SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2022-08-02

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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i8d465d8e00314ea98a57929656de3c47_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div style="text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">EXECUTION VERSION</font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:126pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:31.5pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">SEVENTH AMENDMENT dated as of July 28, 2022 (this &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), to the AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of May 28, 2014 (as heretofore amended, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Existing Credit Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;&#59; and, as amended hereby, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Amended Credit Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), among MARATHON OIL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, the LENDERS party thereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative agent.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:63pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be amended (a)&#160;to extend the Termination Date to be the fifth anniversary of the Seventh Amendment Effective Date (as defined below) (and to disregard such extension for the purpose of the limit on the number of times an extension may be requested under Section&#160;2.18 of the Credit Agreement), (b) to decrease the aggregate amount of the Commitments outstanding immediately after giving effect to this Amendment to $2,500,000,000 and (c)&#160;to effect certain other amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement as set forth herein, including updates with respect to the benchmark replacement provisions&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">WHEREAS, the Lenders party hereto, the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and each Issuing Bank are willing to amend the Existing Credit Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein&#59; and</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">WHEREAS, each of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., RBC Capital Markets</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:7.8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;position:relative;top:-4.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">1</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Houston Branch and TD Securities (USA) LLC has been appointed to act as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners for this Amendment (in such capacities, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Amendment Arrangers</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">SECTION 1. </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Defined Terms.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein (including in the preamble and the recitals hereto) have the meanings assigned to them in the Existing Credit Agreement or the Amended Credit Agreement, as the context requires. The Existing Credit Agreement and the Amended Credit Agreement are sometimes collectively referred to as the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Credit Agreement</