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Exhibit 10.9  

 
  FIRST AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT    
    

        This
First Amendment to Employment Agreement (this "Agreement") is entered into this 6th day of April 2006 between Key Energy Services, Inc., a Maryland
corporation (the "Company") and Phil Coyne (the "Employee"). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Employment Agreement dated April 15, 2004
between the Company and Employee (the "Employment Agreement"). 

 
 

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        WHEREAS, subsequent to the execution and delivery of the Employment Agreement, Employee was designated an officer pursuant to Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (a "Section 16 Officer"); 

        WHEREAS,
the Employment Agreement provides for the Employee to be eligible to earn a discretionary cash bonus, in an amount up to 70% of his Base Salary; and 

        WHEREAS,
in connection with Employee's designation as a Section 16 Officer and in order to align the bonus structure of other officers similarly situated, the Company desires to
amend the Employment Agreement to provide for Employee to be eligible to earn to earn a discretionary cash bonus, in an amount up to 100% of his Base Salary. 

        NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties agree as follows: 

	1.
	The
fourth sentence of Paragraph 2 of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to read as follows: 

"Under
this plan, you shall be eligible to earn a discretionary cash bonus, in an amount up to 100% of your Base Salary, the amount of such bonus to be determined by the senior management of the
Company or the Board in their sole discretion, based upon the level of achievement of certain goals mutually established by you and the senior management of the Company (subject to Board approval)." 

	2.
	The
effective date of the amendment to Employment Agreement shall be January 24, 2005, which is the date the Employee was designated a Section 16 Officer.

	3.
	Except
as set forth in this Agreement, all provisions, terms and conditions in the Employment Agreement remain unmodified and in full force and effect, and the Employment Agreement is
hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed.

	4.
	This
Agreement may be executed in duplicate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which, taken together, shall constitute one agreement. 

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        IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement on the date and year first written above. 

	 	 	KEY ENERGY SERVICES, INC.	 	 
	

 	
 	

By:	
 	

/s/  RICHARD J. ALARIO      
 Richard J. Alario

President and Chief Executive Officer	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

Employee:	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

/s/  PHIL COYNE      
 Phil Coyne

	
 	

 

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Exhibit 10.10  

 
 

Key Energy Services, Inc.
  6 Desta Drive
  Midland, Texas 79705    
    

 
 

November 22, 2004    

Kim
B. Clarke

Houston, Texas 

EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT

(this "Agreement") 

Dear
Kim: 

        Key
Energy Services, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), with its principal offices at the address set forth above, and you, an individual with your address set forth
above agree as follows: 

        1.    Employment; Term.    The Company agrees to employ you, and you agree to devote your full time and best efforts
to serve as the Company's Vice President—Chief People Officer having those duties specified from time to time by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or the Company's Board of Directors
(the "Board"). Your employment will commence effective as of November 22, 2004 (the "Commencement Date") and continue until the close of business on November 21, 2006, subject to
extension as provided in this Section 1, unless earlier terminated in accordance with this Agreement (the "Initial Employment Period"). On each November 22nd, commencing with
November 22, 2006, the term of your employment will be automatically extended for a period of twelve (12) months unless either you or the Company gives written notice to the other, no
later than thirty (30) days prior to the relevant November 22nd that such automatic extension shall not occur. The Initial Employment Period, together with any extensions,
until termination in accordance herewith is referred to herein as the "Employment Period." You will, if elected, serve as an officer and/or director of the Company and its subsidiaries and perform all
duties incident to such offices. 

        2.    Salary; Bonus; Expenses.    During the Employment Period, the Company will pay a salary to you at the annual
rate of not less than One Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($185,000) per year (the "Base Salary"), payable in substantially equal installments in accordance with the Company's
existing payroll practices, but no less frequently than monthly. Senior management of the Company will review your compensation from time to time as it deems appropriate and may, in its sole
discretion, increase the Base Salary if it deems such an increase advisable. For each fiscal year of the Company commencing after December 31, 2004, you shall be eligible to participate in
incentive plans in effect from time to time for the Company's executives, key employees and other persons involved in the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and in the Company's stock-based
incentive plans outstanding from time to time. Under this plan, you shall be eligible to earn a discretionary cash bonus, in an amount up to 50% of your Base Salary, the amount of such bonus to be
determined by the senior management of the Company or the Board in their sole discretion, based upon the level of achievement of certain goals mutually established by you and the senior management of
the Company (subject to Board approval). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amount of cash bonuses that the Company will pay you during calendar year 2005 will total not less than $69,375 and will be
payable as follows: (i) $46,250 for the six-months ended June 30, 2005, and (ii) $23,125 for the six-months ended December 31, 2005. Your principal
place of employment shall be in Houston, Texas; however, you shall be required to travel as necessary for your employment duties assigned to you. You will be reimbursed by the Company for reasonable
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performing your services hereunder in accordance with the Company's policies from time to time in effect. 

        3.    Vacations; Benefits.    You will be entitled during the Employment Period to (i) not less than 15
vacation days per calendar year (prorated for any partial year of service), and (ii) such other fringe benefits, including, without limitation, group medical and dental, life, accident and
disability insurance,
retirement plans and supplemental and excess retirement benefits as the Company may provide from time to time for its employees generally. 

        4.    Stock Options.    As performance-based incentive compensation to you in connection with your services hereunder,
there shall be granted to you, effective as of the grant date, an incentive stock option (the "Option") to acquire10,000 shares of the Common Stock, par value $.10 per share, of the Company (the
"Common Stock") at an exercise price per share equal to the Fair Market Value per Share (as defined in the Key Energy Group, Inc. 1997 Incentive Plan (the "Incentive Plan")) on the grant date,
which shall vest in three equal installments commencing on the first anniversary of the grant date. The Option will be granted pursuant to, and subject to, all of the terms and provisions of the
Incentive Plan and the Company's form of stock option agreement. In addition, you shall receive an additional grant of stock options in such amount as determined in the sole discretion of the Board no
later than April 30, 2005. 

        5.    Representations.    You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that: 

        (i)    any
employment agreement with your former employer is terminable at will by you without any penalty, restrictions or limitations on your actions subsequent to such
termination by you; 

        (ii)   your
termination of any existing employment agreement with your former employer, your execution and delivery of this Agreement, and your employment by the Company, do
not and will not (1) cause you to breach any agreements, including without limitation, any agreement not to compete, with any current or former employers, any other individual, corporation,
partnership, association, trust or any other entity or organization, or (2) create any claims against the Company at law or in equity, including without limitation, tortious interference
claims, by any former employers, any other individual, corporation, partnership, association, trust or any other entity or organization; and 

        (iii)  you
will not use any confidential or proprietary materials, documents or other property of a former employer in any way which would create a claim against the Company. 

        6.    Termination and Severance.    In the event your employment hereunder is terminated (i) by the Company for
Cause or (ii) by you for any reason, the Company shall have no further obligations to you except that you will be entitled to receive (x) any accrued but unpaid salary through your
termination date and (y) any expense reimbursements owed you through the date of termination. In the event your employment hereunder is terminated by the Company (i) other than for Cause
(including your death or Disability) or (ii) automatically as a result of the Company providing notice to you that automatic extension of the Employment Period shall not occur, you will be
entitled to receive (x) severance compensation equal to one (1) times your Base Salary in effect on the termination date, payable in arrears, in twelve (12) equal monthly
installments commencing at the end of the calendar month in which the termination date occurs and (y) except in the case of your death, continue to participate in the Company's health care
plans at the same cost to you as existed immediately prior to your termination for a period of six months after your termination or until you obtain full-time employment, whichever occurs
first; provided, however, that (A) in the event your employment should be terminated by the Company other than for Cause within six months following a Change in Control (defined below) or in
anticipation of a Change in Control, you will be entitled to receive severance compensation equal to two (2) times 

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your
Base Salary in effect on the termination date payable in one lump sum on the date of such termination, (B) in the event your employment should be terminated by the Company as a result of
your Disability, then any severance compensation payable to you shall be reduced by the amount of any disability insurance proceeds actually paid to you or for your benefit during the said time
period. As used in this Agreement, the term "Cause" shall mean (i) the willful and continued failure by you to substantially perform your duties hereunder (other than any such willful or
continued failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental illness or physical injury), (ii) repeated substandard work performance or repeated unreliability that has not been
cured to the Company's satisfaction after notice of the same as has been provided to you; (iii) serious workplace misconduct, (iv) your engagement in misconduct that you know or should
know is injurious to the Company, monetarily or otherwise, including injurious to the reputation of the Company (v) your conviction of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction,
(vi) fraud or other material dishonesty against the Company, (vii) the breach of any of the provisions hereof, or (viii) the violation by you of any of the Company's policies,
rules or regulations from time to time in effect, including without limitation, the Company's code of conduct and ethics policy, securities trading policy or anti-trust policy. As used in
this Agreement, the term "Change in Control" shall have that meaning set forth in the Key Energy Group, Inc. 1997 Incentive Plan. As used in this Agreement, the term "Disability" means total
and permanent disability rendering you unable to perform your obligations and duties hereunder by reasons of physical or mental illness or injury. 

        7.    Limitation on Competition.    During the Employment Period, and for an additional period (the
"Non-Compete Period") of twelve (12) months after your termination if whether or not you are entitled to receive severance compensation pursuant to Section 6 hereof, you
shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Company, participate or engage in, whether as a director, officer, employee, advisor, lender, consultant, stockholder,
partner, joint venturer, owner or in any other capacity, any business engaged in the business of furnishing oilfield services (including, without limitation, fluid hauling and disposal services,
trucking services, frac tank rentals, fishing and rental tools, pressure pumping services, contract drilling, workover, completion and well maintenance, construction and field consulting) in any of
the onshore or offshore oil or natural gas producing regions in the continental United States, Canada, Argentina and Egypt or in any other oil or natural gas producing region throughout the world in
which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates
conduct their business or operations during the Employment Period or the Non-Compete Period (a "Competing Enterprise"); provided, however, that you shall not be deemed to be participating
or engaging in any such business solely by virtue of your ownership of not more than five percent of any class of stock or other securities which is publicly traded on a national securities exchange
or in a recognized over-the-counter market. In addition, during the Employment Period and the Non-Compete Period, you shall not, directly or indirectly,solicit,
raid, entice or otherwise induce any employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates to be employed by a Competing Enterprise or to otherwise leave the employ of the Company.
    You hereby agree and acknowledge that (i) you will have access or otherwise learn or obtain during your course of employment with the Company confidential information, which the
Company can not adequately protect if you fail to fulfill your obligations under this Section 7, and (ii) a portion of the consideration to be paid by the Company to you pursuant to this
Agreement is consideration for your covenants under this Section 7 and such consideration is fair and adequate whether or not you receive any severance compensation pursuant to Section 6
hereof. 

        8.    Confidential Information    

        (a)   You
agree that you will not, without the express written consent of the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the General Counsel of the Company, directly or
indirectly communicate or divulge to, or make available to, or use for your own benefit or for the benefit of, any competitor or any other person or entity, any of the Company's trade secrets, 

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engineering
and reserve data, proprietary data or other confidential information (hereafter collectively referred to as "confidential information"), which confidential information was communicated to
or otherwise learned or acquired by you during your employment relationship with the Company, except that you may disclose confidential information only to the extent that disclosure is required
(i) at the Company's direction or (ii) by a court or other governmental agency of competent jurisdiction. As long as such matters remain confidential information, you shall not use such
confidential information in any way or in any capacity other than as expressly consented to by the Chief Executive Officer, President or General Counsel of the Company. 

        (b)   Such
confidential information shall be deemed to include any and all information regarding the Company other than information disclosed in its public filings under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such confidential information includes, but is not limited to, personnel information (including information relating to any and all aspects of compensation
of any and all employees of the Company), ideas, discoveries, designs, inventions, improvements, trade secrets, know-how, manufacturing processes, design specifications, writings and other
works of authorship, computer programs, financial information, accounting information, organizational structure, Company expenditures, marketing plans, customer lists and data, business plans or
methods and the like, that relate in any manner to the actual or anticipated business of the Company. The term "confidential information" shall not include (x) information that was publicly
available as of the date of this Agreement or (y) information that became publicly available after the date hereof other than by reason of a breach of this Agreement by you. 

        (c)   You
agree that all records, drawings, data, samples, models, correspondence, manuals, notes, reports, notebooks, proposals, and any other documents concerning the
Company's customers or products or other technical, financial or business information used by the Company and any other tangible materials or copies or extracts of tangible materials regarding the
Company's operations or business, received by you during your employment with the Company are, and shall be, the property of the Company exclusively. You agree to immediately return to the Company
(or, with the Company's permission, destroy) all of the material mentioned above, including writing notes, memoranda or notes taken by you and all tangible materials, including, without limitation,
correspondence, drawings, blueprints, letters, notebooks, reports, flow-charts, computer programs and data proposals, at the request of the Company. No copies will be made by you, or
retained by you, of any such confidential information, whether or not developed by you. 

        (d)   You
agree that you will engage in no act which is intended, or may reasonably be expected, to materially harm the reputation, business, prospects, or operations of the
Company. 

        (e)   The
parties agree that all work product conceived, created or developed by you either solely or jointly with others in the course or as a result of your employment with
the Company is proprietary to Company and constitutes confidential information subject to this Agreement. The parties further agree that Company is the sole owner of all such work product. 

        9.    Consultation with Legal Counsel; Entire Agreement.    You acknowledge and agree that you have been provided a
reasonable time to review this Agreement with legal counsel and to consider the terms and provisions of this Agreement. Both parties acknowledge and agree that they are voluntarily entering into this
Agreement, after consultation with their legal counsel if so desired, and after full disclosure of all the facts and circumstances surrounding the execution of this 

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Agreement
and its legal effect. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between you and the Company. 

        10.    Governing Law.    This Agreement will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Texas applicable
to agreements made and to be performed entirely within such state, without giving effect to any choice or conflicts of laws principles, which would cause the application of the domestic substantive
laws of any other jurisdiction. 

        11.    Successors and Assigns.    This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the successors and assigns of the parties hereto, which in your case shall include your estate, heirs, executors, administrators, personal and legal representatives, distributees,
devisees, and legatees. 

        12.    Counterparts.    This Agreement may be executed in duplicate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be
an original and all of which, taken together, shall constitute one agreement. 

 
 

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        If
this Agreement correctly sets forth your understanding of the agreement between the Company and you, please indicate your agreement hereto by signing this Agreement in the space for
that purpose below. 

	 	 	KEY ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
	

 	
 	

By:	
 	

/s/  RICHARD J. ALARIO      
 Richard J. Alario,
 Chairman, President & CEO
	ACCEPTED AND AGREED:	 	 	 	 
	

/s/  KIM B. CLARKE      
 KIM B. CLARKE	
 	

 	
 	

 

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Key Energy Services, Inc. 6 Desta Drive Midland, Texas 79705

November 22, 2004

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