---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-26-008854"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MUR"
cik: "0000717423"
company_name: "MURPHY OIL CORP"
filed_at: "2026-06-11T20:47:16+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T20:48:07.052820+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Murphy Oil EVP GC & Corp Sec Botner retires; Landes named interim

## Summary
- E. Ted Botner, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, retired immediately from those roles effective June 11, 2026, and will leave the company on June 30, 2026.
- Roger W. Landes, previously Associate General Counsel, appointed Interim General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
- No other details on succession search or compensation changes provided in filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-26-008854
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MUR
- cik: 0000717423
- company_name: MURPHY OIL CORP
- filed_at: 2026-06-11T20:47:16+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717423/000095010326008854/0000950103-26-008854-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717423/000095010326008854/dp248287_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-26-008854
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-26-008854.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-26-008854.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Roger W. Landes was appointed as Interim General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at MURPHY OIL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: Roger W. Landes, the Company’s Associate General Counsel, has been appointed the Interim General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717423/000095010326008854/0000950103-26-008854-index.htm
- Executive change
  E. Ted Botner retired as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at MURPHY OIL CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: E. Ted Botner, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, will retire from his position as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective immediately, and will retire from the Company on June 30, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717423/000095010326008854/0000950103-26-008854-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.