FIRST AMENDMENT TO DEED OF TRUST, SECURITY AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION, FINANCING STATEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING

After recording, return to:

Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C.

Attn: Chelsey Russell and Scott Turner

1125 17th Street, Suite 2200

Denver, CO  80202

 

THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO DEED OF TRUST, SECURITY AGREEMENT, ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION, FINANCING STATEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING (this “Amendment”), dated effective as of October 9, 2014, is made by and among RED HAWK PETROLEUM, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“Grantor”), with an address at 4125 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Suite 201A, Danville, California 94506, the PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF WELD COUNTY, COLORADO (“Trustee”), and BAM ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Beneficiary”), with an address at 1370 Avenue of the Americas, 32nd Floor, New York, New York 10019.

 

 

 

 

 

NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Grantor does hereby irrevocably GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL, ASSIGN, TRANSFER and CONVEY WITH POWER OF SALE unto Trustee for the proposes, uses and benefits hereinafter set forth, IN TRUST, the following described real and personal property, rights, titles, interests and estates (collectively, the “New Hydrocarbon Property”):

 

(a)           All rights, titles, interests and estates now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor in, to and under the leases described in Exhibit A attached hereto, and to the oil and gas leases and/or oil, gas and other mineral leases and other interests and estates and the lands and premises covered or affected thereby (the “Leases”), insofar as the Leases cover the land described on Exhibit A attached hereto (collectively, the “New Hydrocarbon Property”), even though Grantor’s interests therein may be incorrectly described or a description of a part or all of such New Hydrocarbon Property or Grantor’s interests therein be omitted; it being intended by Grantor and Beneficiary herein to cover and affect hereby all interests which Grantor may now own or may hereafter acquire in and to the New Hydrocarbon Property notwithstanding that the interests as specified on Exhibit A may be limited to particular lands, specified depths or particular types of property interests.

 

(b)           All rights, titles, interests and estates now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor in, to and under:  (i) the properties now or hereafter pooled or unitized with the New Hydrocarbon Property; (ii) all presently existing or future unitization, communitization, pooling agreements and declarations of pooled units and the units created thereby (including, without limitation, all units created under orders, regulations, rules or other official acts of any Federal, State or other governmental body or agency having jurisdiction and any units created solely among working interest owners pursuant to operating agreements or otherwise) which may affect all or any portion of the New Hydrocarbon Property, including, without limitation, those units which may be described or referred to on attached Exhibit A; (iii) all operating agreements, production sales or other contracts, farmout agreements, farm-in agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, equipment leases and other agreements described or referred to in this Deed of Trust or which relate to any of the New Hydrocarbon Property or interests in the New Hydrocarbon Property described or referred to herein or on attached Exhibit A or to the production, sale, purchase, exchange, processing, handling, storage, transporting or marketing of the Hydrocarbons from or attributable to such New Hydrocarbon Property; and (iv) all geological, geophysical, seismic, engineering, accounting, title and other technical or business data concerning the New Hydrocarbon Property, the Hydrocarbons, or any other item of property which are in the possession of Grantor or in which Grantor can otherwise grant a security interest with respect to the New Hydrocarbon Property, and all books, files, records, magnetic media, computer records, and other forms of recording or obtaining access to such data.

 

(c)           All rights, titles, interests and estates now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor in and to all oil, gas, casinghead gas, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all products refined therefrom and all other minerals (collectively, the “Hydrocarbons”) in and under and which may be produced and saved from or attributable to the New Hydrocarbon Property, the lands pooled or unitized therewith and Grantor’s interests therein, including all oil in tanks and all rents, issues, profits, proceeds, products, revenues and other income from or attributable to the New Hydrocarbon Property, the lands pooled or unitized therewith and Grantor’s interests therein which are subjected or required to be subjected to the liens and security interests of the Deed of Trust.

 

(d)           All tenements, hereditaments, appurtenances and properties relating, belonging, affixed or incidental to the New Hydrocarbon Property, rights, titles, interests and estates described or referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above, which are now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by Grantor, including, without limitation, any and all property, real or personal, now owned or hereafter acquired and situated upon, used, held for use, or useful in connection with the operating, working or development of any of such New Hydrocarbon Property or the lands pooled or unitized therewith (excluding drilling rigs, trucks, automotive equipment or other personal property which may be taken to the premises for the purpose of drilling a well or for other similar temporary uses) and including any and all oil wells, gas wells, injection wells or other wells, including, without limitation, those described on Exhibit A, structures, field separators, liquid extraction plants, plant compressors, pumps, pumping units, pipelines, sales and flow lines, gathering systems, field gathering systems, salt water disposal facilities, tanks and tank batteries, fixtures, valves, fittings, machinery and parts, engines, boilers, meters, apparatus, equipment, appliances, tools, implements, cables, wires, towers, casing, tubing and rods, surface leases, rights-of-way, easements, servitudes, licenses and other surface and subsurface rights together with all additions, substitutions, replacements, accessions and attachments to any and all of the foregoing properties.

 

(e)           All of the rights, titles and interests of every nature whatsoever now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor in and to the New Hydrocarbon Property rights, titles, interests and estates and every part and parcel thereof.

 

(f)           All accounts, contract rights, inventory, general intangibles, insurance contracts and insurance proceeds and any other personable/movable property of any kind or character constituting a part of, relating to or arising out of those portions of the New Hydrocarbon Property which are described in paragraphs (a) through (e) above and all proceeds and products of all such portions of the New Hydrocarbon Property and payments in lieu of production (such as “take or pay” payments), whether such proceeds or payments are goods, money, documents, instruments, chattel paper, securities, accounts, general intangibles, fixtures, real property, or other assets.

 

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the New Hydrocarbon Property unto Trustee, and its successors and assigns or substitutes, IN TRUST, for the benefit of Beneficiary, subject to the following:

 

The execution of this Amendment shall not alter or otherwise affect the terms, provisions and conditions of the Deed of Trust, except as expressly set forth herein.  Grantor hereby RATIFIES, CONFIRMS AND AGREES that the Deed of Trust, as amended hereby, shall continue to be in full force and effect to the same extent as provided therein.

 

All exhibits attached hereto are hereby incorporated herein and made a part hereof for all purposes, as if set forth in full herein. References in such exhibits to instruments on file in the public records are hereby incorporated by reference herein for all purposes.

 

The Parties agree to take all reasonable action and to execute, acknowledge and deliver all such instruments necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Amendment.

 

This Amendment may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original copy of this Amendment and all of which, when taken together, will be deemed to constitute one and the same agreement.

 

[signature and acknowledgement pages follow]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Executed as of October 6, 2014.

 

	GRANTOR
	RED HAWK PETROLEUM, LLC
	By: /s/ Clark R. Moore
	Clark R. Moore
	Executive Vice President

STATE OF CALIFORNIA	)
	)
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA	)

 

On October 6, 2014 before me, Valentina Babichev, Notary Public (insert name and title of the officer) personally appeared Clark Moore who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity (ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon whose behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.

 

I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.

 

WITNESS my hand and official seal:

 

                                                                 [NOTARY SEAL]

 

Signature /s/ Valentina Babichev

 

 

	BENEFICIARY
	BAM ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES LLC
	By: /s/ David Levy
	David Levy
	Authorized Signatory

STATE OF NEW YORK	)
	)
COUNTY OF NEW YORK	)

 

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this 6th day of October, 2014, by David Levy, as Authorized Signatory of BAM Administrative Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for and on behalf of said limited liability company.

 

My Commission Expires: 8/29/15

 

Witness my Hand and Seal:

 

	/s/ Alexis Northwood
	Notary Public, State of New York

[NOTARY SEAL]