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<P STYLE="line-height:3px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>UNITED STATES </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>FORM 8-K
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>CURRENT REPORT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>Securities Exchange Act of
1934 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February&nbsp;2, 2012 </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>NuStar Energy L.P. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>2330 North Loop 1604 West </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>San Antonio, Texas 78248 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Address of principal executive offices)
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(210) 918-2000 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
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<TD WIDTH="9%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Item&nbsp;1.01</B></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On February&nbsp;2, 2012, NuStar Logistics, L.P. (&#147;NuStar Logistics&#148;), a wholly owned subsidiary of NuStar Energy L.P. (the &#147;Partnership&#148;), successfully completed the issuance and sale
of $250 million in aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2022 (the &#147;Notes&#148;). The Notes are guaranteed on a full and unconditional basis by each of the Partnership and NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.
(&#147;NuPOP&#148;), also a wholly owned subsidiary of the Partnership. The Notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration
Nos. 333-166797, 333-166797-01 and 333-166797-02). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Notes are governed by an Indenture dated as of July&nbsp;15, 2002 (the &#147;Original
Indenture&#148;), as amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July&nbsp;1, 2005 (the &#147;Third Supplemental Indenture&#148;), by and among NuStar Logistics, the Partnership, NuPOP and Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association (as successor to The Bank of New York), as trustee (the &#147;Trustee&#148;) (the Base Indenture, as so amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture, the &#147;Senior Indenture&#148;), as further amended and supplemented
by the Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of February&nbsp;2, 2012 (the &#147;Sixth Supplemental Indenture&#148;) by and among NuStar Logistics, the Partnership, NuPOP and the Trustee. The Senior Indenture, as amended and supplemented by the
Sixth Supplemental Indenture, is referred to herein as the &#147;Indenture.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Interest on the Notes will accrue from February&nbsp;2,
2012 and is payable semi-annually on February 1 and August&nbsp;1 of each year, beginning August&nbsp;1, 2012. The Notes will mature on February&nbsp;1, 2022. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior to November&nbsp;1, 2021, NuStar Logistics may, at its option, redeem all or part of the Notes at any time at a price equal to the greater of 100% of the principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding to be redeemed, or at a make-whole price, in each case plus accrued and unpaid interest. At any time on or after November&nbsp;1, 2021, NuStar Logistics may, at its option, redeem all or part of the Notes at any time at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Notes are NuStar
Logistics&#146; senior unsecured obligations and rank effectively junior to all existing and future secured debt to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such debt. The Notes rank equally in right of payment with all of NuStar
Logistics&#146; existing and future unsecured debt that is not by its terms subordinated to the Notes, and senior to any subordinated debt that NuStar Logistics may incur. The Notes and the guarantees of the Notes by the Partnership and NuPOP will
effectively rank junior to all existing and future obligations of the subsidiaries of NuStar Logistics. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Indenture contains covenants that
will limit the ability of NuStar Logistics, and its subsidiaries, to, among other things, create liens or enter into sale-leaseback transactions. The Indenture does not restrict NuStar Logistics or its subsidiaries from incurring additional
indebtedness, paying distributions on its equity interests or purchasing or redeeming its equity interests, nor does it require the maintenance of any financial ratios or specified levels of net worth or liquidity. Events of default under the
Indenture include: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">failure to pay interest on the Notes for 30 days; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">failure to pay the principal of or any premium on the Notes when due; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">failure to perform any other covenant or warranty in the Indenture (other than a term, covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose
breach is specifically dealt with in the Indenture or which has expressly been included in the Indenture solely for the benefit of another series of securities) that continues for 60 days after written notice is given to NuStar Logistics by the
Trustee or to NuStar Logistics and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;Notice of Default&#148; under
the Indenture; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the failure to pay any indebtedness of NuStar Logistics for borrowed money in excess of $50 million, whether at final maturity (after the expiration of
any applicable grace periods) or upon acceleration and maturity thereof, if such indebtedness is not discharged, or such acceleration is not annulled, within 10 days after written notice is given to NuStar Logistics by the Trustee or to NuStar
Logistics and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes, specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;Notice of Default&#148; under the Indenture.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes may declare the entire principal of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. If this happens, subject to certain conditions, the holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes can rescind the declaration. If an event of default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization occurs, the entire principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable immediately without
further action or notice. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The description of the Indenture contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K does not purport to be complete and
is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Original Indenture, the Third Supplemental Indenture and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, incorporated by reference herein from Exhibits 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively. </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Financial Statements and Exhibits. </B></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibits</B>. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Indenture, dated as of July 15, 2002, among Valero Logistics Operations, L.P., as Issuer, Valero L.P., as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, relating to Senior Debt
Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to NuStar Energy L.P.&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 15, 2002 (File No. 001-16417)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2005, to Indenture dated as of July 15, 2002, as amended and supplemented, among Valero Logistics Operations, L.P., Valero L.P.,
Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P., and The Bank of New York Trust Company N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.02 to NuStar Energy L.P.&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 (File No.
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 2, 2012, among NuStar Logistics, L.P., as Issuer, NuStar Energy L.P., as Guarantor, NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.,
as Affiliate Guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Successor Trustee.</FONT></TD></TR>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By: Riverwalk Logistics, L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NuStar GP, LLC</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Date: February&nbsp;7, 2012</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Amy L.
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title: &nbsp;Vice President, Assistant General</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; text-indent:2.00em" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Counsel and Corporate Secretary</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Indenture, dated as of July 15, 2002, among Valero Logistics Operations, L.P., as Issuer, Valero L.P., as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, relating to Senior Debt
Securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to NuStar Energy L.P.&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed July 15, 2002 (File No. 001-16417)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2005, to Indenture dated as of July 15, 2002, as amended and supplemented, among Valero Logistics Operations, L.P., Valero L.P.,
Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P., and The Bank of New York Trust Company N.A. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.02 to NuStar Energy L.P.&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 (File No.
001-16417)).</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 2, 2012, among NuStar Logistics, L.P., as Issuer, NuStar Energy L.P., as Guarantor, NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.,
as Affiliate Guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Successor Trustee.</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Exhibit 4.3 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I></I><B><I>Execution Version</I></B><I> </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>NUSTAR LOGISTICS, L.P., </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>ISSUER </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>NUSTAR ENERGY L.P., </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>GUARANTOR </I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>NUSTAR PIPELINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP L.P., </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>AFFILIATE GUARANTOR </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>AND </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 2, 2012 </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>TO </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>INDENTURE </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>DATED AS OF JULY 15, 2002 </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:24px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:1pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>4.750% Senior
Notes due 2022 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE I</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2022</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">2</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION&nbsp;1.01</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Designation of the Notes; Establishment of Form</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Amount</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Interest Rate</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Redemption</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Conversion</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Maturity</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Place of Payment</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Other Terms of the Notes due 2022</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE II</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.01</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Definitions</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.03</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Covenants</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">6</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.04</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Events of Default</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">6</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE III</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MISCELLANEOUS</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.01</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Execution as Supplemental Indenture</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.02</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Responsibility for Recitals, Etc</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.03</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Provisions Binding on Partnership&#146;s and Guarantor&#146;s Successors</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.04</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Governing Law</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.05</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Execution and Counterparts</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.06</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Capitalized Terms</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">7</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">EXHIBIT&nbsp;A&nbsp;- FORM&nbsp;OF&nbsp;SECURITY</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A-1</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">EXHIBIT B - FORM OF&nbsp;SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">B-1</FONT></TD>
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</FONT></P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of February&nbsp;2, 2012 (the &#147;<U>Sixth
Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), among NuStar Logistics, L.P. (formerly known as Valero Logistics Operations, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership having its principal office at 2330 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, Texas 78248 (the
&#147;<U>Partnership</U>&#148;), NuStar Energy L.P. (formerly known as Valero L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership (the &#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;), NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P. (formerly known as Kaneb Pipe Line Operating
Partnership, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership and an Affiliate of the Partnership (the &#147;<U>Affiliate Guarantor</U>&#148;), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of
the United States of America, as successor trustee (the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;) to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., which was successor trustee to The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as trustee. This Sixth Supplemental
Indenture amends and supplements the Original Indenture (as defined below), as previously amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture (as defined below). The Original Indenture, as amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental
Indenture and as further amended and supplemented from time to time, including pursuant to this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, is referred to herein as the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">RECITALS OF THE PARTNERSHIP </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership, the Guarantor and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered the Indenture dated as of July&nbsp;15, 2002 (the &#147;<U>Original Indenture</U>&#148;), providing for the issuance
from time to time of one or more series of the Partnership&#146;s Securities, each to be guaranteed by the Guarantor and the terms of which are to be determined as set forth in Section&nbsp;301 of the Original Indenture. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered the Third Supplemental
Indenture dated July&nbsp;1, 2005 (the &#147;<U>Third Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), amending and supplementing the Original Indenture and providing for an unconditional guarantee by the Affiliate Guarantor of the due and punctual payment of the
principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities (as defined in the Original Indenture) and all other amounts due and payable under the Original Indenture and the Securities by the Partnership. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Section&nbsp;901 of the Indenture provides, among other things, that the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and the
Trustee may enter into indentures supplemental to the Original Indenture for, among other things, the purpose of establishing the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301 of the Original Indenture. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Section&nbsp;901 of the Original Indenture also permits the execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders to,
among other things, (i)&nbsp;add to the covenants of the Partnership such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Partnership shall consider to be appropriate for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of
Securities, (ii)&nbsp;add any additional Defaults or Events of Default in respect of, all or any series of Securities, and (iii)&nbsp;change or eliminate any of the provisions of the Indenture, <I>provided</I> that, any such change or elimination
shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefits of such provision. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership desires to create a series of the Securities, which series shall be designated the &#147;4.750% Senior Notes due
2022&#148; (the &#147;<U>Notes due 2022</U>&#148;), and all action on the part of the Partnership necessary to authorize the issuance of the Notes due 2022 under the Indenture has been duly taken. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership, pursuant to the foregoing authority, proposes in and by this Sixth
Supplemental Indenture to supplement and amend the Original Indenture (as previously amended by the Third Supplemental Indenture), insofar as it will apply only to the Notes due 2022. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All acts and things necessary to make the Notes due 2022, when duly issued by the Partnership and when executed on behalf of the
Partnership and completed, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee as provided in the Original Indenture and this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the valid and binding obligations of the Partnership and to constitute these presents a valid and
binding supplemental indenture and agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Now, Therefore, This Sixth
Supplemental Indenture Witnesseth: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">That in consideration of the premises and the issuance of the Notes due 2022, the
Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes due 2022, as follows: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE I </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.750%
SENIOR NOTES DUE 2022 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.01 <U>Designation of the Notes; Establishment of Form</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A series of Securities designated &#147;4.750% Senior Notes due 2022&#148; is established hereby, and the form thereof (including the
notation of the Guarantee and the notation of the Affiliate Guarantee) shall be substantially as set forth in <U>Exhibit A</U> hereto, which is incorporated into and shall be deemed a part of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, in each case with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the
Partnership may deem appropriate or as may be required or appropriate to comply with any laws or with any rules made pursuant thereto or with the rules of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes due 2022 may be
listed or traded, or to conform to general usage, or as may, consistently with the Indenture, be determined by the officers executing such Notes due 2022, as evidenced by their execution thereof. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Notes due 2022 will initially be issued in permanent global form, substantially in the form set forth in <U>Exhibit A</U> hereto, as
a Global Security, registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee. The Depositary Trust Company shall be the Depositary for such Global Securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership initially appoints the Trustee to act as paying agent and Registrar with respect to the Notes due 2022. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.02 <U>Amount</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the Notes due 2022 for original issue in an initial aggregate principal amount of up to
$250,000,000 upon Partnership Order for the authentication and delivery of such aggregate principal amount of the Notes due 2022. The authorized aggregate principal amount of the Notes due 2022 may be increased at any time hereafter and the series
comprised thereby may be reopened for issuances of additional Notes due 2022, without the consent of any Holder. The Notes due 2022 issued on the date hereof and any such additional Notes due 2022 that may be issued hereafter shall be part of the
same series of Securities referred to herein as the &#147;Notes due 2022.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.03 <U>Interest Rate</U>.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Notes due 2022 shall bear interest as provided in the form thereof set forth in <U>Exhibit A</U> hereto and as provided in
the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.04 <U>Redemption</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) There shall be no sinking fund for the retirement of the Notes due 2022 or other mandatory redemption obligation in
respect thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) The Partnership, at its option, may redeem the Notes due 2022 at any time and from time
to time, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes due 2022 and Article XI of the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.05<U></U>
<U>Conversion</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Notes due 2022 shall not be convertible into any other securities. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.06 <U>Maturity</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Stated Maturity of the Notes due 2022 shall be February&nbsp;1, 2022. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.07 <U></U><U>Place of Payment</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any Notes due 2022 that may be issued in certificated, non-global form shall be payable at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, which office, on the date of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, is
located at <B>750 N. SAINT PAUL PLACE, SUITE 1750, DALLAS, TEXAS 75201 ATTN: PATRICK GIORDANO&#151;VICE PRESIDENT CORPORATE TRUST SERVICES</B>. Notices and demands to or upon the Partnership, the Guarantor and the Affiliate Guarantor in respect of
the Notes due 2022 may be served at such office. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1.08 <U>Other Terms of the Notes due 2022</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Article I, the terms of the Notes due 2022 shall be as provided in the form thereof set
forth in <U>Exhibit A</U> hereto and as provided in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE II </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The amendments and supplements contained in this Article II shall apply to the Notes due 2022 only and (except as and to the extent expressly so provided at the time the form and terms of such other
series are established as provided in Sections 201 and 301 of the Original </FONT></P>
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Indenture) not to any other series of Securities issued under the Original Indenture, and (except as aforesaid) any covenants, guarantees and other agreements provided herein are expressly being
included solely for the benefit of (i)&nbsp;the Notes due 2022 and the Holders thereof and (ii)&nbsp;any Securities of any other series to which such amendment and supplements have been made applicable and the Holders thereof. These amendments and
supplements shall be effective only for so long as there remain Outstanding any Notes due 2022 or any Securities of any other series to which such amendments and supplements have been made applicable, as the case may be. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.01 <U>Definitions</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Section&nbsp;101 of the Original Indenture is amended by inserting in their appropriate alphabetical position, the following definitions: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Sixth Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148; means the Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of February&nbsp;2, 2012 among the
Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and the Trustee, which supplemental indenture amends and supplements this Indenture (as amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture dated July&nbsp;1, 2005, among the Partnership,
the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and the Trustee) in connection with the establishment of a series of Securities designated as &#147;4.750% Senior Notes due 2022&#148;. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Funded Debt</U>&#148; means all Debt maturing one year or more from the date of the creation thereof, all Debt directly or indirectly renewable or extendable, at the option of the debtor, by its
terms or by the terms of any instrument or agreement relating thereto, to a date one year or more from the date of the creation thereof, and all Debt under a revolving credit or similar agreement obligating the lender or lenders to extend credit
over a period of one year or more. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Notes due 2022</U>&#148; means the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2022 of the
Partnership, established pursuant to the Sixth Supplemental Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Other Affected Series</U>&#148; means any
series of Securities (other than the Notes due 2022) to which the amendments of the Original Indenture set forth in Article II of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall have been made applicable. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Subsidiary Guarantor</U>&#148; means, as at any date, any Subsidiary that has become and then is obligated as a guarantor as
provided in Section&nbsp;1011, not having been released pursuant to Section&nbsp;1012. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.02 <U>Consolidation, Merger,
Conveyance, Transfer or Lease</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Article VIII of the Original Indenture is amended by restating Sections 801 and 802 in
their entirety: </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;SECTION 801. <U>Partnership and Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., Only on
Certain Terms</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership shall not, and subject to Section&nbsp;1012, shall not permit any
Subsidiary Guarantor to, consolidate with or merge into any other Person or sell, lease or transfer its properties and assets as, or substantially as, an entirety to, any Person, unless: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) (A) in the case of a merger, the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving entity, or (B)&nbsp;the
Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by sale or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor as,
or substantially as, an entirety expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, or a supplement to the applicable Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, all of the obligations of the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, under the Indenture and the Securities, or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) the surviving entity or successor Person is a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) the Partnership has
delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture required, if any, comply with this Article and that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 802. <U>Successor
Substituted</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon any consolidation of the Partnership or any Subsidiary Guarantor with, or merger of the
Partnership or any Subsidiary Guarantor into, any other Person or any sale, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Partnership or any Subsidiary Guarantor as, or substantially as, an entirety in accordance with Section&nbsp;801, the
successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor is merged or to which such sale, transfer or lease is made shall (and, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor, its Subsidiary Guarantee will
provide that it shall) succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture and the Securities, or the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor, as
the case may be with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named originally as the Partnership or such Subsidiary Guarantor herein or therein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of
all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities or such Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be.&#148; </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.03 <U>Covenants</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Article X of the Original Indenture is amended by inserting the following new sections in their entirety: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;SECTION 1011 <U>Future Subsidiary Guarantors</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership shall cause each Subsidiary of the Partnership that guarantees or becomes a co-obligor in respect of any
Funded Debt of the Partnership (including, without limitation, following any release of such Subsidiary pursuant to Section&nbsp;1012 from any guarantee previously provided by it under this Section&nbsp;1011) to (A)&nbsp;cause the Notes due 2022 to
be equally and ratably guaranteed by such Subsidiary, but only to the extent that the Notes due 2022 are not already guaranteed by such Subsidiary on reasonably comparable terms and (B)&nbsp;promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental
indenture in substantially the form attached as <U>Exhibit B</U> to the Sixth Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which such Subsidiary will guarantee payment of the Notes due 2022 and any Securities of any Other Affected Series. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1012 <U>Release of Guaranty</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section&nbsp;1011, in the event that any Subsidiary that has guaranteed the Notes due 2022 and/or the Securities of such Other Affected Series pursuant to
Section&nbsp;1011 shall no longer be a guarantor of any Funded Debt of the Partnership other than the Notes due 2022 and/or the Securities of such Other Affected Series, and so long as no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes due
2022 shall have occurred or be continuing, such Subsidiary, upon giving written notice to the Trustee to the foregoing effect, shall be deemed to be released from all of its obligations in respect of the Notes due 2022 and/or the Securities of such
Other Affected Series, and its guarantee thereof and this Indenture without further act or deed and such guarantee of such Subsidiary shall be terminated and of no further force or effect. Following the receipt by the Trustee of any such notice, the
Partnership shall cause this Indenture to be amended as provided in Section&nbsp;901 to evidence such release and termination; <I>provided, however,</I> that the failure to so amend this Indenture shall not affect the validity of the release and
termination of such guarantee of such Subsidiary. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 2.04 <U>Events of Default</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The period following clause (7)&nbsp;of Section&nbsp;501 of the Original Indenture shall be replaced with &#147;; or&#148; and the
following additional Event of Default shall be added to those set forth in clauses (1)-(7)&nbsp;of Section&nbsp;501 of the Original Indenture in relation only to the Notes due 2022 and the Securities of any Other Affected Series: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;(8) failure to pay any Debt of the Partnership in excess of $50 million, whether at final maturity (after the
expiration of any applicable grace periods) or upon acceleration of the maturity thereof, if such indebtedness is not discharged, or such acceleration is not annulled, within 10 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Partnership by the Trustee or to the Partnership </FONT></P>
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and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes due 2022, or of the Securities of any Other Affected Series, a written notice specifying such default
or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;Notice of Default&#148; hereunder.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE III </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MISCELLANEOUS </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.01 <U>Execution as Supplemental Indenture</U>. This Sixth Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an
indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture and, as provided in the Original Indenture, this Sixth Supplemental Indenture forms a part thereof. Except as herein expressly otherwise defined, the use of the terms and expressions herein is in
accordance with the definitions, uses and constructions contained in the Original Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.02 <U>Responsibility
for Recitals, Etc</U>. The recitals herein and in the Notes due 2022 (except in the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Partnership, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness
thereof. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes due 2022. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Partnership of the Notes due 2022
or of the proceeds thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.03 <U>Provisions Binding on Partnership&#146;s and Guarantor&#146;s Successors</U>. All
the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture contained by each of the Partnership, the Guarantor and the Affiliate Guarantor shall bind its respective successors and assigns regardless of whether so
expressed. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.04 <U>Governing Law</U>. THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE DUE 2022 SHALL BE GOVERNED BY
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.05 <U>Execution and Counterparts</U>. This
Sixth Supplemental Indenture may be executed with counterpart signature pages or in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 3.06 <U>Capitalized Terms</U>. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(<I>The remainder of this page is intentionally blank.</I>)
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duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> GP, I<SMALL>NC</SMALL>.,</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ Steven A. Blank </FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Steven A. Blank</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Senior Vice President, Chief</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Financial Officer and Treasurer</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> E<SMALL>NERGY</SMALL> L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">RIVERWALK LOGISTICS, L.P. </FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> GP, LLC,</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ Steven A. Blank </FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Steven A. Blank</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Senior Vice President, Chief</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Financial Officer and Treasurer</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> P<SMALL>IPELINE</SMALL> C<SMALL>OMPANY</SMALL>, LLC,</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ Steven A. Blank </FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Steven A. Blank</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Senior Vice President, Chief</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Financial Officer and Treasurer</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">W<SMALL>ELLS</SMALL>&nbsp;F<SMALL>ARGO</SMALL>&nbsp;B<SMALL>ANK</SMALL>,&nbsp;N<SMALL>ATIONAL</SMALL>&nbsp;A<SMALL>SSOCIATION</SMALL>,&nbsp;as</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">trustee</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/s/ Patrick T. Giordano</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Patrick T. Giordano</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Vice President</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Sixth Supplemental Indenture - Signature Page</I> </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>EXHIBIT A </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>[FORM OF SECURITY][FACE OF SECURITY] </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE
MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF, ANY PERSON OTHER THAN
THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF AND NO SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE REGISTERED, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. EVERY SECURITY AUTHENTICATED AND DELIVERED UPON REGISTRATION OF, TRANSFER OF, OR IN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN LIEU
OF, THIS SECURITY SHALL BE A GLOBAL SECURITY SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">UNLESS THIS
SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION, TO THE PARTNERSHIP OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL IN AS MUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">1</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.750% S<SMALL>ENIOR</SMALL> N<SMALL>OTE</SMALL> <SMALL>DUE</SMALL> 2022 </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">U.S.$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CUSIP N<SMALL>O</SMALL>.&nbsp;67059T AC9 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P., (formerly known as V<SMALL>ALERO</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL> O<SMALL>PERATIONS</SMALL>, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership
(herein called the &#147;<U>Partnership</U>,&#148; which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, or registered assigns, the principal sum of
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Dollars on February&nbsp;1, 2022, and to pay interest thereon from February&nbsp;2, 2012, or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on February&nbsp;1 and August&nbsp;1 in each year, commencing August&nbsp;1, 2012 at the rate of 4.750%&nbsp;per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or
made available for payment, and at the rate of 4.750%&nbsp;per annum on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue installment of interest. The amount of interest payable for any period shall be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day
months and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the days elapsed in any partial month. In the event that any date on which interest is
payable on this Security is not a Business Day, then a payment of the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay) with the
same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable. A &#147;Business Day&#148; shall mean, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law, executive order or regulation to close. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such
Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the January&nbsp;15 or July&nbsp;15 (regardless
of whether a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to any Special Record Date, or be paid at such time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system
on which the Securities of this series may be listed or traded, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, all as more fully provided in such Indenture. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:10%">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">1</SUP>&nbsp;</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert in Global Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A-1
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this
Security will be made by transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York designated by the Holder in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts.]</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">2</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the
office or agency of the Partnership maintained for that purpose in Dallas, Texas, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; <I>provided, however</I>,
that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Partnership by United States Dollar check mailed to the addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear in the Security Register or by transfer to a United States
Dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in Dallas, Texas (so long as the applicable Paying Agent has received proper transfer instructions in writing by the Record Date prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date).]</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">3</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:10%">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">2</SUP>&nbsp;</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert in Global Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert in Definitive Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A-2
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Partnership has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dated:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>USTAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By: N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> GP, Inc., </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;its General Partner </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By:<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Name:<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Title:<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dated:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">W<SMALL>ELLS</SMALL> F<SMALL>ARGO</SMALL> B<SMALL>ANK</SMALL>, N<SMALL>ATIONAL</SMALL> A<SMALL>SSOCIATION</SMALL>,
<SMALL>AS</SMALL> <SMALL>TRUSTEE</SMALL> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:54%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Authorized Signatory </FONT></P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A-3
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY] </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">4.750% S<SMALL>ENIOR</SMALL> N<SMALL>OTE</SMALL> <SMALL>DUE</SMALL> 2022 </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of senior securities of the Partnership (herein called the
&#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture dated as of July&nbsp;15, 2002 (the &#147;<U>Original Indenture</U>&#148;) among the Partnership, the Guarantor (defined below) and The Bank of New
York, as trustee, as amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of July&nbsp;1, 2005 (the &#147;<U>Third Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;) among the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor (as defined
below) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee to The Bank of New York, as trustee. The Original Indenture, as amended and supplemented by the Third Supplemental Indenture and as further amended and supplemented from time
to time, including pursuant to the Sixth Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of February&nbsp;2, 2012 among the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as successor trustee, is referred to
herein as the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>.&#148; The trustee under the Indenture (including any successor trustee under the Indenture) is referred to herein as the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Reference is made hereby to the Indenture (including all indentures supplemental thereto) for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. As provided in the Indenture, the Securities may be issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal amounts, may mature at different times, may bear interest, if any, at
different rates, may be subject to different redemption provisions, if any, may be subject to different sinking, purchase or analogous funds, if any, may be subject to different covenants and Events of Default and may otherwise vary as in the
Indenture provided or permitted. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This Security is the
senior unsecured obligation of the Partnership and is guaranteed pursuant to (i)&nbsp;a guarantee (the &#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148;) by NuStar Energy L.P. (formerly known as Valero L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership (the
&#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;) and (ii)&nbsp;a guarantee (the &#147;<U>Affiliate Guarantee</U>&#148;) by NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P. (formerly known as Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership and an
Affiliate of the Partnership (the &#147;<U>Affiliate Guarantor</U>&#148;). The Guarantee is the senior unsecured obligation of the Guarantor, and the Affiliate Guarantee is the senior unsecured obligation of the Affiliate Guarantor. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior to November&nbsp;1, 2021, the Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days&#146;
notice by mail, at any time as a whole or from time to time in part, at the election of the Partnership at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1)&nbsp;100% of the principal amount of this Security then Outstanding to be redeemed, or
(2)&nbsp;the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (exclusive of the payment of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) computed by discounting such payments from their respective scheduled
dates of payment to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a rate equal to the sum of 45 basis points plus the Adjusted Treasury Rate on the third Business Day prior to the
Redemption Date, as calculated by an Independent Investment Banker, plus accrued and unpaid interest, up to, but not including, the Redemption Date. If the Independent Investment Banker is unwilling or unable to make the calculation, the Partnership
will appoint an independent investment banking institution of national standing to make the calculation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">At any time on or
after November&nbsp;1, 2021, the Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days&#146; notice by mail, at any time as a whole or from time to time in part, at the election of the Partnership at a
Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of this Security then Outstanding to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, up to, but not including, the Redemption Date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of determining the Redemption Price, the following definitions are applicable: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Adjusted Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the week immediately
preceding the week of publication, appearing in the then most recently published statistical release designated &#147;H.15(519)&#148; or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and
which contains yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities,&#148; for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within
three months before or after the remaining term of this Security, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be determined and </FONT></P>
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the Adjusted Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or if such release (or any successor release) is not
published during the week including or immediately preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for
the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Issue</U>&#148; means the U.S. Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of this Security that would
be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of this Security, or, if, in the reasonable judgment of the
Independent Investment Banker, there is no such security, then the Comparable Treasury Issue will mean the U.S. Treasury security or securities selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity or maturities
comparable to the remaining term of this Security. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Price</U>&#148; means (1)&nbsp;the average of
five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the third Business Day prior to the applicable Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2)&nbsp;if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer
than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Independent Investment
Banker</U>&#148; means any of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc. and RBS Securities Inc. and any successor firm selected by the Partnership, or if any such firm is unwilling or unable to serve as such, an independent
investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Partnership. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury
Dealer</U>&#148; means each of up to five dealers to be selected by the Partnership; <I>provided</I> that if any of the foregoing ceases to be, and has no affiliate that is, a primary U.S. governmental securities dealer (a &#147;<U>Primary Treasury
Dealer</U>&#148;), the Partnership will substitute for it another Primary Treasury Dealer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations</U>&#148; means the average, as determined by the Reference Treasury Dealer, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the
Independent Investment Banker and the Trustee at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of any redemption of Securities, interest installments due on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more predecessor Securities, of
record at the close of business on the relevant record date referred to on the face hereof. Securities (or portions thereof) for whose redemption and payment provision is made in accordance with the Indenture shall cease to bear interest from and
after the Redemption Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any notice to the Holders of the Securities of a redemption will include the appropriate
calculation of the Redemption Price, but need not include the Redemption Price itself. The actual Redemption Price, calculated as provided above, will be set forth in an Officers&#146; Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than two Business
Days prior to the Redemption Date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of
this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof. In the event of any partial redemption, selection of the Securities for redemption will be made by the
Trustee on a <I>pro rata </I>basis (or, in the case of Securities issued in global form, based on a method as the Depositary may require that most nearly approximates a <I>pro rata </I>selection), by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its
sole discretion shall deem to be fair and appropriate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series
shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Partnership will make an offer to purchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of each Holder&#146;s
Securities of this series (the &#147;<U>Change of Control Offer</U>&#148;) at a price in cash equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued </FONT></P>
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and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of purchase. Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Partnership will mail a notice to each such Holder of Securities of this series
setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control Offer as required by the Indenture and information regarding such other matters as is required under and as more fully provided in Section&nbsp;1013 of the Indenture. As more fully
provided in Section&nbsp;1013 of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security may elect to have this Security or a portion hereof in an authorized denomination purchased by completing the form entitled &#147;Option of Holder to Elect Purchase&#148;
appearing below and tendering this Security pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Indenture permits, with certain
exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and any Subsidiary Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each
series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor and any Subsidiary Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding of all series to be affected (voting as one class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of
the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Partnership, the Guarantor or the Affiliate Guarantor with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As provided in and subject to the
provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall
have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have
made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of
security or indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed
herein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
obligation of the Partnership, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place(s) and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[This Global Security or portion hereof may not be exchanged for Definitive Securities of this series except in the limited circumstances
provided in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The holders of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be
entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Securities except as described in the Indenture and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.]</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">4</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration
of transfer at the office or agency of the Partnership in Dallas, Texas, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Partnership and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for a like aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.]</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">5</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:10%">&nbsp;</P>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert in Global Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert in Definitive Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of U.S. $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Partnership may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other similar governmental
charge payable in connection therewith. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the
Partnership, the Trustee and any agent of the Partnership or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, regardless of whether this Security be overdue, and neither the
Partnership, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Obligations of the Partnership under
the Indenture and the Securities thereunder, including this Security, are non-recourse to NuStar GP, Inc. (the &#147;<U>General Partner</U>&#148;) and the general partner of the Guarantor, as applicable, and their Affiliates (other than the
Partnership, the Guarantor and the Affiliate Guarantor), and payable only out of cash flow and assets of the Partnership, the Guarantor or the Affiliate Guarantor, as the case may be. The Trustee, and each Holder of a Security by their respective
acceptance hereof, will be deemed to have agreed in the Indenture that (1)&nbsp;neither the General Partner, the general partner of the Guarantor, the general partner of the Affiliate Guarantor nor their respective assets (nor any of its Affiliates
other than the Partnership, the Guarantor and the Affiliate Guarantor, nor their respective assets) shall be liable for any of the obligations of the Partnership, the Guarantor or the Affiliate Guarantor under the Indenture or such Securities,
including this Security, and (2)&nbsp;no director, officer, employee, stockholder or unitholder, as such, of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor, the Trustee, the General Partner, the general partner of the Guarantor, the general
partner of the Affiliate Guarantor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing entities shall have any personal liability in respect of the obligations of the Partnership, the Guarantor or the Affiliate Guarantor under the Indenture or such Securities
by reason of his, her or its status. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Indenture provides that the Partnership, the Guarantor and the Affiliate Guarantor
(a)&nbsp;will be discharged from any and all obligations in respect of the Securities (except for certain obligations described in the Indenture), or (b)&nbsp;need not comply with certain restrictive covenants of the Indenture, in each case if the
Partnership deposits, in trust, with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) which through the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof in accordance with their terms will provide money, in an amount
sufficient to pay all the principal of and interest of the Securities, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Please Print or
Typewrite Name and Address of Assignee) </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the within instrument of N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P. and does
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Attorney to transfer said instrument on the books of the within-named Partnership,
with full power of substitution in the premises. </FONT></P>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Other Identifying Number of Assignee: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dated:
<U></U><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Signature&nbsp;Guarantee:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Participant in a Recognized Signature </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Guaranty Medallion Program) </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-bottom:0px;"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change
whatever.]</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">6</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:10%">&nbsp;</P>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Insert this assignment form as a separate page in Definitive Securities only. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">GUARANTEE </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person in such capacity under the Indenture), has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to
the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Securities by the Partnership. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are
expressly set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="7"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> E<SMALL>NERGY</SMALL> L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">R<SMALL>IVERWALK</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> GP, LLC,</FONT></TD></TR>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Affiliate Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person in such capacity under the Indenture), has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and
subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Securities by the Partnership.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The obligations of the Affiliate Guarantor to the Holders of Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Affiliate
Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Affiliate Guarantee. </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NUSTAR&nbsp;PIPELINE&nbsp;OPERATING&nbsp;PARTNERSHIP&nbsp;L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NUSTAR PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC,</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>EXHIBIT B </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE] </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (the &#147;<U>Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), among (i)&nbsp;NuStar Logistics, L.P. (formerly known as Valero Logistics
Operations, L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership (the &#147;Partnership&#148;), NuStar Energy L.P. (formerly known as Valero L.P.), a Delaware limited partnership (the &#147;Guarantor&#148;), (iii)&nbsp;NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.
(formerly known as Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P._ , a Delaware limited Partnership (the &#147;Affiliate Guarantor&#148;), (iv)&nbsp;[Name of Subsidiary Guarantor],
a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and a subsidiary of the Partnership (the &#147;<U>Subsidiary Guarantor</U>&#148;) and (iv)&nbsp;[Name of Trustee],
a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, as trustee (the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">RECITALS OF THE PARTNERSHIP </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership and the Guarantor have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Indenture dated as of July&nbsp;15, 2002 (the &#147;<U>Original Indenture</U>&#148;), providing for the issuance
from time to time of one or more series of the Partnership&#146;s unsecured senior debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), to be guaranteed by the Guarantor, and the terms of which are to be
determined as set forth in Section&nbsp;301 of the Original Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate
Guarantor and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered the Third Supplemental Indenture dated July&nbsp;1, 2005 (the &#147;<U>Third Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), amending and supplementing the Original Indenture and providing for an
unconditional guarantee by the Affiliate Guarantor of the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities (as defined in the Original Indenture) and all other amounts due and payable under the
Original Indenture and the Securities by the Partnership. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 201, 301 and 901 of the
Original Indenture, as the same has been and may from time to time hereafter be amended and supplemented (as at any time so amended and supplemented, the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;), the Partnership has established one or more series of Securities
(herein called &#147;<U>Securities of the Affected Series</U>&#148;) to which the amendments of the Original Indenture contained in Article II of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture thereto dated February&nbsp;2, 2012 (the &#147;<U>Sixth Supplemental
Indenture</U>&#148;) have been made applicable, and Section&nbsp;1011 of the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Partnership is required to cause the Subsidiary Guarantor to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental
indenture pursuant to which the Subsidiary Guarantor shall guarantee the payment of the Securities of the Affected Series pursuant to a guarantee on the terms and conditions set forth herein. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to Section&nbsp;901 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Now, Therefore, This Supplemental Indenture Witnesseth: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">That in consideration of the premises and the issuance of the Securities of the Affected Series, the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantor and the Trustee mutually
covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities of the Affected Series, as follows: </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE IV </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The amendments and supplements contained herein shall
apply to the Securities of the Affected Series only and not to any other series of Securities issued under the Indenture, and any covenants provided herein are expressly being included solely for the benefit of the Securities of the Affected Series
and the Holders thereof. These amendments and supplements shall be effective only for so long as there remains any Securities of the Affected Series Outstanding. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 4.01 <U>Definition</U>s. Section&nbsp;101 of the Indenture is amended and supplemented by inserting in the appropriate alphabetical position, the following definition: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;<U>Securities of the Affected Series</U>&#148; means the Notes due 2022 and Securities of each other series to which the amendments
of the Original Indenture contained in Article II of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture have been made applicable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 4.02
<U>Unconditional Guarantee</U>. Unless such amendment shall have been effected by a previous supplemental indenture, the Indenture shall be amended and supplemented by inserting the following new Article XVI immediately after Article XV of the
Indenture: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;ARTICLE XVI </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1601. <U>Unconditional Guarantee</U>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For value received,
each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby fully, irrevocably, unconditionally and absolutely guarantees to the Holders and to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of the Affected
Series and all other amounts due and payable under this Indenture and the Securities of the Affected Series by the Partnership (including, without limitation, all costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements) incurred by the
Trustee or the Holders in connection with the enforcement of this Indenture and the Subsidiary Guarantees) (collectively, the &#147;<U>Indenture Obligations</U>&#148;), when and as such principal, premium, if any, and interest and such other amounts
shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity, upon redemption or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities of the Affected Series and this Indenture. The guarantees by the Subsidiary
Guarantors set forth in this Article XVI are referred to herein as the &#147;<U>Subsidiary Guarantees</U>.&#148; Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Subsidiary Guarantors&#146; liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute
part of the Indenture Obligations and would be owed by the Partnership under this Indenture and the Securities of the Affected Series but for the fact that they are unenforceable, reduced, limited, impaired, suspended or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving the Partnership. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Failing payment
when due of any amount guaranteed pursuant to the Subsidiary Guarantees, for whatever reason, each Subsidiary Guarantor will be obligated (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) to pay the same immediately to the Trustee, without set-off
or counterclaim or other reduction whatsoever (whether for taxes, withholding or otherwise). Each Subsidiary Guarantee hereunder is intended to be a general, unsecured, senior obligation of each Subsidiary Guarantor and will rank pari
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passu in right of payment with all indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor that is not, by its terms, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Subsidiary
Guarantor. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, its obligations hereunder shall be full, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability
of the Securities of the Affected Series, the Subsidiary Guarantees or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, any release of any other
Subsidiary Guarantor the recovery of any judgment against the Partnership, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of such Subsidiary Guarantor. Each
Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that in the event of a default in payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of the Affected Series or any other amounts payable under this Indenture and the Securities of the
Affected Series by the Partnership, whether at the Stated Maturity, upon redemption or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders or, subject to Section&nbsp;507 hereof,
by the Holders, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against each Subsidiary Guarantor to enforce its Subsidiary Guarantees without first proceeding against the Partnership. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor under this Article XVII
shall be as aforesaid full, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute and shall not be impaired, modified, discharged, released or limited by any occurrence or condition whatsoever, including, without limitation, (i)&nbsp;any compromise, settlement,
release, waiver, renewal, extension, indulgence or modification of, or any change in, any of the obligations and liabilities of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor contained in any of the Securities of
the Affected Series or this Indenture, (ii)&nbsp;any impairment, modification, release or limitation of the liability of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor, any Subsidiary Guarantor or any of their estates in bankruptcy, or any
remedy for the enforcement thereof, resulting from the operation of any present or future provision of any applicable Bankruptcy Law, as amended, or other statute or from the decision of any court, (iii)&nbsp;the assertion or exercise by the
Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor, any Subsidiary Guarantor or the Trustee of any rights or remedies under any of the Securities or this Indenture or their delay in or failure to assert or exercise any such rights or remedies,
(iv)&nbsp;the assignment or the purported assignment of any property as security for any of the Securities, including all or any part of the rights of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor under this
Indenture, (v)&nbsp;the extension of the time for payment by the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor of any payments or other sums or any part thereof owing or payable under any of the terms and provisions
of any of the Securities or this Indenture or of the time for performance by the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor of any other obligations under or arising out of any such terms and provisions or the
extension or the renewal of any thereof, (vi)&nbsp;the modification or amendment (whether material or otherwise) of any duty, agreement or obligation of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor set forth in
this Indenture, (vii)&nbsp;the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets, marshaling of assets and liabilities, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of, or other similar </FONT></P>
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proceeding affecting, the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor or any of their respective assets, or the disaffirmance of any of the Securities, any of
the Subsidiary Guarantees, the Affiliate Guarantee, the Guarantee or this Indenture in any such proceeding, (viii)&nbsp;the release or discharge of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor from the
performance or observance of any agreement, covenant, term or condition contained in any of such instruments by operation of law, (ix)&nbsp;the unenforceability of any of the Securities, the Subsidiary Guarantees, the Affiliate Guarantee, the
Guarantee or this Indenture, (x)&nbsp;any change in the name, business, capital structure, corporate existence, or ownership of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or (xi)&nbsp;any other circumstance
which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, a surety or any Subsidiary Guarantor. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby (i)&nbsp;waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, notice of acceptance, filing of claims with a court in the
event of the merger, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Partnership, the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor, and all demands and notices whatsoever, (ii)&nbsp;acknowledges that any agreement, instrument or document
evidencing its Subsidiary Guarantee may be transferred and that the benefit of its obligations hereunder shall extend to each Holder of the Securities of the Affected Series without notice to them and (iii)&nbsp;covenants that its Subsidiary
Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the Subsidiary Guarantees. Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, if at any time all or any part of any payment theretofore
applied by any Person to each Subsidiary Guarantee is, or must be, rescinded or returned for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation, the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of such Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantee
shall, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned, be deemed to have continued in existence notwithstanding such application, and such Subsidiary Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be,
as though such application had not been made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of
the Holders and the Trustee against the Partnership in respect of any amounts paid by the Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture; <I>provided, however,</I> that such Subsidiary Guarantor shall not be entitled to enforce or
to receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation with respect to any of the Securities of the Affected Series until all of the Securities of the Affected Series and the Subsidiary Guarantees thereof shall have been
indefeasibly paid in full or discharged. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of a
Subsidiary Guarantor shall not have any liability for any obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Trustee or the Holders, any right, power, privilege
or remedy under this Article XVI and the Subsidiary Guarantees shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any rights, power, privilege or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof, or the exercise of
any other rights, powers, privileges or remedies. The rights and remedies </FONT></P>
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herein provided for are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided in law or equity. Nothing contained in this Article XVI shall limit the right of the Trustee or the Holders
to take any action to accelerate the maturity of the Securities of the Affected Series pursuant to Article V or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder or under applicable law. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1602. <U>Limitation of Subsidiary Guarantor&#146;s Liability</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Subsidiary Guarantor and, by its acceptance of any Securities of the Affected Series, each Holder, hereby confirms
that it is their intention that the Subsidiary Guarantee by such Subsidiary Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act
or any similar federal or state law to the extent applicable to the Subsidiary Guarantees. To effectuate the foregoing intention, each such Person hereby irrevocably agrees that the obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary
Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as shall, after giving effect to such maximum amount and all other (contingent or otherwise) liabilities of such Subsidiary Guarantor that are relevant under such laws, and after giving effect to any
rights to contribution of such Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to any agreement providing for an equitable contribution among such Subsidiary Guarantor and other Affiliates of the Partnership of payments made on account of guarantees by such parties,
result in the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such maximum amount not constituting a fraudulent conveyance. Each Holder of Securities of the Affected Series, by accepting the benefits hereof, confirms its intention that, in
the event of bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding of either of the Partnership or any Subsidiary Guarantor in which concurrent claims are made upon such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder, to the extent such claims shall not be fully
satisfied, each such claimant with a valid claim against the Partnership shall be entitled to a ratable share of all payments by such Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such concurrent claims. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1603. <U>Execution and Delivery of Notation of Subsidiary Guarantees</U>. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To further evidence the Subsidiary Guarantees, the Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Subsidiary
Guarantees in substantially the form set forth below in Section&nbsp;1604 shall be endorsed on each of the Securities of the Affected Series authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and executed by either manual or facsimile signature of an
officer of the Subsidiary Guarantor; <I>provided</I> that failure to include such notation on the any of the Securities of the Affected Series shall not affect the validity of the Subsidiary Guarantees. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantees shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each of the Securities of the Affected Series a notation relating to the Subsidiary Guarantee thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If an officer of a Subsidiary Guarantor whose signature is on this Indenture or any of the Securities of the Affected Series no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates such Security
or at any time thereafter, the Subsidiary Guarantor&#146;s Subsidiary Guarantee of such Security shall be valid nevertheless. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 1604. <U>Form Of Notation On Security Relating To Subsidiary Guarantee.</U>
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FORM OF NOTATION ON SECURITY RELATING TO SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The undersigned Subsidiary Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person in such capacity under the Indenture), has
fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of this
series and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Securities of this series by the Partnership. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantor to the Holders of Securities of this series and to the Trustee pursuant to the Subsidiary Guarantees and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XVI of
the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Subsidiary Guarantee. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR]</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></TD>
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</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ARTICLE V </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MISCELLANEOUS </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 5.01 <U>Execution as Supplemental Indenture</U>. By its
execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, the undersigned Subsidiary Guarantor agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Indenture, including those of Article XV thereof, as the same relate to the Notes due 2022 and all other
Securities of the Affected Series. This Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Indenture and, as provided in the Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture forms a part thereof. Except as herein
expressly otherwise defined, the use of the terms and expressions herein is in accordance with the definitions, uses and constructions contained in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 5.02 <U>Responsibility for Recitals, Etc</U>. The recitals herein and in the Securities of the Affected Series (except in the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the
statements of the Partnership, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Securities of the Affected Series.
The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Partnership of the Securities of the Affected Series or of the proceeds thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 5.03 <U>Provisions Binding on Partnership&#146;s, Guarantor&#146;s and Subsidiary Guarantor&#146;s Successors</U>. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Supplemental
Indenture contained by the Partnership with the Guarantor, the Affiliate Guarantor or the undersigned Subsidiary Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 5.05 <U>Execution and Counterparts</U>. This
Supplemental Indenture may be executed with counterpart signature pages or in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SECTION 5.06 <U>Capitalized Terms</U>. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(<I>The remainder of this page is intentionally blank.</I>) </FONT></P>
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executed and attested, all as of the date first above written. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Partnership:</U></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> L<SMALL>OGISTICS</SMALL>, L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NuStar GP, Inc.,</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Its General Partner</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Guarantor</U>:</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> E<SMALL>NERGY</SMALL> L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Riverwalk&nbsp;Logistics,&nbsp;L.P.,</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">NuStar GP, LLC,</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General
Partner</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Title:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Affiliate Guarantor</U>:</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5" NOWRAP><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL> P<SMALL>IPELINE</SMALL> O<SMALL>PERATING</SMALL> P<SMALL>ARTNERSHIP</SMALL> L.P.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">N<SMALL>U</SMALL>S<SMALL>TAR</SMALL>&nbsp;P<SMALL>IPELINE</SMALL>&nbsp;C<SMALL>OMPANY</SMALL>,&nbsp;LLC,</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">its General Partner</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Name:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR]</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[NAME OF TRUSTEE], <SMALL>AS</SMALL> T<SMALL>RUSTEE</SMALL></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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