secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HALLIBURTON CO (HAL)
CIK:        0000045012
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-15T20:20:36+00:00
Accession:  0000045012-26-000069
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Halliburton appoints Hunt Consolidated president David Hernandez to board, audit committee
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- David C. Hernandez appointed to Halliburton's board on Oct 15, 2026, to serve until the 2027 Annual Meeting; board size stays at 12.
- Hernandez is president of Hunt Consolidated, with 18+ years across the Hunt family of companies; previously VP of tax at Electronic Data Systems.
- He joins the Audit and Health, Safety and Environment committees and is designated an SEC 'audit committee financial expert'; deemed NYSE independent.
- Timothy A. Leach moved off the Audit Committee and appointed to the Compensation Committee in connection with the committee changes.
- Initial equity award of 961 restricted stock units, prorated from the $200,000 annual non-management director award; signed indemnification agreement Oct 15, 2026.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45012/000004501226000069/0000045012-26-000069-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45012/000004501226000069/hal-20261015.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000045012-26-000069

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