EXHIBIT 4.3
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING
LLC
AS ISSUER,
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS
L.P.
AS PARENT GUARANTOR,
and
WELLS FARGO BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE
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FIFTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
Dated as of June 10, 2009
to
Indenture dated as of October 4,
2004
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$500,000,000
4.60% Senior Notes due
2012
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
THE NOTES
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SECTION
1.1
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Form
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SECTION
1.2
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Title, Amount
and Payment of Principal and Interest
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SECTION
1.3
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Registrar and
Paying Agent
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SECTION
1.4
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Transfer and
Exchange
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SECTION
1.5
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Guarantee of
the Notes
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SECTION
1.6
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Defeasance and
Discharge
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SECTION
1.7
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Amendment to
Section 4.12 of the Original Indenture
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SECTION
1.8
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Amendment to
Section 4.13 of the Original Indenture
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ARTICLE II
REDEMPTION
ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
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SECTION
3.1
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Table of
Contents, Headings, etc.
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SECTION
3.2
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Counterpart
Originals
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SECTION
3.3
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Governing
Law
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Exhibit
A
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Form of
Note A-1
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A-1
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THIS FIFTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as
of June 10, 2009, is among Enterprise Products Operating LLC, a
Texas limited liability company (the “Issuer”),
Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
(the “Parent Guarantor”), and Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, a national banking association, as trustee
(the “Trustee”). Each capitalized term used
but not defined in this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in the Original Indenture (as
defined below).
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, Enterprise Products Operating L.P. and
the Parent Guarantor have executed and delivered to the Trustee an
Indenture, dated as of October 4, 2004 (the “Original
Indenture”), providing for the issuance by Enterprise
Products Operating L.P. from time to time of its debentures, notes,
bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, issued and to be issued
in one or more series unlimited as to principal amount (the
“Debt Securities”), and the guarantee by each Guarantor
of the Debt Securities (the “Guarantee”);
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor
have executed and delivered to the Trustee a Tenth Supplemental
Indenture, dated as of June 30, 2007, providing for the Issuer as
the successor issuer (the Original Indenture together with the
Tenth Supplemental Indenture, the “Base
Indenture”);
WHEREAS, on or before the date hereof the Issuer
has issued several series of Debt Securities pursuant to previous
supplements to the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized and
desires to cause to be issued pursuant to the Base Indenture and
this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture a new series of Debt
Securities designated the “4.60% Senior Notes due 2012”
(the “Notes”), all of such Notes to be guaranteed by
the Parent Guarantor as provided in Article XIV of the
Original Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to cause the
issuance of the Notes pursuant to Sections 2.01
and 2.03 of the Original Indenture, which sections permit the
execution of indentures supplemental thereto to establish the form
and terms of Debt Securities of any series;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the
Original Indenture, the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor have
requested that the Trustee join in the execution of this Fifteenth
Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and terms of the
Notes;
WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done to
make the Notes, when executed by the Issuer and authenticated and
delivered hereunder and under the Base Indenture and duly issued by
the Issuer, and the Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor, when the
Notes are duly issued by the Issuer, the valid obligations of the
Issuer and the Parent Guarantor, respectively, and to make this
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Issuer
and the Parent Guarantor enforceable in accordance with its
terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor
and the Trustee hereby agree that the following provisions shall
supplement the Base Indenture:
ARTICLE I
THE NOTES
The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A to this Fifteenth Supplemental
Indenture, which is hereby incorporated into this Fifteenth
Supplemental Indenture. The terms and provisions
contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly
made, a part of this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture and to the
extent applicable, the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Fifteenth
Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and
provisions and to be bound thereby.
The Notes shall be issued only as Registered
Securities. The Notes shall be issued upon original
issuance in whole in the form of one or more Global Securities (the
“Book-Entry Notes”). Each Book-Entry Note
shall represent such of the Outstanding Notes as shall be specified
therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate
amount of Outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes represented thereby
may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to
reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of a
Book-Entry Note to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease
in the amount, of Outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be
made by the Trustee in accordance with written instructions or such
other written form of instructions as is customary for the
Depositary, from the Depositary or its nominee on behalf of any
Person having a beneficial interest in the Book-Entry
Note.
The Issuer initially appoints The Depository
Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect
to the Book-Entry Notes.
SECTION 1.2 Title, Amount
and Payment of Principal and Interest .
The Notes shall be entitled the “4.60%
Senior Notes due 2012.” The Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver (i) the Notes for original issue on the date hereof
(the “Original Notes”) in the aggregate principal
amount of $500 million and (ii) additional Notes for original
issue from time to time after the date hereof in such principal
amounts as may be specified in the Company Order described in this
sentence, provided that no such additional Notes may be issued at a
price that would cause such Notes to have “original issue
discount” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, in each case upon a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery thereof and satisfaction of the other
provisions of Section 2.05 of the Original
Indenture. Such order shall specify the amount of the
Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of
Notes is to be authenticated, and the name or names of the initial
Holder or Holders. The aggregate principal amount of
Notes that may be outstanding at any time may not exceed $500
million plus such additional principal amounts as may be issued and
authenticated pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph
(except as provided in Section 2.09 of the Original
Indenture).
The principal amount of each Note shall be
payable on August 1, 2012. Each Note shall bear interest
from the date of original issuance, or the most recent date to
which interest has been
paid, at the fixed rate of 4.60%
per annum. The dates on which interest on the Notes
shall be payable shall be February 1 and August 1 of each year,
commencing February 1, 2010 in the case of the Original Notes (the
“Interest Payment Dates”). The regular
record date for interest payable on the Notes on any Interest
Payment Date shall be January 15 or July 15 (the “Regular
Record Date”), as the case may be, next preceding such
Interest Payment Date.
Payments of principal of, premium, if any, and
interest due on the Notes representing Book-Entry Notes on any
Interest Payment Date or at maturity will be made available to the
Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date,
unless such date falls on a day which is not a Business Day, in
which case such payments will be made available to the Trustee by
11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next Business
Day. As soon as possible thereafter, the Trustee will
make such payments to the Depositary.
SECTION 1.3 Registrar and
Paying Agent .
The Issuer initially appoints the Trustee as
Registrar and paying agent with respect to the
Notes. The office or agency in the City and State of New
York where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or
exchange and the Place of Payment for the Notes shall initially be
Wells Fargo Corporate Trust, c/o DTC, 1st Floor, TADS Department,
55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041.
SECTION 1.4 Transfer and
Exchange .
The transfer and exchange of Book-Entry Notes or
beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the
Depositary, in accordance with Section 2.15 of the Original
Indenture and the rules and procedures of the Depositary
therefore.
SECTION 1.5 Guarantee of
the Notes .
In accordance with Article XIV of the
Original Indenture, the Notes will be fully, unconditionally and
absolutely guaranteed on an unsecured, unsubordinated basis by the
Parent Guarantor. Initially, there will be no Subsidiary
Guarantors.
SECTION 1.6 Defeasance and
Discharge .
The Notes shall be subject to satisfaction and
discharge and to both legal defeasance and covenant defeasance as
contemplated by Article XI of the Original Indenture.
SECTION 1.7 Amendment to
Section 4.12 of the Original Indenture .
The last paragraph of Section 4.12 of the
Original Indenture is hereby amended and restated in relation
solely to the Notes to read as follows:
“Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions
of this Section, the Parent Guarantor may, and may permit any
Subsidiary to, effect any Sale/Leaseback Transaction that is not
excepted by clauses (a) through (d), inclusive, of this Section,
provided that the Attributable Indebtedness from such
Sale/Leaseback Transaction, together with the aggregate principal
amount of all other such Attributable Indebtedness deemed to be
outstanding and all outstanding Indebtedness (other
than the Debt Securities) secured
by liens, other than Permitted Liens, upon Principal Properties or
upon any capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, do not exceed
10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.”
SECTION 1.8 Amendment to
Section 4.13 of the Original Indenture .
The last sentence of Section 4.13 of the
Original Indenture is hereby amended and restated in relation
solely to the Notes to read as follows:
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parent
Guarantor may, and may permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume,
incur or suffer to exist any lien, other than a Permitted Lien,
upon any Principal Property or upon any capital stock of any
Restricted Subsidiary to secure Indebtedness of the Parent
Guarantor, the Company or any other Person (other than the Debt
Securities), without in any such case making effective provision
whereby all the Debt Securities Outstanding under this Indenture
are secured equally and ratably with, or prior to, such
Indebtedness so long as such Indebtedness is secured; provided that
the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding
secured by such lien and all similar liens, together with the
aggregate amount of Attributable Indebtedness deemed to be
outstanding in respect of all Sale/Leaseback Transactions
(exclusive of any such Sale/Leaseback Transactions otherwise
permitted under clauses (a) through (d) of Section 4.12), does not
exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.”
ARTICLE II
REDEMPTION
SECTION 2.1 Redemption
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The Issuer shall have no obligation to redeem,
purchase or repay the Notes pursuant to any mandatory redemption,
sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder
thereof. The Issuer, at its option, may redeem the Notes
in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of the Notes and
Article III of the Original Indenture.
ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SECTION 3.1 Table of
Contents, Headings, etc.
The table of contents and headings of the
Articles and Sections of this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture have
been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be
considered a part hereof and shall in no way modify or restrict any
of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 3.2 Counterpart
Originals .
The parties may sign any number of copies of
this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy
shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same
agreement.
SECTION 3.3 Governing
Law .
THIS FIFTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND THE
NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties
hereto have caused this Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.
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ENTERPRISE
PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC,
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as Issuer
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By:
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Enterprise
Products OLPGP, Inc.
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its sole
manager
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By:
/s/
W. Randall
Fowler
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Name:
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W. Randall
Fowler
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Title:
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Executive Vice
President and
Chief Financial
Officer
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ENTERPRISE
PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P.,
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as Parent Guarantor
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By:
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Enterprise
Products GP, LLC
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its General
Partner
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By:
/s/
W. Randall
Fowler
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Name:
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W. Randall
Fowler
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Title:
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Executive Vice
President and
Chief Financial
Officer
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WELLS FARGO
BANK,
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION ,
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as Trustee
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By:
/s/ Patrick
T.
Giordano
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Name:
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Patrick T.
Giordano
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Title:
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Vice
President
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Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture Signature
Page
Exhibit A
FORM OF NOTE
[ FACE OF SECURITY ]
[ UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
(“DTC”) (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
10041) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN
THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN. ]*
[ TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE
LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC
OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND
TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO
TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE
INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN. ]*
Principal Amount
$
[ which amount may be
increased or decreased by the
Schedule
of Increases and Decreases in
Global Security attached hereto. ]*
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING
LLC
4.60% SENIOR NOTE
DUE 2012
CUSIP ___________
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING LLC, a Texas
limited liability company (the “Company,” which term
includes any successor under the Indenture hereinafter referred
to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to [ Cede
& Co. ]* or its registered assigns, the principal sum of
__________________ ($__________ U.S. dollars, [ or such
greater or lesser principal sum as is shown on the attached
Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Security ]* ,
on August 1, 2012 in such coin and currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest at an
annual rate of 4.60% payabl