THIRD AMENDMENT TO BASE GAS PURCHASE AGREEMENTBase Gas Purchase Agreement • January 10th, 2007 • Atlas Energy Resources, LLC • Crude petroleum & natural gas
This Third Amendment to the Gas Purchase Agreement (this “Amendment”) is made and entered into on January 5, 2007 to be effective as of December 18, 2006 (the “Effective Date”) by and among Atlas America, Inc. (into which Atlas Energy Group, Inc. was previously merged) (“Atlas DE”), Viking Resources, LLC (f/k/a Viking Resources Corporation) (“Viking”), Atlas Resources, LLC (f/k/a Atlas Resources, Inc.) (“Atlas Resources”), Resource Energy, LLC (f/k/a Resource Energy, Inc.) (“Resource Energy” and together with Viking and Atlas Resources, the “ATN Subsidiaries”), and Hess Corporation (“Hess”). This Amendment modifies, supplements, forms part of, and amends that certain Gas Purchase Agreement with FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. dated as of March 31, 1999 (the “1999 Agreement”), as amended on February 1, 2001 (the “2001 Amendment”) and on July 16, 2003 (the “2003 Amendment”), and assigned to Hess by that Assignment of Transactions dated April 1, 2005 (the “2005 Assignment”) (collectively, the
