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Issuer:     EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP (EP)
CIK:        0000887396
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001072613-21-000604
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/0001072613-21-000604-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261321000604/emp_8k-18544.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-21-000604

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