Superior Energy Services 8K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement | SEC 9 Dec 20

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

SENIOR SECURED DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated December 9, 2020

Among

SESI, L.L.C.,

as Borrower,

SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC.,

as Parent,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent,

AND

THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

as Syndication Agent

TABLE OF CONTENTS


		Page
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

1.1	Definitions		2
1.2	Other Definitional Provisions		41
1.3	Interest Rates, LIBOR Notifications		42
1.4	Letters of Credit		42

ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS

2.1	[Reserved]		43
2.2	Letters of Credit		43
2.3	Mandatory Repayments		48
2.4	Commitment Fee; Reductions in Aggregate Commitment; Other Fees		49
2.5	[Reserved]		49
2.6	[Reserved]		49
2.7	[Reserved]		49
2.8	[Reserved]		49
2.9	[Reserved]		49
2.10	Rates Applicable After Default		49
2.11	Method of Payment		50
2.12	[Reserved]		50
2.13	[Reserved]		50
2.14	[Reserved]		50
2.15	Notification of Commitment Reductions		50
2.16	Lending Installations		50
2.17	[Reserved]		50
2.18	Collateral and Guarantees		50
2.19	Defaulting Lender		52
2.20	Currency Indemnity		54
2.21	[Reserved]		55
2.22	Banking Services and Rate Management Transactions		55
2.23	[Reserved]		55
2.24	Priority and Liens		55
2.25	No Discharge, Survival of Claims		55
2.26	Conversion to Exit Facility Agreement		55

ARTICLE III
YIELD PROTECTION; TAXES

3.1	Yield Protection; Changes in Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Regulations		56
3.2	Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality		57
3.3	[Reserved]		59
3.4	Taxes		59
3.5	[Reserved]		62
3.6	Replacement of Lender		62



ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
4.1	Effectiveness; Conditions Precedent to Extensions of Credit	63
4.2	Each Extension of Credit	65

ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

5.1	Existence and Standing	66
5.2	Authorization and Validity	66
5.3	No Conflict; Government Consent	67
5.4	Financial Statements	67
5.5	Material Adverse Change	67
5.6	Taxes	67
5.7	Litigation and Contingent Obligations	68
5.8	Subsidiaries	68
5.9	ERISA	68
5.10	Accuracy of Information	68
5.11	Material Agreements	69
5.12	Compliance With Laws	69
5.13	Ownership of Properties	69
5.14	Environmental Matters	69
5.15	Investment Company Act	69
5.16	Labor Matters	70
5.17	[Reserved]	70
5.18	Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions	70
5.19	Insurance	70
5.20	[Reserved]	70

ARTICLE VI
COVENANTS

6.1	Financial Reporting; Projections	70
6.2	Use of Proceeds	73
6.3	Notices of Material Events	73
6.4	Conduct of Business	74
6.5	Taxes	74
6.6	Insurance	74
6.7	Compliance with Laws; Environmental and ERISA Matters; Compliance with Material Contractual Obligations	75
6.8	Maintenance of Properties	75
6.9	Books and Records; Field Examinations and Appraisals	75
6.10	Restricted Payments	76
6.11	Funded Indebtedness; Rate Management Transactions	76
6.12	Merger	77
6.13	Sale of Assets	78
6.14	Liens	78
6.15	Fiscal Year	80
6.16	Transactions with Affiliates	80
6.17	Financial Covenant	80
6.18	Investments	80
6.19	Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments	80
6.20	Negative Pledge Agreements	81
6.21	Capital Expenditures	81
6.22	Key Employee Plans	81
6.23	Superpriority Claims	81



ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT

7.1	Events of Default	81

ARTICLE VIII
ACCELERATION AND REMEDIES

8.1	Acceleration	85
8.2	Preservation of Rights	85
8.3	Application of Proceeds	86

ARTICLE IX
GENERAL PROVISIONS

9.1	Survival of Representations	87
9.2	Governmental Regulation	87
9.3	Headings	87
9.4	Entire Agreement	87
9.5	Several Obligations; Benefits of this Agreement	87
9.6	Expenses; Indemnification	87
9.7	Usury Savings Clause	89
9.8	Severability of Provisions	89
9.9	Acknowledgements	89
9.10	Confidentiality	90
9.11	Amendments and Waivers	90
9.12	The PATRIOT Act	91
9.13	[Reserved]	92
9.14	Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs	92

ARTICLE X
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

10.1	Appointment	92
10.2	Delegation of Duties	93
10.3	Exculpatory Provisions	93
10.4	Reliance by Administrative Agent	93
10.5	Notice of Default	93
10.6	Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders	94
10.7	Indemnification	94
10.8	Rights as a Lender	94
10.9	Successor Administrative Agent	95
10.10	Arrangers and Syndication Agent	95
10.11	Releases of Guarantees and Liens	95
10.12	Credit Bidding	96
10.13	Certain ERISA Matters	97

ARTICLE XI
SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS

11.1	Setoff	98
11.2	Ratable Payments	99

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ARTICLE XII
BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS

12.1	Successors and Assigns	99
12.2	Permitted Assignments and Participations	99
12.3	Dissemination of Information	103
12.4	Tax Treatment	103

ARTICLE XIII
NOTICES

13.1	Notices	103
13.2	Change of Address	103

ARTICLE XIV
COUNTERPARTS

14.1	Counterparts	103

ARTICLE XV
CHOICE OF LAW; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

15.1	GOVERNING LAW	104
15.2	SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS	104
15.3	WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL	105

ARTICLE XVI
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT TO BAIL-IN

16.1	Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions	105

ARTICLE XVII
Guarantee

17.1	Guarantee of Payment	106
17.2	Guarantee Absolute	106
17.3	Reinstatement	106
17.4	Subrogation	106
17.5	Subordination	107
17.6	Payments Generally	107
17.7	Setoff	107
17.8	Formalities	107
17.9	Limitations on Guarantee	107
17.10	Survival	108

Schedules and Exhibits


Schedule 1		Commitment Amounts Of The Lenders
Schedule 1A		L/C Commitment Amounts Of The Issuing Lenders
Schedule 1B		Milestones
Schedule 1C		Maximum Premium Rental Drill Pipe Amount
Schedule 2		Pricing Schedule
Schedule 2.26		Exit Conversion Conditions
Schedule 3		List Of Borrower’s Subsidiaries
Schedule 4		Deposit Accounts
Schedule 5		Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 6		Closing Date Investments


Exhibit A		Form Of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit B		Form Of Assignment And Assumption
Exhibit C		[Reserved]
Exhibit D-1:		Form Of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit D-2:		Form Of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate For Non-U.S. Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit D-3:		Form Of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate For Non-U.S. Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit D-4:		Form Of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes
Exhibit E		[Reserved]
Exhibit F		Form Of Borrowing Base Certificate
Exhibit G		Exit Facility Term Sheet
Exhibit H		Interim Order

SENIOR SECURED DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT

THIS SENIOR SECURED DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of December 9, 2020, is among SESI, L.L.C., as the Borrower, which is a debtor and debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 Case (as defined below), SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC., as the Parent, which is a debtor and debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 Case, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders from time to time party hereto.

RECITALS

A. Reference is made to (a) that certain Fifth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of October 20, 2017 (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Parent, the lenders from time to time party thereto (the “Existing Lenders”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Existing Agent”) and (b) that certain Restructuring Support Agreement, dated as of September 29, 2020, among the Parent, the Borrower, and certain of the direct and indirect wholly-owned, domestic subsidiaries of the Parent and the Consenting Noteholders (as defined therein) (the “RSA”).

B. The Parent and the parties hereto have agreed to a restructuring of the Parent and the other Loan Parties pursuant to the Approved Plan (as defined below).

C. In furtherance of the Approved Plan, on December 7, 2020 (the “Petition Date”), the Loan Parties filed voluntary petitions to commence cases (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) under title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Bankruptcy Court”) and continued in the possession of their assets and in the management of their businesses pursuant to Sections 1107 and 1108 of the Bankruptcy Code.

D. In connection with the Chapter 11 Cases and the Approved Plan, the Borrower has requested that (x) the Lenders provide a senior secured debtor-in-possession letter of credit revolving credit facility (the “DIP Facility”) which would, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, convert into a senior secured exit asset-based credit facility (the “Exit Facility” and, together with the DIP Facility, the “Facilities”), in each case in an aggregate principal amount of $120,000,000.

E. The Lenders have agreed to provide the Facilities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, including without limitation, (a) in the case of the DIP Facility, so long as all outstanding letters of credit under the Existing Credit Agreement are deemed issued under this Agreement and (b) in the case of the Exit Facility and the consummation of the Approved Plan, so long as all outstanding Letters of Credit under this Agreement are, pursuant to Section 2.26, deemed issued as Letters of Credit under, and as defined in, the Exit Facility Agreement.

F. To provide guarantees for the reimbursement of any draft drawn under the Letters of Credit and the payment of the other Secured Obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Loan Parties are providing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the DIP Order, a guarantee from each of the Guarantors of the due and punctual payment and performance of the Secured Obligations of the Borrower hereunder;

G. To provide security for the reimbursement of any draft drawn under the Letters of Credit and the payment of the other Secured Obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Loan Parties are providing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement and the DIP Order, (i) the Liens granted hereby and thereby, having the priorities set forth in the DIP Order and (ii) the Superpriority Claims in respect of the Secured Obligations of the Loan Parties.

H. All of the claims and the Liens granted hereunder and pursuant to the DIP Order in the Chapter 11 Cases to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties shall be subject to the Carve-Out, but in each case only to the extent provided in the DIP Order.

I. Pursuant to the terms of the DIP Order the Liens securing the Secured Obligations shall be valid and perfected Liens.

J. In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and of the extensions of credit and commitments hereinafter referred to, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“7.125% Senior Notes” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(b).

“7.750% Senior Notes” means the Parent’s 7.750% Senior Notes due 2024.

“13-Week Forecast” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.1(a)(xii).

“Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Uniform Commercial Code.

“Account Debtor” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Uniform Commercial Code.

“Acquisition” means any transaction, or series of related transactions, consummated on or after the Closing Date, by which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (a) acquires any going business concern or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person or division thereof that is a going business concern, whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise, or (b) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the Equity Interests (including any option, warrant or any right to acquire any of the foregoing) of any other Person or (c) acquires interests in mineral leases. “Acquisition” shall not include the formation of a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or any merger or consolidation among the Borrower and its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries.

“Adequate Protection Liens” has the meaning assigned to the term “Adequate Protection Liens” in the DIP Order.

“Adjusted Book Value” means as to any Person, at any time, in accordance with GAAP (except as otherwise specifically set forth below), the amount equal to (a) the aggregate “net book value” of all assets of such Person (excluding the value of patents, trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, licenses, goodwill and other intangible assets) minus (b) the aggregate amount of intercompany indebtedness of such Person. For purposes of this definition, “net book value” means the gross book value of all assets of such Person less all appropriate reserves in accordance with GAAP (including all reserves for doubtful receivables, obsolescence, depreciation and amortization).

“Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as contractual representative of the Lenders pursuant to Article X, and not in its individual capacity as a Lender, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Article X.

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

“Affected Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.6.

“Affiliate” of any Person means any other Person directly or indirectly Controlling, Controlled by or under common Control with such Person. A Person shall be deemed to Control another Person if the Controlling Person owns 20% or more of any class of voting securities (or other ownership interests) of the Controlled Person or possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of the Controlled Person, whether through ownership of stock, by contract or otherwise.

“Agent Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.7.

“Aggregate Commitment” means, at any time, the aggregate of the Commitments of all of the Lenders, as increased or reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof. As of the Closing Date, the Aggregate Commitment is $120,000,000.

“Aggregate Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Credit Exposure of all of the Lenders at such time.

“Agreed Currency” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20.

“Agreement” means this Senior Secured Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 0.50% and (c) the Eurodollar Base Rate applicable for an Eurodollar Interest Period of one month on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%; provided, however, that notwithstanding the rate calculated in accordance with the foregoing, at no time shall the Alternate Base Rate be less than 0.00% per annum; provided further that, the Eurodollar Base Rate for any day shall be based on the Eurodollar Base Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day, subject to the interest rate floors set forth therein. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurodollar Base Rate, respectively. If the Alternate Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 3.2 hereof, then the Alternate Base Rate shall be the greater of clause (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Alternate Base Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement

“Alternate Currency” means, (a) with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Australian Dollars, Bahts, Dirhams, Euros, Indian Rupees, Kuwaiti Dinars, New Zealand Dollars, Norwegian Kroners, Pounds, Reais, Ringgits, Rupiah, Saudi Riyals and Singapore Dollars, (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by Bank of America, N.A., Australian Dollars, Bahts, Dirhams, Euros, Indian Rupees, Kuwaiti Dinars, New Zealand Dollars, Norwegian Kroners, Pounds, Ringgits, Rupiah, Saudi Riyals and Singapore Dollars, and (c) with respect to any Letter of Credit issuing by any Issuing Lender, any other currency (other than U.S. Dollars) that has been designated by the Administrative Agent as an Alternate Currency at the request of the Borrower and with the consent of the applicable Issuing Lender.

“Alternate Currency Overnight Rate” means, with respect to a currency other than U.S. Dollars, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to represent its cost of overnight or short term funds in such currency (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) plus the Applicable Margin then in effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans.

“Ancillary Document” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 14.1.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

“Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Rate” means, at any time, with respect to Letters of Credit, the percentage rate per annum which is applicable at such time as set forth in the Pricing Schedule; provided that the “Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Rate” shall be the rate per annum set forth in Category 3 during the period from the Closing Date to, and including, the date on which the Administrative Agent receives the financial statements and Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.1(a)(ii) and (iii) with respect to the fiscal quarter of the Parent ending September 30, 2020.

“Application” means an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to open a Letter of Credit.

“Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.2(a).

“Approved Plan” means (a) a plan of reorganization consistent with the restructuring term sheet attached to the RSA; provided that the Splitco Election (as defined in the RSA) has not been made or (b) any Cash Pay Plan, in each case, as such plan may be modified, amended, restated or supplemented from time to time; provided that the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders shall be required in respect of any such modification, amendment, restatement or supplement solely to the extent that such modification, amendment, restatement or supplement: (i) adversely impacts the Administrative Agent’s or Lenders’ interests, economic recovery, rights or treatment in comparison to the Approved Plan (without giving effect to any such modification, amendment, restatement or supplement), (ii) alters the debt capital structure of the Loan Parties as set forth in the Approved Plan, (iii) allows for the incurrence of debt upon or in conjunction with the effective date of the Approved Plan not otherwise contemplated under the Approved Plan (without giving effect to any such modification, supplement or amendment) or (iv) changes the priority or treatment of any Debt from that set forth in the Approved Plan (without giving effect to any such modification, amendment, restatement or supplement).

“Arrangers” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Bank of America, N.A., in their respective capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners under this Agreement.

“Article” means an article of this Agreement unless another document is specifically referenced.

“Asset Sale” means (a) any disposition of Property or series of related dispositions of Property of any Borrowing Base Party (excluding (i) any such disposition permitted by Section 6.13(a) and (ii) dispositions of Equity Interests of any Subsidiary) that yields Net Available Cash or (b) any disposition of Equity Interests of any Subsidiary Guarantor.

“Assignee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.2(a)(i).

“Assignment and Assumption” means any assignment agreement in the form of Exhibit B or in a form otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

“Australian Dollars” means the lawful currency of the Commonwealth of Australia.

“Authorized Officer” means any of the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or any Vice President of the Parent or Borrower, as applicable, acting singly.

“Availability” means, at any time, an amount equal to (a) the lesser of (i) the Aggregate Commitment and (ii) the Borrowing Base minus (b) the Aggregate Exposure.

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Eurodollar Interest Period” pursuant to clause (f) of Section 3.2.

“Bahts” means the lawful currency of the Kingdom of Thailand.

“Bail-in Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

“Banking Services” means each and any of the following bank services provided to the Parent, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by any Lender or any of its Affiliates: (a) credit cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (b) stored value cards, (c) merchant processing services, and (d) treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts, cash pooling services, and interstate depository network services).

“Banking Services Reserves” means all Reserves which the Administrative Agent from time to time establishes in its Permitted Discretion for Banking Services then provided or outstanding, but in any event no greater than the amount of Specified Cash Management Obligations as reported to the Administrative Agent by each Lender or Affiliate thereof; provided that (i) any reserve with respect to Specified Cash Management Obligations relating to corporate credit card programs and purchase card programs shall not exceed an amount equal to the maximum amount charged to such card programs in any of the three months prior to such date of determination and (ii) any reserve with respect to any other Specified Cash Management Obligation shall not exceed the usual and customary charges for such Banking Services charged by the applicable Lender or Affiliate thereof.

“Bankruptcy Code” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Bankruptcy Court” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Bankruptcy Event” means with respect to any Person, such Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or becomes the subject of a Bail-in Action, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a governmental or quasi-governmental authority or instrumentality thereof, provided, further, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such governmental or quasi-governmental authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.

“Benchmark” means, initially, Eurodollar Base Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Eurodollar Base Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (b) or clause (c) of Section 3.2.

“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:

(a) the sum of: (i) Term SOFR and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

(b) the sum of: (i) Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

(c) the sum of: (i) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (A) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, in the case of clause (a), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event, and the delivery of a Term SOFR Notice, on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date the “Benchmark Replacement” shall revert to and shall be deemed to be the sum of (x) Term SOFR and (y) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, as set forth in clause (a) of this definition (subject to the first proviso above).

If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (a), (b) or (c) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:

(a) for purposes of clauses (a) and (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:

(i) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;

(ii) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and

(b) for purposes of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities;

provided that, in the case of clause (a) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Alternate Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(a) in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; or

(c) in the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty (30) days after the date a Term SOFR Notice is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.2(c); or

(d) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

For the avoidance of doubt, (x) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (y) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(b) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the NYFRB, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(c) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.

For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.2 and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.2.

“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial ownership Regulation.

“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. §1010.230.

“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code to which Section 4975 of the Code applies, and (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.

“Benefitted Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 11.1(a).

“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party shall mean an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

“Borrower” means SESI, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, and its permitted successors and assigns.

“Borrowing Base” means the sum of the following determined as of the most recent date for which the Borrower has delivered a Borrowing Base Certificate:

(a) (i) 90% of the Borrowing Base Parties’ Investment Grade Accounts at such time, plus (ii) the lesser of (A) 90% of the Borrowing Base Parties’ Foreign Investment Grade Accounts and (B) $5,000,000, plus

(b) 85% of the Borrowing Base Parties’ Eligible Accounts that are not Investment Grade Accounts at such time, plus

(d) the lesser of (i) 85% of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value identified in the most recent inventory appraisal received by the Administrative Agent multiplied by the Borrowing Base Parties’ Eligible Inventory, valued at the lower of cost or market value and (ii) $25,000,000, plus

(e) during the Premium Rental Pipe Test Period, the lesser of (i) 50% of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value identified in the most recent appraisal received by the Administrative Agent multiplied by the Borrowing Base Parties’ Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe, (ii) 65% of the net book value of the Borrowing Base Parties’ Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe and (iii) the Maximum Premium Rental Drill Pipe Amount applicable on the last day of the calendar month or, if a Weekly Reporting Period is then in effect, calendar week, preceding the delivery of the applicable Borrowing Base Certificate, plus

(f) the lesser of (i) 100% of Eligible Cash and (ii) $65,000,000, minus

(g) Reserves.

“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate, signed by an Authorized Officer, in substantially the form of Exhibit F or another form which is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent,.

“Borrowing Base Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

“Budget” means the 13-Week Forecast delivered on the Thursday of the third full calendar week after the Closing Date, and on the Thursday of each four week anniversary thereafter, that reflects, for the periods covered thereby, on a line-item basis the Loan Parties’ projected cash receipts and cash disbursements, including, without limitation, disbursements on account of the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of advisors (including, without limitation, advisors of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) and which budget shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders and which budget shall be updated every four weeks in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders as required by Section 6.1(a)(xii). To the extent that any updated Budget is not reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders, the then-existent approved budget will remain the “Budget” until replaced by an updated budget that is acceptable to the Required Lenders.

“Budget Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.1(a)(xii).

“Business Day” means (a) with respect to any borrowing, payment or rate selection of Eurodollar Advances, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in New York City, Chicago and Houston for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending activities, interbank wire transfers can be made on the Fedwire system and dealings in U.S. Dollars are carried on in the London interbank market and (b) for all other purposes, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks generally are open in New York City, Chicago and Houston for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending activities and interbank wire transfers can be made on the Fedwire system.

“Calculation Date” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency, each of the following: (a) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof (solely with respect to the increased amount) and (b) each date of any payment by the Issuing Lender of any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency. The Administrative Agent will notify the Borrower of the applicable amounts recalculated on each Calculation Date.

“Capital Expenditures” means, without duplication, any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of any asset which would be classified as a fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP (excluding expenses which are properly charged to income); GAAP; provided however, that Capital Expenditures shall not include any such expenditures which constitute (a) a Permitted Investment, (b) any such expenditure made to restore, replace, rebuild or purchase property, plant or equipment to the extent financed with insurance proceeds or condemnation awards and similar payments, and (c) the purchase price of property acquired in ordinary course trade-ins or concurrent sales of used or surplus property or otherwise in connection with a disposition permitted by Section 6.13(a)(v).

“Capitalized Lease” of a Person means any lease of Property by such Person as lessee which would be capitalized on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” of a Person means the amount of the obligations of such Person under Capitalized Leases which would be shown as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that obligations created prior to any recharacterization described below (or any refinancings thereof) that are recharacterized as Capitalized Lease Obligations due to a change in GAAP after January 1, 2011 shall not be treated as Capitalized Lease Obligations for any purpose under this Agreement but shall instead be treated as they would have been in accordance with GAAP as in effect on January 1, 2011.

“Carve-Out” has the meaning assigned to such term in the applicable DIP Order.

“Cash Dominion Trigger Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(e).

“Cash Equivalents” means (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition; (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, euro time deposits or overnight bank deposits having maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender or by any commercial bank or trust company organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof having combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000; (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated at least A-1 by S&P or P-1 by Moody’s, or carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if both of the two named rating agencies cease publishing ratings of commercial paper issuers generally, and maturing within six months from the date of acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any Lender or of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition, having a term of not more than 30 days, with respect to securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government; (e) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or by any foreign government, the securities of which state, commonwealth, territory, political subdivision, taxing authority or foreign government (as the case may be) are rated at least A by S&P or A by Moody’s; (f) securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Lender or any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition; (g) money market mutual or similar funds that invest exclusively in assets satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of this definition; or (h) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.

“Cash Pay Plan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.1(o)(ii).

“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the Closing Date), of Equity Interests representing more than 35% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Parent; (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Parent by Persons who were not (i) directors of the Parent on the Closing Date or (ii) nominated or appointed by the board of directors of the Parent; or (c) the acquisition of direct or indirect Control of the Parent by any Person or group.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any governmental authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any governmental authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

“Chapter 11 Cases” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Closing Date” means the date of this Agreement.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, reformed or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Collateral Access Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement dated as of the Closing Date executed by the Borrowing Base Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent.

“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, all guaranties and all security agreements, financing statements, assignments creating and perfecting security interests, liens, or encumbrances in the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure the Secured Obligations, including the DIP Order.

“Commitment” means, for each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to acquire L/C Participations not exceeding the amount set forth on Schedule 1 under the caption “Commitment” (as amended or replaced from time to time) or as set forth in any Assignment and Assumption relating to any assignment that has become effective pursuant to Section 12.3, as such amount may be modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.

“Commitment Fee Rate” means at any time, the percentage rate per annum at which commitment fees are accruing on the unused portion of the Aggregate Commitment at such time as set forth in the Pricing Schedule.

“Commitment Period” means the period from and including the Closing Date to the Termination Date.

“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, or any rule, regulation or order of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof).

“Compliance Certificate” means the certificate of the Chief Financial Officer or other senior financial officer of the Parent in substantially the form of Exhibit A.

“Concentration Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(e).

“Conduit Lender” means any special purpose corporation organized and administered by any Lender for the purpose of acquiring L/C Participations otherwise required to be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument; provided, that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations to fund a L/C Participation under this Agreement if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund any such L/C Participations, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall have the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and provided, further, that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 3.1 or 9.6 than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender or (b) be deemed to have any Commitment.

“Confirmation Order” means an order confirming the Approved Plan, the provisions of which that affect the economic treatment and rights of the Lenders are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and, solely to the extent such order adversely modifies the treatment described in the Approved Plan of the Prepetition Credit Agreement Claims or the DIP Super-Priority Claims (each as defined in the Approved Plan), the Required Lenders.

“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise; “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

“Control Agreement” means an account control agreement (or similar agreement), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed by the applicable Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and the relevant depository institution, securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, as applicable, party thereto. Such agreement shall provide a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the applicable Loan Party’s Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account, as applicable.

“Controlled Account” means a Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account that is maintained either with the Administrative Agent or another Lender and subject to a Control Agreement.

“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.

“Covered Entity” shall mean any of the following:

(a)

a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(b)

a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

(c)

a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

“Covered Party” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.14.

“Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, its L/C Exposure at such time.

“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

“Default” means an event which but for the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

“Default Right” shall have the meeting provided in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

“Defaulting Lender”means, subject to Section 2.19(f), any Lender that (a) has failed to pay to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its L/C Participations) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-in Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a governmental authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such governmental authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.19(f)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower, each Issuing Lender and each Lender.

“Deposit Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Uniform Commercial Code.

“DIP Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the DIP Order.

“DIP Facility” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“DIP Order” means the Interim Order and/or the Final Order, as applicable.

“Dirhams” means the lawful currency of the United Arab Emirates.

“Disqualified Capital Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interest into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof) or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is convertible or exchangeable for Funded

Indebtedness or redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock) at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is one year after the Termination Date; provided that, if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to, or in accordance with, a plan for the benefit of employees of the Parent or any of its subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Parent in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, resignation, death or disability and if any class of Equity Interest of such Person by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of an Equity Interest that is not Disqualified Equity Interests, such Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Equity Interests. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Equity Interest that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Parent or its Subsidiaries to repurchase such Equity Interest upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests.

“Domestic Subsidiaries” means Subsidiaries of the Borrower incorporated or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States of America.

“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then-current Benchmark is Eurodollar Base Rate, the occurrence of:

(a) a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and

(b) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from Eurodollar Base Rate and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders.

“EBITDA” means Net Income plus, to the extent deducted in determining Net Income, (a) Interest Expense, (b) Income Taxes, (c) depreciation and depletion expense, (d) amortization expense, (e) non-cash charges, including cancellation of debt income, (f) extraordinary non-cash losses, (g) any costs, expenses and charges relating to severance, cost savings, operating expense reductions, facilities closing, consolidations, and integration costs, and other restructuring charges or reserves, provided that the aggregate amount included pursuant to this clause (g) shall not exceed $20,000,000 for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended as of such date of determination and (h) any non-cash losses or charges resulting from any Rate Management Transaction resulting from the requirements of ASC Section 815-10 (as successor to FASB Statement 133), minus, to the extent included in determining Net Income, extraordinary gains and other non-cash items (including cancellation of debt income) which would increase Net Income, all calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“ECP” means an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1(a)(18) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and the applicable rules issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the SEC.

“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

“Electronic Signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

“Eligible Accounts” means, at any time, the Accounts of the Borrowing Base Parties; provided that Eligible Accounts shall not include any Account:

(a) which is not subject to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(b) which is subject to any Lien other than (i) a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent and (ii) a Permitted Lien which does not have priority over the Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(c) (i) which is unpaid more than 90 days after the date of the original invoice therefor or more than 60 days after the original due date therefor, or (ii) which has been written off the books of the applicable Borrowing Base Party or otherwise designated as uncollectible;

(d) which is owing by an Account Debtor for which more than 50% of the Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates are ineligible hereunder;

(e) (i) which is owing by an Account Debtor whose securities are rated (or whose parent is rated) BBB- or better by S&P or Baa3 or better by Moody’s to the extent the aggregate amount of Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates to the Borrowing Base Parties exceeds 25% of the aggregate Eligible Accounts or (ii) which are owing by any other Account Debtor to the extent the aggregate amount of Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates to the Borrowing Base Parties exceeds 15% of the aggregate Eligible Accounts, but, in each case, only to the extent of such excess;

(f) with respect to which any covenant, representation or warranty contained in the Loan Documents has been breached or is not true in any material respect;

(g) which (i) does not arise from the sale of goods or performance of services in the ordinary course of business, (ii) is not evidenced by an invoice which has been sent to the Account Debtor, (iii) represents a progress billing, (iv) is contingent upon any Borrowing Base Party’s completion of any further performance, (v) represents a sale on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment, cash-on-delivery or any other repurchase or return basis or (vi) relates to payments of interest, fees or late charges;

(h) for which the goods giving rise to such Account have not been shipped to the Account Debtor or for which the services giving rise to such Account have not been performed by the Borrowing Base Parties or if such Account was invoiced more than once;

(i) with respect to which any check or other instrument of payment has been returned uncollected for any reason;

(j) which is owed by an Account Debtor which has (i) applied for, suffered, or consented to the appointment of any receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of its assets, (ii) had possession of all or a material part of its property taken by any receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator, (iii) filed, or had filed against it, any request or petition for liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debts, adjudication as bankrupt, winding-up, or voluntary or involuntary case under any Debtor Relief Laws, (iv) admitted in writing its inability, or is generally unable to, pay its debts as they become due, (v) become insolvent, or (vi) ceased operation of its business;

(k) which is owed by an Account Debtor which (i) does not maintain its chief executive office in the U.S. or Canada or (ii) is not organized under applicable law of the U.S., any state of the U.S., or the District of Columbia, Canada, or any province of Canada unless, in any such case, such Account is backed by a Letter of Credit reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(l) which is owed in any currency other than U.S. Dollars;

(m) which is owed by (i) any government (or any department, agency, public corporation, or instrumentality thereof) of any country other than the U.S. unless such Account is backed by a Letter of Credit reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, or (ii) any government of the U.S., or any department, agency, public corporation, or instrumentality thereof, unless the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (31 U.S.C. § 3727 et seq. and 41 U.S.C. § 15 et seq.), and any other steps necessary to perfect the Lien of the Administrative Agent in such Account have been complied with to the Administrative Agent’s reasonable satisfaction;

(n) which is owed by any Affiliate of any Loan Party or any employee, officer, director, agent or stockholder of any Loan Party or any of its Affiliates;

(o) which is owed by an Account Debtor or any Affiliate of such Account Debtor to which any Loan Party is indebted, but only to the extent of such indebtedness, or is subject to any security, deposit, progress payment, retainage or other similar advance made by or for the benefit of an Account Debtor, in each case to the extent thereof;

(p) which is subject to any counterclaim, deduction, defense, setoff or dispute (other than discounts and adjustments given in the ordinary course of business), but only to the extent thereof;

(q) which is owed by an Account Debtor (i) located in any jurisdiction which requires filing of a “Notice of Business Activities Report” or other similar report in order to permit the applicable Borrowing Base Party to seek judicial enforcement in such jurisdiction of payment of such Account, unless such Borrowing Base Party has filed such report or qualified to do business in such jurisdiction or (ii) which is a Sanctioned Person;

(r) which does not comply in all material respects with the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations, whether Federal, state or local;

(s) which was created on cash on delivery terms;

(t) for which the goods giving rise to such Account have been sold under a purchase order or pursuant to the terms of a contract or other agreement or understanding (written or oral) that indicates or purports that any person other than the applicable Borrowing Base Party has or has had an ownership interest in such goods, or which indicates any party other than the applicable Borrowing Base Party as payee or remittance party; or

(u) which the Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion are not eligible as the basis for the issuance of Letters of Credit; provided that the Administrative Agent shall have given the Borrower at least five (5) Business Days prior notice thereof prior to such Account (or a category of eligibility applicable to such Account) becoming ineligible.

In the event that an Account which was previously an Eligible Account ceases to be an Eligible Account hereunder, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof on and at the time of submission to the Administrative Agent of the next Borrowing Base Certificate. In determining the amount of an Eligible Account, the face amount of an Account may, in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion, be reduced by, without duplication, to the extent not reflected in such face amount, the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Account but not yet applied by the applicable Borrowing Base Party to reduce the amount of such Account.

“Eligible Cash” means unrestricted cash of the Borrowing Base Parties that is (a) held in a segregated and fully-blocked Controlled Account with the Administrative Agent (i) from which funds cannot be withdrawn unless the requirements in Section 2.2.11 are satisfied and (ii) which exclusively contains such Eligible Cash and (b) not subject to Liens other than Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and Permitted Liens attaching by operation of law in favor of the applicable depository bank. For the avoidance of doubt, Eligible Cash does not include any amounts posted to cash collateralize Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.2.9.

“Eligible Inventory” means, at any time, the Inventory of the Borrowing Base Parties; provided that Eligible Inventory shall not include any Inventory:

(a) which is not subject to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(b) which is subject to any Lien other than (i) a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent and (ii) a Permitted Lien which does not have priority over the Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(c) which is, in the Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion, slow moving, obsolete, unmerchantable, defective, used, unfit for sale, not salable at prices approximating at least the cost of such Inventory in the ordinary course of business or unacceptable due to age, type, category and/or quantity;

(d) with respect to which any covenant, representation or warranty contained in the Loan Documents has been breached or is not true in any material respect;

(e) in which any Person other than the Borrowing Base Parties shall (i) have any direct or indirect ownership, interest or title or (ii) be indicated on any purchase order or invoice with respect to such Inventory as having or purporting to have an interest therein;

(f) which constitutes work-in-progress, raw materials, spare or replacement parts, packaging and shipping material, manufacturing supplies, samples, prototypes, displays or display items, bill-and-hold or ship-in-place goods, goods that are returned or marked for return, repossessed goods, defective or damaged goods, goods held on consignment, or goods which are not of a type held for sale in the ordinary course of business; provided that this clause (f) shall not exclude Inventory constituting work-in-progress, raw materials or spare or replacement parts that are intended to be utilized to directly provide finished goods or services to customers by the Borrowing Base Parties in the ordinary course of business;

(g) which is not located in the U.S. or is in transit;

(h) which is located in any location leased by the Parent, the Borrower or its Subsidiaries unless (i) the lessor has delivered to the Administrative Agent a Collateral Access Agreement or (ii) the Rent and Charges Reserve has been established by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

(i) which is located in any third party warehouse or is in the possession of a bailee (other than a third party processor), unless (i) such warehouseman or bailee has delivered to the Administrative Agent a Collateral Access Agreement or (ii) the Rent and Charges Reserve has been established by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

(j) which is the subject of a consignment by a Borrowing Base Party as consignor;

(k) which contains or bears any intellectual property rights licensed to a Borrowing Base Party unless a Secured Party may sell or otherwise dispose of such Inventory without (i) infringing the rights of such licensor, (ii) violating any contract with such licensor, or (iii) incurring any liability with respect to payment of royalties other than royalties incurred pursuant to sale of such Inventory under the current licensing agreement;

(l) which has been acquired from a Sanctioned Person;

(m) which does not comply in all material respects with the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations, whether Federal, state or local; or

(n) which the Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion are not eligible as the basis for the issuance of Letters of Credit; provided that the Administrative Agent shall have given the Borrower at least five (5) Business Days prior notice thereof prior to such Inventory (or a category of eligibility applicable to such Inventory) becoming ineligible.

In the event that Inventory which was previously Eligible Inventory ceases to be Eligible Inventory hereunder, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof on and at the time of submission to the Administrative Agent of the next Borrowing Base Certificate.

“Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe” means, at any time, the Premium Rental Drill Pipe of the Borrowing Base Parties, provided that Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe shall not include any Premium Rental Drill Pipe:

(a) which is not subject to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(b) which is subject to any Lien other than (i) a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent and (ii) a Permitted Lien which does not have priority over the Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent;

(c) with respect to which any covenant, representation or warranty contained in the Loan Documents has been breached or is not true in any material respects;

(d) which the Administrative Agent determines, in its Permitted Discretion, is not (i) in good working order and marketable condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and (ii) of a type used or held for use by a Borrowing Base Party in the ordinary course of business;

(f) which is not located in the U.S.;

(g) which is located in any location leased by a the Parent, the Borrower or its Subsidiaries unless (i) the lessor has delivered to the Administrative Agent a Collateral Access Agreement or (ii) the Rent and Charges Reserve has been established by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

(h) which is located in any third party warehouse or is in the possession of a bailee (other than a third party processor), unless (i) such warehouseman or bailee has delivered to the Administrative Agent a Collateral Access Agreement or (ii) the Rent and Charges Reserve has been established by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

(i) which contains or bears any intellectual property rights licensed to a Borrowing Base Party unless a Secured Party may sell or otherwise dispose of such Premium Rental Drill Pipe without (i) infringing the rights of such licensor, (ii) violating any contract with such licensor, or (iii) incurring any liability with respect to payment of royalties other than royalties incurred pursuant to sale of such Premium Rental Drill Pipe under the current licensing agreement;

(j) which is the subject of a consignment by a Borrowing Base Party as consignor;

(k) which has been acquired from a Sanctioned Person;

(l) which constitutes work-in-process, raw materials or spare or replacement parts; provided that this clause (l) shall not exclude Premium Rental Drill Pipe constituting work-in-progress, raw materials or spare or replacement parts that are intended to be rented or sold to customers by the Borrowing Base Parties in the ordinary course of business; or

(m) which the Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion is not eligible as the basis for the issuance of Letters of Credit; provided that the Administrative Agent shall have given the Borrower at least five (5) Business Days prior notice thereof prior to such Premium Rental Drill Pipe (or a category of eligibility applicable to such Premium Rental Drill Pipe) becoming ineligible.

“Eligible Unbilled Accounts” means, at any time, the Accounts of the Borrowing Base Parties which would qualify as an Eligible Account except that the invoice with respect thereto has not yet been submitted to the Account Debtor, so long as the applicable Borrowing Base Party shall have made arrangements for an invoice to be sent to such Account Debtor within 30 days after the end of the following calendar month of any date of determination.

“Engagement Letter” means that certain engagement letter, dated as of October 27, 2020, between SESI, L.L.C. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Environmental Laws” means any and all federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, plans, injunctions, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements and other governmental restrictions relating to (a) the protection of the environment, (b) the effect of the environment on human health, (c) emissions, discharges or releases of pollutants, contaminants, hazardous substances or wastes into surface water, ground water or land, or (d) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of pollutants, contaminants, hazardous substances or wastes or the clean-up or other remediation thereof.

“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

“Equipment” has the meaning assigned to such term in the UCC.

“Equity Interest” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest; provided that debt securities which are convertible shall not be Equity Interests merely by virtue of the right of any Person to convert such securities into Equity Interests of the issuer of such debt securities.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any rule or regulation issued thereunder.

“ERISA Affiliate” means any Person that, together with any Loan Party, is treated as a single employer, or otherwise aggregated, under Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.

“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

“Eurodollar Base Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Advance and relative to any Eurodollar Interest Period, the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for U.S. Dollars) for a one (1) month period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; in each case the “LIBO Screen Rate”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the first Business Day of each month, adjusted monthly on the first Business Day of each month; provided that, (x) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than 1.00%, the LIBO Screen Rate shall be deemed to be 1.00% for purposes of this Agreement and (y) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such a period, then the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be equal to the Interpolated Rate. Any change in the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be effective from and include the effective date of such change.

“Eurodollar Interest Period” means, with respect to a Eurodollar Advance, a period of one, two, three or six months (or other period acceptable to all of the Lenders) commencing on a Business Day selected by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. Such Eurodollar Interest Period shall end on the day which corresponds numerically to such date one, two, three or six months (or other period acceptable to all of the Lenders) thereafter, provided, however, that if there is no such numerically corresponding day in such next, second, third or sixth succeeding month, such Eurodollar Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such next, second, third or sixth succeeding month. If a Eurodollar Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, such Eurodollar Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day, provided, however, that if said next succeeding Business Day falls in a new calendar month, such Eurodollar Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day.

“Eurodollar Rate” means, with respect to a Eurodollar Advance for the relevant Eurodollar Interest Period, the sum of (a) the quotient of (i) the Eurodollar Base Rate applicable to such Eurodollar Interest Period, divided by (ii) one minus the Reserve Requirement (expressed as a decimal) applicable to such Eurodollar Interest Period, plus (b) the Applicable Margin.

“Euros” means the single currency of participating member states of the European Monetary Union introduced in accordance with the provisions of Article 109(1)4 of the Treaty of Rome of March 25, 1957 (as amended by the Single European Act 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty (which was signed at Maastricht on February 7, 1992 and came into force on November 1, 1993) as amended from time to time) and as referred to in legislative measures of the European Union for the introduction of, changeover to or operating of the euro in one or more member states.

“Event of Default” means an event described in Article VII.

“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such Person of, or the grant by such Person of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Person’s failure for any reason to constitute an ECP at the time the guarantee of such Person or the grant of such security interest becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political

subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 3.6) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.4, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.4(d) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Exhibit” refers to an exhibit to this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.

“Existing Agent” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Existing Lenders” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Existing Letters of Credit” means each letter of credit listed on Schedule 5, which in each case were previously issued for the account of, or guaranteed by, the Borrower pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement that is outstanding on the Closing Date.

“Exit Facility” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Exit Facility Agreement” means the Credit Agreement governing the Exit Facility which shall be substantially consistent with the term sheet attached hereto as Exhibit G.

“Exit Fee Letter” means that certain senior secured exit credit facility administrative agent fee letter, dated as of December 9, 2020, between SESI, L.L.C. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

“Facilities” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities and implementing such Sections of the Code.

“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it; provided, that, if the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any of its successors.

“Final” means, with respect to an order of the Bankruptcy Court, an order as to which the time to appeal, or seek certiorari or move for a new trial, reargument, or rehearing has expired and no appeal or petition for certiorari or other proceedings for a new trial, reargument, or rehearing has been timely taken, or as to which any appeal that has been taken or any petition for certiorari that has been or may be timely filed has been withdrawn or resolved by the highest court to which the order or judgment was appealed or from which certiorari was sought or the new trial, reargument, or rehearing shall have been denied, resulted in no stay pending appeal of such order, or has otherwise been dismissed with prejudice; provided, however, that the possibility that a motion under Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or any analogous rule under the bankruptcy rules, may be filed with respect to such order shall not preclude such order from being Final.

“Final Order” means the order or judgment of the Bankruptcy Court in substantially in the form of the Interim Order with such changes as are acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.

“Final Order Entry Deadline” means, as to the Final Order, entry thereof by the Bankruptcy Court on or before the date that is forty-five (45) days following the Petition Date.

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to the Parent on a consolidated basis, as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been, or were required to be, delivered pursuant to Sections 6.1(a) or (b), the ratio, determined on a Pro Forma Basis, of (a) EBITDA minus Unfinanced Capital Expenditures to (b) Fixed Charges, all calculated for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended on such date.

“Fixed Charges” means, for any period, without duplication, cash Interest Expense, plus prepayments and scheduled principal payments on Funded Indebtedness actually made or required to be made in such period, plus Income Taxes paid in cash in such period, plus Restricted Payments paid in cash in such period, plus Capitalized Lease Obligation payments made in such period, plus cash contributions to any Plan made in such period, all calculated for the Parent and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Floating Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to (a) the Alternate Base Rate for such day plus (b) the Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Rate, minus 1.00%.

“Flood Laws” means the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and related laws, rules and regulations, including any amendments or successor provisions.

“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to Eurodollar Base Rate.

“Foreign Investment Grade Accounts” means Accounts of the Borrowing Base Parties that would constitute Investment Grade Accounts if they were not deemed ineligible solely as a result of such Accounts not meeting the requirements of clause (k) of the definition of Eligible Accounts.

“Foreign Subsidiaries” means direct or indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower incorporated or organized under the laws of a country other than the United States of America.

“FTI Consulting” mean FTI Consulting, Inc.

“Funded Indebtedness” of a Person means, without duplication, such Person’s (a) obligations for borrowed money, (b) obligations representing the deferred purchase price of Property or services (other than accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of such Person’s business payable on terms customary in the trade), (c) obligations, whether or not assumed, secured by Liens or payable out of the proceeds or production from Property now or hereafter owned or acquired by such Person, (d) obligations which are evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures, acceptances, or other instruments, (e) obligations to purchase securities or other Property arising out of or in connection with the sale of the same or substantially similar securities or Property, (f) Capitalized Lease Obligations, (g) indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (h) liquidation value of all mandatorily redeemable preferred Equity Interests, (i) any other obligation for borrowed money or other financial accommodation which in accordance with GAAP would be shown as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person, (j) obligations, contingent or otherwise, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances, performance bonds, letters of credit or similar arrangements, and (k) Guarantee Obligations in respect of obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above. Funded Indebtedness of any Person shall include Funded Indebtedness of any other Person (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such Person, except to the extent the terms of such Funded Indebtedness expressly provide that such Person is not liable therefor. In the case of the Parent’s Senior Notes, Funded Indebtedness shall include the total outstanding principal amounts payable to the holders thereof.

“Funding Office” means the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 13.1 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time, except that for purposes of Section 6.17, GAAP shall be determined on the basis of such principles in effect on the Closing Date and consistent with those used in the preparation of the most recent audited financial statements referred to in Section 5.4. In the event that any “Accounting Change” (as defined below) shall occur and such change results in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms in this Agreement, then the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to reflect equitably such Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same after such Accounting Changes as if such Accounting Changes had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Changes had not occurred. “Accounting Changes” refers to changes in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.

“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

“Guarantee” shall mean the guarantee made by any Guarantor in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Agreement.

“Guaranteed Liabilities” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 17.1.

“Guarantee Obligation” means as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”), any obligation, including a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, of the guaranteeing Person that guarantees or in effect guarantees, or which is given to induce the creation of a separate obligation by another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) that guarantees or in effect guarantees, any Funded Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (a) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (c) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (d) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (A) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (B) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.

“Guarantor” means the Parent, the Borrower and each Person executing this Agreement as “Subsidiary Guarantor” or who executes a joinder hereto as a “Subsidiary Guarantor” or “Guarantor”.

“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

“Income Taxes” means, with reference to any period, all federal, state and local income tax expense of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries, calculated on a consolidated basis for such period.

“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

“Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.6(b).

“Indian Rupees” means the lawful currency of India.

“Information” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.10.

“Initial Projections” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.10.

“Interest Expense” means, with reference to any period, the interest expense of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis for such period.

“Interim Order” means the order or judgment of the Bankruptcy Court as entered on the docket of the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases substantially in the form of Exhibit H and otherwise acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

“Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Eurodollar Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that is shorter than the Eurodollar Interest Period; and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO Screen Rate is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

“Inventory” has the meaning assigned to such term in the UCC.

“Investment” means (a) the purchase, holding or acquisition (including pursuant to any merger) of any Equity Interests in or evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of any other Person in a transaction which does not constitute an Acquisition, (b) the making of (or permitting to exist) any capital contribution or loans or advances to, guaranteeing the obligations of, or the making of (or permitting to exist) any investment in, any other Person, and (c) the purchase or acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit.

“Investment Grade Accounts” means any Eligible Accounts owed by an Account Debtor whose securities (or such Account Debtor’s parent company’s securities) are rated BBB- or better by S&P or Baa3 or better by Moody’s.

“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.

“Issuing Lender” means, as the context may require, (a) each of the Administrative Agent and any other Lender approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that has agreed in its sole discretion to act as an “Issuing Lender” hereunder, in each case in its capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit, and (b) with respect to each Existing Letter of Credit, the Lender that issued such Existing Letter of Credit, as applicable. An Issuing Lender may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by affiliates of such Issuing Lender. Each reference herein to the “Issuing Lender” shall be deemed to be a reference to the relevant Issuing Lender.

“Kuwaiti Dinars” means the lawful currency of the State of Kuwait.

“L/C Commitment” means with respect to any Issuing Lender, the obligation of such Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading “L/C Commitment” opposite such Issuing Lender’s name on Schedule 1A, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.

“L/C Disbursements” means any payment made by an Issuing Lender pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

“L/C Exposure” means at any time, the total L/C Obligations. The L/C Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Pro Rata Share of the total L/C Exposure at such time.

“L/C Obligations” means at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under Letters of Credit that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 2.2.5 (in each case based on the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof with respect to Letters of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency).

“L/C Participation” has the meaning assigned to such team in Section 2.2.4(a).

“L/C Participants” means the collective reference to all the Lenders other than the Issuing Lender with respect to the applicable Letter of Credit.

“Legal Requirement” means any law, statute, ordinance, decree, requirement, order, judgment, rule, regulation (or official interpretation of any of the foregoing) of, and the terms of any license or permit issued by, any Governmental Authority, including, but not limited to, Regulations T, U and X.

“Lender Parent” means with respect to any Lender, any Person as to which such Lender is, directly or indirectly, a Subsidiary.

“Lenders” means the lending institutions listed on Schedule 1 hereto and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless otherwise specified herein, the term “Lenders” includes the Administrative Agent in its capacity as a lender, and the Issuing Lenders.

“Lending Installation” means, with respect to a Lender, Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent, the office, branch, subsidiary or affiliate of such Lender, Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire or otherwise selected by such Lender, Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.16.

“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued (or, in the case of Existing Letters of Credit, deemed issued) pursuant to this Agreement.

“Liabilities” has the meaning assigned to such team in Section 9.6(b).

“LIBO Screen Rate” is defined in the definition of “Eurodollar Base Rate.”

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any lien (statutory or other), mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance or charge or security interest in, on or of such asset (including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale, Capitalized Lease or other title retention agreement).

“Liquidity” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (without duplication) (a) Availability and (b) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of the Parent and its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries at such time (it being understood that unrestricted cash and cash equivalents shall exclude (i) any cash or cash equivalents of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (ii) any cash and cash equivalents which are pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (iii) Eligible Cash).

“Liquidity Report” means a report in form reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders (a) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred since the last date on which a Liquidity Report was delivered and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (b) certifying that the Borrower has been in compliance with Section 6.17(a) and Section 6.17(b) as required therein since the last date on which a Liquidity Report was delivered.

“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Collateral Documents, the Engagement Letter and each other agreement, document or instrument delivered by Borrower or any other Loan Party in connection with this Agreement, all as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Loan Parties” means each of the Parent, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

“Local Time” means, with respect to (a) fundings, continuations, payments and prepayments of Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower in U.S. Dollars or Canadian dollars, Chicago, Illinois time, and (b) fundings, continuations, payments and prepayments of Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower in Alternate Currencies (other than Canadian dollars), the local time zone of the country where the applicable Alternate Currency is the lawful currency, provided that if such country has multiple time zones in the mainland area, than a local time zone of that country as selected by the Issuing Lender.

“Material Adverse Effect” means any event, development or circumstance that has had or is reasonable expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the business, Property, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Parent, Borrower and Borrower’s Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Parent, the Borrower and the other Loan Parties taken as a whole to perform fully and on a timely basis their obligations under any of the Loan Documents to which they are parties or (c) the validity or enforceability in any material respect of any of the Loan Documents or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Loan Documents (in each case other than in the case of the Loan Parties (i)(A) any matters disclosed in any “first day” pleadings or declarations and (B) the effect of filing the Chapter 11 Cases, the events and conditions related to, resulting from and/or leading up thereto and the effects thereon and any action required to be taken under the Loan Documents or the DIP Order and (ii) taking into account the effect of the automatic stay under the Bankruptcy Code).

“Material Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.1(f).

“Maximum Liability” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 17.9.

“Maximum Premium Rental Drill Pipe Amount” means amount listed on Schedule 1C for the applicable calendar month.

“Milestones” means the milestones set forth on Schedule 1B, to be completed in each case in accordance with the applicable timing referred to therein (or such later dates as may be agreed by the Required Lenders).

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or its successor.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

“Net Available Cash” means:

(a) in connection with any disposition, the proceeds thereof in the form of cash (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring Person of Funded Indebtedness or other obligations relating to such properties or assets or received in any other noncash

form), in each case net of: (i) all accounting, engineering, investment banking, brokerage, legal, title and recording tax expenses, commission and other fees and expenses incurred, and all Federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes required to be accrued as a liability under GAAP, as a consequence of such disposition; (ii) taxes paid or payable after taking into account any reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangement; (iii) all payments made on any Funded Indebtedness which is secured by any assets subject to such disposition, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon or other security agreement of any kind with respect to such assets, or which must by its terms, or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such disposition, or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such disposition; (iv) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such disposition; and (v) any required escrow against indemnification liabilities (until such amounts are released from escrow) and the deduction of appropriate amounts provided by the seller as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the property or other assets disposed in such disposition and retained by the Parent, the Borrower or any Subsidiary after such disposition;

(b) in the case of a casualty, insurance proceeds, and in the case of a condemnation or similar event, condemnation awards and similar payments, minus, in each case, without duplication, the sum of (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid to third parties (other than Affiliates) in connection with such event, (ii) the amount of all payments required to be made as a result of such event to repay indebtedness secured by such asset or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event, including accrued but unpaid interest thereof and any premiums payable with respect thereto, (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) and the amount of any escrows or reserves established to fund contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by an Authorized Officer) and (iv) amounts provided as a reserve in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities under any indemnification obligation or purchase price adjustment associated with such Prepayment Event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by an Authorized Officer); and

(c) with respect to any issuance or sale of Equity Interests or indebtedness, the cash proceeds of such issuance or sale net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’, placement agents’ or other investment banking fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees actually incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.

“Net Income” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Parent and its subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or is merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any contractual obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or requirement of law applicable to such Subsidiary.

“Net Orderly Liquidation Value” means, with respect to Inventory or Premium Rental Drill Pipe of any Borrowing Base Party, the orderly liquidation value thereof, expressed as a percentage, expected to be realized at an orderly, negotiated sale held within a reasonable period of time, as determined from the most recent appraisal of the applicable Inventory or Premium Rental Drill Pipe, in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, net of all costs of liquidation thereof.

“New Zealand Dollars” means the lawful currency of New Zealand.

“Non-U.S. Lender” means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

“Norwegian Kroners” means the lawful currency of the Kingdom of Norway.

“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

“NYFRB’s Website” means the website of the NYFRB at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

“Obligations” means (a) all obligations of the Loan Parties to the Lenders, from time to time, arising under the Loan Documents, including without limitation, all reimbursement obligations and other obligations with respect to commercial and standby letters of credit and bankers acceptances issued by any Lender hereunder, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations of the Loan Parties to the Lenders or to any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any indemnified party arising under the Loan Documents, (b) all Rate Management Obligations and (c) all Specified Cash Management Obligations.

“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any L/C Participation or Loan Document).

“Other Currency” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.20.

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.6).

“Parent” means Superior Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation and the sole member of the Borrower.

“Participant” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.2(b)(i).

“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.2(b)(i).

“PATRIOT Act” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.12.

“Payment Currency” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 17.6.

“Payment Date” means the first Business Day following the last day of each calendar month.

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or any successor thereto.

“Pension Plan” means any Plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA.

“Permitted Discretion” means a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) business judgment.

“Permitted Investments” means:

(a) Investments reflected in the audited and quarterly financial statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries publicly available before the Petition Date;

(b) accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business;

(d) Investments made (i) among the Loan Parties (including any new Subsidiary that becomes a Loan Party) and (ii) by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in any other Subsidiary that is also not a Loan Party;

(e) [reserved];

(f) (i) Investments in stock, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts as a result of a bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding of the obligor in respect of such debts or upon the enforcement of any Lien; (ii) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business (including, but not limited to, advances made to distributors consistent with past practice), and (iii) Investments consisting of prepayments and deposits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

(g) [reserved];

(h) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit;

(i) [reserved];

(j) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

(k) [reserved];

(l) Rate Management Transactions and Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 6.11;

(m) lease, utility and other similar deposits or any other advance or deposit permitted by this Agreement in the ordinary course of business;

(n) [reserved];

(o) [reserved]; and

(p) [reserved].

The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment, plus the cost of any addition thereto that otherwise constitutes an Investment (but excluding any increase in the form of payment in kind interest or dividends), without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect thereto, but giving effect to any repayments of principal in the case of any Investment in the form of a loan and any return of capital or return on Investment in the case of any equity Investment (whether as a distribution, dividend, redemption or sale but not in excess of the amount of the relevant initial Investment).

“Permitted Liens” means (a) with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, Liens permitted by the terms of Section 6.14(a) and (b) with respect to the Parent, Liens permitted by the terms of Section 6.14(b).

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, firm, joint venture, partnership, limited liability company, association, enterprise, trust or other entity or organization, or any government or political subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.

“Petition Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA as to which the Borrower may have (or, if such Plan were terminated, could have) any liability.

“Plan Asset Regulations” shall mean 29 CFR § 2510.3-101 et seq., as modified by Section 3(42) of ERIS, as amended from time to time.

“Pounds” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

“Preferred Equity Interest” means any Equity Interest with preferential rights of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up.

“Premium Rental Drill Pipe” means downhole rental drill pipe, including landing strings, heavy wall drill pipe and heavy weight drill pipe, drill collar and completion tubulars.

“Premium Rental Drill Pipe Test Period” means that period from the Closing Date until the earlier of (a) December 9, 2022 or (b) the date that unrestricted cash of the Parent and its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries is less than $75,000,000, tested upon the delivery of each Borrowing Base Certificate (it being understood that unrestricted cash shall exclude (i) any cash of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (ii) any cash which is pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (iii) Eligible Cash).

“Prepayment Event” means:

(a) any Asset Sale; or

(b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any Property of any Borrowing Base Party which results in Net Available Cash.

“Pricing Schedule” is the pricing schedule set forth on Schedule 2.

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.

“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to any Lender, at any time, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Lender’s Commitment at such time (as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement) by (b) the amount of the Aggregate Commitment at such time; provided, however, that if the Aggregate Commitment is terminated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, then “Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the principal amount of its L/C Participations outstanding at such time by (y) the aggregate principal amount of L/C Participations outstanding hereunder at such time.

“Proceeding” means any claim, litigation, investigation, action, suit, arbitration or administrative, judicial or regulatory action or proceeding in any jurisdiction.

“Professional Fees” means “Allowed Professional Fees” (as defined in the DIP Order).

“Projections” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.1.

“Property” of a Person means any and all property, whether real, personal, tangible, intangible, or mixed, of such Person, or other assets owned, leased or operated by such Person.

“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.

“QFC” shall have the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

“QFC Credit Support” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.14.

“Rate Management Obligations” means any and all obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any and all Rate Management Transactions with any Lender or affiliate thereof, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Rate Management Transactions with any Lender or affiliate thereof.

“Rate Management Transaction” means any transaction (including an agreement with respect thereto) now existing or hereafter entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiaries which is a rate swap, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap, equity or equity index option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, forward transaction, currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option or any other similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of these transactions) or any combination thereof, whether linked to one or more interest rates, foreign currencies, commodity prices, equity prices or other financial measures.

“Reais” means the lawful currency of Brazil.

“Recipient” means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender or (c) any Issuing Lender, as applicable.

“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is Eurodollar Base Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not Eurodollar Base Rate, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

“Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.2(a)(iv).

“Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor thereto or other regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors relating to reserve requirements applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.

“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor or other regulation or official interpretation of said Board of Governors relating to the extension of credit by banks for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stocks applicable to member banks of the Federal Reserve System.

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, partners, members, trustees, employees, agents, administrators, managers, representatives and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or any successor thereto.

“Rent and Charges Reserve” means the aggregate of (a) all past due rent and other amounts owing by any Borrowing Base Party to any landlord, warehouseman, processor, repairman, mechanic, shipper, freight forwarder, broker or other Person who possesses any DIP Collateral or could assert a Lien on any DIP Collateral and (b) a reserve no greater than three months’ rent and other charges that could be payable to any such Person, unless it has executed a Collateral Access Agreement.

“Reportable Event” means a reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued under such section, with respect to a Pension Plan, excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC has by regulation waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of the occurrence of such event, provided, however, that a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code and of Section 302 of ERISA shall be a Reportable Event regardless of the issuance of any such waiver of the notice requirement in accordance with either Section 4043(a) of ERISA or Section 412(d) of the Code.

“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders whose Pro Rata Shares, in the aggregate, are greater than 50%. The Pro Rata Shares of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time.

“Reserve Requirement” means, with respect to a Eurodollar Interest Period, the maximum aggregate reserve requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal and other reserves) which is imposed under Regulation D on Eurodollar liabilities.

“Reserves” means any and all reserves which the Administrative Agent deems necessary, in its Permitted Discretion (including, without limitation, an availability reserve, reserves for accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations, Banking Services Reserves, Rent and Charges Reserve, reserves for dilution of Accounts, reserves for Inventory shrinkage, reserves for Rate Management Obligations, reserves for contingent liabilities of any Loan Party for which a claim or demand has been made or which are

quantifiable at such time, reserves for uninsured losses of any Loan Party as they relate to the assets comprising the Borrowing Base, reserves for uninsured, underinsured, un-indemnified or under-indemnified liabilities or potential liabilities with respect to any litigation and reserves for taxes, fees, assessments, and other governmental charges) (i) to reflect items that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the value of the applicable Eligible Accounts, Eligible Unbilled Accounts, Eligible Inventory or Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe or (ii) to reflect items that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the enforceability or priority of the Administrative Agent’s Liens on the DIP Collateral; provided that, no Reserve may be taken after the Closing Date based on circumstances, conditions, events or contingencies known to the Administrative Agent as of the Closing Date and for which no Reserve was imposed on the Closing Date, unless such circumstances, conditions, events or contingencies have changed in any material adverse respect since the Closing Date.

The Administrative Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, (a) establish additional standards of eligibility and (b) establish additional categories of Reserves and adjust the amount of existing categories of Reserves; provided that such new standards of eligibility and additional categories of Reserves shall not affect the calculation of the Borrowing Base until the 5th Business Day following the Borrower’s receipt of written notice thereof. During such five Business Day period, (x) there shall be no issuance or renewal of Letters of Credit that would result in excess Availability being less than the amount by which the Borrowing Base would be reduced after the imposition of such eligibility criteria or the amount of such Reserve and (y) the Administrative Agent shall, if requested, discuss any such new standards or additional Reserve with the Borrower and, to the extent applicable, the Borrower may take such action as may be required so that the event, condition or matter that is the basis for such Reserve no longer exists or exists in a manner that would result in the establishment of a lower Reserve, in each case, in a manner and to the extent reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (a) the amount of any such Reserve or change shall have a reasonable relationship to the event, condition or other matter that is the basis for such Reserve or such change and (b) no Reserve or change shall be duplicative of any Reserve or change already accounted for through eligibility criteria (including collection/advance rates).

“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

“Restricted Payments” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property except Equity Interests issued by the Parent or its subsidiaries) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Parent or its subsidiaries, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests in the Parent or its subsidiaries or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in the Parent or its subsidiaries.

“Restricted Subsidiaries” shall have the meaning set forth under the indenture relating to the 7.125% Senior Notes, as in effect on the Closing Date without giving effect to any amendment or termination thereof.

“Ringgits” means the lawful currency of Malaysia.

“Rupiah” means the lawful currency of the Republic of Indonesia.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, Inc. or its successor.

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria).

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or Controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).

“Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or (c) any other relevant sanctions authority.

“Saudi Riyals” means the lawful currency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

“Schedule” refers to a specific schedule to this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous governmental authority.

“Section” means a numbered section of this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.

“Secured Obligations” means the amount of the Obligations secured by the DIP Collateral; provided, that the definition of “Secured Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Person of (or grant of security interest by any Person to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Person for purposes of determining any obligations of any Person.

“Secured Parties” means the collective reference to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and any affiliate of any Lender to which Secured Obligations are owed.

“Securities Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Uniform Commercial Code.

“Senior Note Indenture” means the indentures referenced in Section 2.18(b), together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by the Parent, the Borrower, or any of its Subsidiaries in connection therewith.

“Senior Notes” means the 7.125% Senior Notes, the 7.750% Senior Notes, any other Funded Indebtedness issued under Section 6.11(a)(v) or (vi) having an aggregate face amount in excess of $20,000,000.

“Singapore Dollars” means the lawful currency of the Republic of Singapore.

“SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day.

“SOFR Administrator” means the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).

“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the NYFRB’s website, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.

“Specified Cash Management Obligations” means any and all obligations of the Parent, the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor) in connection with Banking Services.

“Spot Exchange Rate” means, on any day with respect to any Alternate Currency, the spot rate at which U.S. Dollars are offered on such day by the applicable Issuing Lender, in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations are then being conducted for such foreign currency, at approximately 11:00 A.M. Local Time, for delivery two Business Days later; provided, if at the time of any such determination, for any reason no such spot rate is being quoted, the applicable Issuing Lender may use reasonable methods it deems appropriate to determine such rate.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation, partnership, association or other business entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are, at the time any determination is being made, owned, held or Controlled, in each case, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or by the Borrower and one or more of its Subsidiaries and (b) any other Person the accounts of which are consolidated with those of the Parent in the Parent’s consolidated financial statements.

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Domestic Subsidiary which has executed and delivered a guarantee of the Obligations under Section 2.18 until such time as such Person is released of its guarantee obligations under Section 10.11.

“Substantial Portion” means, with respect to the Property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, Property which (a) represents more than 10% of the gross book value of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as are shown in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the beginning of the four fiscal quarter period ending with the fiscal quarter in which such determination is made, or (b) is responsible for more than 10% of the consolidated net sales or of the Net Income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the financial statements referred to in clause (a) above.

“Superpriority Claim” means a claim against a Loan Party in any of the Chapter 11 Cases that is a superpriority administrative expense claim having priority over any or all administrative expenses and other claims of the kind specified in, or otherwise arising or ordered under, any sections of the Bankruptcy Code (including, without limitation, sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 503(b), 507(a), 507(b), 546(c) and/or 726 thereof), whether or not such claim or expenses may become secured by a judgment Lien or other non-consensual Lien, levy or attachment.

“Supported QFC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.14.

“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Syndication Agent” means Bank of America, N.A.

“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and any and all liabilities with respect to the foregoing, but excluding Excluded Taxes.

“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

“Term SOFR Notice” means a notification by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Borrower of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.

“Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, (b) the administration of Term SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and (c) a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, has previously occurred resulting in a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section 3.2 that is not Term SOFR.

“Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) six (6) months following the Closing Date, (b) the date on which the Approved Plan becomes effective, (c) the date of the closing of a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Loan Parties under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise and (d) any date upon which the Aggregate Commitment is reduced to zero or otherwise terminated pursuant to the terms of Section 2.4.

“Testing Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.17(b).

“Testing Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.17(b).

“Transferee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.3.

“UK Financial Institutions” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

“Uncontrolled Account” means (a) Deposit Accounts the balance of which consists exclusively of (i) withheld income taxes and federal, state or local employment taxes required to be paid to the Internal Revenue Service or state or local government agencies with respect to employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (ii) amounts required to be paid over to an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) on behalf of or for the benefit of employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (iii) amounts set aside for payroll and the payment of accrued employee benefits, medical, dental and employee benefits claims to employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case, then due and owing (or to be due and owing within ninety (90) days), (b) Deposit Accounts which are used as escrow accounts or as a fiduciary or trust accounts, in each case, for the benefit of unaffiliated third parties (c) other Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodities Accounts of the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries that are not Controlled Accounts which, in the aggregate, do not have an average monthly balance exceeding $15,000,000 and (d) Fourth Amendment Credit Support Cash Collateral Accounts (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement).

“Unfinanced Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, Capital Expenditures made during such period which are not financed from the proceeds of any indebtedness.

“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York; provided, however, that, in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any of the attachment, perfection or priority of the Administrative Agent’s Lien in any DIP Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof or of any security instrument relating to such attachment, perfection, the effect thereof or priority and for purposes of definitions related to such provisions.

“United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America.

“U.S. Dollars” and “$” means dollars in lawful currency of the United States.

“U.S. Dollar Equivalent” means on any date, with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternate Currency, the equivalent in U.S. Dollars that may be purchased with such currency at the Spot Exchange Rate (determined as of the most recent Calculation Date) with respect to such currency at such date.

“U.S. Person” means a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.14.

“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.4(g)(ii)(B)(3).

“Variance Report” means a line-by-line report, in .pdf and excel formats and in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders detailing any variance (whether plus or minus and expressed as a percentage) (a) between the actual aggregate cash disbursements other than Professional Fees related to the Chapter 11 Cases made during the relevant Testing Period by the Loan Parties against the projected aggregate cash disbursements other than Professional Fees related to the Chapter 11 Cases set forth in the Budget for the relevant Testing Period and (b) the actual total cash receipts received during the relevant Testing Period by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries against the projected total cash receipts set forth in the Budget for the relevant Testing Period and (c) the actual aggregate amount of operating disbursements (including Capital Expenditures) made during the relevant Testing Period by the Loan Parties against the projected aggregate amount of operating disbursements (including Capital Expenditures) set forth in the Budget for the relevant Testing Period; provided that Professional Fees related to the Chapter 11 Cases made during the relevant Testing Period should be included on the line-by-line report even though excluded for purpose of variance testing.

“Weekly Reporting Period” means any period during which one or more of the Loan Parties is required to deliver certain certificates, documents and other information on a weekly basis in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. A Weekly Reporting Period shall be triggered upon (a) the occurrence an Event of Default, (b) Availability on any date being less than the greater of (i) $25,000,000 and (ii) 17.5% of the lesser of the Aggregate Commitment and the Borrowing Base or (c) the sum of (i) excess Availability and (ii) unrestricted cash of the Loan Parties is less than $50,000,000 (it being understood that unrestricted cash shall exclude (A) any cash of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (B) any cash which is pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (C) Eligible Cash). Once triggered, a Weekly Reporting Period shall remain in effect at all times thereafter until (x) with respect to any period triggered under the foregoing clause (a), such Event of Default has been cured or waived in accordance with the Loan Documents, (y) with respect to any period triggered under the foregoing clause (b), Availability remains in excess of the applicable threshold set forth therein for 30 consecutive days or (z) with respect to any period triggered under the foregoing clause (c), the sum of (i) excess Availability and (ii) unrestricted cash of the Loan Parties remains in excess of $50,000,000 for 30 consecutive days (it being understood that unrestricted cash shall exclude (A) any cash of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (B) any cash which is pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (C) Eligible Cash).

“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” of a Person means (a) any Subsidiary all of the outstanding voting securities (other than directors’ qualifying shares or shares required by applicable law to be held by a Person other than the Borrower or its Subsidiaries) of which shall at the time be owned or Controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or (b) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization 100% of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be so owned or Controlled.

“Withholding Agent” means any Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.

“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

1.2 Other Definitional Provisions.

(a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.

(b) As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (a) accounting terms relating to the Parent or any of its subsidiaries not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP (provided that all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made without giving effect to (i) any election under Accounting Standards Codification 825-10-25 (previously referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159) (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or

effect) to value any indebtedness or other liabilities of the Parent or any subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein and (ii) any treatment of indebtedness in respect of convertible debt instruments under Accounting Standards Codification 470-20 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect)) to value any such indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof, (b) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (c) the word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have correlative meanings), (d) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Equity Interest, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, and (e) references to agreements shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

(c) The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.

(e) For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

1.3 Interest Rates, LIBOR Notifications. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, Section 3.2(b) and (c) provide the mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, pursuant to Section 3.2(e), of any change to the reference rate upon which the interest rate on Eurodollar Advances is based. However, the Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to the London interbank offered rate or other rates in the definition of “Eurodollar Base Rate” or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including, without limitation, (i) any such alternative, successor or replacement rate implemented pursuant to Section 3.2(b) or (c), whether upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, and (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes pursuant to Section 3.2(d)), including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, the Eurodollar Base Rate or have the same volume or liquidity as did the London interbank offered rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability.

1.4 Letters of Credit. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the amount of such Letter of Credit available to be drawn at such time; provided that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the available amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum amount is available to be drawn at such time. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn

thereunder by reason of the operation of Article 29(a) of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time) or Rule 3.13 or Rule 3.14 of the International Standby Practices, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time) or similar terms of the Letter of Credit itself, or if compliant documents have been presented but not yet honored, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” and “undrawn” in the amount so remaining available to be paid, and the obligations of the Borrower and the Lenders to the Secured Parties shall remain in full force and effect until the Issuing Lender shall have no further obligations to make any payments or disbursements under any circumstances with respect to any Letter of Credit.

ARTICLE II

THE CREDITS

2.1 [Reserved].

2.2 Letters of Credit.

2.2.1 L/C Commitments.

(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, including, without limitation, entry of the DIP Order, the Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in Section 2.2.4(a), agrees (i) that the Existing Letters of Credit set forth on Schedule 5 shall be deemed issued under this Agreement on and after the Closing Date and shall constitute Letters of Credit for all purposes hereunder and under the Loan Documents, (ii) from time to time on any Business Day on and after the Closing Date but prior to the entry of the Final Order, to renew or extend Existing Letters of Credit or replace an Existing Letter of Credit that has expired or terminated without being drawn, and (iii) agrees to issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries on any Business Day from the beginning of the date of the entry of the Final Order until the end of the Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (i) the L/C Obligations would exceed $120,000,000, (ii) the L/C Exposure of any Issuing Lender would exceed such Issuing Lender’s L/C Commitment, (iii) the Credit Exposure of any Lender would exceed such Lender’s Commitment, (iv) 105% of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the L/C Obligations attributable to Letters of Credit denominated in Alternate Currencies would exceed the lesser of (A) $40,000,000 and (B) the Availability or (v) the Aggregate Exposure would exceed the lesser of (A) the Aggregate Commitment and (B) the Borrowing Base. Without limiting the foregoing (i) each such Existing Letter of Credit shall be included in the calculation of the L/C Exposure, (ii) all liabilities of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit shall constitute Obligations and (iii) each Lender shall have reimbursement obligations with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit as provided in Section 2.2.4.

(b) Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in U.S. Dollars or, if agreed by the Issuing Lender, any Alternate Currency and (ii) expire no later than the Termination Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Letter of Credit issued or deemed issues pursuant to Section 2.2.1(a) hereunder (including Existing Letters of Credit) may, in the sole discretion of the Issuing Lender with respect to Letters of Credit other than Existing Letters of Credit, expire after the Termination Date, provided that the Borrower shall provide cash collateral in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Obligations (or, as applicable, the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Obligations with respect to Letters of Credit issued in Alternative Currencies) in respect of any such outstanding Letter of Credit to the Issuing Lender at least 30 days prior to the Termination Date and enter into a reimbursement agreement on terms acceptable to the applicable Issuing Lender, which such amount shall be (A) deposited by the Borrower in an account with and in the name of the Issuing Lender and (B) held by such Issuing Lender for the satisfaction of the Borrower’s reimbursement obligations in respect of such Letter of Credit until the expiration of such Letter of Credit.

(c) The Issuing Lender shall not at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit if such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable requirement of law.

2.2.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit. The Borrower may from time to time request that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the satisfaction of the Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may request. Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower. The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof. The Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof). Following receipt of such notice and prior to the issuance of a requested Letter of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall calculate the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of such Letter of Credit if it is to be denominated in an Alternate Currency and shall notify the Borrower and the Issuing Lender of the Aggregate Exposure after giving effect to (a) the issuance of such Letter of Credit and (b) the issuance or expiration of any other Letter of Credit that is to be issued or will expire prior to the requested date of issuance of such Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued only if (and upon delivery of an Application therefor and the issuance thereof the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the L/C Obligations shall not exceed $120,000,000, (ii) 105% of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the L/C Obligations applicable to Letters of Credit denominated in Alternate Currencies shall not exceed the lesser of (A) $40,000,000 and (B) the Availability and (iii) the Aggregate Exposure shall not exceed the lesser of (A) the Aggregate Commitment and (B) the Borrowing Base.

2.2.3 Letter of Credit Fees.

(a) The Borrower agrees to pay the Issuing Lender a fronting fee in U.S. Dollars in an amount agreed between the Borrower and the Issuing Lender (but not less than 0.25% per annum on the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the face amount of the Letter of Credit), payable monthly in arrears on each Payment Date, for the term of the Letter of Credit, together with the Issuing Lender’s customary letter of credit issuance and processing fees. The fronting fee and customary letter of credit issuance and processing fees shall be retained by the Issuing Lender, which fee shall not be shared with the other Lenders.

(b) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay the Administrative Agent a fee in U.S. Dollars equal to the Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Rate (on a per annum basis) shown on the Pricing Schedule times the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit (as reduced from time to time), payable monthly in arrears on each Payment Date, for the term of the Letter of Credit and shall be shared by the Issuing Lender and the other Lenders on the basis of each Lender’s Pro Rata Share.

2.2.4 L/C Participations.

(a) The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions set forth below, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Pro Rata Share in the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder (each such grant and purchase, an “L/C Participation”). Each L/C Participant agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (or in the event that any reimbursement received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by it at any time), such L/C Participant shall pay in U.S. Dollars to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lender’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Pro Rata Share of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the amount that is not so reimbursed (or is so returned). Each L/C Participant’s obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Article IV, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other L/C Participant or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.

(b) If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.2.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit is paid to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section 2.2.4(a) is not made available to the Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum equal to the Floating Rate in effect from time to time. A certificate of the Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

(c) Whenever, at any time after the Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any L/C Participant its Pro Rata Share of such payment in accordance with Section 2.2.4(a) or (b), the Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by the Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Issuing Lender will distribute to such L/C Participant its Pro Rata Share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such payment received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by the Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by the Issuing Lender to it.

2.2.5 Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower. If any draft is paid under any Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse the Issuing Lender for the amount of (a) the draft so paid in the currency in which such Letter of Credit was issued and (b) any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses incurred by the Issuing Lender in connection with such payment, not later than 11:00 a.m., Chicago time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice of such draft, if such notice is

received on such day prior to 10:00 a.m., Chicago time if such Letter of Credit is denominated in U.S. Dollars or Canadian dollars, or (ii) if clause (i) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice. Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices referred to herein in the currency in which such draft is payable (except that, in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in any currency other than U.S. Dollars, upon notice by the Issuing Lender to the Borrower, such payment shall be made in U.S. Dollars from and after the date on which the amount of such payment shall have been converted into U.S. Dollars at the Spot Exchange Rate on such date of conversion, which date of conversion shall be selected by the Issuing Lender and may be any Business Day after the date on which such payment is due) and in immediately available funds. Interest shall be payable on any such amounts from the date on which the relevant draft is paid until payment in full at (x) until the Business Day next succeeding the date of the relevant notice, the Floating Rate and (y) thereafter, the rate set forth in Section 2.10; provided, that if any such amount is denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars for any period, such interest shall be payable for such period at the Alternate Currency Overnight Rate. If, as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and any Alternate Currency, the amount of the L/C Obligations exceeds 105% of the L/C Commitment, then the Borrower shall deposit within three Business Days of demand by the Administrative Agent as cash collateral, an amount in U.S. Dollars equal to such excess. The obligation to deposit amounts shall be absolute and unconditional, without regard to whether any beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit has attempted to draw down all or a portion of such amount under the under the terms of a Letter of Credit. If (1) the Borrower was required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the L/C Obligations exceeding the L/C Commitment due to fluctuations in the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and any applicable Alternate Currency (2) the L/C Obligations no longer exceed the L/C Commitment and (3) the Borrower is not otherwise required to post cash collateral in respect of the Letters of Credit hereunder which has not been posted, then the amount of such excess shall be returned to such Borrower within five Business Days upon request of the Borrower.

2.2.6 Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligations under this Section 2.2 shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower may have or have had against the Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person. The Borrower also agrees with the Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Borrower’s reimbursement obligations under Section 2.2.5 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in connection with the Administrative Agent’s reliance on any Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page), or any dispute between or among the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee. The Issuing Lender shall not be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender. The Borrower agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower.

2.2.7 Letter of Credit Payments. The Issuing Lender shall, within the period stipulated by terms and conditions of the applicable Letter of Credit following its receipt thereof, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. After such examination, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent

and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Lender has made or will make an L/C Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Lender and the Lenders with respect to any such L/C Disbursement. The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.

2.2.8 Applications. To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 2.2, the provisions of this Section 2.2 shall apply.

2.2.9 Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall (a) deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders (the “L/C Collateral Account”), an amount in cash equal to 105% of the amount of the L/C Exposure as of such date plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon and (b) execute any documents and agreements, including the Administrative Agent’s standard form assignment of deposit accounts, that the Administrative Agent requests in connection therewith to establish the L/C Collateral Account and grant the Administrative Agent a security interest in such account and the funds therein; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in Section 7.7 or Section 7.8. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the L/C Collateral Account and the Borrower hereby grants the Administrative Agent a security interest in the L/C Collateral Account and all money or other assets on deposit therein or credited thereto. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in the L/C Collateral Account. Moneys in the L/C Collateral Account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Lender for L/C Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the L/C Exposure at such time and, following an Event of Default if there is no L/C Exposure at such time, at the direction of the Required Lenders and each Issuing Lender with a Letter of Credit then outstanding, to satisfy other Secured Obligations. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after all such Events of Defaults have been cured or waived as confirmed in writing by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall exercise reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any funds held in the L/C Collateral Account and shall be deemed to have exercised such care if such funds are accorded treatment substantially equivalent to that which the Administrative Agent accords its own property, it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility for taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any parties with respect to any such funds.

2.2.10 Replacement of an Issuing Lender.

(a) An Issuing Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Lender and the successor Issuing Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of an Issuing Lender. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.2.3. From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued by such Issuing Lender thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Lender” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Lender, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Lenders, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Lender hereunder, the replaced Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit then outstanding and issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

(b) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Issuing Lender, the Issuing Lender may resign as an Issuing Lender at any time upon thirty days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders, in which case, such Issuing Lender shall be replaced in accordance with Section 2.2.10(a) above.

2.2.11 Eligible Cash Account. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained herein, so long as (a) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (b) either (i) Availability exceeds $25,000,000 for the immediately preceding twenty-eight (28) consecutive days or (ii) all of the outstanding Letters of Credit are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit, then subject to Borrower’s delivery of a pro forma Borrowing Base Certificate, Borrower may request that (x) in the case of clause (b)(i) above Eligible Cash in an amount equal to the lowest amount by which Availability exceeded $25,000,000 in the immediately preceding twenty-eight (28) consecutive days and (y) in the case of clause (b)(ii) above, all Eligible Cash, be transferred to another Controlled Account of the Loan Parties that is not fully-blocked, it being understood that upon such transfer, Eligible Cash shall be reduced by the amount of such transferred cash. Upon such request, the Administrative Agent shall promptly transfer such cash as directed by the Borrower.

2.3 Mandatory Repayments.

(a) On the Termination Date, subject to Section 2.26, the Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to (i) cash collateralize all outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit and subject to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Lenders on the Termination Date and (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender all other Obligations then outstanding. Upon the Termination Date, subject to Section 2.26, the Lenders shall be entitled to immediate payment and cash collateralization of the Secured Obligations without further application to or order of the Bankruptcy Court.

(b) In the event and on such occasion that the Aggregate Exposure exceeds the lesser of (i) the Aggregate Commitment and (ii) the Borrowing Base, the Borrower shall prepay L/C Exposure or cash collateralize L/C Exposure pursuant to Section 2.2.9, in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided that any outstanding reimbursement obligations in respect of L/C Obligations shall be prepaid prior to any cash collateralization.

(c) At all times during any Cash Dominion Trigger Period, on each Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall apply all funds credited to the Concentration Account on such Business Day or the immediately preceding Business Day (at the discretion of the Administrative Agent, whether or not immediately available), to cash collateralize the L/C Exposure in accordance with Section 2.2.9. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent any funds credited to the Concentration Account constitute Net Available Cash, the application of such Net Available Cash shall be subject to Section 2.3(d).

(d) If an Event of Default or Cash Dominion Trigger Period is in effect and any Borrowing Base Party receives any Net Available Cash in respect of any Prepayment Event, then (i) the Borrower shall within five (5) Business Days following its receipt of such Net Available Cash cash collateralize the L/C Exposure in accordance with Section 2.2.9 and (ii) if such Prepayment Event occurs with respect to assets or property included Borrowing Base, within five (5) Business Days following its receipt of such Net Available Cash, the Borrower shall deliver a of a pro forma Borrowing Base Certificate.

(e) All such amounts pursuant to Section 2.3(d) shall be applied, only if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to cash collateralize the L/C Exposure in accordance with Section 2.2.9.

(f) [reserved].

2.4 Commitment Fee; Reductions in Aggregate Commitment; Other Fees.

(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, to be shared by the Lenders on the basis of each Lender’s Pro Rata Share, a commitment fee at a per annum rate equal to the Commitment Fee Rate on the daily unused portion of the Aggregate Commitment during the Commitment Period, payable monthly in arrears on each Payment Date and on the Termination Date. For the purposes hereof, “unused portion” means the Aggregate Commitment, minus the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit.

(b) The Borrower may permanently reduce the Aggregate Commitment in whole or in part ratably among the Lenders in integral multiples of $1,000,000, upon at least five Business Days’ written notice to the Administrative Agent, which notice shall specify the amount of any such reduction, provided, however, that the amount of the Aggregate Commitment may not be reduced below the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit.

(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts and on the dates as set forth in any fee agreements with the Administrative Agent and to perform any other obligations contained therein.

2.5 [Reserved].

2.6 [Reserved].

2.7 [Reserved].

2.8 [Reserved].

2.9 [Reserved].

2.10 Rates Applicable After Default. During the continuance of an Event of Default under Section 7.1(b), the Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Rate applicable to each outstanding Letter of Credit with respect to which such Event of Default shall exist, shall increase at a rate equal to 2% per annum, and all interest, fees and other amounts outstanding hereunder shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Floating Rate in effect from time to time plus 2% per annum.

2.11 Method of Payment.

(a) Each payment by the Borrower on account of any fees (except as set forth in any agreement governing the payment thereof) and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall be made pro rata according to the respective Pro Rata Shares of the Lenders.

(b) [reserved].

(c) All payments of the Obligations (other than with respect to Rate Management Obligations and Specified Cash Management Obligations) hereunder shall be made, without setoff, deduction, or counterclaim, in immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s address specified pursuant to Article XIII, or at any other Lending Installation of the Administrative Agent specified in writing by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, by 12:00 p.m., Chicago time, on the date when due. Each payment delivered to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Lender shall be delivered promptly by the Administrative Agent to such Lender in the same type of funds that the Administrative Agent received at the Funding Office or at any Lending Installation specified in a notice received by the Administrative Agent from such Lender. The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to charge the account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent for each payment of principal, interest and bank fees as they become due hereunder; all other fees due hereunder shall be paid by Borrower upon the receipt of an invoice at Borrower’s address.

2.12 [Reserved].

2.13 [Reserved].

2.14 [Reserved].

2.15 Notification of Commitment Reductions. Promptly after receipt thereof, the Administrative Agent will notify each Lender of the contents of each Aggregate Commitment reduction notice received by it hereunder. The Administrative Agent will give each Lender prompt notice of each change in the Alternate Base Rate.

2.16 Lending Installations. Each Lender may book its L/C Participations and each Issuing Lender may issue Letters of Credit at any Lending Installation of its choosing and may change its Lending Installation from time to time. All terms of this Agreement shall apply to any such Lending Installation and Letters of Credit issued hereunder of participations therein shall be deemed held by each Lender or Issuing Lender, as applicable, for the benefit of any such Lending Installation. Each Lender and Issuing Lender may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in accordance with Article XIII, designate replacement or additional Lending Installations through which Letters of Credit will be issued or participated in by it and for whose account payments are to be made.

2.17 [Reserved].

2.18 Collateral and Guarantees.

(a) On the Closing Date, the Secured Obligations shall be secured by the DIP Order.

(b) [reserved].

(d) On any date, in the case of any Domestic Subsidiary that is not previously subject to the collateral requirements set forth in Section 2.18(a) but which has a total Adjusted Book Value exceeding $25,000,000 at the end of any fiscal quarter after the Closing Date, the Borrower covenants and agrees to cause such Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Guarantor and to execute or cause to be executed, within 30 days (or such later date as may be reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after the end of such fiscal quarter, Collateral Documents reasonably required by the Administrative Agent in order to subject such Domestic Subsidiary to the collateral requirements set forth in Section 2.18(a). In addition, if any Domestic Subsidiary incurs or otherwise becomes liable for any Funded Indebtedness or Guarantee Obligation, such Subsidiary shall contemporaneously become a Guarantor pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Borrower shall also, if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent certificates and legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Once a Domestic Subsidiary has executed Collateral Documents, the Collateral Documents for that Domestic Subsidiary shall remain in effect irrespective of its total Adjusted Book Value. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aggregate Adjusted Book Value of all Domestic Subsidiaries not subject to the guaranty and collateral requirements of this Section 2.18 shall at no time exceed $200,000,000.

(e) The Parent, the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries shall be subject to cash dominion at all times from the Closing Date through the Termination Date. All Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodities Accounts (other than any Uncontrolled Account for so long as it is an Uncontrolled Account) of the Parent, the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries shall be Controlled Accounts. The Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Domestic Subsidiaries to, in connection with any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account (other than any Uncontrolled Account for so long as it is an Uncontrolled Account), enter into and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Control Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, on the following dates (or, in each case, such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion): (i) the Closing Date or (ii) with respect to Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodities Accounts of the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than any Uncontrolled Account for so long as it is an Uncontrolled Account) established on or after the Closing Date, promptly but in any event within thirty (30) days of the date such account is established. During a Cash Dominion Trigger Period (defined below), cash on hand and collections which are received into any Controlled Account shall be swept on a daily basis and to the extent necessary any securities held in any Securities Account shall be liquidated and the cash proceeds swept into a blocked account maintained with the Administrative Agent (the “Concentration Account”). As used herein, a “Cash Dominion Trigger Period” shall mean a period which commences immediately upon (a) the occurrence of any Event of Default or (b) on any date when Availability is less than the greater of (i) $20,000,000 and (ii) 15% of the lesser of (A) the Aggregate Commitment and (B) the Borrowing Base. Once triggered, a Cash Dominion Trigger Period shall remain in effect at all times thereafter until (x) any period triggered under clause (a) of the foregoing sentence shall cease upon the cure or waiver of such Event of Default in accordance with the Loan Documents, (y) any period triggered under clause (b) of the foregoing sentence shall cease on the date Availability exceeds the threshold set forth therein for at least 30 consecutive days or (z) all of the outstanding Letters of Credit are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit.

(f) The Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Domestic Subsidiaries to notify the Administrative Agent of any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account (other than any Uncontrolled Account for so long as such account remains an Uncontrolled Account) that is established, held or maintained such Person that is not otherwise listed on Schedule 4. Notice under this Section 2.18(f) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in writing promptly but, in any event, not more than 5 Business Days (or such later date as may be reasonably agreed to by the Administrative Agent) following the establishment of any such account.

(g) Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its subsidiaries that is a Loan Party to, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed or delivered, to the Administrative Agent such documents, agreements and instruments, and will take or cause to be taken such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents and such other actions or deliveries of the type required by Section 4.1(c), as applicable), which may be required by any requirement of law or which the Administrative Agent may, from time to time, reasonably request to carry out the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to ensure perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Collateral Documents, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and all at the expense of the Loan Parties.

(h) In no event shall (i) perfection (except to the extent perfected through the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements or analogous filings in the jurisdiction of formation of the applicable Guarantor) be required with respect to letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, motor vehicles or any other assets subject to certificates of title, (ii) any mortgages be required to be delivered with respect to any real property interests or (iii) Collateral Documents governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any state thereof be required.

2.19 Defaulting Lender. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

(a) Fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender.

(b) The Commitment amounts outstanding on the L/C Participations of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 9.11); provided that this clause (b) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of any waiver, amendment or modification (i) requiring the consent of all Lenders or (ii) described in clause (i) or (ii) of the first proviso in Section 9.11.

(i) all or any part of the L/C Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) but only to the extent the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Credit Exposure plus such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Commitment. Subject to Section 16.1, no reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation;

(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent, cash collateralize for the benefit of the Issuing Lender only the Borrower’s obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in 2.2.9 for so long as such L/C Exposure is outstanding;

(iii) if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure during the period such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure is cash collateralized;

(iv) if the L/C Exposure of the non-Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’ Pro Rata Shares; and

(v) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Lender or any other Lender hereunder, all fees payable under Section 3.3(a) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure shall be payable to the Issuing Lender until and to the extent that such L/C Exposure is reallocated and/or cash collateralized.

(d) So long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, no Issuing Lenders shall be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Borrower.

(e) Any amount payable to such Defaulting Lender under this Agreement (whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise and including any amount that would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to this Agreement), shall, in lieu of being distributed to such Defaulting Lender, be retained by the Administrative Agent in a segregated account and, subject to any applicable requirements of law, be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent (i) first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder, (ii) second, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to any Issuing Lender hereunder, (iii) third, to the cash collateralization of any L/C Participations (in which case any cash collateral posted by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.19 shall be released to the Borrower in an equal amount), (iv) fourth, [reserved], (v) fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent, held in such account as cash collateral and released pro rata in order to cash collateralization of the Issuing Lenders’ future L/C Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, (vi) sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders or the Issuing Lenders as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender or the Issuing Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement, (vii) seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement, and (viii) eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Letters of Credit in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.2 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the L/C Participations owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any L/C Participations owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all funded and unfunded L/C Participations are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Commitments hereunder without giving effect to Section 2.19(c)(i). Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post as cash collateral pursuant to this Section 2.19(e) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

(f) In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Issuing Lender each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the L/C Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

(g) The Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require that the Defaulting Lender assign without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions set forth in Article XII of this Agreement in the case of voluntary assignments by a Lender) all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender); provided, that (i) such assignee shall have received the prior written approval of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal amount of all Obligations owed to it, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (in the case of such outstanding principal and accrued interest) and from the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts).

(h) If (i) a Bankruptcy Event with respect to a Lender Parent of any Lender shall occur following the Closing Date and for so long as such event shall continue or (ii) the Issuing Lender has a good faith belief that any Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, the Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless the Issuing Lender shall have entered into arrangements with the Borrower or such Lender, satisfactory to the Issuing Lender to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder.

2.20 Currency Indemnity. The Borrower shall, and shall cause the other Loan Parties to, make payment relative to any Obligation (including with respect to Letters of Credit) in the currency in which such Obligation was effected (the “Agreed Currency”). If any payment is received on account of any Obligation in any currency other than the Agreed Currency (the “Other Currency”) (whether voluntarily or pursuant to an order or judgment or the enforcement thereof or the realization of any collateral under the Collateral Documents or the liquidation of a Loan Party or otherwise), such payment shall constitute a discharge of the liability of the Loan Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in respect of such obligation only to the extent of the amount of the Agreed Currency which the relevant Lender or Agent, as the case may be, is able to purchase with the amount of the Other Currency received by it on the Business Day next following such receipt in accordance with its normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction and applicable law after deducting any costs of exchange. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, if the amount of the Other Currency received is insufficient to satisfy the obligation in the Agreed Currency in full, then the Borrower shall on demand indemnify the Issuing Lenders, Lenders and the Administrative Agent from and against any loss or cost arising out of or in connection with such deficiency; provided that if the amount of the Agreed Currency so purchased is greater than the amount of the Agreed Currency due in respect of such liability immediately prior to such judgment or order, voluntary prepayment, realization of collateral, liquidation of a Loan Party or otherwise, then the Agents or the Lenders, as the case may be, agree to return the amount of any excess to the Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law). To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the foregoing indemnity and agreement by each party shall constitute an obligation separate and independent from all other obligations contained in this Agreement and shall give rise to a separate and independent cause of action.

2.21 [Reserved].

2.22 Banking Services and Rate Management Transactions. Each Lender or Affiliate thereof (other than any Lender who is also the Administrative Agent or is an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent who shall have been deemed to have provided such notice) providing Banking Services for, or having Rate Management Transactions with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, promptly after entering into such Banking Services arrangements or Rate Management Transactions, written notice setting forth the aggregate amount of all Specified Cash Management Obligations and Rate Management Obligations of such Loan Party or Subsidiary or thereof to such Lender or Affiliate (whether matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent). In addition, each such Lender or Affiliate thereof (other than any Lender who is also the Administrative Agent or is an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent who shall have been deemed to have provided such notice) shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, from time to time after a significant change therein or upon a request therefor, a summary of the amounts due or to become due in respect of such Specified Cash Management Obligations and Rate Management Obligations. The most recent information provided to the Administrative Agent shall be used in determining the amounts to be applied in respect of such Specified Cash Management Obligations and/or Rate Management Obligations pursuant to Section 8.3(f). It is understood and agreed that Lenders who were also Lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement that, prior to the Closing Date, provided notices to the Existing Agent in respect of Banking Services for, or Rate Management Transactions with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall have been deemed to have provided such notices under this Agreement.

2.23 [Reserved].

2.24 Priority and Liens. The Loan Parties hereby covenant, represent and warrant that, upon entry of the DIP Order, the Secured Obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and the DIP Order, shall have the priority and liens set forth in the DIP Order, subject to the Carve-Out as described therein.

2.25 No Discharge, Survival of Claims. Subject to Section 2.26, the Borrower and each other Guarantor agrees that (a) any Confirmation Order entered in the Chapter 11 Cases shall not discharge or otherwise affect in any way any of the Secured Obligations of the Loan Parties to the Secured Parties under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents, other than after the payment in full in cash to the Secured Parties of all Secured Obligations under the DIP Facility (and the cash collateralization of all outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit and subject to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Lenders) and the related Loan Documents on or before the effective date of a plan of reorganization and termination of the Commitments and (b) to the extent its Secured Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are not satisfied in full, (i) its Secured Obligations arising hereunder shall not be discharged by the entry of a Confirmation Order (and each Loan Party, pursuant to Section 1141(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code, hereby waives any such discharge) and (ii) the Superpriority Claim granted to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders pursuant to the DIP Order and the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the DIP Order shall not be affected in any manner by the entry of a Confirmation Order.

2.26 Conversion to Exit Facility Agreement. Upon the satisfaction or waiver of the Exit Conversion Conditions set forth on Schedule 2.26, automatically and without any further consent or action required by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, (a) each Letter of Credit hereunder shall be deemed refinanced, replaced and issued as a Letter of Credit, as applicable, under the Exit Facility Agreement, (b)

in connection therewith the Borrower, in its capacity as reorganized SESI, L.L.C., and each Guarantor, in its capacity as a reorganized debtor, to the extent such Person is required under the Exit Facility Agreement to continue to be a guarantor in respect thereof, shall assume all obligations in respect of the Letters of Credit hereunder and all other obligations in respect hereof, (c) each Lender hereunder shall be a Lender under the Exit Facility Agreement and (d) this Agreement shall terminate and be superseded, refunded, refinanced and replaced by, and deemed amended and restated in its entirety substantially in the form of, the Exit Facility Agreement (with such changes and insertions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower thereto incorporated as necessary to make such technical changes necessary to effectuate the intent of this Section 2.26 or otherwise), and the Commitments hereunder shall terminate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all obligations of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders under this Agreement and any other Loan Document (except, for the avoidance of doubt, the Exit Facility Agreement) which are expressly stated in this Agreement or such other Loan Document as surviving such agreement’s termination shall, as so specified, survive without prejudice and remain in full force and effect. Each of the Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders shall take such actions and execute and deliver such agreements, instruments or other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to give effect to the provisions of this Section 2.26 and as are required to complete the Schedules to the Exit Facility Agreement.

ARTICLE III

YIELD PROTECTION; TAXES

3.1 Yield Protection; Changes in Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Regulations.

(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in the Eurodollar Rate) or any Issuing Lender;

(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or

(iii) impose on any Lender or any Issuing Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender, such Issuing Lender or such other Recipient of participation in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender, Issuing Lender or other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender, Issuing Lender or other Recipient, the Borrower will pay to such Lender, Issuing Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender, Issuing Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or Issuing Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or Issuing Lender or any Lending Installation of such Lender or Issuing Lender or such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by any Issuing Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or Issuing Lender or such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or Issuing Lender, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Lender or such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or Issuing Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in Section 3.1(a) or (b) and delivered to the Borrower, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or Issuing Lender, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or Issuing Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or Issuing Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or Issuing Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions, and of such Lender’s or Issuing Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

3.2 Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality.

(a) Subject to clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of this Section 3.2:

(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Base Rate or the Eurodollar Rate, as applicable (including because the LIBO Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis), for such Interest Period; provided that no Benchmark Transition Event shall have occurred at such time; or

(ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted Eurodollar Base Rate or the Eurodollar Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Conversion/Continuation Notice that requests the conversion of any Advance to, or continuation of any Advance as, a Eurodollar Advance shall be ineffective and (B) if any Borrowing Notice requests a Eurodollar Advance, such Borrowing shall be made as an Floating Rate Advance.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document (and any Rate Management Transaction shall be deemed not to be a “Loan Document” for purposes of this Section 3.2), if a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (i) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and (ii) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document and subject to the proviso below in this paragraph, if a Term SOFR Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then the applicable Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder or under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings, without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that, this clause (c) shall not be effective unless the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Lenders and the Borrower a Term SOFR Notice.

(d) In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

(e) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (d) below and (v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 3.2, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 3.2.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or Eurodollar Base Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory

supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Eurodollar Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Eurodollar Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.

(g) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a Eurodollar Advance of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Advances to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Floating Rate Advances. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Floating Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Floating Rate.

3.3 [Reserved].

3.4 Taxes.

(a) Defined Terms. For purposes of this Section 3.4, the term “Lender” includes any Issuing Lender and the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.

(b) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant governmental authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant governmental authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(d) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant governmental authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.2(b) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant governmental authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).

(f) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a governmental authority pursuant to this Section 3.4, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such governmental authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(g) Status of Lenders. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 3.4(g)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. Federal backup withholding tax;

(B) any Non-U.S. Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. Federal withholding tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(2) executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI;

(3) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of EXHIBIT D-1 to the effect that such Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E; or

(4) to the extent a Non-U.S. Lender is not the beneficial owner of the L/C Participations, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of EXHIBIT D-2 or EXHIBIT D-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Non-U.S. Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Non-U.S. Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Non-U.S. Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of EXHIBIT D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(C) any Non-U.S. Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. Federal withholding tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(h) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 3.4 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.4), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant governmental authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (h) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant governmental authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such governmental authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (h) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(i) Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 3.4 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under the Loan Documents.

(j) [Reserved].

3.5 [Reserved].

3.6 Replacement of Lender. If (a) the Borrower is required pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.4 to make any additional payment to any Lender, (b) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, or (c) any Lender does not consent to any proposed amendment, supplement, modification, consent or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that requires the consent of all of the Lenders or each of the Lenders affected thereby (so long as the consent of the Required Lenders has been obtained), then the Borrower may elect upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, to replace such Lender (the “Affected Lender”) as a Lender party to this Agreement, provided that no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, and provided further that, concurrently with such replacement, (i) another bank or other entity which is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall agree, as of such date, to purchase for cash the Obligations due to the Affected Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and to become a Lender for all purposes under this Agreement and to assume all obligations of the Affected Lender to be terminated as of such date and to comply with the requirements of Section 12.2 applicable to assignments, and (ii) the Borrower shall pay to such Affected Lender in same day funds on the day of such replacement (A) all interest, fees and other amounts then accrued but unpaid to such Affected Lender by the Borrower hereunder to and including the date of termination, including without limitation payments due to such Affected Lender

under Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4, and (B) an amount, if any, equal to the payment which would have been due to such Lender on the day of such replacement under Section 3.3 had the Obligations of such Affected Lender been prepaid on such date rather than sold to the replacement Lender. Any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights that the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against the replaced Lender.

ARTICLE IV

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

4.1 Effectiveness; Conditions Precedent to Extensions of Credit. The effectiveness of this Agreement and the agreement of each Lender to make the initial extension of credit requested to be made by it (or deemed to be made on the Closing Date) subject to the satisfaction, prior to or concurrently with the making of such extension of credit on the Closing Date, of the following conditions precedent:

(a) Credit Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received this Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Parent, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Issuing Lenders.

(b) [reserved].

(d) Financial Statements and Projections. The Lenders shall have received (i) audited financial statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries for the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, (ii) unaudited interim financial statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries for each fiscal quarter ended after the date of the latest applicable financial statements delivered pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph as to which such financial statements are publicly available; provided that the Lenders hereby acknowledge receipt of such audited and unaudited financial statements pursuant to the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) and (iii) the most recent projected income statement, balance sheet and cash flows of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries for the period beginning with January 1, 2021 and ending with December 31, 2023, on a quarterly basis through December 31, 2021 and annually thereafter.

(e) [reserved].

(f) Entity Documents. Copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Parent, articles of organization (or certificate of formation) and operating agreement (or limited liability company agreement) of Borrower, and the corresponding organization documents of all of Borrower’s Domestic Subsidiaries who are party to a Loan Document, together with all amendments, each certified by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Parent or Borrower, and a certificate of good standing or existence for the Parent, Borrower and Borrower’s Domestic Subsidiaries who are party to a Loan Document, each certified by the appropriate governmental officer in its jurisdiction of incorporation, and copies of the articles of incorporation of any foreign Subsidiary who is party to a Loan Document, together with all amendments certified by the secretary of said Subsidiary.

(g) Closing Certificates. Closing certificates by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Parent, Borrower and the authorized person for each Subsidiary, of its Board of Directors’ resolutions or consent of members or partners, and of resolutions or actions of any other body authorizing the execution of the Loan Documents to which the Parent, Borrower or any of Borrower’s Subsidiaries is a party, including an incumbency certificate, executed by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Borrower, which shall identify by name and title of the Authorized Officers and any other officers of the Borrower authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party, upon which certificate the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely until informed of any change in writing by the Borrower.

(h) Fees. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) for which invoices have been presented (so long as such invoices have been presented at least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date).

(i) [reserved].

(j) Pledged Stock; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received (to the extent not currently held by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the collateral documents under the Existing Credit Agreement) (i) the certificates representing the shares of Equity Interest pledged pursuant to the Collateral Documents, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized Authorized Officer of the pledgor thereof (except for certificates which cannot be delivered after the Borrower’s use of commercially reasonable efforts without undue burden or expense) and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Collateral Documents endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.

(k) [Reserved].

(l) [Reserved].

(m) No Other Debt. The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Parent in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent certifying that the Loan Parties will have no debt outstanding for borrowed money other than the Obligations under this Agreement or other Funded Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.11.

(n) [Reserved].

(o) USA Patriot Act. To the extent requested by the Administrative Agent at least 10 Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received at least five days prior to the Closing Date all documentation and other information as is reasonably requested in writing by the Administrative Agent about the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act.

(p) No Material Adverse Effect. Since the effective date of the RSA, there has been no development or event that has or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, other than as a result of those events leading up to and following commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases.

(q) Minimum Availability. Availability as of the date of the Borrowing Base Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(s), adjusted pro forma for the definition of Borrowing Base as of the Closing Date under this Agreement, shall equal or exceed $25,000,000.

(r) [Reserved].

(s) Borrowing Base Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate under the Existing Credit Agreement, updated for the definition of “Borrowing Base” in this Agreement, for the most recent calendar month ending October 31, 2020, together with such supporting documentation and supplemental reporting information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

(t) [Reserved].

(u) [Reserved].

(v) [Reserved].

(w) Minimum Liquidity. Liquidity shall equal or exceed $175,000,000.

(x) Chapter 11 Cases. The Chapter 11 Cases shall have been commenced and the motion to approve the Interim Order, and all “first day motions” filed by the Debtors at the time of commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Required Lenders in their reasonable discretion.

(y) Interim Order. The Administrative Agent shall have received a signed copy of the Interim Order which shall have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court on or before the third Business Day after the Petition Date and shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Required Lenders in their sole discretion, and such Interim Order shall not have been vacated, reversed, modified amended or stayed; provided that the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may waive this Section 4.1(y) so long as the Final Order has been entered into and in full force and effect and has not been vacated, reversed, modified, amended or stayed in any respect without the consent of the Administrative Agent.

(z) Initial Budget. The Administrative Agent shall have received the initial Budget, which shall be in a form and substance satisfactory to the Required Lenders, together with the Budget Certificate.

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower, the Lenders and the Issuing Lender of the Closing Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in Letters of Credit and of the Issuing Lender to issue, renew or amend Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions is satisfied (or waived pursuant to Section 9.11) at or prior to 2:00 p.m., Chicago time, on December 9, 2020 (and, in the event such conditions are not so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time).

4.2 Each Extension of Credit. The Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, unless:

(a) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such extension of credit:

(i) there exists no Event of Default or Default; and

(ii) the representations and warranties contained in Article V or in any other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects as of the date of such extension of credit except to the extent any such representation or warranty is stated to relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date (provided that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representation or warranty that already is qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof).

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from an Authorized Officer in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent which demonstrates that, at the time of and immediately after giving effect to such extension of credit, the Aggregate Exposure shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Aggregate Commitment and (ii) the Borrowing Base.

(c) The Administrative Agent and/or the Issuing Lender shall have received an Application in accordance with Section 2.2, as applicable.

(d) Other than in connection with (i) the extension or renewal of an Existing Letter of Credit or (ii) the replacement of an Existing Letter of Credit that has expired or terminated without being drawn, the Final Order shall have been entered and shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been vacated, reversed, modified, amended or stayed in any respect without the consent of the Required Lenders.

(e) The issuance, increase, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit would not contravene any law and shall not be enjoined, temporarily, preliminarily or permanently.

(f) In connection with (i) an extension or renewal of an Existing Letter of Credit or (ii) the replacement of an Existing Letter of Credit that has expired or terminated without being drawn, the Interim Order shall have been entered and shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been vacated, reversed, modified, amended or stayed in any respect without the consent of the Required Lenders in their reasonable discretion (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, entry of the Final Order shall not be a vacation, reversal, amendment or stay of the Interim Order).

(g) The Loan Parties are in compliance with Section 6.17.

Each Application with respect to each such issuance, increase, renewal, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Parent and Borrower that the conditions contained in Section 4.2(a) have been satisfied.

ARTICLE V

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Parent and Borrower represent and warrant to the Lenders that:

5.1 Existence and Standing. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the entry of the DIP Order, the Parent is a corporation, the Borrower is a limited liability company, and each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company duly and properly incorporated or organized, as the case may be, validly existing and (to the extent such concept applies to such entity) in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and has all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, except where such failure could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

As of the date, if any, that the Beneficial Ownership Certification was most recently provided to Lenders, the information included in such Beneficial Ownership Certification was true and correct in all respects.

5.2 Authorization and Validity. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the entry of the DIP Order, each of the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries has the power and authority and legal right to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to perform its obligations thereunder. The execution

and delivery by the Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the performance of its obligations thereunder have been duly authorized by proper corporate or company proceedings, and the Loan Documents to which the Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is a party, upon entry of the applicable DIP Order, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries enforceable against the Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by the DIP Order and subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code, and further subject to other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally.

5.3 No Conflict; Government Consent. Subject to entry of the DIP Order and subject to any restrictions arising on account of the Loan Parties’ status as “debtors” under the Bankruptcy Code, neither the execution and delivery by the Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, nor the consummation of the transactions therein contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions thereof will violate (a) any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award binding on the Parent, the Borrower, or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries or (b) the Parent’s, the Borrower’s, or any Subsidiary’s articles or certificate of incorporation, partnership agreement, certificate of partnership, articles or certificate of organization, by laws, or operating or other management agreement, as the case may be, or (c) the provisions of any indenture, instrument or agreement to which the Parent, the Borrower, or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is a party or is subject, or by which it, or its Property, is bound, or conflict with or constitute a default thereunder, or result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien in, of or on the Property of the Parent, the Borrower, or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, instrument or agreement, except where such failure could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Subject to entry of the DIP Order and subject to any restrictions arising on account of the Debtors’ status as “debtors” under the Bankruptcy Code, and upon entry of the applicable DIP Order, no order, consent, adjudication, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or exemption by, or other action in respect of any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, which has not been obtained by the Parent, the Borrower, or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, is required to be obtained by the Parent, the Borrower, or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries in connection with the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents, the payment and performance by the Borrower of the Obligations or the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents.

5.4 Financial Statements. The audited December 31, 2019 and the unaudited March 31, 2020 and June 30, 2020 consolidated financial statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries heretofore delivered to the lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial condition and consolidated results operations of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the unaudited statements.

5.5 Material Adverse Change. Since the Petition Date there has been no change in the business, Property, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Parent, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.6 Taxes. The Parent, the Borrower, and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries have filed or caused to be filed all United States federal tax returns or extensions relating thereto and all other tax returns which are required to be filed and, except to the extent such payment is excluded by, or is otherwise prohibited by the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code or order of the Bankruptcy Court, have paid all taxes due pursuant to said returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Parent, the Borrower, or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, except (a) such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP, or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Adequate charges, accruals and reserves in respect of any taxes or other governmental charges have been provided on the books of the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

5.7 Litigation and Contingent Obligations. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the Chapter 11 Cases, (a) there is no unstayed litigation, arbitration, governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry pending or, to the knowledge of any of the officers of the Parent or Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Parent, the Borrower or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which seeks to prevent, enjoin or delay the issuance, amendment or extensions of any Letter of Credit, and (b) other than any liability incident to any litigation, arbitration or proceeding which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Parent, the Borrower or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries has any unstayed material contingent obligations not provided for or disclosed in the financial statements referred to in Section 5.4.

5.8 Subsidiaries. The Borrower is the sole Subsidiary of the Parent, and the Parent owns all of the membership interest of the Borrower. Schedule 3 contains an accurate list of all Subsidiaries of the Parent and the Borrower (as of the Closing Date), setting forth their respective jurisdictions of organization and the percentage of their respective capital stock or other ownership interests owned by the Borrower or other Subsidiaries. All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or other ownership interests of such Subsidiaries have been (to the extent such concepts are relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.

5.9 ERISA. Except to the extent excused by the Bankruptcy Code or as a result of the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, (a) each Plan complies in all material respects with all applicable requirements of law and regulations, no Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan, neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has withdrawn from any Plan or initiated steps to do so, and no steps have been taken to terminate any Plan (b) neither the Parent nor the Borrower is an entity deemed to hold “plan assets” within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101 of an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which is subject to Title I of ERISA or any plan (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code), and neither the execution of this Agreement nor the issuance, amendment, renewal or extensions of Letters of Credit hereunder gives rise to a prohibited transaction within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. No Plan is in at risk, endangered, or critical status (within the meaning of Sections 303 or 305 of ERISA) or insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA) and (c) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has failed to pay when due (after expiration of any applicable grace period) any installment with respect to liability imposed in connection with a withdrawal under Section 4201 of ERISA.

5.10 Accuracy of Information. All written or formally presented information, other than the Projections and information of a general economic or industry specific nature (the “Information”), that has been or will be made available to the Lenders by the Parent or the Borrower or any of their respective representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, when taken as a whole, does not or will not, when furnished to the Lenders and taken as a whole, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements are made (giving effect to all supplements and updates thereto). The financial projections and other forward-looking information (the “Initial Projections”) and the Projections that have been or will be made available to the Lenders by the Parent or the Borrower or any of their respective representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby have been or will be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Parent and the Borrower to be reasonable at the time furnished (it being recognized by the Lenders that such Initial Projections and Projections are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such Initial Projections and Projections may differ from the projected results, and such differences may be material and such Initial Projections and Projections should not be regarded as a representation that the projected results will be achieved).

5.11 Material Agreements. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of such Debtor’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code, on account of any Debtor’s insolvency, on account of the pendency of the Chapter 11 Cases, on account of entry of the DIP Order, in accordance with the consummation of an Approved Plan, or with the Administrative Agent’s consent none of the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is a party to any agreement or instrument or subject to any charter or other corporate restriction which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect if the Parent, the Borrower or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries complies with the terms thereof. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the entry of the DIP Order, none of the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in (a) any agreement to which it is a party, which default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (b) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Material Indebtedness.

5.12 Compliance With Laws. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the entry of the DIP Order, the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries have complied with all laws, rules, regulations, orders and restrictions of any domestic or foreign government or any instrumentality or agency thereof having jurisdiction over the conduct of their respective businesses or the ownership of their respective Property, including, without limitation, Regulation U, T and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and all Environmental Laws, except for any failure to comply with any of the foregoing which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Margin Stock (as defined in Regulation U) constitutes less than 25% of the value of those assets of the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries which are subject to any limitation on sale, pledge, or other restriction hereunder.

5.13 Ownership of Properties. On the Closing Date, other than as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and subject to any necessary order or authorization of the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries will have good title, free of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, to all of the Property and assets reflected in the Parent’s most recent consolidated financial statements provided to the Administrative Agent as owned by the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, excluding sales permitted by Section 6.13.

5.14 Environmental Matters. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the Chapter 11 Cases, in the ordinary course of its business, the officers of the Borrower consider the effect of Environmental Laws on the business of the Parent, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, in the course of which they identify and evaluate potential risks and liabilities accruing due to Environmental Laws. On the basis of this consideration, the Parent and the Borrower have concluded that they are aware of no non-compliance with the Environmental Laws that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries has received any notice to the effect that its operations are not in material compliance with any of the requirements of applicable Environmental Laws or are the subject of any federal or state investigation evaluating whether any remedial action is needed to respond to a release of any toxic or hazardous waste or substance into the environment, which noncompliance or remedial action could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.15 Investment Company Act. None of the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

5.16 Labor Matters. Subject to any restrictions arising on account of any Loan Party’s status as a “debtor” under the Bankruptcy Code and the Chapter 11 Cases and, except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (a) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against any Loan Party pending or, to the knowledge of the Parent or the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payment made to employees of each Loan Party have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable law dealing with such matters; and (c) all payments due from any Loan Party on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the relevant Loan Party.

5.17 [Reserved].

5.18 Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions. The Borrower has implemented and maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and to the knowledge of the Borrower, its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or to the knowledge of the Borrower or such Subsidiary any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Letter of Credit, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will violate any Anti-Corruption Law or applicable Sanctions.

5.19 Insurance. As of the Closing Date, all premiums in respect of insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries that are due and payable have been paid, except to the extent such payment is excluded by, or is otherwise prohibited by the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code or order of the Bankruptcy Court, and the Borrower maintains, and has caused each Subsidiary to maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance on all their real and personal property in such amounts, subject to such deductibles and self-insurance retentions and covering such properties and risks as are adequate and customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.

5.20 [Reserved].

ARTICLE VI

COVENANTS

So long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder:

6.1 Financial Reporting; Projections.

(a) The Parent and Borrower will maintain, for themselves and for each Subsidiary, a system of accounting established and administered in accordance with GAAP, and furnish to the Lenders:

(i) within 90 days after the close of each of the Parent’s fiscal years, or earlier if required pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date thereof, an unqualified audit report certified by an independent certified public accounting firm of national standing, prepared in accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis for the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries, including balance sheets as of the end of such period, related profit and loss statement, statement of changes in shareholders equity and statement of

cash flows (but excluding any work papers relating thereto), accompanied by a certificate of said accountants that, in connection with their audit, nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that the Parent and its Subsidiaries failed to comply with the terms, covenants, provisions or conditions of Articles V, VI or VII of this Agreement insofar as they relate to accounting matters;

(ii) within 45 days after the close of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Parent, or earlier if required pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date thereof, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2020, consolidated unaudited balance sheets of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the close of each fiscal quarter and consolidated profit and loss statements for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of such quarter, all certified by the Chief Financial Officer of the Parent;

(iii) simultaneously with the furnishing of the financial statements required under Sections 6.1(a)(i), 6.1(a)(ii) and 6.1(a)(x) a Compliance Certificate (A) certifying, in the case of the financial statements delivered under Section 6.1(a)(ii), as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Parent and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes, (B) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (C) [reserved], (D) unless disclosed in the financial statements accompanying such certificate, stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof that impacts such financial statements has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 5.4 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate and (E) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations showing the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio;

(iv) within 60 days after the close of each of the Parent’s fiscal years, a copy of the consolidated budget (including a projected consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries on a quarterly basis of such fiscal year (the “Projections”) in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(v) as soon as available but in any event (A) if a Weekly Reporting Period is not in effect, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, commencing with the calendar month ending November 30, 2020 and (B) during a Weekly Reporting Period, within 3 Business Days of the end of each calendar week, as applicable, as of the last Business Day of the applicable period then ended, a Borrowing Base Certificate;

(vi) as soon as available but in any event (A) if a Weekly Reporting Period is not in effect, within 30 days after of the end of each calendar month, commencing with the calendar month ending November 30, 2020 and (B) during a Weekly Reporting Period, within 3 Business Days after of the end of each calendar week, as applicable, as of the last Business Day of the applicable period then ended, all delivered electronically in a text formatted file reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent:

(A) a detailed aging of the Borrowing Base Parties’ Accounts, prepared in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(B) a schedule detailing the Borrowing Base Parties’ Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe, in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and

(C) a worksheet of calculations prepared by the Borrower to determine Eligible Accounts, Eligible Unbilled Accounts, Eligible Inventory and Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe, such worksheets detailing the Accounts, Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe excluded from Eligible Accounts, Eligible Unbilled Accounts, Eligible Inventory and Eligible Premium Rental Drill Pipe and the reason for such exclusion.

(vii) as soon as available but in any event (A) if a Weekly Reporting Period is not in effect, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, commencing with the calendar month ending November 30, 2020 and (B) during a Weekly Reporting Period, within 3 Business Days of the end of each calendar week, as applicable, as of the period then ended, an aggregate schedule of the Borrowing Base Parties’ accounts payable, including a detailed aging of such accounts payable and identifying any accounts payable that may result in reductions of accounts receivable due to the imposition of materialman’s liens or otherwise, delivered electronically in a text formatted file reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(viii) upon the Administrative Agent’s request (x) if a Weekly Reporting Period is not in effect, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, commencing with the calendar month ending November 30, 2020 and (y) during a Weekly Reporting Period, within 3 Business Days of the end of each calendar week, as applicable, as of the last Business Day of the applicable period then ended, all delivered electronically in a text formatted file reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent:

(A) copies of invoices issued by the Borrowing Base Parties in connection with any Accounts included in the Borrowing Base;

(B) copies of invoices in connection with any Inventory or Premium Rental Drill Pipe included in the Borrowing Base; and

(C) an updated customer list for the Borrowing Base Parties, which list shall state the customer’s name and contact information;

(ix) as soon as possible and in any event within 10 days after receipt by the Parent or Borrower, a copy of any notice alleging any violation of any federal, state or local environmental, health or safety law or regulation by the Parent, Borrower or any of Borrower’s Subsidiaries, which, in either case, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(x) within 30 days after the end of each calendar month (other than the last calendar month of any fiscal quarter), commencing with the calendar month ending November 30, 2020 (i) consolidated unaudited balance sheets of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the close of end of such period, (ii) consolidated profit and loss statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries and (iii) cash flow statements of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries, in each case, for such month and the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of such month and certified by the Chief Financial Officer of the Parent;

(xi) beginning with the Thursday of the second full calendar week after the Petition Date and on each Thursday thereafter, the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and FTI Consulting a Variance Report and Liquidity Report;

(xii) beginning with the Thursday of the second full calendar week after the Closing Date and on each Thursday thereafter, the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and FTI Consulting (A) a 13-week cash flow forecast in .pdf and excel formats and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (the “13-Week Forecast”), which 13-Week Forecast and any amendments thereto shall reflect, for the periods covered thereby, projected weekly disbursements, cash receipts, and ending cash for each week covered by the 13-Week Forecast, and (B) with respect to

each 13-Week Forecast that is also an updated Budget, a certificate of a financial officer of the Borrower stating that such Budget has been prepared on a reasonable basis and in good faith and is based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made and from the best information then available to the Borrower in connection therewith (such certificate a “Budget Certificate”); and

(xiii) such other information (including non-financial information) as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.

(b) Reports and financial statements required to be delivered by the Parent and the Borrower pursuant to Sections 6.1(a)(i) and (a)(ii) shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Parent posts such reports, or reports containing such financial statements, on its website on the Internet at www.superiorenergy.com, at www.sec.gov or at such other website identified by the Parent in a notice to the Administrative Agent and that is accessible by the Lenders without charge; provided that the Parent shall deliver paper copies of such information to any Lender promptly upon request of such Lender through the Administrative Agent and provided further that the Lenders shall be deemed to have received the information specified in Sections 6.1(a)(i) and (a)(ii) on the date (x) the information is posted on a website identified from time to time by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Parent and such website is accessible by the Lenders without charge, and (y) such posting is notified to the Lenders (it being understood that the Parent shall have satisfied the timing obligations imposed by those clauses as of the date such information is delivered to the Administrative Agent).

6.2 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to use the Letters of Credit for general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its subsidiaries. The Borrower will not request any Letter of Credit, and the Borrower shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Letter of Credit (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States, (iii) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto (iv) in a manner inconsistent with the Budget, (v) to challenge the validity, perfection, priority, extent or enforceability of the obligations under the DIP Facility, the Exit Facility or the facility under the Existing Credit Agreement, (vi) to investigate or assert any other claims or causes of action against the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, any other agent or any Lender with respect to any holder of any such obligations, except as agreed by the Administrative Agent and provided in the DIP Order with respect to any investigation regarding the facility under the Existing Credit Agreement or (viii) for any act which has the effect of materially or adversely modifying or compromising the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or any such party with respect to the DIP Facility, the Exit Facility or any Loan Document (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement).

6.3 Notices of Material Events. The Parent and the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt (but in any event within any time period that may be specified below) written notice of the following:

(a) the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default and of any other development (financial or otherwise) that results, or could reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect, in each case, of which any member of executive management has actual knowledge;

(b) the occurrence of any casualty or other insured damage to any assets of a Borrowing Base Party or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking of any material assets of a Borrowing Base Party or interest therein under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding which would reasonably be expected to result in a Prepayment Event;

(c) to the extent any such matter has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, receipt of any notice of any investigation by a Governmental Authority or any litigation or proceeding commenced or threatened against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary;

(d) upon any Authorized Officer’s knowledge thereof, any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) or claim made or asserted against any of the DIP Collateral; and

(e) to the extent reasonably practicable at least two (2) days prior to filing (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree), the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Administrative Agent copies of all material pleadings and motions (other than “first day” motions and proposed orders, and other than emergency pleadings or motions where, despite such Borrower’s commercially reasonable efforts, such two (2) day notice is not possible) to be filed by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of the other Loan Parties with the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases, or to be distributed by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of the other Loan Parties to any official committee appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases, which such pleadings shall include the Administrative Agent as a notice party.

Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of an Authorized Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

6.4 Conduct of Business. Subject to any necessary order or authorization of the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same manner and in the same general fields of enterprise as it is presently conducted and do all things necessary to remain duly incorporated or organized, validly existing and (to the extent such concept applies to such entity) in good standing as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company in its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, as the case may be, and maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Parent will continue to be the sole member of the Borrower, and the Borrower shall continue to be the sole Subsidiary of the Parent.

6.5 Taxes. Except where such payment is excused by, or is otherwise prohibited by the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code or order of the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, timely file complete and to the best of the Parent’s and the Borrower’s knowledge, correct United States federal and applicable foreign, state and local tax returns required by law and pay when due all taxes, assessments and governmental charges and levies upon it or its income, profits or Property, taking into account any extensions relating thereto, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.6 Insurance. The Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on a material portion of their Property in such amounts and covering such risks as is consistent with sound business practice, or as otherwise provided in the Collateral Documents, and the Borrower will furnish to any Lender upon request full information as to the insurance carried. The loss payable clauses or provisions in the applicable insurance policy or policies insuring any of the DIP Collateral shall be endorsed in favor of and made payable to the Administrative Agent as a “loss payee” and such liability policies shall name the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as “additional insureds”. To the extent that the insurer will agree to

do so, such policies shall also provide that the insurer will endeavor to give at least 30 days prior notice of any cancellation to the Administrative Agent and at least 10 days prior notice of any non-payment of any insurance premium. Borrower shall maintain flood insurance on all real property constituting DIP Collateral, from such providers, in amounts and on terms in accordance with the Flood Laws or as otherwise satisfactory to all Lenders.

6.7 Compliance with Laws; Environmental and ERISA Matters; Compliance with Material Contractual Obligations.

(a) Other than violations arising as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and except as otherwise excused by the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Parent’s Subsidiaries to, comply in all material respects with all laws, rules, regulations, orders, writs, judgments, injunctions, decrees or awards to which it or its Property may be subject including, without limitation, Regulations U, T, and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and also including, without limitation, ERISA and Environmental Laws.

(b) The Parent and Borrower will furnish to the Lenders, promptly following receipt thereof, copies of any documents described in Section 101(f), (j), (k), and (l) of ERISA that any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate may request and/or receive with respect to any Plan; provided, that if the Loan Parties or any ERISA Affiliate has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Plan, then, upon reasonable request of the Lenders, the Loan Parties and/or their ERISA Affiliates shall promptly make such request and the Borrower shall provide copies of such documents and notices to the Lenders promptly after receipt thereof.

(c) The Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

(d) Other than violations arising as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and except as otherwise excused by the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Parent’s Subsidiaries to, perform in all material respects their respective obligations under material agreements to which each such entity is a party.

6.8 Maintenance of Properties. Except where compliance is excluded by, or is otherwise prohibited by the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code or order of the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, do all things reasonably necessary to maintain, preserve, protect and keep its Property material to its business in good repair, working order and condition in light of the uses for such Property, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and make all necessary and proper repairs, renewals and replacements so that its business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times.

6.9 Books and Records; Field Examinations and Appraisals.

(a) The Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, (i) keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP in all material respects consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and (ii) permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its Properties, to conduct at such Loan Party’s premises field examinations of such Loan Party’s Properties, liabilities, books and records, including examining and making extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants (and hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to contact its independent

accountants directly) and to provide contact information for each bank where each Loan Party has a depository and/or securities account and each such Loan Party hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to contact the bank(s) in order to request bank statements and/or balances, all at such reasonable times during normal business hours upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower, all at the reasonable and documented expense of the Borrower; provided, that the Administrative Agent has the right to conduct only two (2) field examination during any 12-month period and one (1) additional field examination (for the total of three (3) such field examinations during any 12-month period) conducted at any time (i) after Availability falls below the greater of (A) $35,000,000 and (B) 30% of the lesser of (1) the Aggregate Commitment and (2) the Borrowing Base or (ii) the sum of (A) excess Availability and (B) unrestricted cash of the Loan Parties is less than $50,000,000 (it being understood that unrestricted cash shall exclude (x) any cash of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (y) any cash which is pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (z) Eligible Cash); provided, further, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may conduct unlimited field examinations during any 12-month period.

(b) The Parent and the Borrower will, and will cause each of the Borrowing Base Parties to, provide the Administrative Agent with appraisals or updates thereof of their Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe from an appraiser reasonably satisfactory the Administrative Agent, and prepared on a basis reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; provided, that the Administrative Agent may only request one (1) Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe appraisal during any 12-month period and one (1) additional Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe appraisal (for the total of two (2) such Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe appraisals during any 12-month period) conducted at any time after (i) Availability falls below the greater of (A) $35,000,000 and (B) 30% of the lesser of (1) the Aggregate Commitment and (2) the Borrowing Base or (ii) the sum of (A) excess Availability and (B) unrestricted cash of the Loan Parties is less than $50,000,000 (it being understood that unrestricted cash shall exclude (x) any cash of Loan Parties not held in a Controlled Account, (y) any cash which is pledged to secure any Loan Party’s obligations under any letter of credit or other obligations (including Letters of Credit) and (z) Eligible Cash); provided, further, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may request unlimited Inventory and Premium Rental Drill Pipe appraisals during any 12-month period.

6.10 Restricted Payments.

(a) The Parent will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests.

(b) The Parent will not declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so.

6.11 Funded Indebtedness; Rate Management Transactions.

(a) The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur or suffer to exist any Funded Indebtedness or Rate Management Transaction, except:

(i) The Letters of Credit.

(ii) Rate Management Transactions (A) related to Funded Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this Section 6.11 or (B) entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risk to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure, including without limitation, oil and gas production, foreign exchange transactions, sales and related activities and, in each case, outstanding on the Petition Date.

(iii) Unsecured Funded Indebtedness of the Borrower owed to the Parent or one or more of its Subsidiaries or unsecured Funded Indebtedness of one or more of its Subsidiaries owed to the Parent or the Borrower or Funded Indebtedness of one or more of the Subsidiaries owed to one or more of the other Subsidiaries.

(iv) Funded Indebtedness pursuant to the Senior Notes outstanding on the Petition Date.

(v) Obligations in respect of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), statutory or regulatory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including (i) those to secure human health, workplace safety and environmental protection obligations and (ii) letters of credit and bank guarantees required or requested by any Governmental Authority in connection with any contract or applicable l aw) incurred in the ordinary course of business.

(vi) [Reserved].

(vii) Any Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect of any Funded Indebtedness described in the foregoing Section 6.11(a)(i) through (iv).

(viii) Funded Indebtedness arising from the Fourth Amendment Credit Support Obligations (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) secured solely by Liens permitted under Section 6.14(a)(ix).

(b) The Parent will not create, incur or suffer to exist any Funded Indebtedness, except Funded Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or a Subsidiary and Guarantee Obligations in respect of:

(i) The Letters of Credit.

(ii) The Borrower’s Obligations arising under Rate Management Transactions.

(iii) Any other Funded Indebtedness or Rate Management Transactions of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries permitted by Section 6.11(a).

6.12 Merger. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, merge or consolidate with or into any other Person. The Parent will not merge or consolidate with or into any other Person.

6.13 Sale of Assets.

(a) The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of its Property to any other Person, except:

(i) Sales of inventory, used or surplus equipment and Investments in the ordinary course of business; provided, that 100% of the consideration received in respect of sales of Property included in the Borrowing Base shall be cash.

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) [Reserved].

(iv) Transfers of Property among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided such transfer constitutes a Permitted Investment or if such transfer is not an Investment, if it was treated as an Investment, would constitute a Permitted Investment.

(v) A sale of assets in the ordinary course of business which are promptly replaced thereafter by assets of a similar type and value, or otherwise useful in the business of the Borrower or one of the Subsidiaries.

(vi) [Reserved].

(vii) [Reserved].

(viii) Dispositions of cash and cash equivalents to Fourth Amendment Credit Support Cash Collateral Accounts.

(b) The Parent will not lease, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its membership interest in the Borrower to any other Person.

6.14 Liens.

(a) The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on the Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, except for the following:

(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on its Property (A) if the same are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP shall have been set aside on its books or (B) the nonpayment of which is permitted or required by the Bankruptcy Code or order of the Bankruptcy Court.

(ii) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, maritime, and oil and gas well liens and other similar liens arising in the ordinary course of business which secure payment of obligations not more than 90 days past due or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves shall have been set aside on its books.

(iii) Inchoate and contractual Liens arising in the ordinary course of the oil and gas business under joint operating agreements, leases, farm outs, division orders and similar agreements.

(iv) Liens arising out of pledges or deposits (A) under worker’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation and (B) under Funded Indebtedness of the type permitted by Section 6.11(a)(v), which with respect to this clause (B) is limited to securing obligations in the aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000.

(v) Utility easements, building restrictions and such other encumbrances or charges against real property as are of a nature generally existing with respect to properties of a similar character and which do not in any material way affect the marketability of the same or interfere with the use thereof in the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries.

(vi) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure the Secured Obligations.

(vii) Attachment, judgment and other similar, non-tax Liens in connection with court proceedings, but only if and for so long as the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is and continues to be effectively stayed and bonded on appeal in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Lenders for the full amount of such Liens, the validity and amount of the claims secured thereby are being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate lawful proceedings, such Liens do not, in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of the Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business and such Liens are and remain junior in priority to the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent.

(viii) Adequate Protection Liens.

(ix) Liens in existence on the Petition Date on one or more cash collateral accounts and any cash contained therein, held with an issuer of any Fourth Amendment Credit Support Obligation with respect to such issuer’s Fourth Amendment Credit Support Obligations.

(x) Financing statement filings in respect of operating leases intended by the parties to be true leases in existence on the Petition Date.

(xi) Liens of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section 4 208 of the UCC in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items being collected upon.

(b) The Parent will not create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or on the Property of the Parent, except for the following:

(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on its Property if the same are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP shall have been set aside on its books.

(ii) Liens arising out of pledges or deposits under worker’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation.

(iii) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure the Secured Obligations.

(iv) Attachment, judgment and other similar, non-tax Liens in connection with court proceedings, but only if and for so long as the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is and continues to be effectively stayed and bonded on appeal in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Lenders for the full amount of such Liens, the validity and amount of the claims secured thereby are being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate lawful proceedings, such Liens do not, in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of the Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business and such Liens are and remain junior in priority to the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent.

(v) Liens securing Capitalized Lease Obligations or purchase money obligations; provided that such Liens only attach to the property (a) acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness or (b) which is the subject of such Capitalized Lease Obligations.

(vi) Financing statement filings in respect of operating leases intended by the parties to be true leases.

6.15 Fiscal Year. No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, change its fiscal year from the basis in effect on the Petition Date.

6.16 Transactions with Affiliates. The Borrower and the Parent will not, and will not permit any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction (including, without limitation, the purchase or sale of any Property or service) with, or make any payment or transfer to, any Affiliate except (a) in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Borrower’s or the Parent’s or such Subsidiary’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower, the Parent or such Subsidiary than the Borrower, the Parent or such Subsidiary would obtain in a comparable arms height and length transaction; and (b) transactions between or among the Borrower and/or the Parent and/or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower and/or the Parent.

6.17 Financial Covenant.

(a) The Loan Parties shall not permit Liquidity at any time to be less than $125,000,000.

(b) On the Thursday of the second full calendar week after the Closing Date and on every other Thursday thereafter (each such date, a “Testing Date”), the Borrower shall not permit the actual cash disbursements made by the Loan Parties (excluding disbursements in respect of Professional Fees related to the Chapter 11 Cases) during the applicable Testing Period to be greater than 115% of the projected aggregate cash disbursements as set forth in the Budget for such Testing Period. “Testing Period” shall mean (A) with respect to the first Variance Report required to be delivered hereunder, the period from the Closing Date to the Friday immediately preceding the date on which such Variance Report was required to be delivered and (B) with respect to any other Variance Report, the two week period ending on the Friday immediately preceding the date such Variance Report was required to be delivered.

6.18 Investments. Except for Permitted Investments, the Parent will not, and will not permit the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Investments in any Person who is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary. The Parent and the Borrower each will not and will not permit any Subsidiary to make any Acquisition of any Person.

6.19 Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments. The Parent and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of the Senior Notes if the effect of such amendment, modification, waiver or other change would be (a) to shorten the scheduled maturity date of the Senior Notes or such other indebtedness, (b) to increase the frequency or amount of any amortization payment thereunder, (c) to impose a financial maintenance covenant, (d) to reduce the maximum principal amount of Obligations permitted to be secured under the indentures governing the Senior Notes without triggering the equal and ratable provisions thereof, (e) to impose any other restriction or event of default which is not also being offered to the Lenders concurrently or (f) directly adverse to the Lenders.

6.20 Negative Pledge Agreements. Except pursuant to this Agreement or an order of the Bankruptcy Court, the Parent and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Loan Party to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of such Person to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its Property, or (b) the ability of such Person to make Restricted Payments with respect to any of its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or to guarantee indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to (i) restrictions and conditions imposed by any requirement of law or by any Loan Document or the Senior Note Indentures, (ii) restrictions and conditions existing on the Petition Date identified on Schedule 6.20 (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the Property securing such indebtedness, (v) customary provisions in leases and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof, (vi) limitations set forth in any agreement in effect at the time any Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary, so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary and any renewal or permitted amendment thereof, (vii) customary provisions in joint venture agreements or other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures and applicable solely to such joint venture or (viii) customary provisions restricting assignment, transfer or sub-letting of any agreement.

6.21 Capital Expenditures. No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur or commit to incur any Capital Expenditures other than Capital Expenditures set forth in the Budget.

6.22 Key Employee Plans. No Loan Party shall (a)(i) enter into any key employee or executive incentive or retention plan, other than such plans in effect as of the Petition Date or (ii) amend or modify any existing key employee retention plan and incentive plan in a manner that increases benefits payable thereunder, unless such plan, amendment or modification, as applicable, is reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders and (b) other than the payments of salary, wages or expense reimbursements, in each case to managers, officers, and management- or executive-level employees of any of the Loan Parties, make any grant or payment after the Closing Date (including pursuant to a key employee or executive incentive or retention plan or other similar agreement or arrangement) to any director, manager, officer, or management- or executive-level employee of any of the Loan Parties.

6.23 Superpriority Claims. No Loan Party shall create or permit to exist any Superpriority Claim other than Superpriority Claims permitted by the DIP Order (including the Carve-Out).

6.24 Negative Pledge on Real Property. No Loan Party shall create, incur or permit to exist any Lien in, of or on any real property of such Loan Party, other than Permitted Liens.

ARTICLE VII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

7.1 Events of Default. The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute an Event of Default:

(a) Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Parent, the Borrower or any of Borrower’s Subsidiaries to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under or in connection with this Agreement, any certificate or information delivered in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be materially false on the date as of which made or deemed made.

(b) (i) The Borrower shall fail to pay any reimbursement obligation in respect of any L/C Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise.

(ii) The Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any obligation, fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in Section 7.1(b)(ii)) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any Loan Party shall fail to pay any Rate Management Obligations or Specified Cash Management Obligations to any Lender or affiliate thereof, in each case when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five days.

(c) The breach by the Parent or Borrower of any of the terms or provisions of Sections 6.3(a), 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.17, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.22 or 6.23.

(d) Any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Sections 2.18(e) and (f), 6.1, 6.3 (other than Section 6.3(a)), 6.4, 6.6, 6.8 or 6.9 and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) Business Days after the earlier of any Authorized Officer’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Administrative Agent.

(e) Any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those which constitute a default under another Section of this Article VII), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the earlier of any Authorized Officer’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Administrative Agent.

(f) Failure of the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries to pay when due any Funded Indebtedness, Rate Management Obligations or Specified Cash Management Obligations, in each case incurred after the Petition Date, to any Person (other than the Lenders) aggregating in excess of $1,000,000 (“Material Indebtedness”); or the default by the Parent, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries in the performance (beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any) of any term, provision or condition contained in any agreement under which any such Material Indebtedness was created or is governed, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness to cause, such Material Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity; or any Material Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid or repurchased (other than by a regularly scheduled payment) prior to the stated maturity thereof.

(g) [Reserved].

(h) [Reserved].

(i) Any court, government or governmental agency shall condemn, seize or otherwise appropriate, or take custody or control of, all or any portion of the Property of the Parent, the Borrower and Borrower’s Subsidiaries which, when taken together with all other Property of the Parent, the Borrower and Borrower’s Subsidiaries so condemned, seized, appropriated, or taken custody or control of, during the twelve month period ending with the month in which any such action occurs, constitutes a Substantial Portion.

(j) The Parent, the Borrower or any of Borrower’s Subsidiaries shall fail within 30 days to pay, bond or otherwise discharge one or more (i) judgments or orders for the payment of money in excess of $1,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in currencies other than U.S. Dollars) in the aggregate, or (ii) nonmonetary judgments or orders which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which judgment(s), in any such case, is/are not stayed on appeal or otherwise being appropriately contested in good faith.

(k) Any Change in Control shall occur.

(l) [Reserved].

(m) (i) The occurrence of any of the following that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: a Reportable Event with respect to any Plan; the withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from any Plan; the insolvency or termination of any Plan; any Plan becoming in at risk, endangered, or critical status (within the meaning of Sections 303 or 305 of ERISA); the failure to pay when due (after expiration of any applicable grace period) any installment with respect to liability imposed in connection with a withdrawal under Section 4201 of ERISA.

(ii) The Parent or the Borrower becomes an entity deemed to hold “plan assets” within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101 of an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which is subject to Title I of ERISA or any plan (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code).

(n) Any material provision of any Loan Document for any reason ceases to be valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms (or any Loan Party shall challenge the enforceability of any Loan Document or assert in writing, or engage in any action or inaction that evidences its assertion, that any provision of any of the Loan Documents has ceased to be or otherwise is not valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms).

(o) The occurrence of any of the following:

(i) (A) The entry of an order dismissing the Chapter 11 Cases or converting the Chapter 11 Cases to a case under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, (B) the entry of an order appointing a chapter 11 trustee in the Chapter 11 Cases, (C) the entry of an order in the Chapter 11 Case appointing an examiner having expanded powers (beyond those set forth under Sections 1106(a)(3) and (4) of the Bankruptcy Code) and (D) the filing of any pleading by any Loan Party seeking, or otherwise consenting to, any of the matters set forth in clauses (A) through (C) above.

(ii) (A) An amendment, supplement or other modification shall have been made to, or a consent or waiver shall have been granted with respect to any departure by any person from the provisions of, the Approved Plan (without giving effect to such amendment, supplement, modification, consent or waiver), in each case, in a manner that is not permitted pursuant to the definition thereof (it being agreed an amendment, supplement or other modification to the Approved Plan to provide for both the payment in full and in cash of all Secured Obligations under this Agreement (including the cash collateralization of any Letters of Credit) and the termination of all Commitments hereunder, and all claims under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date and for third party releases in favor of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and any other secured parties under the Existing Credit Agreement, this Agreement or other Loan Documents (such a plan of reorganization, a “Cash Pay Plan”) shall not constitute an Event of Default), (B) any plan other than the Approved Plan or a Cash Pay Plan is filed by, or with the support of, a Loan Party without the consent of the Required Lenders, (C) the Loan Parties shall have commenced or participated in furtherance of any solicitation in respect of a proposed plan or reorganization other than the Approved Plan or a Cash Pay Plan, (D) the Bankruptcy Court shall terminate or reduce the

period pursuant to Section 1121 of the Bankruptcy Code during which the Loan Parties have the exclusive right to file a plan of reorganization and solicit acceptances thereof, (E) the Bankruptcy Court shall grant relief that is inconsistent with the Approved Plan in any material respect and that is adverse to the Administrative Agent’s or the Secured Parties’ interests or inconsistent with the Loan Documents or (F) any of the Loan Parties or any of their affiliates shall file any motion or pleading with the Bankruptcy Court that is inconsistent in any material respect with the Approved Plan and such motion or pleading has not been withdrawn prior to the earlier of (y) three (3) Business Days of the Borrower receiving notice from the Administrative Agent and (z) entry of an order of the Bankruptcy Court approving such motion or pleading.

(iii) The entry of the Final Order shall not have occurred on or before the Final Order Entry Deadline, or there shall be a breach by any Loan Party of any material provisions of the Interim Order (prior to entry of the Final Order) or the Final Order, or the Interim Order (prior to entry of the Final Order) or Final Order shall cease to be in full force and effect or shall have been reversed, modified, amended, stayed, vacated or subject to stay pending appeal, in the case of any modification or amendment, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent and Required Lenders.

(iv) Other than the DIP Order in respect of the Carve-Out, the entry of an order in the Chapter 11 Cases charging any of the DIP Collateral under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code against the Lenders under which any person takes action against the DIP Collateral or that becomes a final non-appealable order, or the commencement of other actions that is adverse to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or their respective rights and remedies under the DIP Facility in any of the Chapter 11 Cases or inconsistent with the Loan Documents.

(v) The entry of an order granting relief from any stay of proceeding (including, without limitation, the automatic stay) so as to allow a third party to proceed with foreclosure (or granting of a deed in lieu of foreclosure) against any asset with a value in excess of $250,000.

(vi) The payment of any pre-Petition Date claims (other than (A) in respect of accrued payroll and related expenses as of the Petition Date or (B) as permitted by the Interim Order, the Final Order, or pursuant to an order entered in the Chapter 11 Cases that is supported, or not objected to, by the Required Lenders, including any “first day” motions and proposed orders).

(vii) Any lien securing or Superpriority Claim in respect of the obligations under the DIP Facility shall cease to be valid, perfected (if applicable) and enforceable in all respects or to have the priority granted under the Interim Order and the Final Order, as applicable.

(viii) The existence of any claims or charges (including any grant of adequate protection), or the entry of any order of the Bankruptcy Court authorizing any claims or charges (including any grant of adequate protection), other than in respect of the DIP Facility and the Carve-Out or as otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents, entitled to superpriority under Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code pari passu with or senior to the DIP Facility, or there shall arise or be granted by the Bankruptcy Court (A) any claim having priority over any or all administrative expenses of the kind specified in clause (b) of Section 503 or clause (b) of Section 507 of the Bankruptcy Code (other than the Carve Out and the DIP Term Loan Documents) that is pari passu or senior to the Superpriority Claim or (B) any Lien on the DIP Collateral having a priority senior to or pari passu with the liens and security interests granted pursuant to the DIP Order and the Loan Documents, except as expressly provided herein or in the Interim Order or the Final Order, whichever is in effect.

(ix) The Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries, shall obtain court authorization to commence, or shall commence, join in, assist or otherwise participate as an adverse party in any suit or other proceeding against the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders relating to the DIP Facility or the Existing Credit Agreement.

(x) Failure to satisfy any of the Milestones in accordance with the terms relating to such Milestone.

(xi) After the entry thereof by the Bankruptcy Court, the Confirmation Order shall cease to be in full force and effect, or any Loan Party shall fail to satisfy in full all obligations under the DIP Facility (or convert the DIP Facility into the Exit Facility) on or prior to the effective date of the Approved Plan or fail to comply in any material respect with the Confirmation Order, or the Confirmation Order shall have been revoked, remanded, vacated, reversed, rescinded or modified or amended in any manner that (A) is adverse to the Secured Parties’ interests, rights or treatment or inconsistent with the Loan Documents, (B) alters the debt capital structure of the Loan Parties as set forth in the Approved Plan, (C) allows for the incurrence of indebtedness upon or in conjunction with the effective date of the Approved Plan not otherwise contemplated under the Approved Plan (without giving effect to any such modification or supplement) or (D) changes the priority or treatment of any indebtedness from that set forth in the Approved Plan (without giving effect to any such modification or supplement).

(xii) Except as otherwise consented to by the Required Lenders, any sale, conveyance, disposition or other transfer of all or a material portion of the DIP Collateral pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code other than as permitted pursuant (A) the Interim Order or the Final Order or (B) the Approved Plan.

(xiii) The Loan Parties, taken as a whole, cease to conduct substantially all of their business operations.

(xiv) [Reserved].

(xv) Any Loan Party fail to comply with the Interim Order or the Final Order in any material respect.

(xvi) Any Loan Party shall commence, join in, assist or otherwise participate (or attempt to commence, join in, assist or otherwise participate) as an adverse party in any suit or other proceeding against the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders to (A) contest the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or (B) contest the validity or perfection of any Lien securing the Secured Obligations.

ARTICLE VIII

ACCELERATION AND REMEDIES

8.1 Acceleration. If any Event of Default occurs, the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders) may declare the Obligations (including, but not limited to, the cash collateral for the L/C Exposure, together with the accrued interest thereon and all fees) to be due and payable, or both, whereupon the Obligations shall become immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which the Borrower hereby expressly waives.

8.2 Preservation of Rights. No delay or omission of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent to exercise any right or power under the Loan Documents shall impair such right or power or be construed to be a waiver thereof, and the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit notwithstanding the existence of an Event of Default or the inability of the Borrower to satisfy the conditions precedent to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall not

constitute any waiver or acquiescence. Any single or partial exercise of any such right or power shall not preclude other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power, and no waiver, amendment or other variation of the terms, conditions or provisions of the Loan Documents whatsoever shall be valid unless in writing signed by the Lenders required pursuant to Section 9.11, and then only to the extent in such writing specifically set forth. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders hereunder or contained in any other Loan Document or by law afforded shall be cumulative, and not exclusive of any rights that they would otherwise have, and all shall be available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders until the Obligations have been paid in full.

8.3 Application of Proceeds. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.19, and subject to the DIP Order, all proceeds realized from the liquidation or other disposition of collateral, whether by acceleration or otherwise, shall be applied ratably:

(a) first, to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements then due to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender from the Borrower (other than in connection with Specified Cash Management Obligations or Rate Management Obligations);

(b) second, to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements then due to the Lenders from the Borrower (other than in connection with Specified Cash Management Obligations or Rate Management Obligations);

(d) fourth, to prepay principal and interest on unreimbursed L/C Disbursements, ratably;

(e) fifth, to pay an amount to the Administrative Agent equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the aggregate L/C Exposure, to be held as cash collateral for such Obligations;

(f) sixth, to pay any amounts owing in respect of Specified Cash Management Obligations and Rate Management Obligations up to and including the amount most recently provided to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 8.3; and

(g) seventh, to the payment of any other Secured Obligation due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by the Borrower or any other Loan Party.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) amounts received from any Loan Party shall not be applied to any Excluded Swap Obligation of such Loan Party and (y) Secured Obligations arising under Specified Cash Management Obligations and Rate Management Obligations shall be excluded from the application described above in clause (f) if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, from the applicable Lender or Affiliate thereof (other than JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or any of its Affiliates who shall have been deemed to have provided such notice), as the case may be. Each Affiliate of a Lender not a party to this Agreement that has given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice, be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of Article VIII hereof for itself and its Affiliates as if a “Lender” party hereto. It is understood and agreed that Lenders who were also Lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement that, prior to the Closing Date, provided notices to the Existing Agent in respect of Banking Services for, or Rate Management Transactions with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall have been deemed to have provided such notices under this Agreement.

ARTICLE IX

GENERAL PROVISIONS

9.1 Survival of Representations. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Aggregate Commitment has not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 9.6 and Article X shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Aggregate Commitment or the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.

9.2 Governmental Regulation. Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, no Lender shall be obligated to extend credit to the Borrower in violation of any limitation or prohibition provided by any applicable statute or regulation.

9.3 Headings. Section headings in the Loan Documents are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of the provisions of the Loan Documents.

9.4 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the Parent, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.

9.5 Several Obligations; Benefits of this Agreement. The respective obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint and no Lender shall be the partner or agent of any other (except to the extent to which the Administrative Agent is authorized to act as an agent). The failure of any Lender to perform any of its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. This Agreement shall not be construed so as to confer any right or benefit upon any Person other than the parties to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns, provided, however, that the parties hereto expressly agree that the Arrangers shall enjoy the benefits of the provisions of Sections 9.6, 9.10 and 10.7 to the extent specifically set forth therein and each such Arranger shall have the right to enforce such provisions on its own behalf and in its own name to the same extent as if it were a party to this Agreement.

9.6 Expenses; Indemnification.

(a) The Loan Parties shall, jointly and severally, reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers for any reasonable costs and out of pocket expenses (including (i) reasonable and documented, out-of-pocket costs, expenses and fees of one financial advisor and (ii) attorneys’ fees and charges of one primary counsel for the Administrative Agent, which attorneys may be employees of the Administrative Agent) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent or the Arrangers in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, syndication, review, amendment, modification, and administration of the Loan Documents (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby

shall be consummated). The Loan Parties shall, jointly and severally, reimburse the Lenders for any reasonable costs and out of pocket expenses (including (x) reasonable and documented, out-of-pocket costs, expenses and fees of one financial advisor and (y) attorneys’ fees and charges of one primary counsel for the Lenders) paid or incurred by the Lenders in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, syndication, review, amendment, modification, and administration of the Loan Documents (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated). The Loan Parties also agree, jointly and severally, to reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders and any Issuing Lender for any costs and out of pocket expenses (including attorneys’ fees and charges of attorneys for the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders and any Issuing Lender, which attorneys may be employees of the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, the Lenders or any Issuing Lender, but only including the fees and charges of one financial advisor for the Administrative Agent, Lenders and Issuing Lenders as a whole) paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, any Lender or any Issuing Lender in connection with the protection, collection or enforcement of the rights of any of the foregoing in connection with the Loan Documents, including all such out of pocket expenses incurred during any workout or restructuring in respect of such Loan Documents. Without limitation of the foregoing, the Loan Parties shall reimburse the Administrative Agent for the fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with (i) any field exams, audits, appraisals or other reviews permitted under Section 6.9 to the extent provided therein or (ii) collecting checks and other items of payment while a Cash Dominion Trigger Period is in effect. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Loan Parties hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Loan Parties contained in this Section 9.6(a) shall survive the termination of this Agreement, the termination of all Commitments, and the payment of amounts payable under this Agreement.

(b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers, each Issuing Lender and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims (including intraparty claims), demands, damages or liabilities of any kind (collectively “Liabilities”) and related expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of one firm of counsel for all Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, one specialist counsel in each area of specialty reasonably necessary and one firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction, and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest (as reasonably determined by an Indemnitee), one additional firm of counsel in each relevant jurisdiction and specialty for the affected Indemnitees similarly situated, taken as a whole, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Letter of Credit, L/C Participation or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by an Issuing Lender to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective Proceedings relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not such Proceedings is brought by the Parent, the Borrower or any other Loan Party or their respective equity holders, Affiliates, creditors or any other third Person and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such Liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. This Section 9.6(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims or damages arising from any non-Tax claim. The obligations of the Borrower under this Section 9.6(b) shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

(c) To the extent that any Loan Party fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or the Issuing Lender (or any Indemnitee of any of the foregoing) under Section 9.6(a) or (b), each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender (or any Indemnitee of any of the foregoing), as the case may be, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount (it being understood that any such payment by the Lenders shall not relieve any Loan Party of any default in the payment thereof); provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, penalty, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender in its capacity as such.

(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, (i) no Loan Party shall assert, and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials (including, without limitation, any personal data) obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), or (ii) no party hereto shall assert, and each party hereto hereby waives, any claim against any other party, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby any Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing in this paragraph (d) shall relieve any Loan Party of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee against any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.

(e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than 10 days after written demand therefor.

9.7 Usury Savings Clause. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the aggregate interest rate charged hereunder, including all charges or fees in connection therewith deemed in the nature of interest under applicable law, shall not exceed the Highest Lawful Rate (as such term is defined below). It is the intention of the Lenders and the Borrower to conform strictly to any applicable usury laws. Accordingly, if any Lender contracts for, charges, or receives any consideration which constitutes interest in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate, then any such excess shall be cancelled automatically and, if previously paid, shall be used to cash collateralize the L/C Exposure pursuant to Section 2.2.9. As used in this paragraph, the term “Highest Lawful Rate” means the maximum lawful interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, charged, or received under the laws applicable to such Lender which are presently in effect or, to the extent allowed by law, under such applicable laws which may hereafter be in effect and which allow a higher maximum nonusurious interest rate than applicable laws now allow.

9.8 Severability of Provisions. Any provision in any Loan Document that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid without affecting the remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the operation, enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of all Loan Documents are declared to be severable.

9.9 Acknowledgements. Each of the Parent and the Borrower hereby acknowledges that: (a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; (b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Parent or the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between Administrative Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and the Parent and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and (c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Parent, the Borrower and the Lenders.

9.10 Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all Information (as defined below); provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any Lender from disclosing any such information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender any other Lender or any affiliate thereof, (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section 9.10, to any actual or prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Rate Management Obligation, Specified Cash Management Obligation or other swap agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates who need to know such information, (d) upon the request or demand of any governmental authority or quasi-governmental authority, (e) in response to any order of any court or other governmental authority or quasi-governmental authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any requirement of law, (f) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed, (h) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or (j) if agreed by the Borrower in its sole discretion, to any other Person. “Information” means all information received from a Loan Party relating to the Loan Parties, any of its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by a Loan Party and other than information pertaining to this Agreement routinely provided by arrangers to data service providers, including league table providers, that serve the lending industry; provided that in the case of information received from a Loan Party after the Closing Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 9.10 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

Each Lender acknowledges that information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and that it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with those procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.

All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its administrative questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.

9.11 Amendments and Waivers. Subject to Section 3.2(c), none of this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.11. The Required Lenders and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, or, with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (a) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder or (b) waive, on such terms and

conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (i) reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except (x) in connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates and (y) that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (i)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (ii) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 9.11 without the written consent of such Lender; (iii) consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents without the consent of all Lenders; (iv) release all or any portion of the DIP Collateral, or agree to subordinate any Lien in such DIP Collateral to any other creditor, or release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its guaranty, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; provided, however, that without the consent of any Lender, the Administrative Agent may release any DIP Collateral or Guarantor in order to give effect to, or otherwise in connection with, any sale, transfer or other disposition of such DIP Collateral or Guarantor permitted by this Agreement or such sale, transfer or other disposition of such DIP Collateral is ordered by the Bankruptcy Court; (v) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.11, Section 8.3 or Section 11.2 or any other provision with respect to the application of payments without the written consent of all of the Lenders; (vi) reduce the percentage specified in the definition of “Required Lenders” or amend the definition of “Pro Rata Share” without the written consent of all Lenders; (vii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Article X or any other provision of any Loan Document that affects the Administrative Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent; (viii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.2 without the written consent of all of the Issuing Lenders; or (ix) amend the definition of “Borrowing Base” or any of its component definitions without the written consent of all of the Lenders. Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the L/C Participations. In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, may amend, modify or supplement any Loan Document without the consent of any Lender in order to (w) correct, amend, cure or resolve any minor ambiguity, omission, defect, typographical error, inconsistency or other manifest error therein, (x) add a guarantor or collateral or otherwise enhance the rights and benefits of the Lenders or (y) make minor administrative or operational changes not adverse to any Lender. No real property shall be taken as DIP Collateral unless Lenders receive 45 days advance notice and each Lender confirms to the Administrative Agent that it has completed all flood due diligence, received copies of all flood insurance documentation and confirmed flood insurance compliance as required by the Flood Laws or as otherwise satisfactory to such Lender. At any time that any real property constitutes DIP Collateral, no modification of a Loan Document shall add, increase, renew or extend any loan, commitment or credit line hereunder until the completion of flood due diligence, documentation and coverage as required by the Flood Laws or as otherwise satisfactory to all Lenders.

9.12 The PATRIOT Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Parent, Borrower and Subsidiaries that pursuant to the requirements of the Uniting and Strengthening by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of P.L. No. 107-56) (known as the “PATRIOT Act”), each Lender is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Parent, Borrower and Subsidiaries, which information includes the name and address of the Parent, Borrower and Subsidiaries and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Parent, Borrower and Subsidiaries in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.

Promptly following any request therefor, the Borrower shall provide information and documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial ownership Regulation.

9.13 [Reserved].

9.14 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support “QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.

ARTICLE X

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

10.1 Appointment. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.

10.2 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys in fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in fact selected by it with reasonable care.

10.3 Exculpatory Provisions. None of the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys in fact or affiliates shall be (a) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (b) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any failure of any Loan Party a party thereto to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent shall not be under any obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party.

10.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy or email message, statement, order or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Parent or the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future holders of L/C Participations.

10.5 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender, the Parent or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.

10.6 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that none of the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys in fact or affiliates have made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by the Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of a Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the Syndication Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates and made its own decision to issue Letters of Credit or obtain and fund L/C Participations hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of any Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys in fact or affiliates.

10.7 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, each Arranger, each Issuing Lender and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, advisors and Controlling Persons (each, an “Agent Indemnitee”) (to the extent not reimbursed by the Parent or the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Parent or the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective Pro Rata Share in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent Indemnitee under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent Indemnitee’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and all other amounts payable hereunder.

10.8 Rights as a Lender. The Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, each Arranger and each of their respective affiliates may issue Letters of Credit and obtain and fund L/C Participations to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with any Loan Party as though such Administrative Agent, Syndication Agent or Arranger were not an agent hereunder. With respect to any Letter of Credit issued or participated in by it, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and each Arranger shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Administrative Agent, Syndication Agent or Arranger, as applicable, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” shall include the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and each Arranger in its individual capacity.

10.9 Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 30 days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Section 7.1(b) with respect to the Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term “Administrative Agent” means such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date that is 10 days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article X and of Section 9.6 shall continue to inure to its benefit.

10.10 Arrangers and Syndication Agent. None of the Arrangers or the Syndication Agents shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in their capacities as such.

10.11 Releases of Guarantees and Liens.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender except as expressly required by Section 9.11) to take any action requested by the Borrower having the effect of releasing any DIP Collateral or guarantee obligations (i) to the extent necessary to permit consummation of any transaction not prohibited by any Loan Document or that has been consented to in accordance with Section 9.11 or (ii) under the circumstances described in paragraph (b) below.

(b) At such time as all of the obligations under the Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding, the DIP Collateral shall be released from the Liens created by the DIP Order, and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party thereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any Person.

(c) Anything contained in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary notwithstanding, the Parent, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and each Lender hereby agree that no Secured Party shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the DIP Collateral or to enforce the Collateral Documents, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under any of the Collateral Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof and all powers, rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof.

(d) The benefit of the provisions of the Loan Documents directly relating to the DIP Collateral or any Lien granted thereunder shall extend to and be available to any Secured Party that is not an Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Lender as long as, by accepting such benefits, such Secured Party agrees, as among the Administrative Agent and all other Secured Parties, that such Secured Party is bound by (and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, shall confirm such agreement in a writing in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent) this Article X and the decisions and actions of the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders or other parties hereto as required herein) to the same extent a Lender is bound; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) such Secured Party shall be bound by Section 10.7 only to the extent of liabilities, costs and expenses with respect to or otherwise relating to the DIP Collateral, (b) each of the Administrative Agent and Lenders shall be entitled to act without regard to the interest of such Secured Party, regardless of whether any Obligation to such Secured Party thereafter remains outstanding, is deprived of the benefit of the DIP Collateral, becomes unsecured or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, and without any duty or liability to such Secured Party or any such Obligation and (c) except as otherwise set forth herein, such Secured Party shall not have any right to be notified of, consent to, direct, require or be heard with respect to, any action taken or omitted in respect of the DIP Collateral or under any Loan Document.

10.12 Credit Bidding. The Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including by accepting some or all of the DIP Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the DIP Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including under Sections 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, or (b) at any other sale, foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid by the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that shall vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) for the asset or assets so purchased (or for the equity interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are issued in connection with such purchase). In connection with any such bid, (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles and to assign any successful credit bid to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, (ii) each of the Secured Parties’ ratable interests in the Obligations which were credit bid shall be deemed without any further action under this Agreement to be assigned to such vehicle or vehicles for the purpose of closing such sale, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (provided that any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or equity interests thereof, shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by, and the governing documents shall provide for, control by the vote of the Required Lenders or their permitted assignees under the terms of this Agreement or the governing documents of the applicable acquisition vehicle or vehicles, as the case may be, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in Section 9.11 of this Agreement), (iv) the Administrative Agent on behalf of such acquisition vehicle or vehicles shall be authorized to issue to each of the Secured Parties, ratably on account of the relevant Obligations which were credit bid, interests, whether as equity, partnership interests, limited partnership interests or membership interests, in any such acquisition vehicle and/or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (v) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used

to acquire DIP Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of Obligations credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Secured Parties pro rata with their original interest in such Obligations and the equity interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of such Obligations shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action. Notwithstanding that the ratable portion of the Obligations of each Secured Party are deemed assigned to the acquisition vehicle or vehicles as set forth in clause (ii) above, each Secured Party shall execute such documents and provide such information regarding the Secured Party (and/or any designee of the Secured Party which will receive interests in or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection with the formation of any acquisition vehicle, the formulation or submission of any credit bid or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such credit bid.

10.13 Certain ERISA Matters

(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulations) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Letters of Credit or the Commitments,

(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

(b) In addition, unless Section 10.13(a)(i) is true with respect to a Lender or such Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant as provided in Section 10.13(a)(iv), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, and each Arranger and

their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent, or any Arranger or any of their respective Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the DIP Collateral or the assets of such Lender (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

(c) The Administrative Agent, and each Arranger, hereby informs the Lenders that each such Person is not undertaking to provide investment advice, or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and that such Person has a financial interest in the transactions contemplated hereby in that such Person or an Affiliate thereof (i) may receive interest or other payments with respect to the Letters of Credit, the Commitments, this Agreement and any other Loan Documents, (ii) may recognize a gain if it extended the Letters of Credit or the Commitments for an amount less than the amount being paid for an interest in the Letters of Credit or the Commitments by such Lender or (iii) may receive fees or other payments in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the Loan Documents or otherwise, including structuring fees, commitment fees, arrangement fees, facility fees, upfront fees, underwriting fees, ticking fees, agency fees, administrative agent or collateral agent fees, utilization fees, minimum usage fees, letter of credit fees, fronting fees, deal-away or alternate transaction fees, amendment fees, processing fees, term out premiums, banker’s acceptance fees, breakage or other early termination fees or fees similar to the foregoing.

ARTICLE XI

SETOFF; RATABLE PAYMENTS

11.1 Setoff.

(a) Except to the extent that this Agreement or a court order expressly provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender, if any Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall receive any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it (other than in connection with an assignment made pursuant to Section 12.1), or receive any DIP Collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set off), in a greater proportion than any such payment to or DIP Collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participation interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such DIP Collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such DIP Collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.

(b) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right, without notice to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any Obligations becoming due and payable by the Borrower (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to apply to the payment of such Obligations, by setoff or otherwise, any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Lender, any Affiliate thereof or any of their respective branches or agencies to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower; provided that if any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (i) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders and (ii) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of set off. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such application.

11.2 Ratable Payments. If any Lender, whether by setoff or otherwise, has payment made to it upon its L/C Participations (other than payments received pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.4) in a greater proportion than that received by any other Lender, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to purchase the L/C Participations held by the other Lenders so that after such purchase each Lender will hold its Pro Rata Share. If any Lender, whether in connection with setoff or amounts which might be subject to setoff or otherwise, receives DIP Collateral or other protection for its Obligations or such amounts which may be subject to setoff, such Lender agrees, promptly upon demand, to take such action necessary such that all Lenders share in the benefits of such DIP Collateral ratably in proportion to their respective Pro Rata Share, as applicable. In case any such payment is disturbed by legal process, or otherwise, appropriate further adjustments shall be made.

If an amount to be set off is to be applied to permitted Funded Indebtedness of the Borrower to a Lender other than Obligations under this Agreement, such amount shall be applied ratably to such other Funded Indebtedness and to the Obligations.

ARTICLE XII

BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENTS; PARTICIPATIONS

12.1 Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (a) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (b) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Article XII.

12.2 Permitted Assignments and Participations.

(a) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (a)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of:

(A) the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default under Section 7.1(b) has occurred and is continuing, any Person; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after an Authorized Officer of the Borrower has received notice thereof;

(B) the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a L/C Participation to an existing Lender, an affiliate of an existing Lender or an Approved Fund; and

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitments under the Facility, the amount of the Commitments of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after an Authorized Officer of the Borrower has received notice thereof and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;

(B) (1) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 and (2) the assigning Lender shall have paid in full any amounts owing by it to the Administrative Agent;

(C) the Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire in which the Assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws;

(D) no such assignment shall be made to (1) the Parent or any of the Parent’s Subsidiaries or Affiliates, (2) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute a Defaulting Lender or a Subsidiary thereof, or (3) a natural Person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural Person); and

(E) In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share L/C Participations previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and each other Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon), and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full Pro Rata Share of all L/C Participations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.

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For the purposes of this Section 12.2, “Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 12.2(a)(iv), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 9.6) with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 12.2 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 12.2(b).

(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount (and stated interest) of the L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignee’s completed administrative questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 12.2(a) and any written consent to such assignment required by Section 12.2(a), the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.

(b) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural Person, or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural Person, or the Parent or any of the Parent’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Agent, the Issuing Lender and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under Section 10.07 with respect to any payments made by such Lender to

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its Participant(s). Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence of Section 8.2 and (2) directly affects such Participant. Subject to Section 12.2(b)(ii), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of, and subject to the limitations of, Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 12.2(a). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 11.1 and 11.2 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant shall be subject to Section 11.2 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Letters of Credit or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Letter of Credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.4 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. No Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.4 unless such Participant complies with Section 3.4(e) as if it were a Lender.

(c) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or Assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(d) The Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the type described in Section 12.2(c).

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign any or all of the L/C Participations it may have funded hereunder to its designating Lender without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent and without regard to the limitations set forth in Section 12.2(a). Each of the Parent, the Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby confirms that it will not institute against a Conduit Lender or join any other Person in instituting against a Conduit Lender any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under any state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one day after the payment in full of the latest maturing commercial paper note issued by such Conduit Lender; provided, however, that each Lender designating any Conduit Lender hereby agrees to indemnify, save and hold harmless each other party hereto for any loss, cost, damage or expense arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against such Conduit Lender during such period of forbearance.

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12.3 Dissemination of Information. The Borrower authorizes each Lender to disclose to any Assignee, any Participant or any other Person acquiring an interest in the Loan Documents by operation of law (each a “Transferee”) and any prospective Transferee any and all information in such Lender’s possession concerning the creditworthiness of the Parent, Borrower and Borrower’s Subsidiaries; provided that each Transferee and prospective Transferee agrees to be bound by Section 9.10 of this Agreement.

12.4 Tax Treatment. If any interest in any Loan Document is transferred to any Transferee which is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof, the transferor Lender shall cause such Transferee, concurrently with the effectiveness of such transfer, to comply with the provisions of Section 3.4.

ARTICLE XIII

NOTICES

13.1 Notices. All notices, requests and other communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including electronic transmission, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such party: (a) in the case of any Loan Party, at 1001 Louisiana Street, Suite 2900, Houston, Texas 77002, Facsimile: (713) 654-2205 (Attention: General Counsel), (b) in the case of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, at its address or facsimile number set forth on an Administrative Questionnaire or (c) in the case of any party, at such other address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this Section 13.1. Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by facsimile, when transmitted to the facsimile number specified in this Section and confirmation of receipt is received, (ii) if given by mail, 72 hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with first class postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid, or (iii) if given by any other means, when delivered (or, in the case of electronic transmission, received) at the address specified in this Section; provided that notices to the Administrative Agent under Article II shall not be effective until received. Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II or III unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

13.2 Change of Address. Any party may change the address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to the other parties hereto.

ARTICLE XIV

COUNTERPARTS

14.1 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of (i) this Agreement, (ii) any other Loan Document and/or (iii) any document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any notice delivered pursuant to Section 13.1), certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or the transactions contemplated hereby and/or thereby (each an “Ancillary Document”) that

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is an Electronic Signature transmitted by facsimile, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, such other Loan Document or such Ancillary Document, as applicable. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in any electronic form (including deliveries by facsimile, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page), each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept Electronic Signatures in any form or format without its prior written consent and pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (A) to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept any Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any Loan Party without further verification thereof and without any obligation to review the appearance or form of any such Electronic Signature and (B) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by a manually executed counterpart. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Party hereby (w) agrees that, for all purposes, including without limitation, in connection with any workout, restructuring, enforcement of remedies, bankruptcy proceedings or litigation among the Lender and the Loan Parties, Electronic Signatures transmitted by facsimile, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page and/or any electronic images of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as any paper original, (x) the Administrative Agent may, at its option, create one or more copies of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document in the form of an imaged electronic record in any format, which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of its business, and destroy the original paper document (and all such electronic records shall be considered an original for all purposes and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record), (y) waives any argument, defense or right to contest the legal effect, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or Ancillary Document based solely on the lack of paper original copies of this Agreement, such other Loan Document and/or Ancillary Document, respectively, including with respect to any signature pages thereto and (z) waives any claim against any Related Parties of Lender for any liabilities arising solely from the Administrative Agent’s reliance on or use of Electronic Signatures and/or transmission by facsimile, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page, including any liabilities arising as a result of the failure of any Loan Party to use any available security measures in connection with the execution, delivery or transmission of any Electronic Signature.

ARTICLE XV

CHOICE OF LAW; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

15.1 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND, TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE, THE BANKRUPTCY COURT.

15.2 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVERS. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court or, if the Bankruptcy

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Court does not have (or abstains from) jurisdiction, the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof; provided, that nothing contained herein or in any other Loan Document will prevent any Lender or the Administrative Agent from bringing any action to enforce any award or judgment or exercise any right under the Collateral Documents or against any DIP Collateral or any other property of any Loan Party in any other forum in which jurisdiction can be established;

(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to it, as the case may be pursuant to Section 13.1 or at such other address of which the other parties shall have been notified pursuant thereto;

(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law; and

(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

15.3 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.

ARTICLE XVI

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT TO BAIL-IN

16.1 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by: (a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

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(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.

ARTICLE XVII

GUARANTEE

17.1 Guarantee of Payment. Each Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the punctual payment of all Secured Obligations (other than with respect to the Borrower only, its own primary Obligations) under Section 2.18 and that now or which may in the future be owing by any Loan Party (the “Guaranteed Liabilities”). This Guarantee is a guaranty of payment and not of collection only. The Administrative Agent shall not be required to exhaust any right or remedy or take any action against the Borrower or any other Person or any collateral. The Guaranteed Liabilities include interest accruing after the commencement of a proceeding under bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws of any jurisdiction at the rate or rates provided in the Loan Documents. Each Guarantor agrees that, as between the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent, the Guaranteed Liabilities may be declared to be due and payable for the purposes of this Guarantee notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition which may prevent, delay or vitiate any declaration as regards the Borrower and that in the event of a declaration or attempted declaration, the Guaranteed Liabilities shall immediately become due and payable by each Guarantor for the purposes of this Guarantee.

17.2 Guarantee Absolute. Each Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed Liabilities shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The liability of each Guarantor hereunder is absolute and unconditional irrespective of: (a) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Loan Documents or the Guaranteed Liabilities, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any of the terms of any Loan Document or Guaranteed Liability, including any increase or decrease in the rate of interest thereon; (b) any release or amendment or waiver of, or consent to departure from, any other guaranty or support document, or any exchange, release or non-perfection of any collateral, for all or any of the Loan Documents or Guaranteed Liabilities; (c) any present or future law, regulation or order of any jurisdiction (whether of right or in fact) or of any agency thereof purporting to reduce, amend, restructure or otherwise affect any term of any Loan Document or Guaranteed Liability; (d) without being limited by the foregoing, any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or Guaranteed Liability; and (e) any other setoff, defense or counterclaim whatsoever (in any case, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory) with respect to the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby which might constitute a legal or equitable defense available to, or discharge of, the Borrower or a Guarantor (other than the defense of payment or performance).

17.3 Reinstatement. This Guarantee is a continuing guaranty of the payment of all Guaranteed Liabilities now or hereafter existing under this Agreement, and shall remain in full force and effect so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding (other than Letters of Credit that are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit) or any other Secured Obligation is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent.

17.4 Subrogation. Prior to the Termination Date, No Guarantor shall exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation, by any payment made under this Guarantee or otherwise, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding (other than Letters of Credit are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit) or other Secured Obligations are owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder. If any amount is paid to the Guarantor on account of subrogation rights under this Guarantee at any time prior to the Termination Date and any Letters of Credit remain outstanding (other than Letters of Credit that are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit) or other Secured Obligations are owed to any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall be promptly paid to the Administrative Agent to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Liabilities, whether matured or unmatured or absolute or contingent, in accordance with the

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terms of this Agreement. Following Termination Date and if no Letters of Credit remain outstanding (other than Letters of Credit that are cash collateralized in an amount equal to 105% of the L/C Exposure for such Letters of Credit) and no other Secured Obligations are owed to any Lender or the Administrative Agent, if any Guarantor makes payment to any Secured Party of all or any part of the Guaranteed Liabilities, the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties shall, at such Guarantor’s request, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the Guaranteed Liabilities resulting from the payment.

17.5 Subordination. Without limiting the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties under any other agreement, any liabilities owed by the Borrower to any Guarantor in connection with any extension of credit or financial accommodation by any Guarantor to or for the account of the Borrower, including but not limited to interest accruing at the agreed contract rate after the commencement of a bankruptcy or similar proceeding, are hereby subordinated to the Guaranteed Liabilities, and such liabilities of the Borrower to such Guarantor, if the Administrative Agent so requests after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Default or Event of Default, shall be collected, enforced and received by any Guarantor as trustee for the Administrative Agent and shall be paid over to the Administrative Agent on account of the Guaranteed Liabilities but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of the Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guarantee.

17.6 Payments Generally. All payments by the Guarantors shall be made in the manner, at the place and in the currency (the “Payment Currency”) specified for payments made under Section 2.11; provided, however, that if the Payment Currency is other than U.S. Dollars any Guarantor may, at its option (or, if for any reason whatsoever any Guarantor is unable to effect payments in the foregoing manner, such Guarantor shall be obligated to) pay to the Administrative Agent at its principal office the equivalent amount in U.S. Dollars computed at the selling rate of the Administrative Agent or a selling rate chosen by the Administrative Agent, most recently in effect on or prior to the date the Guaranteed Liability becomes due, for cable transfers of the Payment Currency to the place where the Guaranteed Liability is payable. In any case in which any Guarantor makes or is obligated to make payment in U.S. Dollars, the Guarantor shall hold the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties harmless from any loss incurred by the Administrative Agent and any Secured Party arising from any change in the value of U.S. Dollars in relation to the Payment Currency between the date the Guaranteed Liability becomes due and the date the Administrative Agent or such Secured Party is actually able, following the conversion of the U.S. Dollars paid by such Guarantor into the Payment Currency and remittance of such Payment Currency to the place where such Guaranteed Liability is payable, to apply such Payment Currency to such Guaranteed Liability.

17.7 Setoff. Each Guarantor agrees that, in addition to (and without limitation of) any right of setoff, banker’s lien or counterclaim the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party may otherwise have, the Administrative Agent or such Secured Party shall be entitled, at its option, to offset balances (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) held by it for the account of any Guarantor at any office of the Administrative Agent or such Secured Party, in U.S. Dollars or in any other currency, against any amount payable by such Guarantor under this Guarantee which is not paid when due (regardless of whether such balances are then due to such Guarantor), in which case it shall promptly notify such Guarantor thereof; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Secured Party to give such notice shall not affect the validity thereof.

17.8 Formalities. Each Guarantor waives presentment, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of acceptance of this Guarantee or incurrence of any Guaranteed Liability and any other formality with respect to any of the Guaranteed Liabilities or this Guarantee.

17.9 Limitations on Guarantee. The provisions of the Guarantee under this Article XVII are severable, and in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate law, or any state, federal or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of any Guarantor under this Guarantee would otherwise be held or determined to be avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account of the amount of such Guarantor’s liability under this Guarantee, then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Guarantee to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable as determined in such action or proceeding (such highest amount determined hereunder being the relevant Guarantor’s

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“Maximum Liability”). This Section 17.9, with respect to the Maximum Liability of the Guarantors, is intended solely to preserve the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties hereunder to the maximum extent not subject to avoidance under applicable law, and no Guarantor nor any other Person shall have any right or claim under this Section 17.9 with respect to the Maximum Liability, except to the extent necessary so that the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder shall not be rendered voidable under applicable law.

17.10 Survival. The agreements and other provisions in this Article XVII shall survive, and remain in full force and effect regardless of, the resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent or the replacement of any Lender.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parent, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.



BORROWER:	SESI, L.L.C.

	By:	/s/ Westervelt Ballard
	Name:	Westervelt Ballard
	Title:	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

THE PARENT AND GUARANTOR:	SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC.

	By:	/s/ Westervelt Ballard
	Name:	Westervelt Ballard
	Title:	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS:	1105 PETERS ROAD, L.L.C.
	CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.
	CSI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
	H.B. RENTALS, L.C.
	INTERNATIONAL SNUBBING SERVICES, L.L.C.
	STABIL DRILL SPECIALTIES, L.L.C.
	SUPERIOR INSPECTION SERVICES, L.L.C.
	WORKSTRINGS INTERNATIONAL, L.L.C.

	By:	/s/ Westervelt Ballard
	Name:	Westervelt Ballard
	Title:	Vice President and Treasurer

	COMPLETE ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
	PUMPCO ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
	SPN WELL SERVICES, INC.
	SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES-NORTH AMERICA SERVICES, INC.
	WARRIOR ENERGY SERVICES CORPORATION
	WILD WELL CONTROL, INC.

	By:	/s/ Westervelt Ballard
	Name:	Westervelt Ballard
	Title:	Treasurer

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