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Energy SpA Capital/Financing Update 2015

Jul 31, 2015

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Time: 6 August 2015 at 13:00 hours (Oslo time),
Place: The premises of Nordic Trustee ASA,
Haakon VIIs of 1, 0161 Oslo - $6th$ floor

IONA ENERGY INC.

Consensual Restructuring

Restructuring Term Sheet

This non-binding indicative restructuring term sheet (the "Term Sheet") dated 30 July 2015 sets out the terms for a proposed financial restructuring (as described more particularly herein the "Restructuring") of the capital structure and certain liabilities of Iona Energy Inc. (the "Parent") and its subsidiaries (together the "Group"), subject to contract and definitive documentation.

The terms and conditions set out in this Term Sheet are part of a comprehensive arrangement, each element of which is an integral part of the proposed Restructuring. This Term Sheet is not an offer to issue or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to acquire or purchase, securities in Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S. or any other jurisdiction. Such offer or solicitation will only be made in compliance with all applicable securities laws.

No legal obligations to proceed on any matter contemplated herein shall arise hereunder, unless and until definitive agreements are duly executed and delivered.

This Term Sheet is not exhaustive, is solely indicative of the key terms of the proposal set out herein and additional terms and conditions may be included in the definitive legal documentation prepared in connection with the Restructuring consistent with the matters contemplated by this Term Sheet.

1. Definitions Words and expressions used herein shall have the same meaning when
used in this Term Sheet as set out in the Bond Agreement unless expressly
set out herein or the context requires otherwise.
"Amended and Restated Bond Agreement" means the Bond Agreement
as amended and restated in accordance with this Term Sheet and the
Remaining Bond Term Sheet.
"Amended and Restated Deed of Subordination" means the Deed of
Subordination as amended and restated in accordance with this Term
Sheet and the Remaining Bond Term Sheet.
"Bond Debt" means any indebtedness outstanding under the Remaining
Bonds from time to time.
"Bondholders" means the holders of the Bonds from time to time.
"Bonds" means the bonds (including PIK Bonds) issued by the Company
with ISIN NO 001 068976.3 pursuant to the USD 275,000,000 bond loan
agreement originally dated 26 September 2013 as amended by (i) the
Amendment Agreement No. 1 dated 3 June 2014 and (ii) the Amendment
Agreement No. 2 dated 17 April 2015 (the "Bond Agreement").
"Bond Trustee" means Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann
ASA) in its capacity as the bond trustee for the Bondholders under the
Bond Agreement.
"BTL" means Britannic Trading Limited.
"BTL MTM Amount" has the meaning given to such term in section 4.
"Company" means Iona Energy Company (UK) plc.
"Contractor C" means the provider of a mobile drilling rig in respect of
works to be undertaken at the Orlando Field.
"Contractor C Deferred Payment Agreement" has the meaning given to
such term in section 4.
"Contractor D" means the provider of certain well consumable services to
be conducted on the Orlando Field.
"Contractor D Deferred Payment Agreement" has the meaning given to
such term in section 4.
"Debt-to-Equity Swap" means the conversion of part of the indebtedness
of the Company owed under the Bonds into shares in the Parent as further
described in section 8.
"Deed of Subordination" means the deed of subordination dated 30
September 2013 and made between the Company, the Parent and the
Huntington Subsidiary as subordinated creditors and the Bond Trustee.
"Equitized Debt" has the meaning given to such term in section 8.
"Existing Hedging Security" means the security interests which have been
created prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date in favour of BTL
of the obligations of the Issuer under hedging agreements entered into
with BTL.
"Existing Intercreditor Agreement" means the intercreditor agreement
dated 30 September, 2013 between the Bond Trustee (in its capacity as
Senior Bond Trustee), BTL, the Parent, the Company, the Huntington
Subsidiary and the Bond Trustee (in its capacity as Security Agent).
"Existing Security" means the security interests which have been created
prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date in favour of the Bond
Trustee as security for the indebtedness of the Company under the Bonds.
"Existing
Shareholders"
means
the
shareholders
in
the
Parent
immediately prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date.
"Farm-Out Partner" means a limited company incorporated in England
and Wales, the parent of which is a European energy company with an
investment grade credit rating.
"Huntington Subsidiary" means Iona UK Huntington Limited.
"Industry Funders"
means Lender A, Lender B, Contractor C
and
Contractor D who have agreed to defer payment obligations for, or make
loans to assist in payment for certain services and capital expenditures
until after First Oil.
"Industry Funding" means the funding being contributed by the Industry
Funders to the Company in the form of deferred payments and loans in
the aggregate estimated at USD 32.9 million (net to the Company's 50%
interest in the Orlando Field following the Orlando Farm-Out).
"Industry Funding Documentation" means the documentation pursuant
to which the Industry Funding is implemented.
"Intercreditor Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in section
6.
"Intra-Group Claim" has the meaning given to such term in section 8.
"Intra-Group Loan Agreement" has the meaning given to such term in
section 8.
"Lender A" means a provider of a loan in respect of the Orlando Asset.
"Lender A Loan" has the meaning given to such term in section 4.
"Lender A Loan Agreement" means the secured loan agreement to be
entered into between Lender A and the Company.
"Lender B" means a major international oil and gas company.
"Lender B Loan" has the meaning given to such term in section 4.
"Lender B
Loan Agreement" means a zero coupon secured loan
agreement to be entered into between the Company and Lender B.
"Long Stop Date" means 30 September 2015.
"New Security" has the meaning given to such term in section 6.
"New Security Documents" means the documentation implementing the
New Security.
"New Shares" means the common voting shares in the Parent issued by
the Parent to the Bondholders on the Restructuring Implementation Date
Senior Liabilities have been fully and finally discharged, whether or not as
the result of an enforcement.
"Super Senior Discharge Date" means the first date on which all Super
"Senior Debt" means the Super Senior Liabilities and the Bond Debt.
"Security Agent" means Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann
ASA) in its capacity as security trustee for the Bondholders and the
Secured Industry Funders under the Intercreditor Agreement.
"Security" means the Existing Security, the New Security and any
Additional Security.
"Secured Industry Funders" means BTL, Lender A, Lender B and the
affiliate of Lender B providing the Project Hedges.
"Ronan & Oran Farm-Out" has the meaning given to such term in section
4.
"Restructuring Implementation Date" means the date on which all of the
conditions which are set out in section 10 have been satisfied.
"Remaining Bonds" means the Bonds which remain outstanding after the
completion of the Restructuring pursuant to the terms of the Amended
and Restated Bond Agreement.
"Remaining Bond Term Sheet" has the meaning given to such term in
section 5.
"Release" has the meaning given to such term in section 8.
"Project Hedges" means the hedges to be put in place prior to the
achievement of First Oil with Lender B (or its affiliates) against the
Company's net share of the anticipated 1P production volumes from the
Orlando Asset for a period of 9 months from First Oil.
"Orlando Field" means the Orlando oil field located in the Northern North
Sea offshore UK with licence number P.1606 and block number 3/3b,
where the Company is the operator of the licence.
"Orlando Farm-Out Documentation" means the documentation pursuant
to which the Orlando Farm-Out is implemented.
"Orlando Farm-Out" has the meaning given to such term in section 3.
"Options" means the existing 19,582,000 options and 3,750,000 warrants
issued and outstanding, which were granted to certain directors and
management of the Group.
with the same rights as the common voting shares in the Parent which are
in issue prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date.
"Super Senior Liabilities" means the liabilities owing by the Company to
the Secured Industry Funders under the Project Hedges, the Lender A Loan
Agreement, the Lender B Loan Agreement and in respect of the BTL MTM
Amount.
"TSX-V" has the meaning given to such term in section 8.
"Warrants" means the 37,058,086 warrants with ISIN CA46205X1116
issued by the Parent to holders of Bonds for the acquisition of common
shares in the Parent with a term until 27 September 2018.
2. Restructuring
Overview
The Restructuring will comprise (summary of main features only):
x
The sale of an undivided 25% working interest in the Orlando Field by
the Company to the Farm-Out Partner with effective date 1 July 2015.
The transaction consideration shall be payment by the Farm-Out
Partner of the Company's share of the development costs for the
Orlando Field up to an amount of USD 25.5 million plus additional cash
paymentsto the Company after the production of hydrocarbons at the
Orlando Field.
x
The provision by the Industry Funders of deferred payments or loans
estimated at USD 32.9 million under the Industry Funding, which shall
be repayable in instalments following First Oil. Certain of the Industry
Funders will benefit from security in the assets of the Restricted Group
until repayment of their part of the Industry Funding with their
entitlement to any enforcement proceeds ranking senior to the
entitlement to any enforcement proceeds of the holders of the
Remaining Bonds.
x
On the Restructuring Implementation Date, a cash repayment of USD
24 million on the outstanding indebtedness of the Company under the
Bonds.
x
The amendment of the terms and conditions of the Bond Agreement
to provide, amongst other things, for (i) a reduction of the debt of the
Company owed under the Bonds to USD 120 million and (ii) the
indebtedness owed by the Company to the Secured Industry Funders
to rank senior to the Bond Debt.
x
The
equitisation
(Debt-to-Equity
Swap)
of
any
outstanding
indebtedness owed under the Bonds exceeding USD 120 million as of
the Restructuring Implementation Date (and for the avoidance of
doubt after the cash repayment of USD 24 million on the outstanding
indebtedness of the Company under the Bonds) in exchange for the
issue of New Shares by the Parent to the Bondholders representing
87% of the pro-forma post-Restructuring issued and outstanding
common shares in the Parent as of the Restructuring Implementation
Date .
x The Warrants will remain in place in accordance with the terms of the
Warrants, provided that as a result of the Restricted Cash Payment
and the Debt-to-Equity Swap, part of the Warrants will be exchanged
into new warrants in accordance with section 2.1 of the terms of the
Warrants. The new warrants will have a term until 11 May 2016.
3. Farm-Out The Company will agree on a farm-out which comprises a sale of a
25% working interest in the Orlando Field to the Farm-Out Partner
(the "Orlando Farm-Out") and an option in favour of the Farm-Out
Partner to acquire a 66.666% working interest in the Ronan & Oran
Asset (the "Ronan & Oran Farm-Out").
Orlando Farm-Out: The Company will sell an undivided 25% working
interest in the Orlando Field to the Farm-Out Partner. The key terms
of the Orlando Farm-Out are as follows:
x Effective date of 1 July 2015.
x The Farm-Out Partner's consideration comprises:
o Payment of the Company's share of the costs of developing
the Orlando Field up to an amount of USD 25.5 million; plus
o Cash payments following first production of hydrocarbons
from the Orlando Field under the following schedule:
Days after first production
of hydrocarbons from the
Payment (USD)
Orlando Field
30 days
1,500,000
6 months 2,312,500
12 months 2,312,500
18 months 2,312,500
24 months 1,200,000
o 30 months
increase to USD 1.6 million.
1,200,000
In the event that the Orlando Field has produced 4,380,000
bbl of oil (gross) on or prior to the date which is 24 months
after first production of hydrocarbons, the payments at 24
and 30 months after first production of hydrocarbons shall
x The completion under the Farm-Out Documentation is subject to
the satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, which must be
satisfied by not later than 27 February 2016.
x
The Farm-Out Partner shall benefit from (and take on the
corresponding liability in favour of the Company of) its pro rata
share of the Industry Funding (excluding the Lender B Loan).
x
The obligations of the Farm-Out Partner to the Company under
the Farm-Out will be secured by a guarantee of the holding
company of the Farm-Out Partner.
x
The Company will assign its rights under the Orlando Farm-Out
Documentation to the Security Agent as security for the Secured
Industry Funders and the Bondholders.
x
The operatorship of the Orlando Field will not change as a result
of the Orlando Farm-Out.
Ronan & Oran Farm-Out: The Farm-Out Partner will pay for 100% of
the costs up to an amount of GBP 350,000 of one or more studies in
respect of a proposed appraisal well on the Ronan & Oran Asset to
earn an option to acquire a 66.666% working interest in the P1971
(Ronan & Oran) licence on the following basis:
x
In case that the Farm-Out Partner exercises its option, the
consideration of the Farm-Out Partner will comprise:
o
Payment of 100% of the costs of an appraisal well (including
sidetrack and test programme if so agreed between Iona and
the Farm-Out Partner) on such location as may be
determined by the Company and the Farm-Out Partner in
respect of the Ronan & Oran Asset.
x
The Farm-Out Partner shall earn a 66.666% working interest upon
completion of the appraisal well and assume operatorship of the
Ronan & Oran Asset subject to any governmental approvals being
obtained.
4. Industry Funding The Industry Funding comprises the following arrangements between
the Group and the Industry Funders:
x
Lender A: Lender A will lend an amount of up to GBP 9.2 million
to the Company (net of amounts passed through to the Farm-Out
Partner under the Orlando Farm-Out Agreement) under the
Lender A Loan Agreement (the "Lender A Loan").
The Lender A Loan will be secured by the New Security and
o
the indebtedness thereunder will rank senior to the Bond
Debt.
o
The Lender A Loan will be repayable within 6 months from
the achievement of First Oil.
x Lender B: Lender B will make available to the Company a zero
coupon loan in an amount of USD 12 million under the Lender B
Loan Agreement (the "Lender B Loan").
o
The amount available for drawdown under the Lender B Loan
shall be USD 12 million less the mark-to-market calculation
(calculated within seven days from the Restructuring
Implementation Date) resulting from the unwinding of all
existing derivative positions with BTL
(the crystallised
amount outstanding after such unwinding, the "BTL MTM
Amount").
o
The Lender B Loan and the BTL MTM Amount will be secured
by the New Security on a first-ranking basis
and the
indebtedness thereunder will rank senior to the Bond Debt.
o
The Lender B Loan and the BTL MTM Amount will be
repayable in equal instalments within 9
months from
achievement of First Oil.
o
The Lender B Loan can only be drawn down between April
2016 and December 2016 if by the end of such period First
Oil is projected to be no more than 6 months ahead.
o
The Company will agree on a cap of USD 100/barrel for 100%
of its net share (50% post the Orlando Farm-Out) of the
Orlando 2P production profile pursuant to the 2014 GCA
report until 31 December 2028 (which can be further
extended to 31 December 2030 at Lender B's option) during
the term of the agreement (the "Price Cap"). The Company
shall have the option to restrict the application of the Price
Cap to its net share of the Orlando 1P production profile
pursuant to the 2014 GCA report on payment by the
Company to Lender B of USD 5 million.
o
The Project Hedges will be entered into and the liabilities to
Lender B (or its affiliates) thereunder will rank senior to the
Bond Debt
and pari passu
to the other
Super Senior
Liabilities.
x Contractor C: Contractor C will enter into an agreement to defer
40% of the payments owed by the Company (in its capacity as
operator of the Orlando Field) with respect to the services
rendered by Contractor C, equalling an amount estimated at USD
3.2 million (the "Contractor C Deferred Payment Agreement").
o
The deferred payments will be unsecured and will be repaid
in priority to repayments under the Bond Debt.
o
The deferred payments (as adjusted for costs and expenses
properly incurred) will be paid over a period of 90 days from
achievement of First Oil.
x
Contractor D: Contractor D will enter into an agreement to defer
50% of the payments owed by the Company (in its capacity as
operator of the Orlando Field) with respect to the services
rendered by Contractor D, equalling an amount estimated at GBP
2.3 million (the "Contractor D Deferred Payment Agreement").
o
The deferred payments will be paid in 9 equal monthly
instalments from achievement of First Oil.
The deferred payments will be unsecured and will be repaid
o
in priority to repayments under the Bonds.
5. Main
terms
and
conditions
of
the
Remaining Bonds
On and with effect from the Restructuring Implementation Date, the Bond
Agreement will be amended to reflect the terms and conditions which are
set forth in the term sheet for the Remaining Bonds attached hereto as
Schedule A (Term Sheet for the Remaining Bonds) (the "Remaining Bond
Term Sheet"). In particular, the Remaining Bonds will have the following
terms:
x
Issuer: The Company.
x
Principal Nominal Amount: USD 120 million.
x
Ranking: The Remaining Bonds will continue to constitute senior
secured obligations of the Company, subject only to the super
senior claims of the Secured Industry Funders pursuant to the
provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
x
Security: The Remaining Bonds shall be secured by the Security.
The Secured Industry Funders shall, however, be repaid out of the
proceeds from the enforcement of the Security in priority to the
holders of the Remaining Bonds as described further in section 6.
Maturity: 27 September 2018.
x
6. Security and
Intercreditor
Agreement

From the Restructuring Implementation Date, the Senior Debt will be
secured by a new security package (to the extent permitted according
to applicable law) over the assets of the Restricted Group consisting
of the security interests which are set forth in Schedule A (Term Sheet
for the Remaining Bonds) (the "New Security"). The Security Agent
will hold the New Security for the Secured Industry Funders and the
Bondholders in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement. The New Security will, in accordance with the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement
contractually be senior to the Existing
Security and the Existing Hedging Security but subject to
any
obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law. The Existing
Security securing the Bond Debt and the Existing Hedging Security

securing amounts outstanding under the derivative positions in favour
of BTL will remain in place following the Restructuring Implementation
Date, provided that prior to the Super Senior Discharge Date any
proceeds from the enforcement of the Existing Security and the
Existing Hedging Security will be turned over to the Security Agent for
application in accordance with the principles set forth in Schedule B
(Term Sheet for the Intercreditor Agreement).
There shall neither be any security nor any guarantee granted by any
member of the Group which shall exclusively secure the Super Senior
Liabilities.
From
the
Restructuring
Implementation
Date,
the
Existing
Intercreditor Agreement will be terminated and the members of the
Group, the Security Agent, the Bond Trustee (on behalf of the
Bondholders) and the Secured Industry Funders will enter into an
intercreditor agreement governed by English law, which will be based
on the terms and conditions which are set forth in Schedule B (Term
Sheet
for
the
Intercreditor
Agreement)
(the
"Intercreditor
Agreement").
7. Partial repayment
of Bonds

On the Restructuring Implementation Date, an amount of USD 24
million of the outstanding indebtedness of the Company under the
Bond Agreement will be repaid by the Company to the Bondholders
through a part redemption and cancellation of the Bonds (the
"Restricted Cash Payment").
The repayment shall be carried out pro rata between the Bondholders
in accordance with the procedures of the Securities Depository.
8. Debt-to-Equity Swap
of part of the Bonds
On the Restructuring Implementation Date, all interest accrued on the
Bonds between the last Interest Payment Date and the Restructuring
Implementation Date (inclusive) will be capitalized, and following such
capitalization all outstanding indebtedness under the Bonds in excess
of an aggregate principal amount of USD 120 million (the "Equitized
Debt") will be transferred to the Parent in exchange for the issue by
the Parent of 2,480,041,194
New Shares to the Bondholders,
representing 87% of the issued and outstanding common shares in the
Parent as of the Restructuring Implementation Date.
Immediately following the Restructuring Implementation Date, the
Existing Shareholders will hold 370,580,868 common shares in the
Parent, representing 13% of the pro-forma post-Restructuring issued
and outstanding common shares in the Parent as of the Restructuring
Implementation Date.
Bondholders and Existing Shareholders will be affected pro rata to
their shareholding in the Parent by any dilution of their shareholdings
resulting from the exercise of the Options or the Warrants after the
Restructuring Implementation Date.

The New Shares will initially be issued to the Paying Agent (DNB Bank
ASA or its custodian). Once the New Shares have been delivered to
the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent can register the New Shares in the
VPS under a separate temporary ISIN and marked with a legend
explaining the Canadian transfer restrictions such that for a period of
four months and one day from the Restructuring Implementation
Date (the "Restricted Period"), the New Shares can only be traded to
accredited investors.

The Paying Agent may not allow a transfer of the shares from the VPS
to the Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (the "CDS") during
the Restricted Period.

After the lapse of the Restricted Period, the New Shares will be re
registered in the VPS under the same ISIN as the existing freely
trading common shares of the Parent, after which time holders of the
New Shares may transfer them into CDS pursuant to the Paying
Agent's standard procedures and trade them on the TSX-V.

The number of Bonds to be transferred by each Bondholder to the
Parent in exchange for New Shares will be calculated as the product
of (x) the total number of the Bonds transferred and (y) a fraction the
numerator of which is the aggregate amount of Bonds held by that
Bondholder and the denominator of which is the total number of
Bonds,
in
each
case
outstanding
as
of
the
Restructuring
Implementation Date, subject to rounding to the nearest full number.

The number of New Shares allocated to each Bondholder will be
calculated as the product of (x) the aggregate number of the New
Shares issued and (y) a fraction the numerator of which is the
aggregate amount of Equitized Debt held by that Bondholder and the
denominator of which is the amount of the Equitized Debt, in each
case as of the Restructuring Implementation Date, subject to rounding
to the nearest full number.

The transfer of the Equitized Debt to the Parent will result in an intra
group claim of the Parent against the Company in an amount equal to
the Equitized Debt (the "Intra-Group Claim"). With effect from the
Restructuring Implementation Date the Intra-Group Claim and the
Bonds that are transferred to the Parent in exchange for New Shares
will be cancelled in exchange for the issue to the Parent of shares in
the Company. The shares issued by the Company will be subject to a
first priority Scottish law pledge in favour of the Security Agent.

The issue of the New Shares will not constitute a Change of Control
Event within the meaning of the Bond Agreement and, accordingly,
shall not trigger the Put Option pursuant to the Bond Agreement.
9. Warrants The Warrants will remain in place in accordance with the terms of the
Warrants, provided that as a result of the Restricted Cash Payment and
the Debt-to-Equity Swap approx. 59% of the Warrants will be exchanged
into new warrants in accordance with section 2.1 of the terms of the
Warrants. The exact number of Warrants that will be exchanged into new
warrants will depend on when the Restructuring Implementation Date
occurs. The new warrants shall have identical terms to the Warrants,
except that the term of the new warrants will be shortened to 11 May
2016. The exchange of Warrants into new warrants shall be carried out in
accordance with the procedures of the Securities Depository and shall be
issued to each holder of Warrants pro rata to its holding of Warrants prior
to the Restructuring Implementation Date.
10. Conditions
precedent to the
The implementation of the Restructuring will be conditional upon the
satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (amongst other things):
Restructuring of the
Bonds
Approval of the Restructuring by the board of directors of the
Company, the Parent and the Huntington Subsidiary;
Approval of the Restructuring by a duly convened Bondholders'
Meeting in accordance with the terms of the Bond Agreement;
Agreement of final terms and definitive legal documentation
evidencing the transactions contemplated by the Restructuring,
including, without limitation, the Amended and Restated Bond
Agreement,
the
New
Security
Documents,
the
Intercreditor
Agreement, the Amended and Restated Deed of Subordination and
the documentation implementing the Debt-to-Equity Swap;
Receipt by the Bond Trustee of a copy of each of the following
documents in form and substance satisfactory to the Bond Trustee
duly executed by each of the parties to the respective document with
requisite board approval:
x
the Orlando Farm-Out Documentation;
x
the guarantee of the parent of the Farm-Out Partner in connection
with the Orlando Farm-Out;
x
the Industry Funding Documentation;
x
the Intercreditor Agreement;
x
the Amended and Restated Deed of Subordination; and
x
the New Security Documents.
Satisfaction of any conditions precedent for (i) signing or effectiveness
of the Industry Funding Documentation, (ii) utilization of the Lender A
Loan and (iii) the definitive legal documentation evidencing the
transactions contemplated by the Restructuring.
Receipt of conditional listing approval by the TSX-V (which approval
has not been revoked by the TSX-V or challenged by any other person)



of the Debt-to-Equity Swap, subject to the satisfaction of customary
conditions that are acceptable to the Bond Trustee, but which
conditions may not include any requirement for shareholder approval
of the Debt-to-Equity Swap.
If an approval of the shareholders of the Parent is required for the
Debt-to-Equity Swap, the requisite shareholders' approval has been
obtained at a duly convened shareholders' meeting of the Parent by
no later than 15 September 2015 and such approval has not been
revoked or challenged prior to the Restructuring Implementation
Date.
Any fees payable in connection with the approval of the Debt-to
Equity Swap by the TSX-V have been paid by the Parent.
Receipt by the Bond Trustee and the Bondholder Advisers of a tax
structure memorandum in form and substance satisfactory to the
Bond Trustee with respect to the Restructuring.
No member of the Group has entered into any bankruptcy,
liquidation, administration, receivership or any other insolvency
procedure (or any analogous proceeding in any other jurisdiction),
whether voluntary or involuntary;
No enforcement or acceleration or debt recovery action has been
taken by or on behalf of any of the other creditors and/or suppliers of
the Company or any member of the Group under or in connection with
any other indebtedness or due amounts of the Company or any
member of the Group;
It has not become impractical or impossible to implement the
Restructuring in a manner that will leave the Group commercially and
financially viable on a medium term basis;
All invoices issued to the Company by the Bond Trustee, its legal
advisers or their other advisers, for fees and expenses have been paid;
and
The conditions precedent set forth in this section 10 have, except as
otherwise set forth herein, been satisfied by the Long Stop Date.
11. Costs The costs and expenses of the Bond Trustee and its advisers in preparing
and agreeing this Term Sheet and the implementation of the Restructuring
will be paid by the Company, including all outstanding costs incurred and
not paid.
12. Reservation of
Rights
Until the Restructuring Implementation Date, the provisions of the Bond
Agreement will continue in full force and effect and nothing in this Term
Sheet will effect a modification or waiver of any rights under the Bond
Agreement or any other documents and agreements ancillary thereto, or
to any of the Bondholders' rights as secured creditors of the Group.
The rights of each of the Bondholders and the Bond Trustee are fully
reserved in the event that the Restructuring is not fully implemented as
contemplated by this Term Sheet, and until such time each of their rights
is fully reserved, and this Term Sheet shall not limit or prejudice any of
their rights.
13. Announcements No public announcement shall be made regarding the existence and terms
of this Term Sheet, without the agreement of the Bondholders (acting
reasonably), save as may be required by law or regulation or the rules of
any applicable stock exchange.
14. Governing Law This Term Sheet and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in
connection with it shall be governed by English law. The London courts
shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction of with respect to any disputes arising
out of or in connection with this Term Sheet.

Schedules: Schedule A –Term Sheet for the Remaining Bonds Schedule B – Term Sheet for the Intercreditor Agreement

Schedule A to Restructuring Term Sheet

Term Sheet Amended and Restated Bond Agreement

ISIN NO 001 068976.3

Iona Energy Company (UK) plc Secured Bond Issue due 2018

(the "Bonds" or the "Bond Issue")

Issuer: Iona Energy Company (UK) plc (incorporated in Scotland, company registration number
SC335305).
Parent: Iona Energy Inc. (incorporated in the Province of Alberta, Canada, corporate access number
AB-2016086205).
Huntington Subsidiary: Iona UK Huntington Limited (incorporated in England and Wales, company registration
number 7385624)
Group: Means the Parent and all its (directly or indirectly owned) Subsidiaries from time to time,
and a "Group Company" means the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
Guarantors: Means the Parent and the Huntington Subsidiary (each a "Guarantor").
Restricted Group: Means the Issuer and all its (directly and indirectly owned) Subsidiaries from time to time,
and a "Restricted Group Company" means the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries.
Currency: USD
Amount: USD 120,000,000
Coupon Rate: (i) From and including the Restructuring Implementation Date and to (but not including)
the first Interest Payment Date following the Industry Funders Discharge Date, PIK interest
at a rate of 10% p.a. will accrue and capitalize quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment
Date (the "PIK Interest"); PIK Interest shall be payable by issuing additional Bonds on each
Interest Payment Date, which shall have the same rights as the original Bonds issued under
the Bond Agreement and shall increase the principal amount of the outstanding Bonds
("Additional PIK Bonds"); and
(ii) thereafter, 9.50% p.a., quarterly cash interest.
Restructuring
Implementation Date
The Restructuring Implementation Date as defined in the Restructuring Term Sheet.
Maturity Date: 27 September 2018.
Last Interest Payment
Date:
Maturity Date.
Interest Payments: Interest on the Bonds will start to accrue on the Restructuring Implementation Date and
shall be payable quarterly in arrears on 27 March, 27 June, 27 September and 27 December
each year (each an "Interest Payment Date"). Day-count fraction for coupon is "30/360",
business day convention is "unadjusted" and Business Day is "Oslo" and "New York".
Restricted Cash: Following the Restructuring Implementation Date, any amount standing to the credit of
the Escrow Account (after payment of the Restricted Cash Payment) may, on request from
the Issuer be withdrawn from the Escrow Account and used exclusively for capital
expenditures relating to the Orlando Field and/or the Huntington Asset and/or any
decommissioning provision required for the Huntington Asset and/or the Trent & Tyne
Asset, provided that (i) prior to First Oil the Issuer's right to withdraw shall only apply as
long as no Event of Default is outstanding and continuing and (ii) after First Oil the Issuer's
right shall only apply as long as no enforcement action has been taken by the Security
Agent.
The Issuer may at any time, by notice in writing to the Security Agent, require the Security
Agent to convert an amount standing to the credit of the Escrow Account, not to exceed
USD 31 million, into GBP. Such amount will be held in a GBP denominated Escrow Account
(which will be subject to the Security on the same terms as the Existing Escrow Account)
and be available to the Issuer on the same terms as the USD Escrow Account.
Repayment: No repayments of principal under the Bonds will be made prior to the first Interest
Payment Date following the Industry Funders Discharge Date. On each Interest Payment
Date following the Industry Funders Discharge Date the Issuer will make repayments of
principal under the Bonds. The amount of any repayments will fluctuate and depend on
the amount of cash standing to the credit of the Debt Service Retention Account on the
date which is 3 Business Days prior to the respective Interest Payment Date. Any
repayments of principal will be carried out pro rata in accordance with the procedures of
the Security Depository.
Cash Sweep and Debt
Service Retention
Account:
The Issuer will maintain an interest bearing Debt Service Retention Account with the Paying
Agent (the "Debt Service Retention Account"). The Debt Service Retention Account will be
blocked and charged in favour of the Security Agent pursuant to the DSR Account Pledge.
The DSR Account Pledge will provide that any amounts deposited in the Debt Service
Retention Account will only be released and applied for payments of due cash interest and
repayments of principal under the Bonds on the Interest Payment Dates and the Maturity
Date.
The Issuer will make the following transfers to the Debt Service Retention Account and the
Issuer Earnings Account:
a.
On the Industry Funders Discharge Date, the following transfers shall be made:
(i)
an amount equal to the aggregate of (i) 50% of the amount by which the
Liquidity Reserve exceeds USD 5 million immediately following the Industry
Funders Discharge Date and (ii) 50% of the amount which is standing to the
credit of the Escrow Account immediately following the Industry Funders
Discharge Date, shall be transferred to the Debt Service Retention Account for
repayment of principal on the first Interest Payment Date following the Industry
Funders Discharge Date; and
(ii)
an amount equal to 50% of the amount which is standing to the credit of the
Escrow Account immediately following the Industry Funders Discharge Date
shall be transferred to the Issuer Earnings Account.
b.
On each 20 March, 20 June, 20 September and 20 December falling between the
Industry Funders Discharge Date and the first Interest Payment Date after the
Industry Funders Discharge Date, 50% of the amount by which the Liquidity Reserve
exceeds USD 5 million as of such date shall be transferred to the Debt Service
Retention Account for repayment of principal on the first Interest Payment Date
following the Industry Funders Discharge Date.
c.
Following the first Interest Payment Date after the Industry Funders Discharge Date,
the following transfers shall be made:
(i)
on the 20 day of each month, an amount which is equal to 1/3 of the
aggregate cash interest which is due on the next Interest Payment Date shall
be transferred to the Debt Service Retention Account (the "Interest Service
Transfer") for payment of cash interest on the next Interest Payment Date;
and
(ii)
on each 20 March, 20 June, 20 September and 20 December, an amount
equal to 50% of the amount by which the Liquidity Reserve (after the
Interest Service Transfer made on such date) exceeds USD 5 million as of
such date shall be transferred to the Debt Service Retention Account for
repayment of principal on the next Interest Payment Date.
Super Senior
Discharge Date:
The date on which all Super Senior Liabilities have been repaid in full and which is expected
to be on or before the date falling 9 months after First Oil.
Industry Funders
Discharge Date:
The date on which all amounts outstanding to the Industry Funders (other than in respect
of the Project Hedges) have been irrevocably repaid and discharged in full.
Nominal Value: The Bonds will have a nominal value of USD 1 each.
Call Options
(American):
The Issuer may redeem the Bonds (in whole or in part) at any time from the Restructuring
Implementation Date to but excluding the Maturity Date at a price equal to 100% of par
value (plus accrued but unpaid interest on the redeemed Bonds).
Status of the Bonds: The Bonds will constitute senior secured obligations of the Issuer, subject only to the Super
Senior Liabilities, which shall rank senior in priority to the Bonds, pursuant to the provisions
of the Intercreditor Agreement and, to claims which are preferred by bankruptcy,
insolvency, liquidation or other similar laws of general application.
Intercreditor
Agreement:
The existing intercreditor agreement will be terminated and the members of the Group,
the Security Agent, the Bond Trustee (on behalf of the Bondholders) and the Secured
Industry Funders will enter into an Intercreditor Agreement governed by English law (the
"Intercreditor Agreement").
The Intercreditor Agreement will be based on the terms and conditions which are set forth
in Schedule B (Term Sheet for the Intercreditor Agreement) to the Restructuring Term
Sheet.
Industry Funders: Means Lender A, Lender B, Contractor C and Contractor D, who have agreed to provide the
Industry Funding.
Cash Waterfall (post
First Oil at Orlando):
The Intercreditor Agreement will, inter alia, include provisions regarding cash waterfall
post First Oil in accordance with the terms which are set out in Schedule B (Term Sheet for
the Intercreditor Agreement) to the Restructuring Term Sheet.
Industry Funding: Means the funding being contributed by the Industry Funders to the Issuer in the form of
deferred payments and loans in the aggregate amount estimated at USD 32.9 million (net
to the Company's 50% interest in the Orlando Field following the Orlando Farm-Out) to
assist with the payment of the Issuer's obligations with respect to certain services and
capital expenditures in relation to the Orlando Asset.
In particular, the Industry Funding shall comprise the following:
x
Lender A will provide an amount of up to GBP 9.2 million for the development of
the Orlando Field by way of a loan by Lender A to the Issuer ("Lender A Loan").
x
Lender B will make available to the Issuer a zero coupon loan ("Lender B Loan")
in an amount of USD 12 million, whereby the amount available for drawdown
thereunder shall be USD 12 million less the mark-to-market calculation resulting
from the unwinding of all existing derivative positions with BTL (the crystallised
amount following such unwinding the "BTL MTM Amount") to be calculated
within 7 days of the Restructuring Implementation Date.
x
Contractor C will defer 40% of the payments owed by the Issuer (in its capacity as
operator of the Orlando Field) with respect to the drilling services rendered by
Contractor C in development of the Orlando Field, equalling an amount estimated
at USD 3.2 million.
x
Contractor D will defer 50% owed by the Issuer (in its capacity as operator of the
Orlando Field) with respect to the field services rendered by Contractor D in
development of the Orlando Field equalling an amount estimated at £2.3 million.
In addition, the Issuer will enter into hedging agreements with Lender B (or its affiliates)
to hedge the Issuer's net share of the anticipated 1P production volumes from the Orlando
Field for a period of 9 months from First Oil ("Project Hedges").
The terms and conditions of the Industry Funding are described in more detail in the
Restructuring Term Sheet.
Secured Industry
Funders:
Means Lender A, Lender B, any affiliate of Lender B in respect of the Project Hedges and
BTL.
Secured Industry
Funding:
Means the Lender A Loan, the Lender B Loan, the BTL MTM Amount and the Project
Hedges.
Farm-Out Agreement: Means the agreement for acquisition by the Farm-Out Partner of a 25% working interest
in the Orlando Field (the "Orlando Farm-Out") and an option to acquire from the Issuer a
66.666% working interest in the Ronan & Oran Asset (the "Ronan & Oran Farm-Out").
"Farm-Out Partner" means a limited company incorporated in England and Wales, the
parent of which is a European energy company with an investment grade credit rating.
Huntington Asset: Means:
i)
the Huntington Subsidiary's 15% working interest in the Huntington oil field located
in the Central North Sea offshore UK and licence number P.1114 and block number
22/14b; and
ii)
the Huntington Subsidiary's entitlement to an additional 2.55% of revenues from
the Huntington oil field through the Huntington Subsidiary's disproportionate lifting
entitlement agreement with E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P (0.75%) and royalty agreement
with Premier Oil plc (1.2%) and Norwegian Energy Company ASA (0.6%), or with
such other company that will become subject to such agreements as a result of a
change in the ownership structure of the licence.
Huntington Deep: Means the Issuer's 100% working interest in licence number P.1801 and block number
22/14d.
Trent & Tyne Asset: Means the Issuer's 20% working interest in the Trent & Tyne gas field located in the
Southern Gas Basin offshore UK and licence number P.609 and P.685 and block number
44/18a Area A, 44/18a Area B and 43/24a, respectively.
Orlando Asset: Means the Issuer's 50% working interest in the Orlando Field following completion of the
Orlando Farm-Out.
Orlando Field: Means the Orlando oil field located in the Northern North Sea offshore UK with licence
number P.1606 and block number 3/3b, where the Issuer is the operator of the licence.
Kells Asset: Means the Issuer's 75% working interest in the Kells oil field located in the Northern North
Sea offshore UK and licence number P.1607 and block number 3/8d, where the Issuer is
the operator of the licence.
Ronan & Oran Asset: Means the Issuer's 100% working interest in the Ronan & Oran fields located in the
Northern North Sea offshore UK and licence number P. 1971 and block number 3/7c (part),
3/8c and 3/12 (part) and, following the completion the Ronan & Oran Farm-Out, the
Issuer's 33.333% working interest in such fields.
Licences: Means each of the Huntington Asset, the Huntington Deep Asset, the Trent & Tyne Asset,
the Orlando Asset, the Kells Asset and the Ronan & Oran Asset, and any future hydrocarbon
licences owned by the Restricted Group at any time (each a "Licence").
Exploration Licence: Means any Licence relating to prospective, non-discovered hydrocarbon resources.
Appraisal Licence: Means any Licence relating to discovered hydrocarbon resources containing contingent
resources and where the field development plan has not yet been submitted, being the
Huntington Deep Asset and the Ronan & Oran Asset at the date of this Term Sheet.
Development Licence: Means any Licence where the field development plan has been submitted to the relevant
authorities for approval, being the Kells Asset and the Orlando Asset at the date of this
Term Sheet.
Production Licence: Means any Licence where commercial production of hydrocarbons has commenced, being
the Huntington Asset and the Trent & Tyne Asset at the date of this Term Sheet.
Project: Means (i) the development and operation of the Licences as well as the related fields, and
any drilling, export and reception facilities associated therewith, including but not limited
to the infrastructure required for gaining access to the hydrocarbon reserves, shipment of
hydrocarbons and any onshore processing, and (ii) the ownership and operation of other
hydrocarbon production and transport facilities and infrastructure owned by the Restricted
Group.
Project Proceeds: Means any income, payments, earnings or receivables of any kind (including insurance
proceeds in respect of physical losses) directly or indirectly deriving from:
i)
any Restricted Group Company's ownership in any of the Licences;
ii)
any contract of sale of the relevant Restricted Group Company's share of
hydrocarbons produced from all fields covered by the Licences;
iii)
the sale of any ownership interest in any of the Licences; and
iv)
any Restricted Group Company's ownership in other hydrocarbon production
and transport facilities and infrastructure not directly related to the Licences.
Liquidity and Cash
Management:
The Intercreditor Agreement will, inter alia, include provisions regarding liquidity and cash
management in accordance with the terms which are set out in Schedule B (Term Sheet for
the Intercreditor Agreement) to the Restructuring Term Sheet.
After the Industry Funders Discharge Date, all Project Proceeds shall be paid into the
Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account and the Issuer Earnings Account.
Security: The following new security interests (the "New Security") will be created to secure the
Super Senior Liabilities and all amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents to the
Bond Trustee and the Bondholders, including but not limited to principal, interest and
expenses, as a single security package (to the extent permitted according to applicable law)
(each document a "Security Document"). The Security Agent will hold the New Security for
the Secured Industry Funders and the Bondholders in accordance with the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement.
The New Security, the Existing Security, the Existing Hedging Security and the Additional
Security (as defined and described below) will be the only security securing the Bonds and
the Super Senior Liabilities; there shall neither be any security nor any guarantee granted
by any member of the Group which shall exclusively secure the Super Senior Liabilities.
The New Security will, in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement
contractually be senior to the Existing Security and the Existing Hedging Security, but
subject to any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law. The Existing Security
securing the Bond Debt and the Existing Hedging Security securing amounts outstanding
under the derivate positions in favour of BTL will remain in place following the
Restructuring Implementation Date, provided that, in each case, prior to the Super Senior
Discharge Date any proceeds from the enforcement of Existing Security and the Existing
Hedging Security will be turned over to the Security Agent for application in accordance
with the principles set forth in Schedule B (Intercreditor Principles) to the Restructuring
Term Sheet.
With respect to the New Security (and any Additional Security), the Issuer will procure the
provision of customary authority and enforceability legal opinions addressed and
satisfactory to the Bond Trustee.
From the Parent:
i)
an unconditional and irrevocable English law guarantee issued by the Parent (the
"Parent Guarantee");
ii)
a first priority Scottish law pledge granted by the Parent over all (100%) of the
shares in the Issuer (the "Issuer Share Pledge"), together, inter alia, with executed
stock transfer forms and the existing share certificates; and
iii)
a first priority English law assignment by way of security from the Parent of all its
rights to and title and interest, whether present or future, under any intra-group
loans made by the Parent as lender to the Issuer as borrower (the "Assignment of
Intragroup Loans from Parent to Issuer");
From the Issuer:
iv)
a first priority English law debenture (the "Issuer Debenture") granted by the
Issuer comprising:
a.
a first priority assignment of all of the rights to and title and interest,
whether present or future, of the Issuer in, to or arising under or in
relation to the Assigned Agreements (other than the Licences) (as
defined above) relating to the Licences (the "Issuer Assignment of
Assigned Agreements");
b. a first priority fixed charge over the Licences and to the extent that such
rights cannot be effectively assigned pursuant to the Issuer Assignment
of Assigned Agreements (including the Licences), a first priority fixed
charge over the Assigned Agreements, and all of the rights to and title
and interest whether present or future, of the Issuer in, to or arising
under or in relation to the Assigned Agreements (the "Issuer Assigned
Agreements Charge");
c.
a first priority fixed charge over all of the Issuer's goodwill and uncalled
capital (if applicable) (the "Issuer Goodwill Charge");
d. a first priority floating charge over all of the Issuer's property, assets,
rights and revenues, present and future, to the extent that such
property, assets, rights and revenues are not effectively charged by way
of fixed security or assignment, but excluding any existing hydrocarbon
licences owned by the Issuer not being a Licence and any agreement
relating thereto (the "Issuer Floating Charge");
e.
a first priority fixed charge over the Issuer's Earnings Account and the
amount from time to time standing to the credit of the Issuer in such
Account (the "Issuer Earnings Account Charge");
v)
a first priority English law assignment by way of security from the Issuer of all of
its rights to and title and interest, whether present or future, under any intra
group loans made by the Issuer as lender to the Huntington Subsidiary as borrower
(the "Assignment of Intragroup Loans from Issuer to Huntington Subsidiary");
vi)
a first priority English law fixed charge granted by the Issuer over all (100%) of the
shares in the Huntington Subsidiary (the "Huntington Share Charge"), together,
inter alia, with executed stock transfer forms (blank as to the transferee) and the
existing share certificates;
vii)
a first priority Norwegian law pledge over the Issuer's claim against the Paying
Agent for the amount from time to time standing to the credit of the Issuer in the
Escrow Account (as defined below) (the "Escrow Account Pledge");
viii)
a first priority Norwegian law pledge over the Issuer's claim against the Paying
Agent for the amount from time to time standing to the credit of the Issuer in the
Debt Service Retention Account (as defined below) (the "DSR Account Pledge");
ix) a first priority Scottish law floating charge over all of the Issuer's property,
assets, rights and revenues, present and future, but excluding any existing
hydrocarbon licences owned by the Issuer not being a Licence and any
agreement relating thereto (the "Issuer Scottish Law Floating Charge");
x) a first priority English law assignment by way of security from the Issuer of all of
its rights to and title and interest, whether present or future, under the Farm-Out
Agreement and the guarantee issued by the parent of the Farm-Out Partner
pursuant to the Orlando Farm-Out Documentation (the "Assignment of Farm
Out");
From the Huntington Subsidiary:
xi) an unconditional and irrevocable English law guarantee issued by the Huntington
Subsidiary (the "Huntington Subsidiary Guarantee");
xii) a first priority English law debenture (the "Huntington Subsidiary Debenture")
granted by the Huntington Subsidiary comprising:
a.
a first priority assignment of all rights to and title and interest, whether
present or future, of the Huntington Subsidiary in, to or arising under
or in relation to the Assigned Agreements (other than the Licences)
relating to the Licences (the "Huntington Subsidiary Assignment of
Assigned Agreements");
b.
a first priority fixed charge over the Licences and to the extent that
such rights cannot be effectively assigned pursuant to the Huntington
Subsidiary Assignment of Assigned Agreements (including the
Licences), a first priority English law fixed charge over the Assigned
Agreements, and all of the rights to and title and interest whether
present or future, of the Huntington Subsidiary in, to or arising under
or in relation to the Assigned Agreements (the "Huntington Assigned
Agreements Charge");
c.
a first priority fixed charge over all of the Huntington Subsidiary's
goodwill and uncalled capital (if applicable) (the "Huntington
Subsidiary Goodwill Charge");
d.
a first priority floating charge over all of the Huntington Subsidiary's
property, assets, rights and revenues, present and future, to the
extent that such property, assets, rights and revenues are not
effectively charged by way of fixed security or assignment (the
"Huntington Subsidiary Floating Charge");
e.
a first priority fixed charge over the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings
Account (as defined in the Bond Agreement) and the amount from
time to time standing to the credit of the Huntington Subsidiary in the
Huntington
Subsidiary
Earnings
Account(s)
(the
"Huntington
Subsidiary Earnings Account Charge");
xiii) a first priority English law assignment by way of security from the Huntington
Subsidiary of all of its rights to and title and interest, whether present or future,
under any intra-group loans made by the Huntington Subsidiary as lender to
the Issuer as borrower (the "Assignment of Intragroup Loans from Huntington
Subsidiary to Issuer");
xiv)
a first priority Scottish law floating charge over all of the Huntington Subsidiary's
property, assets, rights and revenues, present and future(the "Huntington
Subsidiary Scottish Law Floating Charge"); and
From each other relevant Restricted Group Companies:
xv)
a pledge or an assignment (or such similar security under the relevant
jurisdiction) granted over any of its account(s) and the amount from time to time
standing to the credit of such Restricted Group Company in such account(s).
The Issuer and any other party providing Security pursuant to this Term Sheet (as the
case may be) shall be obligated to execute and procure the execution of such further
security and related documentation as the Security Agent may require in order for the
bondholders to at all times maintain the security position envisaged by this Term Sheet.
Due perfection of the Issuer Share Pledge may, pursuant to applicable Scottish law, require
the Security Agent to be registered as shareholder in the register of members of the Issuer.
In the event of enforcement of the Issuer Share Pledge, the Security Agent's position as
shareholder may entail the risk of certain direct liabilities, such as decommissioning
liabilities, on the part of the Security Agent. If there is a risk of any such liability accruing in
relation to an enforcement of the Issuer Share Pledge to the benefit of the Bondholders,
the Security Agent may require satisfactory security and indemnities from the Bondholders
for any such possible liability prior to enforcement of the Issuer Share Pledge.
If any Security is provided to Lender A and/ or Lender B by or over any asset of the Issuer,
the Parent, the Huntington Subsidiary or any other Restricted Group Company, then the
relevant company must ensure that such security shall also secure amounts outstanding
under the Finance Documents to the Bond Trustee and the Bondholders.
Additional Security: The following additional security interests (the "Additional Security") will secure the Super
Senior Liabilities and all amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents to the Bond
Trustee and the Bondholders, including but not limited to principal, interest and expenses, as
a single security package (to the extent permitted according to applicable law).
The Security Agent will hold the Additional Security for the Secured Industry Funders and the
Bondholders in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.
The Issuer shall:
i)
grant a first priority share charge over all of the Issuer's shares in any future
Restricted Group Company;
ii)
a first priority fixed charge over the P.2107 License upon its transfer to the Issuer;
iii)
ensure that each future Restricted Group Company issues an unconditional and
irrevocable English law guarantee in favour of the Security Agent;
iv)
grant, and ensure that the Huntington Subsidiary and each future Restricted Group
Company will grant, a first priority fixed charge over any future Development
Licence or Production Licence acquired by the Issuer or any Restricted Group
Company or over any such future Licence developing into a Development Licence
during the term of the Bonds;
v)
grant, and ensure that the Huntington Subsidiary and each future Restricted Group
Company will grant, a first priority assignment by way of security of all of its or such
Restricted Group Company's rights, title and interest in or in relation to any future
Assigned Agreement (other than any Licence) (as agreed between the Issuer and
the Security Agent as being the key relevant agreements), relating to any Licences
and any future Development Licence or Production Licence acquired by the Issuer
or any Restricted Group Company or any such future Licence developing into a
Development Licence during the term of the Bonds;
vi)
to the extent that such rights referred to in (vi) cannot be effectively assigned,
subject to the Issuer using its reasonable endeavors to establish such assignment,
grant and establish, and ensure that the Huntington Subsidiary and each future
Restricted Group Company will grant and establish, a first priority fixed charge over
such future Assigned Agreements; and
vii)
ensure that each future Restricted Group Company will grant in all material
respects the same security as the Security being granted by the Huntington
Subsidiary, including a first priority assignment by way of security of all of such
Restricted Group Company's rights to and title and interest, whether present or
future, under any future intra-group loans made by such Restricted Group
Company to the Issuer; and
viii)
grant a first priority assignment by way of security of all of its rights to and title and
interest, whether present or future, under any future intra-group loans made by
the Issuer to any future Restricted Group Company.
The Parent shall grant a first priority share pledge over all and any new shares in the
Issuer or other equity-linked securities of the Issuer and the Issuer shall grant such first
priority pledge over any new shares in the Huntington Subsidiary or any future
Restricted Group Company.
For the avoidance of doubt, any future Exploration Licence or Appraisal Licence and any
other asset acquired by the Issuer or the Huntington Subsidiary shall form part of the
Issuer Floating Charge or the Huntington Subsidiary Floating Charge, and the Issuer or
the Huntington Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall provide any documents and take any
actions required in relation to the same.
Any additional security shall be granted on the basis of the same principles as for the
existing Security described above within 20 Business Days after such entity becoming a
Restricted Group Company, any Development Licence or Production Licence being
acquired or a Licence developing into a Development Licence, an Assigned Agreement
being entered into, any intra-group loan being granted and new shares in the Issuer, the
Huntington Subsidiary or any future Restricted Group Company being issued.
Parent's General
Undertakings:
During the term of the Bonds, the Parent shall (unless the Bond Trustee or the
bondholders' meeting (as the case may be) in writing has agreed otherwise) comply with,
inter alia, the following general undertakings:
a) Dividend restrictions: The Parent shall not declare or make any dividend payment,
repurchase of shares or make any loans or other distributions or payments to its
shareholders (including servicing of shareholder loans), whether in cash or in kind,
including without limitation any total return swaps or instruments with similar
effect.
b) Mergers: The Parent shall not, and shall ensure that no other Group Company shall,
carry out any merger or other business combination or corporate reorganization
involving a consolidation of the assets and obligations of the Parent or such Group
Company with any other company or entity not being a member of the Group if such
transaction would have a Material Adverse Effect.
c)
De-mergers: The Parent shall not, and shall ensure that no other Group Company
shall, carry out any de-merger or other corporate reorganization involving a split of
the Issuer or such Group Company into two or more separate companies or entities,
if such transaction would have a Material Adverse Effect.
  • d) Acquisitions: The Parent shall not, and shall ensure that no other Group Company shall acquire or allow to be transferred to it any assets or make any acquisition or other investment exceeding USD 5 million (in a single transaction or a series of transactions), including any transactions which increase the ownership interest in a License or in any asset which is the subject of a Licence, unless the Bonds are repaid in full in connection with such transaction.
  • e) Continuation of business: The Parent shall not cease to carry on its business. Furthermore, the Parent shall ensure that no other Group Company shall cease to carry on its business if such cessation would have a Material Adverse Effect. The Parent shall procure that (i) none of the members of the Restricted Group changes its type of organization or jurisdiction of incorporation and (ii) no material change is made to the general nature or scope of the business of the Group and/or the Issuer from that carried on at the date of the Bond Agreement.
  • f) Disposal of assets/business: The Parent shall not, and shall ensure that no other Group Company shall, sell or otherwise dispose of all or a substantial part of the Group's assets or operations (provided always that the Issuer and any other Restricted Group Company may dispose of Licences and other hydrocarbon licences in accordance with Issuer's General Undertakings b) unless the transaction is carried out at a Fair Market Value, and such transaction would not have a Material Adverse Effect. For the avoidance of doubt, the Orlando Farm-Out and the Ronan & Oran Farm-Out are permitted under this clause.
  • g) Maintenance of ownership of the Issuer: The Parent undertakes to maintain a 100% direct or indirect ownership over all the shares and control over all the voting rights of the Issuer.
  • h) Negative pledge: The Parent shall not create, permit to subsist or allow to exist any mortgage, pledge, lien or any other encumbrance over the shares in the Issuer (or rights related to such shares) or over any loans from the Parent to the Issuer, other than the Security and the Additional Security granted to secure (i) the Bonds; and (ii) the Super Senior Liabilities.
  • i) Subordination of claims: The Parent shall only fund the Issuer with equity and/or subordinated debt (in such case according to the Parent/Issuer Subordination Agreement (as defined below)), and shall not demand or receive any cash dividend, repayment of debt or other cash distribution from the Issuer or enforce any monetary claims against the Issuer during the term of the Bonds other than a payment of up to USD 1,500,000 per year from the Issuer to the Parent in order to fund normal course G&A of the Parent and up to USD 500,000 per year for exceptional items.
  • j) Insurances: The Parent shall, and shall ensure that each other Group Company will, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, funds or underwriters adequate insurance or captive arrangements with respect to its assets, equipment and business against such liabilities, casualties and contingencies and of such types and in such amounts as would normally be maintained by owners and/or operators owning similar assets to those owned by the relevant Group Company, acting in accordance with good industry practice in their relevant jurisdiction.
  • k) Arm's length transactions: The Parent shall not engage in, or permit any other Group Company to engage in, directly or indirectly, any transaction with any related third party (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, other Group Companies) (without limitation, the purchase, sale or exchange of assets or the rendering of any service), except in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to the reasonable
requirement of the Parent's or such other Group Company's business and upon fair
and reasonable arm's length terms.
l)
Reporting: The Parent shall of its own accord make management and financial
reports (quarterly, written in English) available to the Bond Trustee and on its web
pages for public distribution not later than 120 days after the end of the financial
year and not later than 60 days after the end of the relevant interim period (each a
"Reporting Date"). Such reports shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP
(including IFRS if applied by the Parent), and include a profit and loss account,
balance sheet, cash flow statement and management discussion & analysis in the
forms required by Canadian securities laws applicable to the Parent.
Issuer's General
Undertakings:
During the term of the Bonds, the Issuer shall (unless the Bond Trustee or the
bondholders' meeting (as the case may be) in writing has agreed otherwise) comply with,
inter alia, the following general undertakings:
a) Dividend restrictions: The Issuer shall not declare or make any dividend payment,
repurchase of shares or make any loans or other distributions or payments to its
shareholders (including servicing of shareholder loans) of any kind, other than a
payment of up to USD 1,500,000 per year to the Parent in order to fund normal
course G&A of the Parent and up to USD 500,000 per year for exceptional items.
b) Disposal of Licences: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted
Group Company shall, sell or dispose of any (direct or indirect) working interest in
any of the existing Licences, unless all of the following apply: (i) the transaction is
carried out at a Fair Market Value (as defined below) (such Fair Market Value to be
determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such transaction); (ii) 100% of
the consideration from such transaction is in the form of Cash and/or Cash
Equivalents (other than in connection with (A) a farm-out or swap of any Exploration
Licences, Appraisal Licences or Development Licences, or (B) transfers required by
law); and provided that any cash proceeds from such sale shall (x) prior to the
Industry Funders Discharge Date be transferred to the Escrow Account for
application in accordance with the cash
waterfall in accordance with the
Intercreditor Agreement and (y) thereafter in full be transferred to the Debt Service
Retention Account for repayment of the Bonds.
In the event of a sale reducing the Issuer's working interest in any Licence, the Bond
Trustee shall release and discharge any security over and relating to such interest,
provided that the aforementioned requirements are complied with.
c)
Financial indebtedness restrictions: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no
other Restricted Group Company shall, incur, create or permit to subsist: (i) any
Financial Indebtedness, (ii) any financial arrangement (save for farm-out of any
Exploration and Appraisal and/or Development Licences) whereby any party is
granted any right to a payment as a percentage or other proportion of the Issuer's
present or future sales proceeds, income, earnings or revenue deriving directly or
indirectly from the Licences (whether secured or unsecured), (iii) arrangement for
any sale of call options or forward sale of oil or any similar arrangement or hedging
arrangements for speculative purposes not covering genuine commercial exposure,
in each case other than the Permitted Financial Indebtedness (as defined below).
d) Negative pledge: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted
Group Company shall, create, permit to subsist or allow to exist any mortgage,
pledge, lien or any other encumbrance or security interest over any of its present or
future respective assets (including shares in Subsidiaries) or revenues or enter into
arrangements having similar effect, other than the Permitted Security (as defined
below).
e) No additional security: Notwithstanding the aforementioned, the Issuer shall not,
and shall ensure that no other Restricted Group Company shall, create, permit to
subsist or allow to exist any mortgage, pledge, lien or any other encumbrance or
security interest over any of its present or future assets or its revenues which are
subject to the security created by the Security Documents from time to time, other
than the Permitted Security (as defined below) to the extent created over any assets
that are subject to the Issuer Floating Charge only.
  • f) Financial support restrictions: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted Group Company shall, grant any loans, guarantees or other financial assistance (including, but not limited to granting of security) ("Financial Support") to or for the benefit of any third party or other Group Company, other than:
  • (i) Financial Support that falls within the Permitted Financial Indebtedness; and
  • (ii) Financial Support that falls within Permitted Security.
  • g) Loans from the Parent: The Issuer shall ensure that any existing and future loans to the Issuer from the Parent shall be fully subordinated to the Bonds pursuant to the terms of an agreement (the "Parent/Issuer Subordination Agreement"). Except as permitted by paragraph (a) above (Dividend restrictions), no payment of principal or interest in respect of such subordinated loans is permitted during the term of the Bonds, the loans shall have a maturity date after the Maturity Date and the Parent shall have no right to accelerate for as long as the Bonds are outstanding.
  • h) Loans from the Huntington Subsidiary: The Issuer shall ensure that any existing and future loans to the Issuer from the Huntington Subsidiary shall be fully subordinated to the Bonds pursuant to the terms of an agreement (the "Issuer/Huntington Subsidiary Subordination Agreement"). The Huntington Subsidiary shall have no right to accelerate for as long as the Bonds are outstanding.
  • i) Capital expenditure in the Licences: Subject to the Cash Waterfall provisions above, there shall be no limitations on the Issuer's and the Restricted Group's investments or capital expenditures in the Orlando Asset, the Trent & Tyne Asset or the Huntington Asset. Further, there shall be no limitations on investment or capital expenditures in the Huntington Deep Asset after FDP approval for such Licence. Other than as set out above, the Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted Group Company shall, make any investments or capital expenditures in any of the Licences, except as required to maintain or sell (in whole or in part) its interest in such Licence.
  • j) Exploration spending: The Issuer shall ensure that all Restricted Group Companies remain development and production focused companies with no exposure to Exploration Activities (as defined below) except as set forth below. The Issuer (or the relevant Restricted Group Company) shall be entitled to spend an aggregate amount across the Group not exceeding GBP 250,000 in each year on Exploration Activities.
  • k) Appraisal: Prior to the Industry Funders Discharge Date, the Issuer (or the relevant Restricted Group Company) shall not engage in any Appraisal Activities (other than a participation in a Ronan & Oran well without cost to the Group). Following the Industry Funders Discharge Date, the Group shall be entitled to spend an aggregate amount on Appraisal Activities not exceeding USD 2 million in each year.
  • l) Operations: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted Group Company shall, have any activity or operations outside the UK or Ireland (other than its interest in Block 6767 in Alaska). Further, the Issuer shall ensure that the
Restricted Group's operations are in compliance with applicable laws and
regulations of material importance to the business of the Restricted Group.
m) Assigned Agreements: The Issuer shall, and shall ensure that each other Restricted
Group Company shall, (i) obtain and maintain all relevant authorizations, consents,
approvals, resolutions, licences, permits, exemptions, filings or registrations in order
to lawfully enter into and exercise and enforce any ownership or other rights under
any Assigned Agreements, (ii) take all necessary action that is available to it to
ensure that all Assigned Agreements remain in full force and effect and to prevent
the termination of any such Assigned Agreement in accordance with the terms
thereof or otherwise, and duly perform, in all material respects, its obligations and
exercise its rights thereunder, except to the extent, if any, they are inconsistent with
the obligations of the relevant Restricted Group Company hereunder, (iii) exercise
such voting rights or other rights it may have to ensure that the Licences are
explored, developed and operated in a reasonable and prudent manner, (iv) not
exercise its voting rights relating to the development of the Licences or under or in
relation to any other Assigned Agreement in a way that could be materially
prejudicial to the interest of any Group Company, and (v) not enter into any
agreement relating to the Project that could result in a Material Adverse Effect.
n) Hedging policy: The Issuer shall ensure that the Restricted Group maintains a
prudent hedging program for the Restricted Group's oil and gas price exposure.
o) Tax losses: The Issuer shall not, and shall ensure that no other Restricted Group
Company shall, take any action that would have a Material Adverse Effect in relation
to the value of the Issuer's or such Restricted Group Company's brought forward UK
ring fence tax losses for corporation tax and supplementary charge other than as a
result of a Mandatory Prepayment Event.
p) Reporting: The Issuer shall of its own accord make management and financial
reports (quarterly, written in English) available to the Bond Trustee and on the
Parent's web pages for public distribution not later than 120 days after the end of
the financial year, and not later than 60 days after the end of the relevant interim
period (each a "Reporting Date"). Such reports shall be prepared in accordance with
GAAP (including IFRS if applied by the Issuer), and include a profit and loss account,
balance sheet, cash flow statement and, to the extent not covered by the
management discussion & analysis in the management and financial reports
provided by the Parent, but still a relevant event or issue for the Issuer, management
commentary or report from the board of directors.
q) Licence Cancellation Events: The Issuer shall, and shall ensure that each other
Restricted Group Company will, promptly inform the Bond Trustee of any Licence
Cancellation Event (as defined below) and whether such Licence Cancellation Event
would have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Bond Trustee shall notify the
bondholders of such Licence Cancellation Event.
r) Industry Funding Amendments: Any amendments to the terms and conditions of
the Industry Funding, which could be detrimental to the interests of the
Bondholders, in particular any increase or extension of the Secured Industry
Funding, shall not be permitted. For the avoidance of doubt, entering into the
Project Hedges shall be permitted.
s) Appointment of Advisors: The Issuer shall at all times following an Event of Default
which has not been waived (i) pay the reasonable cost of any legal, financial and
other professional advisers appointed by the Bond Trustee to undertake due
diligence with respect to the business, operations and assets of the Group, including
contingency planning and preparing for the possibility of a security enforcement,
and (ii) provide such advisors reasonable assistance in connection with such due
diligence or a marketing process for a sale of the business, including providing access
to information and management and the ability to conduct due diligence by
interested third parties.
Orlando First Oil
Covenant
The Issuer shall ensure that First Oil will be achieved by no later than 30 April 2017.
Liquidity to First Oil
Covenant
Prior to First Oil, the Issuer shall at all times have sufficient liquidity to achieve First Oil in
accordance with the then applicable project schedule and business plan. The foregoing
shall be confirmed by a compliance certificate to be issued by the management of the
Issuer on the last day of each Quarter Date prior to First Oil.
Minimum Liquidity
post Industry Funder
Discharge Date
From the Industry Funders Discharge Date, the Issuer shall at all times maintain Liquidity
of minimum USD 5,000,000. The foregoing shall be confirmed by a compliance certificate
to be issued by the management of the Issuer on the last day of each Quarter Date.
Permitted Financial
Indebtedness:
Means:
(i)
the Bond Issue;
(ii)
the Industry Funding, including any Secured Industry Funding;
(iii) Financial Indebtedness under any hedging arrangements (including, for the avoidance
of doubt, the Project Hedges) entered into on market terms and as part of the ordinary
course of business of any Restricted Group Company and for non-speculative
purposes;
(iv) guarantees issued by any Group Company (to governments, joint venture partners in
the Licences and other third parties) in the ordinary course of business in relation to
the Licences, including (but not limited to) in respect of decommissioning;
(v)
intra-group loans from the Parent to the Issuer provided that such loans are fully
subordinated to the Bond Issue cf. Loans from the Parent above;
(vi) intra-group loans from the Issuer to any Restricted Group Company;
(vii) intra-group loans from the Huntington subsidiary to the issuer, provided that such
loans are fully subordinated to the Bond Issue;
(viii)intra group loans from any future Restricted Group Company to the issuer, provided
that such loans are fully subordinated to the Bond Issue according to the same
principles as described under Loans from the Huntington Subsidiary above; and
(ix) any Subordinated Loans.
Permitted Security: Means:
a) any Security granted to secure the Bond Issue;
b)
any Security granted to secure the Super Senior Liabilities (if and to the extent that
such security also secures all amounts outstanding under the Finance Documents to
the Bond Trustee and the Bondholders)
c)
any cash collateral for existing and future letters of credit relating to exploration,
appraisal, field developments, operations and decommissioning;
d) any security required to be granted in relation to any decommissioning;
e) any netting or setting-off arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of
banking arrangements which has the effect of netting debit and credit balances;
f)
any security in relation to joint operating agreements (in favour of any counterparty
under such agreement) over the relevant Restricted Group Company's interest in
such agreement and which only secures obligations owing to such counterparty
under the relevant agreement and not any Financial Indebtedness;
g)
any retention of title arrangements affecting goods supplied to any Restricted Group
Company arising in the ordinary course of business (such as purchase money
h) any security affecting assets (including shares) acquired after the date of this
agreement (i.e. liens of prior owners that are to be discharged) provided that (i) the
security was not created in contemplation of the acquisition of the assets or the
shares, (ii) the principal amount secured has not been increased and (iii) the security
is removed or discharged within thirty (30) days of the acquisition of such assets or
shares;
i)
any lien arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business; and
j)
security not otherwise permitted above that secured Financial Indebtedness or
other obligations not in excess of USD 3 million at any one time outstanding
Definitions: Capitalized terms used but not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in
the Restructuring Term Sheet.
"Account Bank(s)" means, (i) for the Escrow Account and the Debt Service Retention
Account, the Paying Agent, and for all other Accounts, one or more first class international
banks (with a rating of A or higher from Standard & Poor's Rating Services or A2 or higher
from Moody's Investors Service Limited for its long-term debt obligations) or (ii) such other
bank or financial institution reasonably acceptable to the Bond Trustee.
"Accounts" means the Escrow Account, the Debt Service Retention Account, the Issuer
Earnings Account and the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account, and "Account" means
any of them.
"Appraisal Activities" means costs and investments prior to submittal of a FDP in
discovered hydrocarbon resources containing contingent resources.
"Assigned Agreements" means
a)
the Licences;
b)
each present and future contract or policy of insurance in respect of which the
Issuer or any Restricted Group Company has or may from time to time have an
interest (other than insurance relating to existing hydrocarbon licences not being
a Licence owned by the Issuer or Restricted Group Company);
c)
each joint operating agreement and/or unitization and unit operating agreement
relating to the Project, each agreement relating to the transportation, processing
and/or storage of production from the Project, each agreement for the sale or
marketing of production from the Project, each royalty agreement related to the
Project, and each other material agreement relating to the Project and/or
hydrocarbons produced in relation to the Project;
d)
any document and/or agreement relating to the acquisition by any Restricted
Group Company of any interest in a Licence relating to a development or
operating asset; and
e)
any other document designated as such by the Issuer and the Security Agent.
"Cash and Cash Equivalents" means, on any day, the aggregate of the equivalent in USD
on such date of the then current market value of:
a)
cash in hand or amounts standing to the credit of any current and/or on deposit
accounts with an acceptable bank; and
b)
time deposits with acceptable banks and certificates of deposits issued, and bills
of exchange accepted, by an acceptable bank;

in each case to which any Restricted Group Company is beneficially entitled at the time and to which any Restricted Group Company has free and unrestricted access, and, notwithstanding the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account Charge and the Issuer Earnings Account Charge, including any amounts standing to the credit of the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account and the Issuer Earnings Account.

"Decisive Influence" means a person having, as a result of an agreement and/or through the direct and/or indirect ownership of shares and/or other ownership interests in another person:

  • a) a majority of the voting rights in that other person; or
  • b) a right to elect or remove a majority of the members of the board of directors of that other person.

When determining the relevant person's number of voting rights in the other person or the right to elect and remove members of the board of directors, rights held by the parent company of the relevant person and the parent company's Subsidiaries shall be included.

"Escrow Account" means an account in the name of the Issuer held with the Paying Agent, into which any proceeds from the Orlando Field (including any proceeds under the Farm-Out Agreement) shall be paid prior to the Super Senior Discharge Date. The Escrow Account shall be blocked and pledged in favour of the Security Agent pursuant to the Escrow Account Pledge so that no withdrawals can be made from the account without the Security Agent's prior written consent.

"Existing Security" means any security interests which have been created prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date in favour of the Bond Trustee in respect of the obligation under the Finance Documents of any of the Issuer, any Guarantor or any Additional Guarantor.

"Existing Hedging Security" means the security interests which have been created prior to the Restructuring Implementation Date in favour of BTL of the obligations of the Issuer under hedging agreements entered into with BTL.

"Exploration Activities" means costs and investments (including acquisition costs) related to prospective, non-discovered hydrocarbon resources.

"Fair Market Value" means the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, determined in good faith by (i) the principal financial officer of the Parent or the Issuer for transactions valued at less than USD 5,000,000; (ii) the Board of Directors of the Parent or the Issuer for transactions valued at, or in excess of, USD 5,000,000 but less than USD 15,000,000; (iii) a suitable independent third party for transactions valued at, or in excess of USD 15,000,000.

"FDP" means field development plan.

"Finance Documents" means

  • a) the Bond Agreement;
  • b) the Security Documents;
  • c) the Intercreditor Agreement;
  • d) the fee agreement between the Issuer and the Bond Trustee;
  • e) the Parent/Issuer Subordination Agreement;
  • f) the Huntington Subsidiary / Issuer Subordination Agreement; and
  • g) any other document the Issuer and the Bond Trustee designate as a Finance Document.
"Financial Indebtedness" means any indebtedness incurred in respect of:
a) moneys borrowed;
b) any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility or
dematerialized equivalent;
c) any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes,
debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument;
d) the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which
would, in accordance with IFRS as applicable at the Settlement Date, be treated as a
finance or capital lease;
e) receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold
on a non-recourse basis);
f) any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or
purchase agreement) having the commercial effect of a borrowing;
g) any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or
benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price (and, when calculating the value of any
derivative transaction, only the marked to market value shall be taken into account);
h) any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, bond, standby or
documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial
institution;
i) any amount paid up or credited as paid up on any redeemable share capital; and
j) without double-counting, the amount of any liability in respect of any guarantee or
indemnity for any of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) to (i) above.
"First Oil" means having produced more than 4,000 boe/day gross hydrocarbons in
average over 30 days from the Orlando Field.
"Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account" means the account held by the Huntington
Subsidiary with the Account Bank into which the Project Proceeds payable to the
Huntington Subsidiary shall be paid directly by the relevant contracting party. The
Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account shall be charged in favour of the Security Agent,
but not blocked (unless and Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) pursuant to
the Huntington Subsidiary Debenture.
"IFRS" means International Financial Reporting Standards, and guidelines and
interpretations issued thereto by the International Accounting Standards Board (or any
predecessor and successor thereof), in force from time to time.
"Issuer Earnings Account" means the account held by the Issuer with the Account Bank
into which the Project Proceeds payable to the Issuer shall be paid directly by the relevant
contracting party. The Issuer Earnings Account shall be charged in favour of the Security
Agent, but not blocked (unless and Event of Default has occurred and is continuing)
pursuant to the Issuer Debenture.
"Licence Cancellation Event" means if any of the Licences are revoked, cancelled or
terminated for any reason.
"Liquidity" means the aggregate book value of the Restricted Group's Cash and Cash
Equivalents, but excluding any Cash and Cash Equivalents in the Debt Service Retention
Account.
"Liquidity Reserve" means the aggregate amount standing to the credit of the Issuer
Earnings Account and the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account on a relevant date.

"Quarter Date" means each 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.

"Security" means any encumbrance, mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other security
interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement
having a similar effect.
"Subsidiary" means an entity over which another entity or person has Decisive Influence.
"Super Senior Liabilities" means the liabilities owing by the Issuer to the Secured Industry
Funders under the Secured Industry Funding (each as defined below).
Material Adverse
Effect:
Means a material adverse effect on: (a) the business, financial condition or operations of
the Issuer, and/or the Group taken as a whole, (b) the Issuer's or any other Group
Company's ability to perform and comply with its obligations (taken as a whole) under the
Bond Agreement, or (c) the validity or enforceability of the Bond Agreement.
Mandatory
Prepayment Event:
Means if:
(i)
the Issuer or any Restricted Group Company sells or otherwise disposes of all or parts
of its working interest (directly or indirectly) in the Orlando Field or any of its Licences
(other than the Orlando Farm-Out and the Ronan & Oran Farm-Out); or
(ii)
an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and the Bond Trustee gives notice to the
Issuer that the outstanding Bonds are in default and due for immediate payment.
Mandatory
Prepayment:
Upon a Mandatory Prepayment Event occurring, the Issuer shall, on or about the day the
proceeds are received by the relevant Group Company following the Mandatory
Prepayment Event, redeem the principal amount of Outstanding Bonds with the
Redemption Amount at a redemption price equal to 100% of par value (plus accrued
interest on the redeemed Bonds). For the avoidance of doubt, prior to the Super Senior
Discharge Date the application of proceeds for redemption of Outstanding Bonds shall be
subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, in particular the waterfall provisions set forth
therein.
Upon an Event of Default, the Issuer shall, upon notice from the Bond Trustee that the
Outstanding Bonds are in default and due for immediate payment, redeem all Outstanding
Bonds at the redemption price set out above (plus accrued interest on redeemed Bonds).
If a Mandatory Prepayment Event occurs which does not require the Issuer to redeem
100% of the Outstanding Bonds, each bondholder shall have the right to decline
redemption of the Bonds. Any amount not applied for redemption of Bonds may be
retained by the Group and applied for general corporate purposes.
Change of Control
Event:
Means if any person or group of persons under the same Decisive Influence obtains
Decisive Influence over the Issuer.
Change of Control
Clause:
Upon a Change of Control Event occurring, each bondholder shall have a right of pre
payment (a "Put Option") of the Bonds at a price of 101% of par value (plus accrued
interest) during a period of 60 calendar days following the notice of such Change of Control
Event.
Event of Default: The Bond Agreement shall include standard event of default provisions, including (i) cross
default provisions for the Issuer and any other Group Company with a threshold in the
aggregate amount of USD 1,000,000; (ii) receipt of a notice of default by the Issuer or any
other Group Company in respect of such person's failure to pay any cash calls under or
breach by the Issuer or the Huntington Subsidiary of any joint operating agreement,
Licence or any other material agreement relating to a Licence which, if capable of remedy,
is not remedied within the earlier of (x) any cure period (if any) provided under the
respective agreement and (y) 5 Business Days from the receipt of the default notice by the
Issuer; (iii) any member of the Group being subject to a final and binding judgment for an
amount in excess of USD 1,000,000; (iv) non-completion of the Orlando Farm-Out by the
longstop date detailed in the Orlando Farm-Out Documentation; (v) failure by the Issuer
to apply for the consent of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under the
Orlando Farm-Out within 10 Business Days from the execution of the Orlando Farm-Out
Documentation; and (vi) the Bond Trustee (acting reasonably) determines that the Orlando
Farm-Out is not capable of completion by the long-stop date under the Farm-Out
Documentation.
The Finance Documents will contain waterfall provisions in case of partial payments, i.e.
first to cover costs, fees and expenses of the Bond Trustee (the "Trustee Expenses") and
thereafter any other outstanding amounts under the Finance Documents. In case the Issuer
does not pay the Bond Trustee for incurred fees, then the Bond Trustee may seek funding
of the Trustee Expenses from other sources, in which case the parties representing such
other sources will be subrogated into the position of the Bond Trustee, but subordinate
any further Trustee Expenses.
Any enforcement and/or acceleration of the Bond Agreement and/or any Security or
Additional Security will be subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
Issuer's Ownership of
Bonds:
The Issuer has the right to acquire and own Bonds. Such Bonds may at the Issuer's
discretion be retained by the Issuer, sold or discharged.
Bond Trustee: Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann ASA) in its capacity as the bond trustee for
the Bondholders under the Bond Agreement
Security Agent: Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann ASA) in its capacity as security agent for
the Bondholders and the Secured Industry Funders under the Intercreditor Agreement.
Registration: The Norwegian Central Securities Depository ("VPS"). Principal and interest accrued will be
credited the bondholders through VPS.
Paying Agent: DNB Bank ASA
Listing of Bonds: The listing on the Bonds on Nordic ABM to be maintained.
Market Making: No market-maker agreement has been or is envisaged will be made for the Bond Issue.
Taxation: The Issuer shall pay any stamp duty and other public fees accruing in connection with
issuance of the Bonds, but not in respect of trading of the Bonds in the secondary market
(except to the extent required by applicable laws), and the Issuer shall deduct before
payment to the bondholders at source any applicable withholding tax payable pursuant to
law.
If the Issuer is required by law to make a tax deduction or withholding from any payment
under the Bond Agreement, the amount of the payment due from the Issuer shall be
increased to such amount which is necessary to ensure that the bondholders receive a net
amount which is (after making the required tax deduction or withholding) equal to the
payment which would have been due if no tax deduction or withholding had been required.
If any withholding tax is imposed due to subsequent changes in applicable law after the
date of the Bond Agreement, and such withholding tax cannot be avoided by the Issuer
taking reasonable measures available to it, the Issuer shall have the right to call all but not
some of the Bonds at par value, plus accrued interest. Such call shall be notified by the
Issuer in writing to the Bond Trustee at least 30 days prior to the settlement date of the
call, provided that no such notice shall be given earlier than 60 days prior to the earliest
date on which the Issuer would be obliged to pay such additional amounts were a payment
in respect of the Bonds then due.

Oslo, 30 July 2015

Iona Energy (UK) plc as Issuer

ABG Sundal Collier as Manager

INTERCREDITOR PRINCIPLES

The intercreditor agreement (the "ICA") will be based on the Iona Intercreditor Agreement dated 30 September 2013 (the "Existing ICA") between, amongst others, Iona Energy Company (UK) plc (the "Company"), Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann ASA) and Britannic Trading Limited, modified to reflect the provisions of these Intercreditor Principles.

Parties Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann ASA) as security agent (the
"Security Agent") for the Secured Creditors
Nordic Trustee ASA (formerly Norsk Tillitsmann ASA) as Bond Trustee (the
"Bond Trustee")
Britannic Trading Limited ("BTL")
Lender A, being the lender under the Lender A Loan Agreement
Lender B, a major international oil and gas company, being the lender
under
the Lender B Loan Agreement
The Company
Iona Energy Inc., the ultimate parent company of the Company
(the
"Parent")
Iona UK Huntington Limited (the "Huntington Subsidiary")
Ranking Subject to the Application of Proceeds provisions:
x
first, pro rata and pari passu, the Super Senior Secured Debt;
x
second, pro rata and pari passu,
the Bond Debt.
Lender A Loan
Agreement
A secured loan agreement to be entered into between the Company and
Lender A for a loan to the Company of an amount not exceeding £13,760,000
Lender B Loan
Agreement
A zero coupon secured loan agreement to be entered into between the
Company and Lender B for a loan to the Company of USD 12,000,000 less
the amount owed
to BTL under the BTL Agreement.
Project Hedges Hedges to be put in place by an affiliate of Lender B against the Company's
net share of the anticipated 1P production volumes from the Orlando Field for
a period of 9 months from First Oil.
Super
Senior
Secured
Debt
All liabilities of the Company, the Huntington Subsidiary and the Parent
under and in respect of the Lender B
Loan Agreement, the BTL Agreement,
the Project Hedges and the Lender A Loan.
Bond Creditors The Bondholders and the Bond Trustee.
Secured Creditors The Super Senior Creditors and the Bond Creditors.
Super Senior Creditors Lender A, Lender B, an affiliate of Lender B as the provider of the Project
Hedges and BTL.
Industry Funders Lender A, Lender B, the contractor providing
a mobile drilling rig in respect
of works to be undertaken at the Orlando Field and the contractor providing
certain well consumable services to be conducted on the Orlando Field.
BTL Agreement The agreement between BTL and the Company documenting the liabilities of
the Company resulting from the crystallisation of the mark to market
exposure under the existing hedges between BTL and the Company.
The
crystallisation of the mark to market exposure under the existing hedges will
occur within 7 business days from
the Restructuring Implementation Date.
Secured Liabilities The Bond Debt and the Super Senior Secured Debt.
Existing Security The existing security interests granted by the Parent, the Company and the
Huntington Subsidiary
in favour of the Bond Trustee as security for the Bond
Debt.
New Security The Guarantees and new security
(in similar terms to the Existing Security) to
be granted by the Company, the Huntington Subsidiary and the Parent in
favour of the Security Agent acting on behalf of the Super Senior Creditors in
respect of the Super Senior Secured Debt and the Bond Creditors in respect of
the Bond Debt.
Transaction Security The Existing Security and the New Security. Notwithstanding the order of
registration of the New Security and the Existing Security, the New Security
will rank in priority pursuant to and by virtue of the ICA.
Guarantors The Parent and the Huntington Subsidiary.
Guarantees The unconditional and irrevocable guarantees issued by the Guarantors (on a
joint and several basis) in favour of the Bond Trustee (on behalf of the
Bondholders) and the Super Senior Creditors supporting the Secured
Liabilities.
Orlando Field The Orlando oil field located in the Northern North Sea offshore UK with
licence number P.1606 and block number 3/3b, where the Company is the
operator of the licence.
Super
Senior
Final
Repayment Date
The date falling 9 months after First Oil being the date by which all amounts
outstanding with respect to the Super Senior Secured Debt are due to be
repaid in full.
Super
Senior
Discharge
Date
The date on which the Super Senior Secured Debt (other than in respect of the
Project Hedges) is irrevocably repaid and discharged in full.
Industry
Funders
Discharge Date
The date on
which all amounts outstanding to the Industry Funders (other
than in respect of the Project Hedges) have been irrevocably repaid and
discharged in full.
Super
Senior
Event
of
Default
An event of default (howsoever described) in respect of any of the Super
Senior Secured Debt.
Bond Event of Default An event of default (howsoever described) in respect of any of the Bond
Debt.
Event of Default A Super Senior Event of Default and/or
a Bond Event of Default.
First Oil The Orlando Field having produced more than 4,000 boe/day gross
hydrocarbons in average over 30 days. No later than the second Business Day
after achieving First Oil, the Company shall issue a directors' certificate
notifying the occurrence of First Oil to the Security Agent, the Bond Trustee
and each of the Super Senior Creditors.
Enhanced First Oil The Orlando Field having produced more than 8,000 boe/day gross
hydrocarbons in average over 30 days. No later than the second Business
Day after achieving Enhanced First Oil, the Company shall issue a directors'
certificate notifying the occurrence of Enhanced First Oil to the Security
Agent, the Bond Trustee and each of the Super Senior Creditors.
Farm-Out Agreement The
sale and purchase
agreement between the Company and a limited liability
company incorporated in England and Wales
(the parent of which is a
European energy company with an
investment grade credit rating) (the
"Farm-Out Partner") for the acquisition by the Farm-Out Partner of a 25%
working interest in
the Orlando Field.
Release of Guarantees and
Security
Following the enforcement of the Transaction Security in accordance with the
Enforcement Action provisions set out below, the Security Agent will be
authorised to release the Transaction Security granted over the assets which
are the subject of the enforcement (including, where the enforcement is with
respect to shares or involves the sale or transfer (directly or indirectly) of the
shares of any member of the Group, releasing all Secured Liabilities,
Guarantees and Transaction Security granted by the entity being sold or
transferred (whether directly or indirectly) and its subsidiaries).
Permitted Payments Prior to the repayment of the Super Senior Secured Debt, no payment of the
Bond Debt can be made, other than (a) the Restricted Cash Payment on the
Restructuring Implementation Date and (b) any PIK Interest (being the issue
of additional
Bonds instead of the payment of cash
interest) which is due and
payable
under the Amended and Restated Bond Agreement.
Restricted Cash Payment A payment to Bondholders (via the Bond Trustee) in an amount of USD
24,000,000 on the Restructuring Implementation Date.
Transaction Security
becoming enforceable
Subject at all times to the provisions below in respect of Enforcement Action,
no Secured Creditor may take or seek to take or commence any Enforcement
Action with respect to the Super Senior Secured Debt or the Bond Debt or
any Guarantees thereof,
unless:
(a)
an insolvency event has occurred with respect to any member of the
Group;
  • (b) any amount of principal and/or interest of the Secured Liabilities has not been paid when due (provided that prior to the Super Senior Discharge Date only the Super Senior Creditors shall be entitled to take Enforcement Action pursuant to this paragraph (b)); or
  • (c) following an Event of Default which is continuing (other than an insolvency event pursuant to paragraph (a) or a non-payment Event of Default pursuant to paragraph (b)) with respect to any of the Secured Liabilities, on or after the date falling 30 days after the Bond Trustee or any of the Super Senior Creditors has notified the Company and the Security Agent of the occurrence of such Event of Default and the commencement of such period, unless following such Event of Default, the Security Agent or all of the Super Senior Creditors considers that to delay enforcement could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the Security Agent's ability to enforce the Transaction Security or (b) the proceeds of realisation of the Transaction Security.

Appointment of Advisors The Security Agent:

  • (i) following a Super Senior Event of Default which is continuing at any time prior to the expiry of the Bond Standstill Period (as defined below) upon the request of the Super Senior Creditors (acting unanimously); or
  • (ii) after the Bond Standstill Period upon the request of the Bond Trustee,

shall be entitled (a) to appoint (at the cost of the Company) (i) legal and financial advisers to undertake due diligence with respect to the business, operations and assets of the Group, including contingency planning and preparing for the possibility of a security enforcement, and (ii) an Independent Valuer to prepare a valuation as contemplated by the Security Enforcement Principles; and (b) if considered desirable by the Security Agent, to commence a marketing process for the sale of all or part of the Group or any of its assets (and the members of the Group shall provide reasonable assistance with the marketing process, including providing access to information and due diligence to interested third parties).

Enforcement Action After the Transaction Security has become enforceable and subject to any restrictions resulting from the exercise of the Option to Purchase (as described and defined below), the Super Senior Creditors (acting unanimously) or Lender A acting independently may give instructions to the Security Agent to enforce the Transaction Security provided that at all times the Security Agent shall enforce the Transaction Security in accordance with the Security Enforcement Principles.

Prior to any instructions being given to the Security Agent to enforce the Transaction Security:

(i) the Super Senior Creditors (acting unanimously (or Lender A) shall

notify the Security Agent and the Bond Trustee in writing of their intention to take Enforcement Action (a "Super Senior Enforcement Notice"); and

(ii) the Security Agent, the Bond Trustee (on behalf of the Bondholders) and the Super Senior Creditors will consult prior to taking any Enforcement Action (and for the avoidance of doubt this consultation may occur at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default) for a period of at least 14 days (or such shorter period as those parties may agree) (the "Enforcement Consultation Period") regarding the proposed enforcement strategy.

The Enforcement Consultation Period shall not apply where to delay enforcement could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the Security Agent's ability to enforce the Transaction Security or (b) the proceeds of realisation of the Transaction Security.

No Enforcement Action may be taken by the Bond Creditors except in the following circumstances:

(a) Bond Enforcement Notice

If (a) the Bond Trustee has given notice (a "Bond Enforcement Notice") to the Security Agent and the Super Senior Creditors specifying that a Bond Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; and (b) the Super Senior Creditors have not instructed the Security Agent to take Specified Enforcement Action within a period of 45 days after the date of the Bond Enforcement Notice (the"Bond Standstill Period"), the Bond Trustee will be entitled to instruct the Security Agent to enforce the Transaction Security and to take Enforcement Action in connection therewith. If a Super Senior Enforcement Notice has been issued, the Bond Trustee must not issue a Bond Enforcement Notice if and as long as the consultation with the Security Agent and the Super Senior Creditors regarding the proposed enforcement strategy is continuing, provided that the Bond Trustee may issue a Bond Enforcement Notice from the date which is the earlier of (i) the date on which a Blocking Notice has been issued and (ii) the date which is 10 days from the issuance of a Super Senior Enforcement Notice .

Following expiry of the Bond Standstill Period, the Security Agent will act solely upon the instructions of the Bond Trustee in respect of any Enforcement Action, provided that at any time after the expiry of the Bond Standstill Period, the Super Senior Creditors (acting unanimously) or Lender A acting independently, shall continue to have the right to instruct the Security Agent (and the Security Agent shall follow the instructions of the Super Senior Secured Creditors), unless the Bond Trustee (acting on the instruction of Bondholders) issues a contradictory instruction to the Security Agent, in which event the instruction of the Bond Trustee shall prevail over any instructions given by the Super Senior Creditors. The Security Agent shall at all times keep the Secured Creditors fully informed of any enforcement instructions given to it and any Enforcement Action taken by the Security Agent.

If the Security Agent has appointed a reputable investment bank or advisory firm with North Sea Oil and Gas experience which has commenced a substantive marketing process with a view to the sale of the business of the Company and/or the Company's interest in the Orlando Field before the expiry of the Bond Standstill Period, the Bond Trustee may, on the instruction of the requisite majority of Bondholders, agree to an extension of the Bond Standstill Period for a further period of 45 days. The Security Agent will keep the Secured Creditors informed and updated of the progress of the marketing process and share with the Secured Creditors any materials prepared by the investment bank or adviser in connection therewith.

(b) Insolvency Event

Without limiting the priority provisions contained herein, including the provisions set forth in the section entitled "Turnover" and "Application of Proceeds post-Enforcement", the Bond Creditors, after the occurrence of an insolvency event in relation to the Issuer or any of the Guarantors, shall be entitled to (i) accelerate any Bond Debt or declare it due and payable or payable on demand; (ii) make a demand under the guarantee given by the Guarantor which is subject to the insolvency event; or (iii) claim and prove in the liquidation of the Issuer or Guarantor the Bond Debt owed by it.

(c) Super Senior Acceleration

Without limiting the priority provisions contained herein, including the provisions set forth in the section entitled "Turnover" and "Application of Proceeds post-Enforcement", if the Super Senior Lenders have accelerated the Super Senior Debt, the Bond Trustee shall be entitled to take the same action in respect of the Bond Debt.

If either of the Super Senior Secured Creditors or the Bond Trustee (in each case acting reasonably) consider that the Security Agent is enforcing the Transaction Security in a manner which is not consistent with the Security Enforcement Principles, that Super Senior Secured Creditor or the Bond Trustee shall give notice to the other Super Senior Secured Creditor(s), if applicable, the Bond Trustee and to the Security Agent. Following such notice, the Super Senior Creditors and the Bond Trustee shall consult with the Security Agent for a period of 10 days (or such lesser period as those parties may agree) with a view to agreeing the manner of enforcement, provided that those parties shall not be obliged to consult in accordance with this paragraph more than once in relation to each Enforcement Action.

"Specified Enforcement Action" means:

  • (a) the appointment of or petitioning for the appointment of an administrator, receiver or a liquidator to the Company (or similar officer), provided that such petitioning is not being revoked;
  • (b) the appointment of a receiver over the shares in the Company or other equivalent enforcement of the security held by the Security Agent over the shares in the Company; or

(c) the execution of an agreement for the sale of the business of the Company and/or the Company's interest in the Orlando Field by, on behalf or at the request of the Security Agent.

Blocking of Release of funds from the Escrow At any time after the occurrence of a Super Senior Event of Default (subject to the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph (c) "Transaction Security becoming enforceable" save as provided below with respect to a Super Senior Event of Deafultwhich involves misrepresentation) the Super Senior Creditors (acting unanimously) shall be entitled to issue a blocking notice to the Security Agent (the "Blocking Notice"), provided that prior to issuing a Blocking Notice, the Super Senior Creditors must have issued a Super Senior Enforcement Notice which specifies their intention to issue a Blocking Notice. For the avoidance of doubt, a Super Senior Enforcement Notice wich notifies an intention to issue a Blocking Notice may be issued at any time after a Super Senior Event of Default based on misrepresentation under a relevant finance document and the 30 day period shall not apply with respect to the issue of the Blocking Notice. Prior to issuing a Blocking Notice the Super Senior Creditors shall consult with the Bond Trustee for a period of 14 days (or if the Super Senior Event of Default giving rise to the Blocking Notice is one of misrepresentation, 5 Business Days only), provided that no such prior consultation shall be required if (i) an insolvency event in relation to the Issuer or any of the Guarantors has occurred, (ii) a payment default relating to the Super Senior Secured Debt has occurred or (iii) consultation could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on either the Security Agent's ability to enforce the Transaction Security or the proceeds of realisation of the Transaction Security. The consultation can be made during the 30 day standstill period which applies in case of an event of default as described in paragraph (c) of the section hereof entitled "Transaction Security becoming enforceable".

The issue of a Blocking Notice shall not prevent the Security Agent reimbursing itself from the funds standing to the credit of the Escrow account for any costs and expenses incurred by the Security Agent.

Following the issuance of a Blocking Notice, any release of funds standing to the credit of the Escrow Account shall require the consent of the Super Senior Creditors.

If the Bond Trustee becomes entitled to instruct the Security Agent in accordance with the provisions set out in paragraph (a) Bond Enforcement Notice of the section entitled "Enforcement Action", the Bond Trustee is not entitled to instruct the Security Agent to unblock the Escrow Account if the Blocking Notice was issued because (i) the Super Senior Event of Default giving rise to the Blocking Notice was one of misrepresentation (ii) in case of an insolvency event in relation to the Issuer or any of the Guarantors, or (iii) in case of a payment default relating to the Super Senior Secured Debt, provided that such events are continuing and provided further that the Bond Trustee is not prevented from instructing the Security Agent to enforce the Transaction Security and apply the funds in accordance with the section entitled "Application of Proceeds post Enforcement".

Account:

Turnover Prior to the Super Senior Discharge
Date, any amounts recovered or received
by the Bond Trustee from the enforcement of the Transaction Security or
incorrectly paid under the Cash Waterfalls (see below), shall be turned over to
the Security Agent for application in accordance with the Application of
Proceeds provisions.
Security
Enforcement
Principles
See Schedule.
Escrow Account An account in the name of the Company held with DNB Bank ASA
over
which the Company will grant an account charge in favour of the Security
Agent
acting on behalf of the Secured Creditors and
which account charge
shall be part of the New Security.
The Company shall also open a GBP
denominated Escrow Account (which will be subject to the Security on the
same terms as the existing
Escrow Account).
Huntington
Subsidiary
Earnings Account
The account held by the Huntington Subsidiary with DNB ASA into which
certain proceeds payable to the Huntington Subsidiary shall be paid directly
by the relevant contracting party
in accordance with the
section entitled
"Escrow Account –
Proceeds". The Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account
shall be charged in favour of the Security Agent, but not blocked (unless and
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing).
Issuer Earnings Account The account held by the Company with DNB ASA into which certain
proceeds payable to the Company
shall be paid directly by the relevant
contracting party. The Issuer Earnings Account shall be charged in favour of
the Security Agent, but not blocked (unless and Event of Default has
occurred
and is continuing).
Escrow Account- Proceeds Huntington Subsidiary: Prior to the earlier of (a) Enhanced First Oil and (b)
the Industry Funders Discharge Date, subject to the Company and the
Huntington Subsidiary maintaining the Maximum Unrestricted Cash Balance,
the Huntington Subsidiary shall procure that all proceeds from its various
assets and any other revenues (net of G&A, operating costs and capital
expenditures of the Group projected for the next three months) shall be paid
into the Escrow Account.
Following
the earlier of (a) Enhanced First Oil and (b) the Industry Funders
Discharge Date all proceeds from the Huntington Asset shall be paid directly
into the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account or the Issuer Earnings
Account (and not the Escrow Account) and shall be available to the Group for
general corporate purposes.
Company: Prior to the Industry Funders Discharge Date, the Company shall
procure that all proceeds from its various assets and any other revenues are
either, (i) paid
directly to the Escrow Account;
or (ii) where
any such
proceeds and other revenues
are
received
directly by the Company,
are
immediately transfered by the Company to the Escrow Account provided
that amounts payable under the Farm-Out Agreement by the Farm-Out
Partner and designated for Lender A, shall not be paid into the Escrow
Account, but will be paid direct to Lender A and any amounts payable under
the Farm-Out Agreement to the Company, as operator of the Orlando Field,
will be paid to the Company, as
operator.
Maximum
Unrestricted
Cash Balance
Prior to the earlier of (a) Enhanced First Oil and (b) the Industry Funders
Discharge Date,
the maximum unrestricted cash balance of the Group shall
not exceed USD 5,000,000 (and any sum held by the Group in excess of the
Maximum Unrestricted Cash Balance from time to time will be paid by the
Group into the Escrow Account); provided that in the event that production
from the Huntington Asset averages less than 4,000 boe/day gross
hydrocarbons over a 30 day period (a "Huntington Event") then the
Company shall be able to transfer an amount from the Escrow Account to the
Huntington Earnings Account or the Issuer Earnings Account such that the
unrestricted cash balance amounts up to USD 7,500,000, to assist with
working capital. If there is more than one Huntington Event, the aggregate
amounts transferred in respect of Huntington Events shall not exceed USD
2,500,000.
In addition, the Maximum Unrestricted Cash Balance shall be increased by
the amount of any equity raised by the Group (other than equity raised by the
Debt-to Equity Swap) to the extent that such equity is not used to repay Bond
Debt or other costs prior to the Super Senior Discharge Date.
Escrow Account- Release
of Proceeds
Any sums held in the Escrow Account
and the GBP denominated Escrow
Account
shall be paid by the Security Agent:
(i)
prior to First Oil, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, to the Company/the Huntington Subsidiary (as the
Company
may
direct)
upon
request,
exclusively
for
capital
expenditures
relating
to
the
Orlando
Field
and/
or
capital

expenditures relating to the Huntington Asset and/or any incremental decommissioning provision required for the Huntington Asset and/or the Trent & Tyne Asset (in excess of the decommissioning provisions prior to First Oil); and

(ii) following First Oil, unless Enforcement Action has been taken by the Security Agent, in accordance with the provisions set out in the section entitled Pre-Enforcement Cash Waterfall- Post First Oil.

Immediately upon the earlier of (a) Enhanced First Oil and (b) the Industry Funders Discharge Date, unless Enforcement Action has been taken by the Security Agent with respect to the Escrow Account, any proceeds from the Huntington Asset (but not from the Orlando Field) held in the Escrow Account at such time shall, on request by the Company, be paid by the Security Agent into the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account or the Issuer Earnings Account (as the Company may direct).

Payments out of the Escrow Account to the Secured Creditors will be made in either USD or GBP as required by the Lender A Loan Agreement, the BP Loan Agreement, the BTL Agreement or the Bond Agreement as the case may be.

Pre Enforcement Cash Waterfall- Post First Oil Following First Oil and up to the Industry Funders Discharge Date, subject to the provisions set forth in the section hereof entitled "Blocking of Release of funds from the Escrow Account", and unless Enforcement Action has been taken, amounts will be released from the Escrow Account solely (except as set forth in the paragraph entitled "Escrow Account- Release of Proceeds" above with respect to proceeds from the Huntington Asset) as follows:

First: the costs and expenses of the Security Agent in its capacity as such (and the Security Agent shall be entitled to withdraw funds from the Escrow Account) that are due but remain unpaid by the Company after 14 days;

Second: All amounts due from the Company (in its capacity as joint venture partner) in respect of:

  • (i) any cash calls made by the Company in its capacity as operator of the Orlando Field (the "Operator") for operating expenditure and capital expenditure reasonably and properly incurred by the Operator in relation to the Orlando Field (other than amounts due to Contractor B and Contractor C); and
  • (ii) after having achieved Enhanced First Oil only (but without prejudice to the ability in the case of a Huntington Event to transfer an amount of \$2,500,000 to assist with working capital as described above), to the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account or the Issuer Earnings Account (as the Company may direct) for capital expenditures relating to the Huntington Asset and/or any incremental decommissioning provision required for the Huntington Asset and/or the Trent

& Tyne Asset in excess of the decommissioning provision prior to Enhanced First Oil;

Third: pro rata and pari passu, amounts due and payable (including any amounts outstanding) to the Super Senior Creditors in respect of the Super Senior Secured Debt in accordance with their respective payment schedules (including any amounts previously due but not paid);

Fourth: pro rata and pari passu:

  • (i) amounts payable by the Company (in its capacity as joint venture partner) in respect of obligations due by it in respect of any cash calls made by the Company in its capacity as operator of the Orlando Field in respect of (a) Contractor B and (b) Contractor C; and
  • (ii) amounts payable by the Company in respect of (a) MPX and (b) Sorgenia. These payments shall ignore any contributions due from any third party co-venturer,

provided that such amounts under this fourth limb will only be payable if the Company certifies in writing to the Security Agent that the Company (after taking into account any projected revenue to be paid into the Escrow Account) will be able to pay all amounts due and payable to the Super Senior Creditors within the next 30 days.

Any residue shall be held in the Escrow Account until the Industry Funders Discharge Date.

Post Industry Funders Discharge Date Following the Industry Funders Discharge Date: (a) any amounts held in the Escrow Account will be applied in accordance with the section of the Term Sheet for the Remaining

  • Bonds entitled "Cash Sweep and Debt Service Retention Account"; and
  • (b) all Project Proceeds (as defined in the Term Sheet for the Remaining Bonds) shall be paid into the Huntington Subsidiary Earnings Account or the Issuer Earnings Account.
  • Application of Proceeds post-Enforcement Any monies received by the Security Agent as a result of enforcement of the Transaction Security or that has been turned over to the Security Agent as a result of the turnover to be applied in the following order:

First: pro rata and pari passu, the costs and expenses of the Security Agent (including reimbursement of any amounts advanced by a Secured Creditor to the Security Agent or the Bond Trustee to fund the Enforcement Action), each Super Senior Secured Creditor, the Bond Trustee and any receiver;

Second: pro rata and pari passu, the Super Senior Secured Debt

Third: pro rata and pari passu, the Bond Debt; and

Fourth: to the relevant debtor(s) or any other person entitled to it.

Option to Purchase At any time (a) in the period prior to First Oil, after (i) a Super Senior Enforcement Notice has been issued or (ii) the Bond Standstill Period has expired and the Bond Trustee has instructed the Security Agent to take Specified Enforcement Action; or (b) in the period following First Oil, after an Event of Default under any Super Senior Secured Debt or the Bond Debt:

(a) each of the Super Senior Secured Creditors shall at the request of the Bond Trustee, promptly provide the Bond Trustee with the amount of Super Senior Secured Debt outstanding to it; and

(b) the Bond Trustee or any nominee of the Bond Trustee or of the Bondholders may purchase at par (including interest accrued and unpaid as of the completion of the purchase) all (but not part) of the outstanding Super Senior Secured Debt (including the Project Hedges but excluding any related Crude Oil Sales or Offtake arrangements) by giving the Security Agent and each Super Senior Secured Creditor not less than 10 days' and not greater than 20 days' irrevocable notice (the "Option to Purchase"). The obligation of the Bond Trustee or any nominee of the Bond Trustee or of the Bondholders to complete the purchase may be conditional only (but not otherwise) upon the non-occurrence of a Material Adverse Event (as defined below) following the notification. "Material Adverse Event" means (i) the occurrence of an insolvency event with respect to any member of the Group, (ii) the receipt by any member of the Group of a notice of default or termination with respect to the licence for the Orlando Asset, the Huntington Asset or any other material hydrocarbon licence of the Group, (iii) the revocation of any such licences or the commencement of any legal or administrative proceeding which may result in such revocation or (iv) the occurrence of any event which has a similar adverse effect on the Group's assets, business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects.

If the Bond Trustee (upon the instruction of the requisite majority of Bondholders) or Bondholders (as appropriate) decide not to complete the Option to Purchase as a result of the occurrence of a Material Adverse Event, the Bond Trustee or Bondholders (as appropriate), shall notify the Super Senior Creditors immediately (and in any event no later than 24 hours after ultimately deciding that a Material Adverse Event has occurred and that the Option to Purchase is not to proceed) (the "Cancellation Notice"). Following a Cancellation Notice, the principles which are set forth in the section hereof entitled "Enforcement Action" shall continue to apply with respect to any enforcement of Transaction Security as if the Option to Purchase had not been exercised; provided that if the Option to Purchase has been exercised during the Bond Standstill Period and a Cancellation Notice has been issued, the Bond Standstill Period shall be extended by a period which is equal to the period between the exercise of the Option to Purchase and the Cancellation Notice such that the Bond Standstill Period will remain 45 days in total ignoring the period between the exercise of the Option to

Purchase and the issue of the Cancellation Notice.

Following, or concurrently with, the notification to exercise the Option to Purchase, the Bond Trustee or any nominee of the Bond Trustee or of the Bondholders, as the case may be, may by written notice require the Security Agent to temporarily suspend any enforcement of the Transaction Security for the period from the date of issue of the notice exercising the Option to Purchase to the earlier of (a) the completion of the purchase of the Super Senior Secured Debt and (b) the date falling 20 days after the issue of such notice.

  • Step in Right If the Company fails to meet any cash call with respect to a Licence by its due date, any one or more Bondholders (provided that participation is offered to all Bondholders pro rata to the holding of Remaining Bonds at the time) shall be entitled to fund that cash call, and the Company shall (and shall be required to) issue Additional Bonds to the relevant Bondholders equal to the amount so funded.
  • Security Agent Provisions Provisions are required to reflect those contained in the LMA style of intercreditor agreement.
  • Amendments to the ICA Waivers, consents or amendments to or in relation to the ICA must be agreed by each Super Senior Creditor, the Bond Trustee, the Security Agent, the Company and the Huntington Subsidiary. To the extent that an amendment to the ICA only affects the rights and obligations of a particular Secured Creditor and does not prejudice other Secured Creditors, only the affected Secured Creditor(s) need to agree to the waivers, consents or amendments.
  • Amendments to the Super Senior Secured Documents No amendment shall be permitted which would have the effect of (a) increasing the principal amount of the Super Senior Secured Debt, (b) increasing the interest rate or coupon payable or paying fees under or in respect of the Super Senior Secured Debt or (c) amending the due dates of any payment obligations to any of the Industry Funders without the consent of the Bond Trustee.
  • Governing Law The ICA will be governed by English law.

SCHEDULE 1

SECURITY ENFORCEMENT PRINCIPLES

    1. The Security Enforcement Principles may be amended, varied or waived with the prior written consent of the Super Senior Creditors, the Bond Trustee and the Security Agent, provided that no additional obligations may be imposed on the Group without the consent of the Company and the Huntington Subsidiary.
    1. The Transaction Security will be enforced and other action as to enforcement will be taken with a view to:
  • (a) all proceeds of enforcement being received by the Security Agent in cash for distribution in accordance with the section of these Intercreditor Principles headed "Application of Proceeds Post-Enforcement"; and
  • (b) in the case of enforcement on the instructions of the Bond Trustee, sufficient proceeds from enforcement being received by the Security Agent in cash such that when the proceeds are applied in accordance with the section of these Intercreditor Principles headed "Application of Proceeds Post-Enforcement", the Super Senior Secured Debt is repaid and discharged in full (provided that the foregoing shall not limit the general obligations of the Security Agent to maximise value under applicable law with respect to the enforcement of security, which, for the avoidance of doubt shall continue to apply).
    1. On:
  • (a) a proposed enforcement of any of the Transaction Security over assets other than shares in a member of the Group, where the aggregate book value of such assets exceeds GBP2 million (or its equivalent in other currencies); or
  • (b) a proposed enforcement of any of the Transaction Security over a UK petroleum production licence or joint operating agreement interest or some or all of the shares in a member of the Group over which Transaction Security exists,

the Security Agent shall, if requested by the Super Senior Secured Creditors or the Bond Trustee (as applicable), and at the expense of the Group, (to the extent that such firms have not adopted a general policy of not providing such opinions) appoint an internationally recognised investment bank or any one of BDO, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG or PricewaterhouseCoopers or, if it is not practicable for the Security Agent to appoint any such bank or firm on commercially reasonable terms (including for reasons of conflicts of interest) as determined by the Security Agent (acting in good faith), another third party professional firm which is regularly engaged in providing valuations in respect of the relevant type of assets (in each case not being the firm appointed as the relevant debtor's administrator or other relevant officer holder) selected by the Security Agent (an "Independent Valuer") to opine that the consideration received for any disposal is fair from a financial point of view taking into account all relevant circumstances (the "Independent Valuer's Opinion").

  1. If the Super Senior Creditors or the Bond Trustee instruct the Security Agent to take Specified Enforcement Action, the Security Agent shall only appoint, as the relevant insolvency practitioner, one or more partners from one of the following: BDO, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, FTI, Alix Partners or PricewaterhouseCoopers

    1. The Security Agent shall be under no obligation to appoint an Independent Valuer or to seek the advice of an Independent Valuer, unless expressly required to do so by these Security Enforcement Principles or any other provision of the Intercreditor Agreement. Prior to making any appointment of an Independent Valuer, the Security Agent is entitled to ensure that cost cover (at a level it is satisfied with acting reasonably) has been provided by the Company (or any of the Secured Creditors).
    1. The Independent Valuer's Opinion (or any equivalent opinion obtained by the Security Agent in relation to any other enforcement of the Transaction Security that such action is fair from a financial point of view after taking into account all relevant circumstances) will be conclusive evidence that the consideration received for any disposal is fair from a financial point of view.
    1. If enforcement of any Transaction Security is conducted by way of a public auction, no Independent Valuer shall be required to be appointed, and no Independent Valuer's Opinion shall be required, in relation to such enforcement.