---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001072613-21-000604"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EP"
cik: "0000887396"
company_name: "EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP"
filed_at: "2021-10-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T18:59:14.960459+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Empire Petroleum appoints CAO and adds two new directors including 18.4% shareholder

## Summary
- Angela Baker named Chief Accounting Officer, base salary $190k/year, 60k-share grant vesting over 3 years.
- Phil Mulacek, founder of InterOil and owner of ~18.4% of Empire, appointed to board.
- Ben Marchive II, VP-Land at Cox Operating with 17 years Gulf of Mexico experience, also appointed.
- Mulacek previously grew InterOil market cap from $10M to $5.6B; led discovery of 1.6B BOE in Papua New Guinea.
- Michael Morrisett relinquished CAO role upon Baker's hiring but remains President.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001072613-21-000604
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EP
- cik: 0000887396
- company_name: EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP
- filed_at: 2021-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/0001072613-21-000604-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/emp_8k-18544.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-21-000604
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-21-000604.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-21-000604.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Morrisett changed role as Chief Accounting Officer at EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP.
  - Action: relinquished
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Michael Morrisett, the Company’s President, relinquished the role of Chief Accounting Officer upon the hiring of Ms. Baker.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/0001072613-21-000604-index.htm
- Executive change
  Angela Baker was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective October 18, 2021, the Board of Directors of Empire Petroleum Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Angela Baker, age 36, as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/0001072613-21-000604-index.htm

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