Withholding. The Company shall not be obligated to deliver certificates, release from forfeiture, otherwise recognize a Participant’s unrestricted ownership in an Award or the cash or property proceeds therefrom, until the Company satisfies all applicable federal, state, and local or other income and employment tax withholding obligations. In its sole discretion, the Company may satisfy such withholding obligations by any of the following means or by a combination of such means: # causing the Participant to tender to the Company cash payment; # withholding cash from an Award settled in cash; # withholding from amounts otherwise payable by the Company to the Participant, including but not limited to additional withholding on the Participant’s salary or wages, or from proceeds from the sale of Common Stock issued pursuant to an Award; # delivery of shares of Common Stock, including shares retained from the Award creating the tax obligation, valued at their Fair Market Value; provided, however, except as otherwise provided by the Board, that the total tax withholding where stock is being used to satisfy such tax obligations cannot exceed the Company’s minimum statutory withholding obligations (based on minimum statutory withholding rates for federal and state tax purposes, including payroll taxes, that are applicable to such supplemental taxable income), and provided, further, shares surrendered to satisfy tax withholding requirements cannot be subject to any repurchase, forfeiture, unfulfilled vesting or other similar requirements; or # by such other method as determined by the Board.

Withholding. All payments and benefits provided hereunder shall be subject to tax withholdings required by applicable law and other standard payroll deductions.

Withholding. Each Participant shall, no later than the date as of which the value of an Award first becomes includable in the gross income of the Participant for federal, state or local income tax purposes, pay to Energen and Subsidiaries, or make arrangements satisfactory to the Committee, in its sole discretion, regarding payment of any federal, state, or local taxes of any kind required by law to be withheld with respect to the Award together with any federal (including FICA and FUTA), state, or local employment taxes required to be withheld. The obligations of Energen under the Plan shall be conditional on such payment or arrangements. Energen and, where applicable, its Subsidiaries shall, to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes owed hereunder by a Participant from any payment of any kind otherwise due to said Participant. The Committee may permit Participants to satisfy their federal, and where applicable, state and local tax withholding obligations with respect to all Awards by the reduction, in an amount necessary to pay all said withholding tax obligations, of the number of shares of Stock otherwise issuable or payable to said Participants in respect of an Award. During periods that the Committee permits such share withholding, Participants will be deemed to have elected share withholding; provided, however, that Energen may in its sole discretion permit a Participant to satisfy the withholding obligations of this Section 10 according to the direction of the Participant.

Withholding. Any payments made to Executive under this Agreement shall be reduced by any applicable withholding taxes or other amounts required to be withheld by law or contract.

WITHHOLDING. Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, the Company shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts payable or otherwise deliverable pursuant to this Note such amounts as may be required to be deducted or withheld therefrom under any provision of applicable law, and to request and be provided any necessary tax forms and information, including IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other appropriate version of IRS Form W-8 or IRS Form W-9), as applicable, from each beneficial owner of this Note. To the extent such amounts are so deducted or withheld and paid over to the appropriate taxing authority, such amounts shall be treated for all purposes under this Note as having been paid to the person to whom such amounts otherwise would have been paid.

Withholding. The Participant may be required to pay to the Company or any Affiliate and the Company or any Affiliate shall have the right and is hereby authorized to withhold from any transfer due under this Agreement or under the Plan or from any compensation or other amount owing to the Participant, applicable withholding taxes with respect to any transfer under this Agreement or under the Plan and to take such action as may be necessary in the opinion of the Company to satisfy all obligations for the payment of such taxes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant's employment with the Company terminates prior to the transfer of all of the Shares under this Agreement, the payment of any applicable withholding taxes with respect to any further transfer of Shares under this Agreement or the Plan shall be made solely through the sale of Shares equal to the statutory minimum withholding liability.

Withholding. The Company shall be entitled to withhold from any amounts payable under this Agreement any federal, state, local, or foreign withholding or other taxes or charges which the Company is required to withhold. The Company shall be entitled to rely on an opinion of counsel if any questions as to the amount or requirement of withholding shall arise.

Withholding Taxes. To the extent that the Company is required to withhold federal, state, local or foreign taxes or other amounts in connection with any payment made or benefit realized by a Participant or other Person under this Plan, and the amounts available to the Company for such withholding are insufficient, it will be a condition to the receipt of such payment or the realization of such benefit that the Participant or such other Person make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for payment of the balance of such taxes or other amounts required to be withheld, which arrangements (in the discretion of the Committee) may include relinquishment of a portion of such benefit. If a Participant’s benefit is to be received in the form of shares of Common Stock, and such Participant fails to make arrangements for the payment of taxes or other amounts, then, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Company will withhold shares of Common Stock having a value equal to the amount required to be withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, when a Participant is required to pay the Company an amount required to be withheld under applicable income, employment, tax or other laws, the Committee may require the Participant to satisfy the obligation, in whole or in part, by having withheld, from the shares of Common Stock delivered or required to be delivered to the Participant, shares of Common Stock having a value equal to the amount required to be withheld or by delivering to the Company other shares of Common Stock held by such Participant. The shares of Common Stock used for tax or other withholding will be valued at an amount equal to the fair market value of such shares of Common Stock on the date the benefit is to be included in Participant’s income. In no event will the fair market value of the shares of Common Stock to be withheld and delivered pursuant to this Section 16 exceed the minimum amount required to be withheld, unless # an additional amount can be withheld and not result in adverse accounting consequences, and # such additional withholding amount is authorized by the Committee. Participants will also make such arrangements as the Company may require for the payment of any withholding tax or other obligation that may arise in connection with the disposition of shares of Common Stock acquired upon the exercise of Option Rights.

Tax Withholding. To the extent required by law with respect to any Participant who is a Canadian tax resident, or as may be otherwise required to satisfy any federal or state tax withholding requirements, the Corporation will reduce the gross number of minimum number of Restricted Stock Unit Shares to be delivered under this Agreement hereof by withholding the minimum necessary number of shares necessary to satisfy the Corporation’s tax withholding obligations with respect to the Participant (or in the event of the Participant’s death, the beneficiary) based on the Fair Market Value of the Corporation’s Common Stock when shares are distributable to the Participant (or beneficiary). The Participant or beneficiary will be deemed to have been issued the gross number of Restricted Stock Unit Shares prior to such tax withholding, notwithstanding that a number of shares are held back solely for the purpose of satisfying such tax withholding obligation. The value of any fractional share amount created as a result of such withholding will be added to the tax withholding amount.

Tax Withholding. The Company shall have the right to deduct from all payments hereunder any taxes required by law to be withheld with respect to such payments. In the event payment is made in the form of shares of Common Stock, with the approval of the Committee, the minimum tax withholding may be satisfied by the Company withholding from shares of Common Stock to be issued, shares having an aggregate Fair Market Value (as of the date the withholding is in effect) that would satisfy the minimum withholding amount due (or other rates that will not have a negative accounting impact).