---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000889900-25-000066"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PTEN"
cik: "0000889900"
company_name: "PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:10:55.626671+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Patterson-UTI Energy director Leslie Beyer resigns after Senate confirmation as Assistant Secretary

## Summary
- Leslie Beyer resigned from Patterson-UTI's Board of Directors on September 18, 2025, effective immediately.
- Her resignation followed U.S. Senate confirmation as Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior.
- Beyer joined the board in September 2023; resignation was not due to any disagreement with the company.
- The company issued a press release on September 19, 2025, congratulating Beyer and announcing her departure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000889900-25-000066
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PTEN
- cik: 0000889900
- company_name: PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/889900/000088990025000066/0000889900-25-000066-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/889900/000088990025000066/pten-20250918.htm

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