Exhibit 10.1

TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT

between

JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.

and

VITESSE ENERGY, INC.

Dated as of [    ]

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TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT

This TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is entered into as of [    ] between Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (“Jefferies”), a New York corporation, and Vitesse Energy, Inc. (“SpinCo”), a Delaware corporation.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, Jefferies and SpinCo have entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time (the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”), pursuant to which the Pre-Distribution Transactions (including the Contribution), the Distribution, and other related transactions will be consummated;

WHEREAS, the Pre-Distribution Transactions (including the Contribution), together with the Distribution, are intended to qualify for the Intended Tax-Free Treatment; and

WHEREAS, Jefferies and SpinCo desire to set forth their agreement on the rights and obligations of Jefferies, SpinCo and the other Jefferies Parties and SpinCo Parties respectively, with respect to (A) the administration and allocation of federal, state, local and foreign Taxes incurred in Taxable periods beginning prior to the Distribution Date, as defined below, (B) Taxes arising prior to, at the time of, and subsequent to the Distribution, or resulting from the Distribution and transactions effected in connection with the Distribution and (C) various other Tax matters.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties agree as follows:

Section 1.    Definitions.

(a)    For the purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings; provided that capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Section 1 shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Separation and Distribution Agreement:

“Active Trade or Business” means the business conducted by SpinCo, as described in the IRS Ruling.

“Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Affiliated Group” means any affiliated group within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of the Code or any combined, consolidated, unitary or other similar group defined under a similar provision of applicable Law.

“Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

“Applicable Law” (or “Applicable Tax Law,” as the case may be) means, with respect to any Person, any federal, state, county, municipal, local, multinational or foreign statute, treaty, law, common law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction, judicial decision, decree, permit or other legally binding requirement of any Governmental Authority applicable to such Person or any of its respective properties, assets, officers, directors, employees, consultants or agents (in connection with such officer’s, director’s, employee’s, consultant’s or agent’s activities on behalf of such Person).

“Business Day” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Closing of the Books Method” means the apportionment of items between portions of a Taxable period based on a closing of the books and records on the close of the Distribution Date (in the event that the Distribution Date is not the last day of the Taxable period, as if the Distribution Date were the last day of the Taxable period), subject to adjustment for items accrued on the Distribution Date that are properly allocable to the Taxable period following the Distribution, as determined by Jefferies in accordance with Applicable Law; provided that Taxes not based upon or measured by net or gross income or specific events and imposed for a Tax period beginning before and ending after the Distribution Date shall be apportioned between the portion of such Tax period ending on the Distribution Date and the portion of such Tax period beginning after the Distribution Date on a pro rata basis in accordance with the number of days in each such portion of such Tax period.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Combined Group” means any group that filed or was required to file (or will file or be required to file) a Tax Return on an affiliated, consolidated, combined, unitary, fiscal unity or other group basis (including as permitted by Section 1501 of the Code) that includes at least Jefferies Party and at least one SpinCo Party.

“Company” means Jefferies or SpinCo (or the appropriate Jefferies Party or SpinCo Party), as appropriate.

“Contribution” means the contribution of the capital interest in VEL into SpinCo as set forth in Step 3 on Schedule 2.2 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Distribution” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Distribution Effective Time” means the time established by Jefferies as the effective time of the Distribution, New York time, on the Distribution Date.

“Distribution Taxes” means any Taxes incurred solely as a result of the failure of the Intended Tax-Free Treatment of the Pre-Spin-Off Restructuring Transactions (including the Contribution) and the Distribution.

“Due Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 9(a).

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“Equity Interests” means any stock or other securities treated as equity for Tax purposes, options, warrants, rights, convertible debt, or any other instrument or security that affords any Person the right, whether conditional or otherwise, to acquire stock or to be paid an amount determined by reference to the value of stock.

“Escheat Payment” means any payment required to be made to a Governmental Authority pursuant to an abandoned property, escheat or similar law.

“Final Determination” means (a) a decision, judgment, decree, or other order by any court of competent jurisdiction, which has become final, (b) a final settlement with the IRS, a closing agreement or accepted offer in compromise under Sections 7121 or 7122 of the Code, or a comparable agreement under the Laws of other jurisdictions, which resolves the entire Tax liability for any taxable period, (c) any allowance of a refund or credit in respect of an overpayment of Tax, but only after the expiration of all periods during which such refund or credit may be recovered by the jurisdiction imposing the Tax, or (d) any other final resolution, including by reason of the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or the execution of a pre-filing agreement with the IRS or other Taxing Authority.

“Governmental Authority” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Group” means either the SpinCo Parties or the Jefferies Parties, as the context requires.

“Income Tax” means any U.S. federal, state, local or foreign Tax that is, in whole or in part, based on or measured by net income or gains.

“Income Tax Return” means any U.S. federal, state, local or foreign Tax Return with respect to Income Tax.

“Indemnifying Party” means the party from which another party is entitled to seek indemnification pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.

“Indemnitee” means the party which is entitled to seek indemnification from another party pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.

“Intended Tax-Free Treatment” means, after taking into account the Pre-Distribution Transactions, the qualification of the Contribution and the Distribution, taken together (a) as a reorganization described in Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code, (b) as a transaction in which the stock distributed thereby is “qualified property” for purposes of Sections 355(c) and 361(c) of the Code, and (c) as a transaction in which Jefferies, the Company and the holders of Jefferies Common Stock recognize no income or gain for U.S. federal income tax purposes pursuant to Sections 355, 361 and 1032 of the Code.“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

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“Jefferies Retained Business” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Jefferies Compensatory Equity Interests” means any options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, stock units or other rights with respect to Jefferies stock that are granted on or prior to the Distribution Date by any of the Jefferies Parties in connection with employee, independent contractor or director compensation or other employee benefits (including, for the avoidance of doubt, options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance share units or other rights issued in respect of any of the foregoing by reason of the Distribution or any subsequent transaction).

“Jefferies Intermediate Entity” means an entity treated as a partnership for applicable U.S. federal, state, local or foreign Tax purposes, in which any of the Jefferies Parties holds an interest as a partner for such Tax purposes, directly or through another Jefferies Intermediate Entity, and that holds an interest as a partnership for such Tax Purposes, directly or through another Jefferies Intermediate Entity, in a SpinCo Party that is a partnership for such Tax purposes.

“Jefferies Income Tax Return” means any Income Tax Return that is required to be filed by, or with respect to, a member of the Jefferies Parties.

“Jefferies Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“MLTN Basis” shall mean a more likely than not basis, taking into account the relevant provisions of the the Code, the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and other relevant Tax Law.

“Non-Income Tax” means any Tax that is not an Income Tax.

“Partnership Tax Audit Provisions” means Sections 6221 through 6242 of the Code, and the Treasury Regulations and other guidance promulgated with respect thereto, and any similar applicable provision of U.S. state or local or foreign Tax Law.

“Past Practices” has the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(i).

“Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 7701(a)(1) of the Code.

“Post-Distribution Period” means any Taxable period (or portion thereof) beginning after the Distribution Date.

“Post-Distribution Ruling” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(c).

“Pre-Distribution Period” means any Taxable period (or portion thereof) ending on or before the Distribution Date.

“Pre-Distribution Transactions” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

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“Responsible Party” shall mean, with respect to any Tax Return, the Party having responsibility for preparing and filing such Tax Return pursuant to this Agreement.

“Section 336(e) Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.

“Separation and Distribution Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

“SpinCo” has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

“SpinCo Compensatory Equity Interests” means any options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, stock units or other rights with respect to the capital stock of SpinCo or any of the SpinCo Parties that are granted on or prior to the Distribution Effective Time by any of the SpinCo Parties in connection with employee, independent contractor or director compensation or other employee benefits.

“SpinCo Disqualifying Action” means (a) any action (or the failure to take any action) by any of the SpinCo Parties after the Distribution Effective Time (including entering into any agreement, understanding or arrangement or any negotiations with respect to any transaction or series of transactions), (b) any event (or series of events) after the Distribution Effective Time involving the capital stock of SpinCo or any assets of any of the SpinCo Parties or (c) any breach by any of the SpinCo Parties after the Distribution Effective Time of any representation, warranty or covenant made by them in this Agreement, in the Tax Materials or otherwise in connection with obtaining the IRS Ruling or the Tax Opinion, that, in each case, would affect the Intended Tax-Free Treatment; provided, however, that the term “SpinCo Disqualifying Action” shall not include any action (or the failure to take any action) entered into pursuant to any Transaction Document (other than this Agreement), that is described in the IRS Ruling or that is undertaken pursuant to the Contribution or the Distribution.

“SpinCo Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“SpinCo Partnership Tax Return” means any Income Tax Return that is required to be filed by any of the SpinCo Parties reflecting the treatment of such SpinCo Party as a partnership for applicable Income Tax purposes, including any Income Tax Return prepared and filed on IRS Form 1065 or a similar state, local or non-U.S. Income Tax Return.

“SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return” means any Income Tax Return that is required to be filed by, or with respect to, any of the SpinCo Parties that is not a SpinCo Partnership Tax Return.

“Tax” (and the correlative meaning, “Taxes,” “Taxing” and “Taxable”) means (i) any tax, including any net income, gross income, gross receipts, recapture, alternative or add-on minimum, sales, use, business and occupation, value-added, trade, goods and services, ad valorem, franchise, profits, net wealth, license, business royalty, withholding, payroll, employment, capital, excise, transfer, recording, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, property, asset, real estate acquisition, environmental, custom duty, impost, obligation, assessment, levy, tariff or other tax, governmental fee or other like assessment or charge of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, any Escheat Payment), together with any interest

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and any penalty, addition to tax or additional amount imposed by a Taxing Authority; (ii) liability for the payment of any amount of the type described in clause (i) above arising as a result of being (or having been) a member of any Affiliated Group or being (or having been) included or required to be included in any Tax Return related thereto; and (iii) liability for the payment of any amount of the type described in clauses (i) or (ii) above as a result of any express or implied obligation to indemnify or otherwise assume or succeed to the liability of any other Person.

“Tax Advisor” means a tax counsel or accountant of recognized standing in the relevant jurisdiction.

“Tax Arbiter” has the meaning set forth in Section 15.

“Tax Attribute” means a net operating loss, net capital loss, unused investment credit, unused foreign tax credit, excess charitable contribution, unused general business credit, alternative minimum tax credit or any other Tax Item that could reduce a Tax liability for a past or future taxable period.

“Tax Counsel” means Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.

“Tax Item” means any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, credit, recapture of credit or any other item that can increase or decrease Taxes paid or payable.

“Tax Opinion” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Tax Proceeding” means any Tax audit, dispute, examination, contest, litigation, arbitration, action, suits, claim, cause of action, review, inquiry, assessment, hearing, complaint, demand, investigation or proceeding (whether administrative, judicial or contractual).

“Tax-Related Losses” means, with respect to any Taxes asserted or imposed pursuant to any Tax Proceeding, settlement, determination, judgment or otherwise (but excluding such Taxes), (i) all liabilities, costs, expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable expenses of investigation and accounting, legal and other professional fees and expenses, and court costs), losses, damages, assessments, settlements or judgments arising out of or incident to the imposition, assessment or assertion of any such Taxes, including those incurred in the contest in good faith in appropriate proceedings relating to the imposition, assessment or assertion of any such Taxes, liability or damage, as well as any other reasonable out-of-pocket costs incurred in connection therewith, and (ii) if such matter is with respect to Distribution Taxes, any amount paid by any of the Jefferies Parties or any of the SpinCo Parties in respect of the liability of shareholders, whether paid to shareholders or to the IRS or any other Taxing Authority (including any damages, costs, and expenses associated with shareholder litigation or controversies with respect thereto).

“Tax Representation Letters” means the representations provided by SpinCo and Jefferies to Tax Counsel in connection with the rendering by Tax Counsel of the Tax Opinion.

“Tax Return” means any Tax return, statement, report, form, election, bill, certificate, claim or surrender (including estimated Tax returns and reports, extension requests and forms,

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and information returns and reports), or statement or other document or written information filed or required to be filed with any Taxing Authority, including any amendment thereof, appendix, schedule or attachment thereto.

“Taxing Authority” means any Governmental Authority (domestic or foreign), including, without limitation, any state, municipality, political subdivision or governmental agency, responsible for the imposition, assessment, administration, collection, enforcement or determination of any Tax.

“Transaction Documents” means the Separation and Distribution Agreement, together with the Ancillary Agreements, as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

“Transfer Taxes” means all U.S. federal, state, local or foreign sales, use, privilege, transfer, documentary, stamp, duties, real estate transfer, controlling interest transfer, recording and similar Taxes and fees (including any penalties, interest or additions thereto) imposed upon any of the Jefferies Parties or of the SpinCo Parties in connection with the Pre-Distribution Transactions or the Distribution.

“Treasury Regulations” shall mean the regulations promulgated from time to time under the Code as in effect for the relevant tax period.

“Unqualified Tax Opinion” means an unqualified “will” opinion of a Tax Advisor, on which the Companies may rely to the effect that a transaction will not affect the Intended Tax-Free Treatment. Any such opinion must assume that the Contribution and Distributions would have qualified for Intended Tax-Free Treatment.

“Vitesse Business” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

(b)    Any term used in this Agreement which is not defined in this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall, to the extent the context requires, have the meaning assigned to it in the Code or the applicable Treasury Regulations thereunder (as interpreted in administrative pronouncements and judicial decisions) or in comparable provisions of Applicable Tax Law.

Section 2.    Sole Tax Sharing Agreement. Any and all existing Tax sharing agreements or arrangements, written or unwritten, between any of the Jefferies Parties, on the one hand, and any of the SpinCo Parties, on the other hand, if not previously terminated, shall be terminated as of the Distribution Date without any further action by the parties thereto. Following the Distribution Date, none of the SpinCo Parties or the Jefferies Parties shall have any further rights or liabilities thereunder, and this Agreement shall be the sole Tax sharing agreement between the SpinCo Parties on the one hand, and the Jefferies Parties, on the other hand.

Section 3.    Allocation of Taxes.

(a)    General Allocation Principles. Except as provided in Section 3(c), all Income Taxes shall be allocated as follows:

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(i)    Jefferies shall be allocated all Taxes attributable to (x) a Jefferies Party and reported, or required to be reported, on a Jefferies Income Tax Return, other than any such Taxes attributable to a SpinCo Partnership Tax Return, or (y) items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit allocated to Jefferies or another Jefferies Party (directly or through an allocation of such items by a Jefferies Intermediate Entity) on an original SpinCo Partnership Tax Return that was filed prior to the Distribution Date or is filed after the Distribution Date, with respect to a Pre-Distribution Period, and that was prepared in accordance with Section 4, which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include Taxes attributable to any Tax Proceeding with respect to a SpinCo Partnership Tax Return or any amended SpinCo Partnership Tax Return, including by way of an administrative adjustment request or other procedure provided for under the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions, filed after the Distribution Date in connection with a Tax Proceeding.

(ii)    SpinCo shall be allocated (w) all Taxes attributable to any SpinCo Party and reported, or required to be reported, on a SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return for any Post-Distribution Period and (x) all Taxes attributable to any SpinCo Partnership Tax Return that is subject to a Tax Proceeding, including under the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions, that concludes after the Distribution Date, including any “imputed underpayment” imposed pursuant to the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions. SpinCo shall not (y) amend or cause the amendment of any SpinCo Partnership Tax Return with respect to a Pre-Distribution Period, or require any Jefferies Party or any Jefferies Intermediate Entity to amend any Income Tax Return, or (z) make any “push-out” election, pursuant to the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions, with respect to a Tax Proceeding with respect to a Pre-Distribution Period.

(iii)    Allocation of Non-Income Taxes. SpinCo shall be allocated all Non-Income Taxes attributable to the Vitesse Business, and Jefferies shall be allocated all Non-Income Taxes attributable to the Jefferies Retained Business.

(b)    Allocation Conventions.

Any Tax Item of any of the SpinCo Parties arising from a transaction engaged in outside the ordinary course of business on the Distribution Date after the Distribution Effective Time shall be allocable to SpinCo and any such transaction by or with respect to any of the SpinCo Parties occurring after the Distribution Effective Time shall be treated for all Tax purposes (to the extent permitted by Applicable Tax Law) as occurring at the beginning of the day following the Distribution Date in accordance with the principles of Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-76(b) (assuming no election is made under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-76(b)(2)(ii) (relating to a ratable allocation of a year’s Tax Items)); provided that the foregoing shall not include any action that is undertaken pursuant to the Contribution or the Distribution.

(c)    Special Allocation Rules. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Section 3, the following Taxes shall be allocated as follows:

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(i)    Transfer Taxes. Transfer Taxes shall be allocated 100% to SpinCo.

(ii)    Distribution Taxes and Tax-Related Losses. Any liability for Distribution Taxes and Tax-Related Losses resulting from a SpinCo Disqualifying Action shall be allocated in a manner consistent with Section 8(a) and Section 8(b).

Section 4.    Preparation and Filing of Tax Returns.

(a)    Responsibility for Preparing Returns.

(i)    Jefferies Prepared Returns. Jefferies shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, all Jefferies Income Tax Returns. To the extent that any of the SpinCo Parties is included in any Jefferies Income Tax Return, as a member of a Combined Group for a Taxable period that includes the Distribution Date, Jefferies shall include in such Joint Tax Return the results of such SpinCo Party on the basis of the Closing of the Books Method to the extent permitted by Applicable Tax Law.

(ii)    SpinCo Prepared Returns. SpinCo shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, any SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return and any SpinCo Partnership Tax Return.

(iii)    Transfer Tax Returns. SpinCo shall prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) all Transfer Tax Returns. If required by Applicable Law, Jefferies shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, cooperate in preparing and filing, and join in the execution of, any such Tax Returns.

(b)    Cooperation.

(i)    Provision of Information; Timing. SpinCo shall maintain all necessary information for Jefferies (or any of its Affiliates) to file any Tax Return that Jefferies is required or permitted to file under this Section 4, and shall provide to Jefferies all such necessary information in accordance with the Jefferies Parties’s past practice.

(ii)    Right to Review SpinCo Partnership Tax Return. SpinCo shall submit to Jefferies a draft of, and related workpapers for, any SpinCo Partnership Tax Return that includes a Pre-Distribution Period. SpinCo shall (x) make a draft of such Tax Return available for review as required under this paragraph at least 30 days in advance of the due date for filing of such Tax Return (taking into account extensions) and (y) reflect in good faith Jefferies’s comments with respect to such Tax Return, consistent with the special rules provided under Section 4(c).

(iii)    Right to Review Other Tax Returns. To the extent that the positions taken on any Tax Return prepared by or at the direction of either Party pursuant to this Agreement (other than a SpinCo Partnership Tax Return) would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the Tax position of the Party other than the Party that is required to prepare and file any such Tax Return pursuant to Section 4 (the “Reviewing Party”), the Party required to prepare and file such Tax Return (the “Preparing Party”) shall prepare the portions of such Tax Return that relates to the business of the Reviewing Party, shall provide a draft of such portion of such Tax Return to the Reviewing Party for

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its review and comment at least thirty (30) days prior to the Due Date for such Tax Return, and shall modify such portion of such Tax Return before filing to include the Reviewing Party’s reasonable comments

(c)    Special Rules Relating to the Preparation of Tax Returns.

(i)    General Rule. Except as provided in this Section 4(c)(i), each Responsible Party shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) any Tax Return for which it is responsible under this Section 4 in accordance with past practices, accounting methods, elections or conventions (“Past Practices”) used by the SpinCo Parties or the Jefferies Parties, as applicable, prior to the Distribution Date with respect to such Tax Return, (unless there is no MLTN Basis for the use of such Past Practices), and to the extent any items are not covered by Past Practices (or in the event that there is no MLTN Basis for the use of such Past Practices), in accordance with reasonable Tax accounting practices selected by such Responsible Party.

(ii)    Consistency with Intended Tax-Free Treatment. All Tax Returns that include any of the Jefferies Parties or any of the SpinCo Parties shall be prepared in a manner that is consistent with the Intended Tax-Free Treatment.

(iii)    SpinCo Separate Income Tax Returns. With respect to any SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return for which SpinCo is responsible pursuant to this Agreement, SpinCo and the other SpinCo Parties shall include such Tax Items in such SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return in a manner that is consistent with the inclusion of such Tax Items in any related Tax Return for which Jefferies is responsible to the extent such Tax Items are allocated in accordance with this Agreement, unless there is no MLTN Basis for such inclusion. In the event that a Party shall determine that there is no MLTN Basis for such inclusion, such Party shall notify the other Party no later than twenty (20) Business Days prior to filing the relevant Tax Return and the Parties shall attempt in good faith to agree on the manner in which the Tax Returns should be prepared to reflect such items or otherwise such dispute shall be resolved in accordance with Section 15.

(iv)    Election to File Jefferies Income Tax Returns as a Combined Group. Jefferies shall have the sole discretion to file any Jefferies Income Tax Return as a Combined Group if the filing of such Tax Return is elective under Applicable Tax Law.

(v)    Amended Returns. Any amended Tax Return or claim for a refund with respect to any of the SpinCo Parties may be made only by the party responsible for preparing the original Tax Return with respect to such member of the SpinCo Parties pursuant to this Section 4; provided that no amended SpinCo Partnership Tax Return, “administrative adjustment request” (within the meaning of the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions) or similar submission with respect to a Tax period or portion thereof ending on or before the Distribution Date may be made without prior written consent by Jefferies.

(d)    Payment of Taxes. Jefferies shall pay (or cause to be paid) to the proper Taxing Authority the Tax shown as due on any Tax Return for which a Jefferies Party is responsible

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under this Section 4, and SpinCo shall pay (or cause to be paid) to the proper Taxing Authority the Tax shown as due on any Tax Return for which a SpinCo Party is responsible under this Section 4. If any Responsible Party is required to make a payment to a Taxing Authority for Taxes allocated to the other Party under Section 3, such other Party shall pay the amount of such Taxes to the Responsible Party in accordance with Section 8 and Section 9.

Section 5.    Deductions and Reporting for Certain Awards.

(a)    Deductions. To the extent permitted by Applicable Tax Law, Income Tax deductions with respect to the issuance, exercise, vesting or settlement after the Distribution Date of any Jefferies Compensatory Equity Interests or SpinCo Compensatory Equity Interests shall be claimed (A) in the case of an active officer or employee, solely by the Group that employs such Person at the time of such issuance, exercise, vesting, or settlement, as applicable; (B) in the case of a former officer or employee, solely by the Group that was the last to employ such Person; and (C) in the case of a director or former director (who is not an officer or employee or former officer or employee of a member of either Group), (x) solely by the Jefferies Parties if such person was, at any time before or after the Distribution, a director of a Jefferies Party, and (y) in any other case, solely by the SpinCo Parties.

(b)    Withholding and Reporting. All applicable withholding and reporting responsibilities (including all income, payroll or other Tax reporting related to income to any current or former employees) with respect to the issuance, exercise, vesting or settlement of any Jefferies Compensatory Equity Interests or SpinCo Compensatory Equity Interests shall be the responsibility of the Jefferies Parties and the SpinCo Parties, respectively. Jefferies and SpinCo acknowledge and agree that the parties shall cooperate with each other and with third-party providers to effectuate withholding and remittance of Taxes, as well as required Tax reporting, in a timely manner.

Section 6.    Certain Representations and Covenants.

(a)    Representations.

(i)    Jefferies, hereby represents and warrants that (x) it has examined the IRS Ruling, the Tax Opinion, the IRS Ruling request and any other materials delivered or deliverable in connection with the issuance of the IRS Ruling and the Tax Opinion (collectively, the “Tax Materials”) and (y) the facts presented and representations that have been or will be made therein were or will be, at the time presented or represented and from such time until and including the Distribution Date, to the extent such facts and representations are with respect to any Jefferies Party (including as to the assets and operations of such Jefferies Party), true, correct, and complete in all material respects (including as to any matter material to qualification for the Intended Tax-Free Treatment).

(ii)    SpinCo hereby represents and warrants:

(1)    that (x) it has examined the Tax Materials and (y) the facts presented and representations that have been or will be made therein were or will be, at the time presented or represented and from such time until and including the

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Distribution Date, to the extent such facts and representations are with respect to any SpinCo Party (including as to the assets and operations of such SpinCo Party), true, correct, and complete in all material respects (including as to any matter material to qualification for the Intended Tax-Free Treatment).

(2)    that as of the Distribution Date, there is no plan or intention:

a.    to liquidate SpinCo or to merge or consolidate any of the SpinCo Parties with any other Person subsequent to the Distribution;

b.    to sell or otherwise dispose of any material asset of any of the SpinCo Parties, except in the ordinary course of business;

c.    to take or fail to take any action in a manner that is inconsistent with the written information and representations furnished by SpinCo to the IRS in connection with the submission of the IRS Ruling or to Tax Counsel in connection with the Tax Representation Letters or Tax Opinion;

d.    to repurchase stock of SpinCo other than in a manner that satisfies the requirements of Section 4.05(1)(b) of IRS Revenue Procedure 96-30 (as in effect prior to the amendment of such Revenue Procedure by IRS Revenue Procedure 2003-48) and consistent with any representations made to Tax Counsel in connection with the Tax Representation Letters;

e.    to take or fail to take any action in a manner that management of SpinCo knows, or should know, is reasonably likely to contravene any agreement with a Taxing Authority entered into prior to the Distribution Date to which any of the SpinCo Parties is a party; or

f.    to enter into any negotiations, agreements, or arrangements with respect to transactions or events (including stock issuances, pursuant to the exercise of options or otherwise, option grants, the adoption of, or authorization of shares under, a stock option plan, capital contributions, or acquisitions, but not including the Distribution) that could reasonably be expected to cause the Distribution to be treated as part of a plan (within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code) pursuant to which one or more Persons acquire directly or indirectly SpinCo stock representing a 50% or greater interest within the meaning of Section 355(d)(4) of the Code.

(b)    Covenants.

(i)    Jefferies, on behalf of itself and all other Jefferies Parties, hereby confirms and agrees to comply with any and all covenants and agreements in the Tax Materials applicable to Jefferies or the other Jefferies Parties and shall not, and shall not permit any Jefferies Party to, take or fail to take any action that is inconsistent with the facts, information and representations in the Tax Materials with respect to any Jefferies Party (including as to the assets and operations of such Jefferies Party).

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(ii)    SpinCo, on behalf of itself and all other SpinCo Parties, hereby confirms and agrees to comply with any and all covenants and agreements in the Tax Materials applicable to SpinCo or the other SpinCo Parties and shall not, and shall not permit any of the SpinCo Parties to, take or fail to take any action (x) that is inconsistent with the fact, information and representations in the Tax Materials with respect to SpinCo or the other SpinCo Parties (including as to the assets and operations of SpinCo or such other SpinCo Parties).

(iii)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other SpinCo Parties to, take or fail to take any action that constitutes a SpinCo Disqualifying Action.

(iv)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other SpinCo Parties to, take or fail to take any action that is inconsistent with the information and representations furnished by SpinCo to the IRS in connection with the submission of the IRS Ruling or to Tax Counsel in connection with the Tax Representation Letters or Tax Opinion;

(v)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other SpinCo Parties to, take or fail to take any action in a manner that management of SpinCo knows, or should know, is reasonably likely to contravene any agreement with a Taxing Authority entered into prior to the Distribution Date to which any of the SpinCo Parties or the Jefferies Parties is a party;

(vi)    During the two-year period following the Distribution Date:

(1)    SpinCo shall (v) maintain its status as a company engaged in the Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code as conducted immediately prior to the Distribution and in accordance with the IRS Ruling, (w) not engage in any transaction that would result in it ceasing to be a company engaged in the Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code as conducted immediately prior to the Distribution and in accordance with the IRS Ruling, (x) cause each of the SpinCo Parties whose Active Trade or Business is relied upon for purposes of qualifying the Distribution for the Intended Tax-Free Treatment to maintain its status as a company engaged in such Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code as conducted immediately prior to the Distribution and in accordance with the IRS Ruling , (y) not engage in any transaction or permit any of the SpinCo Parties to engage in any transaction that would result in a SpinCo Party described in clause (x) hereof ceasing to be a company engaged in the relevant Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code as conducted immediately prior to the Distribution and in accordance with the IRS Ruling, taking into account Section 355(b)(3) of the Code for purposes of each of clauses (v) through (y) hereof, and (z) not dispose of or permit any SpinCo Party to dispose of, directly or indirectly, any interest in a SpinCo Party described in clause (x) hereof or permit any such SpinCo Party to make or revoke any election under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3;

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(2)    SpinCo shall not repurchase stock of SpinCo in a manner contrary to the requirements of Section 4.05(1)(b) of IRS Revenue Procedure 96-30 (as in effect prior to the amendment of such Revenue Procedure by IRS Revenue Procedure 2003-48) or inconsistent with any representations made by SpinCo to Tax Counsel in connection with the Tax Representation Letters;

(3)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not agree to, merge, consolidate or amalgamate with any other Person;

(4)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other SpinCo Party to, issue Equity Interests in a manner that could reasonably be expected to have adverse consequences under Section 355(e) of the Code; provided, however, that SpinCo may issue Equity Interests to the extent such issuances satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to acquisitions in connection with a person’s performance of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(d);

(5)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other of the SpinCo Parties to (I) solicit any Person to make a tender offer for, or otherwise acquire or sell, the Equity Interests of SpinCo, (II) participate in or support any unsolicited tender offer for, or other acquisition, issuance or disposition of, the Equity Interests of SpinCo or (III) approve or otherwise permit any proposed business combination or any transaction which, in the cause of clauses (I) or (II), individually or in the aggregate, together with any transaction occurring within the four-year period beginning on the date which is two years before the Distribution Date and any other transaction which is part of a plan or series of related transactions (within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code) that includes the Distribution, could result in one or more Persons acquiring (except for acquisitions that otherwise satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to acquisitions in connection with a person’s performance of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of Treasury Regulation Section 1.355-7(d)) directly or indirectly stock representing a 40% or greater interest, by vote or value, in SpinCo (or any successor thereto) (any such transaction, a “Proposed Acquisition Transaction”); provided further that any clarification of, or change in, the statute or regulations promulgated under Section 355(e) of the Code shall be incorporated in the restrictions in this clause (viii) and the interpretation thereof;

(6)    SpinCo shall not, and shall not permit any other SpinCo Party to, amend its certificate of incorporation (or other organizational documents), or take any other action, whether through a stockholder vote or otherwise, affecting the voting rights of the Equity Interests of SpinCo (including, without limitation, through the conversion of one class of Equity Interests of SpinCo into another class of Equity Interests of SpinCo); and

(7)    SpinCo shall not take or fail to take, or permit any other SpinCo Party to take or fail to take, any action which prevents or could reasonably be

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expected to result in Tax treatment that is inconsistent with the Intended Tax-Free Treatment.

(c)    SpinCo Covenants Exceptions. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6(b), SpinCo and the other SpinCo Parties may take any action that would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the covenants contained in Section 6(b), if prior to taking any such actions, SpinCo shall (1) have received a favorable private letter ruling from the IRS, or a ruling from another Tax Authority that confirms that such action or actions will not result in Distribution Taxes, taking into account such actions and any other relevant transactions in the aggregate (a “Post-Distribution Ruling”), in form and substance satisfactory to Jefferies in its discretion, which discretion shall be reasonably exercised in good faith to prevent the imposition on Jefferies, or responsibility for payment by Jefferies, of Distribution Taxes (which discretion shall include consideration of the reasonableness of any representations made in connection with such Post-Distribution Ruling) or (2) have received an Unqualified Tax Opinion, taking into account such actions and any other relevant transactions in the aggregate, in form and substance satisfactory to Jefferies (including any representations or assumptions that may be included in such Unqualified Tax Opinion), acting reasonably and in good faith solely to prevent the imposition on Jefferies, or responsibility for payment by Jefferies, of Distribution Taxes. SpinCo shall provide a copy of the Post-Distribution Ruling or the Unqualified Tax Opinion described in this paragraph to Jefferies as soon as practicable prior to taking or failing to take any action set forth in the foregoing clause (b). Jefferies’s evaluation of a Post-Distribution Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any underlying assumptions, representations, and covenants made in connection with such Post-Distribution Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion. SpinCo shall bear all costs and expenses of securing any such Post-Distribution Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion and shall reimburse Jefferies for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses that Jefferies may incur in good faith in seeking to obtain or evaluate any such Post-Distribution Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion. SpinCo shall not be relieved of any liability under Section 8 of this Agreement by reason of having obtained such a Post-Distribution Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion.

Section 7.    Protective Section 336(e) Elections. Pursuant to Treasury Regulations Sections 1.336-2(h)(1)(i) and 1.336-2(j), Jefferies and SpinCo agree that Jefferies may, within its sole discretion, make a timely protective election under Section 336(e) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations issued thereunder for each member of the SpinCo Parties that is a domestic corporation for U.S. federal income Tax purposes with respect to the Distribution (a “Section 336(e) Election”). If made, it is intended that a Section 336(e) Election will have no effect unless the Distribution is a “qualified stock disposition,” as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.336(e)-1(b)(6), by reason of the application of Treasury Regulations Section 1.336-1(b)(5)(i)(B) or Treasury Regulations Section 1.336-1(b)(5)(ii).

Section 8.    Indemnities.

(a)    SpinCo Indemnity to Jefferies. SpinCo shall indemnify Jefferies and the other Jefferies Parties against, and hold them harmless, without duplication, from:

(i)    any Tax liability allocated to SpinCo pursuant to Section 3 and any Tax-Related Losses with respect thereto;

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(ii)    any Tax liability and Tax-Related Losses attributable to a breach, after the Distribution Effective Time, by SpinCo or any other member of the SpinCo Parties of any representation or covenant contained in this Agreement; and

(iii)    any Distribution Taxes and Tax-Related Losses attributable to a SpinCo Disqualifying Action (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Taxes and Tax-Related Losses resulting from any action for which the conditions set forth in Section 9(c) are satisfied).

(b)    Jefferies Indemnity to SpinCo. Except in the case of any liabilities described in Section 11(a), Jefferies indemnify SpinCo and the other SpinCo Parties against, and hold them harmless, without duplication, from:

(i)    any Tax liability allocated to Jefferies pursuant to Section 3 and any Tax-Related Losses with respect thereto; and

(ii)    any Tax liability and Tax-Related Losses attributable to a breach by Jefferies or any other member of the Jefferies Parties of any representation or covenant contained in this Agreement.

(c)    Discharge of Indemnity. SpinCo, Jefferies and the members of their respective Groups shall discharge their obligations under Section 8(a) or Section 8(b) hereof, respectively, by paying the relevant amount in accordance with Section 9, within 30 Business Days of written demand therefor provided that, to the extent such amount is required to be paid to a Taxing Authority, such discharge is can be made by paying such amount no later than 10 Business Days prior to the date by which the demanding party is required to pay the related Tax liability (the “Due Date”). Any such written demand shall include a statement showing the amount due under Section 8(a) or Section 8(b), as the case may be and the calculation of such amounts and explanation of the obligation in reasonably sufficient details. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if SpinCo or Jefferies disputes in good faith the fact or the amount of its obligation under Section 8(a) or Section 8(b), then no payment of the amount in dispute shall be required until any such good faith dispute is resolved in accordance with Section 15 hereof; provided, however, that any amount not paid within the time provided herein shall bear interest as provided in Section 9.

(d)    Tax Benefits. Except as contemplated in this Agreement, any indemnification obligation of any Indemnifying Party under this Section 8 that arises (i) shall not be increased to take into account any tax costs incurred by the Indemnified Party arising from any payment of the indemnification obligation and (ii) shall not be reduced to take into account any tax benefit received by the Indemnitee arising from the incurrence or payment of any payment of the indemnification obligation.

Section 9.    Payments.

(a)    Timing. All payments to be made under this Agreement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any payments to a Taxing Authority described herein) shall be made in immediately available funds. Except as otherwise provided, all such payments will made no later than the Due Date. Payments shall be deemed made when received. Any payment that is not made on or before the Due Date shall bear interest at the rate equal to the “prime” rate as

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published on such Due Date in the Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, for the period from and including the date immediately following the Due Date through and including the date of payment. With respect to any payment required to be made under this Agreement, Jefferies has the right to designate, by written notice to SpinCo, which Jefferies Party will make or receive such payment.

(b)    Treatment of Payments. To the extent permitted by Applicable Tax Law, any payment made by any Jefferies Party to any SpinCo Party, or by any SpinCo Party to any Jefferies Party, pursuant to this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall be treated by the parties hereto for all Tax purposes as a distribution by SpinCo to Jefferies, or a capital contribution from Jefferies to SpinCo, as the case may be, and such payment shall be treated as having been made immediately prior to the Distribution. In the event that a Taxing Authority asserts that a party’s treatment of a payment described in this Section 9(b) should be other than as required herein, such party shall use its reasonable best efforts to contest such assertion in a manner consistent with Section 12 of this Agreement.

(c)    No Duplicative Payment. It is intended that the provisions of this Agreement shall not result in a duplicative payment of any amount required to be paid under the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any other Transaction Document, and this Agreement shall be construed accordingly.

Section 10.    Guarantees. Jefferies or SpinCo, as the case may be, shall guarantee or otherwise perform the obligations of each other Jefferies Parties or SpinCo Parties, respectively, under this Agreement.

Section 11.    Communication and Cooperation.

(a)    Consult and Cooperate. Jefferies and SpinCo shall consult and cooperate (and shall cause each other member of their respective Groups to consult and cooperate) fully at such time and to the extent reasonably requested by the other party in connection with all matters subject to this Agreement. Such cooperation shall include, without limitation:

(i)    the retention, and provision on reasonable request, of any and all information including all books, records, documentation or other information pertaining to Tax matters relating to the SpinCo Parties (or, in the case of any Tax Return of the Jefferies Parties, the portion of such return that relates to Taxes for which the SpinCo Parties may be liable pursuant to this Agreement), any necessary explanations of information, and access to personnel, until one year after the expiration of the applicable statute of limitation (giving effect to any extension, waiver or mitigation thereof);

(ii)    the execution of any document that may be necessary (including to give effect to Section 12) or helpful in connection with any required Tax Return or in connection with any audit, proceeding, suit or action; and

(iii)    the use of the parties’ commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any documentation from a Governmental Authority or a third party that may be necessary or helpful in connection with the foregoing.

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(b)    Provide Information. Except as set forth in Section 12, Jefferies and SpinCo shall keep each other reasonably informed with respect to any material development relating to the matters subject to this Agreement.

(c)    Tax Matters. Jefferies and SpinCo shall promptly advise each other with respect to any proposed Tax adjustments that are the subject of an audit or investigation, or are the subject of any proceeding or litigation, and that may affect any Tax liability or any Tax Attribute (including, but not limited to, basis in an asset or the amount of earnings and profits) of any of the SpinCo Parties or any of the Jefferies Parties, respectively.

(d)    Confidentiality and Privileged Information. Any information or documents provided under this Agreement shall be kept confidential by the party receiving the information or documents, except as may otherwise be necessary in connection with the filing of required Tax Returns or in connection with any audit, proceeding, suit or action. Without limiting the foregoing (and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other agreement), (i) none of the Jefferies Parties or SpinCo Parties, respectively, shall be required to provide any of the SpinCo Parties or Jefferies Parties, respectively, or any other Person access to or copies of any information or procedures other than information or procedures that relate solely to SpinCo, the business or assets of any of the SpinCo Parties, or matters for which SpinCo or Jefferies Parties, respectively, has an obligation to indemnify under this Agreement, and (ii) in no event shall any of the Jefferies Parties or the SpinCo Parties, respectively, be required to provide any of the SpinCo Parties or Jefferies Parties, respectively, or any other Person access to or copies of any information if such action could reasonably be expected to result in the waiver of any privilege. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that Jefferies or SpinCo, respectively, determines that the provision of any information to any of the SpinCo Parties or Jefferies Parties, respectively, could be commercially detrimental or violate any law or agreement to which Jefferies or SpinCo, respectively, is bound, Jefferies or SpinCo, respectively, shall not be required to comply with the foregoing terms of this Section 11(d) except to the extent that it is able, using commercially reasonable efforts, to do so while avoiding such harm or consequence (and shall promptly provide notice to Jefferies or SpinCo, to the extent such access to or copies of any information is provided to a Person other than a the Jefferies Parties or SpinCo Parties (as applicable)).

Section 12.    Audits and Contest.

(a)    Notice. Each of Jefferies or SpinCo shall promptly notify the other in writing upon the receipt of any notice of Tax Proceeding from the relevant Taxing Authority that may affect the liability of any of the SpinCo Parties or the Jefferies Parties, respectively, for Taxes under Applicable Law or this Agreement; provided, that a party’s right to indemnification under this Agreement shall not be limited in any way by a failure to so notify, except to the extent that the Indemnifying Party is prejudiced by such failure.

(b)    Assumption of Control.

(i)    SpinCo Separate Income Tax Returns. In the case of any Tax Proceeding with respect to any SpinCo Separate Income Tax Return (other than any SpinCo Partnership Tax Return), SpinCo shall have the sole responsibility and right to control the prosecution of such

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Tax Proceedings, including the exclusive right to communicate with agents of the applicable Taxing Authority and to control, resolve, settle, or agree to any deficiency, claim, or adjustment proposed, asserted, or assessed in connection with or as a result of such Tax Proceedings.

(ii)     Jefferies Income Tax Returns. In the case of any Tax Proceeding with respect to any Jefferies Income Tax Returns (other than any Tax Proceeding with respect to Distribution Taxes), Jefferies shall have the sole responsibility and right to control the prosecution of such Tax Proceedings, including the exclusive right to communicate with agents of the applicable Taxing Authority and to control, resolve, settle, or agree to any deficiency, claim, or adjustment proposed, asserted, or assessed in connection with or as a result of such Tax Proceedings.

(iv)    Vitesse Partnership Tax Returns. SpinCo shall control any Tax Proceeding with respect to a Vitesse Partnership Tax Return, provided that (x) SpinCo shall not require any Jefferies Party, or any Jefferies Intermediate Entity to amend any Income Tax Return, and shall not make any “push-out” election, pursuant to the Partnership Tax Audit Provisions, with respect to such Tax Proceeding, and (y) SpinCo shall keep Jefferies fully informed of all material developments and shall permit Jefferies a reasonable opportunity to participate in the defense of such Tax Proceeding.

(v)    Distribution Taxes. Jefferies shall have the right to control any Tax Proceeding relating to Distribution Taxes; provided, that Jefferies shall keep SpinCo fully informed of all material developments and shall permit SpinCo a reasonable opportunity to participate in the defense of such Tax Proceeding.

Section 13.    Costs and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, each party shall bear its own costs and expenses incurred pursuant to this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, costs and expenses shall include, but not be limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees and other related professional fees and disbursements.

Section 14.    Effectiveness; Termination and Survival. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, as between Jefferies and SpinCo, this Agreement shall become effective upon the consummation of the Distribution. All rights and obligations arising hereunder shall survive until they are fully effectuated or performed; provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement shall remain in effect and its provisions shall survive for one year after the full period of all applicable statutes of limitation (giving effect to any extension, waiver or mitigation thereof) and, with respect to any claim hereunder initiated prior to the end of such period, until such claim has been satisfied or otherwise resolved. This agreement shall terminate without any further action at any time before the Distribution upon termination of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

Section 15.    Dispute Resolution. In the event of any dispute relating to this Agreement, the parties shall work together in good faith to resolve such dispute within 30 days. In the event that such dispute is not resolved, upon written notice by a party after such 30-day period, the matter shall be referred to a U.S. Tax counsel or other Tax advisor of recognized national standing (the “Tax Arbiter”) that will be jointly chosen by Jefferies and SpinCo; provided, however, that, if Jefferies and SpinCo do not agree on the selection of the Tax Arbiter after five (5) days of good faith negotiation, the Tax Arbiter shall consist of a panel of three U.S. Tax

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counsel or other Tax advisor of recognized national standing with one member chosen by Jefferies, one member chosen by SpinCo, and a third member chosen by mutual agreement of the other members within the following ten (10)-day period. Each decision of a panel Tax Arbiter shall be made by majority vote of the members. The Tax Arbiter may, in its discretion, obtain the services of any third party necessary to assist it in resolving the dispute. The Tax Arbiter shall furnish written notice to the parties to the dispute of its resolution of the dispute as soon as practicable, but in any event no later than ninety (90) days after acceptance of the matter for resolution. Any such resolution by the Tax Arbiter shall be binding on the parties, and the parties shall take, or cause to be taken, any action necessary to implement such resolution. All fees and expenses of the Tax Arbiter shall be shared equally by the parties to the dispute. If the parties are unable to find a Tax Arbiter willing to adjudicate the dispute in question and whom the parties, acting in good faith, find acceptable, then the dispute shall be resolved in the manner set forth in Section 8.1 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

Section 16.    Authorization, Etc. Each of the parties hereto hereby represents and warrants that it has the power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, that this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of such party, that this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each such party, and that the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such party does not contravene or conflict with any provision or law or of its charter or bylaws or any agreement, instrument or order binding on such party.

Section 17.    Change in Tax Law. Any reference to a provision of the Code, Treasury Regulations or any other Applicable Tax Law shall include a reference to any applicable successor provision of the Code, Treasury Regulations or other Applicable Tax Law.

Section 18.    Principles. This Agreement is intended to calculate and allocate certain Tax liabilities of the SpinCo Parties and the Jefferies Parties to SpinCo and Jefferies (and their respective Groups), and any situation or circumstance concerning such calculation and allocation that is not specifically contemplated by this Agreement shall be dealt with in a manner consistent with the underlying principles of calculation and allocation in this Agreement.

Section 19.    Interpretation; Incorporation of Terms by Reference. This Agreement is an “Ancillary Agreement” as such term is defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement and shall be interpreted in accordance with the terms of the Separation and Distribution Agreement in all respects; provided that in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of the Separation and Distribution Agreement in respect of the subject matter of this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall control in all respects. Article 10 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement shall be incorporated herein by reference, mutatis mutandis, unless there is any conflict or inconsistency between such provisions and the terms of this Agreement, in which case the terms of this Agreement shall control in all respects.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

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Exhibit 10.3

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of [__________], 2022

among

Vitesse Energy, Inc.,

as Borrower,

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent,

and

The Lenders Party Hereto

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC,

Joint Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner, and

Fifth Third Bank, National Association

as Joint Lead Arranger

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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This SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of [__________], 2022 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), is among: VITESSE ENERGY, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”); each of the Lenders from time to time party hereto; and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. (in its individual capacity, “Wells Fargo”), as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

R E C I T A L S

A. Vitesse Energy, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Predecessor Borrower”), the Administrative Agent and the other agents and lenders party thereto are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of April 29, 2022 (together with all amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements or other modifications, if any, made thereto prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which such lenders agreed to provide certain loans to and extensions of credit on behalf of the Predecessor Borrower, subject to certain terms and conditions.

B. On or prior to the date hereof and in sequential order, (i) the Borrower was formed on August 5, 2022, and (ii) pursuant to that certain Separation and Distribution Agreement dated as of [_____], 2022 (as in effect on the date hereof, without giving effect to any subsequent amendment or modification thereto, the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”) and the transactions and agreements contemplated thereby (A) all issued and outstanding Equity Interests in (1) the Predecessor Borrower, formerly an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (together with its consolidated subsidiaries prior to the date hereof, “Jefferies”) were transferred, directly or indirectly, by the holders thereof to the Borrower, and (2) Vitesse Oil, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, formerly an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Jefferies (“Vitesse Oil”), were transferred, directly or indirectly, by the holders thereof to the Borrower, in each case, in exchange for Equity Interests in the Borrower, (B) certain of the holders of the outstanding Equity Interests of Borrower, pursuant to a series of distributions, transferred a portion of such outstanding Equity Interests of Borrower to Jefferies, and (C) Jefferies distributed all of Borrower’s outstanding Equity Interests held by Jefferies to holders of Jefferies’ Equity Interests (the transactions described in the foregoing clause (i) and clause (ii), collectively, the “Spin-Off Transactions”). As a result of the Spin-Off Transactions, the Predecessor Borrower and Vitesse Oil will each become a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, the Borrower will become a publicly traded corporation, and, as of the Effective Date, Jefferies will not own any Equity Interests in the Borrower.

C. The parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety in the form of this Agreement to (i) allow the Predecessor Borrower to assign its rights, duties, liabilities and obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Assigned Loan Documents (as defined below) to the Borrower and (ii) amend certain terms of the Existing Credit Agreement in certain respects as provided in this Agreement.

D. The Lenders have agreed to make such loans and extensions of credit subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

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E. In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and of the loans, extensions of credit and commitments hereinafter referred to, the parties hereto agree that the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended, renewed, extended and restated in its entirety in the form of this Agreement on (and subject to) the terms and conditions set forth herein. It is the intention of the parties hereto that this Agreement supersedes and replaces the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety; provided that (i) such amendment and restatement shall operate to renew, amend, modify, extend and assign all of the rights, duties, liabilities and obligations of the Predecessor Borrower under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Assigned Loan Documents, which rights, duties, liabilities and obligations are hereby renewed, amended, modified, extended and assigned, to the Borrower, and shall not act as a novation thereof, and (ii) the Liens securing the Indebtedness under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement and the rights, duties, liabilities and obligations of the Predecessor Borrower (as assigned to Borrower hereunder) and the Existing Guarantors (as defined herein) under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Existing Loan Documents (as defined herein) to which they are a party shall not be extinguished but shall be carried forward and shall secure such obligations and liabilities as amended, renewed, extended and restated hereby. The Predecessor Borrower and the Borrower, jointly and severally, represent and warrant that, as of the Effective Date, there are no claims or offsets against, or defenses or counterclaims to, their obligations (or the obligations of any Guarantor) under the Existing Credit Agreement or any of the other Existing Loan Documents. The parties hereto further agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS

Section 1.01 Terms Defined Above. As used in this Agreement, each term defined above has the meaning indicated above.

Section 1.02 Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

“Account Control Agreement” means a control agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, which grants the Administrative Agent “control” as contemplated in the UCC in effect in the applicable jurisdiction over any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account maintained by any Credit Party, in each case, among the Administrative Agent, the applicable Credit Party and the applicable financial institution at which such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account is maintained

“Accounting Changes” means, with respect to any Person, changes in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (or any successor thereto or any agency with similar functions).

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“Additional Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(c)(i).

“Additional Lender Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(c)(ii)(G).

“Adjusted Term SOFR” means, for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term SOFR for such calculation plus (b) the Term SOFR Adjustment; provided that if Adjusted Term SOFR as so determined shall ever be less than the Floor, then Adjusted Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.

“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.

“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.

“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and any syndication or documentation agent appointed hereunder from time to time; and “Agent” shall mean any of them individually.

“Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts” means, at any time, an amount equal to the sum of the Elected Commitments of the Lenders, as the same may be increased, reduced or terminated pursuant to Section 2.06(c). As of the Effective Date, the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts of the Lenders is $170,000,000.

“Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts” at any time shall equal the sum of the Maximum Credit Amounts, as the same may be reduced or terminated pursuant to Section 2.06. As of the Effective Date, the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts of the Lenders are $500,000,000.

“Agreement” means this Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, supplemented or restated.

“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) 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) Adjusted Term SOFR for a one-month tenor in effect on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%; provided that, clause (c) of this definition shall not be applicable during any period in which Adjusted Term SOFR is unavailable or unascertainable. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR, respectively. 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.

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

“Applicable Margin” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or SOFR Loan, or with respect to the Commitment Fee Rate, as the case may be, the rate per annum set forth in the Utilization Grid below based upon the Utilization Percentage then in effect:

Each change in the Applicable Margin shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change; provided that if at any time the Borrower fails to deliver a Reserve Report pursuant to Section 8.12(a), then the “Applicable Margin” means the rate per annum set forth on the grid when the Utilization Percentage is at its highest level until such Reserve Report is delivered.

“Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts represented by such Lender’s Maximum Credit Amount as such percentage is set forth on Annex I.

“Approved Counterparty” means (a) any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender and (b) any other Person whose issuer rating or long term senior unsecured debt rating at the time of entering into the applicable Swap Agreement is A-/A3 by S&P or Moody’s (or their equivalent) or higher (or whose obligations under the applicable Swap Agreement are guaranteed by an Affiliate of such Person meeting such rating standards).

“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.

“Approved Petroleum Engineers” means (a) Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc., (b) Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc., (c) Ryder Scott Company Petroleum Consultants, L.P. and (d) any other independent petroleum engineers reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

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“Arranger” means, collectively, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in its capacities as joint lead arranger and sole bookrunner hereunder, and Fifth Third Bank, National Association, in its capacity as a joint lead arranger.

“ASC” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification, as in effect from time to time.

“Assigned Loan Documents” means the “Notes”, the “Letter of Credit Agreements” and the “Letters of Credit” (as each such term is defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) executed in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement.

“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 12.04(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit G or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

“Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the Termination Date.

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (b) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, 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 “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 3.03(c)(iv).

“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).

“Bank Products” means any of the following bank services: (a) commercial credit cards, (b) stored value cards, and (c) treasury management services (including controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services).

“Bank Products Provider” means any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender that provides Bank Products to the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

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“Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day” has the meaning assigned thereto in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

“Benchmark” means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference 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 Section 3.03(c)(i).

“Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) 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 and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such 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 Available Tenor, 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 giving due consideration to (a) 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 or (b) 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.

“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); or

(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) or the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative or non-compliant with or non-aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks; provided that such non-representativeness, non-compliance or non-alignment will

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be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

For the avoidance of doubt, 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 Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 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 or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) or the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative or in compliance with or aligned with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks.

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 Transition Start Date” means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of

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information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than ninety (90) days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).

“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date 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 3.03(c)(i) and (y) 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 3.03(c).

“Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only after the passage of time. “Beneficial Ownership” shall have the correlative meaning thereto.

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

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

“BHC Act Affiliate” means, as to any Person, an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such Person.

“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America or any successor Governmental Authority.

“Borrowing” means Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of SOFR Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

“Borrowing Base” means at any time an amount equal to the amount determined in accordance with Section 2.07, as the same may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 8.13(c).

“Borrowing Base Deficiency” occurs if at any time the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeds the Borrowing Base then in effect.

“Borrowing Base Properties” means the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries included in the most recently delivered Reserve Report.

“Borrowing Base Value” means, with respect to any Oil and Gas Property of a Credit Party or any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, the value the Administrative Agent attributed to such asset in connection with the most recent determination of the Borrowing Base as confirmed by Required Lenders.

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“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.

“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City or Denver, Colorado are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

“Capital Leases” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capital leases on the balance sheet of the Person liable (whether contingent or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder.

“Casualty Event” means any loss, casualty or other insured damage to, or any nationalization, taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Change in Control” means, after giving effect to the Spin-Off Transactions, (a) any Person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Permitted Investors, shall at any time have acquired direct or indirect Beneficial Ownership (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act) of voting power of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower having more than the greater of thirty-five percent (35%) of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of the Borrower, (b) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither (i) nominated, appointed or approved for consideration by shareholders for election by the board of directors of the Borrower or (ii) appointed by directors so nominated, appointed or approved or (c) the failure of the Borrower to own, directly or indirectly, one-hundred percent (100%) of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Guarantor (except to the extent one-hundred percent (100%) of the Equity Interests of a Guarantor is disposed of pursuant to a transaction permitted by Section 9.11 or Section 9.12).

“Change in Law” means (i) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (ii) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (iii) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 5.01(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, rule, guideline, requirement or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided, however, for the purposes of this Agreement, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives in connection therewith or promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case, pursuant to Basel III, are deemed to have gone into effect and to have been adopted after the date of this Agreement.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

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“Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (i) modified from time to time pursuant to Section 2.06 and (ii) modified from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 12.04(b). The amount representing each Lender’s Commitment shall at any time be the least of (a) such Lender’s Maximum Credit Amount, (b) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the then effective Borrowing Base and (c) such Lender’s Elected Commitment.

“Commitment Fee Rate” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Applicable Margin”.

“Commodity Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“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, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of 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 “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 5.02 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and 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 any such rate 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).

“Consolidated Net Income” means with respect to the Borrower and the Consolidated Subsidiaries, for any period, the aggregate of the net income (or loss) of the Borrower and the Consolidated Subsidiaries after allowances for taxes for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent otherwise included therein) the following: (i) the net income of any Person in which the Borrower or any Consolidated Subsidiary has an interest (which interest does not cause the net income of such other Person to be consolidated with the net income of the Borrower and the Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP), except to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions actually paid in cash during such period by such other Person to the Borrower or to a Consolidated Subsidiary, as the case may be; (ii) the net income (but not loss) during such period of any Consolidated Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions or transfers or loans by that Consolidated Subsidiary is not at the

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time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument or Governmental Requirement applicable to such Consolidated Subsidiary or is otherwise restricted or prohibited, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP; (iii) the net income (or loss) of any Person acquired in a pooling-of-interests transaction for any period prior to the date of such transaction; (iv) any extraordinary gains or losses during such period and (v) any gains or losses attributable to writeups or writedowns of assets.

“Consolidated Subsidiaries” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower (whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired) the financial statements of which shall be (or should have been) consolidated with the financial statements of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP.

“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.

“Covered Entity” means 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” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.18.

“Credit Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor, and “Credit Party” means any one of the foregoing.

“Debt” means, for any Person, the sum of the following (without duplication): (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, bankers’ acceptances, debentures, notes or other similar instruments; (b) all obligations of such Person (whether contingent or otherwise) in respect of letters of credit, surety or other bonds and similar instruments; (c) all accounts payable and all accrued expenses, liabilities or other obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of Property or services; (d) all obligations under Capital Leases; (e) all obligations under Synthetic Leases; (f) all Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any Property of such Person, whether or not such Debt is assumed by such Person; (g) all Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others guaranteed by such Person or in which such Person otherwise assures a creditor against loss of the Debt (howsoever such assurance shall be made) to the extent of the lesser of the amount of such Debt and the maximum stated amount of such guarantee or assurance against loss; (h) all obligations or undertakings of such Person to maintain or cause to be maintained the financial position or covenants of others and, to the extent entered into as a means of providing credit support for the obligations of others and not primarily to enable such Person to acquire any such Property, all obligations or undertakings of such Person to purchase the Debt or Property of others; (i) obligations to deliver commodities, goods or services, including Hydrocarbons, in consideration of one or more advance payments, other than gas balancing arrangements in the ordinary course of business; (j) obligations to pay for goods or services even if such goods or services are not actually received or utilized by such Person; (k) any Debt of a

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partnership for which such Person is liable either by agreement, by operation of law or by a Governmental Requirement but only to the extent of such liability; (l) Disqualified Capital Stock; and (m) the undischarged balance of any production payment created by such Person or for the creation of which such Person directly or indirectly received payment. The Debt of any Person shall include all obligations of such Person of the character described above to the extent such Person remains legally liable in respect thereof notwithstanding that any such obligation is not included as a liability of such Person under GAAP.

“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term 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 2.09(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund its pro rata share of any Loans or participation in Letters of Credit required to be funded by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank 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 (3) 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 whose bank holding company has) been placed into receivership, conservatorship, bankruptcy or become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not become a Defaulting Lender solely as a result of the acquisition or maintenance of an ownership interest in such Lender or Person controlling such Lender or the exercise of control over a Lender or Person controlling such Lender by a Governmental Authority or an instrumentality thereof, so long as, in any such case, such actions or facts do not result in or provide such Lender or Person controlling such Lender (including any Governmental Authority) with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States of America or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender 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 clause (a) through clause (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender upon delivery of written notice of such determination from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, the Issuing Bank and each other Lender.

“Deposit Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Disqualified Capital Stock” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) 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

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obligation or otherwise, or is convertible or exchangeable for Debt 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 (1) year after the earlier of (i) the Maturity Date and (ii) the date on which there are no Loans, LC Exposure or other obligations hereunder outstanding and all of the Commitments are terminated.

“Distributable Free Cash Flow Amount” means, as of any date of determination, the result of (a) Free Cash Flow for the most recently ended Rolling Period for which a certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(q), minus (b) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made in reliance on Section 9.04(e) and Section 9.04(f) during the three most recently completed Free Cash Flow Usage Periods and the then current Free Cash Flow Usage Period.

“Division” means the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of a Person (the “Dividing Person”) among two or more Persons (whether pursuant to a “plan of division” or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.

“Division Successor” means any Person that, upon the consummation of a Division of a Dividing Person, holds all or any portion of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations previously held by such Dividing Person immediately prior to the consummation of such Division. A Dividing Person which retains any of its assets, liabilities and/or obligations after a Division shall be deemed a Division Successor upon the occurrence of such Division.

“dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

“EBITDAX” means, for any period, the sum of Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following expenses or charges to the extent deducted from Consolidated Net Income in such period: interest, income taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization, exploration expenses, other similar noncash charges, and losses from asset dispositions (including Liquidations of Swap Agreements, but excluding sales of Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business), minus (b) (i) all noncash income and (ii) gains from asset dispositions, including Liquidations of Swap Agreements, but excluding sales of Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business, in each case to the extent added to Consolidated Net Income in such period.

“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 clause (a) or clause (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.

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“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.

“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 6.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02).

“Elected Commitment” means, as to each Lender, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Annex I under the caption “Elected Commitment”, as the same may be increased, reduced or terminated from time to time in connection with an optional increase, reduction or termination of the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts pursuant to Section 2.06(c).

“Elected Commitment Increase Certificate” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.06(c)(ii)(F).

“Electronic Record” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 15 U.S.C. 7006.

“Electronic Signature” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 15 U.S.C. 7006.

“Engineering Reports” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(i).

“Environmental Laws” means any and all Governmental Requirements pertaining in any way to health, safety, the environment, the preservation or reclamation of natural resources, or the management, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials, in effect in any and all jurisdictions in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is conducting, or at any time has conducted, business, or where any Property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary is located, including, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”), as amended, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“RCRA”), as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, and other environmental conservation or protection Governmental Requirements.

“Environmental Permit” means any permit, registration, license, notice, approval, consent, exemption, variance, or other authorization required under or issued pursuant to applicable Environmental Laws.

“Equity-Funded Capital Expenditures” means, capital expenditures, in accordance with GAAP, to the extent that (a) such capital expenditures were funded with the proceeds from an issuance of, or additional contributions to, Equity Interests of the Borrower, (b) the Borrower notified the Administrative Agent, substantially contemporaneously with the receipt of such cash proceeds, of the intended use of such cash proceeds, including in reasonable detail a description of the capital expenditures to be funded by such cash proceeds, and (c) such capital expenditures

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were made (i) on or after the date of such issuance or contribution and (ii) on or prior to the date that is 90 days after the date of such issuance or contribution.

“Equity Interests” 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.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor statute.

“ERISA Affiliate” means each trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which together with the Borrower or a Subsidiary would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the meaning of section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA or subsection (b), subsection (c), subsection (m) or subsection (o) of section 414 of the Code.

“ERISA Event” means (i) a “Reportable Event” described in section 4043 of ERISA, other than a Reportable Event as to which the provisions of thirty (30) days’ notice to the PBGC is expressly waived under applicable regulations, (ii) the withdrawal of the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a Plan during a plan year in which it was a “substantial employer” as defined in section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, (iii) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan or the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under section 4041 of ERISA, (iv) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Plan by the PBGC, (v) receipt of a notice of withdrawal liability pursuant to Section 4202 of ERISA or (vi) any other event or condition which might constitute grounds under section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan.

“Erroneous Payment” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.14(a).

“Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.14(d).

“Erroneous Payment Impacted Class” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.14(d).

“Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.14(d).

“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.

“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01.

“Excepted Liens” means: (a) Liens for Taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (b) Liens in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other social security, old age pension or public liability obligations which are not delinquent or which are being contested in

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good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (c) statutory landlord’s liens, operators’, vendors’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, repairmen’s, mechanics’, suppliers’, workers’, materialmen’s, construction or other like Liens, in each case, arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business or incident to the exploration, development, operation and maintenance of Oil and Gas Properties each of which is in respect of obligations that are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (d) contractual Liens which arise in the ordinary course of business under operating agreements, joint venture agreements, oil and gas partnership agreements, oil and gas leases, farm-out agreements, division orders, contracts for the sale, transportation or exchange of oil and natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, overriding royalty agreements, marketing agreements, processing agreements, net profits agreements, development agreements, gas balancing or deferred production agreements, injection, repressuring and recycling agreements, salt water or other disposal agreements, seismic or other geophysical permits or agreements, and other agreements which are usual and customary in the oil and gas business and are for claims which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; provided that any such Lien referred to in this clause does not materially impair the use of the Property covered by such Lien for the purposes for which such Property is held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or materially impair the value of such Property subject thereto; (e) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to banker’s liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies and burdening only deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution; provided that no such deposit account is a dedicated cash collateral account or is subject to restrictions against access by the depositor in excess of those set forth by regulations promulgated by the Board and no such deposit account is intended by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to provide collateral to the depository institution; (f) easements, restrictions, servitudes, permits, conditions, covenants, exceptions or reservations in any Property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary for the purpose of roads, pipelines, transmission lines, transportation lines, distribution lines for the removal of gas, oil, coal or other minerals or timber, and other like purposes, or for the joint or common use of real estate, rights of way, facilities and equipment, that do not secure any monetary obligations and which in the aggregate do not materially impair the use of such Property for the purposes of which such Property is held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or materially impair the value of such Property subject thereto; (g) Liens on cash or securities pledged to secure performance of tenders, surety and appeal bonds, government contracts, performance and return of money bonds, bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, regulatory obligations and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business and (h) judgment and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default; provided that any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment shall not have been finally terminated or the period within which such proceeding may be initiated shall not have expired and no action to enforce such Lien has been commenced; provided, further that (A) Liens described in clause (a) through clause (e) shall remain “Excepted Liens” only for so long as no action to enforce such Lien has been commenced and no intention to subordinate the first priority Lien granted in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders is to be hereby implied or expressed by the permitted existence of such Excepted Liens and (B) the term “Excepted Liens” shall not include any Lien securing Debt for borrowed money other than the Indebtedness.

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“Excess Cash” means, at any time, the aggregate cash or cash equivalents of the Credit Parties (other than Excluded Cash) in excess of ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Base then in effect.

“Excluded Accounts” means, collectively for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (a) one or more Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts, and Securities Accounts that in the aggregate at all times have a balance of under $1,000,000, (b) all payroll accounts, (c) all benefit accounts, (d) all withholding and other fiduciary accounts, and (e) all zero balance disbursement accounts.

“Excluded Cash” means, as of the date of any determination, (a) any cash to be used to pay obligations of the Credit Parties then due and owing to unaffiliated third parties and for which the Credit Parties have issued checks or have initiated wires or ACH transfers, or will have issued checks or will have initiated wires or ACH transfers within five (5) Business Days of such date, in order to pay such obligations, (b) cash held in (i) accounts designated and used solely for payroll or employee benefits, (ii) cash collateral accounts with respect to Letters of Credit, (iii) trust accounts held and used exclusively for the payment of taxes of the Credit Parties, and (iv) suspense or trust accounts held and used exclusively for royalty and working interest payments owing to third parties, (c) any cash or cash equivalents constituting purchase price deposits held in escrow by or from an unaffiliated third party pursuant to a binding and enforceable purchase and sale agreement with an unaffiliated third party containing customary provisions regarding the payment and refunding of such deposits, and (d) any net cash proceeds from an issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Borrower or from a Borrowing to be used to pay obligations of the Credit Parties pursuant to a binding and enforceable purchase and sale agreement with an unaffiliated third party that, if requested by the Administrative Agent, are segregated from other funds of the Credit Parties in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided that (x) to the extent such cash is proceeds from an issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Borrower, (1) the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent, substantially contemporaneously with the receipt of such cash proceeds, of the intended use of such cash proceeds and that such cash proceeds will constitute Excluded Cash (subject to the following clause (2)) and (2) such cash proceeds shall only constitute Excluded Cash from the date of such issuance through and including the 90^th day after such issuance and (y) to the extent such cash is proceeds from a Borrowing, (1) the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent, substantially contemporaneously with the Borrowing, of the intended use of such cash proceeds and that such cash proceeds will constitute Excluded Cash (subject to the following clause (2)) and (2) such cash proceeds shall only constitute Excluded Cash from the date of such Borrowing through and including the 5th Business Day after such Borrowing.

“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Credit Party individually determined on a Credit Party by Credit Party basis, any Indebtedness in respect of any Swap Agreement if, and solely to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee by such Credit Party of, or the grant by such Credit Party of a security interest to secure, such Indebtedness in respect of any Swap Agreement (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 Credit Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act at the time such guarantee or grant of a security interest becomes effective with respect to such related Indebtedness in respect of any Swap Agreement. If any Indebtedness in respect of any

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Swap Agreement arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Indebtedness in respect of any Swap Agreement that is attributable to swaps for which such guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.

“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any Guarantor hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (i) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America or such other jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (ii) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower or any Guarantor is located, (iii) in the case of a Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 5.04(b)), any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Lender pursuant to a law in effect at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent that such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 5.03(a) or Section 5.03(c), (d) taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with Section 5.03(f), and (e) any United States federal withholding taxes imposed by FATCA.

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

“Existing Guarantors” means Vitesse Oil, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Vitesse Management Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Existing Letters of Credit” means the letters of credit listed on Annex II.

“Existing Loan Documents” means the “Loan Documents” (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) as in effect prior to the date hereof.

“Existing Vitesse Oil Indebtedness” means Debt and other obligations outstanding under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of July 23, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or modified from time to time prior to the date hereof) among Vitesse Oil, LLC, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto, as in effect on the Effective Date immediately prior to giving effect to any payment of such Debt and other obligations on the Effective Date.

“FATCA” means Section 1471 through Section 1474 of the Code as of the date of this Agreement and any regulations or official interpretations thereof.

“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

“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 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary,

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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 in no event shall the Federal Funds Effective Rate be less than 0%.

“Fee Letter” means that certain letter agreement among the Administrative Agent, Arranger, and the Borrower dated as of the Effective Date and any other fee letter that may hereafter be entered into between the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

“Financial Officer” means, for any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Financial Officer means a Financial Officer of the Borrower.

“Financial Statements” means the financial statement or statements of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries referred to in Section 7.04(a).

“Flood Insurance Regulations” means (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (amending 42 USC § 4001, et seq.), as the same may be amended or recodified from time to time, and (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Floor” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise, as applicable) with respect to such Benchmark. As of the Effective Date, the Floor is 0%.

“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

“Free Cash Flow” means with respect to the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, for any Rolling Period, the result of (a) EBITDAX for such period, minus (b) the sum of (i) exploration expenses, including plugging and abandonment expenses (to the extent not capitalized), (ii) capital expenditures (in accordance with GAAP) other than Equity-Funded Capital Expenditures, (iii) consolidated interest expense, (iv) Taxes, and (v) to the extent not included in the foregoing and added back in the calculation of EBITDAX, any other cash charge that reduces the earnings of the Borrower and the Consolidated Subsidiaries, in each case, for the foregoing clause (i) through clause (v) to the extent applicable for such period.

“Free Cash Flow Usage Certificate” means a certificate of a Financial Officer in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying as to (and specifying in reasonable detail) (a) the amount of Free Cash Flow for the most recently ended Rolling Period for which a certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(q), (b) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made in reliance on Section 9.04(e) and Section 9.04(f) during the period

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of three consecutive Free Cash Flow Usage Periods most recently ended and during the then-current Free Cash Flow Usage Period and (c) the Distributable Free Cash Flow Amount being greater than or equal to $0 after giving effect to the Restricted Payment to be made with the delivery of such certificate.

“Free Cash Flow Usage Period” means, as of any date of determination, the period commencing on the most recent date on which a certificate was delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01(q) and ending on (but not including) the date that the next certificate is delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01(q).

“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to the Issuing Bank, such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure other than LC Exposure as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or cash collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 1.05.

“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.

“Governmental Requirement” means any law, statute, code, ordinance, order, determination, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, injunction, franchise, permit, certificate, license, rules of common law, authorization or other directive or requirement, whether now or hereinafter in effect, of any Governmental Authority.

“Guarantee and Collateral Agreement” means an agreement executed by the Credit Parties in substantially the form of Exhibit F unconditionally guaranteeing, on a joint and several basis, payment of the Indebtedness, and granting Liens and a security interest on the Credit Parties’ personal property constituting Collateral (as defined therein) in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties to secure the Indebtedness, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified or supplemented from time to time.

“Guarantors” means the Predecessor Borrower, Vitesse Oil and each other Subsidiary that guarantees the Indebtedness pursuant to Section 8.14(b).

“Hazardous Material” means any substance regulated or as to which liability might arise under any applicable Environmental Law including: (i) any chemical, compound, material, product, byproduct, substance or waste defined as or included in the definition or meaning of “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “solid waste,” “toxic waste,” “extremely hazardous substance,” “toxic substance,” “contaminant,” “pollutant,” or words of similar meaning or import found in any applicable Environmental Law; (ii) Hydrocarbons, petroleum products, petroleum substances, natural gas, oil, oil and gas waste, crude oil, and any components, fractions, or derivatives thereof; and (iii) radioactive materials, explosives, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon, infectious or medical wastes.

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“Highest Lawful Rate” means, with respect to each Lender, the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the Loans or on other Indebtedness under 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 allow as of the date hereof.

“Hydrocarbon Interests” means all rights, titles, interests and estates now or hereafter acquired in and to oil and gas leases, oil, gas and mineral leases, or other liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon leases, mineral fee interests, overriding royalty and royalty interests, net profit interests and production payment interests, including any reserved or residual interests of whatever nature.

“Hydrocarbons” means oil, gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all products refined or separated therefrom.

“Indebtedness” means any and all amounts owing or to be owing by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any Guarantor (whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising): (a) to any Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender under any Loan Document, including all interest on any of the Loans (including any interest that accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of any Credit Party (or could accrue but for the operation of applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws), whether or not such interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceeding or other action); (b) to any Secured Swap Provider under any Secured Swap Agreement; (c) to any Bank Products Provider in respect of Bank Products; and (d) all renewals, extensions and/or rearrangements of any of the above; provided that solely with respect to any Credit Party that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act, Excluded Swap Obligations of such Credit Party shall in any event be excluded from “Indebtedness” owing by such Credit Party.

“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any Guarantor under any Loan Document other than Excluded Taxes.

“Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.03(b).

“Initial Reserve Report” means, collectively, the reports of Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc. (i) dated June 1, 2022 with respect to certain Oil and Gas Properties of the Predecessor Borrower and (ii) dated July 1, 2022 with respect to certain Oil and Gas Properties of Vitesse Oil.

“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04.

“Interest Payment Date” means (i) with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December and (ii) with respect to any SOFR Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a SOFR

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Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three (3) months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.

“Interest Period” means with respect to any SOFR Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, three or six (6) months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, (ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a SOFR Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period and (iii) no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 3.03(c)(iv) and not thereafter reinstated pursuant to such section shall be available for specification in any Borrowing Request or Interest Election Request. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

“Interim Redetermination” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b).

“Interim Redetermination Date” means the date on which a Borrowing Base that has been redetermined pursuant to an Interim Redetermination becomes effective as provided in Section 2.07(d).

“Investment” means, for any Person: (a) the acquisition (whether for cash, Property, services or securities or otherwise) of Equity Interests of any other Person or any agreement to make any such acquisition (including any “short sale” or any sale of any securities at a time when such securities are not owned by the Person entering into such short sale); (b) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan or capital contribution to, assumption of Debt of, purchase or other acquisition of any other Debt or equity participation or interest in, or other extension of credit to, any other Person (including the purchase of Property from another Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to resell such Property to such Person, but excluding any such advance, loan or extension of credit having a term not exceeding ninety (90) days representing the purchase price of inventory or supplies sold by such Person in the ordinary course of business); (c) the purchase or acquisition (in one or a series of transactions) of Property (other than Equity Interests) of another Person that constitutes a business unit; or (d) the entering into of any guarantee of, or other contingent obligation (including the deposit of any Equity Interests to be sold) with respect to, any Debt or other obligations of any other Person and (without duplication) any amount committed to be advanced, lent or extended to such Person.

“Issuing Bank” means Wells Fargo, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.08(i). The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.

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

“LC Commitment” at any time means the lesser of (a) five million dollars ($5,000,000) and (b) the Borrowing Base in effect at such time.

“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.

“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Annex I and any Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and any Person that shall have become a party hereto as an Additional Lender pursuant to Section 2.06(c), in each case, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

“Letter of Credit” means any standby letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement and any Existing Letter of Credit.

“Letter of Credit Agreements” means (a) all letter of credit applications and other agreements (including any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto) submitted by the Borrower, or entered into by the Borrower, with the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit and (b) all “Letter of Credit Agreements” (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) assigned to and assumed by the Borrower pursuant hereto.

“Lien” means any interest in Property securing an obligation owed to, or a claim by, a Person other than the owner of the Property, whether such interest is based on the common law, statute or contract, and whether such obligation or claim is fixed or contingent, and including but not limited to (i) the lien or security interest arising from a deed of trust, mortgage, encumbrance, pledge, security agreement, conditional sale or trust receipt or a lease, consignment or bailment for security purposes or (ii) production payments and the like payable out of Oil and Gas Properties. The term “Lien” shall include easements, restrictions, servitudes, permits, conditions, covenants, exceptions or reservations. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be the owner of any Property which it has acquired or holds subject to a conditional sale agreement, or leases under a financing lease or other arrangement pursuant to which title to the Property has been retained by or vested in some other Person in a transaction intended to create a financing.

“Liquidate” means, with respect to any Swap Agreement, the sale, assignment, novation, unwind, monetization or termination of all or any part of such Swap Agreement or the creation of an offsetting position against all or any part of such Swap Agreement, except for any such assignment or novation to an Affiliate or successor of the Approved Counterparty thereto which Affiliate or successor itself meets the requirements of the definition of “Approved Counterparty”. The term “Liquidated” has a correlative meaning thereto.

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“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Letter of Credit Agreements, any Fee Letter, the Letters of Credit, the Security Instruments and any other document identified as a “Loan Document” delivered in connection with this Agreement from time to time, in each case, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.

“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse change in, or material adverse effect on (i) the business, operations, Property, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any Guarantor to perform any of its obligations under any Loan Document, (iii) the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or (iv) the rights and remedies of or benefits available to the Administrative Agent, any other Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender under any Loan Document.

“Material Indebtedness” means, at any time, Debt (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding the lesser of (a) five percent (5%) of the Borrowing Base then in effect and (b) $5,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the Swap Termination Value of such Swap Agreement.

“Maturity Date” means April 29, 2026.

“Maximum Credit Amount” means, as to each Lender, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Annex I under the caption “Maximum Credit Amounts”, as the same may be (i) reduced or terminated from time to time in connection with a reduction or termination of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts pursuant to Section 2.06(b) or (ii) modified from time to time pursuant to any assignment permitted by Section 12.04(b).

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

“Mortgaged Property” means any Property owned by the Borrower or any Guarantor which is subject to the Liens existing and to exist under the terms of the Security Instruments.

“New Borrowing Base Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(d).

“Non-Consenting Lender” means any Lender that does not approve (a) any consent, waiver or amendment (other than any approval of any increase in the Borrowing Base) that (i) requires the approval of all Lenders, all Non-Defaulting Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 12.02(b) and (ii) has been approved by the Required Lenders or (b) any Borrowing Base increase that has been approved by (I) at any time while no Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, two or more Non-Defaulting Lenders having at least ninety percent (90%) of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts and (II) at any time while any Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, two or more Non-Defaulting Lenders holding at least ninety percent (90%) of the

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outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit (without regard to any sale by a Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c)).

“Non-Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.

“Notes” means the promissory notes of the Borrower described in Section 2.02(d) and being substantially in the form of Exhibit A, together with all amendments, modifications, replacements, extensions and rearrangements thereof.

“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.

“Oil and Gas Properties” means (a) Hydrocarbon Interests; (b) the Properties now or hereafter pooled or unitized with Hydrocarbon Interests; (c) all presently existing or future unitization, pooling agreements and declarations of pooled units and the units created thereby (including all units created under orders, regulations and rules of any Governmental Authority) which may affect all or any portion of the Hydrocarbon Interests; (d) all operating agreements, contracts and other agreements, including production sharing contracts and agreements, which relate to any of the Hydrocarbon Interests or the production, sale, purchase, exchange or processing of Hydrocarbons from or attributable to such Hydrocarbon Interests; (e) all Hydrocarbons in and under and which may be produced and saved or attributable to the Hydrocarbon Interests, including all oil in tanks, and all rents, issues, profits, proceeds, products, revenues and other incomes from or attributable to the Hydrocarbon Interests; (f) all tenements, hereditaments, appurtenances and Properties in any manner appertaining, belonging, affixed or incidental to the Hydrocarbon Interests and (g) all Properties, rights, titles, interests and estates described or referred to above, including any and all Property, real or personal, now owned or hereinafter acquired and situated upon, used, held for use or useful in connection with the operating, working or development of any of such Hydrocarbon Interests or Property (excluding drilling rigs, automotive equipment, rental equipment or other personal Property which may be on such premises for the purpose of drilling a well or for other similar temporary uses) and including any and all oil wells, gas wells, injection wells or other wells, buildings, structures, fuel separators, liquid extraction plants, plant compressors, pumps, pumping units, field gathering systems, tanks and tank batteries, fixtures, valves, fittings, machinery and parts, engines, boilers, meters, apparatus, equipment, appliances, tools, implements, cables, wires, towers, casing, tubing and rods, surface leases, rights-of-way, easements and servitudes together with all additions, substitutions, replacements, accessions and attachments to any and all of the foregoing. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all references in this Agreement to “Oil and Gas Properties” refer to Oil and Gas Properties owned by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, as the context requires.

“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing, excise, property or other similar Taxes, charges or levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement and any other Loan Document.

“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04(c)(i).

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“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04(c)(i).

“Payment Recipient” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 11.14(a).

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

“Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day” has the meaning assigned thereto in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

“Permitted Investors” means Robert Gerrity and Brian Cree.

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan, as defined in section 3(2) of ERISA, which (i) is currently or hereafter sponsored, maintained or contributed to by the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate or (ii) was at any time during the six (6) calendar years preceding the date hereof, sponsored, maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate.

“Platform” means Debt Domain, Intralinks, SyndTrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system.

“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by Wells Fargo as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in San Francisco, California; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. Such rate is set by the Administrative Agent as a general reference rate of interest, taking into account such factors as the Administrative Agent may deem appropriate; it being understood that many of the Administrative Agent’s commercial or other loans are priced in relation to such rate, that it is not necessarily the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer and that the Administrative Agent may make various commercial or other loans at rates of interest having no relationship to such rate.

“Projections” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.04(a).

“Property” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

“Proposed Acquisition” means any acquisition permitted by this Agreement by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of Oil and Gas Properties (or of Equity Interests in a Person owning Oil and Gas Properties) for which a binding purchase and sale agreement or similar definitive agreement has been signed by the Borrower or a Subsidiary with an unrelated third party.

“Proposed Borrowing Base” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(i).

“Proposed Borrowing Base Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(ii).

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“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” has 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” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.18.

“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Agreement, each Credit Party that (a) has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time any guarantee of obligations under such Swap Agreement or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective or (b) otherwise constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

“Redemption” means with respect to any Debt, the repurchase, redemption, prepayment, repayment, defeasance or any other acquisition or retirement for value (or the segregation of funds with respect to any of the foregoing) of such Debt. “Redeem” has the correlative meaning thereto.

“Redetermination Date” means, with respect to any Scheduled Redetermination or any Interim Redetermination, the date that the redetermined Borrowing Base related thereto becomes effective pursuant to Section 2.07(d).

“Register” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(b)(iv).

“Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board, as the same may be amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors (including attorneys, accountants and experts) of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

“Release” means any depositing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, placing, emitting, discarding, abandoning, emptying, discharging, migrating, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing.

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

“Remedial Work” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.10(a).

“Required Lenders” means, (i) if there are less than three Lenders at such time, all Non-Defaulting Lenders, and (ii) if there are three or more Lenders at such time, (A) at any time while no Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders having at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts of all Non-Defaulting Lenders; and (B) at any time while any Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders holding at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the outstanding aggregate

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principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit of all Non-Defaulting Lenders (without regard to any sale by a Non-Defaulting Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c)).

“Reserve Report” means a report, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, setting forth, as of the dates set forth in Section 8.12(a) (or such other date in the event of an Interim Redetermination) the oil and gas reserves attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Credit Parties that are Qualified ECP Guarantors and the operator of each Oil and Gas Property listed therein, together with a projection of the rate of production and future net income, taxes, operating expenses and capital expenditures with respect thereto as of such date, based upon the pricing assumptions consistent with SEC reporting requirements at the time and reflecting Swap Agreements in place with respect to such production.

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

“Responsible Officer” means, as to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Financial Officer or any Vice President of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references to a Responsible Officer herein shall mean a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

“Restricted Payment” means (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other Property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any of 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 such Equity Interests in the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests in the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (b) any payment of management fees, advisory fees or similar fees by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to any holders of their Equity Interests or any Affiliates thereof.

“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Loans and its LC Exposure at such time.

“Rolling Period” means, as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, any period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such day.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions (as of the Effective Date, The So-Called Donetsk People’s Republic, The So-Called Luhansk People’s Republic, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, The Region of Ukraine, Venezuela and Syria).

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state or His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a

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Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clause (a) or clause (b).

“Sanctions” means 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 OFAC or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.

“Scheduled Redetermination” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b).

“Scheduled Redetermination Date” means the date on which a Borrowing Base that has been redetermined pursuant to a Scheduled Redetermination becomes effective as provided in Section 2.07(d).

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor Governmental Authority.

“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank, the Bank Products Providers, Secured Swap Providers and each Indemnitee, and “Secured Party” means any of them individually.

“Secured Swap Agreement” means any Swap Agreement between a Credit Party and a Secured Swap Provider, including any Swap Agreement in existence prior to the date hereof, but excluding any additional transactions or confirmations entered into (a) after such Secured Swap Provider ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or (b) after assignment by a Secured Swap Provider to another Secured Swap Provider that is not a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender

“Secured Swap Provider” means any (a) Person that is a party to a Swap Agreement with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that entered into such Swap Agreement before or while such Person was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (or a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender under the Existing Credit Agreement), whether or not such Person at any time ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, as the case may be, or (b) assignee of any Person described in clause (a) above so long as such assignee is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.

“Securities Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 of the UCC.

“Security Instruments” means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, Account Control Agreements, UCC financing statements, mortgages, deeds of trust and other agreements, instruments or certificates described or referred to in Exhibit E, and any and all other mortgages, UCC financing statements, agreements, instruments, consents or certificates now or hereafter executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Person (other than Swap Agreements with the Lenders or any Affiliate of a Lender or participation or similar agreements between any Lender and any other lender or creditor with respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to this Agreement) in connection with, or in order to guarantee or provide collateral security for the payment or performance of the Indebtedness, the Notes, this Agreement, or reimbursement obligations under the Letters of Credit, as such agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

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“SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.

“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).

“SOFR Loan” means any Loan bearing interest at a rate based on Adjusted Term SOFR as provided in Section 2.04(b).

“Spin-Off Documents” means, collectively, (a) the Separation and Distribution Agreement and (b) all related agreements, conveyances, assignments, and other material agreements and instruments executed and delivered in connection with the Spin-Off Transactions, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

“Spin-Off Transactions” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other Person (i) of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether or not at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such Person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) or, in the case of a partnership, any general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, or (ii) that is, as of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.

“Supported QFC” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.18.

“Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement, whether exchange traded, “over-the-counter” or otherwise, involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions (including any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act); provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, solely for purposes of Section 9.18, the term “Swap Agreement” shall not include any purchased put options or floors for Hydrocarbons that are not related to corresponding calls, collars or swaps and with respect to which neither Borrower nor any Subsidiary has any payment obligation other than premiums and charges the total amount of which are fixed and known at the time such transaction is entered into.

“Swap Compliance Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.19.

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“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Agreements, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Agreements have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s) and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Agreements, as determined by the counterparties to such Swap Agreements.

“Synthetic Leases” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP, treated as operating leases on the financial statements of the Person liable (whether contingently or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder and which were properly treated as indebtedness for borrowed money for purposes of United States federal income taxes, if the lessee in respect thereof is obligated to either purchase for an amount in excess of, or pay upon early termination an amount in excess of, eighty percent (80%) of the residual value of the Property subject to such operating lease upon expiration or early termination of such lease.

“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

“Term SOFR” means,

(a) for any calculation with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, and

(b) for any calculation with respect to an ABR Loan on any day, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one (1) month on the day (such day, the “Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR

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Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Base Rate SOFR Determination Day.

“Term SOFR Adjustment” means a percentage equal to 0.10% per annum.

“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

“Termination Date” means the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Commitments.

“Total Funded Debt” means, at any date and without duplication, all Debt of the Borrower and Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis other than (i) contingent obligations in respect of Debt described in clause (b) of the definition of Debt, and (ii) Debt described in clause (c), clause (i), clause (j) and clause (m) of the definition of Debt.

“Transactions” means, with respect to (i) the Borrower, the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder, and the grant of Liens by the Borrower on Properties pursuant to the Security Instruments, (ii) each Guarantor, the execution, delivery and performance by such Guarantor of each Loan Document to which it is a party, the guaranteeing of the Indebtedness and the other obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement by such Guarantor and such Guarantor’s grant of Liens on Properties pursuant to the Security Instruments and (iii) each Credit Party (including the Predecessor Borrower), the consummation of the Spin-Off Transactions.

“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate or Term SOFR.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, of the State of New York or of any other state the laws of which are required as a result thereof to be applied in connection with the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Administrative Agent’s or any Secured Party’s Lien on any Collateral (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement).

“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from 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.

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“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.

“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities; provided that for purposes of notice requirements in Section 2.03 and Section 2.04(b), in each case, such day is also a Business Day.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.18.

“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.03(f).

“USA Patriot Act” means the USA PATRIOT ACT (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).

“Utilization Percentage” means, as of any day, the fraction expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the sum of the Revolving Credit Exposures of the Lenders on such day, and the denominator of which is the total Commitments in effect on such day.

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

“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of which all of the outstanding Equity Interests (other than any directors’ qualifying shares mandated by applicable law), on a fully-diluted basis, are owned by the Borrower or one or more of the Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or are owned by the Borrower and one or more of the Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries.

“Withholding Agent” means any Credit Party or 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.

Section 1.03 Types of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings, respectively, may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a “SOFR Loan” or a “SOFR Borrowing”).

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Section 1.04 Terms Generally; Rules of Construction. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” as used in this Agreement shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth in the Loan Documents), (b) any reference herein to any law shall be construed as referring to such law as amended, modified, codified or reenacted, in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to the restrictions contained in the Loan Documents), (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import as used in this Agreement, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) with respect to the determination of any time period, the word “from” as used in this Agreement means “from and including” and the word “to” means “to and including” and (f) any reference herein to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be interpreted or construed against any Person solely because such Person or its legal representative drafted such provision.

Section 1.05 Accounting Terms and Determinations; GAAP. Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all determinations with respect to accounting matters hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements and certificates and reports as to financial matters required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP, applied on a consistent basis except for changes in which the Borrower’s independent certified public accountants concur and which are disclosed to the Administrative Agent as part of, or along with, the audited annual financial statements delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.01(a); provided that, unless the Borrower and the Required Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing, no such change shall modify or affect the manner in which compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 9.01 is computed such that all such computations shall be conducted utilizing financial information presented consistently with prior periods; and provided, further, that for purposes of such covenant compliance all leases by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall continue to be accounted for as operating leases or capital leases in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on November 30, 2020 without regard to any future effectiveness of ASC 842. In the event that any Accounting Changes shall occur and such change results in a change in the method of calculation of covenants, standards or terms in this Agreement, then at the Borrower’s or Administrative Agent’s request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall 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 application of this Agreement to the Credit Parties 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 covenants, standards and terms

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in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Changes had not occurred.

Section 1.06 Rates. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or with respect to any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement), as it may or may not be adjusted pursuant to Section 3.03(c), will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto and such transactions may be adverse to the Borrower. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

Section 1.07 Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any 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 on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

ARTICLE II

THE CREDITS

Section 2.01 Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make Loans to the Borrower during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (a) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or (b) the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, repay and reborrow the Loans.

Section 2.02 Loans and Borrowings.

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(a) Borrowings; Several Obligations. Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Types of Loans. Subject to Section 3.03, each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or SOFR Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any SOFR Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) Minimum Amounts; Limitation on Number of Borrowings. At the commencement of each Interest Period for any SOFR Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000; provided that an ABR Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.08(e). Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of seven (7) SOFR Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

(d) Notes. To the extent so requested by such Lender, the Loans made by each Lender shall be evidenced by a single promissory note of the Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit A, dated, in the case of (i) any Lender party hereto as of the date of this Agreement, as of the date of this Agreement, (ii) any Lender that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, as of the effective date of the Assignment and Assumption or (iii) in the case of any Additional Lender that becomes a party hereto in connection with an increase in the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts pursuant to Section 2.06(c), as of the effective date of such increase, in each case, payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Maximum Credit Amount as in effect on such date, and otherwise duly completed. In the event that any Lender’s Maximum Credit Amount increases or decreases for any reason (whether pursuant to Section 2.06, Section 12.04(b) or otherwise), the Borrower shall, to the extent so requested by such Lender, deliver or cause to be delivered on the effective date of such increase or decrease, a new Note payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Maximum Credit Amount after giving effect to such increase or decrease, and otherwise duly completed, and such Lender shall thereafter deliver to the Borrower the replaced Note marked cancelled. The date, amount, Type, interest rate and, if applicable, Interest Period of each Loan made by each Lender, and all payments made on account of the principal thereof, shall be recorded by such Lender on its books for its Note. Failure to make any such recordation shall not affect any Lender’s or the Borrower’s rights or obligations in respect of such Loans or affect the validity of such transfer by any Lender of its Note.

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Section 2.03 Requests for Borrowings. To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone or other communication in writing acceptable to the Administrative Agent (a) in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, Denver, Colorado time, three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing (or in the case of a SOFR Borrowing on the Effective Date, not later than 12:00 noon, Denver, Colorado time, one (1) U.S. Government Securities Business Day before the Effective Date) or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, Denver, Colorado time, one (1) Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that no such notice shall be required for any deemed request of an ABR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.08(e). Each Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and each telephonic Borrowing Request shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or fax to the Administrative Agent (or other communication in writing acceptable to the Administrative Agent) of a written Borrowing Request in substantially the form of Exhibit B and signed by the Borrower. Each Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;

(ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;

(iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a SOFR Borrowing;

(iv) in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”;

(v) the amount of the then effective Borrowing Base, the amount of the then effective Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts, the current total Revolving Credit Exposures (without regard to the requested Borrowing) and the pro forma total Revolving Credit Exposures (giving effect to the requested Borrowing); and

(vi) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.05.

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested SOFR Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one (1) month’s duration. Each Borrowing Request shall constitute a representation by the Borrower that the amount of the requested Borrowing shall not cause the total Revolving Credit Exposures to exceed the total Commitments (i.e., the least of (x) the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts, (y) the then effective Borrowing Base and (z) the then effective Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts).

Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.03, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

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(a) Conversion and Continuance. Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a SOFR Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section 2.04. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

(b) Interest Election Requests. To make an election pursuant to this Section 2.04, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone or other communication in writing acceptable to the Administrative Agent by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and each telephonic Interest Election Request shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or fax to the Administrative Agent (or other communication in writing acceptable to the Administrative Agent) of a written Interest Election Request in substantially the form of Exhibit C and signed by the Borrower.

(c) Information in Interest Election Requests. Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(iii) and (iv) shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a SOFR Borrowing; and

(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a SOFR Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.

If any such Interest Election Request requests a SOFR Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one (1) month’s duration.

(d) Notice to Lenders by the Administrative Agent. Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

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timely Interest Election Request with respect to a SOFR Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default or a Borrowing Base Deficiency has occurred and is continuing: (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a SOFR Borrowing (and any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a SOFR Borrowing shall be ineffective) and (ii) unless repaid, each SOFR Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

Section 2.05 Funding of Borrowings.

(a) Funding by Lenders. Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., Denver, Colorado time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.08(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for its Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for its Loan in any particular place or manner.

(b) Presumption of Funding by the Lenders. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.05(a) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

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Section 2.06 Termination and Reduction of Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts; Optional Increase, Reduction and Termination of Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts.

(a) Scheduled Termination of Commitments. Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date. If at any time the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts, the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts or the Borrowing Base is terminated or reduced to zero, then the Commitments shall terminate on the effective date of such termination or reduction.

(b) Optional Termination and Reduction of Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts.

(i) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts; provided that (A) each reduction of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $2,000,000 and (B) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 3.04(c), the total Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total Commitments and (C) upon any reduction of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts that would otherwise result in the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts being less than the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts, the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts shall be automatically reduced (ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage) so that they equal the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts as so reduced.

(ii) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts under Section 2.06(b)(i) at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.06(b)(ii) shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts shall be permanent and may not be reinstated. Each reduction of the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage.

(c) Optional Increases, Reductions and Terminations of Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts.

(i) Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.06(c)(ii), the Borrower may increase the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts then in effect by increasing the Elected Commitment of a Lender or by causing a Person that is acceptable to the Administrative Agent that at such time is not a Lender to become a Lender (any such Person that is not at such time a Lender and becomes a Lender, an “Additional Lender”). Notwithstanding

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anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in no case shall an Additional Lender be the Borrower, any Affiliate of the Borrower, any Defaulting Lender or any natural person.

(ii) Any increase in the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) such increase shall not be less than $10,000,000 (or, in the event such increase would otherwise exceed the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts, such lesser amount that would constitute the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts being equal to the Aggregate Maximum Credit Amounts) unless the Administrative Agent otherwise consents, and no such increase shall be permitted if after giving effect thereto the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts exceed the Borrowing Base then in effect;

(B) following any Scheduled Redetermination Date, the Borrower may not increase the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts more than once before the next Scheduled Redetermination Date (for the sake of clarity, all increases in the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amount effective on a single date shall be deemed a single increase in the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amount for purposes of this Section 2.06(c)(ii)(B));

(C) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the effective date of such increase;

(D) on the effective date of such increase, no SOFR Borrowings shall be outstanding or if any SOFR Borrowings are outstanding, then the effective date of such increase shall be the last day of the Interest Period in respect of such SOFR Borrowings unless the Borrower pays any compensation required by Section 5.02;

(E) no Lender’s Elected Commitment may be increased without the consent of such Lender;

(F) if the Borrower elects to increase the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts by increasing the Elected Commitment of a Lender, the Borrower and such Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I (an “Elected Commitment Increase Certificate”); and

(G) if the Borrower elects to increase the Aggregate Elected Commitment Amounts by causing an Additional Lender to become a party to this Agreement, then the Borrower and such Additional Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J (an “Additional Lender Certificate”), together with an Administrative Questionnaire and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in connection with any such increase), and the Borrower shall (1) if requested by the Additional Lender, deliver a Note payable to such Additional

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