ARCTIC OIL & GAS CORP.
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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PURCHASE AGREEMENT</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">THIS AGREEMENT</font> made as of the
22ND day of July, 2008</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 75pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 63pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">ARCTIC
OIL &amp; GAS CORP.</font>, a corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws of
the State of Nevada having a registered office 1785 E Sahara Ave, Suite 490 Las
Vegas, NV 89104, State of Nevada, USA.</font></div>
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called &#8220;ARCTIC&#8221;)</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 75pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 63pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">STRATEGIC
NINE CORPORATION</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">,</font>
a corporation incorporated pursuant to the laws of State of Nevada, having a
business office at 1319 S. Orange Grove Ave, Los Angeles CA 90019.</font></div>
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called &#8220;Strategic&#8221;)</font></div>
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ENERGY TRUST (NZ)</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">,</font> a Trust incorporated
pursuant to the laws of New Zealand, having a USA business office at&#160;3/44
Thatcher Street, Mission Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.</font></div>
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called &#8220;Sterling&#8221;)</font></div>
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ENERGY TRUST</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">,</font> a
Trust incorporated pursuant to the laws of Armenia, having a business office at
433 Via Lido Soud, Newport Beach, CA&#160;92663.</font></div>
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called &#8220;Lskavyan&#8221;)</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">On
      April 10<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">th</font>,
      2008, Strategic and Sterling filed a claim with the United Nations General
      Assembly and the United States of America, claiming, as a responsible oil
      and gas development agent of the &#8220;common heritage of mankind&#8221;, the sole
      and exclusive exploitation, development, marketing and extraction rights
      to the oil and gas resources of the seafloor and subsurface contained with
      the entire Outer Blake Ridge area beyond the exclusive economic zone of
      the United States (the &#8220;Outer Blake Ridge Claims&#8221;).&#160;&#160;A copy of
      the filing is attached hereto as Schedule
&#8220;A&#8221;.</font></div>
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      April 10<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">th</font>
      2008, Strategic and Partners lodged an unsolicited Lease Application on
      the Inner Blake ridge area with the MMS.&#160;&#160;&#160;A copy of the
      filing is attached hereto as Schedule
&#8220;B&#8221;.</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Strategic
      and Sterling hold 46 and 31 per cent interests, respectively, in the Outer
      Blake Ridge Claims and Blake Ridge OCS Lease
  Application.</font></div>
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      Energy Trust holds a 9% interest in the Blake Ridge OCS Lease
      Application.</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">ARCTIC
      wishes to purchase a thirty (30) per cent interest in the Outer Blake
      Ridge Claims and Blake Ridge OCS Lease Application, to be acquired from
      Strategic (11 per cent), Sterling (10 per cent) and Lskavyan 9
      percent.</font></div>
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      May 26<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">th</font>
      2008, Strategic and Sterling filed a claim with the United Nations General
      Assembly and the United States of America, claiming, as a responsible oil
      and gas development agent of the &#8220;common heritage of mankind&#8221;, the sole
      and exclusive exploitation, development, marketing and extraction rights
      to the oil and gas resources of the seafloor and subsurface contained with
      the entire Bering Sea Abyssal area beyond the exclusive economic zone of
      the United States (the &#8220;Bering Sea Abyssal Claims&#8221;).&#160;&#160;A copy of
      the filing is attached hereto as Schedule
&#8220;B&#8221;.</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">ARCTIC
      wishes to purchase a thirty (30) per cent interest in the Bering Sea
      Abyssal Resources Claims to be acquired from Strategic (10 per cent),
      Sterling (20 per cent).</font></div>
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      the original Outer Blake Ridge Claims and Blake Ridge OCS Lease
      Application and Bering Sea Abyssal Claim founder, shall retain a 10%
      free-carried equity and a 3% gross production royalty, from any
      hydrocarbons produced within the Outer Blake Ridge Claims, Blake Ridge OCS
      lease application and the Bering Sea Abyssal Claim for 150 years from
      start of commercial production.</font></div>
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THEREFORE, <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">in consideration of
the premises and the mutual representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements provided in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable
consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged), the
parties hereto agree each with the others as follows:</font></font></div>
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used in this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings,
respectively:</font></div>
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      means a Subsidiary of a parent company, two Subsidiaries of the same
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      Date&#8221; means October 9, 2007 or such other date as may be agreed to among
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ARCTIC delivering to Strategic 60,000,000 restricted common shares in the
capital of ARCTIC&#160;&#160;issued from its treasury to Strategic Sterling and
Lskavyan in its own right and as agents for Strategic, Sterling and Laskavyan,
on Closing, Strategic, Sterling and Lskavyan shall collectively sell and
ARCTIC&#160;&#160;shall purchase a thirty per cent interest in the Outer Blake
Ridge Claims and Blake Ridge OCS Lease Application.</font></div>
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in the capital of ARCTIC&#160;&#160;issued from its treasury to Strategic in its
own right and as agents for Strategic and Sterling, on Closing, Strategic, and
Sterling shall collectively sell and ARCTIC&#160;&#160;shall purchase a thirty
per cent interest in the Bering Sea Abyssal Claim.</font></div>
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of Strategic on Closing</font> On Closing Strategic and Sterling shall each
execute and deliver (i) a certified copy of a resolution or resolutions of the
directors of each company authorizing this Agreement; (ii) affirmative vote of
its shareholders, as required by applicable corporate or securities laws; and
(iii) such other items of documentation as counsel to the Parties and any of
them may advise and the Parties or any of them may reasonably
request.</font></div>
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ARCTIC&#160;&#160;shall execute and deliver (i) the
ARCTIC&#160;&#160;Consideration; (ii) a certified copy of a resolution or
resolutions of the directors of ARCTIC&#160;&#160;authorizing this Agreement;
(iii)&#160;&#160;such other items or documentation as counsel to the Parties or
any of them may advise and the Parties of any of them may reasonably
request.</font></div>
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120,000,000 restricted shares and pay all costs involved in registering the
shares to make them free trading at the earliest possible date.</font></div>
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Fund Expenditure</font><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">&#160;</font>ARCTIC shall spend the
next one million dollars on each of the the properties, then pay 35% share of
future project costs on each of the properties.</font></div>
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sole discretion, the right to return the shares to ARCTIC and rescind this
agreement with no penalty within 120 days if either: (i) ARCTIC becomes
embroiled in legal disputes with shareholders or other parties. Or (2) ARCTIC
fails to secure working capital to move the project forward.</font></div>
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and Warranties of ARCTIC </font>&#160;&#160;ARCTIC hereby represents and
warrants to Strategic as follows:</font></div>
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      validly subsisting under the laws of the State of Nevada and has all
      requisite corporate power, capacity and authority to own or lease its
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      authority and capacity to perform the obligations of
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Agreement.</font></div>
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      par value, of which not more than 245 million common shares have been duly
      and validly issued prior to the issuance of the shares referred to in
      paragraph 2.01 and are outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable shares
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      trading through the facilities of the PINK SHEET Network (&#8220;PINKS&#8221;) are
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      similar order of NASDAQ or any other securities regulatory authority has
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      issued which prohibits or restricts or would prohibit or restrict the
      quotation of ARCTIC&#160;&#160;Shares nor is ARCTIC&#160;&#160;aware of
      any reason or basis for or upon which any such order or
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      law, pre-emptive or contractual) capable of becoming an agreement or
      option, including convertible securities, warrants or convertible
      obligations of any nature, for the purchase, subscription, allotment or
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      (including fixed or contingent liability) or contract exists, directly or
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      and Strategic-Sterling on the other. Sterling has not voted on the
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      has marketable contingent tenure over such title to all such property and
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encumbrances.</font></div>
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general).</font></div>
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hereby acknowledges and agrees that Strategic will be relying on the
representations and warranties made by ARCTIC in this Agreement in completing
the transactions provided herein.&#160;&#160;ARCTIC&#160;&#160;hereby agrees not
to do or cause anything to be done between the date of this Agreement and
Closing which might cause any of the foregoing representations and warranties to
be untrue at Closing.</font></div>
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represents and warrants to ARCTIC&#160;&#160;as follows:</font></div>
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      organized and validly subsisting under the laws of the State of Nevada
      (Sterling &#8211; New Zealand) and has all requisite corporate power, capacity
      and authority to own or lease its property and assets, and is in good
      standing in all jurisdictions in which the nature of the its business or
      the property owned or leased by it makes such qualification, licensing or
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      authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform the obligations of
      each Company provided in this
Agreement.</font></div>
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      delivered by each Company pursuant to this Agreement constitute, or at the
      time of delivery of the same will constitute, legal, valid and binding
      enforceable obligations of each
Company.</font></div>
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      policies, ordinances, codes, orders, deficiency notices, notices of
      violation or other notices concerning its business which have been issued
      by any regulatory or other governmental department, authority or agency
      and there are no matters under discussion with any such department,
      authority or agency relating to work orders, non-compliance orders,
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      Company is the legal and beneficial owner of the Outer Blake Ridge Claims
      and Blake Ridge OCS Lease Application in the percentage interests set out
      herein, free and clear of any and all claims, liens, mortgages, charges,
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encumbrances.</font></div>
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      a material fact or omit any statement of a material fact necessary in
      order to make the statements contained herein not
      misleading.&#160;&#160;There is no fact known to each Company which
      materially adversely affects the quality of title to the Outer Blake Ridge
      Claims or which might reasonably be expected to deter a reasonable
      purchaser from completing the transaction of purchase and sale herein
      contemplated which has not been set forth in this Agreement (other than
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of Strategic and Sterling</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;Each Company covenants and
agrees to provide to ARCTIC all necessary information relating to the Outer
Blake Ridge Claims and Blake Ridge OCS Lease Application, as is required from
time to time for ARCTIC&#160;&#160;to meet its reporting requirements as a
reporting company under the <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
(U.S.)</font>.</font></div>
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the following conditions in favor of ARCTIC :</font></div>
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      of the representations and warranties of Strategic, and Sterling provided
      in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects as of
      the date of this Agreement and at the time of Closing as if such
      representations and warranties had been made at and with reference to the
      time of Closing;</font></div>
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      and Sterling shall each have observed and performed all of the covenants
      and agreements provided in this Agreement which are to be observed and
      performed at or prior to Closing;</font></div>
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      corporation, governmental authority, regulatory body or agency to enjoin,
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hereof or otherwise, Strategic shall by notice in writing to
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Strategic whether for damages, costs, fees, expenses or other
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the companies are unable or unwilling to perform, satisfy or fulfill any
condition to be performed, satisfied or fulfilled pursuant to this Agreement,
ARCTIC&#160;&#160;shall by notice in writing to each of the companies be
entitled to terminate this Agreement without liability to
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survive Closing and not merge thereon provided that the representations and
warranties provided in this Agreement shall only survive for three years
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Party, execute and deliver such further assurances as may be reasonably
requested from time to time in order to confirm or give effect to the
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Agreement without the consent of the others.</font></div>
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given in writing by personal delivery (including courier delivery) or by prepaid
registered mail or by facsimile. The address for notice to each of the Parties
shall be as follows:</font></div>
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others. Any notice shall he deemed to have been received on the date it is
received at the address for notice of the Party to whom it is addressed (or in
the case of a facsimile notice when received at the facsimile of the Party for
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Parties provided herein shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of Nevada, United States of America as a contract made,
executed, delivered and entered into in the State of Nevada, United States of
America.&#160;&#160;Exclusive jurisdiction for any proceedings in relation to
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Agreement including, without limitation, the execution, delivery, validity,
enforceability, performance, breach, discharge, interpretation or construction
of this Agreement, shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with
the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association in the
City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and judgment on the award rendered by the
arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Both
parties consent to jurisdiction in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada.</font></div>
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