EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of April 6, 2020, among BP Capital Markets America Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “Company”), having its principal office at 501 Westlake Park Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77079, and BP p.l.c., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of England (herein called the “Guarantor”), having its registered office at 1 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4PD, England, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association having its Corporate Trust Office at 2 North LaSalle Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”) under the Base Indenture (as hereinafter defined).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantor have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Indenture, dated as of June 4, 2003 (herein called the “Base Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein and in the Base Indenture called the “Securities”), the forms and terms of which are to be determined as set forth in Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to create four series of Securities in the following aggregate principal amounts: (i) U.S.$750,000,000, which shall be designated the 2.937% Guaranteed Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), (ii) U.S.$750,000,000, which shall be designated the 3.194% Guaranteed Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), (iii) U.S.$500,000,000, which shall be designated the 3.543% Guaranteed Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”) and (iv) U.S.$1,250,000,000, which shall be designated the 3.633% Guaranteed Notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes” and together with the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2027 Notes, the “Notes”);
WHEREAS, all action on the part of the Company necessary to authorize the issuance of the Notes under the Base Indenture and this Eighth Supplemental Indenture has been duly taken; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make this Eighth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
RECITALS OF THE GUARANTOR
WHEREAS, the Guarantor desires to make the Guarantees provided for herein and in the Base Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Eighth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms, have been done.