EXHIBIT G
LOCK-UP LETTER
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Associates, Inc.
Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc.
Principal Financial Securities, Inc.
As representatives of the several Underwriters
c/o Raymond Xxxxx & Associates, Inc.
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xx. Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is being delivered to you in connection with the Underwriting
Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") that may be executed in connection with
the proposed public offering (the "Offering") between Edge Petroleum Corporation
(the "Company") and you, as representatives of a group of underwriters, relating
to the sale to the underwriters of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per
share, of the Company (the "Common Stock").
To induce you and the other underwriters to enter into the Underwriting
agreement, the undersigned agrees that during the period beginning on
February 21, 1997 and continuing to and including the date 180 days after the
date of the final Prospectus used in connection with the Offering, the
undersigned will not offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, any
securities of the Company that are substantially similar to the Common Stock,
including but not limited to any securities that are convertible into or
exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, Common Stock or any
such similar securities, without your prior written consent; provided, however,
that the undersigned (i) may transfer any or all shares of Common Stock held
either during the undersigned's lifetime or on death by will or intestacy to the
undersigned's immediate family ("Immediate family" shall mean spouse, lineal
descendant, father, mother, brother or sister of the undersigned) or to any
custodian or trustee for the account of the undersigned or the undersigned's
immediate family, and (ii) may make a bona fide pledge or mortgage of any shares
of Common Stock with a commercial lending institution; and provided, further,
that in any such case, the undersigned's immediate family or commercial lending
institution shall receive and hold such shares of Common Stock subject to the
restrictions of this lock-up letter, and there shall be no further transfer of
such stock except in accordance with this lock-up letter.
/s/ XXXX XXXXXXXXX
By:_________________________________
Printed name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Date: 2/24/97
