires a
Hydrocarbon  Interest  within  the  Contract  Area  (other  than any Hydrocarbon
Interest  that  is  acquired  during  the applicable Option Period to the extent
permitted  in  Section 6.10(b) and any fee mineral or fee royalty interest which
is  excluded  under  the  next  sentence), such interest shall be offered to the
Partnership  by  notice  in  writing  within  fifteen  (15)  days  after  such
acquisition,  for an amount equal to the actual acquisition cost therefor to the
acquiring  Partner  or  its  Affiliate.  The  acquisition  by  any Partner or an
Affiliate  of any Partner of a fee mineral or fee royalty interest in connection
with  such  Partner's  or  such  Affiliate's  acquisition  of  the  surface  for
commercial  use,  and  any  subsequent lease by such Partner or its Affiliate of
such  mineral  interest in its capacity as lessor (but not as lessee), shall not
be  subject  to  this  Article  XI.  The  Management  Committee  (excluding  the
representative  and  alternate  of such acquiring Partner) shall have forty-five
(45)  days  after receipt of such notice in which to accept such offer.  If such
offer  is  accepted  the acquiring Partner or its Affiliate, as the case may be,
shall  promptly  convey  such  Hydrocarbon  Interest to the Partnership free and
clear  of  all liens, encumbrances, royalties and burdens created by, through or
under  such Partner or any of its Affiliates (other than those existing prior to
such  acquisition  or  created  in  favor of non-Affiliates of such Partner as a
condition  to  such  acquisition)  and the Partnership shall pay the acquisition
cost  therefor or, to the extent such Hydrocarbon Interest is to be earned under
a  farmout  or similar agreement, the Partnership shall assume its share of such
obligations.  If such offer is not accepted, such Hydrocarbon Interest shall not
be  a  part  of  the  Partnership Assets and the Partner or Affiliate owning (or
having  the  right  through  a  farmout  or  similar  agreement to acquire) such
Hydrocarbon  Interest  shall  have no obligation to the Partnership with respect
thereto  and  shall  have no right to evacuate or transport natural gas produced
from such Hydrocarbon Interest on any Partnership Pipelines.  The notice of such
acquisition  shall  include  all relevant information regarding such acquisition
(other  than  geophysical,  geological, engineering, financial and other data of
such  Partner  or  its  Affiliates the disclosure of which is prohibited by bona
fide third party confidentiality restrictions existing prior to the date of this
Agreement),  but shall include, without limitation, (i) an itemized breakdown of
the  acquisition  cost thereof, (ii) copies of all leases, assignments and other
instruments evidencing or creating the Hydrocarbon Interest, and (iii) copies of
all  farmout  agreements and other agreements which must be assumed or performed
in connection with acquiring or earning said Hydrocarbon Interest.  This Article
XI shall not apply to, or require any Partner or any Affiliate of any Partner to
offer  to  the  Partnership,  any  Hydrocarbon  Interest  to  the  extent  such
Hydrocarbon  Interest  is  a  renewal, extension or replacement of a Hydrocarbon
Interest  acquired  by such Partner or Affiliate separate from this Agreement in
compliance with Section 6.10(b), provided such renewal, extension or replacement
is  made  or  acquired  while such Hydrocarbon Interest is in force or effect or
within  one  year  after  the  lapse  thereof.  This  Article

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XI  or  compliance  herewith shall not release or be in lieu of any claim of the
Partnership  for  damages  or any other remedies available to the Partnership or
the  Partners  under this Agreement or at law or in equity for breach of Section
6.10(b).

                                   ARTICLE XII
                      DISPOSITION OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS
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     Section  12.1.  Restrictions on Transfer.  Any Partner can assign its right
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to  receive  distributions  in whole or in part, but the assignee of such rights
shall  not  become  a  Partner,  and shall not acquire any rights other than the
right  to  receive  distributions.  Any  assignment  of  the  right  to  receive
distributions  shall  be subject to the rights, claims and remedies of the other
Partners  under  this  Agreement, including all rights set forth in Article III.
Any  other  transfers  of  ownership  in  the  Partnership shall be made only on
approval  of  the  other Partners, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, and
shall  be  subject  to the preferential purchase rights of the other Partners in
Section  12.4.  Any  transferee  of  an  interest  in  the  Partnership shall be
required to enter into an agreement with the remaining Partners, satisfactory in
form and substance to such remaining Partners, pursuant to which such transferee
assumes  all obligations of its transferor under this Agreement and agrees to be
bound  by  all  terms  of  this  Agreement.  An  attempted  sale,  assignment,
disposition,  mortgage,  pledge,  grant,  hypothecation or other transfer of any
interest  in  the  Partnership  in violation of the foregoing provisions of this
Section  12.1  shall  be  void  and  of  no  force  or  effect.

     Section  12.2.  Additional  and  Substituted  Partners.  No Person shall be
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admitted  to the Partnership as an additional or substituted Partner without the
unanimous  written  consent  of  all  Partners,  which shall not be unreasonably
withheld,  and shall be subject to the preferential purchase rights of the other
Partners  in Section 12.4. A transferee of an interest of the General Partner in
the  Partnership shall not become a general partner of the Partnership by virtue
of  becoming  a  substituted Partner with respect to the interest of the General
Partner  that  is  so  transferred;  provided,  however,  if the General Partner
transfers  all of the General Partner's remaining rights and interest as general
partner of the Partnership to a transferee who becomes a substituted Partner, in
accordance  with  this  Section 12.2, with respect to the rights and interest of
the  General  Partner  that  are  so  transferred, then such transferee shall be
admitted  to  the  Partnership as a substituted General Partner and shall become
the  General  Partner  of  the  Partnership.

     Section  12.3.  Partnership  Interest  Transferred.  Following  the date of
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transfer  by  a  Partner  of  all  of its interest, the transferor shall have no
further  interest  in the Partnership nor shall it be entitled to participate in
the  management  of  the  Partnership  or  the  operation of its properties. The
assignment  or  other disposition by a Partner of all or part of its Partnership
Share  in  the  Partnership as permitted hereunder shall be deemed to assign and
transfer  to  the  assignee  or  transferee  thereof a proportionate part of all
Contribution  Loans,  Working  Capital  Loans  and  other obligations (including
obligations  under  Section  3.5)  owed by or to such transferor pursuant to the
terms  and provisions of this Agreement (which proportionate part shall be equal
to  the  fractional  share  obtained  by  dividing  the  Partnership  Share then
transferred  by  the Partnership Share held immediately prior to such transfer).
Without  limiting  any  obligations  which any transferee or transferor may have
between  themselves,  upon  compliance  with  all  terms  of this Agreement with
respect  to  the  transfer  of  its  interest  in  the Partnership, a transferor

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which  transfers  its  entire interest in the Partnership shall be relieved from
liability  for all obligations of the Partnership arising after the date of such
transfer  and  compliance;  provided  that,  no  sale,  transfer,  mortgage,
hypothecation  or other disposition of a Partnership interest shall be deemed to
relieve such transferor from any indebtedness, claim, obligation or liability of
the Partnership (i) accruing or occurring prior to the date of such transfer and
compliance,  (ii)  accruing or occurring subsequent to the date of such transfer
pursuant  to any contract, agreement or commitment made or entered into prior to
the  date  of  such  transfer  and  compliance,  or  (iii)  arising  out  of  or
attributable  to  the  Partnership business or the ownership or operation by the
Partnership or its successors in interest of any of the Partnership's properties
or  assets  prior  to the date of such transfer and compliance.  Nothing in this
Article  XII  shall operate or be deemed to release the transferor of all or any
part  of  its  obligations to the Partnership or any of its Partners that arose,
occurred,  accrued  or  are  attributable  to the period prior to such transfer.

     Section 12.4.  Preferential Right to Purchase.  Any sale by a Partner (such
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Partner being herein called an "Offeror") of all or a portion of its Partnership
Share  shall  be  subject  to  the  following  provisions:

     (a)     Prior  to  selling  all  or a portion of its Partnership Share (the
Partnership  Share  or  portion thereof proposed to be sold being referred to as
the  "Offered  Interest"),  the  Offeror  shall  give  prior written notice (the
"Transfer Notice") to the other Partners (the "Offerees"), which Transfer Notice
shall  provide full information about the proposed sale of the Offered Interest,
including,  but not limited to, the name and address of the prospective assignee
(who  must  be  ready,  willing,  and  able  to acquire the Offered Interest and
deliver the stated consideration therefor), the full consideration for the sale,
and  all  other  terms  of  the  offer.  In the case of a sale that includes any
interest(s)  in  assets  or  properties  other  than  the Offered Interest (or a
purchase  price  that does not entirely consist of cash and/or a promissory note
in U.S. Dollars), the Offered Interest shall be separately valued (and/or a bona
fide  purchase  price consisting entirely of cash and/or a promissory note shall
be  determined  in  good faith for the Offered Interest, as the case may be) and
the  Transfer  Notice  shall  state the monetary value attributed to the Offered
Interest  by  that  prospective  assignee  (and/or  the  bona  fide  cash and/or
promissory  note  purchase  price  so  determined,  as  the  case  may  be).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a deemed sale pursuant to a Change
of  Control,  the sales price for the Offered Interest shall be deemed to be the
cash FMV of the Offered Interest as of the date of the Change of Control (giving
reasonable  consideration to the value, if any, paid or otherwise transferred in
the  transaction  giving rise to such Change of Control) and the Transfer Notice
shall  state  the  Offeror's  good faith determination of the FMV of the Offered
Interest  as  of  the date of such Change of Control; provided, however, that if
any  Offeree  disputes the cash FMV stated in such Transfer Notice then the cash
FMV  of  such  Offered  Interest  shall be determined in accordance with Section
15.15.  The  Offerees'  preferential  right to purchase under this Section shall
apply  only  to  the  Offered  Interest.

     (b)     Within  forty-five  (45)  days from receipt of the Transfer Notice,
each  of  the  Offerees may exercise its preferential right to purchase all (but
not  less  than  all)  of  the  Offered Interest (pro rata in the ratio that the
Partnership  Shares  of  the  Offerees  bear  to  one  another  or in such other
proportions  as  may  be  determined  or agreed by the Offeree or Offerees which
elect  to acquire the Offered Interest), on the same terms and conditions, or on
equivalent terms for a non-cash transaction as stated in the Transfer Notice, by
written  notice  of  that  fact  to  the  Offeror.  If

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any Offeree accepts and any other Offeree does not accept such offer within said
forty-five (45) day period and the Offeree or Offerees accepting such offer have
not  agreed  to acquire the entire Offered Interest in proportions acceptable to
all  accepting  Offerees,  the  Offeror shall by written notice offer the entire
Offered  Interest  at  the  same  price  and on the same terms to the Offeree or
Offerees  which  accepted  such  initial  offer.  The  Offeree or Offerees which
accepted  such  initial offer shall have fifteen (15) days after receipt of such
notice  to  elect  to acquire the entire Offered Interest (if more than one, pro
rata  in  the  ratio  that  the  Partnership Shares of such Offerees bear to one
another  or  in  such  other  proportions as may be determined or agreed by such
Offerees).

     (c)     If  the  Offeree  or  Offerees  elect to acquire the entire Offered
Interest within said forty-five (45) day period or said fifteen (15) day period,
as  applicable,  the  Offeror  shall  be  obligated  to sell, and the Offeree or
Offerees  electing  to acquire the entire Offered Interest shall be obligated to
buy,  all  of the Offered Interest on the terms disclosed in the Transfer Notice
(or  on  equivalent  terms  for a non-cash transaction as stated in the Transfer
Notice), and the sale of the Offered Interest shall be concluded by the later of
(i) within the time period contemplated by the third party agreement pursuant to
which  such  Offeree or Offerees exercised the preferential right to purchase or
(ii)  the  first  Business  Day  which  is  at least fifteen (15) days after the
expiration  of  the  aforesaid  forty-five  (45)  day period or fifteen (15) day
period,  as  applicable.

     (d)     If  no  Offeree  or  Offerees  elect  to acquire the entire Offered
Interest  pursuant  to the foregoing offers, the Offeror shall have the right to
sell  the  Offered  Interest  on the terms disclosed in the Transfer Notice, but
only  if  (i)  such  sale is fully consummated, in all material respects, on the
terms  disclosed  in  the  Transfer  Notice within one hundred eighty (180) days
after  receipt of the Transfer Notice by the Offerees with respect thereto, (ii)
the  Offeror  furnishes  the  Partners copies of all agreements, instruments and
other documentation evidencing such sale which are necessary for the Partners to
confirm  that  such sale satisfies all requirements of the immediately preceding
clause  (i),  and  (iii)  the  Person acquiring such Offered Interest shall have
complied  with  the requirements of this Article XII and shall have entered into
an  agreement  with the Partners (other than such Offeror), satisfactory in form
and  substance  to  such  Partners,  pursuant  to  which such Person assumes all
obligations  of  the  Offeror under this Agreement and agrees to be bound by all
terms  of  this Agreement. No transferee of an Offered Interest pursuant to this
Section 12.4 shall become an additional or substitute Partner except as provided
in  Section  12.2.

     (e)     If  the  proposed sale of the Offered Interest is not closed within
one  hundred  eighty  (180)  days after receipt of the Transfer Notice by Seller
with  respect  thereto,  or  if  the  terms  of the proposed sale of the Offered
Interest  are  altered in any material respect, the proposed sale of the Offered
Interest  shall  be  deemed  withdrawn, and the Offered Interest included in the
proposed  sale  shall  again  be  governed  by  this  Section  12.4.

     (f)     The rights provided in this Section 12.4 shall not be applicable to
any  sale  by  a  Partner  to  one or more Affiliates of such Partner; provided,
however,  that  the  rights provided in this Section 12.4 shall be applicable to
any  sale,  transfer  or other transaction resulting in a Change of Control of a
Partner,  other  than a Change of Control which results in ongoing Control by an
Affiliate  of  such  Partner.

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                                  ARTICLE XIII
                           WINDING UP AND LIQUIDATION
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     Section  13.1.  Winding  Up.  The  Partnership  shall  be wound up upon the
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first  of  the  following  to  occur,  and  only  in the event of the following:

     (a)     The  expiration  of  the  Term;

     (b)     The  bankruptcy,  withdrawal  (unless  pursuant  to a transfer to a
transferee  who  is admitted to the Partnership as a substituted General Partner
in  accordance  with  Section  12.2),  or  expulsion  of  the  General  Partner;

     (c)     At the option of Metroplex, if the Keller Pipeline is determined to
be  subject  to  the  Common  Purchaser  Act,  Texas  Natural  Resources  Code,
Sec.111.081,  et  seq.,  or to be a common carrier pipeline, in either case by a
final  judgment,  no  longer  subject  to  appeal, by a court having appropriate
jurisdiction;  or

     (d)     The  entry  of  a  decree  by  a  court requiring the winding up or
dissolution  of  the  Partnership  under  Section  11.051  of the Texas Business
Organization  Code,  as  amended.

Each  Partner expressly agrees that the bankruptcy, withdrawal or expulsion of a
Partner  shall  not  cause  or  result  in  the dissolution or winding up of the
Partnership,  except  as  expressly  provided  in subsection (b) of this Section
13.1.  The provisions of Section 11.058 of the Texas Business Organization Code,
as  amended, are expressly waived to the extent such provisions are inconsistent
with  the  terms and provisions of this Agreement.  Each Partner agrees that the
winding  up  of  the  Partnership  by  any  event or from any cause set forth in
subsection  (b)  of  this  Section  13.1 or by any other event or from any other
cause  not  hereinabove  set  forth or referred to in this Section 13.1, whether
voluntary  or  involuntary,  shall  be  wrongful  and  in  contravention of this
Agreement.  For  purposes of this Agreement, the "bankruptcy" of a Partner shall
be  deemed  to  have  occurred  upon  the  happening  of  any  of the following:

          (1)     The  filing of an application by the Partner for, or a consent
to,  the  appointment  of  a trustee in bankruptcy or receiver of such Partner's
interest  in  the  Partnership  or of all or substantially all of such Partner's
assets;

          (2)     The  filing  by  the  Partner  of  a  voluntary  petition  in
bankruptcy  or  the  filing  of  a  pleading in any court of record admitting in
writing  such  Partner's inability to pay such Partner's debts as they come due;

          (3)     The  making  by  the  Partner  of a general assignment for the
benefit  of  creditors;

          (4)     The  filing by the Partner of an answer admitting the material
allegations  of,  or  such Partner's consenting to, or defaulting in answering a
bankruptcy  petition filed against such Partner in any bankruptcy proceeding; or

          (5)     The  entry  of  an  order,  judgment or decree by any court of
competent  jurisdiction  adjudicating  the  Partner  a  bankrupt or appointing a
trustee  in  bankruptcy  or  receiver

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of  such Partner's interest in the Partnership or of all or substantially all of
such  Partner's  assets,  and  such order, judgment or decree continuing without
stay  and  in  effect  for  a  period  of  90  days  after  such  entry.

     Section  13.2.  Continuation  of  Partnership;  Option  Regarding  Bankrupt
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Partner.
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     (a)     If  the Partnership is to be wound up because of any event or cause
in  contravention  of  this  Agreement  or deemed to be in contravention of this
Agreement  by the terms hereof, the Partners remaining, after exclusion of those
Partners (and their representatives) on account of whom such event occurred (the
Partners  remaining  after  such  exclusion  being referred to as the "Remaining
Partners"),  shall  have  the  right  by a vote of a Majority in Interest of the
Remaining  Partners  to continue the Partnership's business under the same name,
by  themselves  or  with  any  other Person or Persons they may elect within the
applicable  time  period required by Section 153.501 of the Act or Chapter 11 of
the  Texas  Business Organization Code, as amended.  If, after any event causing
the  winding  up  of  the  Partnership,  a Majority in Interest of the Remaining
Partners  elect to continue the Partnership's business pursuant to the preceding
sentence,  then  such  Remaining  Partners  who voted in favor of continuing the
Partnership's  business, together with such other Remaining Partners who, within
thirty  (30)  days  after  such election to continue, give written notice to the
other  Remaining  Partners  of  their  election  to  continue  the Partnership's
business, shall be the "Continuing Partners."  The Partnership or the Continuing
Partners  shall purchase the interest in the Partnership (including any interest
in  Contribution  Loans and Working Capital Loans) of any noncontinuing Partner,
other  than  a  noncontinuing  Partner  which  has forfeited its interest in the
Partnership  pursuant  to  Section  3.3,  at the FMV thereof as determined by an
Appraiser selected by the Continuing Partners; provided that such purchase price
shall  be  reduced by (a) in the case of any noncontinuing Partner on account of
whom  such event of winding up occurred, any damages suffered by the Partnership
or any of the Continuing Partners by reason of such event causing the winding up
of the Partnership, (b) the unpaid balance of any principal and accrued interest
on  any  Contribution Loan made by another Partner to the Partnership on account
of  such noncontinuing Partner, and (c) in the case of any noncontinuing Partner
on  account of whom such event of winding up occurred, all costs and expenses of
such  sale  incurred  by  the  Partnership or the Continuing Partners, including
reasonable  appraisal  fees  and attorneys' fees.  To the extent such deductions
exceed  the  purchase  price,  such noncontinuing Partner shall bear and pay the
same.  The  purchase price for such interest shall be paid, at the option of the
Continuing  Partners,  either  (i) in cash or (ii) by delivery of the Continuing
Partners'  or  the  Partnership's  unsecured note therefor payable in five equal
annual  installments  of principal plus annual installments of interest accruing
thereon at a rate equal to the Agreed Rate.  Upon the closing of the purchase of
a  noncontinuing Partner's interest in the Partnership by the Partnership or the
Continuing  Partners  pursuant to the foregoing, the noncontinuing Partner shall
be  relieved from liability for all obligations of the Partnership arising after
such  transfer  to  the  extent  provided  in  Section  12.3.

     (b)     Upon the bankruptcy of a Partner (such Partner being referred to as
a  "'Bankrupt  Partner"),  the other Partners who are not Bankrupt Partners (the
"Non-Bankrupt  Partners")  and  who  desire to pursue a possible exercise of the
relevant  option  (in  proportion  to  their Partnership Shares or in such other
proportions as they may agree), will have the option, exercisable by notice from
such  Non-Bankrupt  Partners  to the Bankrupt Partner (or its representative) at
any time prior to the 180th day after receipt of notice of the occurrence of the
event  causing  it  to

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become  a Bankrupt Partner (the "Bankruptcy Option Period," subject to extension
as  provided  below),  to buy, and, on the exercise of this option, the Bankrupt
Partner or its representative will sell, its Partnership Share.  Decisions under
this Section by any Non-Bankrupt Partners wishing to participate in the purchase
of the Bankrupt Partner's Partnership Share shall be by the approval of at least
a  Majority Interest of Non-Bankrupt Partners who at the relevant time desire to
pursue  a possible exercise of the relevant option (or in such other proportions
as  they  may  otherwise agree among themselves).  References in this Section to
"potential  purchaser" refer to such Non-Bankrupt Partners, as appropriate.  The
purchase  price  will  be  an  amount equal to the FMV of the Bankrupt Partner's
Partnership  Share  determined by agreement between the Bankrupt Partner (or its
representative)  and  the  potential purchaser; however, if those Persons do not
agree  on the FMV on or before the 30th day following the date of receipt by the
Bankrupt  Partner  (or  its  representative)  of  a  written  request  from such
potential  purchaser  for  a  determination of the FMV of the Bankrupt Partner's
Partnership  Share,  the  potential purchaser, by written notice to the Bankrupt
Partner (or its representative), may require the determination of FMV to be made
by  one  of three independent Appraisers specified in such notice (each of which
must  be  independent  from  the  Partnership, the Partners and their respective
Affiliates).  The  Bankrupt  Partner (or its representative) must, within twenty
(20)  days  after receipt of such notice, choose one of the Appraisers listed in
such  notice  to  determine  the  FMV  of  the Partnership Share of the Bankrupt
Partner  (or  its  representative).  If  the  Bankrupt  Partner  (or  its
representative)  fails  to  choose  one  of the Appraisers listed in such notice
within said 20-day period, the potential purchaser may, by written notice to the
Bankrupt Partner (or its representative), choose one of the Appraisers listed in
such  notice  to  determine  the  FMV  of  the Partnership Share of the Bankrupt
Partner  (or  its  representative).  The  potential  purchaser  and the Bankrupt
Partner  (or  its  representative) will promptly provide such Appraiser with all
information  each  deems  necessary  or appropriate to determine such FMV of the
Partnership  Share and shall use best efforts to cooperate with the Appraiser so
that it can determine such FMV as soon as practicable.  The Bankrupt Partner and
the  potential  purchaser  each will bear one-half of the costs of the appraisal
and the Appraiser.  The Bankruptcy Option Period will be extended, if necessary,
so  that  the  Bankruptcy  Option Period will not expire prior to the end of the
tenth  day  after  the Partnership, the Bankrupt Partner (or its representative)
and  each  Non-Bankrupt  Partner  receives  written  notice  of  the  FMV of the
Partnership  Share of the Bankrupt Partner (or its representative) as determined
by  such  Appraiser.  If  the  potential purchaser elects, within the Bankruptcy
Option Period (as extended, if applicable), to exercise the purchase option, the
potential  purchaser  (who will then become the purchasing Person or Persons, as
applicable)  will  pay  the  FMV as so determined (reduced, at the option of the
purchasing  Person or Persons, by one-half of the costs of the appraisal and the
Appraiser)  in cash on closing; and the Bankrupt Partner (or its representative)
will  deliver  at  closing  such  closing  documents as the purchasing Person or
Persons  may  reasonably  request.  If  the  purchase  price  paid at closing is
reduced  by  one-half  of  the  costs of the appraisal and Appraiser, such costs
shall  become  the  sole  obligation  of  the purchasing Person or Persons.  The
payment  to  be  made  to the Bankrupt Partner or its representative pursuant to
this  Section  13.2(b)  is  in  complete liquidation and satisfaction of all the
rights  and  interest of the Bankrupt Partner and its representative (and of all
Persons  claiming  by,  through,  or  under  the  Bankrupt  Partner  and  its
representative)  in and in respect of the Partnership, including any Partnership
Share,  any  rights in specific Partnership property, and any rights against the
Partnership  or its Affiliates and its officers, agents, and representatives and
(insofar  as the affairs of the Partnership are concerned) against the Partners.
The  rights  afforded  to  the  Partnership  and  the  Non-Bankrupt

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Partners  under  this  Section 13.2(b) are cumulative of and in addition to, and
shall  not release or impair, the rights and remedies granted to the Partnership
and  the  other  Partners with respect to a Bankrupt Partner and its interest in
the Partnership pursuant to Section 13.2(a) and Article III, including rights of
expulsion  of  the  Bankrupt  Partner  and  forfeiture  of  a Bankrupt Partner's
interest  in  the  Partnership pursuant to Section 3.3.  Upon the closing of the
purchase  of  a Bankrupt Partner's interest in the Partnership by the purchasing
Person  or  Persons  pursuant  to  the  foregoing, the Bankrupt Partner shall be
relieved  from  liability  for  all obligations of the Partnership arising after
such  transfer  to  the  extent  provided  in  Section  12.3.

     (c)     Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  the  rights  and  interests  of
Metroplex  under Sections 3.1(c) and 3.5 with respect to Cinco County's interest
in  the  Partnership  have  priority  and  preference  over  all rights, claims,
remedies and interests which may ever arise under this Section 13.2 with respect
to  Cinco  County's  interest  in  the  Partnership.

     Section  13.3.  Priority of Distribution.  If the Partnership's business is
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not  continued,  it  shall  be  wound  up  and liquidated as rapidly as business
circumstances  will  permit.  The  Partnership  Assets  shall  be applied to the
following  uses  in  the  following  order:

     (a)     To  pay  or  provide  for  all  amounts owing by the Partnership to
creditors  other  than  Partners,  and  for  expenses  of  winding  up;

     (b)     To  pay  or  provide  for  all  amounts  owing  to  Partners  for
Contribution  Loans;

     (c)     To pay or provide for all other amounts owing by the Partnership to
the  Partners  other  than  for  capital  and  profits;

     (d)     To  pay  or provide for all amounts owing to Partners for principal
and accrued interest on Working Capital Loans; provided that, in lieu of payment
of  all Working Capital Loans, the Liquidator may elect to convert all principal
and  accrued  interest  on  all  Working  Capital  Loans  into  capital  of  the
Partnership  by  crediting the capital accounts of the Partners' owed such loans
with  the  unpaid  balance  thereof;

     (e)     All  cash  representing unexpended contributions by any Partner and
any  property  in  which  no interest has been earned by any other Partner under
this  Agreement  shall  be  returned  to  the  contributing  Partner;

     (f)     The  FMV  of  all  the  Partnership Assets shall bedeterminedby the
unanimous  agreement of all Partners or by an Appraiser selected by at least two
Partners having a Majority-in-Interest (or pursuant to the procedure provided in
Section  15.15  if the unanimous agreement of all Partners is not obtained or at
least  two  Partners  having  a Majority-in-Interest are unable to agree upon an
Appraiser);  and  following  such  determination the FMV capital accounts of the
Partners  shall  be  adjusted to reflect the manner in which the unrealized gain
and  unrealized  loss  inherent  in  the  Partnership  Assets which has not been
reflected  in  the  FMV capital accounts previously would be allocated among the
Partners  in  accordance with Section 5.5(a) if there were a taxable disposition
of the Partnership Assets for FMV on the date of distribution, and all remaining
Partnership  Assets  shall be distributed to the Partners in accordance with the
following  provisions:

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          (1)     The  Initial  Pipeline Assets and Improvements, at Metroplex's
     option,  shall  be  distributed  solely  to  Metroplex;

          (2)     If  Metroplex  does  not  elect  to  have the Initial Pipeline
     Assets  and  Improvements  distributed  solely to Metroplex, the Liquidator
     will  use  reasonable  efforts  to  sell  the  Initial  Pipeline Assets and
     Improvements and distribute the net proceeds resulting from such sale (less
     all costs and expenses of such sale) to the Partners in accordance with the
     ratios  of  their  then  adjusted  FMV  capital  accounts;  and

          (3)     An undivided interest in each and everyother Partnership Asset
     (including  any  unsold  Pipeline Interests) shall be distributed to one or
     more  Partners  in  accordance  with  the ratios of their then adjusted FMV
     capital  accounts.  If  thereafter  a  Partner  has  a negative FMV capital
     account balance, that is a balance of less than zero, in accordance with of
     Treasury  Regulations  Section  1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(b)(3),  such  Partner  is
     obligated  to  contribute,  by  the  end  of the taxable year or, if later,
     within  90  days  from the Partnership's liquidation, an amount of money to
     the  Partnership  sufficient to achieve a zero balance FMV capital account.

     Section  13.4.  Liquidation  of Partnership Business.  If winding up occurs
                     ------------------------------------
because  of the bankruptcy of a Partner or any act of a Partner in contravention
of  this  Agreement  or  deemed  to be in contravention of this Agreement by the
terms  hereof,  then  the Management Committee (excluding the representative and
alternate  of the Partner which caused such winding up) shall have the authority
to  wind up and liquidate the business of the Partnership.  If winding up occurs
by reason of subsection (a) of Section 13.1, then the Management Committee shall
have  the  authority  to  wind up and liquidate the business of the Partnership.
The  Management  Committee,  as  so constituted, with the authority hereunder to
wind  up  the  business  and  conduct  the liquidation of the Partnership (being
herein  called  the  "Liquidator")  shall  have  all  powers  conferred upon the
Partners  and  the Management Committee under the terms of this Agreement to the
extent  necessary  or  desirable in the good faith judgment of the Liquidator to
complete  the  liquidation of the Partnership as provided for herein, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following specific powers:

     (a)     The  power  to  continue  to manage and operate any business of the
Partnership  during the period of such liquidation, including also the power (i)
subject  to the limitations of this Agreement, to make and enter into (and renew
and  extend)  any  production  and  product  sales  agreements and any leases or
contracts  on  behalf  of  the Partnership which may extend beyond the period of
liquidation  and  (ii) to make acquisitions pursuant to AMI Agreements affecting
any  Partnership  Assets;  provided,  however, the Liquidator shall not have the
power  to  create  any obligation on the Partners which the Management Committee
could  not  create  if  the  Partnership  had  not  dissolved.

     (b)     The power to make sales and incident thereto to execute and deliver
deeds,  bills of sale, assignments and transfers of assets and properties of the
Partnership.

     (c)     The power to borrow  unds as may, in the good faith judgment of the
Liquidator,  be  reasonably  required to pay debts and obligations for which the
Partnership  is  liable  and operating expenses of the Partnership, and to grant
deeds  of  trust,  mortgages,  security

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agreements,  pledges  and collateral assignments upon and encumbering any of the
Partnership  Assets  as  security for repayment of such loans or as security for
payment  of  any  other indebtedness of the Partnership; provided, however, that
the  Liquidator  shall not have the power to create any obligation on any of the
Partners which the Management Committee could  not create if the Partnership had
not  dissolved.

     (d)     The power to settle, compromise or adjust any claims asserted to be
owing  by  or  to  the  Partnership,  and the right to file, prosecute or defend
lawsuits  and  legal  proceedings  in  connection  with  any  such  matters.

     (e)     The  power  to make deeds, bills of sale, assignments and transfers
to  the  respective  Partners and their successors in interest incident to final
distribution of the remaining properties of the Partnership (if any) as provided
for  herein;  provided  that, any properties conveyed or transferred pursuant to
this  subsection  shall  be  made  subject  to  a  form  of  operating agreement
containing  substantially  the  same terms as the operating agreement applicable
under  the  E&P Agreement, except that the General Partner shall be the operator
thereunder and the overhead rates provided for in such operating agreement shall
be  adjusted  under  the  terms of such operating agreement as if such operating
agreement  had  been in effect from the date of commencement of operations under
the  E&P  Agreement.  Any  Pipeline Interests which are not sold pursuant to the
winding  up of the Partnership's business and which are determined to be subject
to the Common Purchaser Act, Texas Natural Resources Code, Sec.111.081, et seq.,
or to be a common carrier pipeline, shall be made subject to a separate pipeline
operating  agreement, with the General Partner as operator, containing all terms
from  the  operating  agreement  applicable  under  the  E&P Agreement which can
reasonably  be  made  applicable to the operation of such Pipeline Interests and
such  other terms which are reasonably necessary for governing the operations of
the  Pipeline Interests or which are customarily contained in pipeline operating
agreements.  The  remaining  Partners shall use good faith reasonable efforts to
attempt  to agree upon the terms of such pipeline operating agreement, with such
terms  being  determined by the Liquidator to the extent mutual agreement is not
reached.

All  decisions  of  the  Liquidator  shall  be made by the vote of a Majority in
Interest  of  the  Partners comprising the Liquidator and in accordance with the
provisions  hereof  regarding  the  Management  Committee; provided that, to the
maximum  extent  possible  the Liquidator will attempt not to sell or dispose of
the  Partnership  Hydrocarbon  Interests,  any  Pipeline  Interests  (except  as
provided  in  Section  13.3(f)(2))  and  other  properties  and  will attempt to
distribute  the  same  in kind to the Partners pursuant to Section 13.3(f).  If,
under  the  above  provisions,  properties of the Partnership are distributed in
kind  to  the respective Partners and/or their successors in interest subject to
liens  or  mortgages securing indebtedness of the Partnership, and if thereafter
one  or  more of such Partners or their successors in interest shall pay more of
such  secured  indebtedness  than the pro rata share thereof attributable to the
undivided  interest in such properties thus distributed to or acquired by it, it
shall  be  subrogated  to  and  entitled  to  enforce such liens or mortgages as
against  the  interest  of  such  of  the  other Partners or their successors in
interest  who  have  not  paid  their  full  pro  rata  share  of  such  secured
indebtedness  to  secure  repayment to it to the extent of the deficiency in the
proportionate  payments  attributable  to their undivided interests which should
have  been  made  by  such  other  Partner  or  their  successors  in  interest.

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     Section 13.5. Certificate of Termination. On completion of the distribution
                   --------------------------
of  the  Partnership's property as provided herein, the General Partner (or such
other  Person  or  Persons  as  the  Act  may  require  or  permit) shall file a
certificate of termination with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas and
take  such  other  actions as may be necessary to terminate the existence of the
Partnership.  Upon  the  filing  of  the  certificate  of  termination  with the
Secretary of State of the State of Texas, the existence of the Partnership shall
cease,  except  as may be otherwise provided by the Act or other applicable Law.

                                   ARTICLE XIV
                                 CONFIDENTIALITY
                                 ---------------

     Section  14.1.  Confidentiality.  Unless  a  shorter  period  of  time  is
                     ---------------
provided  in this Section 14.1 with respect to such information, all records and
accounts, including reports, with respect to the Partnership shall be treated as
confidential  and  each  Operator  and Service Contractor and each Partner shall
take  or  cause  to  be taken such reasonable precautions as may be necessary to
prevent  the  disclosure  thereof  to  any  unauthorized  Person  for  a  period
commencing  on the date hereof and extending until the expiration of three years
after  the  expiration  of  the  Term.  Each Partner agrees that for a period of
three  years  after  geological  or  geophysical data, progress reports or other
information  which  it  may receive as a result of operations carried out by the
Partnership  is generated or produced, it will take all reasonable steps to keep
secret  and  confidential  and not disclose such information to any Person.  The
restrictions  of this Section 14.1 shall not apply to information and data which
(i)  has entered into the public domain without breach of the provisions of this
Section  14.1, (ii) was received by such Partner from a third party not under an
obligation  of  confidentiality  to  the  Partnership  or any other Partner with
respect  thereto  prior  to  the time such Partner received such information and
data  pursuant to the Partnership, (iii) lawfully may be obtained as a matter of
right  by the Partner receiving same from another source not under an obligation
of confidentiality to the Partnership or any other Partner with respect thereto,
(iv)  is  required to be disclosed by any Law or the rules of any stock exchange
applicable  to  the  Partner required to disclose the same (or to such Partner's
Affiliate);  provided that such Partner (and its Affiliate, if applicable) shall
use  its  best  efforts to give each other Partner at least 10 days prior notice
before any disclosure under this clause (iv), or (v) is furnished to Affiliates,
or  to  bona  fide  prospective  purchasers, mortgagees, prospective mortgagees,
lenders,  prospective  lenders, prospective participants with the Partnership or
consultants  for  evaluation  purposes  provided  that  any  Person  furnished
information  pursuant  to  this  clause  (v)  agrees  not  to  communicate  such
information  to  any  other Person (except as permitted under the exceptions set
forth  in  clauses  (i)  through (iv) above, modified as appropriate to apply to
such  prospective purchaser, mortgagee, prospective mortgagee, et al.) or use it
for  their  own benefit in a manner adverse to the interests of the Partnership.
Each  Partner  shall  take  all  reasonable  steps  to require its employees and
consultants, and its Affiliates and their employees and consultants, to be bound
by  the  provisions  of  this  Section  14.1  in  the same manner as it is bound
hereunder.

     Section  14.2.  News Releases. General Partner shall be responsible for the
                     -------------
preparation  and  release  of  all public announcements and statements regarding
this  Agreement or operations hereunder; provided that no public announcement or
statement shall be issued or made unless, prior to its release, all the Partners
have  been  furnished  with  a copy of such statement or announcement.  Any such
Notice  shall  be  provided  a  minimum  of  three  (3)  Business  Days  prior

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to  its  release  provided that where a public announcement or statement becomes
necessary  or desirable because of danger to or loss of life, damage to property
or  pollution  as  a  result of activities arising under this Agreement, General
Partner  is  authorized to issue and make such announcement or statement without
prior  notice to the Partners.  In such cases the General Partner shall promptly
furnish  all  the  Partners with a copy of such announcement or statement.  If a
Partner  wishes  to issue or make any public announcement or statement regarding
this  Agreement or operations hereunder, it shall not do so unless, prior to the
release  of the public announcement or statement, such Partner furnishes all the
Partners with a copy of such announcement or statement, and obtains the approval
of the General Partner; and provided that, notwithstanding any failure to obtain
such  approval,  no  Partner shall be prohibited from issuing or making any such
public  announcement or statement if it is necessary to do so in order to comply
with  the  applicable  laws,  rules or regulations of any government, regulatory
authority,  legal  proceedings  or  stock exchange having jurisdiction over such
Partner  or  its  Affiliates.

                                   ARTICLE XV
                                  MISCELLANEOUS
                                  -------------

     Section 15.1.  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more
                    ------------
counterparts,  all  of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, and
shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of
the  Partners  and  delivered  to  the  other  Partners.

     Section  15.2.  Governing  Law.  This  Agreement  shall  be governed by and
                     --------------
construed in accordance with the Laws of the State of Texas without reference to
the  choice  or  conflict  of  Law  principles  thereof.

     Section  15.3.  Entire  Agreement.  This  Agreement and the Exhibits hereto
                     -----------------
contain  the  entire  agreement between the Partners with respect to the subject
matter  hereof  and  there are no agreements, understandings, representations or
warranties  between  the  Partners  other  than  those  set forth or referred to
herein.

     Section  15.4.  Notices.  All  notices  authorized  or required to be given
                     -------
between  the  Partners  shall  be  deemed  effective upon receipt by the Partner
receiving such notice. Notices may be delivered in person, by courier service or
by  any  electronic  means  which provides written confirmation at the notifying
Partner's  end  of  complete transmission. Notices may be delivered by e-mail if
the  notifying  Partner's  e-mail system provides for both sender nonrepudiation
and  e-mail  confirmation  at the notifying Partner's terminal of receipt by the
receiving  Partner  and such email is followed by a notice sent by fax within 24
hours  which  provides  for  confirmation at the notifying Partner's terminal of
receipt by the receiving Partner. Oral communication does not constitute notice;
the  telephone  numbers listed below are for convenience only. If an address for
notice is specified in this Agreement, then notice shall not be deemed effective
unless  properly  addressed  to  and  received at such specified address. If not
otherwise  specified herein, any notices given under the terms of this Agreement
shall  be  addressed  as  follows or to such other address as a Partner may from
time  to  time  designate:

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<S>                                             <C>
Metroplex Barnett Shale LLC                     Cinco County Barnett Shale, LLC
222 Benmar, CORP-GP8-367                        6211 W. Northwest Highway, Suite C-252
Houston, Texas 77060                            Dallas, Texas  75225
Attention:  Paul W. Watson, Land Supervisor     Attention:  Steve Carter
Telephone:  281-654-7369                        Telephone:  214-361-4292
Fax:  281-654-5501                              Fax:  214-750-7351

Barnett Petrosearch, L.L.C.
c/o Petrosearch Energy Corporation
675 Bering Drive, Suite 200
Houston, Texas 77057
Attention:  Richard D. Dole, President and CEO
Telephone:  713-961-9337
Fax:  713-961-9338
</TABLE>

     Section  15.5.  Successors  and  Assigns.  Subject  to the restrictions and
                     ------------------------
requirements  on  assignment  and  transfer  contained  in  this Agreement, this
Agreement  shall  be  binding  upon and inure to the benefit of the Partners and
their  respective  successors  and  permitted  assigns.

     Section  15.6.  Headings;  Construction. The headings to Articles, Sections
                     -----------------------
and  other  subdivisions  of  this  Agreement  are  inserted  for convenience of
reference  only  and  will  not  affect  the  meaning  or interpretation of this
Agreement.  The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation, review and
drafting  of  this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or
interpretation arises, this Agreement will be construed as if drafted jointly by
the  parties  and  no  presumption  or  burden  of  proof will arise favoring or
disfavoring  any  party  by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of
this  Agreement.

     Section 15.7. Amendments and Waivers. This Agreement may not be modified or
                   ----------------------
amended  except  by  an  instrument  or  instruments  in  writing  signed by all
Partners.  Any  Partner  may, only by an instrument in writing, waive compliance
by  another  Partner with any term or provision of this Agreement on the part of
such  other Partner to be performed or complied with.  The waiver by any Partner
of a breach of any term or provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as
a  waiver  of  any  subsequent  breach.

     Section  15.8.  Exhibits.  All Exhibits hereto which are referred to herein
                     --------
are  hereby  made  a  part  hereof  and  incorporated  herein by such reference.

     Section  15.9.  Agreement for the Partners' Benefit Only. This Agreement is
                     ----------------------------------------
not intended to confer upon any Person not a Partner or a permitted successor or
assign  of a Partner any rights or remedies hereunder, and no Person, other than
the  Partners or a permitted successor or assign thereof, is entitled to rely on
any  covenant or agreement contained herein, except that the Partners agree that
any  third  party  (including  an  Affiliate  of  a  Partner) who is released or
required  to  be  indemnified,  held harmless or defended under Sections 3.6(c),
7.3(c)  and/or  10.2  shall  be entitled to assert such rights and remedies as a
third  party  beneficiary hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any third party
director,  officer,  employee,  representative  or agent, Cinco County Executive
Officer  or  Petrosearch  Executive Officer (each an "Indemnified Employee") who
would  otherwise  be entitled to be indemnified, held harmless or defended under

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Sections  3.6(c),  7.3(c)  and/or  10.2  shall be indemnified, held harmless and
defended  under the terms of this Agreement only to the extent that a Partner or
an  Affiliate  (other  than  an  Indemnified Employee) of a Partner (or a former
Partner or an Affiliate (other than an Indemnified Employee) of a former Partner
to  the  extent  provided  below)  expressly  elects  to  exercise such right of
indemnity,  hold  harmless  and  defense  on behalf of such Indemnified Employee
pursuant to Section 10.3; and no party to this Agreement or Affiliate of a party
to  this  Agreement  (or  former Partner or Affiliate of a former Partner) shall
have  any  direct liability or obligation to any such Indemnified Employee or be
liable  to any such Indemnified Employee for any election or non-election or any
act  or  failure  to  act under or in regard to any term of this Agreement.  Any
claim  for  indemnity,  hold  harmless  or  defense  hereunder  on  behalf of an
Indemnified  Employee must be made and administered by a Partner or an Affiliate
(other  than  Indemnified  Employee)  of  a  Partner  (or a former Partner or an
Affiliate (other than an Indemnified Employee) of a former Partner to the extent
provided  below).  If  an  Affiliate  of a current Partner, a former Partner, an
Affiliate  of  a  former  Partner  or their respective Indemnified Employees are
entitled  to  be  indemnified,  held harmless or defended under Sections 3.6(c),
7.3(c)  and/or 10.2, then such Affiliate (other than an Indemnified Employee) or
such  former  Partner  may exercise and administer such right of indemnity, hold
harmless  and  defense  on behalf of itself, its Affiliates and their respective
Indemnified  Employees  as  if  it  were  a  Partner  hereunder.

     Section  15.10.  Severability.  If  any  term  or  other  provision of this
                      ------------
Agreement  is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of Law
or  public  policy,  all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall
nevertheless  remain  in  full force and effect so long as the economic or legal
substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any adverse
manner to any Partner.  Upon such determination that any term or other provision
is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the Partners shall negotiate
in  good  faith  to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of
the  Partners as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that the
transactions  contemplated  hereby  are  fulfilled  to  the  extent  possible.

     Section  15.11.  Arbitration. Subject to the procedures for determining FMV
                      -----------
pursuant  to  Sections 3.3(c), 4.4, 5.4(b), 5.5(a)(1), 13.2(a), 13.2(b), 13.3(f)
and  15.15 (which shall be used in lieu of arbitration for determining FMV), the
Partners  agree  to  resolve  any  dispute  arising  out  of or relating to this
Agreement by binding arbitration pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of
the  American  Arbitration Association (AAA) as modified by this provision.  The
Partners  to  the  dispute  shall  each  appoint an arbitrator within 30 days of
expiration  of  the  time  for filing of an answering statement.  Within 30 days
from  the appointment of the second arbitrator, the two arbitrators so appointed
shall  appoint  the  third  arbitrator,  who  shall  act  as  chairperson of the
tribunal.  If  any member of a three-person tribunal is not appointed within the
specified  deadline,  any  Partner  may request the AAA to appoint arbitrator or
arbitrators that have not been appointed.  If the dispute involves more than two
Partners and the multiple claimants are unable to nominate an arbitrator jointly
or  the  multiple respondents are unable to nominate an arbitrator jointly, then
the  AAA  shall appoint all three arbitrators and shall designate one of them to
chair  the  tribunal.  The  arbitration  shall take place in Houston, Texas.  In
resolving the dispute before them, the arbitrator(s) shall apply the substantive
Law  of  Texas,  except  for  any  choice  of  Law rules that would call for the
application  of  the substantive Law of another jurisdiction.  The arbitrator(s)
shall  not  award  consequential,  special,  exemplary,  or  punitive  damages,
including

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loss  of  profit  and  business interruption.  The Federal Arbitration Act shall
govern the arbitration.  Judgment on any award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may
be  entered  in  any  court of competent jurisdiction.  This Section 15.11 shall
survive  termination  of  this  Agreement.

     Section  15.12.  Remedies  Cumulative.  Each  of the rights and remedies of
                      --------------------
the  Partnership or the Partners set forth in this Agreement (including, without
limitation,  those  rights  and  remedies set forth in Section 3.3, Section 3.4,
Section  3.5  and  Section  13.4)  or  available  at  Law  or in equity shall be
cumulative, concurrent and non-exclusive.  The election to pursue any such right
or  remedy shall not be deemed a waiver, then or thereafter, to pursue any other
such  right  or  remedy  which may, at the time of exercise, be available to the
Partnership  or  the  Partner  exercising  same.

     Section  15.13.  Business  Standards.
                      -------------------

     (a)     Business  Standards.  Each  Partner,  in  performing  any  services
             -------------------
hereunder,  shall  establish  and  maintain  appropriate  business  standards,
procedures  and controls including those necessary to avoid any real or apparent
impropriety  or  adverse  impact  on  the interests of the other Partner or such
Partner's  Affiliates.  Each Partner shall establish and maintain precautions to
prevent  its  employees,  agents  or  representatives  from  making,  receiving,
providing,  or  offering  substantial  gifts, entertainment, payments, loans, or
other  consideration  to  employees,  agents,  or  representatives  of the other
Partner for the purpose of influencing those persons to act contrary to the best
interests  of such other Partner.  This obligation shall apply to the activities
of  the  employees  of each Partner in their relations with the employees of the
other  Partner  and  their  families  and/or  third  parties  arising  from this
Agreement.

     (b)     Accuracy  of  Records.  Each  Partner  agrees  that  all  financial
             ---------------------
settlements,  billings,  and  reports  rendered  to  the  other  Partner  or its
representative  shall  reflect  properly  the  facts  about  all  activities and
transactions  handled  for  the account of such other Partner, which data may be
relied upon as being complete and accurate in any further recordings and reports
made  by  such  other  Partner  or  its  representatives  for  whatever purpose.

     (c)     Subcontractors.  Each  Partner  shall place similar requirements on
             --------------
all  subcontractors,  consultants,  and  vendors  who  are  involved  performing
services  in  connection with this Agreement, including the obligation to notify
the other Partner upon discovery of any instance of non-compliance as stipulated
under  Section  15.13(d)  below.

     (d)     Notification.  Each  Partner  agrees  to  notify  the other Partner
             ------------
promptly  upon  discovery  of any instance in which such Partner fails to comply
with  this  Section  15.13.

     Section  15.14.  Affiliates of Partners.  Each Partner covenants and agrees
                      ----------------------
with the Partnership and the other Partners that it will cause its Affiliates to
perform  and comply with all covenants, agreements, requirements and obligations
of,  or  relating  to,  its  Affiliates  that  are  provided  in this Agreement.

     Section  15.15.  Determination  of  FMV.  Subject  to  the express terms of
                      ----------------------
Sections  5.4(b),  5.5(a)(1), 13.2(a) and 13.2(b) regarding the determination of
FMV  or  the selection of the Appraiser (which shall control over this Section),
if  a  disagreement  among  the Partners has arisen as to the FMV of an asset or
transaction  for  which  the  FMV  is  expressly  required  by  the

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provisions  of  this  Agreement  and  the  Partners  are  unable to resolve such
disagreement  within  thirty (30) days, any Partner may give notice to the other
Partners  of  its  election to have the FMV determined pursuant to this Section.
Within  thirty  (30) days after such notice is given to the Partners, a Majority
in  Interest  of  the  Partners may by notice to the other Partners designate an
Appraiser (who must be independent from the Partnership, the Partners, and their
respective  Affiliates)  to determine the FMV.  If a Majority in Interest of the
Partners  fails to designate an Appraiser within such 30-day period, any Partner
by written notice to the other Partners, may require the determination of FMV to
be  made by one of three Appraisers specified in such notice (each of which must
be  independent  from  the  Partnership,  the  Partners,  and  their  respective
Affiliates).  If  more  than  one  Partner gives such a notice, the first notice
given  to the other Partners shall have priority.  A Majority in Interest of the
Partners  receiving  such  notice must, within twenty (20) days after receipt of
such notice, choose one of the Appraisers listed in such notice to determine the
FMV.  If  a  Majority in Interest of the Partners receiving such notice fails to
choose  one  of  the Appraisers listed in such notice within said 20-day period,
the  Partner  giving  such  notice may, by written notice to the other Partners,
choose  one  of the Appraisers listed in such notice to determine the FMV.  Once
an Appraiser has been selected pursuant to the foregoing procedure, all Partners
will  promptly  provide such Appraiser with all information each deems necessary
or  appropriate  to  determine  such FMV and shall use best efforts to cooperate
with  the  Appraiser  so  that it can determine such FMV as soon as practicable.
The  FMV determined by such Appraiser shall be binding upon the Partnership, the
Partners  and  any  Person owning or holding a Partnership Share or any right or
interest  in  the  Partnership.  The  Partnership  will  pay  the  costs  of the
appraisal  and the Appraiser.  This Section shall not apply to the determination
of  FMV  under  Section  13.2,  and  the  respective  procedures provided for in
Sections  13.2(a) and 13.2(b) shall respectively apply to such determinations of
FMV.

     IN  WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been signed by or on behalf of each
of  the  Partners  as  of  the  day  first  above  written.

                                       Metroplex Barnett Shale LLC

                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name:
                                             -----------------------------------
                                       Title:
                                              ----------------------------------

                                       Cinco County Barnett Shale, LLC

                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name:
                                             -----------------------------------
                                       Title:
                                              ----------------------------------

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                                       Barnett Petrosearch, L.L.C.

                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name:
                                             -----------------------------------
                                       Title:
                                              ----------------------------------

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     ANNEX A

                          INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS

    PARTNER            PROPERTY DESCRIPTION            FMV
<S>              <C>                               <C>
Metroplex,       Undivided 59.5% interest in the   $ 60,370,500
General Partner  Initial Leases

                 Keller Pipeline                   $ 97,000,000

                 DFW Pipeline (subject to the      $  5,000,000
                 DFW Reversionary Interest)

                 BIPL Option                       $  2,000,000

                        Total FMV                  $164,370,000

Cinco County,    Undivided 26.5% interest in the   $ 26,887,700
Limited Partner  Initial Leases (1)

Petrosearch,     Undivided 14% interest in the     $ 14,204,800
Limited Partner  Initial Leases (1)
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(1) The respective Partnership Shares of Cinco County and Petrosearch are not
proportionate to the FMV of the respective undivided interests in the Leases
contributed by Cinco County and Petrosearch as a result of a separate agreement
between Affiliates of Cinco County and Petrosearch.

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                                    EXHIBIT A

                                  CONTRACT AREA

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                                    EXHIBIT B

                                 INITIAL LEASES

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                                    EXHIBIT C

                             INITIAL PIPELINE ASSETS

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                                    EXHIBIT D

                                 INITIAL BUDGET

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                                    EXHIBIT E

                          THE OPERATING AGREEMENT TERMS

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                                    EXHIBIT F

                         HARDING ENERGY SERVICE CONTRACT

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                                    EXHIBIT G

                    CARRIED ACQUISITION FINANCING CONDITIONS

Satisfaction  of  the Carried Acquisition Financing Conditions requires that all
of  the following conditions, covenants and requirements be complied with and/or
satisfied:

     1.   Cinco  County  and  each Affiliate of Cinco County who is a party to a
          Service  Contract  or any other agreement with the Partnership will do
          or  cause  to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep
          in  full  force  and  effect  their  respective legal existence, their
          respective  good  standing  to  conduct business in the State of Texas
          (and  in  the State of their organization if other than Texas) and the
          rights,  licenses,  permits, privileges and franchises material to the
          conduct  of  their  respective  businesses.

     2.   No bankruptcy of Cinco County shall have occurred and no bankruptcy of
          any  Affiliate  of  Cinco  County shall have occurred. As used in this
          Exhibit  G,  the  term  "bankruptcy"  (i) with respect to Cinco County
          shall  be  as  defined in Section 13.1 of this Agreement and (ii) with
          respect  to  any  Affiliate  of  Cinco  County  shall be as defined in
          Section  13.1  of  this Agreement as if such Affiliate were a Partner.

     3.   No  Material  Adverse  Change  shall  have  occurred.  As used in this
          Exhibit  G,  "Material Adverse Change" means any event, development or
          circumstance  occurring after the Effective Date that has had or could
          reasonably  be  expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As used in
          this  Exhibit  G,  "Material  Adverse Effect" means a material adverse
          effect  on  (a)  the  assets  or  properties,  financial  condition,
          businesses  or  operations  of Cinco County as a whole or Cinco County
          and its Affiliates as a whole, (b) the ability of Cinco County and its
          Affiliates to carry out their respective businesses as contemplated by
          this  Agreement,  any  Service Contract or any other agreement between
          the Partnership and Cinco County or any Affiliate of Cinco County, (c)
          the ability of Cinco County and its Affiliates to perform fully and on
          a  timely basis their respective obligations under this Agreement, any
          Service  Contract,  any  other  agreement  between the Partnership and
          Cinco  County  or any Affiliate of Cinco County, or any material third
          party agreement (including any third party credit or loan agreement or
          document)  to which Cinco County or any Affiliate of Cinco County is a
          party,  or  (d)  the  validity or enforceability of, or the rights and
          remedies  of  the  Partnership or Metroplex under, this Agreement, any
          Service  Contract  with  any  Affiliate  of  Cinco County or any other
          agreement between the Partnership and Cinco County or any Affiliate of
          Cinco  County.

     4.   Cinco County and its Affiliates will pay their respective obligations,
          including  Tax  liabilities,  that,  if  not  paid,  could result in a
          Material  Adverse Effect before the same shall become delinquent or in
          default,  except  where  (a)  the  validity or amount thereof is being
          contested  in  good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) Cinco County
          or  a  Cinco  County  Affiliate  has  set  aside on its books adequate
          reserves  with  respect  thereto in accordance with generally accepted
          accounting  principles  in  the United States of America, consistently
          applied  ("GAAP")  and  (c)  the  failure to make payment pending such
          contest  could  not  reasonably  be  expected  to result in a Material
          Adverse  Effect.

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     5.   Within  10  days  after  requested  in writing by Metroplex, Metroplex
          shall  have received a certificate, dated within 5 days of the date of
          such request and signed by an officer of Cinco County, confirming that
          all  of  the  conditions, covenants and requirements set forth in this
          Exhibit  G  have  been  complied  with  and/or  satisfied.

     6.   Harding Company, a Texas corporation, and Harding Energy shall each be
          deemed  to  be  an  "Affiliate"  of  Cinco County for purposes of this
          Exhibit  G.

                             Exhibit G, Page 2 of 2PATENT LICENSE AGREEMENT

This  Patent  License Agreement (the "AGREEMENT") is entered into by and between
Integral  Technologies,  Inc.,  a Nevada corporation located at 805 West Orchard
Street,  #7,  Bellingham,  WA 98225 ("INTEGRAL") and  ADAC Plastics, Inc., d/b/a
ADAC  Automotive, a Michigan corporation with offices at 5920 Tahoe Drive SE, PO
Box  888375,  Grand  Rapids,  MI  49588-8375  ("COMPANY") and is effective as of
November  28,  2006  (the  "EFFECTIVE  DATE").

WHEREAS, Integral is the owner of certain technology, generally characterized as
ElectriPlast  technology;

WHEREAS, particular applications of the technology are covered by certain patent
rights  defined  below  and  those  patent  rights  are  owned  by Integral; and

WHEREAS,  Company wishes to obtain a non-exclusive license under such patents to
develop,  manufacture,  and  sell  certain  products;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and of the mutual covenants and
agreements  herein  contained,  receipt  and  sufficiency  of  which  is  hereby
acknowledged,  the  Parties  hereby  agree  as  follows:

1.     DEFINITIONS.

     1.1.     "CONFIDENTIAL  INFORMATION"  means  all  non-public  information
regarding  the  Disclosing  Party  or its business activities, including without
limitation  (i) its sublicensees, manufacturers, contractors, or sales, (ii) any
non-public  information  disclosed  in any report provided under this Agreement,
(iii)  the  Documentation  and  any  other  information  disclosed  during  any
consulting  services;  (iv) the terms of this Agreement; and (v) any information
disclosed  by  Company  pursuant  to  Section  3.

     1.2.     "LICENSED  FIELD"  means  the manufacture and sale of Products for
use  in  (i) car antennas; (ii) cup holder heating elements; (iii) driver's seat
heating  elements;  and  (iv)  light-emitting diode (LED) packs manufactured and
sold  by  the  entities listed in the attached Exhibit A, and such other uses as
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may  be  agreed  upon  in  writing  and  signed  by  the  parties.

     1.3.      "LICENSED  PRODUCT"  means  any  Product  made,  used,  sold,  or
otherwise disposed of by or for Company that (i) uses the Raw Materials and (ii)
is  either  branded  with  a Company brand or is designed by Company and sold in
Company's  ordinary  course  of  business.  Licensed  Products  do  not  include
"private  label"  Products  or  other  products  sold without a designation that
Company  is  the  source  of  the  Product.

     1.4.      "LICENSED  PATENTS"  means  the  (i)  patents, provisional patent
applications,  and  utility patent applications set forth in Exhibit B; (ii) any
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divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, reissues, or re-examinations of
such  patents  and  patent  applications;  (iii) all foreign counterparts of the
foregoing  (i)  and (ii); and (iv) all applications for any of the foregoing (i)
through (iii).  Licensed Patents do not include any patent claim that has either
expired  or  been  held  invalid  or  unenforceable  by a decision of a court or
governmental agency of competent jurisdiction, which decision is unappealable or
unappealed  within the time allowed for an appeal, or any other patent or patent
application.

     1.5.     "PRODUCT"  means any product (i) the manufacture, use, sale, offer
for  sale,  or  import of which is covered by at least one claim of the Licensed
Patents;  or  (ii) produced by a process, the practice of which is covered by at
least  one  claim  of  the  Licensed  Patents.

     1.6.     "RAW  MATERIALS"  means the Technology, as Integral provides it to
Company,  on  a  per  weight  basis  for use in manufacturing Licensed Products.

     1.7.     "TECHNOLOGY"  means  Integral's  proprietary  ElectriPlast(TM)
technology,  portions  of  which  may  be  covered by the Licensed Patents.  The
Technology  is  a  compounded,  pelletized  formulation  of  resin-

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based  materials,  which  are  conductively  loaded  or doped with a proprietary
controlled,  balanced  concentration  of  micron  conductive materials contained
within  the  manufactured  pellet.  The conductive loading or doping within this
pellet  is  then  homogenized  using  conventional  molding  techniques  and
conventional  molding  equipment.  The  resulting  polymer  is  electrically
conductive.

     1.8.     "THIRD  PARTY"  means corporate entities or individuals other than
Integral  or  Company.

2.     CONSULTING  SERVICES.

Integral will provide Company with consulting services related to the Technology
at  Integral's  standard hourly rates for such consulting services, on dates and
at  a locations mutually agreeable to the Parties.  If Company requests that all
or  part  of  the  consulting  services  take  place  at  facilities  other than
Integral's place of business, Company will reimburse Integral for its reasonable
and actual meals, travel, and lodging expenses incurred as a result of providing
such  consulting  services.  Integral  may,  but  is  not  obligated to, provide
Company  with certain pre-existing or developed written materials as part of the
consulting  services  ("DOCUMENTATION"),  provided  that  in  no event shall any
Documentation  be  deemed  a "work made for hire" or any ownership rights in the
Documentation  be  assigned  to  Company.  Documentation  shall  be  treated  as
Confidential  Information.

3.     LICENSE  GRANTS.

     3.1.     To  Company.  Integral  grants  to  Company  a  non-exclusive,
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non-sublicensable,  non-assignable,  worldwide  license  under all of Integral's
rights  under  the  Licensed  Patents  to  (i) make, use, offer to sell, sell or
import  Licensed  Products  in  the  Licensed Field; and (ii) internally use the
Documentation  and  information  provided  solely for purposes of developing and
manufacturing  Licensed  Products  in  the  Licensed  Field.

     3.2.     No  Foundry Rights.  Without limiting the restrictions on "private
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labeling" as provided in Section 1.2 above, Section 3.1 shall not be interpreted
as  granting  any rights to Company to manufacture Third Party Products, wherein
such  products  are  designed  by  the  Third Party without substantial input of
Company  and  such  products  are  essentially sold only to that designing Third
Party.

     3.3.     Ownership.  Except  as  expressly  set  forth  in  this Agreement,
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nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a grant of any license or rights
by implication or estoppel and Integral retains all right, title and interest in
and  to  the  Licensed  Patents.  All  rights  not expressly granted by Integral
hereunder  are  reserved  and retained by Integral, including but not limited to
Integral's  rights  in  the  Technology  not  covered  by  the Licensed Patents.

     3.4.     New  Joint  Developments.
              ------------------------

          3.4.1.     All  technology,  information  and  inventions  ("New
Developments"),  whether  or  not  patentable, developed jointly by Integral and
Company that concern the Technology (including the manufacture or formulation of
the  Raw  Materials)  shall  be  the  exclusive  property  of  Integral.

          3.4.2.     Except  for  New  Developments that concern the Technology,
all  New  Developments, whether or not patentable, developed jointly by Integral
and  Company  that concern the design or manufacture of fabricated products made
using  the  Raw  Materials  shall be the exclusive property of Company; provided
that  Company  shall have no rights in the Technology or Licensed Patents except
as  provided  pursuant  to  the  delivery  of  Raw  Materials  by  Integral.

          3.4.3.     All  other New Developments not addressed in Sections 3.4.1
and  3.4.2  that are jointly developed by the Parties under this Agreement shall
be  jointly  owned by the Parties; provided that Company shall have no rights in
the  Technology  or Licensed Patents except as provided pursuant to the delivery
of  Raw  Materials  by  Integral.

          3.4.4.     The  Parties agree to discuss in good faith whether and how
to  jointly  prosecute  or  enforce  any  patents  based  on  jointly  owned New
Developments  in  a  mutually  agreed  fashion.

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          3.4.5.     Neither  Party  shall  be  obligated  to  pay the other any
royalties  or other consideration, nor account to the other for any royalties or
other consideration it may receive, for any licenses, assignment, sale, lease or
other  distribution  of  the  jointly  owned  New Developments or any derivative
technology  thereof.

          3.4.6.     Any  such  derivative technology made after the termination
or  expiration  of  this  Agreement shall be owned exclusively by the creator of
such  derivative  technology.

          3.4.7.     Additionally,  regardless  of  subject  matter,  all  New
Developments  discovered  or developed by one Party without the participation of
the  other Party shall become the sole property of the discovering or developing
Party;  provided that Company shall have no rights in the Technology or Licensed
Patents  except  as  provided  pursuant  to  the  delivery  of  Raw Materials by
Integral.

4.     CONSIDERATION.

Upon  execution  of  this Agreement, Company shall pay Integral a non-refundable
fee  of  One  U.S.  Dollar  ($1.00).

5.     RAW  MATERIALS  FEES.

The  Parties  agree to use good faith efforts to reach agreement on commercially
reasonable terms for the pricing and delivery of the Raw Materials to Company by
Integral, and that agreement regarding the pricing and delivery of Raw Materials
shall  be  memorialized  as  an  amendment  to  this  Agreement.

6.     ENFORCEMENT  OF  PATENT  RIGHTS.

     6.1.     Notice;  Enforcement.  In  the event that Company becomes aware of
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actual  or  threatened  infringement  of  the  Patent  Rights  by  a Third Party
involving  Licensed Products, Company shall promptly notify Integral in writing.
Integral may, at its discretion, take corrective action against the Third Party,
and  may identify Company as having rights under the Licensed Patents.  Integral
shall  not  name  Company  as  a  co-party in any such action without an express
written  request  from  Company.

     6.2.     Infringement Action.  In the event Integral brings an infringement
              -------------------
action  against a Third Party, such action shall be at no cost to Company unless
Company  joins  the  suit  as  a  co-party,  and any recovery shall go solely to
Integral.  Company  is  under no obligation to join any such action and Integral
must  approve  the  addition  of  Company  as  a  co-party.

7.     TERM  AND  TERMINATION.

     7.1.     Term.  This  Agreement  shall be in full force and effect from the
              ----
Effective  Date  and  shall  remain  in  effect until the expiration of the last
patent  contemplated  to  be  licensed  by  this  Agreement,  or until otherwise
terminated  pursuant  to  the  terms  and  conditions  of  this  Agreement.

     7.2.     Termination.  Company  may  terminate  this  Agreement upon thirty
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(30)  days'  written  notice  at  any  time.  Either  Party  may  terminate this
Agreement  immediately  upon written notice at any time if the other Party is in
material  breach  of  any material warranty, term or condition of this Agreement
and  has failed to cure that breach within thirty (30) days after written notice
thereof.  Integral may terminate this Agreement upon written notice in the event
(i)  Company  institutes  any  action  or proceeding in which it claims that any
Licensed  Patent  is  invalid  or  unenforceable; or (ii) Company institutes any
action  (including  by  counter or cross-claim) alleging that Integral infringes
any  Company patent and/or patent application.  The terminating Party will incur
no  liability  to  the other Party for damages of any kind resulting solely from
terminating  this  Agreement  in  accordance  with  its  terms.

     7.3.     Effect  of  Expiration  or  Termination.  Upon  expiration  or
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termination  of this Agreement, (i) Company shall pay all sums accrued hereunder
prior to such termination, (ii) Integral shall have the right to retain any sums
already  paid by Company for this license and for any Raw Materials delivered or
created  for Company prior to expiration or termination, and (iii) Company shall
return  or certify in writing that it has destroyed all Documentation.  Upon the
termination  of  this  Agreement,  Company  shall

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have  the  right to use or sell all Licensed Product on-hand at the time of such
termination, provided that Company shall be obliged to pay Integral a royalty on
use  or  such  sales  as  set  forth  in  this  Agreement.

     7.4.     Survival.  In  the  event  of  expiration  or  termination of this
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Agreement  for  any reason, the following sections will survive such termination
or  expiration:  1,  3.4,  7.4,  and  8 - 11.

8.     WARRANTIES,  REPRESENTATIONS,  AND  COVENANTS;  DISCLAIMER.

     8.1.     Mutual  Representations  and  Warranties.  Each  Party represents,
              ----------------------------------------
warrants,  and  covenants  that:  (i)  this  Agreement has been duly and validly
executed  and  delivered  by  such  Party  and  constitutes  a legal and binding
obligation  of  such Party, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms;
(ii)  such Party has all necessary power and authority to execute and perform in
accordance  with  this Agreement; and (iii) such Party's execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement will not conflict with or violate any provision of
law,  rule  or  regulation  to  which  it  is subject, or any agreement or other
obligation  directly  or indirectly applicable to such Party or binding upon its
assets.

     8.2.     Representations  and  Warranties of Integral.  Integral represents
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and  warrants  that  (i)  it has the lawful right to grant the license set forth
herein;  and  (ii)  as  of  the  Effective  Date, the Licensed Patents listed in
Exhibit  A  are  issued,  unexpired,  valid  according  to  the  U.S. Patent and
Trademark  Office  and  in  good  standing.

     8.3.     Representations,  Warranties,  and  Covenants of Company.  Company
              --------------------------------------------------------
warrants that it has and will have throughout the Term the lawful right to grant
the  licenses  contemplated  herein.

     8.4.     WARRANTY  DISCLAIMER.  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 8.1, AND 8.2
              --------------------
ABOVE,  INTEGRAL  EXPRESSLY  DISCLAIMS  ALL  WARRANTIES,  EXPRESS,  IMPLIED  OR
STATUTORY,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  ANY  IMPLIED  WARRANTIES  OF
MERCHANTABILITY,  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT, ALL WITH
RESPECT  TO  THE PATENTS, DOCUMENTATION, AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS OR INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY  PROVIDED  OR  LICENSED  UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.  IN ADDITION, NOTHING IN
THIS  AGREEMENT  SHALL  BE  CONSTRUED  AS  (I)  A  WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION BY
INTEGRAL  OF  THE  VALIDITY  OR  SCOPE  OF  ANY  OF THE LICENSED PATENTS; (II) A
WARRANTY  OR  REPRESENTATION  THAT  ANYTHING  MADE, USED, SOLD OFFERED FOR SALE,
IMPORTED,  OR  OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNDER ANY LICENSE GRANTED IN THIS AGREEMENT
IS  OR SHALL BE FREE FROM INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS OR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OF THIRD
PARTIES;  OR  (III)  AN  AGREEMENT  BY INTEGRAL TO BRING OR PROSECUTE ACTIONS OR
SUITS  AGAINST  THIRD  PARTIES  FOR  INFRINGEMENT  OF  THE  PATENT  RIGHTS.

9.     INDEMNIFICATION.

Each  Party (the "INDEMNIFYING PARTY") will indemnify, hold harmless, and defend
the  other  Party  (the  "INDEMNIFIED  PARTY")  and  its  subsidiary  and parent
entities,  successors,  affiliates,  and  assigns,  and  all of their respective
officers,  directors,  members,  stockholders, agents, employees, and attorneys,
from any and all actions, causes of action, suits, proceedings, claims, demands,
judgments,  bona  fide  settlements,  penalties,  damages,  losses, liabilities,
costs, and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys' fees and
costs and those necessary to interpret or enforce this Section 9) arising out of
or  relating  to  any  claim  or  allegation arising out of (i) the Indemnifying
Party's  breach  of  this Agreement, including without limitation the warranties
set  forth  in  Section  8  above;  or  (ii)  in  the  case where Company is the
Indemnifying  Party,  the  manufacture,  use,  or  sale of any Licensed Product,
including, but not limited to any damages, losses or liabilities whatsoever with
respect to death or injury to any person and damage to any property arising from
the  possession,  use  or  operation of the Licensed Product by Company or their
customers  in any manner whatsoever; except to the extent that the claim results
from  Integral's  infringement  of the intellectual property rights of any third
party.  The  Indemnified  Party  may, at its expense, employ separate counsel to
monitor  and  participate  in  the  defense  of  any  claim  that  the

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Indemnifying  Party is defending under this Section.  The Indemnified Party will
provide  the  Indemnifying Party with reasonably prompt notice in writing of any
claim  to  which  this  Section  relates.

10.     CONFIDENTIALITY.

A  Party receiving Confidential Information (the "RECEIVING PARTY") of the other
Party  (the "DISCLOSING PARTY") shall not disclose or make any use of any of the
Disclosing  Party's  Confidential  Information except expressly as authorized in
writing  by  the  Disclosing  Party.  Authorized uses include use related to the
implementation  of this Agreement.  The Receiving Party agrees to take all steps
reasonably  requested  by  the  Disclosing  Party  to  confirm  and  protect the
Disclosing  Party's  interests in the Confidential Information.  For purposes of
clarification,  Confidential  Information shall not include information that the
Receiving  Party can establish by written evidence:  (i) entered or subsequently
enters  the public domain without the Receiving Party's breach of any obligation
owed the Disclosing Party; (ii) became known to the Receiving Party prior to the
Disclosing  Party's disclosure of such information to the Receiving Party; (iii)
became  known  to  the  Receiving  Party from a source other than the Disclosing
Party  other  than by the breach of an obligation of confidentiality owed to the
Disclosing  Party;  or  (iv)  is  independently developed by the Receiving Party
without  reference  to  any  of the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information.

11.     GENERAL.

     11.1.     Notices.  All  notices,  requests,  consents,  approvals,  or
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authorizations  in connection with this Agreement: (i) must be given in writing;
and (ii) will be deemed given as of (a) the day they are delivered on paper by a
nationally recognized express delivery service (such as Federal Express or DHL),
addressed  as set forth below; or (b) three (3) days after they are deposited in
the  sender's  national  mail  system, postage prepaid, certified or registered,
return  receipt  requested,  and  addressed  as  follows:

     To  Integral:  Attn:  William  Robinson
     ------------
                    805  West  Orchard  Street,  #7,
                    Bellingham,  WA  98225,

     To  Company:   Attn:  John  Shape
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                    5920  Tahoe  Drive  SE,
                    PO  Box  888375,
                    Grand  Rapids,  MI  49588

     Either  Party  may  change  the address above by giving notice to the other
Party  pursuant  to  this  Section  11.1.
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     11.2.     Assignment.  Company  may  not  undertake  any assignment of this
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Agreement  or  any  of  its  rights  and  duties  under  this  Agreement without
Integral's  prior  written  consent.  However, Company may assign this Agreement
without  Integral's  prior  written  consent  as  part of a merger, or a sale or
transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, provided such merger or sale
is  not with or to a competitor of Integral. Any attempted assignment by Company
of  this  Agreement  or  all or part of its rights and/or obligations under this
Agreement  without  Integral's  prior written consent (except as provided by the
prior  sentence) will be voidable at Integral's option. This Agreement will bind
each  Party,  and  inure  to  the  benefit  of each Party and its successors and
permitted  assigns.

     11.3.     Dispute  Resolution.  This  Agreement  will  be  governed  by and
               -------------------
construed  in  accordance  with the laws of the State of Washington as such laws
apply  to  contracts  performed within Washington by its residents. Any cause of
action  concerning  this contract shall be brought in the state court located in
Whatcom County, Washington, or the federal court located in the Western District
of  Washington,  and  Company  consents  to  the  exclusive jurisdiction of such
courts.  The  parties  shall  attempt  to settle all disputes, controversies and
difference arising between the parties in connection with this Agreement, or the
breach  thereof.  In no event shall a party institute a court proceeding without
notifying  the  other  party,

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in  advance,  of the existence of a dispute and without allowing the other party
to  attempt  a resolution. In the event no resolution is made, in any subsequent
action  to  enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement or to interpret any
provision  of  this  Agreement, the prevailing Party will be entitled to recover
its  costs,  including  reasonable  attorneys'  fees.

     11.4.     No Joint Venture.  Nothing in this Agreement will be construed to
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mean  that any Party is appointed or in any way authorized to act as an agent of
any  other Party.  This Agreement does not create any joint venture, partnership
or  formal  business  entity  or  organization  of  any  kind.

     11.5.     Waiver.  No  waiver  of  any  provision of this Agreement will be
               ------
effective unless it is in a signed writing, and no such waiver will constitute a
waiver  of  any other provision(s) or of the same provision on another occasion.

     11.6.     Severability.  If  a  court  of  competent jurisdiction holds any
               ------------
term,  covenant  or  restriction  of  this  Agreement  to be illegal, invalid or
unenforceable, in whole or in part, the Parties agree to negotiate in good faith
to  create  an  appropriate  amendment  to  the  remaining  terms, covenants and
provisions  that  will  replicate the economic effect of the Parties' intentions
under  this  Agreement.

     11.7.     Injunctive  and  Equitable  Relief.  Each  Party acknowledges and
               ----------------------------------
agrees  that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for a breach of the
terms  of  this  Agreement  respecting  Confidential  Information, and that such
breach  will  cause  the  owner  of  that Confidential Information immediate and
irreparable  injury.  In  such  cases, the non-breaching Party will be entitled,
without  waiving  or  prejudicing any other rights or remedies, to injunctive or
equitable  relief.

     11.8.     Entire  Agreement; Amendments.  This Agreement is not an offer by
               -----------------------------
Integral  and it is not effective until signed by both Parties.  This Agreement,
including the Exhibits attached hereto which are incorporated by this reference,
constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties with respect to the subject
matter  hereof  and  merges  all  prior  and  contemporaneous communications and
proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the Parties with respect
to  such subject matter.  This Agreement may not be modified except by a written
agreement  dated  subsequent  to  the  date of this Agreement and signed by duly
authorized  representatives  of  Integral  and  Company.

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF, both Integral and Company have executed this Agreement, in
duplicate  originals  by  their  respective  officers  hereunto duly authorized.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTEGRAL  TECHNOLOGIES,  INC.           ADAC  PLASTICS,  INC.

By:  /s/ William  S.  Robinson           By:  /s/ Jack  Prince
         ---------------------                    ------------

Title:  Chairman  and  CEO              Title:  Account  Director
        ------------------                      -----------------

Date:  12/15/2006                       Date:  11/28/2006
       ----------                              ----------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<PAGE>
                                    EXHIBIT A

                         CUSTOMERS IN THE LICENSED FIELD

Ford  Motor  Company

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<PAGE>
                                    EXHIBIT B

                    LICENSED PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                         PATENTS
-----------------------------------------=======--------------------------------------
  #  SUBJECT        DESCRIPTION         UTILITY DATE  UTILITY    ISSUED      ISSUED
                                                       NUMBER     DATE       NUMBER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>  <C>            <C>                 <C>           <C>        <C>        <C>
  1  PLASTENNA-2    segmented              9/24/2002  10/253355   4/6/2004  US 6717550
                    planar antenna
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2  PLASTENNA-1    low cost antenna       2/14/2002  10/075778  5/25/2004  US 6741221
                    using electriplast
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  3  FPP1645X       tri-mode               1/29/2003  10/353555  3/22/2005  US 6870505
                    orbcomm/gps
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  4  PLASTENNA-1    low cost antenna       12/4/2002  10/309429  3/22/2005  US 6870516
     CIP            using electriplast
                    CIP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  5  PLASTENNA-4    plastenna flat         9/25/2003  10/671265  3/29/2005  US 6873298
                    panel
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  6  PLAST          an inovation of a      2/19/2004  10/782364   9/6/2005  US 6940468
     DUCTOR         cross
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  7  PLASTENNA-5    low cost               2/17/2004  10/780214  9/20/2005  US 6947005
                    antennas
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  8  PLASTI         metal shielded          7/2/2004  10/884322  9/20/2005  US 6947012
     CONNECTOR      cable heads
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  9  PLASTI CAP     moldable               4/16/2004  10/825988  2/21/2006  US 7002234
                    capacitors
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 10  PLASTI PROBE   moldable               6/16/2004  10/869450  2/28/2006  US 7006046
                    electronic
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 11  PLASTENNA-6    conductor-center       3/12/2004  10/799103  2/28/2006  US 7006050
                    core
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 12  PLASTI RFID    low cost RFID           9/2/2004  10/933030  3/28/2006  US 7017822
 --  -------------  ------------------  ------------  ---------  ---------  ----------
 13  PLASTI         moldable thermal       3/23/2004  10/807036  4/11/2006  US 7027304
     COOLER         management
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 14  PLASTI         moldable               4/16/2004  10/825979   8/1/2006  US  708426
     DETECTOR       inductive loop
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 15  PLASTI SHIELD  3-D-RFI and EMI         6/8/2004  10/863407  7/18/2006  US 7079086
                    moldable
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                    ALLOWED NOT YET ISSUED PATENTS
--------------------==============================--------------------
  #  SUBJECT          DESCRIPTION      UTILITY    UTILITY    ALLOWED
                                        DATE       NUMBER     DATE
----------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>  <C>              <C>              <C>        <C>        <C>
 16  PLASTI ACTUATOR  moldable         3/26/2004  10/811082  7/12/2006
                      keyboard
                      conductive
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 17  PLASTI SHRINK    shielding heat-  8/30/2004  10/929301  4/21/2006
                      shrink tubing
----------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           PENDING PATENT APPLICATIONS
---------------------------===========================----------------------------
 #   SUBJECT                DESCRIPTION      UTILITY DATE  UTILITY NUMBER  PENDING
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>  <C>                <C>                  <C>           <C>             <C>
 18  PLASTENNA-1 CIPC   low cost antenna        6/25/2004       10/877092  X
                        CIPC
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 19  PLASTI HEATER      moldable radiant         4/7/2004       10/819808  X
                        heating
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<PAGE>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           PENDING PATENT APPLICATIONS
---------------------------===========================----------------------------
 #   SUBJECT                DESCRIPTION      UTILITY DATE  UTILITY NUMBER  PENDING
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 20  PLASTI LIGHT       moldable circuit         4/7/2004       10/819809  X
                        designs
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 21  PLASTI CARRIER     moldable IC chip        4/13/2004       10/823099  X
                        carrier
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 22  PLASTI BELT        moldable food           4/13/2004       10/823147  X
                        processing belts
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 23  PLASTI CABLE       molding shielding       3/26/2004       10/811371  X
                        for cables
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 24  PLASTI OSCILLATOR  moldable RF             4/19/2004       10/827053  X
                        tuning devices
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 25  PLASTI RESONATOR   moldable                4/19/2004       10/827061  X
                        adjustable tuners
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 26  PLASTI PLATE       metal plated            6/16/2004       10/869451  X
                        electriplast
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 27  PLASTI SORBER      moldable                 7/2/2004      10/884/321  X
                        magnetic energy
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 28  ELECTRIPLAST       compounding bse          7/1/2004       10/883915  X
                        resin
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 29  PLASTI RESISTOR    moldable current         7/1/2004       10/883913  X
                        limiting
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 30  PLASTI SHOCK       moldable electric       7/22/2004       10/897277  X
                        shock
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 31  PLASTENNA -7       low cost omni-          7/28/2004       10/900964  X
                        directional
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 33  PLASTI CONTAINER   ESD/RFI                 8/30/2004       10/929299  X
                        protection
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 34  PLASTI LABEL       RFID labels, ESD        8/31/2004       10/930352  X
                        labels
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 35  PLASTI RFID        low cost RFID            9/2/2004       10/933030  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 36  PLASTI INTERFACE   interface for            9/2/2004       10/933064  X
                        electriplast
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 37  PLASTI STITCH      plastithread           10/12/2004       10/963294  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 38  PLASTI WRAP        conductive wire or     10/18/2004       10/967487  X
                        thread
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 39  PLASTI BATTERY     battery                  2/8/2005       11/053562  X
                        connection
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 40  PLASTI FLEXCIR     flexible flex           2/14/2005       11/057534  X
                        circuits  A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 41  PLASTI FLEXCIR     flexible flex           2/14/2005       11/057535  X
                        circuits  B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 42  PLASTI ETCH        electrical surface      2/17/2005       11/060364  X
                        area A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 43  PLASTI ETCH        electrical surface      2/17/2005       11/060273  X
                        area B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 44  PLASTI BRAKE       magnetic braking         5/4/2005       11/121666  X
                        controls A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 45  PLASTI BRAKE       magnetic braking         5/4/2005       11/121667  X
                        controls B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 46  PLASTI PIPE        thermally                5/4/2005       11/121681  X
                        conductive pipe A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<PAGE>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           PENDING PATENT APPLICATIONS
---------------------------===========================----------------------------
 #   SUBJECT                DESCRIPTION      UTILITY DATE  UTILITY NUMBER  PENDING
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 47  PLASTI PIPE        thermally                5/4/2005       11/121680  X
                        conductive pipe B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 48  PLASTI FUSE        fused current            5/4/2005       11/121362  X
                        protection A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 49  PLASTI FUSE        fused current            5/4/2005       11/121361  X
                        protection B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 50  PLASTI CHARGE      charging system         3/24/2005       11/089292  X
                        interface A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 51  PLASTI CHARGE      charging system         3/24/2005       11/089293  X
                        interface B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 52  PLASTI HARDWARE    conductive               5/4/2005       11/121377  X
                        hardware screws
                        etc A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 53  PLASTI HARDWARE    conductive               5/4/2005       11/121376  X
                        hardware screws
                        etc B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 54  PLASTI ACOUSTICS   accoustic material       4/1/2005       11/096821  X
                        A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 55  PLASTI ACOUSTICS   accoustic material       4/1/2005       11/096822  X
                        B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 56  PLASTI MOTOR       electrical motor        5/12/2005       11/127574  X
                        brushes, cans A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 57  PLASTI MOTOR       electrical motor        5/12/2005       11/127578  X
                        brushes, cans B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 58  PLASTENNA SATDIS   plastenna satellite      1/9/2006                  X
                        dish
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 59  PLASTI CLOTHING    heated body             3/31/2005       11/096176  X
                        armour A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 60  PLASTI CLOTHING    heated body             3/31/2005       11/095871  X
                        armour B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 61  PLASTTI CARPET     antistatic carpet A      5/4/2005       11/121379  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 62  PLASTTI CARPET     antistatic carpet B      5/4/2005       11/121378  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 63  PLASTI TILE        antistatic              5/12/2005       11/127571  X
                        conductive tile A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 64  PLASTI TILE        antistatic              5/12/2005       11/127573  X
                        conductive tile B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 65  PLASTI GASKET      gaskets,seals,          3/22/2005       11/086852  X
                        EMF protection A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 66  PLASTI GASKET      gaskets,seals,          3/22/2005       11/086853  X
                        EMF protection B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 67  PLASTI SHINGLE     lightning/EMF           2/17/2005       11/060274  X
                        arrestors A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 68  PLASTI SHINGLE     lightning/EMF           2/17/2005       11/060275  X
                        arrestors B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 69  PLASTI TAPE        electrically            3/18/2005       11/083467  X
                        conductive tape A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 70  PLASTI TAPE        electrically            3/18/2005       11/083468  X
                        conductive tape B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 71  PLASTI SOLDER      solderable              2/17/2005       11/060089  X
                        interfaces A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 72  PLASTI SOLDER      solderable              2/17/2005       11/060090  X
                        interfaces B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<PAGE>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           PENDING PATENT APPLICATIONS
---------------------------===========================----------------------------
 #   SUBJECT                DESCRIPTION      UTILITY DATE  UTILITY NUMBER  PENDING
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 73  PLASTI BRUSH       conductive              3/18/2005       11/083598  X
                        brushes A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 74  PLASTI BRUSH       conductive              3/18/2005       11/083599  X
                        brushes B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 75  PLASTI SPARKPLUG   spark plugs  A          5/18/2005       11/131523  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 76  PLASTI SPARKPLUG   spark plugs  B          5/18/2005       11/131525  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 77  PLASTI FUEL        Fuelcell plates A        4/1/2005       11/096608  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 78  PLASTI FUEL        Fuelcell plates B        4/1/2005       11/096632  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 79  PLASTI PLANE       airplane parts A        5/10/2005       11/125989  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 80  PLASTIPLANE        airplane parts B        5/10/2005       11/126032  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 81  PLASTI SPATULA     conductive food         5/26/2005       11/138858  X
                        utensils A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 82  PLASTI SPATULA     conductive food         5/26/2005       11/138796  X
                        utensils B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 83  PLASTI OVEN        microwave oven          1/10/2006                  X
                        components
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 84  PLASTI AUTO-FUEL   automotive fuel         7/12/2005       11/179213  X
                        components A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 85  PLASTI AUTO-FUEL   automotive fuel         7/12/2005       11/179253  X
                        components B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 86  PLASTI AUTO-EXST   automotive              7/12/2005       11/180015  X
                        exhaust
                        components A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 87  PLASTI AUTO-EXST   automotive              7/12/2005       11/179992  X
                        exhaust
                        components B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 88  PLASTI AUTO-CASES  automotive               6/2/2005       11/143427  X
                        housings A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 89  PLASTI AUTO-CASES  automotive               6/2/2005       11/143426  X
                        housings B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 90  PLASTI AUTO-CHAS   automotive and          9/15/2005       11/227849  X
                        military chassis
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 91  PLASTI AUTO-ELEC   automotive               6/8/2005       11/148044  X
                        electrical
                        components A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 92  PLASTI AUTO-ELEC   automotive               6/8/2005       11/148064  X
                        electrical
                        components B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 93  PLASTIAUTO-HEAT    auto heat                6/2/2005       11/143799  X
                        exchanger
                        components A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 94  PLASTI AUTO-HEAT   auto heat                6/2/2005       11/143798  X
                        exchanger
                        components B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 95  PLASTI MEDICAL     medical devices         1/19/2006       11/335362  X
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 96  PLASTI PUMP        antistatic pump         7/14/2005       11/181242  X
                        components A
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 97  PLASTI PUMP        antistatic pump         7/14/2005       11/181241  X
                        components B
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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<PAGE>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           PENDING PATENT APPLICATIONS
---------------------------===========================----------------------------
 #   SUBJECT                DESCRIPTION      UTILITY DATE  UTILITY NUMBER  PENDING
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 98  ELECTRIPLAST-2     molded capsule         12/19/2005       11/313015  X
                        with fiber
                        compression
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 99  PLASTI TOY         toys such as slot       9/13/2005       11/225362  X
                        cars
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
100  PLASTI TOASTER     toaster and other       10/6/2005       11/244961  X
                        cooking
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
101  PLASTI CYCLE       combined cycle          11/8/2005       11/269474  X
                        marine and racing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
102  PLASTI MAGNET      magnetizeable           3/17/2006       11/378068  X
                        electriplast
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
103  PLASTI LOCATOR     pipe with locator      11/23/2005       11/286227  X
                        function
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
104  PLASTI POWER       mass transit           11/21/2005       11/284005  X
                        electrical contact
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
105  PLASTI EM          electromechanical        2/2/2006       11/346051  X
                        solenoids
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
106  ELECTRIPLAST-4     chopped fiber in        1/19/2006       11/335363  X
                        thermoset
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
107  PLASTI SPORT       sports equipment
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
108  PLASTIINSTRUMENT   musical                 3/18/2006       11/378061  X
                        instruments and
                        components
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
109  FIBERWIRE          encapsulated             6/3/2006       11/447774  X
                        wire heat
                        elements
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
110  ELECTRIONIX        thin wire heat          6/29/2006                  X
                        elements
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

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