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Filed by Automated Filing Services Inc. (604) 609-0244 - Exploration Drilling International Inc. - Exhibit 10.1

Agreement

Between

Mr. Jesko Beck, Rue du Littoral 18, 2025 Chez le Bart,
Switzerland

and

Exploration Drilling International Inc., Mendelstraße 11,
Technologiehof, D-48149 Münster, Germany

1. Mr. Beck agrees to provide Exploration Drilling
International Inc. (“EDI”) with public relations services, especially spreading
EDI-Story to editors of stock and money news-letters in Europe (written and
mailer – based). Mr. Beck will also contact potential European private and
institutional investors about EDI. When providing these services, Mr. Beck
agrees not to contact any US persons, including, but not limited to, citizens of
the United States and individuals, companies or other entities resident in the
United States.

2. Mr. Beck agrees to provide the services to be performed by
him under this Agreement for a period ending on February 28, 2009.

3. Mr. Beck agrees that the services to be performed by him
under this Agreement will be performed in compliance with all applicable
securities and other laws. Notwithstanding the generality of the preceding
sentence, Mr. Beck agrees not to:

(a) make use of spam e-mails or spam
faxes or any other improper promotional methods or activities, and shall not
engage any subcontractor who conducts, or is otherwise involved in, such
activities; and

(b) distribute any materials or make
any representations about EDI, its business or its prospects, other than as set
out in EDI’s public filings made with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, without EDI’s prior written approval.

4. In exchange for Mr. Beck’s services, EDI will issue 250,000
shares of its common stock to Mr. Beck, and share purchase warrants to purchase
an aggregate of 250,000 additional shares of EDI’s common stock at a price of
$0.25 per share for a period ending on February 28, 2009.

5. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the
parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior
arrangements and understandings, both written and oral, expressed or implied,
with respect thereto. Any preceding agreements, correspondence or offers are
expressly superseded and terminated by this Agreement.

6. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts,
all of which will be considered one and the same agreement and will become
effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties
and delivered to the other parties, it being understood that all parties need
not sign the same counterpart.

This Agreement is dated effective as of February 13, 2008

	  	 	EXPLORATION DRILLING 
	  	 	INTERNATIONAL INC. 
	  	 	  
	/s/ Jesko
      Beck 	 	/s/
      Günter Thiemann 
	JESKO BECK 	 	GÜNTER THIEMANN 
	  	 	Chief Financial Officeruil_exh10-27d.htm

    EXHIBIT
      10.27d

    

    The
      UIL Holdings Corporation

    1999
      Amended and Restated Stock Plan

     

    In
      accordance with Section 8(a) of the
      UIL Holdings Corporation 1999 Amended and Restated Stock Plan (“Stock Plan”),
      and as authorized by the Compensation and Executive Development Committee of
      the
      Board of Directors of UIL Holdings Corporation, the Stock Plan shall be amended,
      as of January 1, 2008, as provided below.  Except as otherwise
      expressly stated herein, this amendment shall supersede the provisions of the
      Plan, as previously amended, to the extent those provisions are inconsistent
      with the provisions of this amendment.

    

    I.   New
      Section 5(g) is hereby added to the Plan to read as follows:

    

    
      	
               

            	
              (g)

            	
              Code
§409A
                Compliance.  To the extent any Award hereunder provides
                for the deferral of compensation (within the meaning of Code §409A and
                related regulations), other than in accordance with the terms of
                the UIL
                Holdings Deferred Compensation Plan, the material terms of the deferral,
                to the extent required under Treasury Regulation §1.409A-1(c)(3) to
                establish a deferred compensation plan, shall be set forth in the
                written
                award or grant (including by incorporation by reference, if applicable)
                prior to the effective date of such award or grant.  To the
                extent any Award hereunder does not provide for a deferral of
                compensation, but may be deferred under the Company’s Deferred
                Compensation Plan (or other nonqualified deferred compensation plan),
                the
                terms of the Deferred Compensation Plan (or such other nonqualified
                deferred compensation plan) shall govern the deferral and, to the
                extent
                necessary, are incorporated herein by reference.
                

            

    

    

    
      	
               

            	
              In
                addition, whenever it is provided in this Plan or in any Award made
                hereunder that a payment is to be made “promptly” after a given event,
                such payment shall be made within 10 days of the payment event and
                the
                recipient of the payment shall have no right to designate the taxable
                year
                of payment. 

            

    

    

    II.           
      Section 7(b) the Plan, as amended by the Second Amendment hereto, is hereby
      deleted and the following substituted therefor:

    

    (b)           
      A Change in Control with respect to UIL Holdings Corporation or any wholly
      owned
      subsidiary thereof (an “Employing Company”) occurs on the date
      on

    
      
        
        

      

      
        
        

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

    which
      any
      of the following events occur: (i) a change in the ownership of the Employing
      Company; (ii) a change in the effective control of the Employing Company; (iii)
      a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the
      Employing Company.

    

    For
      purposes of this Section:

    

    (i)            
      A change in the ownership of the Employing Company occurs on the date on which
      any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires ownership
      of
      stock of the Employing Company that, together with stock held by such person
      or
      group constitutes more than 50% of the total fair market value or total voting
      power of the stock of the Employing Company.

    

    (ii)            
      A change in the effective control of the Employing Company occurs on the date
      on
      which either (a) a person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires
      ownership of stock of the Employing Company possessing 30% or more of the total
      voting power of the stock of the Employing Company, taking into account all
      such
      stock acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent
      acquisition, or (b) a majority of the members of the Employing Company’s Board
      of Directors is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose
      appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of such
      Board of Directors prior to the date of the appointment or election, but only
      if
      no other corporation is a majority shareholder of the Employing
      Company.

    

    (iii)            
      A change in the ownership of a substantial portion of assets occurs on the
      date
      on which any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, other than
      a
      person or group of persons that is related to the Employing Company, acquires
      assets from the Employing Company that have a total gross fair market value
      equal to or more than 50% of the total gross fair market value of all of the
      assets of the Employing Company immediately prior to such acquisition or
      acquisitions, taking into account all such assets acquired during the 12-month
      period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition.

    

    In
      determining whether a person or group has acquired a percentage of stock, stock
      of the Corporation held pursuant to the terms of an employee benefit plan of
      the
      Corporation or any subsidiary thereof in a suspense account or otherwise
      unallocated to a participant’s account shall be disregarded to the extent that
      expressing the applicable percentage as a fraction, such shares shall not be
      included in the numerator, but such shares will be included in the
      denominator.

    

    An
      event
      constitutes a Change in Control with respect to a Participant only if the
      Participant performs services for the Employing Company that has experienced
      the
      Change in Control, or the Participant’s relationship to the affected Employing
      Company otherwise satisfies the requirements of Treasury Regulation Section
      1.409A-3(2)(i)(5)(ii).

    
      
        
        

      

      
        
        

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

    The
      determination as to the occurrence
      of a Change in Control shall be made by the Committee based on objective facts
      and in accordance with the requirements of Code Section 409A.

    

    

    IN
      WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has set his hand, this23rd
      day of December, 2007.

    

    

                                                                     
UIL
      HOLDINGS CORPORATION,
      INC.

    

    
      	
              By:

            	
              /s/
                James P. Torgerson

            
	
               

            	
              Its
                President & Chief Executive Officer

            
	 	
              Duly
                Authorized

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