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SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement"), dated as of November
1, 2002, among each of the Subsidiaries listed on Schedule I hereto (each such
subsidiary individually, a "Guarantor" and collectively, the "Guarantors") of
KANEB PIPE LINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
"Borrower"), and SUNTRUST BANK, a Georgia banking corporation as administrative
agent (the "Administrative Agent") for the Lenders (as defined in the Loan
Agreement referred to below).
Reference is made to the Bridge Loan Agreement, dated as of November 1,
2002 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"Loan Agreement"), among the Borrower, Kaneb Pipe Line Partners, L.P., the
lenders from time to time party thereto (the "Lenders") and SunTrust Bank, as
administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the "Administrative
Agent"). Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Loan Agreement.
The Lenders have agreed to make Loans to the Borrower pursuant to, and upon
the terms and subject to the conditions specified in, the Loan Agreement. Each
of the Guarantors is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower and
acknowledges that it will derive substantial benefit from the making of the
Loans by the Lenders. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans are
conditioned on, among other things, the execution and delivery by the Guarantors
of a Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement in the form hereof. As consideration
therefor and in order to induce the Lenders to make Loans, the Guarantors are
willing to execute this Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Guarantee.
Each Guarantor unconditionally guarantees, jointly with KPP and the other
Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, (i)
the due and punctual payment of (A) the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether
at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or
otherwise, and (B) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs,
expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed
or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of
whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Loan Parties to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, (ii) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements,
obligations and liabilities of the Loan Parties under or pursuant to the Loan
Agreement and the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the due and punctual payment
and performance of all obligations of the Borrower, monetary or otherwise, under
each Hedging Agreement entered into with a counterparty that was a Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Hedging Agreement was entered into (all
the monetary and other obligations referred to in the preceding clauses (i)
through (iii) being collectively called the "Obligations"). Each Guarantor
further agrees that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in
part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound
upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation.
SECTION 2. Obligations Not Waived.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives
presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the other Loan Parties of
any of the Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee
and notice of protest for nonpayment. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be
affected by (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to assert
any claim or demand or to enforce or exercise any right or remedy against the
Borrower or any other Guarantor under the provisions of the Loan Agreement, any
other Loan Document or otherwise, (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or
modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, including with
respect to any other Guarantor under this Agreement, or (iii) the failure to
perfect any security interest in, or the release of, any of the security held by
or on behalf of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
SECTION 3. Guarantee of Payment.
Each Guarantor further agrees that its guarantee constitutes a guarantee of
payment when due and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any
resort be had by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any of the security
held for payment of the Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or
credit on the books of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in favor of the
Borrower or any other Person.
SECTION 4. No Discharge or Diminishment of Guarantee.
The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any
reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than the
indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations), including any claim of
waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Obligations,
and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or
termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability of the Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall
not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce
any remedy under the Loan Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other
agreement, by any waiver or modification of any provision of any thereof, by any
default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the
Obligations, or by any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or
to the extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or that would otherwise operate as
a discharge of each Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the
indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations).
SECTION 5. Defenses of Borrower Waived.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives
any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any Loan Party or the
unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the
cessation from any cause of the liability of any Loan Party, other than the
final and indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations. The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders may, at their election, foreclose on any
security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial
sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure,
compromise or adjust any part of the Obligations, make any other accommodation
with any other Loan Party or any other guarantor, without affecting or impairing
in any way the liability of any Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the
Obligations have been fully, finally and indefeasibly paid in cash. Pursuant to
applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such
election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to
impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right
or remedy of such Guarantor against the Borrower or any other Guarantor or
guarantor, as the case may be, or any security.
SECTION 6. Agreement to Pay; Subordination.
In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right
that the Administrative Agent or any Lender has at law or in equity against any
Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower or any other Loan
Party to pay any Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at
maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each
Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders in cash the amount of such
unpaid Obligations. Upon payment by any Guarantor of any sums to the
Administrative Agent, all rights of such Guarantor against any Loan Party
arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution,
reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subordinate and
junior in right of payment to the prior indefeasible payment in full in cash of
all the Obligations. In addition, any indebtedness of any Loan Party now or
hereafter held by any Guarantor is hereby subordinated in right of payment to
the prior payment in full in cash of the Obligations. If any amount shall
erroneously be paid to any Guarantor on account of (i) such subrogation,
contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar right or (ii) any such
indebtedness of any Loan Party, such amount shall be held in trust for the
benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and shall forthwith be paid
to the Administrative Agent to be credited against the payment of the
Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the
Loan Documents.
SECTION 7. Information.
Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself
informed of other Loan Parties' financial condition and






