EX-10.6 15 o31998exv10w6.txt AMENDED REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT Exhibit 10.6 FURTHER AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT DATED: 26 JUNE 2003 BETWEEN:- (1) NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD which is a company incorporated according to the law of the Marshall Islands with its registered office at c/o Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH-96960 and its principal place of business at Bayside House, Bayside Executive Park West Bay Street & Blake Road, Nassau, The Bahamas ("THE BORROWER"); and (2) the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 1 (together "THE BANKS" and each a "BANK"); and (3) DNB NOR BANK ASA, acting as facility agent and security trustee (in that capacity "THE AGENT"); and (4) CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED, DNB NOR BANK ASA and NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC, NEW YORK BRANCH each acting as a mandated lead arranger through its office and at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 7 (together "THE ARRANGERS" and each "AN ARRANGER"); and (5) CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED and DNB NOR BANK ASA each acting as a joint book runner through its office and at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 7 (together "THE BOOK RUNNERS"). WHEREAS:- Each of the Banks has agreed to advance to the Borrower its respective Commitment of an aggregate principal amount not exceeding four hundred and fifty five million Dollars ($455,000,000) in respect of an initial secured reducing facility of five hundred and fifty million Dollars ($550,000,000) which originally assisted the Borrower in refinancing the Bridge Facility and all other sums due and payable under or pursuant to the Bridge Facility Agreement and is now for the Borrower's other general corporate purposes. IT IS AGREED as follows:- 1 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 1.1 DEFINITIONS In this Agreement:- 1.1.1 "THE ADDRESS FOR SERVICE" means c/o Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd of 2nd Floor, 86 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6JD, England or, in relation to any of the Security Parties, such other address in England and Wales as that Security Party may from time to time designate by no fewer than ten Business Days' written notice to the Agent. 1.1.2 the "ADVANCE DATE", in relation to any Drawing, means the date on which that Drawing is advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2. 1.1.3 "APPROVED BROKERS" means H. Clarkson & Co. Ltd, Simpson Spence & Young Shipbrokers Ltd, Fearnley AS, R. S. Platou AS and P. Bassoe AS. 1.1.4 "ASSIGNMENT" means the deed of assignment of Intercompany Indebtedness referred to in Clause 8.1.1. 1.1.5 "BAREBOAT CHARTERER" means TNOL in its capacity as bareboat charterer of the TNOL Vessels and/or any other bareboat charterer of the Vessels who is acceptable to the Majority Banks. 1.1.6 "THE BORROWER'S OBLIGATIONS" means all of the liabilities and obligations of the Borrower to the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Borrower's Security Documents, whether actual or contingent, present or future, and whether incurred alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other and in whatever currency, including (without limitation) interest, commission and all other charges and expenses. 1.1.7 "THE BORROWER'S SECURITY DOCUMENTS" means those of the Security Documents to which the Borrower is or is to be a party. 1.1.8 "BREAK COSTS" means all documented costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by any of the Finance Parties in the circumstances contemplated by Clause 17.4 or as a result of any of them receiving any 2 prepayment of all or any part of the Facility (whether pursuant to Clause 5.2 or otherwise) or any other payment under or in relation to the Security Documents on a day other than the due date for payment of the sum in question, and includes (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Facility, and any liabilities, expenses or losses incurred by any of the Finance Parties in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any interest rate and/or currency swap, transaction or arrangement entered into by any of the Finance Parties to hedge any exposure arising under this Agreement, or in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement. 1.1.9 "BRIDGE FACILITY" means the five hundred million Dollar ($500,000,000) short term facility made available by the Bridge Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to the Bridge Facility Agreement. 1.1.10 "BRIDGE FACILITY AGREEMENT" means the USD500,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated 27 March 2003 made between the Borrower as borrower, the Bridge Lenders, and the Agent as agent on behalf of the Bridge Lenders pursuant to which the Bridge Lenders made the Bridge Facility available to the Borrower subject to and upon the terms and conditions contained therein 1.1.11 "BRIDGE LENDERS" means the banks listed in Exhibit 1 of the Bridge Facility Agreement. 1.1.12 "BUSINESS DAY" means a day on which banks are open for the transaction of business of the nature contemplated by this Agreement (and not authorised by law to close) in New York City, United States of America; London, England; Oslo, Norway; and any other financial centre which the Agent may consider appropriate for the operation of the provisions of this Agreement. 1.1.13 "CHANGE OF CONTROL" means that TSC and the Guarantor between them shall cease, for any reason whatsoever, to own or control directly or indirectly, all of the shares of Navion, NOL and/or TNOL. 3 1.1.14 "COMMISSION RATE" means thirty two point five per cent (32.5%) of the Margin, per annum. 1.1.15 "COMMITMENT" means, in relation to each Bank, the amount of the Facility which that Bank agrees to advance to the Borrower as its several liability as indicated against the name of that Bank in Schedule 1, as reduced from time to time in accordance with Clause 2.4, or, where the context permits, the amount of the Facility advanced by that Bank and remaining outstanding. 1.1.16 "COMMITMENT COMMISSION" means the commitment commission to be paid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks pursuant to Clause 7.2. 1.1.17 "COMMITMENT TERMINATION DATE" means the date falling one month prior to the Termination Date. 1.1.18 a "COMMUNICATION" means any notice, approval, demand, request or other communication from one party to this Agreement to any other party to this Agreement. 1.1.19 "THE COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESS" means c/o Teekay Shipping (Canada) Ltd, Suite 2000, Bentall 5, 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6C 2K2, fax no: +604 681 3011 marked for the attention of Director, Finance. 1.1.20 "COVENANTING GROUP" means the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, NOL and TNOL. 1.1.21 "CURRENCY OF ACCOUNT" means, in relation to any payment to be made to a Finance Party pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the currency in which that payment is required to be made by the terms of the relevant Security Document. 1.1.22 "DEFAULT RATE" means the rate which is the aggregate of (i) two per centum (2%) per annum (ii) the Margin (iii) LIBOR and (iv) the Mandatory Cost. 4 1.1.23 "DOLLARS" and "$" each means available and freely transferable and convertible funds in lawful currency of the United States of America. 1.1.24 "DRAWDOWN NOTICE" means a notice complying with Clause 2.3. 1.1.25 "DRAWING" means a part (or, if requested and available, all) of the Facility advanced by the Banks to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 2. 1.1.26 "EARNINGS", in relation to a Vessel, means all hires including (without limitation) all time charter hire and bareboat charter hire, freights, pool income and other sums payable to or for the account of the Owner or Bareboat Charterer in respect of that Vessel including (without limitation) all remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys, contributions in general average, compensation in respect of any requisition for hire and damages and other payments (whether awarded by any court or arbitral tribunal or by agreement or otherwise) for breach, termination or variation of any contract for the operation, employment or use of that Vessel. 1.1.27 "ENCUMBRANCE" means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, assignment, hypothecation, preferential right, option, title retention or trust arrangement or any other agreement or arrangement which, in any of the aforementioned instances, has the effect of creating security. 1.1.28 "EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any of the events set out in Clause 12.2. 1.1.29 "EXECUTION DATE" means the date on which this Agreement is executed by each of the parties hereto. 1.1.30 "FACILITY" means the reducing revolving credit facility made available by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. 1.1.31 "THE FACILITY OUTSTANDINGS" at any time means the total of all Drawings made at that time, to the extent not reduced by repayments, prepayments and voluntary reductions. 1.1.32 "THE FACILITY PERIOD" means the period beginning on the Execution Date and ending on the date when the whole of the Indebtedness has 5 been repaid in full and the Borrower has ceased to be under any further actual or contingent liability to the Finance Parties under or in connection with the Security Documents. 1.1.33 "THE FEE LETTERS" means the letters from the Agent, the Arrangers and the Book Runners as agreed and accepted by the Borrower and/or the Guarantor setting out certain fees, commissions and other sums payable by the Borrower and/or the Guarantor in connection with the Facility. 1.1.34 "THE FINANCE PARTIES" means the Banks, the Agent, the Arrangers and the Book Runners. 1.1.35 "FIRST QUALIFYING SECURITY ASSIGNMENT" means the deed of assignment of the First Qualifying Security Documents dated 30 September 2004 executed by (inter alios) the Borrower, NOL and the Intercompany Agent in favour of the Agent. 1.1.36 "FIRST QUALIFYING SECURITY DOCUMENTS" means the NOL Guarantee and the Mortgages. 1.1.37 "FIRST REDUCTION DATE" means the earlier to occur of (i) six months after the first Advance Date to occur after 30 September 2006 and (ii) 30 April 2007. 1.1.38 "FREE LIQUIDITY", means cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of maturities less than one (1) year to which the Guarantor Group shall have free, immediate and direct access each as reflected in the Guarantor's most recent quarterly management accounts forming part of the Guarantor's Accounts. 1.1.39 "GAAP" means the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. 1.1.40 "THE GUARANTEE" means the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor in respect of the Borrower's Obligations referred to in Clause 8.2.3. 1.1.41 "GUARANTOR GROUP" means the Guarantor and each of its Subsidiaries (including but not limited to the Borrower). 6 1.1.42 "GUARANTOR" means Teekay Offshore Operating L.P., a limited partnership formed under the laws of the Marshall Islands and with its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, PO Box 1405, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH-196960. 1.1.43 "GUARANTOR'S ACCOUNTS" means either the annual consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor prepared in accordance with GAAP comprising a profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement and audited by Ernst & Young or such other first class firm of accountants as may be acceptable to the Agent or (as the context may require) the quarterly consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor which shall be unaudited but shall also be prepared in accordance with GAAP. 1.1.44 "THE INDEBTEDNESS" means the Facility Outstandings; all other sums of any nature including costs (together with all interest on any of those sums) which from time to time may be payable by the Borrower to the Finance Parties pursuant to the Security Documents; any damages payable as a result of any breach by the Borrower of any of the Security Documents; and any damages or other sums payable as a result of any of the obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents being disclaimed by a liquidator or any other person, or, where the context permits, the amount thereof for the time being outstanding. 1.1.45 "INSURANCES", in relation to a Vessel, means all policies and contracts of insurance (including but not limited to hull and machinery, all entries in protection and indemnity or war risks associations) which are from time to time taken out or entered into in respect of or in connection with that Vessel or her increased value and (where the context permits) all benefits thereof, including all claims of any nature and returns of premium. 1.1.46 "INTERCOMPANY AGENT" means DnB NOR Bank ASA in its capacity as agent under the Intercompany Loan Agreement. 7 1.1.47 "INTERCOMPANY BORROWER" means Norsk Teekay AS being a company incorporated according to the laws of Norway with Enterprise No. 985 030 235. 1.1.48 "INTERCOMPANY INDEBTEDNESS" means that portion of the Facility on lent by the Borrower to the Intercompany Borrower upon the terms and conditions of the Intercompany Loan Agreement. 1.1.49 "INTERCOMPANY LOAN AGREEMENT" means the agreement dated 26 June 2003 as amended and restated by an agreement dated 30 September 2004 and as further amended and restated by an agreement dated 5 October 2006 each made between the Borrower as lender, the Intercompany Borrower and the Intercompany Agent under which the Borrower has lent the Intercompany Indebtedness to the Intercompany Borrower. 1.1.50 "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means each date for the payment of interest in accordance with Clause 6. 1.1.51 "INTEREST PERIOD" means each interest period selected by the Borrower or agreed by the Agent pursuant to Clause 6. 1.1.52 "LAW" means any law, statute, treaty, convention, regulation, instrument or other subordinate legislation or other legislative or quasi-legislative rule or measure, or any order or decree of any government, judicial or public or other body or authority, or any directive, code of practice, circular, guidance note or other direction issued by any competent authority or agency (whether or not having the force of law). 1.1.53 "LIBOR" means the rate, rounded to the nearest four decimal places downwards (if the digit displayed in the fifth decimal place is 1,2,3 or 4) or upwards (if the digit displayed in the fifth decimal place is 5,6,7,8 or 9) displayed on Reuters page LIBOR 01 (or such other page or pages which replace(s) such page for the purposes of displaying offered rates of leading banks, for deposits in Dollars of amounts equal to the amount of the relevant Drawing for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period or if there is no such display rate then available for Dollars for an amount comparable to the Drawing, the arithmetic mean 8 (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of one-sixteenth per centum (1/16%)) of the respective rates notified to the Agent by each of the Reference Banks as the rate at which it is offered deposits in Dollars and for the required period by prime banks in the London Interbank Market. 1.1.54 "MAJORITY BANKS" means any one or more Banks whose combined Proportionate Shares exceed sixty six and two thirds per centum (66 2/3%). 1.1.55 "MANDATORY COST" means for each Bank to which it applies, the cost imputed to that Bank of compliance with the mandatory liquid asset requirements of the Bank of England and/or the banking supervision or other costs imposed by the Financial Services Authority, determined in accordance with Schedule 6 (CALCULATION OF THE MANDATORY COST). 1.1.56 "MARGIN" means nought point six two five (0.625) per cent per annum. 1.1.57 "MATERIAL SUBSIDIARY" means: any Subsidiary of the Guarantor whose assets, as determined in accordance with GAAP and as shown from the most recent financial statements available to the Agent relating to it, as multiplied by the Relevant Percentage in respect of such Subsidiary, equal or exceed 10% of the aggregate value of the assets of the Guarantor Group as determined in accordance with GAAP and as shown from the most recently available financial statements of the Guarantor Group, provided that: (i) in respect of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor, only the value of its assets as multiplied by the Relevant Percentage in respect of such Subsidiary shall be taken into account in the computation of the value of the assets of the Guarantor Group; and (ii) a statement by the auditors of the Guarantor to the effect that, in their opinion, a Subsidiary of the Guarantor is or is not or was or was not at any particular time a Material Subsidiary shall, in the 9 absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on each of the parties to this Agreement. 1.1.58 "THE MAXIMUM FACILITY AMOUNT" means the amount of the aggregate Commitments (stated in Dollars) subject to any reductions effected in accordance with Clauses 2.4, 15.7 and 15.8. 1.1.59 "MORTGAGES" means the first priority statutory ship mortgages over the Vessels each dated 30 September 2004 together with deeds of covenants collateral thereto made between NOL and the Borrower or NOL, the Borrower and the Intercompany Agent, as the case may be. 1.1.60 "NAVION" means Teekay Norway AS (formerly known as Navion ASA with Enterprise No. 979199325) of Verven 4, N-4014 Stavanger, Norway. 1.1.61 "NAVION GROUP" means the Borrower, TNOL, the Intercompany Borrower, Navion and Navion's Subsidiaries. 1.1.62 "NOL" means Navion Offshore Loading AS being a company incorporated according to the laws of Norway with Enterprise No. 984 837 771. 1.1.63 "NOL GUARANTEE" means the guarantee and indemnity dated 30 September 2004 executed by NOL in favour of the Intercompany Agent. 1.1.64 "OWNER" means NOL and/or any other owner of a Vessel which is acceptable to the Majority Banks and which secures all or any part of the Indebtedness. 1.1.65 "PERMITTED LIENS" means (i) any Encumbrance which has the prior written approval of the Agent acting upon the instructions of all the Banks or (ii) any Encumbrance arising either by operation of law or in the ordinary course of the business of the relevant Security Party which is discharged in the ordinary course of business or (iii) any Encumbrance over assets acquired subject to that Encumbrance, provided the Encumbrance is discharged within three (3) months of the date of acquisition of the asset. 10 1.1.66 "POTENTIAL EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any event which, with the giving of notice and/or the passage of time and/or the satisfaction of any materiality test, would constitute an Event of Default. 1.1.67 "PRO RATA INSURANCE PROCEEDS AMOUNT" means, in respect of each Vessel, a figure equal to (x) a fraction in which (i) the numerator is the amount of the insurance proceeds payable in respect of such Vessel in the event of a Total Loss and (ii) the denominator is the aggregate market value of all the Vessels (based on the Valuations) multiplied by (y) the Maximum Facility Amount. 1.1.68 "PROCEEDINGS" means any suit, action or proceedings begun by any of the Finance Parties arising out of or in connection with the Security Documents. 1.1.69 "PROPORTIONATE SHARE" means, for each Bank, the percentage indicated against the name of that Bank in Schedule 1, as amended by any Transfer Certificate executed from time to time. 1.1.70 "QUALIFYING SECURITY" means together the First Qualifying Security Documents and any other security granted in respect of the Intercompany Indebtedness which is assigned to the Agent as security for the Indebtedness. 1.1.71 "QUALIFYING SECURITY PARTIES" means any party who grants Qualifying Security. 1.1.72 "REFERENCE BANKS" means DnB Nor Bank ASA, Citibank N.A. and Nordea Bank Norge ASA. 1.1.73 "RELEVANT PERCENTAGE" means, in respect of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor at any time, the percentage of the equity share capital or the partnership capital, as the case may be, of such Subsidiary which is beneficially owned (free from Encumbrances) by the Guarantor at such time. 1.1.74 "REQUISITION COMPENSATION", in relation to a Vessel, means all compensation or other money which may from time to time be payable to an Owner and/or a Bareboat Charterer as a result of that Vessel being 11 requisitioned for title or in any other way compulsorily acquired (other than by way of requisition for hire). 1.1.75 "THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Shares Charge, the Assignment, the First Qualifying Security Assignment, the Guarantee, the TNOL Assignment and Subordination Agreements, or (where the context permits) any one or more of them, and any other agreement or document which may at any time be executed as security for the payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness. 1.1.76 "SECURITY PARTIES" means, at any relevant time, the Borrower, the Intercompany Borrower, the Guarantor, TNOL, NOL and any other party who may at any time during the Facility Period be liable for, or provide security for, all or any part of the Indebtedness, and "SECURITY PARTY" means any one of them. 1.1.77 "SHARES CHARGE" means the assignment of the charge over the issued share capital of Navion referred to in Clause 8.1.2. 1.1.78 "SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION DATES" means each date falling at consecutive six monthly intervals after the previous Subsequent Reduction Date which in the case of the first Subsequent Reduction Date shall be six months after the First Reduction Date. 1.1.79 "SUBORDINATED DEBT" means (based on the Borrower's Accounts) any inter-company loan (including interest thereon) which has a term beyond the Termination Date and which shall be treated as equity in Navion for financial covenant test purposes. 1.1.80 "SUBSIDIARY" means a subsidiary undertaking, as defined in section 736 Companies Act 1985 or any analogous definition under any other relevant system of law. 1.1.81 "TAXES" means all taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions and withholdings (including any related interest and penalties) and any restrictions or conditions resulting in any charge, other than taxes on the overall net income of a Finance Party or branch thereof, and "TAX" and "TAXATION" shall be interpreted accordingly. 12 1.1.82 "THE TERMINATION DATE" means 31 October 2014. 1.1.83 "TKO" means Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. a master limited partnership formed or to be formed according to the laws of The Marshall Islands and to be publicly listed. 1.1.84 "TNOL" means Teekay Navion Offshore Loading PTE Ltd being a company incorporated according to the laws of Singapore. 1.1.85 "TNOL ASSIGNMENT AND SUBORDINATION AGREEMENTS" means the deeds of assignment of Insurances and Earnings and subordination of rights in relation to the TNOL Vessels each dated 28 January 2005 and made between TNOL, NOL and the Agent. 1.1.86 "TNOL BAREBOAT CHARTERS" means the bareboat charterparties dated 28 January 2005 and entered into between NOL as owner and TNOL as Bareboat Charterer in respect of the TNOL Vessels. 1.1.87 "TNOL VESSELS" means the Vessels listed in Schedule 3. 1.1.88 "TOTAL DEBT" means the aggregate of:- (a) the amount calculated in accordance with GAAP shown as each of "long term debt", "short term debt" and "current portion of long term debt" on the latest consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor; and (b) the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract entered into by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries which would, in accordance with GAAP, be treated as a finance or capital lease (excluding any amounts applicable to leases to the extent that the lease obligations are secured by a security deposit which is held on the balance sheet under "RESTRICTED CASH"). 1.1.89 "TOTAL LOSS", in relation to a Vessel means:- (a) an actual, constructive, arranged, agreed or compromised total loss of that Vessel; or 13 (b) the requisition for title, compulsory acquisition, nationalisation or expropriation of that Vessel by or on behalf of any government or other authority (other than by way of requisition for hire); or (c) the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of that Vessel, unless the Vessel is released and returned to the possession of its Owner or Bareboat Charterer (as the case may be) within two months after the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation in question. 1.1.90 "TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS" means together the Intercompany Loan Agreement, the Security Documents, the Qualifying Security and the TNOL Bareboat Charters. 1.1.91 "TRANSFER CERTIFICATE" means a certificate materially in the form set forth in Schedule 4 signed by a Bank and a Transferee whereby:- (a) such Bank seeks to procure the transfer to such Transferee of all or a part of such Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement upon and subject to the terms and conditions set out in Clause 14; and (b) such Transferee undertakes to perform the obligations it will assume as a result of delivery of such certificate to the Agent as is contemplated in Clause 14. 1.1.92 "TRANSFER DATE" means, in relation to any Transfer Certificate, the date for the making of the transfer specified in the schedule to such Transfer Certificate. 1.1.93 "TRANSFEREE" means a bank or other financial institution to which a Bank seeks to transfer all or part of such Bank's rights and obligations under this Agreement. 1.1.94 "THE TRUST PROPERTY" means:- (a) the benefit of Clause 8 and the covenants contained in Clause 9.3; and 14 (b) all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) each of the Security Documents (other than this Agreement), with the exception of any benefits arising solely for the benefit of the Agent). 1.1.95 "TSC" means Teekay Shipping Corporation being a corporation incorporated according to the laws of the Marshall Islands. 1.1.96 "VALUATION" means in relation to a Vessel, the arithmetic mean of the written valuations of that Vessel expressed in Dollars prepared by two of the Approved Brokers (or such other firms of reputable independent shipbrokers as may be acceptable to the Majority Banks), one appointed by the Agent and the other appointed by the Borrower, unless either the Agent or the Borrower disagrees with such arithmetic average, in which event the two shipbrokers shall appoint a third firm of Approved Brokers (or such other firm of reputable independent shipbrokers as may be acceptable to the Majority Banks) and the valuation of the Vessel shall be the arithmetic mean of all three such valuations. Such valuations shall be prepared at the Borrower's expense, without a physical inspection, on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash at arm's length between a willing buyer and a willing seller without the benefit of any charterparty or other engagement. 1.1.97 "THE VESSELS" means the vessels listed in Schedule 2, and any other vessel which is used as security for the Indebtedness and everything now or in the future belonging to them on board and ashore (each a "VESSEL"). 1.2 INTERPRETATION In this Agreement:- 1.2.1 words denoting the plural number include the singular and vice versa; 1.2.2 words denoting persons include corporations, partnerships, associations of persons (whether incorporated or not) or governmental or quasi-governmental bodies or authorities and vice versa; 15 1.2.3 references to Recitals, Clauses, Schedules and Appendices are references to recitals and clauses of, and schedules and appendices to, this Agreement; 1.2.4 references to this Agreement include the Recitals, the Schedules and the Appendices; 1.2.5 the headings and contents page(s) are for the purpose of reference only, have no legal or other significance, and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement; 1.2.6 references to any document (including, without limitation, to all or any of the Transaction Documents) are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to that document as amended, supplemented, novated, reconfirmed, amended and restated or replaced from time to time; 1.2.7 references to statutes or provisions of statutes are references to those statutes, or those provisions, as from time to time amended, replaced or re-enacted; 1.2.8 references to any of the Finance Parties include its successors, transferees and assignees; and 1.2.9 references to times of day are to Oslo time. 2 THE FACILITY AND ITS PURPOSE 2.1 AGREEMENT TO LEND Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and in reliance on each of the representations and warranties made or to be made in or in accordance with each of the Security Documents, each of the Banks agrees to advance to the Borrower its Commitment of an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the Maximum Facility Amount to be used by the Borrower for the purposes referred to in the Recital. 2.2 DRAWINGS Subject to satisfaction by the Borrower of the conditions set out in Clause 3.1 (in respect of the first Drawing), Clause 3.3 (in respect of all subsequent Drawings), and subject to Clause 2.3, and provided that the maximum aggregate amount of the Facility Outstandings at any given time during the Facility Period shall not exceed the Maximum Facility Amount, each Drawing 16 shall be advanced to the Borrower, in each case by the Agent transferring the amount of the Drawing to such account of the Borrower as the Borrower shall notify to the Agent in the relevant Drawdown Notice by such same day method of funds transfer as the Agent shall select. 2.3 ADVANCE OF DRAWINGS Each Drawing shall be advanced in Dollars. Each Drawing shall be advanced on a Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall have given to the Agent not more than ten and not fewer than four Business Days' notice in writing materially in the form set out in Schedule 5 of the required Advance Date of the Drawing in question and provided that the requested Drawing would not cause a breach of Clause 2.5. Each Drawdown Notice once given shall be irrevocable and shall constitute a warranty by the Borrower that:- 2.3.1 all conditions precedent to the advance of the Drawing requested in that Drawdown Notice will have been satisfied on or before the Advance Date requested; 2.3.2 no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will then have occurred; and 2.3.3 no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the Drawing in question. The Agent shall promptly notify each Bank of the receipt of each Drawdown Notice, following which each Bank will make its Proportionate Share of the amount of the requested Drawing available to the Borrower through the Agent on the Advance Date requested. 2.4 FACILITY REDUCTION 2.4.1 The amount of the Facility available to the Borrower for drawing under this Agreement shall be four hundred and fifty five million Dollars ($455,000,000) (reduced from the initial Facility of five hundred and fifty million Dollars $550,000,000) which shall be available for drawing from 5 October 2006 until the First Reduction Date. On the First Reduction Date and on each of the fifteen Subsequent Reduction Dates the amount of the Facility available for drawing shall be reduced in accordance with the schedule of reductions set forth in Schedule 8. In the event of a Change of Control the amount of the Facility available for drawing shall 17 be reduced to zero and any outstanding Drawings shall be immediately repayable. On the Termination Date the Facility available shall be reduced to zero. The mandatory reductions in the amount of the Facility available for drawing required pursuant to this Clause will be made in the amounts and at the times specified whether or not the Maximum Facility Amount is reduced pursuant to Clause 2.4.3, Clause 2.4.4, Clause 2.4.5, Clause 5.2, Clause 15.7 or Clause 15.8. Any mandatory reductions pursuant to Clause 2.4.3 (sale) or Clause 2.4.4 (Total Loss) shall be applied to the remaining mandatory reductions hereunder on a pro rata basis. 2.4.2 The Borrower may voluntarily cancel the Maximum Facility Amount in whole or in part in integral multiples of five million Dollars ($5,000,000), provided that it has first given to the Agent not fewer than five (5) Business Days' prior written notice expiring on a Business Day of its desire to reduce the Maximum Facility Amount. Any such reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount shall not be reversed. Any voluntary reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount pursuant to this Clause shall be applied to the remaining mandatory reductions under Clause 2.4.1 on a pro rata basis. 2.4.3 In the event of a sale or disposal of a Vessel or the sale or disposal of any other asset owned by any member of the Navion Group as at the date hereof or which is the subject of Qualifying Security and where the net sales proceeds of such sales of other assets in any twelve (12) month period exceeds five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or the equivalent in any other currency), the Maximum Facility Amount shall be reduced on the date of receipt of such proceeds by the amount of such net sale or disposal proceeds (which in the case of a Vessel must be proceeds received from a commercial sale or disposal at arms length for full consideration) (the "NET PROCEEDS") unless either:- (i) the Vessel or asset in question remains owned by a member of the Navion Group; or (ii) the Vessel or asset in question is replaced within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the sale with a similar vessel or asset being 18 in all respects acceptable to all of the Finance Parties in their absolute discretion, and in either case any security held by the Agent (whether directly or indirectly) over such Vessel or asset is reconstituted immediately after the sale to the new owner or over the replacement asset (as the case may be) in substantially identical form, and the Agent obtains favourable legal opinions in respect of such reconstituted security. For any period commencing on the date of the sale or disposal of a Vessel or other relevant asset and ending on the earlier of (a) the date falling one hundred and twenty (120) days thereafter and (b) the date on which a replacement Vessel or asset is acquired in accordance with the provisions of this Clause, then, at the Borrower's option, either:- (a) the Net Proceeds shall be placed in such account as the Agent may reasonably specify and the Borrower shall execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered (as the case may be) a first priority charge over the Net Proceeds in favour of the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties or, if applicable, in favour of the Intercompany Agent who will assign such charge to the Agent, in each case in such form as the Agent may reasonably specify and the Net Proceeds and the said deed of charge would (subject to no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default then being in existence) be released at the end of such period; or (b) a part of the Maximum Facility Amount equivalent to the Net Proceeds (the "UNAVAILABLE PORTION") shall be unavailable for drawing. If the aggregate Drawings then advanced exceed the Maximum Facility Amount less the Unavailable Portion, the Borrower shall promptly make such prepayment as may be required to ensure that the aggregate Drawings then advanced are equal to or less than the Maximum Facility Amount less the Unavailable Portion. For the avoidance of doubt, Commitment Commission shall continue to accrue on the Unavailable Portion for such period. 19 2.4.4 In the event that any Vessel becomes a Total Loss, on the earlier to occur of (a) the date of receipt of the proceeds of the Total Loss and (b) the date falling one hundred and eighty (180) days after the occurrence of the Total Loss (the "REDUCTION DATE"), the Maximum Facility Amount shall (subject to the proviso hereto) reduce by the Pro Rata Insurance Proceeds Amount in respect of such Vessel. Any such reductions in the Maximum Facility Amount shall not be reversed. If, as a result of any reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount pursuant to this Clause the Facility Outstandings exceed the Maximum Facility Amount, the Borrower shall, on the earlier to occur of (a) the one hundred and eightieth day after the date of such Total Loss occurring and (b) the date on which the relevant Owner or the Bareboat Charterer (as the case may be) receives the proceeds of such Total Loss, prepay such amount of the Facility Outstandings as will ensure that the Facility Outstandings are not greater than the Maximum Facility Amount. Any such prepayment shall not be reborrowed and Clause 5.3 shall apply to any such prepayment. PROVIDED ALWAYS that if there is an investment in a substitute vessel acceptable to all of the Banks within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the Reduction Date, and security over such substitute vessel acceptable to all of the Banks is also executed and delivered within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the Reduction Date, then the reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount shall not apply. 2.4.5 If at any time during the Facility Period TSC ceases to own a minimum of fifty one per cent (51%) of the voting rights of Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C, the general partner of TKO which will, following the public listing of, and offering for TKO, own a minimum of fifty one per cent (51%) of the voting rights of Teekay Offshore Operating GP L.L.C, the Maximum Facility Amount shall be immediately reduced to zero and the Borrower shall immediately prepay the Indebtedness. The provisions of Clause 5.3 shall apply to any prepayment made under or pursuant to this Clause. Any reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount pursuant to this Clause shall be permanent and non reversible. 2.4.6 To the extent that repayments or prepayments made by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with this Agreement reduce the Facility Outstandings to less than the Maximum Facility Amount, the Borrower 20 shall again be entitled to make Drawings up to the Commitment Termination Date in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Agreement. Any part of the Facility which is undrawn on the Commitment Termination Date shall be automatically cancelled. 2.4.7 Simultaneously with each reduction of the Maximum Facility Amount in accordance with Clause 2.4.1, Clause 2.4.2, Clause 2.4.3, Clause 2.4.4 or Clause 2.4.5 (as the case may be), the Commitment of each Bank will reduce so that the Commitments of the Banks in respect of the reduced Maximum Facility Amount remain in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares. 2.5 RESTRICTIONS ON DRAWINGS The Borrower shall not be entitled to make more than one Drawing on any Business Day and no more than seven (7) Drawings may be outstanding at any one time during the Facility Period. Each Drawing shall be of an amount of not less than ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) and in integral multiples of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or the undrawn balance of the Facility. If at any time during the Facility Period the Facility Outstandings exceed the Maximum Facility Amount then available or if a proposed Drawing added to the Facility Outstandings would result in the Maximum Facility Amount being exceeded then the Borrower shall immediately pay to the Agent on behalf of the Banks such amounts as will ensure that the Facility Outstandings are equal to or less than the Maximum Facility Amount then available. 2.6 TERMINATION DATE No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance all or any part of its Commitment after the Commitment Termination Date. 2.7 SEVERAL OBLIGATIONS The obligations of the Banks under this Agreement are several. The failure of a Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower to any Finance Party nor shall any Finance Party be liable for the failure of another Bank to perform any of its obligations under or in connection with this Agreement. 2.8 APPLICATION OF FACILITY Without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, no Finance Party shall be obliged to concern itself with the application of the Facility by the Borrower. 21 2.9 LOAN FACILITY AND CONTROL ACCOUNTS The Agent will open and maintain such loan facility account or such other control accounts as the Agent shall in its discretion consider necessary or desirable in connection with the Facility. 3 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT AND SUBSEQUENT 3.1 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT - FIRST DRAWING Before any Bank shall have any obligation to advance the first Drawing under the Facility, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent the relevant fees referred to in Clause 7 and the Fee Letter and deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agent the following documents and evidence:- 3.1.1 EVIDENCE OF INCORPORATION Such evidence as the Agent may reasonably require that each Security Party was duly incorporated in its country of incorporation and remains in existence and, where appropriate, in good standing, with power to enter into, and perform its obligations under, those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is intended to be, a party, including (without limitation) a copy, certified by a director or an officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and unamended, of all documents establishing or limiting the constitution of each Security Party. 3.1.2 CORPORATE AUTHORITIES A copy, certified by a director or the secretary of the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and neither amended nor revoked, of a resolution of the directors and a resolution of the shareholders of each Security Party (together, where appropriate, with signed waivers of notice of any directors' or shareholders' meetings) approving, and authorising or ratifying the execution of, those of the Security Documents and each Drawdown Notice to which that Security Party is or is intended to be a party and all matters incidental thereto. 3.1.3 OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE A certificate (i) signed by a duly authorised officer of each of the Security Parties setting out the names of the directors, officers and shareholders of that Security Party and (ii) issued by each Security Party's company registry confirming due incorporation and valid existence and (when such information is maintained by the registry) the names of its directors and shareholders. 22 3.1.4 POWER OF ATTORNEY The power of attorney (notarially attested and legalised, if necessary, for registration purposes) of each of the Security Parties under which any documents are to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party. 3.1.5 THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS The Security Documents, together with all notices and other documents required by any of them, duly executed. 3.1.6 DRAWDOWN NOTICE A Drawdown Notice. 3.1.7 PROCESS AGENT A letter from Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd accepting their appointment by each of the Security Parties as agent for service of Proceedings pursuant to the Security Documents. 3.1.8 FEE LETTER A fee letter countersigned on behalf of the Borrower by way of acceptance of its terms. 3.1.9 LEGAL OPINIONS Confirmation satisfactory to the Agent that all legal opinions required by the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties will be given substantially in the form required by the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties. 3.1.10 ACCOUNTS The Borrower's Accounts for its fiscal quarter just ended, certified, by a director or an officer of the Borrower, as fair and accurate. 3.1.11 CORPORATE STRUCTURE Evidence of the capital structure and financial condition of the Navion Group (based on the Borrower's Accounts) confirming (inter alia) that within the Navion Group there is available two hundred million Dollars ($200,000,000) of equity or Subordinated Debt and twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000) of Free Liquidity. 3.1.12 INTERCOMPANY LOAN AGREEMENT A copy of the Intercompany Loan Agreement duly executed by the parties thereto and certified as a true and complete copy by the Borrower together with evidence that all conditions precedent required under the Intercompany Loan Agreement have been satisfied. 23 3.1.13 NAVION Evidence that any charges or other security granted and/or registered against Navion or on or over all or any of its vessels has been discharged. 3.1.14 SHARE CHARGE DOCUMENTS Any documents required by the Shares Charge. 3.1.15 BRIDGE FACILITY Evidence that the Bridge Facility and any other sums due and payable by the Borrower to the Bridge Lenders and the Agent under the Bridge Facility Agreement will following application of the first Drawing hereunder have been irrevocably repaid in full and that any security granted by any of the Security Parties as security for the Bridge Facility shall be released forthwith upon repayment of the Bridge Facility. 3.1.16 NEGATIVE PLEDGE an undertaking in form and content acceptable to the Agent duly executed and delivered by Navion covenanting not to create or permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance on or over all or any part of its assets or undertakings except for Permitted Liens. 3.2 CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT The Borrower undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the Agent on, or as soon as practicable after, the first Advance Date, the following additional documents and evidence:- 3.2.1 LEGAL OPINIONS Such legal opinions as the Agent on behalf of the Banks shall require pursuant to Clause 3.1.9. 3.2.2 COMPANIES ACT REGISTRATIONS Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security Documents have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies of England and Wales and any other relevant authorities within the statutory time limit. 3.3 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT - SUBSEQUENT DRAWINGS Before any Bank shall have any obligation to advance any subsequent Drawings under the Facility, the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the order of the Agent, a Drawdown Notice, in addition to the documents and evidence referred to in Clause 3.1 where such documents and evidence have not already been delivered to and received by the Agent. 24 3.4 NO WAIVER If the Banks in their sole discretion agree to advance any part of the Facility to the Borrower before all of the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 or Clause 3.3 (as the case may be) have been delivered to or to the order of the Agent, the Borrower undertakes to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the order of the Agent no later than the date specified by the Agent, and the advance of any part of the Facility shall not be taken as a waiver of the Agent's right to require production of all the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 or Clause 3.3 (as the case may be). 3.5 FORM AND CONTENT All documents and evidence delivered to the Agent pursuant to this Clause shall:- 3.5.1 be in form and substance acceptable to the Agent; 3.5.2 be accompanied, if required by the Agent, by translations into the English language, certified in a manner acceptable to the Agent; 3.5.3 if required for registration purposes, be certified, notarised, legalised or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agent. 3.6 EVENT OF DEFAULT No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance any part of its Commitment nor to act on any Drawdown Notice if, at the date of the Drawdown Notice or at the date on which the advance of a Drawing is requested in the Drawdown Notice, an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default shall have occurred, or if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default would result from the advance of the Drawing in question. 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Finance Parties at the date of this Agreement and (by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining) at the date of each Drawdown Notice, at each Advance Date and at each Interest Payment Date as follows except that the representation and warranty contained at Clause 4.6 shall only be made on the first Advance Date:- 4.1 INCORPORATION AND CAPACITY Each of the Security Parties is a body corporate duly constituted, organised and validly existing and (where applicable) in good standing under the law of its country of incorporation, in each case with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own its assets and to 25 carry on its business, and all of the corporate shareholders (if any) of each Security Party are duly constituted and existing under the laws of their countries of incorporation with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own their assets and to carry on their business and are acting on their own account. 4.2 SOLVENCY None of the Security Parties or the Qualifying Security Parties is insolvent or in liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of any of the Security Parties or the Qualifying Security Parties or all or any part of their assets. For this purpose a Security Party or a Qualifying Security Party (as the case may be) will be deemed insolvent if it is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of S.123 of the Insolvency Act 1986. 4.3 BINDING OBLIGATIONS The Security Documents and the Qualifying Security when duly executed and delivered will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties and the Qualifying Security Parties (as the case may be) enforceable in accordance with their respective terms subject to applicable laws regarding creditors' rights in general. 4.4 SATISFACTION OF CONDITIONS All acts, conditions and things required to be done and satisfied and to have happened prior to the execution and delivery of the Security Documents and the Qualifying Security in order to constitute the Security Documents and the Qualifying Security the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties and the Qualifying Security Parties (as the case may be) in accordance with their respective terms have been done, satisfied and have happened in compliance with all applicable laws. 4.5 REGISTRATIONS AND CONSENTS With the exception only of the registrations referred to in Clauses 3.2 all (if any) consents, licences, approvals and authorisations of, or registrations with or declarations to, any governmental authority, bureau or agency which may be required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of the Security Documents and the Qualifying Security have been obtained or made and remain in full force and effect and the Borrower is not aware of any event or circumstance which could reasonably be expected adversely to affect the right of any of the Security Parties 26 or the Qualifying Security Parties (as the case may be) to hold and/or obtain renewal of any such consents, licences, approvals or authorisations. 4.6 DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL FACTS The Borrower is not aware of any material facts or circumstances which have not been disclosed to the Agent and which might, if disclosed, have reasonably been expected to adversely affect the decision of a person considering whether or not to make loan facilities of the nature contemplated by this Agreement available to the Borrower. 4.7 NO MATERIAL LITIGATION Except for those matters disclosed in writing to the Agent, there is no action, suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding nor any contemplated action, suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding pending or to its knowledge about to be pursued before any court, tribunal or governmental or other authority which would, or would be likely to, have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or creditworthiness of the Navion Group. 4.8 NO BREACH OF LAW OR CONTRACT The execution, delivery and performance of the Security Documents will not contravene any contractual restriction or any law binding on any of the Security Parties or on any shareholder (whether legal or beneficial) of any of the Security Parties, or the constitutional documents of any of the Security Parties, nor result in the creation of, nor oblige any of the Security Parties to create, any Encumbrance over all or any of its assets, with the exception of the Encumbrances created by or pursuant to the Security Documents. 4.9 NO DEDUCTIONS Except as disclosed to the Agent in writing, that to the best of their knowledge belief and without undue enquiry, none of the Security Parties is required to make any deduction or withholding from any payment which it may be obliged to make to any of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents. 4.10 USE OF FACILITY The Facility will be used for the purposes specified in the Recital. 4.11 MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE There has been no material adverse change in the business, assets, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any company within the Navion Group or the Guarantor or in the facts and information regarding such entities as represented to date. In this clause material adverse change means, in the reasonable opinion of the Banks, a material adverse 27 affect on (i) the ability of the Borrower to repay Drawings or perform its obligations under this Agreement or (ii) the ability of any Security Party to perform its material obligations under any document related to the Facility or (iii) the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any Security Party. 4.12 INTERCOMPANY LOAN AGREEMENT The Intercompany Loan Agreement delivered to the Agent constitutes the entire agreement between the Borrower and the Intercompany Borrower in relation to the Intercompany Indebtedness and there are no side letters, security documents or other related agreements nor fees payable in connection therewith which have not been disclosed to the Agent. 5 REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT 5.1 REPAYMENT Each Drawing shall be repaid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks on the last day of its Interest Period unless the Borrower selects a further Interest Period for that Drawing in accordance with Clause 6, provided that the Borrower shall not be permitted to select such further Interest Period if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and shall then be obliged to repay such Drawing on the last day of its then current Interest Period. The Borrower shall on the Termination Date repay to the Agent as agent for the Banks all Facility Outstandings. 5.2 PREPAYMENT The Borrower may prepay the Facility Outstandings in whole or in part in integral multiples of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or as otherwise may be agreed by the Agent) provided that it has first given to the Agent not fewer than five (5) Business Days' prior written notice expiring on a Business Day of its intention to do so. Any notice pursuant to this Clause 5.2 once given shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to make the prepayment referred to in the notice on the Business Day specified in the notice, together with all interest accrued on the amount prepaid up to and including that Business Day. 5.3 PREPAYMENT INDEMNITY If the Borrower shall, subject always to Clause 5.2, make a prepayment on a Business Day other than the last day of an Interest Period, it shall pay to the Agent on behalf of the Banks any amount which is necessary to compensate the Banks for any Break Costs incurred by the Agent or any of the Banks as a result of the prepayment in question. 28 5.4 APPLICATION OF PREPAYMENTS Any prepayment in an amount less than the Indebtedness shall be applied in satisfaction or reduction first of any costs and other expenses outstanding; secondly of all interest accrued with respect to the outstanding Drawings; and thirdly of the outstanding Drawings as the Borrower may specify. 5.5 REBORROWING OF PREPAYMENTS Any amount prepaid pursuant to this Agreement may be reborrowed in accordance with Clause 2.4. 6 INTEREST 6.1 INTEREST PERIODS The period during which any Drawing shall be outstanding pursuant to this Agreement shall be divided into consecutive Interest Periods of one, three or six months' duration, as selected by the Borrower by written notice to the Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. on the fourth Business Day before the beginning of the Interest Period in question, or such other duration as may be agreed by the Banks in their discretion. No more than five one (1) month Interest Periods may be selected by the Borrower in each calendar year during the Facility Period. 6.2 BEGINNING AND END OF INTEREST PERIODS The first Interest Period in respect of each Drawing shall begin on the Advance Date of that Drawing and shall end on the last day of the Interest Period selected in accordance with Clause 6.1. Any subsequent Interest Period selected in respect of each Drawing shall commence on the day following the last day of its previous Interest Period and shall end on the last day of its current Interest Period selected in accordance with Clause 6.1. However, in respect of any Drawings outstanding on the Termination Date, the Interest Period applicable to such Drawings shall end on the Termination Date. 6.3 INTEREST RATE During each Interest Period, interest shall accrue on each Drawing at the rate determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of (a) the Margin (b) LIBOR and (c), if applicable, the Mandatory Cost determined at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day prior to the beginning of the Interest Period relating to that Drawing. 6.4 ACCRUAL AND PAYMENT OF INTEREST During the Facility Period, interest shall accrue from day to day, shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed (or, in any circumstance where market practice 29 differs, in accordance with the prevailing market practice) and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks on the last day of each Interest Period and additionally, during any Interest Period exceeding three months, on the last day of each successive three month period after the beginning of that Interest Period. 6.5 ENDING OF INTEREST PERIODS If any Interest Period would end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which event the Interest Period in question shall end on the next preceding Business Day). 6.6 DEFAULT RATE If an Event of Default shall occur, the whole of the Indebtedness shall, from the date of the occurrence of the Event of Default, bear interest up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at the Default Rate, compounded at such intervals as the Agent shall in its reasonable discretion determine, which interest shall be payable from time to time by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks on demand. 6.7 DETERMINATIONS CONCLUSIVE Each determination of an interest rate made by the Agent in accordance with Clause 6 shall (save in the case of manifest error or on any question of law) be final and conclusive. 7 FEES 7.1 FEE LETTERS The Borrower shall pay to or to the order of the Agent, the Arrangers or the Book Runners (as the case may be), the fees, commissions and other sums referred to in the relevant Fee Letters in the amounts and on the dates set out in the relevant Fee Letters. 7.2 COMMITMENT COMMISSION The Borrower shall pay to the Agent Commitment Commission in Dollars at the Commission Rate on any undrawn and uncancelled part of the Facility. The Commitment Commission will accrue from day to day on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed and shall be paid quarterly in arrears from 30 September 2006 until the Commitment Termination Date with a pro rata payment being due and payable on the Commitment Termination Date. 30 8 SECURITY DOCUMENTS 8.1 As security for the repayment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower executed and delivered to the Agent or caused to be executed and delivered to the Agent, on or before the first Advance Date, the following Security Documents in such forms and containing such terms and conditions as the Agent required:- 8.1.1 THE ASSIGNMENT a deed of assignment of the Intercompany Indebtedness; 8.1.2 SHARES CHARGE an assignment by the Borrower of a charge over the issued share capital of Navion entered into by the Intercompany Borrower as security for its obligations under the Intercompany Loan Agreement. 8.2 As further security for the repayment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower has caused to be executed and delivered to the Agent the following Security Documents:- 8.2.1 THE FIRST QUALIFYING SECURITY ASSIGNMENT a deed of assignment of the First Qualifying Security Documents; 8.2.2 THE TNOL ASSIGNMENT AND SUBORDINATION AGREEMENTS the deeds of assignment and subordination in relation to the TNOL Vessels; and 8.2.3 THE GUARANTEE the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor in respect of the Borrower's Obligations. 9 AGENCY AND TRUST 9.1 APPOINTMENT Each of the Banks and each of the Arrangers appoints the Agent its agent for the purpose of administering the Facility and the Security Documents and authorises the Agent and its directors, officers, employees and agents acting on the instructions from time to time of the Majority Banks, and subject to Clauses 9.4 and 9.19, to execute the Security Documents on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers, discretions and remedies vested in the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents, together with all powers reasonably incidental to them. 9.2 AUTHORITY Each of the Banks and the Arrangers irrevocably authorises the Agent, acting on the instructions from time to time of the Majority Banks (save where the 31 terms of any Security Document expressly require the instructions of all of the Banks):- 9.2.1 to give or withhold any consents or approvals; and 9.2.2 to exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretions; and 9.2.3 to collect, receive, release or pay any money; under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents. The Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities as agent or as security trustee other than those expressly conferred on it by the Security Documents and shall not be obliged to act on any instructions if to do so would, in the opinion of the Agent, be contrary to any provision of the Security Documents or to any law, or would expose the Agent to any actual or potential liability to any third party. 9.3 TRUST The Agent agrees and declares, and each of the Banks acknowledges, that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Clause, the Agent holds the Trust Property on trust for the Banks, in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares, absolutely. Each of the Banks agrees that the obligations, rights and benefits vested in the Agent in its capacity as security trustee shall be performed and exercised in accordance with this Clause. The Agent in its capacity as security trustee shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of this Agreement benefiting it in its capacity as agent for the Banks, and all the powers and discretions conferred on trustees by the Trustee Act 1925 (to the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement). In addition:- 9.3.1 the Agent (and any attorney, agent or delegate of the Agent) may indemnify itself or himself out of the Trust Property against all liabilities, costs, fees, damages, charges, losses and expenses sustained or incurred by it or him in relation to the taking or holding of any of the Trust Property or in connection with the exercise or purported exercise of the rights, trusts, powers and discretions vested in the Agent or any other such person by or pursuant to the Security Documents or in respect of anything else done or omitted to be done in any way relating to the Security Documents; and 9.3.2 the Banks acknowledge that the Agent shall be under no obligation to insure any property nor to require any other person to insure any 32 property and shall not be responsible for any loss which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack or insufficiency of any insurance; and 9.3.3 the Agent and the Banks agree that the perpetuity period applicable to the trusts declared by this Agreement shall be the period of eighty years from the Execution Date. 9.4 LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORITY Except with the prior written consent of each of the Banks, the Agent shall not be entitled to :- 9.4.1 release or vary any security given for the Borrower's obligations under this Agreement; nor 9.4.2 except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, agree to waive the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor 9.4.3 change the meaning of the expression "MAJORITY BANKS"; nor 9.4.4 exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretion, or give or withhold any consent, the exercise or giving of which is, by the terms of this Agreement, expressly reserved to the Banks; nor 9.4.5 extend the due date for the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor 9.4.6 take or refrain from taking any step if the effect of such action or inaction may lead to the increase of the obligations of a Bank under any of the Security Documents; nor 9.4.7 agree to change the currency in which any sum is payable under the Security Documents; nor 9.4.8 agree to amend this Clause 9.4; nor 9.4.9 agree to amend the definition of "MARGIN". 9.5 LIABILITY Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees or agents shall be liable to the Banks or the Arrangers for anything done or omitted to be 33 done by the Agent under or in connection with the Security Documents unless as a result of the Agent's wilful misconduct or gross negligence. 9.6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Each of the Banks and the Arrangers acknowledges that:- 9.6.1 it has not relied on any representation made by the Agent or any of the Agent's directors, officers, employees or agents or by any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agent to induce it to enter into any of the Security Documents; 9.6.2 it has made and will continue to make without reliance on the Agent, and based on such documents and other evidence as it considers appropriate, its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Security Parties in connection with the making and continuation of the Facility; 9.6.3 it has made its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security Parties; 9.6.4 the Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility at any time to provide it with any credit or other information relating to any of the Security Parties unless that information is received by the Agent pursuant to the express terms of the Security Documents. Each of the Banks and the Arrangers agrees that it will not assert nor seek to assert against any director, officer, employee or agent of the Agent or against any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agent any claim which it might have against them in respect of any of the matters referred to in this Clause. 9.7 LIMITATIONS ON RESPONSIBILITY The Agent shall have no responsibility to any of the Security Parties or to the Banks or to the Arrangers on account of:- 9.7.1 the failure of a Bank or of any of the Security Parties to perform any of their respective obligations under the Security Documents; 9.7.2 the financial condition of any of the Security Parties; 9.7.3 the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, or in 34 or pursuant to any document delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents; 9.7.4 the negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of any of the Security Documents or of any document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents. 9.8 THE AGENT'S RIGHTS The Agent may:- 9.8.1 assume that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents are true and complete, unless, in its capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and 9.8.2 assume that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred unless, in its capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and 9.8.3 rely on any document or Communication believed by it to be genuine; and 9.8.4 rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by it; and 9.8.5 rely as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of any of the Security Parties on a certificate signed by or on behalf of that Security Party; and 9.8.6 refrain from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of its exercise by the Banks (or, where applicable, by the Majority Banks) and unless and until the Agent has received from the Banks any payment which the Agent may require on account of, or any security which the Agent may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal and other professional fees) and liabilities which it considers it may incur or sustain in complying with those instructions. 35 9.9 THE AGENT'S DUTIES The Agent shall:- 9.9.1 if requested in writing to do so by a Bank, make enquiry and advise the Banks as to the performance or observance of any of the provisions of the Security Documents by any of the Security Parties or as to the existence of an Event of Default; and 9.9.2 inform the Banks promptly of any Event of Default of which the Agent has actual knowledge; and 9.9.3 inform the Banks promptly of any disclosures in writing received by the Agent pursuant to Clause 4.7. 9.10 NO DEEMED KNOWLEDGE The Agent shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default unless a Bank or any of the Security Parties shall have given written notice thereof to the Agent. 9.11 OTHER BUSINESS The Agent may, without any liability to account to the Banks or the Arrangers, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with any of the Security Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries or associated companies or with a Bank as if it were not the Agent. 9.12 INDEMNITY The Banks shall, promptly on the Agent's request, reimburse the Agent in their respective Proportionate Shares, for, and keep the Agent fully indemnified in respect of:- 9.12.1 all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agent pursuant to Clause 17 (other than under Clauses 17.3 and 17.4) to the extent that those amounts are not paid by the Borrower; 9.12.2 all liabilities, damages, costs and claims sustained or incurred by the Agent in connection with the Security Documents, or the performance of its duties and obligations, or the exercise of its rights, powers, discretions or remedies under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents; or in connection with any action taken or omitted by the Agent under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, unless in 36 any case those liabilities, damages, costs or claims arise solely from the Agent's wilful misconduct or gross negligence. 9.13 EMPLOYMENT OF AGENTS In performing its duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents, the Agent shall be entitled to employ and pay agents to do anything which the Agent is empowered to do under or pursuant to the Security Documents (including the receipt of money and documents and the payment of money) and to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or any other person believed by the Agent in good faith to be competent to give such opinion, advice or information. 9.14 DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS The Agent shall pay promptly to the order of each of the Banks that Bank's Proportionate Share of every sum of money received by the Agent pursuant to the Security Documents (with the exception of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 7.1 and/or the Fee Letters and any amounts which, by the terms of the Security Documents, are paid to the Agent for the account of the Agent alone or specifically for the account of one or more Banks, the Arrangers or the Book Runners) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Agent on trust absolutely for that Bank or the Arrangers (or as the case may be). 9.15 REIMBURSEMENT The Agent shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Bank or to the Arrangers until it has itself received payment of that sum. If, however, the Agent does pay any sum to a Bank or to the Arrangers on account of any amount prospectively due to it pursuant to Clause 9.14 before it has itself received payment of that amount, and the Agent does not in fact receive payment within five Business Days after the date on which that payment was required to be made by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees' Insurances, the recipient will, on demand by the Agent, refund to the Agent an amount equal to the amount received by it, together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Agent for any amount which the Agent may certify that it has been required to pay by way of interest on money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees' Insurances and ending on the date on which the Agent receives reimbursement. 37 9.16 REDISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS Unless otherwise agreed between the Finance Parties, if at any time a Bank receives or recovers by way of set-off, the exercise of any lien or otherwise (other than from any assignee or transferee of or sub-participant in that Bank's Commitment), an amount greater than that Bank's Proportionate Share of any sum due from any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents (the amount of the excess being referred to in this Clause as the "EXCESS AMOUNT") then:- 9.16.1 that Bank shall promptly notify the Agent (which shall promptly notify each other Bank); 9.16.2 that Bank shall pay to the Agent an amount equal to the Excess Amount within ten days of its receipt or recovery of the Excess Amount; and 9.16.3 the Agent shall treat that payment as if it were a payment by the Security Party in question on account of the sum owed to the Banks as aforesaid and shall account to the Banks in respect of the Excess Amount in accordance with the provisions of this Clause. 9.17 However, if a Bank has commenced any Proceedings to recover sums owing to it under the Security Documents and, as a result of, or in connection with, those Proceedings has received an Excess Amount, the Agent shall not distribute any of that Excess Amount to any other Bank which had been notified of the Proceedings and had the legal right to, but did not, join those Proceedings or commence and diligently prosecute separate Proceedings to enforce its rights in the same or another court. 9.18 RESCISSION OF EXCESS AMOUNT If all or any part of any Excess Amount is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to any of the Security Parties or to any other third party, the Banks which have received any part of that Excess Amount by way of distribution from the Agent pursuant to Clause 9.16 shall repay to the Agent for the account of the Bank which originally received or recovered the Excess Amount, the amount which shall be necessary to ensure that the Banks share rateably in accordance with their Proportionate Shares in the amount of the receipt or payment retained, together with interest on that amount at a rate equivalent to that (if any) paid by the Bank receiving or recovering the Excess Amount to the person to whom that Bank is liable to make payment in respect of such amount, and Clause 9.16.3 shall apply only to the retained amount. 38 9.19 PROCEEDINGS Each of the Finance Parties shall notify one another of the proposed commencement of any Proceedings under any of the Security Documents prior to their commencement. No such Proceedings may be commenced without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks. 9.20 INSTRUCTIONS Where the Agent is authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Banks or of the Majority Banks each of the Banks shall provide the Agent with instructions within seven Business Days of the Agent's written request. If a Bank does not provide the Agent with instructions within that period, (i) that Bank shall be bound by the decision of the Agent, (ii) that Bank shall have no vote for the purposes of this Clause and (iii) the combined Proportionate Shares of the other Banks who provided such instructions shall be deemed to contribute 100%. Nothing in this Clause shall limit the right of the Agent to take, or refrain from taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Banks if the Agent in its discretion considers it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such action in order to preserve the rights of the Banks under or in connection with the Security Documents. In that event, the Agent will notify the Banks of the action taken by it as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Banks agree to ratify any action taken by the Agent pursuant to this Clause. 9.21 COMMUNICATIONS Any Communication under this Clause shall be given, delivered, made or served, in the case of the Agent (in its capacity as Agent or as one of the Banks), and in the case of the other Banks, at the address indicated in Schedule 1 or such other addresses as shall be duly notified in writing to the Agent on behalf of the Banks. 9.22 PAYMENTS All amounts payable to a Bank under this Clause shall be paid to such account at such bank as that Bank may from time to time direct in writing to the Agent. 9.23 RETIREMENT Subject to a successor being appointed in accordance with this Clause, the Agent may retire as agent and/or security trustee at any time without assigning any reason by giving to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties notice of its intention to do so, in which event the following shall apply:- 9.23.1 with the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld, the other Finance Parties may within thirty days after the date of the Agent's 39 notice appoint a successor to act as agent and/or security trustee or, if they fail to do so with the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld, the Agent may appoint any other bank or financial institution as its successor; 9.23.2 the resignation of the Agent shall take effect simultaneously with the appointment of its successor on written notice of that appointment being given to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties; 9.23.3 the Agent shall thereupon be discharged from all further obligations as agent and/or security trustee but shall remain entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Clause; 9.23.4 the Agent's successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if that successor had been a party to this Agreement. 9.24 NO FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP Except as provided in Clauses 9.3 and 9.14, the Agent shall not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be a trustee of or for a Bank or the Arrangers and nothing contained in any of the Security Documents shall constitute a partnership between any two or more Banks or between the Agent and any Bank or the Arrangers. 9.25 THE AGENT AS A BANK The expression "THE BANKS" when used in the Security Documents includes the Agent in its capacity as one of the Banks. The Agent shall be entitled to exercise its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents in its capacity as one of the Banks in the same manner as any other Bank and as if it were not also the Agent. 9.26 THE AGENT AS SECURITY TRUSTEE Unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "THE AGENT" when used in the Security Documents includes the Agent acting in its capacities both as agent and security trustee. 10 COVENANTS The Borrower covenants with the Finance Parties in the following terms. 40 10.1 NEGATIVE COVENANTS The Borrower will not and will procure that no member of the Covenanting Group will:- 10.1.1 NO THIRD PARTY RIGHTS without the Majority Banks' prior written consent, create or permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance on or over all or any part of the Vessels or their Earnings or Insurances except for Permitted Liens or Encumbrances arising in connection with the financing of the organic compound equipment provided on a non-recourse basis to the Borrower; nor 10.1.2 NO OTHER BUSINESS materially change the nature of its business from that carried on as at the Execution Date (and for the purpose of this Clause, a change of business shall be deemed "material" if the turnover of any new or changed business constitutes seven point five per cent (7.5%) or more of the aggregate turnover of the relevant entity within the Covenanting Group); nor 10.1.3 MERGER OR AMALGAMATION without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks, permit any merger or amalgamation with a company outside the Navion Group provided that the Borrower shall notify the Agent, in the case of a merger or amalgamation within the Navion Group; nor 10.1.4 QUALIFYING SECURITY without the prior written consent of the Banks, make or cause to be made any amendment, variation, supplement or release to, or transfer or novation of, the Qualifying Security. 10.2 POSITIVE COVENANTS 10.2.1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS The Borrower will supply to the Agent, without request, the Guarantor's Accounts for each financial year of the Guarantor ending during the Facility Period, containing (amongst other things) the Guarantor's profit and loss account for, and balance sheet at the end of, each such financial year, in each case within one hundred and fifty days of the end of the financial year to which they relate and the Guarantor's quarterly unaudited management accounts within 90 days of the end of the quarter to which they relate, and such financial 41 statements shall accurately and fairly represent the financial condition of the Guarantor. 10.2.2 OTHER INFORMATION The Borrower will promptly supply to the Agent such information and explanations as the Majority Banks may from time to time reasonably require in connection with the operation of the Vessels and the Guarantor Group's profit and liquidity, and will procure that the Agent be given the like information and explanations relating to all other Security Parties and the Qualifying Security Parties. 10.2.3 INSPECTION OF RECORDS The Borrower will permit the inspection of its financial records and accounts on reasonable notice from time to time during business hours by the Agent or its nominee. 10.2.4 NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OF DEFAULT The Borrower will immediately notify the Agent in writing of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default or any event which will materially adversely affect the Borrower's or the Guarantor's ability to perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is a party or the ability of any of the other Security Parties to perform any of their material obligations under any of the Security Documents to which they are a party or may become a party to. 10.2.5 PARI PASSU The Borrower shall ensure that its respective obligations under this Agreement shall at all times rank at least pari passu with all of its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by any applicable laws to companies generally and not by contract. 10.2.6 CORPORATE EXISTENCE Save as permitted by Clause 10.1.3, the Borrower shall ensure that throughout the Facility Period each of the Security Parties and the Qualifying Security Parties shall (i) remain duly formed and validly existing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation (ii) remain authorised to do business in the jurisdiction in which it transacts its business (iii) continue to have the power to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a 42 party and (iv) continue to comply with all laws, statutory, regulatory and other requirements relative to its business which could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on its business, assets or operations, financial or otherwise. 10.2.7 ADMISSIBILITY IN EVIDENCE The Borrower shall on the request of the Agent obtain all necessary authorisations, consents, approvals, licences, exemptions, filings, registrations, recordings and notarisations required or advisable in connection with the admissibility in evidence of the Security Documents or any of them in Proceedings in England or any other jurisdiction in which Proceedings have been commenced. 10.3 VALUATIONS Deliver to the Agent a Valuation of each of the Vessels on the due date for delivery of the financial statements of the Guarantor and on such other occasions as the Agent may reasonably request. 10.4 GUARANTOR'S FINANCIAL COVENANTS At any time during the Facility Period, the Borrower shall procure that on a consolidated basis:- 10.4.1 the Guarantor Group maintains Free Liquidity and undrawn committed revolving credit lines (including under this Agreement but excluding committed revolving credit lines with less than six months to maturity) of not less than seventy five million Dollars ($75,000,000) in aggregate; and 10.4.2 the aggregate of the Free Liquidity of the Guarantor Group and undrawn committed revolving credit lines (including under this Agreement but excluding committed revolving credit lines with less than 6 months to maturity) shall not be less than five per cent (5%) of its Total Debt. 10.5 DIVIDENDS Provided that the Intercompany Indebtedness shall at all times be equal to or greater than the Indebtedness and no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (but not otherwise) the Borrower may:- 10.5.1 pay any dividends or make any other distributions to shareholders; and/or 10.5.2 make any loan or other similar financial support available to any third party or any member of the Navion Group. 43 10.6 INTERCOMPANY LOAN Upon the written request of the Agent, the Borrower shall deliver a certificate to the Agent confirming the amount outstanding under the Intercompany Loan Agreement, which shall at all times be at least equal to the aggregate of the Facility Outstandings and all unpaid interest, costs and expenses under this Agreement. 11 EARNINGS REMITTANCE OF EARNINGS Immediately upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall procure that all Earnings are paid to such account(s) as the Agent shall from time to time specify by notice in writing to the Borrower. 12 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 12.1 THE AGENT'S RIGHTS If any of the events set out in Clause 12.2 occurs, the Agent may at its discretion (and, on the instructions of the Majority Banks, will) by notice to the Borrower declare the Banks to be under no further obligation to the Borrower under or pursuant to this Agreement and may (and, on the instructions of the Majority Banks, will) declare all or any part of the Indebtedness (including such unpaid interest as shall have accrued) to be immediately payable, whereupon the Indebtedness (or the part of the Indebtedness referred to in the Agent's notice) shall immediately become due and payable without any further demand or notice of any kind. 12.2 EVENTS OF DEFAULT The events referred to in Clause 12.1 are:- 12.2.1 PAYMENT DEFAULT if the Borrower defaults in the payment of any part of the Indebtedness when due PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Borrower can demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agent that it has given all necessary instructions to effect payment and the non-receipt thereof is attributable to an error in the banking system, such Event of Default shall only occur (i) three (3) Business Days after such payment fell due if it relates to principal, (ii) five (5) Business Days after such payment fell due if it relates to a scheduled payment which is not principal and (iii) ten Business Days after such payment fell due if it relates to a payment on demand; or 12.2.2 OTHER DEFAULT if any of the Security Parties or the Qualifying Security Parties fails to observe or perform any of the covenants, conditions, 44 undertakings, agreements or obligations (other than those relating to Insurances) on its part contained in any of the Transaction Documents (other than a TNOL Bareboat Charter) or shall in any other way be in breach of or do or cause to be done any act repudiating or evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Transaction Documents (other than a TNOL Bareboat Charter) and such default (if in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Banks capable of remedy) is not remedied within thirty (30) days after notice of the default has been given to the Borrower; or 12.2.3 MISREPRESENTATION OR BREACH OF WARRANTY if any representation, warranty or statement made, deemed to be made, or repeated under any of the Security Documents or in any accounts, certificate, notice instrument, written statement or opinion delivered by a Security Party under or in connection with any Security Document is incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made, deemed to be made or repeated; or 12.2.4 EXECUTION if a distress or execution or other process of a court or authority is levied on any of the property of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group before or after final judgment or by order of any competent court or authority for an amount in excess of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency and is not satisfied or stayed (with a view to being contested in good faith) within fourteen days of levy or any other applicable cure period (if longer); or 12.2.5 INSOLVENCY EVENTS if any of the Security Parties:- (a) resolves to appoint, or applies for, or consents to the appointment of, a receiver, administrative receiver, trustee, administrator or liquidator of itself or of all or part of its assets other than for the purposes of a merger or amalgamation pursuant to Clause 10.1.3; or (b) is unable or admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due; or (c) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (d) ceases trading or threatens to cease trading; or 45 (e) has appointed an Inspector under the Companies Act 1985 or any statutory provision which the Agent in its discretion considers analogous thereto; or 12.2.6 INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS if any proceedings are commenced or threatened, or any order or judgment is given by any court, for the bankruptcy, liquidation, winding up, administration or re-organisation of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group or for the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group or of all or any material part of the assets of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group, or if any person appoints or purports to appoint such receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee which proceeding is not discharged within thirty (30) days of its commencement; or 12.2.7 IMPOSSIBILITY OR ILLEGALITY unless covered by Clause 15.7, if any event occurs which would, or would with the passage of time, render performance of any of the Security Documents impossible, unlawful or unenforceable by the Banks or the Agent; or 12.2.8 CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT if any of the conditions set out in Clause 3.2 is not satisfied within the time reasonably required by the Agent; or 12.2.9 REVOCATION OR MODIFICATION OF CONSENTS ETC. if any material consent, licence, approval or authorisation which is now or which at any time during the Facility Period becomes necessary to enable any of the Security Parties to comply with any of their obligations in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents is revoked, withdrawn or withheld, or modified in a manner which the Agent reasonably considers is, or may be, prejudicial to the interests of the Banks in a material manner, or any material consent, licence, approval or authorisation ceases to remain in full force and effect; or 12.2.10 CURTAILMENT OF BUSINESS if the business of any of the Security Parties is wholly or materially curtailed by any intervention by or under authority of any government, or if all or a substantial part of the undertaking, 46 property or assets of any of the Security Parties is seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under authority of any government or any Security Party disposes or threatens to dispose of a substantial part of its business or assets; or 12.2.11 ACCELERATION OF OTHER INDEBTEDNESS if any other indebtedness of any Security Party or any Material Subsidiary is not paid when due (or within any applicable grace period) or any indebtedness of any Security Party or any Material Subsidiary is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity where (in either case) the aggregate of all such unpaid or accelerated indebtedness (i) of the Guarantor is equal to or greater than fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or (ii) of the Borrower, or any Material Subsidiary is equal to or greater than twenty five million Dollars ($25,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or 12.2.12 REDUCTION OF CAPITAL if any of the members of the Navion Group reduces its authorised or issued or subscribed capital except reductions effected in compliance with Clause 10.1.3; or 12.2.13 CHALLENGE TO REGISTRATION if the registration of any Vessel or any Mortgage becomes void or voidable or liable to cancellation or termination; or 12.2.14 WAR if the country of registration of any Vessel becomes involved in war (whether or not declared) or civil war or is occupied by any other power and the Agent reasonably considers that, as a result, the security conferred by the Security Documents is materially prejudiced; or 12.2.15 NOTICE OF TERMINATION if the Guarantor gives notice to the Agent to determine its obligations under the Guarantee; or 12.2.16 MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE if at any time there shall occur a change in the business or operations of a Security Party or a change in the financial condition of any Security Party which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Banks, materially impairs such Security Party's ability to discharge its obligations under the Security Documents in the manner provided therein and such change, if capable of remedy, is not 47 so remedied within 15 days of the delivery of a notice confirming such change by the Agent to the relevant Security Party; or 12.2.17 FINAL JUDGEMENTS if any of the Security Parties fails to comply with any non appealable court order or fails to pay a final unappealable judgment against it, in either case, in excess of one million Dollars ($1,000,000) which remains unsettled for fourteen (14) days; or 12.2.18 INTERCOMPANY LOAN AGREEMENT if any default (other than on the part of the Intercompany Agent) occurs under the Intercompany Loan Agreement or if the Intercompany Agent is removed (or steps are taken to try to remove it) from its position as agent thereunder or if the Borrower (i) obstructs the Intercompany Agent from performance of its delegated duties or (ii) attempts to revoke the authority and discretion it has granted to the Intercompany Agent, under clause 10.3(b) of the Intercompany Loan Agreement; or 12.2.19 QUALIFYING SECURITY if any amendment, variation, supplement, release, transfer or novation is made or effected in relation to the Qualifying Security without the prior written consent of the Banks; or 12.2.20 TNOL BAREBOAT CHARTERS if the TNOL Bareboat Charters or any of them are terminated prior to the Termination Date without the prior written consent of the Agent; or 12.2.21 INSURANCES if any Security Party fails to effect or maintain the Insurances in the manner required by the relevant Security Documents or the First Qualifying Security Documents (as the case may be). 13 SET-OFF AND LIEN 13.1 SET-OFF The Borrower irrevocably authorises each of the Finance Parties at any time after all or any part of the Indebtedness shall have become due and payable to set off without notice any liability of the Borrower to any of the Finance Parties (whether present or future, actual or contingent, and irrespective of the branch or office, currency or place of payment) against any credit balance from time to time standing on any account of the Borrower (whether current or otherwise and whether or not subject to notice) with any branch of any of the Finance Parties in or towards satisfaction of the Indebtedness and, in the name of that Finance Party 48 or the Borrower, to do all acts (including, without limitation, converting or exchanging any currency) and execute all documents which may be required to effect such application. 13.2 LIEN If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, each Finance Party shall have a lien on and be entitled to retain and realise as additional security for the repayment of the Indebtedness any cheques, drafts, bills, notes or negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and any stocks, shares or marketable or other securities and property of any kind of the Borrower (or of that Finance Party as agent or nominee of the Borrower) from time to time held by that Finance Party, whether for safe custody or otherwise. 13.3 RESTRICTIONS ON WITHDRAWAL Despite any term to the contrary in relation to any deposit or credit balance at any time on any account of the Borrower with any of the Finance Parties, no such deposit or balance shall be repayable or capable of being assigned, mortgaged, charged or otherwise disposed of or dealt with by the Borrower after an Event of Default has occurred and while such Event of Default is continuing, but any Finance Party may from time to time permit the withdrawal of all or any part of any such deposit or balance without affecting the continued application of this Clause. 13.4 APPLICATION Whilst an Event of Default is continuing, the Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agent to apply all sums which the Agent may receive:- 13.4.1 pursuant to a sale or other disposition of a Vessel or any right, title or interest in a Vessel; or 13.4.2 by way of payment to the Agent of any sum in respect of the Insurances, Earnings or Requisition Compensation of a Vessel; or 13.4.3 otherwise arising under or in connection with any of the Security Documents in or towards satisfaction, or by way of retention on account, of the Indebtedness, in such manner as the Agent may in its discretion determine. 49 14 ASSIGNMENT AND SUB-PARTICIPATION 14.1 RIGHT TO ASSIGN Each of the Banks may assign or transfer all or any of its rights under or pursuant to the Security Documents or grant sub-participations in all or any part of its Commitment to any other branch of that Bank or (with the prior written consent of the Borrower which shall not be unreasonably withheld and which shall be deemed given if the Borrower fails to respond to any written request under this provision within a period of ten (10) Business Days) to any other bank or financial institution, provided that such assignment or transfer or sub-participation does not result in the Borrower being subject to any additional Tax or other financial or legal obligations other than those contemplated by the terms of this Agreement at the time of such assignment, transfer or sub-participation. 14.2 BORROWER'S CO-OPERATION The Borrower will co-operate fully with the Banks in connection with any assignment, transfer or sub-participation pursuant to Clause 14.1; will execute and procure the execution of such documents as the Banks may require in connection therewith; and irrevocably authorises each of the Finance Parties to disclose to any proposed assignee, transferee or sub-participant (whether before or after any assignment, transfer or sub-participation and whether or not any assignment, transfer or sub-participation shall take place) all information relating to the Security Parties, the Facility or the Security Documents which each such Finance Party may in its discretion consider necessary or desirable (subject to any duties of confidentiality applicable to the Banks generally). 14.3 RIGHTS OF ASSIGNEE Any assignee, transferee or sub-participant of a Bank shall (unless limited by the express terms of the assignment, transfer or sub-participation) take the full benefit of every provision of the Security Documents benefiting that Bank. 14.4 TRANSFER CERTIFICATES If any Bank wishes to transfer all or any of its Commitment as contemplated in Clause 14.1 then such transfer may be effected by the delivery to the Agent of a duly completed and duly executed Transfer Certificate in which event, on the later of the Transfer Date specified in such Transfer Certificate and the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of such Transfer Certificate to the Agent: 50 14.4.1 to the extent that in such Transfer Certificate the Bank which is a party thereto seeks to transfer its Commitment in whole, the Borrower and such Bank shall be released from further obligations towards each other under this Agreement and their respective rights against each other shall be cancelled other than existing claims against such Bank for breach of this Agreement (such rights, benefits and obligations being referred to in this Clause 14.4 as "DISCHARGED RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS"); 14.4.2 the Borrower and the Transferee which is a party thereto shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from such discharged rights and obligations only insofar as the Borrower and such Transferee have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of the Borrower and such Bank; and 14.4.3 the Agent, the Arrangers, the Transferee and the other Banks shall acquire the same rights and benefits and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had such Transferee been an original party to this Agreement as a Bank with the rights, benefits and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of such transfer. 14.5 POWER OF ATTORNEY In order to give effect to each Transfer Certificate the Finance Parties and the Borrower each hereby irrevocably and unconditionally appoint the Agent as its true and lawful attorney with full power to execute on their respective behalves each Transfer Certificate delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 14.4 without the Agent being under any obligation to take any further instructions from or give any prior notice to, any of the Finance Parties or, subject to the Borrower's rights under Clause 14.1, the Borrower before doing so and the Agent shall so execute each such Transfer Certificate on behalf of the other Finance Parties and the Borrower immediately on its receipt of the same pursuant to Clause 14.4. 14.6 NOTIFICATION The Agent shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties, the Transferee and the Borrower on the execution by it of any Transfer Certificate together with details of the amount transferred, the Transfer Date and the parties to such transfer. 51 15 PAYMENTS, MANDATORY PREPAYMENT, RESERVE REQUIREMENTS AND ILLEGALITY 15.1 PAYMENTS All amounts payable by the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents shall be paid to such accounts at such banks as the Agent may from time to time direct to the Borrower and shall be paid in Dollars in same day funds (or such funds as are required by the authorities in the United States of America for settlement of international payments for immediate value). Payments shall be deemed to have been received by the Agent on the date on which the Agent receives authenticated advice of receipt, unless that advice is received by the Agent on a day other than a Business Day or at a time of day (whether on a Business Day or not) when the Agent in its reasonable discretion considers that it is impossible or impracticable for the Agent to utilise the amount received for value that same day, in which event the payment in question shall be deemed to have been received by the Agent on the Business Day next following the date of receipt of advice by the Agent. 15.2 NO DEDUCTIONS OR WITHHOLDINGS All payments (whether of principal or interest or otherwise) to be made by the Borrower pursuant to the Security Documents shall, subject only to Clause 15.3, be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any Taxes or other deductions, withholdings, restrictions, conditions or counterclaims of any nature, and the Borrower will not claim any equity in respect of any payment due from it to the Banks or to the Agent under or in relation to any of the Security Documents. 15.3 GROSSING-UP If at any time any law requires (or is interpreted to require) the Borrower to make any deduction or withholding from any payment, or to change the rate or manner in which any required deduction or withholding is made, the Borrower will promptly notify the Agent and, simultaneously with making that payment, will pay to the Agent whatever additional amount (after taking into account any additional Taxes on, or deductions or withholdings from, or restrictions or conditions on, that additional amount) is necessary to ensure that, after making the deduction or withholding, the Agent and the Banks receive a net sum equal to the sum which they would have received had no deduction or withholding been made. 15.4 EVIDENCE OF DEDUCTIONS If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or withholding from any payment to be made by it pursuant to any 52 of the Security Documents, the Borrower will pay the amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant authority within the time allowed under the applicable law and will, no later than thirty days after making that payment, deliver to the Agent an original receipt issued by the relevant authority, or other evidence reasonably acceptable to the Agent, evidencing the payment to that authority of all amounts required to be deducted or withheld. If the Borrower makes any deduction or withholding from any payment under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, and a Bank subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any tax authority which that Bank at its sole discretion identifies as being referable to that deduction or withholding, that Bank shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to the Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial position than that in which it would have been had the deduction or withholding not been required to have been made. Nothing in this Clause shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on any Bank unless requested by the Borrower to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any way the manner in which any Bank organises its tax affairs, nor as imposing on any Bank any obligation to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations. All costs and expenses incurred by any Bank in obtaining or seeking to obtain a refund or allowance from any tax authority pursuant to this Clause shall be for the Borrower's account. 15.5 ADJUSTMENT OF DUE DATES If any payment to be made under any of the Security Documents, other than a payment of interest on the Facility, shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day, that payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month in which event the payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day). Any such variation of time shall be taken into account in computing any interest in respect of that payment. 15.6 CHANGE IN LAW If, by reason of the introduction of any law, or any change in any law, or the interpretation or administration of any law, or in compliance with any request or requirement from any central bank or any fiscal, monetary or other authority:- 53 15.6.1 any Finance Party (or the holding company of any Finance Party) shall be subject to any Tax with respect to payments of all or any part of the Indebtedness; or 15.6.2 the basis of Taxation of payments to any Finance Party in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness shall be changed; or 15.6.3 any reserve requirements shall be imposed, modified or deemed applicable against assets held by or deposits in or for the account of or loans by any branch of any Finance Party or its direct or indirect holding company; or 15.6.4 any ratio (whether cash, capital adequacy, liquidity or otherwise) which any Finance Party or its direct or indirect holding company is required or requested to maintain shall be affected; or 15.6.5 there is imposed on any Finance Party (or on the direct or indirect holding company of any Finance Party) any other condition in relation to the Indebtedness or the Security Documents; and the result of any of the above shall be to increase the cost to any Bank (or to the direct or indirect holding company of any Bank) of that Bank making or maintaining its Commitment or its Drawing, or to cause any Finance Party to suffer (in its reasonable opinion) a material reduction in the rate of return on its overall capital below the level which it reasonably anticipated at the date of this Agreement and which it would have been able to achieve but for its entering into this Agreement and/or performing its obligations under this Agreement, the Finance Party affected shall notify the Agent and, on demand to the Borrower by the Agent, the Borrower shall from time to time pay to the Agent for the account of the Finance Party affected the amount which shall compensate that Finance Party or the Agent (or the relevant holding company) for such additional cost or reduced return. A certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Agent or of the Finance Party affected setting out the amount of that payment and the basis of its calculation shall be submitted to the Borrower and shall be conclusive evidence of such amount save for manifest error or on any question of law. 15.7 ILLEGALITY AND IMPRACTICALITY Notwithstanding anything contained in the Security Documents, the obligations of a Bank to advance or maintain its 54 Commitment shall terminate in the event that a change in any law or in the interpretation of any law by any authority charged with its administration shall make it unlawful for that Bank to advance or maintain its Commitment. In such event the Bank affected shall notify the Agent and the Agent shall, by written notice to the Borrower, declare that Bank's obligations to be immediately terminated. If all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by the Banks to the Borrower, the portion of the Indebtedness (including all accrued interest) advanced by the Bank so affected shall be prepaid within thirty days from the date of such notice. Clause 5.3 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period. During that period, the affected Bank shall negotiate in good faith with the Borrower to find an alternative method or lending base in order to maintain the Facility. 15.8 CHANGES IN MARKET CIRCUMSTANCES If at any time a Bank determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower) that, by reason of changes affecting the London Interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the rate of interest on the Facility or any part thereof pursuant to this Agreement:- 15.8.1 that Bank shall give notice to the Agent and the Agent shall give notice to the Borrower of the occurrence of such event; and 15.8.2 the Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable certify to the Borrower in writing the effective cost to that Bank of maintaining its Commitment for such further period as shall be selected by that Bank and the rate of interest payable by the Borrower for that period; or, if that is not acceptable to the Borrower, 15.8.3 the Agent in accordance with instructions from that Bank and subject to that Bank's approval of any agreement between the Agent and the Borrower, will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to modifying this Agreement to provide a substitute basis for that Bank's Commitment which is financially a substantial equivalent to the basis provided for in this Agreement. If, within thirty days of the giving of the notice referred to in Clause 15.8.1, the Borrower and the Agent fail to agree in writing on a substitute basis for such Bank's Commitment the Borrower will immediately prepay the amount of such 55 Bank's Commitment and the Maximum Facility Amount will automatically decrease by the amount of such Commitment and such decrease shall not be reversed. Clause 5.3 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period. 15.9 NON-AVAILABILITY OF CURRENCY If a Bank is for any reason unable to obtain Dollars in the London Interbank market and is, as a result, or as a result of any other contingency affecting the London Interbank market, unable to advance or maintain its Commitment in Dollars, that Bank shall give notice to the Agent and the Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and that Bank's obligations to make the Facility available shall immediately cease. In that event, if all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by that Bank to the Borrower, the Agent in accordance with instructions from that Bank and subject to that Bank's approval of any agreement between the Agent and the Borrower, will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to establishing a mutually acceptable basis for funding the Facility or relevant part thereof from an alternative source. If the Agent and the Borrower have failed to agree in writing on a basis for funding the Facility or relevant part thereof from an alternative source by 11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to the end of the then current relevant Interest Period, the Borrower will (without prejudice to its other obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, its obligation to pay interest on the Facility, arising on the expiry of the then relevant Interest Period) prepay the Indebtedness (or relevant part thereof) to the Agent on behalf of that Bank on the expiry of the then current relevant Interest Period. 16 COMMUNICATIONS 16.1 METHOD Except for Communications pursuant to Clause 9, which shall be made or given in accordance with Clause 9.20, any Communication may be given, delivered, made or served (as the case may be) under or in relation to this Agreement by letter or fax and shall be in the English language and sent addressed:- 16.1.1 in the case of any of the Finance Parties to the Agent at its address at the head of this Agreement (fax no: + 47 22 482 894) marked for the attention of: Credit Administration Shipping; and 56 16.1.2 in the case of the Borrower and/or the Guarantor to the Communications Address; or to such other address or fax number as the Agent or the Borrower may designate for themselves by written notice to the others. 16.2 TIMING A Communication shall be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to or on, and received by a party to this Agreement:- 16.2.1 in the case of a fax when the sender receives one or more transmission reports showing the whole of the Communication to have been transmitted to the correct fax number; 16.2.2 if delivered to an officer of the relevant party or (in the case of the Borrower) left at the Communications Address at the time of delivery or leaving; or 16.2.3 if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the third Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post. Any Communication by fax shall be promptly confirmed in writing by post or hand delivery. 17 GENERAL INDEMNITIES 17.1 CURRENCY In the event of any Finance Party receiving or recovering any amount payable under any of the Security Documents in a currency other than the Currency of Account, and if the amount received or recovered is insufficient when converted into the Currency of Account at the date of receipt to satisfy in full the amount due, the Borrower shall, on the Agent's written demand, pay to the Agent such further amount in the Currency of Account as is sufficient to satisfy in full the amount due and that further amount shall be due to the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties as a separate debt under this Agreement. 17.2 COSTS AND EXPENSES The Borrower will, within fourteen days of the Agent's written demand, reimburse the Agent (on behalf of each of the Finance Parties) for all reasonable out of pocket expenses including internal and external legal costs (including stamp duty, Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax if applicable) of and incidental to:- 57 17.2.1 the negotiation, syndication, preparation, execution and registration of the Security Documents (whether or not any of the Security Documents are actually executed or registered and whether or not all or any part of the Facility is advanced); 17.2.2 any amendments, addenda or supplements to any of the Security Documents (whether or not completed); 17.2.3 any other documents which may at any time be required by any Finance Party to give effect to any of the Security Documents or which any Finance Party is entitled to call for or obtain pursuant to any of the Security Documents; and 17.2.4 the exercise of the rights, powers, discretions and remedies of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents. 17.3 EVENTS OF DEFAULT The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Finance Party as a consequence of any Event of Default, including (without limitation) any Break Costs. 17.4 FUNDING COSTS The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Finance Party if, for any reason due to a default or other action by the Borrower, any Drawing is not advanced to the Borrower after the relevant Drawdown Notice has been given to the Agent, or is advanced on a date other than that requested in the Drawdown Notice, including (without limitation) any Break Costs. 17.5 PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on demand against all losses, costs and liabilities which any Finance Party may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for in or about the protection, maintenance or enforcement of the rights conferred on the Finance Parties by the Security Documents or in or about the exercise or purported exercise by the Finance Parties of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies vested in them under or arising out of the Security Documents, including (without limitation) any losses, costs and liabilities which any Finance Party may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for by reason of any Finance Party being mortgagees of any Vessel, assignees of any Mortgage and/or 58 a lender to the Borrower, or by reason of any Finance Party being deemed by any court or authority to be an operator or controller, or in any way concerned in the operation or control, of any Vessel. No such indemnity will be given to a Finance Party where any such loss, cost or liability has occurred due to gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of that Finance Party; however this shall not affect the right of any other Finance Party to receive any such indemnity. 17.6 LIABILITIES OF FINANCE PARTIES The Borrower will from time to time reimburse the Finance Parties on demand for all sums which any Finance Party may pay on account of any of the Security Parties or in connection with any Vessel (whether alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other person) including (without limitation) all sums which any Finance Party may pay or guarantees which any Finance Party may give in respect of the Insurances, any expenses incurred by any Finance Party in connection with the maintenance or repair of any Vessel or in discharging any lien, bond or other claim relating in any way to any Vessel, and any sums which any Finance Party may pay or guarantees which they may give to procure the release of any Vessel from arrest or detention. 17.7 TAXES The Borrower shall pay all Taxes to which all or any part of the Indebtedness or any of the Security Documents may be at any time subject and shall indemnify the Finance Parties on demand against all liabilities, costs, claims and expenses incurred in connection therewith, including but not limited to any such liabilities, costs, claims and expenses resulting from any omission to pay or delay in paying any such Taxes. The indemnity contained in this Clause shall survive the repayment of the Indebtedness. 18 MISCELLANEOUS 18.1 WAIVERS No failure or delay on the part of any Finance Party in exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, nor any actual or alleged course of dealing between any Finance Party and any of the Security Parties, shall operate as a waiver of, or acquiescence in, any default on the part of any Security Party, unless expressly agreed to do so in writing by the Agent, nor shall any single or partial exercise by any Finance Party of any right, power, discretion or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of that right, power, discretion or remedy, or the exercise by a Finance Party of any other right, power, discretion or remedy. 59 18.2 NO ORAL VARIATIONS No variation or amendment of any of the Security Documents shall be valid unless in writing and signed on behalf of the Agent and the relevant Security Party. 18.3 SEVERABILITY If at any time any provision of any of the Security Documents is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect that provision shall be severed from the remainder and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected or impaired in any way. 18.4 SUCCESSORS ETC. The Security Documents shall be binding on the Security Parties and on their successors and permitted transferees and assignees, and shall inure to the benefit of the Finance Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assignees. The Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or duties under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents without the prior written consent of the Banks. 18.5 FURTHER ASSURANCE If any provision of the Security Documents shall be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of any present or future law or any decision of any court, or if the documents at any time held by the Finance Parties on their behalf are considered by the Banks for any reason insufficient to carry out the terms of this Agreement, then from time to time the Borrower will promptly, on demand by the Agent, execute or procure the execution of such further documents as in the reasonable opinion of the Banks are necessary to provide adequate security for the repayment of the Indebtedness. 18.6 OTHER ARRANGEMENTS The Finance Parties may, without prejudice to their rights under or pursuant to the Security Documents, at any time and from time to time, on such terms and conditions as they may in their discretion determine, and without notice to the Borrower, grant time or other indulgence to, or compound with, any other person liable (actually or contingently) to the Finance Parties or any of them in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and may release or renew negotiable instruments and take and release securities and hold funds on realisation or suspense account without affecting the liabilities of the Borrower or the rights of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents. 18.7 ADVISERS The Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agent, at any time and from time to time during the Facility Period, to consult insurance advisers on any matters relating to the Insurances, including, without limitation, the collection of 60 insurance claims, and from time to time to consult or retain advisers or consultants to monitor or advise on any other claims relating to the Vessels. The Borrower will provide such advisers and consultants with all information and documents which they may from time to time reasonably require and will reimburse the Agent on demand for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Agent in connection with the consultation or retention of such advisers or consultants. 18.8 DELEGATION The Finance Parties may at any time and from time to time delegate to any person any of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies pursuant to the Security Documents, other than rights relating to actions to be taken by the Majority Banks or the Banks as a group on such terms as they may consider appropriate (including the power to sub-delegate). 18.9 RIGHTS ETC. CUMULATIVE Every right, power, discretion and remedy conferred on the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right, power, discretion or remedy to which they may at any time be entitled by law or in equity. The Finance Parties may exercise each of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies as often and in such order as they deem appropriate subject to obtaining the prior written consent of the Majority Banks. The exercise or the beginning of the exercise of any right, power, discretion or remedy shall not be interpreted as a waiver of the right to exercise any other right, power, discretion or remedy either simultaneously or subsequently. 18.10 NO ENQUIRY The Finance Parties shall not be concerned to enquire into the powers of the Security Parties or of any person purporting to act on behalf of any of the Security Parties, even if any of the Security Parties or any such person shall have acted in excess of their powers or if their actions shall have been irregular, defective or informal, whether or not any Finance Parties had notice thereof. 18.11 CONTINUING SECURITY The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be continuing and shall not be satisfied by any intermediate payment or satisfaction until the Indebtedness shall have been repaid in full and none of the Finance Parties shall be under any further actual or contingent liability to any third party in relation to the Vessels, the Insurances, Earnings or Requisition Compensation or any other matter referred to in the Security Documents. 61 18.12 SECURITY CUMULATIVE The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be in addition to any other security now or in the future held by the Finance Parties or any of them for or in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and shall not merge with or prejudice or be prejudiced by any such security or any other contractual or legal rights of any of the Finance Parties, nor affected by any irregularity, defect or informality, or by any release, exchange or variation of any such security. Section 93 of the Law of Property Act 1925 and all provisions which the Agent considers analogous thereto under the law of any other relevant jurisdiction shall not apply to the security constituted by the Security Documents. 18.13 RE-INSTATEMENT If any Finance Party takes any steps to exercise any of its rights, powers, remedies or discretions pursuant to the Security Documents and the result shall be adverse to the Finance Parties, the Borrower and the Finance Parties shall be restored to their former positions as if no such steps had been taken. 18.14 NO LIABILITY None of the Finance Parties, nor any agent or employee of any Finance Party, nor any receiver and/or manager appointed by the Agent, shall be liable for any losses which may be incurred in or about the exercise of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents nor liable as mortgagee in possession for any loss on realisation or for any neglect or default of any nature for which a mortgagee in possession might otherwise be liable unless such Finance Party's action constitutes gross negligence or wilful misconduct. 18.15 RESCISSION OF PAYMENTS ETC. Any discharge, release or reassignment by any of the Finance Parties of any of the security constituted by, or any of the obligations of any Security Party contained in, any of the Security Documents shall be (and be deemed always to have been) void if any act (including, without limitation, any payment) as a result of which such discharge, release or reassignment was given or made is subsequently wholly or partially rescinded or avoided by operation of any law, unless such Finance Party's action constitutes gross negligence or wilful misconduct. 18.16 SUBSEQUENT ENCUMBRANCES If the Agent receives notice of any subsequent Encumbrance (other than any Encumbrance permitted by the terms of this Agreement) affecting any Vessel or all or any part of the Insurances, Earnings or Requisition Compensation, the Agent may open a new account in its books for the 62 Borrower. If the Agent does not open a new account, then (unless the Encumbrance is permitted by the terms of this Agreement or the Agent gives written notice to the contrary to the Borrower) as from the time of receipt by the Agent of notice of such subsequent Encumbrance, all payments made to the Agent shall be treated as having been credited to a new account of the Borrower and not as having been applied in reduction of the Indebtedness. 18.17 RELEASES If any Finance Party shall at any time in its discretion release any party from all or any part of any of the Security Documents or from any term, covenant, clause, condition or obligation contained in any of the Security Documents, the liability of any other party to the Security Documents shall not be varied or diminished. 18.18 CERTIFICATES Any certificate or statement signed by an authorised signatory of the Agent purporting to show the amount of the Indebtedness (or any part of the Indebtedness) or any other amount referred to in any of the Security Documents shall, save for manifest error or on any question of law, be conclusive evidence as against the Borrower of that amount. 18.19 SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES The representations and warranties on the part of the Borrower contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution of this Agreement and the advance of the Facility or any part thereof. 18.20 COUNTERPARTS This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument. 18.21 THIRD PARTY RIGHTS Notwithstanding the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, no term of this Agreement is enforceable by a person who is not a party to it. 19 LAW AND JURISDICTION 19.1 GOVERNING LAW This Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law. 19.2 JURISDICTION For the exclusive benefit of the Finance Parties, the parties to this Agreement irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement 63 and that any Proceedings may be brought in those courts. The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in any court referred to in this Clause, and any claim that those Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum. 19.3 ALTERNATIVE JURISDICTIONS Nothing contained in this Clause shall limit the right of the Finance Parties to commence any Proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent jurisdiction nor shall the commencement of any Proceedings against the Borrower in one or more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any Proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not. 19.4 SERVICE OF PROCESS Without prejudice to the right of the Finance Parties to use any other method of service permitted by law, the Borrower irrevocably agrees that any writ, notice, judgment or other legal process shall be sufficiently served on it if addressed to it and left at or sent by post to the Address for Service, and in that event shall be conclusively deemed to have been served at the time of leaving or, if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the third Business Day after posting by prepaid first class registered post. IN WITNESS of which the parties to this Agreement have executed this Agreement the day and year first before written. 64 SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of DNB NOR BANK ASA ) (as the Agent) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of CITIBANK N.A. ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of DNB NOR BANK ASA ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of FORTIS CAPITAL CORP ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY ) OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of HSBC BANK PLC ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) 65 SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of HSH NORDBANK AG ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of ING BANK N.V. ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of NIBC BANK N.V. ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of NORDEA BANK NORGE ASA ) GRAND CAYMAN BRANCH ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of SCOTIABANK EUROPE PLC ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) 66 SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of CALYON CORPORATE AND ) INVESTMENT BANK ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of BAYERISCHE HYPO-UND ) VEREINSBANK AG ) (as a Bank) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of DNB NOR BANK ASA ) (as an Arranger) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of CITIGROUP GLOBAL ) MARKETS LIMITED ) (as an Arranger) ) in the presence of:- ) 67 SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC, ) NEW YORK BRANCH ) (as an Arranger) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of DNB NOR BANK ASA ) (as a Book Runner) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of CITIGROUP GLOBAL ) MARKETS LIMITED ) (as a Book Runner) ) in the presence of:- ) SIGNED by ) duly authorised for and on behalf ) of NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD ) in the presence of:- ) 68 (This is the form of the amended and restated facility agreement dated 26 June 2003 as further amended and restated on the Effective Date (as defined in the deed of consent and amendment and restatement dated 5 October 2006 to which this is an appendix) DATED 26 JUNE 2003 NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD (AS BORROWER) - AND - CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED DNB NOR BANK ASA AND NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC, NEW YORK BRANCH (AS MANDATED LEAD ARRANGERS) - AND - DNB NOR BANK ASA AND OTHERS (AS BANKS) - AND - CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED AND DNB NOR BANK ASA (AS BOOK RUNNERS) - AND - DNB NOR BANK ASA (AS FACILITY AGENT AND SECURITY TRUSTEE) ---------- FURTHER AMENDED AND RESTATED US$550,000,000 SECURED REDUCING REVOLVING LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT ---------- STEPHENSON HARWOOD ONE, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD LONDON EC4M 8SH TEL: 020 7329 4422 FAX: 020 7329 7100 REF: 819/822 CONTENTS
PAGE ---- 1 Definitions and Interpretation........................................ 2 2 The Facility and its Purpose.......................................... 16 3 Conditions Precedent and Subsequent................................... 22 4 Representations and Warranties........................................ 25 5 Repayment and Prepayment.............................................. 28 6 Interest.............................................................. 29 7 Fees.................................................................. 30 8 Security Documents.................................................... 31 9 Agency and Trust...................................................... 31 10 Covenants............................................................. 40 11 Earnings.............................................................. 44 12 Events Of Default..................................................... 44 13 Set-Off and Lien...................................................... 48 14 Assignment and Sub-Participation...................................... 50 15 Payments, Mandatory Prepayment, Reserve Requirements and Illegality... 52 16 Communications........................................................ 56 17 General Indemnities................................................... 57 18 Miscellaneous......................................................... 59 19 Law and Jurisdiction.................................................. 63 SCHEDULE 1............................................................... 65 The Banks, the Commitments and the Proportionate Shares............... 65 SCHEDULE 2............................................................... 68 The Vessels........................................................... 68
SCHEDULE 3............................................................... 69 TNOL Vessels.......................................................... 69 SCHEDULE 4............................................................... 70 Form of Transfer Certificate.......................................... 70 SCHEDULE 5............................................................... 72 Form of Drawdown Notice............................................... 72 SCHEDULE 6............................................................... 73 Calculation of the Mandatory Cost..................................... 73 SCHEDULE 7............................................................... 76 The Arrangers......................................................... 76 SCHEDULE 8............................................................... 77 Schedule of Reductions................................................ 77