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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000894627-19-000025
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20190508
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190508
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190508

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000894627
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
		IRS NUMBER:				760274813
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32167
		FILM NUMBER:		19807533

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 RICHMOND AVE.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77042
		BUSINESS PHONE:		713-623-0801

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 RICHMOND AVE.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77042
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<TYPE>8-K
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			Form 8-K 5-7-19 CIC
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Date of Report (D</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">a</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">te of earliest reported): May 2</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">, 2019</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-size:10pt;">On May 2, 2019, the Board of Directors (the &#x201C;Board&#x201D;) of</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:10pt;"> VAALCO Energy, Inc. (the &#x201C;Company&#x201D;)</font><font style="display: inline;font-size:10pt;"> adopted a form of change in control agreement (the &#x201C;Change in Control Agreement&#x201D;) and approved entering into such agreements with executive officers and certain other associates of the Company, including David A. DesAutels (Executive Vice President of Corporate Development), Elizabeth D. Prochnow (Chief Financial Officer) and Michael G. Silver (Executive Vice President and General Counsel).&nbsp;&nbsp;The Change in Control Agreement was adopted in order to provide severance benefits in connection with a change in control to executive officers and certain other associates of the Company. </font>
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			Exhibit 101 - CIC Agreement
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;">Exhibit 10</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;">.1</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENT</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">THIS CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENT (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), effective as of _________, 2019 (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Effective Date</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), is made and entered into by and between VAALCO Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereafter &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Company</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) and _________ (hereafter &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Employee</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;). The Company and Employee may sometimes hereafter be referred to singularly as a &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Party</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D; or collectively as the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Parties</font><font style="display: inline;">.&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">W</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">I</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">T</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">N</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">E</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">S</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">S</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">E</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">T</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">H</font><font style="display: inline;">:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide certain benefits to Employee in the event of a termination of employment following a Change in Control (defined below) subject to the terms and conditions hereafter set forth; and</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">WHEREAS, Employee is willing to enter into this Agreement upon the terms and conditions hereafter set forth;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises, covenants and obligations contained herein, the Parties hereby agree as follows:</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;"></font><a name="_Toc409787755"></a><a name="_Ref365540478"></a><a name="_Ref365540354"></a><a name="_Ref365539746"></a><font style="display: inline;">RIGHTS AND PAYMENTS UPON TERMINATION FOLLOWING A CHANGE IN CONTROL</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee&#x2019;s right to compensation and benefits for periods after the date on which his employment terminates with the Company and all Affiliates (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Termination Date</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) shall be determined in accordance with this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Article 1</font><font style="display: inline;">, as follows:</font>
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			<a name="_Ref365458285"></a><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;color:#000000;">Minimum Payments</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee shall be entitled to the following minimum payments under this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(a)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, in addition to any other payments or benefits to which he is entitled to receive under the terms of this Agreement or any employee benefit plan or program:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">his accrued and unpaid Base Salary through the Termination Date;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">his accrued and unused vacation days through the Termination Date; and</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">reimbursement of his reasonable business expenses that were incurred but unpaid as of the Termination Date.</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">Such salary and accrued vacation days shall be paid to Employee within five (5) Business Days following the Termination Date in a cash lump sum less applicable withholdings.&nbsp;&nbsp;Business expenses shall be reimbursed in accordance with the Company&#x2019;s normal policy and procedures.</font>
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			<a name="_Ref365540268"></a><a name="_Ref409181491"></a><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;color:#000000;">Termination Benefits</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the event that </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee incurs a CIC Severance Payment Event, the following severance benefits shall be provided to Employee hereunder or, in the event of his death before receiving all such benefits, to his Designated Beneficiary following his death:</font>
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			<a name="_Ref409787594"></a><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Additional Payment</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company shall pay to Employee as additional compensation (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Additional Payment</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> of Employee&#x2019;s Base Salary and seventy-five percent (75%) of Target Bonus as in effect as of the Termination Date.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Company shall make the Additional Payment to Employee over a six-month period in twelve, substantially equal bi-monthly payments that begin within twenty (20) days following the Termination Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;The payment of any Additional Payment shall be made in accordance with, and subject to, the Release requirements of </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.3</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> and the Company's standard payroll procedures.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Company shall delay payments pursuant to </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> to the extent required to comply with the requirements of Code Section 409A.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Employee is a &#x201C;specified employee&#x201D; within the meaning of Code Section 409A, then payment of the Additional Payments otherwise payable during the first six (6) months following the Termination Date shall be deferred for six (6) months following the Termination Date (in accordance with </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.1)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> and such aggregate amount shall be paid within ten (10) days following the expiration of such 6-month period. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">In the event of Employee&#x2019;s death prior to the payment of all installments of the Additional Payment as provided above, the remaining installment payments shall be aggregated and paid in a single sum payment to the Employee&#x2019;s Designated Beneficiary within sixty (60) days from Employee&#x2019;s date of death.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Continued Group Health Plan Coverage</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and its Affiliates shall maintain continued group health plan coverage following the Termination Date under any of the Company&#x2019;s group health plans that covered Employee immediately before the Termination Date which are subject to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, as codified in Code Section 4980B and Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">COBRA</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), for Employee and his eligible spouse and other dependents (together, &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Dependents</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), for a period of six (6) </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">months following the Termination Date and at no cost to Employee and his Dependents.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">After the Termination Date, Employee, and his Dependents, if any, must first elect and maintain any COBRA continuation coverage under such plan that they are entitled to receive under the terms of such plan and COBRA.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, Employee and his Dependents shall not be required to make any premium payments for the portion of any such COBRA coverage period that does not extend beyond the maximum three-month</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">period referenced above.&nbsp;&nbsp;In all other respects, Employee and his Dependents shall be treated the same as other COBRA qualified beneficiaries under the terms of such plan and the requirements of COBRA during the period while COBRA coverage remains in effect. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The continuation coverage described above shall be provided in a manner that is intended to satisfy an exception to Code Section&nbsp;409A, and therefore not be treated as an arrangement providing for nonqualified deferred compensation that is subject to taxation under Code Section&nbsp;409A.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as giving the Employee any right to be retained in the employ of the Company or any of its Affiliates or shall interfere in any way with the right of the Company to terminate the Employee&#x2019;s employment at any time, with or without Cause.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787757"></a><a name="_Ref365540293"></a><a name="_Ref365540174"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Limitation on Other Severance Benefits</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Limitation on Other Severance Payments</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of clarity, in the event that (i) Employee voluntarily resigns or otherwise voluntarily terminates his own employment during the Term of Employment, (ii)&nbsp;Employee&#x2019;s employment is terminated due to a No Severance Benefits Event, or (iii) Employee&#x2019;s employment is terminated for any reason outside of a CIC Window Period then, in any such event under clause (i), (ii) or (iii), the Company shall have no obligation to provide the severance benefits described in </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">subsections (i) and (ii)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> of </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(b)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, except to offer COBRA coverage (as required by COBRA) but not at the discounted rate as described in </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(b)(ii)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee shall still be entitled to receive the severance benefits provided under </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(a)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.</font>
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			<a name="_Ref365540229"></a><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">No Duplication of Severance Benefits</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Notwithstanding </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, if Employee receives or is entitled to receive any severance benefit under any change of control policy, or any agreement with, or plan or policy of, the Company or any Affiliate, the amount payable under </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(b)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> to or on behalf of Employee shall be offset by such other severance benefits received by Employee, and Employee shall thus be entitled to receive the greater of such other severance benefits or the benefits provided under this Agreement, and not any duplicate benefits.&nbsp;&nbsp;The severance payments provided under this Agreement shall also supersede and replace any duplicative severance benefits under any severance pay plan or program that the Company or any Affiliate maintains for </font>
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		</p><a name="_Toc409787758"></a><a name="_Ref365540050"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Release Agreement</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;In order to receive the Termination Benefits, Employee must first execute the Release on a form provided by the Company in substantially the same form as attached hereto as </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Appendix B</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, together with any changes thereto that the Company deems to be necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law or regulation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the Release, thereby Employee agrees to release and waive, in return for such severance benefits, any claims that he may have against the Company including, without limitation, for unlawful discrimination or retaliation (</font><font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;color:#000000;">e.g.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act); provided, however, the Release shall not release any claim by or on behalf of Employee for any payment or benefit that is due and payable under the terms of this Agreement prior to the receipt thereof.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Company shall deliver the Release to Employee within ten (10) days after the Employment Termination Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Employee must return the executed Release within the forty-five (45) day period following the date of his receipt of the Release.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the conditions set forth in the preceding sentence are not satisfied by Employee, the Termination Benefits shall be forfeited hereunder.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">If the Release delivery and non-revocation period spans two taxable years, the Termination Benefits will always be paid in the second taxable year.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company shall also execute the Release.&nbsp;&nbsp;No Termination Benefits shall be payable or provided by the Company unless and until the Release has been executed by Employee, has not been revoked, and is no longer subject to revocation by Employee.&nbsp; </font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787760"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">No Mitigation</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee shall not be required to mitigate the amount of any payment or other benefits provided under this Agreement by seeking other employment.</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;">1.5</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Term of Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The initial term of this Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and end on December 31, 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning effective as of December&nbsp;31, 2019, the term of this Agreement shall be extended automatically for additional successive one-year periods as of such date and as of each annual anniversary of such date while this Agreement remains in effect so that the remaining term is one year; provided, however, if, at any time prior to the date that is sixty (60) days before December 31, 2019 or any annual anniversary thereof, either Party gives Notice to the other Party that no such automatic extension shall occur, then this Agreement shall terminate on the last day of the then-current calendar year period.</font>
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			<p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;width:100%">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;text-decoration:none;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;text-align:center;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;;padding:0pt 3pt 0pt 0pt;"> Article 1.</font>
			<br /><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"></font><a name="_Toc409787778"></a><a name="_Ref365554187"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">GENERAL PROVISIONS</font></p></td></tr></table></div><a name="_Toc409787779"></a><a name="_Ref365558222"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Matters Relating to Section 409A of the Code</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, if the payment of any compensation or benefit provided hereunder (including, without limitation, any Termination Benefits) would be subject to additional taxes and interest under Section 409A of the Code (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Section 409A</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), then the following provisions shall apply:</font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, with respect to any amounts payable to Employee under this Agreement in connection with a termination of Employee&#x2019;s employment that would be considered &#x201C;non-qualified deferred compensation&#x201D; that is subject to, and not exempt under, Section 409A, a termination of employment shall not be considered to have occurred under this Agreement unless and until such termination constitutes Employee&#x2019;s Separation From Service.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Termination Benefits provided to Employee pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in reliance upon Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) (relating to separation pay plans) or Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) (relating to short-term deferrals).&nbsp;&nbsp;However, to the extent any such payments are treated as &#x201C;non-qualified deferred compensation&#x201D; subject to Section 409A, and if Employee is determined by the Company at the time of his Separation from Service to be a &#x201C;specified employee&#x201D; for purposes of Section 409A, then to the extent delayed payment of the Termination Benefits to which Employee is entitled under this Agreement is required in order to avoid a prohibited payment under Section 409A, such severance payment shall not be made to Employee before the earlier of (1)&nbsp;the expiration of the six-month period measured from the date Employee&#x2019;s Separation from Service or (2)&nbsp;the date of Employee&#x2019;s death.&nbsp;&nbsp;Upon the earlier of such dates, all payments deferred pursuant to this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> shall be paid in a lump sum to Employee (or to Employee&#x2019;s Designated Beneficiary in the event of his death).</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The determination of whether Employee is a &#x201C;specified employee&#x201D; for purposes of Section 409A at the time of his Separation from Service shall be made by the Company in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any separate Company policy, with respect to any in-kind benefits and reimbursements provided under this Agreement during any tax year of Employee shall not affect in-kind benefits or reimbursements to be provided in any other tax year of Employee and are not subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reimbursement requests must be timely submitted by Employee, and if timely submitted, reimbursement payments shall be made to Employee as soon as administratively practicable following such submission in accordance with the Company&#x2019;s policy regarding reimbursements, but in no event later than the last day of Employee&#x2019;s taxable year following the taxable year in which the expense was incurred.&nbsp;&nbsp;This </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> shall only apply to in-kind benefits and reimbursements that would result in taxable compensation income to Employee.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">This Agreement is intended to be written, administered, interpreted and construed in a manner such that no payment under this Agreement becomes subject to (1)&nbsp;the gross income inclusion under Section 409A or (2) the interest and additional tax under Section 409A (collectively, &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Section 409A Penalties</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), including, where </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">appropriate, the construction of defined terms to have meanings that would not cause the imposition of the Section 409A Penalties.&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of Section 409A, each payment that Employee may be eligible to receive under this Agreement shall be treated as a separate and distinct payment and shall not collectively be treated as a single payment.&nbsp;&nbsp;If any provision of this Agreement would cause Employee to incur the Section 409A Penalties, the Company may, after consulting with Employee, reform such provision to comply with Section&nbsp;409A or to preclude imposition of the Section 409A Penalties, to the full extent permitted under Section 409A.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787780"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Withholdings; Right of Offset</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company may withhold and deduct from any benefits and payments made or to be made pursuant to this Agreement (a) all federal, state, local, foreign, and other taxes as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling, (b) all other normal employee deductions made with respect to Company&#x2019;s employees generally, and (c) any advances made to Employee and owed to Company.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787781"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Nonalienation</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The right to receive payments under this Agreement shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge or encumbrance by Employee, his dependents or beneficiaries, or to any other Person who is or may become entitled to receive such payments hereunder.&nbsp;&nbsp;The right to receive payments hereunder shall not be subject to or liable for the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements or torts of any Person who is or may become entitled to receive such payments, nor may the same be subject to attachment or seizure by any creditor of such Person under any circumstances, and any such attempted attachment or seizure shall be void and of no force and effect.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787782"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Incompetent or Minor Payees</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Should the Compensation Committee determine, in its discretion, that any Person to whom any payment is payable under this Agreement has been determined to be legally incompetent or is a minor, any payment due hereunder, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, may be made in any one or more of the following ways:&nbsp;&nbsp;(a) directly to such Person; (b) to the legal guardian or other duly appointed personal representative of the individual or the estate of such Person; or (c) to such adult or adults as have, in the good faith knowledge of the Compensation Committee, assumed custody and support of such Person; and any payment so made shall constitute full and complete discharge of any liability under this Agreement in respect to the amount paid.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787784"></a><a name="_Ref365558305"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Successors and Assigns</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company and any successor of the Company (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise), and this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Employee&#x2019;s legal representatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company shall require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company to assume expressly and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken place.&nbsp;&nbsp;As used in this Agreement, &#x201C;Company&#x201D; shall mean the Company as previously defined and any successor by operation of law or otherwise, as well as any successor to its business and/or assets as aforesaid which assumes </font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">and agrees to perform this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Except as provided in the preceding provisions of this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Section 2.5</font><font style="display: inline;">, this Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Parties hereunder, are personal in nature and neither this Agreement, nor any right, benefit, or obligation of either Party hereto, shall be subject to voluntary or involuntary assignment, alienation or transfer, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the written consent of the other Party.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787785"></a><a name="_Ref408497093"></a><font style="display: inline;">Notice</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each Notice or other communication required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and transmitted, delivered, or sent by personal delivery, prepaid courier or messenger service (whether overnight or same-day), or prepaid certified United States mail (with return receipt requested), addressed (in any case) to the other Party at the address for that Party set forth below or under that Party&#x2019;s signature on this Agreement, or at such other address as the recipient has designated by Notice to the other Party.</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:35pt;"><font style="display: inline;">To the Company:</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;">VAALCO Energy, Inc.</font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">9800 Richmond Avenue, Suite 700</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Houston, Texas&nbsp;&nbsp;77042</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Attention:&nbsp;&nbsp;Legal Department </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">&#xFEFF;</font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:48pt;"><font style="display: inline;">To Employee:</font></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;"></font></font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:106pt;"></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;"></font></font>
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			<font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:106pt;"></font><font style="text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt; padding-right:4pt;text-align:left"><font style="display: inline;"></font></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Each Notice or communication so transmitted, delivered, or sent (a) in person, by courier or messenger service, or by certified United States mail (return receipt requested) shall be deemed given, received, and effective on the date delivered to or refused by the intended recipient (with the return receipt, or the equivalent record of the courier or messenger, being deemed conclusive evidence of delivery or refusal), or (b) by telecopy or facsimile shall be deemed given, received, and effective on the date of actual receipt (with the confirmation of transmission being deemed conclusive evidence of receipt, except where the intended recipient has promptly Notified the other Party that the transmission is illegible). Nevertheless, if the date of delivery or transmission is not a Business Day, or if the delivery or transmission is after 4:00&nbsp;p.m. (local time at the recipient) on a Business Day, the Notice or other communication shall be deemed given, received, and effective on the next Business Day.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787786"></a><a name="_Ref365542478"></a><font style="display: inline;">Mandatory Arbitration of Disputes</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Except as provided in </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">subsection&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">(h)</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;"> of this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;">, any Dispute must be resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the following:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Either Party may begin arbitration by filing a demand for arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules and concurrently Notifying the other Party of that demand.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the Parties are unable to agree upon the choice of an arbitrator within twenty (20) Business Days after the demand for arbitration was filed (and do not agree to an extension of that 20-day period), either Party may request the Houston, Texas, office of the American Arbitration Association (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">AAA</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;) to appoint the arbitrator in accordance with the Arbitration Rules.&nbsp;&nbsp;The arbitrator, as so appointed hereunder, is referred to herein as the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Arbitrator</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;.</font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The arbitration shall be conducted in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area, at a place and time agreed upon by the Parties with the Arbitrator, or if the Parties cannot agree, as designated by the Arbitrator.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Arbitrator may, however, call and conduct hearings and meetings at such other places as the Parties may mutually agree or as the Arbitrator may, on the motion of one Party, determine to be necessary to obtain significant testimony or evidence.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Arbitrator may authorize any and all forms of discovery upon a Party&#x2019;s showing of need that the requested discovery is likely to lead to material evidence needed to resolve the Dispute and is not excessive in scope, timing, or cost.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The arbitration shall be subject to the Federal Arbitration Act and conducted in accordance with the Arbitration Rules to the extent that they do not conflict with this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Parties and the Arbitrator may, however, agree to vary to provisions of this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> or the matters otherwise governed by the Arbitration Rules.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The arbitration hearing shall be held within sixty (60) days after the appointment of the Arbitrator.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Arbitrator&#x2019;s final decision or award shall be made within thirty (30) days after the hearing.&nbsp;&nbsp;That final decision or award by the Arbitrator shall be deemed issued at the place of arbitration.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Arbitrator&#x2019;s final decision or award shall be based on this Agreement and applicable law.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Arbitrator&#x2019;s final decision or award may include injunctive relief in response to any actual or impending breach of this Agreement or any other actual or impending action or omission by a Party in connection with this Agreement.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Arbitrator&#x2019;s final decision or award shall be final and binding upon the Parties, and judgment upon that decision or award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Parties shall have any appeal rights afforded to them under the Federal Arbitration Act.</font>
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			<a name="_Ref365558341"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Nothing in this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> shall limit the right of either Party to apply to a court having jurisdiction to: (1) enforce the agreement to arbitrate in accordance with this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">; (2) seek provisional or temporary injunctive relief in response to an actual or impending breach of the Agreement or otherwise so as to avoid an irreparable damage or maintain the status quo, until a final arbitration decision or award is rendered or the Dispute is otherwise resolved; or (3) challenge or vacate any final Arbitrator&#x2019;s decision or award that does not comply with this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition, nothing in this </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> prohibits the Parties from resolving any Dispute (in whole or in part) by mutual agreement at any time, including, without limitation, through the use of personal negotiations or mediation</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> with a third party.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Arbitrator may proceed to an award notwithstanding the failure of any Party to participate in such proceedings.&nbsp;&nbsp;The prevailing Party in the arbitration proceeding may be entitled to an award of reasonable attorneys&#x2019; fees incurred in </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">connection with the arbitration in such amount, if any, as determined by the Arbitrator in his discretion.&nbsp;&nbsp;The costs of the arbitration shall be borne equally by the Parties unless otherwise determined by the Arbitrator in the award.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Arbitrator shall be empowered to impose sanctions and to take such other actions as it deems necessary to the same extent a judge could impose sanctions or take such other actions pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and applicable law.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each Party agrees to keep all Disputes and arbitration proceedings strictly confidential except for the disclosure of information required by applicable law.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee acknowledges that by agreeing to this provision, he knowingly and voluntarily waives any right he may have to a jury trial based on any claims he has, had, or may have against the Company or an Affiliate, including any right to a jury trial under any local, municipal, state or federal law.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787787"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Severability</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the desire of the Parties hereto that this Agreement be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and should any provision contained herein be held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator (pursuant to</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"> Section 2.7)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, the Parties hereby agree and consent that such provision shall be reformed to create a valid and enforceable provision to the maximum extent permitted by law; provided, however, if such provision cannot be reformed, it shall be deemed ineffective and deleted herefrom without affecting any other provision of this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement should be construed by limiting and reducing it only to the minimum extent necessary to be enforceable under then applicable law.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787788"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">No Third Party Beneficiaries</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties hereto, and to their respective successors and permitted assigns hereunder, but otherwise this Agreement shall not be for the benefit of any Persons who are third parties.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787789"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Waiver of Breach</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;No waiver by either Party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement by the other Party, or of compliance with any condition or provision of this Agreement to be performed by the other Party, will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by the other Party or any similar or dissimilar provision or condition at the same or any subsequent time.&nbsp;&nbsp;The failure of either Party to take any action by reason of any breach will not deprive such Party of the right to take action at any time while such breach continues.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787790"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Survival of Certain Provisions</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wherever appropriate to the intention of the Parties, the respective rights and obligations of the Parties hereunder shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement or following the Employee&#x2019;s Termination Date.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787791"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Entire Agreement; Amendment</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the Parties with respect to the matters covered herein; moreover, this Agreement supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the </font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">Parties concerning the subject matter hereof.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement may be amended only by a written instrument that is identified as an amendment and that is executed by or on behalf of each Party.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787792"></a><font style="display: inline;">Interpretive Matters</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the interpretation of the Agreement, except where the context otherwise requires:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Headings.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;The Agreement headings are for reference purposes only and will not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The terms &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">including</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; and &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">include</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; do not denote or imply any limitation.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The conjunction &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">or</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; has the inclusive meaning &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">and/or</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The singular includes the plural, and vice versa, and each gender includes each of the others.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The term &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">month</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; refers to a calendar month.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Reference to any statute, rule, or regulation includes any amendment thereto or any statute, rule, or regulation enacted or promulgated in replacement thereof.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The words &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">herein</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;, &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">hereof</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;, &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">hereunder</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; and other compounds of the word &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">here</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; shall refer to the entire Agreement and not to any particular provision.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">All amounts referenced herein are in U.S. dollars.</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">(i)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">In addition to the terms defined in the text hereof, terms with initial capital letters as used herein have the meanings assigned to them, for all purposes of this Agreement, in the Definitions Appendix hereto, unless the context reasonably requires a broader, narrower or different meaning.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Definitions Appendix, as attached hereto, is part of this Agreement and incorporated herein.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787793"></a><a name="_Ref365455710"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Governing Law; Jurisdiction</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;All matters or issues relating to the interpretation, construction, validity, and enforcement of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to any choice-of-law principle that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than Texas.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jurisdiction and venue of any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any Dispute (to the extent arbitration is not required under </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.7</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">) shall be exclusively in the federal and state courts of competent jurisdiction in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787794"></a><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee Acknowledgment</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;Employee acknowledges that (a) he is knowledgeable and sophisticated as to business matters, including the subject matter of this Agreement, (b) he has read this Agreement and understands its terms and conditions, (c)&nbsp;he has had ample opportunity to discuss this Agreement with his legal counsel prior to execution, and </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">(d) no strict rules of construction shall apply for or against the drafter or any other Party.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee represents that he is free to enter into this Agreement.</font>
		</p><a name="_Toc409787795"></a><font style="display: inline;">Counterparts</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each counterpart may consist of a copy hereof containing multiple signature pages, each signed by one Party hereto, but together signed by both Parties.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;"> [Signature page follows.]</font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Employee has hereunto set his hand and Company has caused this Agreement to be executed in its name and on its behalf by its duly authorized officer, to be effective as of the Effective Date.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">WITNESS:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 223.2pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">EMPLOYEE</font><font style="display: inline;">:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">&#xFEFF;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Signature:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Signature:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Name:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Name:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Date:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Date:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">ATTEST:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 226.8pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">COMPANY</font><font style="display: inline;">:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">VAALCO ENERGY, INC.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">By: </font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Name:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Name: </font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Cary M. Bounds </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Title:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Title:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Chief Executive Officer</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Date:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;">Date:&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Definitions Appendix</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Affiliate&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">has the same meaning ascribed to such term in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Anticipatory Termination&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means a Separation From Service of the Employee within the time period that begins on the first day of the month that is three (3) months immediately preceding the first day of the month containing the Change in Control Date and ends on the Change in Control Date, but only if the Employee&#x2019;s Separation From Service was (a) due to a termination by the Company without Cause or (b) a termination by the Employee for Good Reason.&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of clarification and not limitation, a Separation From Service for Cause, or due to Employee&#x2019;s death or Disability or his voluntary resignation without Good Reason, is not an Anticipatory Termination.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Arbitration Rules&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">means the Rules for Employment Arbitrations of the American Arbitration Association, as in effect at the time of arbitration of a Dispute.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Board&#x201D;</font>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:100%;;;padding:0pt 26pt 0pt 0pt;"> 1.</font>
			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">means the then-current Board of Directors of the Company.</font></p></td></tr></table></div><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Business Day&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:201.5pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means any Monday through Friday, excluding any such day on which banks are authorized to be closed in Texas.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Cause&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> shall mean the termination by the Company of the Employee&#x2019;s employment with the Company by reason of (a) the conviction of the Employee by a court of competent jurisdiction as to which no further appeal can be taken of a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony; (b) the commission by the Employee of a material act of fraud upon the Company or any Subsidiary, or any customer or supplier thereof; (c) the misappropriation of any funds or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any customer or supplier thereof, by the Employee; (d) the willful and continued failure by the Employee to perform the material duties assigned to him that is not cured to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company within 30 days after written notice of such failure is provided to Employee by the Board or the Compensation Committee (or by an officer of the Company who has been designated by the Board or the Compensation Committee for such purpose); (e) the engagement by the Employee in any direct and material conflict of interest with the Company or any Subsidiary without compliance with the Company&#x2019;s or Subsidiary&#x2019;s conflict of interest policy, if any, then in effect; or (f) the engagement by the Employee, without the written approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee, in any material activity which competes with the business of the Company or any Subsidiary or which would result in a material injury to the business, reputation or goodwill of the Company or any Subsidiary.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Change in Control</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means the occurrence of any one or more of the following events:</font>
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			<p style="border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The acquisition by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act (a &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Person</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;)) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of fifty percent (50%) or more of either (i) the then outstanding shares of common stock of the Company (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Outstanding Company Stock</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;) or (ii) the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Outstanding Company Voting Securities</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;); provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control: (i) any acquisition directly from the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) any acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary or by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary, or (iii) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a reorganization, merger, consolidation or similar business combination involving the Company (a &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Merger</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), if, following such Merger, the conditions described in </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 8(c)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> (below) are satisfied;</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Individuals who, as of the Effective Date, constitute the Board of Directors of the Company (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Incumbent Board</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the Effective Date whose election, or nomination for election by the Company&#x2019;s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of either an actual or threatened election contest (as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A promulgated under the Exchange Act) or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board;</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The consummation of a Merger involving the Company, unless immediately following such Merger, (i) substantially all of the holders of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to Merger beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of the common stock of the corporation resulting from such Merger (or its parent corporation) and (ii) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of the corporation resulting from such Merger (or its parent corporation) were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement providing for such Merger; or</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (d)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The sale consummation, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, unless immediately following such sale or other disposition, (i) substantially all of the holders of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to the consummation of such sale or other disposition beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than fifty percent (50%) of the common stock of the corporation acquiring such assets in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to the consummation of such sale or disposition, and (ii) at least a majority of the members of </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p></td></tr></table><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<table style="width:100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">the board of directors of such corporation (or its parent corporation) were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of execution of the initial agreement or action of the Board providing for such sale or other disposition of assets of the Company.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Change in Control definition, to the extent that any payment (or acceleration of payment) under the Agreement is considered to be deferred compensation that is subject to, and not exempt under, </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Code Section 409A</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">, then the term Change in Control hereunder shall be construed to have the meaning as set forth </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">in Code Section 409A</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> with respect to the payment (or acceleration of payment) of such deferred compensation, but only to the extent inconsistent with the foregoing provisions of this definition as determined by the Incumbent Board.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Change in Control Date&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means the first date upon which a Change in Control event occurs, provided that such date is during (a)&nbsp;the period in which Employee is employed by Company or any of its Affiliates or (b)&nbsp;the three-month period following the termination of Employee&#x2019;s employment with the Company or its Affiliates as specified in the definition of &#x201C;Anticipatory Termination&#x201D;, if applicable.</font>
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		<div style="width:100%"><table style="width:100%; table-layout: fixed;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="width:36pt;"><p style="width:36pt;font-size:0pt;"></p></td><td valign="top" align="left" style="width: 100%;text-indent:36pt;">
			<p style="border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;font-weight:bold;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:100%;;"> 2.</font>
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;CIC Severance Payment Event&#x201D; </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">means either:&nbsp;&nbsp;the Employee&#x2019;s Separation From Service with the Company and all Affiliates that occurs within the CIC Window Period, other than (1) voluntarily by the Employee unless such resignation is for Good Reason, (2)&nbsp;due to Employee&#x2019;s death or Disability, or (3) involuntarily by the Company for Cause.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any Separation From Service of the Employee that does not occur within the CIC Window Period, or is otherwise not described in this definition shall not be considered a CIC Severance Payment Event.</font></p></td></tr></table></div><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;CIC Window Period&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Arial;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means (a) the time period beginning on the Change in Control Date and ending on the last day of the six (6) consecutive month period that begins immediately following the last day of the month containing the Change in Control Date, or (b)&nbsp;following an Anticipatory Termination, the occurrence of a Change in Control (which Change in Control must qualify as a &#x201C;change in control event&#x201D; within the meaning of Section 409A) within the three-month period that is specified in the definition of &#x201C;Anticipatory Termination&#x201D;.</font>
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		<div style="width:100%"><table style="width:100%; table-layout: fixed;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="width:36pt;"><p style="width:36pt;font-size:0pt;"></p></td><td valign="top" align="left" style="width: 100%;text-indent:36pt;">
			<p style="border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;font-weight:bold;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:100%;;"> 3.</font>
			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Code</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;">&#x201D; means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or its successor.&nbsp;&nbsp;References herein to any Section of the Code shall include any successor provisions of the Code.</font></p></td></tr></table></div><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Confidential Information&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:224.6pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means any information or material known to, or used by or for, the Company or an Affiliate (whether or not owned or developed by the Company or an Affiliate and whether or not developed by Employee) that is not generally known by other Persons in the business.&nbsp;&nbsp;For all purposes of the Agreement, Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, the following: all trade secrets of the Company or an Affiliate; all non-public information that the Company or an Affiliate has marked as confidential or has otherwise described to Employee (either in writing or orally) as confidential; all non-public information concerning the Company&#x2019;s or Affiliate&#x2019;s products, services, prospective products or services, research, prospects, leases, surveys, seismic </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;">data, drilling data, designs, prices, costs, marketing plans, marketing techniques, studies, test data, leasehold and royalty owners, investors, suppliers and contracts; all business records and plans; all personnel files; all financial information of or concerning the Company or an Affiliate; all information relating to the Company&#x2019;s operating system software, application software, software and system methodology, hardware platforms, technical information, inventions, computer programs and listings, source codes, object codes, copyrights and other intellectual property; all technical specifications; any proprietary information belonging to the Company or an Affiliate; all computer hardware or software manuals of the Company or an Affiliate; all Company or Affiliate training or instruction manuals; all Company or Affiliate electronic data; and all computer system passwords and user codes.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Designated Beneficiary&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"> means Employee&#x2019;s surviving spouse, if any, as determined for purposes of the Code.&nbsp;&nbsp;If there is no such surviving spouse at the time of Employee&#x2019;s death, then the Designated Beneficiary shall be Employee&#x2019;s estate.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Disability&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"> shall mean that Employee is entitled to receive long</font><font style="display: inline;">&#8209;term disability (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">LTD</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) income benefits under the LTD plan or policy maintained by the Company or an Affiliate that covers Employee.&nbsp;&nbsp;If, for any reason, Employee is not covered under such LTD plan or policy, then &#x201C;Disability&#x201D; shall mean a &#x201C;permanent and total disability&#x201D; as defined in Code Section 22(e)(3) and Treasury regulations thereunder.&nbsp;&nbsp;Evidence of such Disability shall be certified by a physician acceptable to both the Company and Employee.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the event that the Parties are not able to agree on the choice of a physician, each shall select one physician who, in turn, shall select a third physician to render such certification.&nbsp;&nbsp;All costs relating to the determination of whether Employee has incurred a Disability shall be paid by the Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee agrees to submit to any examinations that are reasonably required by the attending physician or other healthcare service providers to determine whether he has a Disability.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Dispute&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"> means any dispute, disagreement, controversy, claim, or cause of action arising in connection with or relating to this Agreement or Employee&#x2019;s employment or termination of employment hereunder, or the validity, interpretation, performance, breach, modification or termination of this Agreement.</font>
		</p><a name="_Ref365456399"></a><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Good Reason&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:197.75pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;"> means, with respect to Employee, the occurrence of any one or more of the following events which first occurs while the Employee is employed by Company or any of its Affiliates, except as a result of actions taken in connection with termination of Employee&#x2019;s employment for Cause or Disability, and without Employee&#x2019;s specific written consent:</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The assignment to Employee of any duties that are materially inconsistent with Employee&#x2019;s position, which in this definition includes any material diminution in Employee&#x2019;s position, authority, duties, or responsibilities, other than (in any case or circumstance) an isolated and inadvertent action not taken in bad faith that is remedied </font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">by the Company within thirty (30) Business Days after Notice thereof to the Company by Employee; or</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The Company requires Employee to be based at any office or location that is farther than forty (40) miles from Employee&#x2019;s principal office location located in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area, except for required business travel; or</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Any failure by the Company to obtain an assumption of this Agreement by its successor in interest, or any action or inaction that constitutes a material breach by the Company of this Agreement.</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding the foregoing definition of &#x201C;Good Reason&#x201D;, Employee cannot terminate his employment under the Agreement for Good Reason unless Employee (1)&nbsp;first provides written Notice to the Compensation Committee of the event (or events) that Employee believes constitutes a Good Reason event (above) within sixty (60) days from the first occurrence date of such event, and (2) provides the Company with at least thirty (30) Business Days to cure, correct or mitigate the Good Reason event so that it either (A) does not constitute a Good Reason event hereunder or (B) Employee specifically agrees, in writing, that after any such modification or accommodation by the Company, such event does not constitute a Good Reason event hereunder.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;No Severance Benefits Event&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means termination of Employee&#x2019;s employment for Cause.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notice&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means a written communication complying with </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 2.6</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Notify</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D; has the correlative meaning).</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Person&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, or other en</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">tity, including any successor (by merger or otherwise) of such entity.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Release&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means a separation and release agreement, in such form as is prepared and delivered by the Company to Employee.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Release shall not release any claim by or on behalf of Employee for any payment or other benefit that is required under this Agreement prior to the receipt thereof, except as may otherwise be agreed to by Employee.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Separation From Service&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-weight:normal;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">means Employee&#x2019;s &#x201C;separation from service&#x201D; with the Company and its Affiliates, as such term is defined under Code Section 409A.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Subsidiary&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:186.45pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means a corporation or other entity, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of which at least a majority of the voting securities is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.</font>
		</p><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201C;Termination Benefits&#x201D;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> means the benefits described in </font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Section 1.1(b)</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.</font>
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		<p><font size="1"> </font></p><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p><font style="display: inline;">&#x201C;Termination Date&#x201D;</font>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:231.05pt;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;"> means the date on which Employee&#x2019;s employment terminates with the Company and all Affiliates.&nbsp;&nbsp;Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the date on which a &#x201C;separation from service&#x201D; under Code Section 409A is effective shall be the Termination Date with respect to any payment or benefit to or on behalf of Employee that constitutes deferred compensation that is subject to, and not exempt from or excepted under, Code Section 409A.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">&#xFEFF;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;">[End of Appendix A]</font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">APPENDIX B</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">TO</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENT</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">&#xFEFF;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">&#xFEFF;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">RELEASE AGREEMENT</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">In consideration of the Termination Benefits as set forth in that certain Change in Control Agreement (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Change in Control Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) dated as of ___________, 2019, and as it may be amended thereafter, by and between VAALCO Energy, Inc. (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Company</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) and __________ (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Employee</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), this Release Agreement (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) is made and entered into by the Company and the Employee (each a &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Party</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D; and together, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Parties</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;). </font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;text-indent:0pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;">By signing this Release Agreement, Employee and the Company hereby agree as follows:</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 1.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Purpose</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of this Agreement is to voluntarily resolve any actual or potential disputes or claims that Employee has, had or may ever have, as of the date of Employee&#x2019;s execution of this Agreement, against (a) the Company and all of its parents, predecessors, successors, Affiliates (as defined in the Change in Control Agreement), divisions, related companies and organizations, and its and their present and former agents, employees, managers, officers, directors, attorneys, stockholders, plan fiduciaries, assigns, agents, representatives, and all other Persons (as defined in the Change in Control Agreement) acting by, through or in concert with any of them and (b)&nbsp;all compensation and benefit plans and programs sponsored or maintained by the Company and the administrators, trustees, insurers, and fiduciaries of such plans and programs (hereinafter, all the persons and entities in clauses (a) and (b)&nbsp;being individually and collectively referred to as the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Released Parties</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;).&nbsp;&nbsp;Neither the fact that this Agreement has been proposed or executed, nor the terms of this Agreement, are intended to suggest, or should be construed as suggesting, that the Released Parties have acted unlawfully or violated any federal, state or local law or regulation, or any other duty, policy or contract involving Employee.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 2.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Termination of Employment</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Effective as of the close of business on ______________</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">(the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Termination Date</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;), Employee&#x2019;s employment with the Company and all of its Affiliates has terminated. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;text-indent: -36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt">
			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">3.</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 28.8pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Termination Benefits</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;In consideration for Employee&#x2019;s execution of, and required performance under, this Agreement, the Company shall provide Employee with the Termination Benefits (as defined in the Change in Control Agreement, which definition and other terms in the Change in Control Agreement are incorporated herein by this reference).&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee confirms and agrees that he would not otherwise have received, or been entitled to receive, the Termination Benefits if he did not enter into this Agreement.&nbsp; </font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 4.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Waiver of Additional Compensation or Benefits</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Termination Benefits to be paid to Employee constitutes the entire amount of compensation and consideration due to </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">7</font><font style="display: inline;"></font>

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</div></td></tr></table><hr size="3" style="color:#999999" width="100%" align="center"></hr><p style="page-break-after:always">&nbsp;</p>
		<table style="width:100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee under the Change in Control Agreement and this Agreement, and Employee acknowledges that he has no right to seek, and will not seek, any additional or different compensation or consideration for executing or performing under the Change in Control Agreement or this Agreement.&nbsp; </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 5.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Non-Disparagement.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;Employee hereby agrees not to disclose, communicate, or publish any disparaging or negative information, writings, electronic communications, comments, opinions, facts, or remarks, of any kind, about the Company and/or any of the other Released Parties; provided, however, that this paragraph shall have no application to any evidence or testimony required by any court or other government entity, including but not limited to, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (&#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">EEOC</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;) or any similar federal, state or local agency, under compulsion of law. Employee acknowledges that in executing this Agreement, Employee has knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently waived any free speech or First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution or applicable state counterpart to disclose, publish or communicate any such disparaging information about the Company and/or any of the other Released Parties.&nbsp; </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 6.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Employee Representations</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee expressly </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">acknowledges</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> and represents, and intends for the Company to rely upon the following in entering the Agreement:</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (a)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee has not filed any complaints, claims or actions against the Company or any of the other Released Parties with any court, agency, or commission regarding the matters encompassed by this Agreement and, by executing this Agreement, Employee hereby waives the right to recover monetary damages in any proceeding that (1)&nbsp;Employee may bring before the EEOC or any state or local human rights commission or (2)&nbsp;may be brought by the EEOC or any state or local human rights commission by or on Employee&#x2019;s behalf. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (b)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee understands that he is, by entering into this Agreement, releasing the Released Parties, including the Company, from any and all claims he has, had or may ever have against them under federal, state or local laws, which have arisen on or before the execution date of this Agreement.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (c)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee understands that he is, by entering into this Agreement, waiving all claims that he has, had or may ever have against the Released Parties under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, which have arisen on or before the execution date of this Agreement. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
		<div style="width:100%"><table style="width:100%; table-layout: fixed;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="width:36pt;"><p style="width:36pt;font-size:0pt;"></p></td><td valign="top" align="left" style="width: 25.00pt;">
			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (d)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee agrees that this Agreement shall be binding on him and his heirs, administrators, representatives, executors, successors, and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of his heirs, administrators, representatives, executors, successors and assigns. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (e)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee has reviewed all aspects of this Agreement, and has carefully read and fully understands all of the provisions and effects of this Agreement. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">8</font><font style="display: inline;"></font>

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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (f)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Employee has been, and is hereby, advised in writing to consult with an attorney of his own choice before signing this Agreement. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (g)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee is knowingly and voluntarily entering into this Agreement, and has relied solely and completely upon his own judgment and, if applicable, the advice of his own attorney in entering into this Agreement. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (h)</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee is not relying upon any representations, promises, predictions, projections or statements made by or on behalf of the Company or any of the other Released Parties, other than those that are specifically stated in this Agreement.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (i)</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee does not waive rights or claims that may arise after the date this Agreement is signed below.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (j)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">This Agreement shall be, in all cases, construed as a whole according to its fair meaning, and not strictly for or against any of the Parties.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> (k)</font>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Employee will receive payment of consideration under this Agreement that is beyond what Employee was entitled to receive before entering into this Agreement.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 7.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Release</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee, on behalf of himself and his heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, irrevocably and unconditionally releases, waives and forever discharges the Released Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of action, charges, complaints, liabilities, obligations, promises, sums of money, agreements, representations, controversies, disputes, damages, suits, right, sanctions, costs (including attorneys&#x2019; fees), losses, debts and expenses of any nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, fixed or contingent, which Employee has, had or may ever have against the Released Parties arising out of, concerning, or related to, his employment or separation from employment with the Company and its Affiliates, from the beginning of time and up to and including the date Employee executes this Agreement below.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement includes, without limitation, (a) law or equity claims; (b)&nbsp;contract (express or implied) or tort claims; (c) claims arising under any federal, state or local laws of any jurisdiction that prohibit age, sex, race, national origin, color, disability, religion, veteran, military status, sexual orientation or any other form of discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment or retaliation (including, without limitation, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and/or 1871, 42 U.S.C. Section 1981, the Rehabilitation Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, the Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Texas Labor Code, Section 1558 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, and any other federal, state or local laws of </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">9</font><font style="display: inline;"></font>

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		<table style="width:100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">any jurisdiction); (d)&nbsp;claims under any other federal, state, local, municipal or common law whistleblower protection, discrimination, wrongful discharge, anti-harassment or anti-retaliation statute or ordinance; (e) claims arising under ERISA; or (f)&nbsp;any other statutory or common law claims related to Employee&#x2019;s employment or separation from employment with the Company and its Affiliates.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee further represents that, as of the date of his execution of this Agreement, he has not been the victim of any illegal or wrongful acts by any of the Released Parties, including, without limitation, discrimination, retaliation, harassment or any other wrongful act based on sex, age, race, religion, or any other legally protected characteristic.&nbsp; </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement specifically does not release any claim or cause of action by or on behalf of Employee (or his beneficiary) for any payment or other benefit that is required under the terms of the Change in Control Agreement prior to the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Employee.</font>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 8.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Entire Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement between the Parties and fully supersedes and replaces any and all prior agreements or understandings, written or oral, between the Parties pertaining to the subject matter of this Agreement. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 9.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Severability</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Should any provision of this Agreement be declared or be determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the Agreement shall first be reformed to make the provision at issue enforceable and effective to the full extent permitted by law.&nbsp;&nbsp;If such reformation is not possible, all remaining provisions of this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and shall be construed as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision has not been included herein.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 10.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Forty-Five Calendar Days to Consider Offer of Termination Benefits</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee shall have, and by signing this Agreement Employee acknowledges and represents that he has been given, a period of forty-five (45) calendar days to consider whether to elect to sign this Agreement, and to thereby waive and release the rights and claims addressed in this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Although Employee may sign this Agreement prior to the end of the forty-five (45) calendar day period, Employee may not sign this Agreement on or before the Termination Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition, if Employee signs this Agreement prior to the end of the forty-five (45) calendar day period, Employee shall be deemed, by doing so, to have certified and agreed that the decision to make such election prior to the expiration of the forty-five (45) calendar day period is knowing and voluntary and was not induced by the Company through:&nbsp;&nbsp;(a) fraud, misrepresentation or a threat to withdraw or alter the offer prior to the end of the forty-five (45) calendar day period; or (b) an offer to provide different terms or benefits in exchange for signing the Agreement prior to the expiration of the forty-five (45) calendar day period.&nbsp;&nbsp;The procedure for Employee to accept this Agreement is to return a fully executed, dated and witnessed Agreement to the Chairman or Secretary of the Company&#x2019;s Board of Directors prior to the deadline.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 11.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Seven Day Revocation Period</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee understands and acknowledges that he may revoke this Agreement at any time within seven (7) calendar days after he signs this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;To revoke this Agreement, Employee must deliver written notification of such revocation to the attention of the Chairman or the Secretary of the Company&#x2019;s Board of Directors, </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">10</font><font style="display: inline;"></font>

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		<table style="width:100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">within seven (7) calendar days after the date that he signs this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee further understands that if he does not revoke this Agreement within seven (7) calendar days following his execution of the Agreement (excluding the date of execution), the Agreement will become effective, binding and enforceable on both Parties.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 12.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Agreement not to Sue</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;Except as required by law that cannot be waived, Employee agrees that he will not commence, maintain, initiate, or prosecute, or cause, encourage, assist, volunteer, advise or cooperate with any other Person (as defined in the Employee Change in Control Agreement) to commence, maintain, initiate or prosecute, any action, lawsuit, proceeding, charge, petition, complaint or claim before any court, agency or tribunal against the Company or any Affiliate arising from, concerned with, or otherwise relating to, in whole or in part, Employee&#x2019;s employment or separation from employment with the Company, or any of the matters discharged and released in this Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Notwithstanding the preceding sentence or any other provision of this Agreement or the Change in Control Agreement, this release and the Change in Control Agreement are not intended to interfere with Employee&#x2019;s right to file a charge with the EEOC or a state or local human rights commission in connection with any claim that Employee believes he may have against the Company or its Affiliates, or to cooperate or provide truthful testimony to the EEOC or a state or local human rights commission with respect to any investigation.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, by executing this Agreement, Employee hereby waives the right to recover monetary damages in any proceeding he may bring before the EEOC or any state or local human rights commission or in any proceeding brought by the EEOC or any state or local human rights commission (or any other agency) on Employee&#x2019;s behalf.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<p style="border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;">
				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 13.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Confidentiality of Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;Employee agrees to keep this Agreement and its terms confidential.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee agrees and understands that he is prohibited from disclosing any terms of this Agreement to anyone, except that he may disclose the terms of this Agreement to his attorney, his spouse, his financial advisor or as otherwise required by compulsion of law.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 14.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Agreement to Return Company Property/Documents</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;Employee acknowledges that his employment with the Company and its Affiliates has terminated effective as of the Termination Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;Accordingly, Employee agrees that, in accordance with the Company&#x2019;s policy:&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) Employee will not take with him, copy, alter, destroy or delete any files, documents or other materials whether or not embodying or recording any Confidential Information (as defined in the Change in Control Agreement), including copies, without obtaining in advance the written consent of an authorized Company representative; and (ii) Employee will promptly return to the Company all Confidential Information, documents, files, records and tapes (written or electronically stored) that are in Employee&#x2019;s possession or under his control, and Employee shall not use or disclose such materials in any way or in any format, including written information in any form, information stored by electronic means, and any and all copies of such materials.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee further agrees that he will return to the Company immediately all Company property, including, without limitation, any Company-provided keys, equipment, computer and computer equipment, devices, any other Company cellular phones, Company credit cards, business cards, data, lists, information, correspondence, notes, </font>
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		<table style="width:100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 36pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">memorandums, reports or other writings prepared by the Company or Employee on behalf of the Company or an Affiliate. </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Waiver</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> &nbsp;A Party&#x2019;s waiver of any breach or violation of any provision of this Agreement shall not operate as, or be construed to be, a waiver of any later breach of the same or other provision by such Party.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Miscellaneous</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Parties understand and agree that if a violation of any term of this Agreement is asserted, the Party who asserts such violation shall have the right to seek specific performance of that term and/or any other necessary and proper relief as permitted by law or equity, including but not limited to, damages awarded by any court of competent jurisdiction, and the prevailing Party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable costs and attorneys&#x2019; fees.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Nothing in this Agreement will be construed to prevent Employee from challenging the validity of this Agreement under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act or Older Workers Benefit Protection Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employee further understands and agrees that if he, or someone acting on his behalf, files, or causes to be filed, any such claim, charge, complaint or action against the Company, an Affiliate or any other Released Party, Employee hereby expressly fully waives and relinquishes any right to recover any damages or other relief, whatsoever, from the Company, its Affiliates and/or other Persons, including costs and attorneys&#x2019; fees.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Binding Effect.&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties, and their respective heirs, executors, beneficiaries, personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns hereunder, but otherwise this Agreement shall not be for the benefit of any third parties.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Survival of Certain Provisions</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">. Wherever appropriate to the intention of the Parties, the respective rights and obligations of the Parties hereunder shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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				<font style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;font-weight:bold;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;font-size:12pt;;"> 19.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Choice of Law</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of Texas without regard to principles of conflict of laws.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jurisdiction and venue of any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement, or any dispute hereunder, shall be exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area, and the Parties hereby waive any objection to such jurisdiction or venue including, without limitation, to the effect that it is inconvenient.&nbsp; </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Counterparts</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Parties agree that this Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall be deemed one and the same instrument.</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;">12</font><font style="display: inline;"></font>

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		<p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12pt;border-top:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;border-bottom:1pt none #D9D9D9 ;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;font-family:Calibri;line-height:100%;;font-size: 12pt"><font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">Please review this document carefully as it includes a release of claims.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Employee has executed and entered into this Agreement, and the Company has caused this Agreement to be executed in its name and on its behalf by its duly authorized officer, to be effective as of the date this Agreement is executed by Employee as set forth beneath his signature below.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">This document was presented to Employee on _____________, 20___.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">By:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Name:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Title:</font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;"></font><font style="display: inline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Calibri;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Dated this ____ day of _________ 20</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;"></font>
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