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GTE - 2013.06.30 - EX 10.2

EXHIBIT 10.2
GRAN TIERRA ENERGY INC. 
OPTION GRANT NOTICE 
2007 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to its 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), hereby grants to Optionholder an Option to purchase the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock set forth below.  This Option is subject to all of the terms and conditions as set forth herein and in the Option Agreement, the Plan, and the Notice of Exercise, all of which are attached hereto and incorporated herein in their entirety.  Capitalized terms not explicitly defined herein but defined in the Plan or the Option Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Plan or the Option Agreement.  Except as explicitly provided herein or in the Option Agreement, in the event of any conflict between the terms in this Option and the Plan, the terms of the Plan shall control.

	
		
	Optionholder:
	 

	Date of Grant:
	 

	Vesting Commencement Date:
	 

	Number of Shares Subject to Option:
	 

	Exercise Price (Per Share):
	 

	Total Exercise Price:
	 

	Expiration Date:
	 

Type of Grant:    ý   Nonstatutory Stock Option
Exercise Schedule:    [1/3rd of the shares vest and become exercisable one year after the Vesting Commencement Date; 1/3rd of the shares vest and become exercisable two years after the Vesting Commencement Date; and the balance of the shares vest and become exercisable three years after the Vesting Commencement Date.]
Payment:     By one or a combination of the following items (described in the Option Agreement):
ý     By cash or check
ý    Pursuant to a Regulation T Program if the Shares are publicly traded
ý    By delivery of already-owned shares if the Shares are publicly traded
Additional Terms/Acknowledgements: By signing below, the Optionholder expressly acknowledges the following:
		
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	Optionholder has received and understands and agrees to, this Option Grant Notice, the Option Agreement, the Plan prospectus and the Plan.  

		
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	Optionholder acknowledges and agrees that this Option and any other stock or option awards under the Plan are voluntary and occasional and do not create any contractual or other right to receive future options, stock awards or other benefits in lieu of future option or stock awards, even if similar option or stock awards have been granted repeatedly in the past.

		
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	Optionholder acknowledges and agrees that determinations with respect to any future option awards, including but not limited to, the times when such option awards are made, the number of shares of Common Stock and the performance and other conditions applied to the option awards, will be at the sole discretion of the Board.

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	Optionholder acknowledges and agrees that as of the Date of Grant, this Option Grant Notice, the Option Agreement and the Plan set forth the entire understanding between Optionholder and the Company regarding this option award and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements on that subject, with the exception of: (i) awards previously granted and delivered to Optionholder under the Plan, and (ii) if applicable to Optionholder, (A) the terms of any written offer letter or employment agreement entered into between the Company and Optionholder that specifically provides for accelerated vesting of compensatory equity awards, (B) the terms of any applicable Company change of control severance plan, and (C) any required compensation recovery provisions under applicable laws or regulations.    

		
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	Optionholder consents to receive Plan documents by electronic delivery and to participate in the Plan through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or another third party designated by the Company.

	
		
	GRAN TIERRA ENERGY INC.
By:   
Signature
Title:  Dana Coffield, President & CEO
Date  
	OPTIONHOLDER:
   
Signature
Date:   

ATTACHMENTS:  Option Agreement, 2007 Equity Incentive Plan and Notice of Exercise (sent via e-mail)

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GRAN TIERRA ENERGY INC. 
2007 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN 
 
OPTION AGREEMENT 
(NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION)
Pursuant to your Option Grant Notice (“Grant Notice”) and this Option Agreement, Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (the “Company”) has granted you an Option under its 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) to purchase the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock indicated in your Grant Notice at the exercise price indicated in your Grant Notice.  Defined terms not explicitly defined in this Option Agreement but defined in the Plan shall have the same definitions as in the Plan.
The details of your Option are as follows:
1.VESTING.  Subject to the limitations contained herein, your Option will vest as provided in your Grant Notice, provided that vesting will cease upon the termination of your Continuous Service.
2.    NUMBER OF SHARES AND EXERCISE PRICE.  The number of shares of Common Stock subject to your Option and your exercise price per share (in United States dollars) referenced in your Grant Notice may be adjusted from time to time for Capitalization Adjustments.
3.    EXERCISE RESTRICTION FOR NON-EXEMPT EMPLOYEES.  In the event that you are a United States Employee eligible for overtime compensation under the United States Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (i.e., a “Non-Exempt Employee”), you may not exercise your Option until you have completed at least six (6) months of Continuous Service measured from the Date of Grant specified in your Grant Notice, notwithstanding any other provision of your Option.  
4.    METHOD OF PAYMENT.  Payment of the exercise price is due in full upon exercise of all or any part of your option.  All amounts due are payable in United States dollars based, if applicable, upon the local currency to United States dollar exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on the date of exercise of your option (or, if the date of exercise is not a business day in the United States, the next business day in the United States).  You may elect to make payment of the exercise price in cash or by check or in any other manner permitted by your Grant Notice, which may include one or more of the following:
(a)    Provided that at the time of exercise the Common Stock is publicly traded and quoted regularly in The Wall Street Journal, pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the United States Federal Reserve Board that, prior to the issuance of Common Stock, results in either the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company or the receipt of irrevocable instructions to pay the aggregate exercise price to the Company from the sales proceeds.
(b)    Provided that at the time of exercise the Common Stock is publicly traded and quoted regularly in The Wall Street Journal, by delivery to the Company (either by actual delivery or attestation) of already-owned shares of Common Stock that are owned free and clear of any liens, claims, encumbrances or security interests, and that are valued at Fair Market Value on the date of exercise.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may not exercise your option by tender to the Company of Common Stock to the extent such tender would violate the provisions of any law, regulation or agreement restricting the redemption of the Company’s stock.
5.    WHOLE SHARES.  You may exercise your Option only for whole shares of Common Stock.
6.    SECURITIES LAW COMPLIANCE.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, you may not exercise your option unless the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise are then registered 

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under the Securities Act or, if such shares of Common Stock are not then so registered, the Company has determined that such exercise and issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.  The exercise of your option also must comply with other applicable laws and regulations governing your option including, without limitation, the laws and regulations of the United States and your country of residence, and you may not exercise your option if the Company determines that such exercise would not be in material compliance with such laws and regulations.
7.    TERM.  You may not exercise your Option before the commencement or after the expiration of its term.  The term of your Option commences on the Date of Grant and expires upon the earliest of the following:
(a)    three (3) months after the termination of your Continuous Service for any reason other than your Disability or death, provided that if during any part of such three (3) month period your Option is not exercisable solely because of the condition set forth in the section above relating to “Securities Law Compliance,” your Option shall not expire until the earlier of the Expiration Date or until it shall have been exercisable for an aggregate period of three (3) months after the termination of your Continuous Service;
(b)    twelve (12) months after the termination of your Continuous Service due to your Disability;
(c)    eighteen (18) months after your death if you die either during your Continuous Service or within three (3) months after your Continuous Service terminates;
(d)    the Expiration Date indicated in your Grant Notice; or
(e)    the day before the tenth (10th) anniversary of the Date of Grant.
8.    EXERCISE.
(a)    You may exercise the vested portion of your Option (and the unvested portion of your Option if your Grant Notice so permits) during its term by delivering a Notice of Exercise (in a form designated by the Company) together with the exercise price to the Secretary of the Company, or to such other person as the Company may designate, during the Company’s regular business hours, together with such additional documents as the Company may then require.
(b)    By exercising your Option you agree that, as a condition to any exercise of your Option, the Company may require you to enter into an arrangement providing for the payment by you to the Company of any tax withholding obligation of the Company arising by reason of (1) the exercise of your Option, (2) the lapse of any substantial risk of forfeiture to which the shares of Common Stock are subject at the time of exercise, or (3) the disposition of shares of Common Stock acquired upon such exercise.
9.    TRANSFERABILITY.  Your option is not transferable, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and is exercisable during your life only by you.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form satisfactory to the Company, you may designate a third party who, in the event of your death, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise your option.  
10.    OPTION NOT A SERVICE CONTRACT.  Your option is not an employment or service contract, and nothing in your option shall be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ of, or as a consultant to, the Company or an Affiliate, as applicable, or of the Company or an Affiliate to continue your employment or consultancy arrangements.  In addition, nothing in your option shall obligate the Company or an Affiliate, their respective stockholders, Boards of Directors, Officers or Employees to continue any relationship that you might have as a Director or Consultant for the Company or an Affiliate.

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11.    WITHHOLDING OBLIGATIONS.
(a)    At the time you exercise your Option, in whole or in part, or at any time thereafter as requested by the Company, you hereby authorize withholding from payroll and any other amounts payable to you, and otherwise agree to make adequate provision for (including by means of a “cashless exercise” pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board to the extent permitted by the Company), any sums required to satisfy the federal, state, local and foreign tax withholding obligations of the Company or an Affiliate, if any, which arise in connection with the exercise of your Option.
(b)    Upon your request and subject to approval by the Company, in its sole discretion, and compliance with any applicable legal conditions or restrictions, the Company may withhold from fully vested shares of Common Stock otherwise issuable to you upon the exercise of your option a number of whole shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value, determined by the Company as of the date of exercise, not in excess of the minimum amount of tax required to be withheld by law (or such lower amount as may be necessary to avoid classification of your option as a liability for financial accounting purposes).  Any adverse consequences to you arising in connection with such share withholding procedure shall be your sole responsibility.
(c)    You may not exercise your Option unless the tax withholding obligations of the Company and/or any Affiliate are satisfied.  Accordingly, you may not be able to exercise your Option when desired even though your Option is vested, and the Company shall have no obligation to issue a certificate for such shares of Common Stock or release such shares of Common Stock from any escrow provided for herein unless such obligations are satisfied.
12.    PERSONAL DATA.  You understand that your employer, if applicable, the Company, and/or its Affiliates hold certain personal information about you, including but not limited to your name, home address, telephone number, date of birth, national social insurance number, salary, nationality, job title, and details of all shares of Common Stock granted, cancelled, vested, unvested, or outstanding (the “Personal Data”).  Certain Personal Data may also constitute “Sensitive Personal Data” within the meaning of applicable local law.  Such data include but are not limited to Personal Data and any changes thereto, and other appropriate personal and financial data about you.  You hereby provide express consent to the Company or its Affiliates to collect, hold, and process any such Personal Data and Sensitive Personal Data.  You also hereby provide express consent to the Company and/or its Affiliates to transfer any such Personal Data and Sensitive Personal Data outside the country in which you are employed or retained, including the United States.  The legal persons for whom such Personal Data are intended are the Company and any broker company providing services to the Company in connection with the administration of the Plan.  You have been informed of your right to access and correct your Personal Data by applying to the Company representative identified on the Grant Notice. 
13.    ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.  You hereby consent and acknowledge that:
(a)    Participation in the Plan is voluntary and therefore you must accept the terms and conditions of the Plan and this option as a condition to participate in the Plan and receive this option. 
(b)    The Plan is discretionary in nature and the Company can amend, cancel, or terminate it at any time.
(c)    This option and any other options under the Plan are voluntary and occasional and do not create any contractual or other right to receive future options or other benefits in lieu of future options, even if similar options have been granted repeatedly in the past.
(d)    All determinations with respect to any such future options, including, but not limited to, the time or times when such options are made, the number of shares of Common Stock, and performance and other conditions applied to the options, will be at the sole discretion of the Company. 

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(e)    The value of the shares of Common Stock and this option is an extraordinary item of compensation, which is outside the scope of your employment, service contract or consulting agreement, if any
(f)    The shares of Common Stock, this option, or any income derived therefrom are a potential bonus payment not paid in lieu of any cash salary compensation and not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purposes, including, but not limited to, calculating any termination, severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, life or accident insurance benefits, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.
(g)    In the event of the involuntary termination of your Continuous Service, your eligibility to receive shares of Common Stock or payments under the option or the Plan, if any, will terminate effective as of the date that you are no longer actively employed or retained regardless of any reasonable notice period mandated under local law, except as expressly provided in the option. 
(h)    The future value of the shares of Common Stock is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty.
(i)    You do not have, and will not assert, any claim or entitlement to compensation, indemnity or damages arising from the termination of this option or diminution in value of the shares of Common Stock and you irrevocably release the Company, its Affiliates and, if applicable, your employer, if different from the Company, from any such claim that may arise.
(j)    The Plan and this option set forth the entire understanding between you, the Company and any Affiliate regarding the acquisition of the shares of Common Stock and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements pertaining to this option.
14.    NOTICES.  Any notices provided for in your Option or the Plan shall be given in writing or electronically and shall be deemed effectively given upon receipt or, in the case of notices delivered by mail by the Company to you, five (5) days after deposit in the mail, postage prepaid, addressed to you at the last address you provided to the Company.
15.    GOVERNING PLAN DOCUMENT.  Your Option is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, the provisions of which are hereby made a part of your Option, and is further subject to all interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations, which may from time to time be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan.  In the event of any conflict between the provisions of your Option and those of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan shall control.
16.    SEVERABILITY.  If all or any part of this Option Agreement or the Plan is declared by any court or governmental authority to be unlawful or invalid, such unlawfulness or invalidity will not invalidate any portion of this Option Agreement or the Plan not declared to be unlawful or invalid. Any Section of this Option Agreement (or part of such a Section) so declared to be unlawful or invalid will, if possible, be construed in a manner which will give effect to the terms of such Section or part of a Section to the fullest extent possible while remaining lawful and valid.
17.    RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES.  Any dispute arising out of, relating to, or in connection with the Award, this Option Agreement, the Grant Notice and/or the Plan, including any question regarding existence, construction, validity, or termination shall be settled before a sole arbitrator in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  The proceedings shall be in the English language. The resulting arbitral award shall be final and binding without right of appeal, and judgment upon such award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. A dispute shall be deemed to have arisen when either Party notifies the other Party in writing to that effect.
18.    TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS.  The Grant Notice, this Agreement and the Plan are written in the English language.  If a Spanish language or Portuguese language translation has been provided to you, it has 

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been provided only as a courtesy and such translation shall have no legal force or effect.  Only the English language version of the Grant Notice, this Agreement and the Plan shall have legal force and effect and shall be referred to (including in the resolution of any disputes or controversies between the Parties) in interpreting the obligations of the Parties under the Grant Notice, this Agreement and the Plan. 

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1059154 v4/SFGTE - 2013.06.30 - EX 10.3

Exhibit 10.3

	
			
	Date of Signature
	Bogotá D.C. the 27th of June of 2013
	 

	Addendum No. 4
	Transportation Agreement VIT 005 -2012
	 

            
	
			
	SENDER
	PETROLIFERA PETROLEUM (COLOMBIA) LIMITED
	 

	NIT
	900.139.306-1
	 

	
			
	TRANSPORTER
	CENIT TRANSPORTE Y LOGÍSTICA DE HIDROCARBUROS 
S. A. S
	 

	NIT
	900.531.210-3
	 

	
				
	PURPOSE
	Service of transportation of liquid hydrocarbons on the Mansoyá – Orito Pipeline (OMO) Pipeline and the Trans – Andean Pipeline (OTA).
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 

This Addendum No. 4 to the contract for the provision of the liquid hydrocarbons’ transportation service on the Mansoyá – Orito Pipeline (OMO) and the Trans – Andean Pipeline (“OTA”) VIT -005 - 2012 entered into on the 30th of January of 2012 between ECOPETROL S. A. and PETROLIFERA PETROLEUM (COLOMBIA) LIMITED (hereinafter the “Contract”) is entered into on the 27th day of the Month of June of 2013 (“Execution Date”) by:

		
	(1)
	CENIT TRANSPORTE Y LOGÍSTICA DE HIDROCARBUROS S. A. S., hereinafter “CENIT”, a Colombian mercantile company, of the type of the simplified shares’ companies, domiciled in the city of Bogotá, incorporated by private document dated on the 15th of June of 2012 and recorded in the commercial registry on the same date, with commercial registration number  02224959, legally represented by JUAN PABLO OSPINA VILLEGAS, identified with Colombian I. D. Card No. 98.542.872 issued at Envigado, acting in the name and on behalf of CENIT in his capacity as Commercial Director and General Attorney according to Public Deed No. 483 of the 8th of March of 2013 of the 40th Notary of the city of Bogotá, and 

		
	(2)
	PETROLIFERA PETROLEUM (COLOMBIA) LIMITED. a company incorporated at Cayman Islands, acting through its branch office legally established in Colombia  by Public Deed No. 1682 of the 7th of March of de 2007 of the 6th Notary of the City of Bogotá, domiciled in this city, hereinafter the “SENDER”, represented by DUNCAN NIGHTINGALE, of legal age, domiciled and resident in the city of Bogotá, identified with alien citizens card No. 391.739  issued at Bogotá and by ALEJANDRA ESCOBAR HERRERA, Colombian citizen, domiciled in the city of Bogotá, identified with Colombian I. D. Card No 52.646.943 de Bogotá, acting in their capacities as Legal Representatives with ample and sufficient representation powers. 

CENIT and the SENDER can also be called in this Addendum No. 4 al Contract, individually a “Party” or jointly as “Parties” and it is entered into after the following:

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RECITALS

		
	1.
	Whereas, the Contract, entered into by ECOPETROL S. A. (“ECOPETROL”) and the SENDER is in force, and with the amendments made to it by Addendums 1, 2 and 3,  the latter dated on the 30th of December of 2012, was assigned by ECOPETROL to CENIT on the first day of April of 2013.

		
	2.
	Whereas, the date of expiration of the term of execution of the Contract as per the provisions of Addendum No. 3 mentioned in the preceding recital is the 30th of June of 2013.

		
	3.
	Whereas, the SENDER has expressed to CENIT its intention of extending the term of the Contract and CENIT has expressed to the SENDER its agreement with such extension for an additional term of two (2) months, namely until the 30th of August of 2013.

		
	4.
	Whereas, by virtue of the foregoing considerations, the Parties:

AGREE

FIRST: - To amend the estimated price of the Contract, as follows: 

	
		
	“Final Estimated Price of the Contract”
	USD $ 21,606,000

SECOND: - To amend the relevant insured value in the GUARANTEES, contained in the Specific Conditions  of the Contract as follows:

	
		
	Type of Guarantee
	Total Amount

	“Performance Bond
	COL $ 10,412,236,000

The SENDER commits, no later than five (5) business days after the Execution Date of this Addendum No. 4 to do the amendment of the Guarantee and to deliver, in a term of no more than three (3) calendar days after the date in which the amendment of the Guarantee is issued, the respective amendment certificates.

The amendment of the Guarantee must maintain a cover of  the Contract for the term thereof according to the provisions of this Addendum No. 4 plus 120  additional days.

THIRD: - The term of execution of the Contract will start on the Contract’s Execution Date and until the 30th of August of 2013.

FOURTH: This Addendum is not a novation of the Contract or the provisions of its Addendums No. 1, 2 and 3, which are in full force and effect excepting for the provisions expressly amended by this Addendum 

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No. 4. The terms, conditions, disclaimers and other provisions established in the Contract will be fully applicable regarding the provisions of this Addendum unless the same are in contradiction with it.

In case of  contradiction between the provisions of the Contract and the provisions of this Addendum No. 4, or, if there is a void or inconsistency,, the Parties by virtue of the good faith principle, an using their best efforts, commit to readjust it or to enter into the acts and things required for its adequate performance.

This Addendum is entered into in two (2) copies of the same text, one for each one of the Parties, on the twenty seventh (27th) day of the month of June of 2013.

	
						
	

FOR THE SENDER:
	

FOR CENIT:

	 

	Signature:
	

/s/ Duncan Nightingale

	Signature:
	

/s/ Juan Pablo Ospina Villegas

	Name:
	DUNCAN NIGHTINGALE
	Name:
	JUAN PABLO OSPINA VILLEGAS

	Position:
	Legal Representative  
C.E. 391.739
	Position:
	General Attorney
C.C. No. 98.542.872 of  Envigado

FOR THE SENDER:

	
		
	Signature:
	

/s/ Alejandra Escobar Herrera

	Name:
	ALEJANDRA ESCOBAR HERRERA

	Position:
	Legal Representative  
C.C. 52.646.943

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