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Exhibit 2.1
EXECUTION
VERSION
AGREEMENT FOR PURCHASE AND
SALE
among
CoLa Resources LLC
as Seller
and
CEP Mid-Continent
LLC
as Buyer
February 19,
2008
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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1.
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Sale and Purchase of the Properties |
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1.1. |
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Wellbores |
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1.2. |
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Equipment |
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1.3. |
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Substances |
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1.4. |
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Surface
Contracts |
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1.5. |
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Information and Data |
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1.6. |
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Contracts |
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1.7. |
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Permits |
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1.8. |
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Payment
Rights |
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1.9. |
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Excluded
Assets |
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1.10. |
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Data
Agreement |
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2.
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Purchase Price |
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2.1. |
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Basic
Amount |
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2.2. |
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Adjustments to Purchase Price |
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2.3. |
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Closing
Statement |
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2.4. |
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Allocation of Purchase Price |
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3.
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Representations and Warranties of Seller |
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3.1. |
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Organization |
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3.2. |
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Authority
and Authorization |
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3.3. |
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Enforceability |
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3.4. |
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Conflicts |
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3.5. |
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Contracts |
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3.6. |
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Litigation and Claims |
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3.7. |
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Compliance with Law and Permits |
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3.8. |
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Status of
Contracts |
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3.9. |
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Production Burdens, Taxes, Expenses and Revenues |
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3.10. |
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Production Balances and Penalties; Other Production Sales
Matters |
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3.11. |
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Operations |
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3.12. |
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Wellbore
Locations and Operations |
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10 |
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3.13. |
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Wellbore
Abandonment |
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3.14. |
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Planned
Future Commitments |
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10 |
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3.15. |
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Preferential Rights and Required Consents |
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10 |
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3.16. |
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Broker |
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11 |
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3.17. |
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Disclaimers |
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11 |
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4.
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Representations and Warranties of Buyer |
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11 |
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4.1. |
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Organization |
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11 |
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4.2. |
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Authorization and Authority |
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11 |
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4.3. |
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Enforceability |
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4.4. |
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Conflicts |
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TABLE OF
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4.5. |
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Reliance |
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4.6. |
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Broker |
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4.7. |
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Approvals |
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4.8. |
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Litigation |
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4.9. |
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Qualified
Purchaser |
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5.
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Covenants of Seller Pending Closing |
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13 |
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5.1. |
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Conduct
of Business Pending Closing |
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5.2. |
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Access |
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5.3. |
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No
Negotiations |
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5.4. |
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Environmental Review |
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5.5. |
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Cooperation |
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Covenants of Buyer Pending Closing |
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6.1. |
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Cooperation |
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6.2. |
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Financing |
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Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of Buyer |
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7.1. |
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Representations and Warranties |
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7.2. |
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Compliance |
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7.3. |
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No
Injunctions |
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7.4. |
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Financing |
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7.5. |
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Seller’s Deliveries |
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Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of Seller |
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8.1. |
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Representations and Warranties |
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8.2. |
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Compliance |
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8.3. |
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No
Injunctions |
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8.4. |
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Buyer’s Deliveries |
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Closing |
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9.1. |
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The
Closing |
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9.2. |
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Documents
to be Delivered at Closing |
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9.3. |
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Possession |
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9.4. |
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Payment
of Purchase Price |
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10.
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Casualty Loss |
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Termination |
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11.1. |
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Termination Events |
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11.2. |
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Effect of
Termination |
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11.3. |
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Specific
Performance |
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
(continued)
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Taxes, Prorations and Assumption of Obligations |
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12.1. |
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Tax
Prorations |
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12.2. |
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Tax
Returns |
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12.3. |
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Assumption of Obligations |
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Final Accounting |
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13.1. |
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Settlement Statement |
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13.2. |
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Payments |
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13.3. |
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No
Duplicative Effect; Methodologies |
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13.4. |
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Respective Ownership |
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14.
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Survival and Indemnification |
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14.1. |
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Survival |
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14.2. |
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Liabilities |
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14.3. |
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Indemnification by Seller |
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14.4. |
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Indemnification by Buyer |
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14.5. |
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Liability
Limitations |
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14.6. |
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Waiver of
Consumer Rights |
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Further Assurances |
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15.1. |
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General |
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15.2. |
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Filings,
Notices and Certain Governmental Approvals |
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15.3. |
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Logos and
Names |
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15.4. |
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Financial
Information |
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16.
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Notices |
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17.
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Assignment |
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18.
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Governing Law |
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19.
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Expenses and Fees |
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28 |
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20.
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Integration |
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28 |
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21.
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Waiver or Modification |
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Bold and/or Capitalized Letters |
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29 |
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23.
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Headings |
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24.
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Invalid Provisions |
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29 |
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25.
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Multiple Counterparts |
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26.
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Third Parties |
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27.
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Waiver of Jury Trial |
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28.
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Public Announcements |
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29.
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Additional Defined Terms |
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TABLE OF DEFINED
TERMS
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| “AAA” |
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Annex I |
| “Adjusted Purchase Price” |
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| “Adverse Environmental Condition” |
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| “Adverse Environmental Condition
Notice” |
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Annex II |
| “AFE’s” |
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| “Affiliate” |
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| “Agreement” |
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1 |
| “Allocated Value” |
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Annex I |
| “Assignment” |
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| “Assumed Obligations” |
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| “Audit
Firm” |
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| “BofA” |
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| “BofA
Credit Facility” |
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| “Business Day” |
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| “Buyer” |
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| “Buyer
Indemnified Parties” |
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| “Buyer’s Credits” |
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| “Buyer’s Title Review” |
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Annex I |
| “Casualty Loss” |
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| “Claim
Period” |
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| “Claim
Threshold” |
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| “Closing” |
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| “Closing Amount” |
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| “Closing Date” |
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| “Closing Period” |
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| “Closing Period Expenses” |
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| “Closing Statement” |
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| “Code” |
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| “Consents” |
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| “Control” |
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| “Data” |
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| “Data
Agreement” |
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| “Defect Notification Deadline” |
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Annex II |
| “Defensible Title” |
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Annex I |
| “Disputes” |
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Annex I |
| “Division of Interest Spreadsheet |
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Annex I |
| “DOTO
Wellbores” |
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Annex I |
| “DOTOs” |
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Annex I |
| “DTPA” |
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| “Effective Time” |
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| “Environmental Laws” |
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| “Environmental Review” |
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| “Equipment” |
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| “Equitable Limitations” |
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| “Environmental Review” |
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Annex II |
| “Examination Period “ |
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Annex I |
| “Excluded Assets” |
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| “Executive Rights” |
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| “Final
Notice Date” |
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Annex I |
| “Financial Statements” |
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| “Final
Settlement Statement” |
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| “GAAP” |
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| “Guaranty” |
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| “Independent Expert” |
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Annex I |
| “Leases “ |
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Page 1 |
| “Liabilities” |
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| “Liens” |
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| “Maximum Guaranty Amount” |
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| “Newfield” |
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Annex I |
| “NORM” |
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| “Objection Notice” |
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| “Organizational Documents” |
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| “Payment Rights” |
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| “Permits” |
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| “Permitted Encumbrances” |
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Annex I |
| “Person” |
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| “Preferential Rights” |
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| “Properties” |
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| “Purchase Price” |
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| “Referee” |
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| “Remediation Value” |
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Annex II |
| “Restricted Transaction” |
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| “Rules” |
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Annex I |
| “Seller Indemnified Parties” |
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| “Seller” |
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| “Seller’s Credits” |
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| “Seller’s Knowledge” |
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| “Seller’s Substances” |
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| “Seller’s Warranties” |
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| “Substances” |
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| “Surface Contracts” |
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| “Termination Date” |
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| “Third
Party” |
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| “Title
Adjustment Amount” |
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Annex I |
| “Title
Curative Period” |
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Annex I |
| “Title
Defect” |
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Annex I |
| “Title
Defect Notice” |
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Annex I |
| “Transaction Documents” |
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| “Wellbores” |
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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITS AND
ANNEXES
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Exhibit 1.1
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Wellbores, WI, NRI, Allocated Values |
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Exhibit 3.5
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Contracts |
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Exhibit 3.6
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Litigation and Claims |
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Exhibit 3.7.2
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Environmental Matters |
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Exhibit 3.9
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Production Burdens, Taxes, Expenses and
Revenues |
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Exhibit 3.10
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Calls on Production; Imbalances |
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Exhibit 3.14(a)
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AFE’s |
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Exhibit 3.14(b)
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AFE’s Under Consideration |
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Exhibit 3.15
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Consents and Preferential Rights to Purchase |
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Annex I
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Title to Properties |
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Annex II
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Environmental Matters |
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Annex III
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Seller’s Certificate |
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Annex IV
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Buyer’s Certificate |
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Annex V
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Form of Assignment and Bill of Sale |
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Annex VI
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FIRPTA Affidavit |
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Annex VII
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Guaranty |
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AGREEMENT FOR PURCHASE AND
SALE
This Agreement for Purchase
and Sale (“ Agreement ”) is made and entered
into on this the 19 th day
of February, 2008, among COLA RESOURCES LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (the “ Seller ”), and CEP
MID-CONTINENT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
Buyer ”).
1. Sale and Purchase of the
Properties . Subject to the terms and conditions and for
the consideration herein set forth, and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, Seller agrees to sell, assign, convey and deliver to
Buyer, and Buyer agrees to purchase and acquire from Seller at
Closing, effective as of 7:00 a.m. at the location of each of the
Wellbores on January 1, 2008 (the “ Effective
Time ”), the properties and interests described in
Sections 1.1 through 1.8 (collectively, the
“ Properties ”):
1.1. Wellbores
. All of Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the oil
and gas leases, oil, gas and mineral leases, subleases, leasehold
estates, forced pooling interests, licenses, concessions, working
interests, farmout rights, or other carried interests, operating
rights or other mineral rights of every nature (other than fee
interests and royalty and overriding royalty interests) (the
“ Leases ”), INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR AS the
Leases cover or pertain to the wellbore of each of those existing
wells specifically described on Exhibit 1.1 and the oil
and gas that may be produced therefrom (such right, title and
interest, the “ Wellbores ”). The Wellbores are
limited to the wellbores described on Exhibit 1.1 as each is
physically configured as of the Effective Time and shall include
such rights as are necessary to the continued production of
hydrocarbons from such Wellbores but shall not include the right to
deepen any Wellbore, to any sidetracking from the Wellbore (except
as provided below), or to any horizontal drilling through or from
the Wellbore, but shall include the right to plug-back, rework or
recomplete the Wellbore so long as such plugging-back, reworking or
recompletion does not involve any sidetracking (except as provided
below), deepening or horizontal drilling through or from the
Wellbore. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of mechanical
failure in any Wellbore that permanently disrupts the production of
hydrocarbons from the Wellbore, should Buyer elect to attempt to
reestablish production from the same or shallower stratigraphic
interval that the Wellbore was producing from prior to such
mechanical failure through sidetracking from the Wellbore, Buyer
shall have the right to do so provided that the bottom hole
location of such sidetracking is (a) no deeper than and
(b) no more than 100 feet from, the bottom hole location of
the Wellbore prior to mechanical failure. Seller retains any and
all executive rights related to the Wellbores, including all
rights, if any, to negotiate with lessors, to grant leases or to
rental or bonus payments (“ Executive Rights ”)
and Buyer hereby waives any and all such rights as well as any
right to protest any down-spacing wells, increased density wells,
or exception location wells Seller, or its successors and assigns,
may choose to drill.
1.2. Equipment
. All of Seller’s interest in all casing pipe, downhole
equipment and any additional equipment, fixtures or physical
facilities attached to or a part of the Wellbores (“
Equipment ”).
1.3. Substances
. All of Seller’s interest in all crude oil, natural gas,
casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, petroleum, natural
gas liquids, condensate, products, liquids and other hydrocarbons
and other minerals or materials of every kind and description
produced
through the Wellbores and not yet past a
measuring point at the Effective Time or produced from the
Wellbores during the period from and after the Effective Time (such
interest, the “ Substances ”) and all proceeds
attributable thereto.
1.4. Surface
Contracts . A concurrent interest with Seller in any
right-of-way agreements or other agreements held by Seller to the
extent such agreements extend rights-of-way or easements on surface
properties that are used or held for use as of the Effective Time
for flow lines in connection with the production of Substances or
are otherwise used in connection with the operation of the
Properties described in Sections 1.1 through 1.3
(such interest, the “ Surface Contracts
”).
1.5. Information and
Data . Copies of the following to the extent the following
relate to the Wellbores: (a) abstracts, title opinions, title
reports, title policies, lease and land files, surveys, analyses,
compilations, correspondence, and filings with and reports to
regulatory agencies; (b) geophysical, geological, engineering,
exploration, production and other technical data, magnetic field
recordings, digital processing tapes, field prints, summaries,
reports and maps, whether written or in electronically reproducible
form; and (c) all other books, records, files and magnetic
tapes containing financial, title or other information (the “
Data ”); provided, however, that Buyer’s right
with respect to Data acquired pursuant to this
Section 1.5 shall be limited, in each case to the
extent such Data is in the possession of Seller and to the extent
the disclosure of such Data is not restricted by the terms of any
confidentiality, license or similar agreement; provided, however,
that Seller will, upon Buyer’s request and at no cost or
expense to Seller, request waivers of such restrictions.
1.6. Contracts
. All of Seller’s interest in those contracts, commitments,
agreements, and arrangements relating to the Properties described
in Sections 1.1 through 1.5 , and
Sections 1.7 and 1.8 , including, without
limitation, the contracts described on Exhibit 3.5 , but
only to the extent related to the Properties, and any and all
amendments, ratifications or extensions of the foregoing, together
with (a) all rights, privileges, and benefits of Seller
thereunder arising on or after the Effective Time to the extent
related to periods after the Effective Time and (b) all rights
of Seller thereunder to audit the records of any party thereto and
to receive refunds of any nature thereunder to the extent relating
to periods after the Effective Time.
1.7. Permits .
To the extent assignable, all of Seller’s interest in all
franchises, licenses, permits, approvals, consents, certificates
and other authorizations and other rights granted by governmental
authorities and all certificates of convenience or necessity,
immunities, privileges, grants and other rights, that relate to the
Wellbores or the ownership or operation of any thereof (the “
Permits ”), provided, however, that Buyer’s
right with respect to Permits acquired pursuant to this
Section 1.7 shall be limited to the receipt, by Buyer,
of the benefit of the rights and privileges of Seller with respect
to such Permits as an owner of the Wellbores, in each case only to
the extent related to the Wellbores.
1.8. Payment
Rights . All of Seller’s interest in all
(a) accounts, instruments and general intangibles (as such
terms are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code of Oklahoma)
attributable to the Properties with respect to any period of time
after the Effective Time; (b) liens and security interests in
favor of Seller, whether choate or inchoate, under any law, rule
or
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regulation or under any of the Contracts
arising from the ownership or sale or other disposition after the
Effective Time of any of the Properties; and (c) any claim of
indemnity, contribution, or reimbursement relating to Assumed
Obligations (such interest, the “ Payment Rights
”).
1.9. Excluded
Assets . Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1 , the following assets shall not constitute
Properties and shall not be sold, assigned or conveyed to Buyer
pursuant to Section 1 (such assets as described herein
below, the “ Excluded Assets ”):
(a) all Permits that are not
assignable in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(b) all crude oil, natural
gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, petroleum,
natural gas liquids, condensate, products, liquids and other
hydrocarbons and other minerals or materials of every kind and
description produced from the Wellbores and disposed of, or in
storage tanks or in pipelines past a measuring point, prior to the
Effective Time (the “ Seller’s Substances
”), and all proceeds attributable thereto;
(c) all rights and causes of
action, arising, occurring or existing in favor of Seller and
attributable to the period prior to the Effective Time or arising
out of the operation of or production from the Wellbores prior to
the Effective Time (including, but not limited to, any and all
contract rights, claims, receivables, revenues, recoupment rights,
recovery rights, accounting adjustments, mispayments, erroneous
payments or other claims of any nature in favor of Seller and
relating and accruing to the period prior to the Effective
Time);
(d) all fee interests,
overriding royalty interests and royalty interests, and all
Executive Rights related to the Wellbores, and any and all right to
protest any down-spacing wells, increased density wells, or
exception location wells Seller, or its successors and assigns, may
choose to drill;
(e) all rights under the
contracts identified in Section 1.6 to the extent
relating to any properties outside of the Properties described in
Sections 1.1 through 1.5 , and
Sections 1.7 and 1.8 , and specifically to the
extent any such contracts relate to any additional wells or
drilling activities outside of the Wellbores;
(f) all corporate, financial,
tax and legal records of Seller; provided, however, Buyer will be
entitled to copies of any such records and rights to audit such
records as may reasonably be necessary to comply with reporting
obligations imposed upon Buyer as a publicly traded entity, subject
to such confidentiality requirements as Seller may reasonably
require;
(g) all contracts of
insurance or indemnity, subject to Section 10
;
(h) any refund of costs,
taxes or expenses borne by Seller attributable to the period prior
to the Effective Time;
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(i) any other right or
interest in and to the Properties to the extent attributable to the
period prior to the Effective Time, and any right or interest in
the properties described in Sections 1.1 through 1.8
to the extent not applicable to the Wellbores;
(j) all deposits, cash,
checks, funds and accounts receivable attributable to
Seller’s interests in the Properties with respect to any
period of time prior to the Effective Time;
(k) all computer or
communications software or intellectual property (including tapes,
data and program documentation and all tangible manifestations and
technical information relating thereto) owned, licensed or used by
Seller, other than the Data;
(l) any logo, service mark,
copyright, trade name or trademark of or associated with Seller;
and
(m) motor vehicles and other
rolling stock.
1.10. Data
Agreement . Seller may continue to receive from the
operator of each of the Wellbores, copies of each of the following
relating to the Wellbores: all daily and monthly production
reports, all Lease operating expense reports, all revenue
statements, capital expenditure statements and authority for
expenditures, that the operator of each of the Wellbores may
provide to Buyer or Seller following the Closing Date; subject to
the terms of the Data Agreement to be executed at Closing and any
existing confidentiality obligations owed to operator or other
third parties. Such confidentiality agreement shall provide, among
other provisions, that Buyer is an intended third party beneficiary
thereof, that the disclosed data may include material nonpublic
information of Buyer and its affiliates, and that the party to whom
such data is disclosed shall be restricted from trading in
Buyer’s or its affiliates’ securities or otherwise
disclosing or using the data, other than use for the purpose of
evaluating a potential transaction with Seller.
2.1. Basic
Amount . The purchase price for the Properties, subject to
adjustment as provided in Section 2.2 , shall be
Fifty-Three Million Three Hundred Twenty–Four Thousand Five
Hundred Dollars ($53,324,500) (the “ Purchase Price
”). The Purchase Price as adjusted pursuant to
Section 2.2 is referred to in this Agreement as the
“ Adjusted Purchase Price .”
2.2. Adjustments to
Purchase Price . The Purchase Price shall be adjusted as
provided in this Section 2.2 .
2.2.1 The Purchase Price
shall be increased by the following amounts (without duplication)
(“ Seller’s Credits ”):
(a) An amount equal to the
production, development, operating, overhead and other costs,
determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, consistently applied (“ GAAP ”),
incurred, charged or allocable to the
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Properties in the ordinary
course of business with respect to the period commencing at the
Effective Time and ending at 7:00 a.m. on the Closing Date (the
“ Closing Period ”) (collectively, “
Closing Period Expenses ”), and actually paid by
Seller, whether before or after the Effective Time, and expressly
including the following (with any such Closing Period Expenses
attributable to any partial period occurring during the Closing
Period to be prorated based on the portion of such period falling
within the Closing Period):
(i) lease operating expenses,
including bond and insurance premiums;
(ii) all overhead or other
charges paid to any operator in connection with the operation of
the Wellbores, all capital expenditures, including drilling costs,
reworking costs, and all other capital expenditures incurred in
connection with the development, exploration, or operation of the
Wellbores during the Closing Period; and
(iii) amounts paid under the
Surface Contracts to the extent related to the
Wellbores.
(b) An amount equal to the
value of all Substances produced from the Wellbores and in
pipelines at the Effective Time, calculated at the sales price
received by Seller for such Substance as of the Effective Time, and
for which Seller has not yet received payment.
(c) Any upward adjustments
attributable to Title Adjustment Amounts determined in accordance
with Annex I up to but not in excess of $10,000,000 in the
aggregate, after deducting any downward adjustments attributable to
Title Adjustment Amounts determined in accordance with Annex
I .
(d) An amount equal to the
price for “Prices of Spot Gas Delivered to Pipelines”
reported in Inside FERC Gas Market Report (published by
Platt’s) for the month of March 2008, under the column marked
“Index” for the “CenterPoint Energy Gas
Transmission Co.—East” delivery point, multiplied by
the volume of any underproduction attributable to Seller’s
interest in the Wellbores as of the Effective Time under any
operating agreement, gas balancing and storage agreement, gas
processing or dehydration agreement or similar
agreement.
2.2.2 The Purchase Price
shall be decreased by the following amounts (without duplication)
(“ Buyer’s Credits ”):
(a) An amount equal to the
proceeds received by Seller from the sale of Substances produced
during the Closing Period, net of all applicable taxes not
reimbursed to Seller by a purchaser of Substances.
(b) An amount equal to all
proceeds received by Seller from whatever source derived that
relate to the Properties and are attributable to periods after the
Effective Time.
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(c) Any downward adjustments
attributable to Title Adjustment Amounts determined in accordance
with Annex I .
(d) An amount equal to the
Remediation Value attributable to any Adverse Environmental
Condition as determined in accordance with Annex II to the
extent the aggregate of all Remediation Values in excess of $50,000
exceeds one and one-half percent (1.5%) of the Purchase
Price.
(e) The amount of all taxes
prorated to Buyer in accordance with Section 12.1
.
(f) An amount equal to the
value of the Wellbores excluded from the Properties because of a
Casualty Loss affecting such Properties or, in the alternative, the
insurance proceeds received by Seller for such Casualty Loss, all
as provided in Section 10 .
(g) An amount equal to the
price for “Prices of Spot Gas Delivered to Pipelines”
reported in Inside FERC Gas Market Report (published by
Platt’s) for the month of March 2008, under the column marked
“Index” for the “CenterPoint Energy Gas
Transmission Co.—East” delivery point, multiplied by
the volume of any overproduction attributable to Seller’s
interest in the Wellbores as of the Effective Time under any
operating agreement, gas balancing and storage agreement, gas
processing or dehydration agreement or similar
agreement.
2.3. Closing
Statement . No later than three (3) Business Days
prior to the Closing Date Seller shall deliver to Buyer a statement
(the “ Closing Statement ”) setting forth the
adjustments to the Purchase Price provided in
Section 2.2 , using estimates where actual amounts are
not known at the Closing, and Seller’s calculation of the
estimated Adjusted Purchase Price. The Closing Statement shall be
prepared in accordance with GAAP as applied on a basis consistent
with past practices of Seller.
2.4. Allocation of
Purchase Price . Buyer and Seller agree that within thirty
(30) days after the Closing they shall mutually agree in
writing upon an allocation of the Purchase Price among the
Properties using the methodology required by Section 1060 of
the Internal revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any regulations
or other agency releases promulgated thereunder (the “
Code ”). Buyer and Seller shall each report the
transactions contemplated under this Agreement on all tax returns,
including IRS Form 8594, in a manner consistent with the allocation
of Purchase Price mutually agreed upon by Buyer and Seller. If any
taxing authority makes or proposes an allocation different from the
allocation determined by the parties under this
Section 2.4 , either party may contest such allocation
(or proposed allocation), provided such party asserts that the
allocation mutually agreed upon by the Buyer and Seller is correct,
and shall provide written notice to the other parties of such fact
and shall provide such additional written notices as are reasonable
to the other parties to make them aware of the status and final
disposition of such contest of the allocation made or proposed by
such taxing authority. Further, after providing written notice to
the party adversely affected by such allocation (or proposed
allocation) by a taxing authority, the other party hereto may file
such protective claims or tax returns as may be reasonably required
to protect its interests.
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3. Representations and Warranties
of Seller . Seller represents and warrants to Buyer as
follows:
3.1.
Organization . Seller is a limited liability company
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware. Seller is qualified to do business
in the State of Oklahoma.
3.2. Authority and
Authorization . Seller has full limited liability company
power and authority to carry on its business as presently
conducted, to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents to which Seller is a party and to perform its obligations
under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which
Seller is a party. The execution and delivery by Seller of this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which Seller is a
party have been, and the performance by Seller of its obligations
under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which
Seller is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby shall be, at the time required to be performed hereunder or
thereunder, duly and validly authorized by all requisite action on
the part of Seller.
3.3.
Enforceability . This Agreement has been duly executed
and delivered on behalf of Seller and constitutes the legal, valid
and binding obligation of Seller enforceable in accordance with its
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization or moratorium statutes, or other similar
laws affecting the rights of creditors generally or equitable
principles (collectively, “ Equitable Limitations
”). At the Closing, all other Transaction Documents required
hereunder to be executed and delivered by Seller shall be duly
executed and delivered and shall constitute legal, valid and
binding obligations of Seller enforceable in accordance with their
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by Equitable
Limitations.
3.4. Conflicts
. The execution and delivery by Seller of this Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents to which Seller is a party does not,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which Seller is a
party shall not, (a) violate or be in conflict with, or
require the consent of any person or entity under, any provision of
Seller’s Organizational Documents, (b) conflict with,
result in a breach of, constitute a default (or an event that with
the lapse of time or notice, or both would constitute a default)
under any agreement or instrument to which Seller is a party or, to
Seller’s Knowledge, by which any of the Properties or Seller
is bound, other than those instruments identified on Exhibit
3.15 ; provided, however, that with respect to
(i) Transaction Documents other than this Agreement and
(ii) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, clause (b) shall be true and correct except as to
any governmental approvals of the type customarily obtained after
Closing and further provided that Buyer’s sole recourse due
to any failure to secure a consent or approval to the conveyance of
the Wellbores shall be to assert such failure as a Title Defect in
accordance with the terms and conditions of Annex I ,
(c) violate any provision of or require any consent,
authorization or approval under any judgment, decree, judicial or
administrative order, award, writ, injunction, statute, rule or
regulation applicable to Seller, or (d) to Seller’s
Knowledge, result in the creation of any lien, charge or
encumbrance on any of the Properties.
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3.5. Contracts
. Exhibit 3.5 includes all of the following contracts,
agreements, and commitments to which any of the Properties are
bound as of the date of this Agreement and any and all amendments,
extensions, or other modifications thereof: (a) any agreement
with any Affiliate of Seller; (b) to Seller’s Knowledge
any agreement or contract for the sale, exchange or other
disposition of hydrocarbons produced from the Wellbores, or for the
gathering or transportation thereof, that is not terminable upon
sixty (60) days’ prior written notice or less;
(c) to Seller’s Knowledge any agreement to sell, lease,
farmout or otherwise dispose of Seller’s interests in any of
the Wellbores other than conventional rights of reassignment;
(d) to Seller’s Knowledge any operating agreement to
which Seller’s interests in any of the Wellbores is subject;
(e) any contract that requires Seller to expend more than
$50,000 in any year in connection with the Properties and
(f) to Seller’s Knowledge any partnership, joint
venture, area of mutual interest, and non-compete agreements
affecting or relating to the Properties.
3.6. Litigation and
Claims . Except as set forth on Exhibit 3.6 ,
(a) no claim, demand, filing, investigation, administrative
proceeding, action, suit or other legal proceeding is pending
against Seller or, to Seller’s Knowledge, threatened, with
respect to the Properties or the ownership or operation of any
thereof, other than proceedings relating to the oil and gas
industry generally and as to which Seller is not a named party;
(b) Seller has not received any written notification of any
facts, conditions or circumstances in connection with, related to
or associated with the Properties or the ownership or operation of
any thereof that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any
such claim, demand, filing, investigation, administrative
proceeding, action, suit or other legal proceeding; and (c) no
written notice from any governmental authority or any other person
(including employees) has been received by Seller (i) claiming
any material violation or repudiation of any law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, order, decision or decree of any governmental authority
(including, without limitation, any such law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, order, decision or decree concerning the conservation of
natural resources) or (ii) requiring, or calling attention to
the need for, any material work, repairs, construction,
alterations, installations, remediation, response, removal or
abatement actions, restoration, investigation or monitoring of, on,
in, under, in connection with or related to the Properties or the
ownership or operation of any thereof other than, in the case of
clauses (i) and (ii) above, notices for matters that have
been remedied without further material obligations of
Seller.
3.7. Compliance with
Law and Permits .
3.7.1 To Seller’s
knowledge, (a) the Properties have been and currently are
operated, and Seller and the Properties are, in compliance with the
provisions and requirements of all laws, rules, regulations,
ordinances, orders, decisions and decrees of all governmental
authorities having jurisdiction with respect to the Properties or
the ownership or operation of any thereof; (b) all necessary
governmental permits, licenses, approvals, consents, certificates
and other authorizations with regard to the ownership or operation
of the Properties have been obtained and maintained in effect and
no violations exist in respect of such permits, licenses,
approvals, consents, certificates or authorizations; and
(c) there are no facts, conditions or circumstances in
connection with, related to or associated with the Properties or
the ownership or operation of any thereof that could reasonably be
expected to give rise to any claim or assertion that Seller, the
Properties or the ownership or operation of any thereof is not in
compliance in all material respects with any applicable law, rule,
regulation, ordinance, order, decision or decree of any
governmental authority or with any term or conditions of any
applicable permit, license,
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approval, consent, certificate or other
authorization except, in the case of each of clause (a),
(b) and (c), for such non-compliance, failure to obtain or
maintain, and such facts, conditions or circumstances, the
existence of which has not had and could not reasonably be expected
to have a material adverse effect on Buyer’s ability to own
and produce hydrocarbons from the Wellbores, taken as a whole,
after Closing.
3.7.2 To Seller’s
Knowledge, except as set forth on Exhibit 3.7.2 , no
pollutant, waste, contaminant, or hazardous, extremely hazardous,
or toxic material, substance, chemical or waste identified, defined
or regulated as such under any Environmental Law has been handled,
managed, stored, transported, processed, treated, disposed of,
released, migrated or has escaped on, in, from, under or in
connection with the Properties or the ownership or operation
thereof such as to cause a condition or circumstance that could
reasonably be expected to result in a violation of any
Environmental Law or in a remediation, removal, response,
restoration, abatement, investigative or monitoring obligation,
other than violations or obligations that would not reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on Buyer’s ability
to own and produce hydrocarbons from the Wellbores, taken as a
whole, after Closing.
3.8. Status of
Contracts . (a) To Seller’s Knowledge, all of
the contracts and other obligations of Seller set forth on
Exhibit 3.5 are in full force and effect and
(b) to Seller’s Knowledge, neither Seller nor any other
party to such contracts (i) is in material breach of or
default, or with the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or
both, would be in material breach or default, with respect to any
of its obligations thereunder, or (ii) has given written
notice or threatened to give notice of any default under or inquiry
into any possible default under, or action to alter, terminate,
rescind or procure a judicial reformation of any such
contract.
3.9. Production
Burdens, Taxes, Expenses and Revenues . Except as set forth
on Exhibit 3.9 , to Seller’s Knowledge
(a) all rentals, royalties, excess royalty, overriding royalty
interests and other payments due under or with respect to the
Wellbores have been properly and timely paid and no royalties are
currently being held in suspense; (b) (i) all ad valorem,
property, production, severance and other taxes based on or
measured by the ownership of the Properties or the production of
hydrocarbons from the Wellbores and that have become due have been
properly and timely paid, (ii) there is no pending action,
proceeding, or investigation for assessment or collection of taxes,
and no tax assessment, deficiency or adjustment has been asserted
or propped with respect to the Properties and (iii) none of
the Properties is subject to a tax partnership agreement pursuant
to Section 761(a)(2) of the Code; (c) all expenses
payable under the terms of the Surface Contracts have been properly
and timely paid except for such expenses not yet due or as are
being currently paid prior to delinquency in the ordinary course of
business; and (d) all of the proceeds from the sale of
hydrocarbons produced from the Wellbores are being properly and
timely paid to Seller by the purchasers of production without
suspension or indemnity other than standard division order
indemnities.
3.10. Production
Balances and Penalties; Other Production Sales Matters . To
Seller’s Knowledge, (a) as of the date of this
Agreement, none of the purchasers under any production sales
contracts related to hydrocarbons produced from the Wellbores are
entitled to “make-up” or otherwise receive deliveries
of Substances without paying at the time of such deliveries the
full contract price therefor; (b) none of the purchasers under
any production sales contracts related to the Wellbores has
exercised any economic out provision; (c) none of
the
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purchasers under any production sales
contracts related to the Wellbores has curtailed its takes of
natural gas in violation of such contracts; (d) none of the
purchasers under any production sales contracts related to the
Wellbores has given notice that it desires to amend the production
sales contracts with respect to price or quantity of deliveries;
(e) Seller is not obligated to pay any penalties or other
payments under any gas transportation or other agreement as a
result of the delivery of quantities of gas from the Wellbores in
excess of the contract requirements; (f) except as set forth
on Exhibit 3.10 , no person has any call upon, option to
purchase, or similar rights with respect to the production from the
Wellbores; and (g) except as disclosed on Exhibit 3.10
, there are no production, pipeline, storage, processing or other
imbalances attributable to the Properties.
3.11.
Operations . Seller is not a non-consenting party under
any applicable operating agreement with respect to any operation
relating to the Wellbores.
3.12. Wellbore
Locations and Operations . To Seller’s Knowledge
(a) each Wellbore has been drilled and completed in a legal
location within the boundaries of the appropriate oil, gas or other
mineral lease, or on lands pooled or otherwise combined with an
oil, gas or other mineral lease; (b) no Wellbore is subject to
penalties or allowables after the date hereof because of any
overproduction or violation of applicable laws, rules, regulations,
permits, or judgments, orders or decrees of any court or
governmental body or agency which prevents the Wellbore from being
entitled to its full legal and regular allowance or share of
production from and after the date hereof as prescribed by any
court or governmental body or agency; and(c) all units in which any
of the Wellbores are included have been validly formed. To the
extent Seller’s interest in any Leases that cover or pertain
to the Wellbores was acquired by the exercise of Seller’s
rights under an area of mutual interest agreement, Seller has given
timely notice under the area of mutual interest agreement of its
election to participate in the acquisition of the Lease(s) that
cover or pertain to the Wellbores.
3.13. Wellbore
Abandonment . To Seller’s Knowledge, none of the
Wellbores are shut-in or incapable of producing such that Seller
has any current liability or obligation to plug and
abandon.
3.14. Planned Future
Commitments . Except as disclosed on Exhibit 3.14(a)
, Seller has not received any authorities for expenditures
(“AFEs”) or other commitments to make capital
expenditures with respect to the Properties which will require
expenditures after the Effective Time. Exhibit 3.14(b)
lists, as of the date hereof, all outstanding AFEs received by
Seller relating to the Properties as to which Seller has not made
(or been deemed to have made) an election.
3.15. Preferential
Rights and Required Consents . Exhibit 3.15 lists
(a) all rights or agreements that may permit any person to
purchase or acquire any of the Properties arising in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby (“ Preferential
Rights ”), and
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