---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001072613-24-000339"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EP"
cik: "0000887396"
company_name: "EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP"
filed_at: "2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T22:40:16.926508+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Empire Petroleum CFO Stephen Faulkner resigns effective March 28

## Summary
- CFO and CAO Stephen L. Faulkner Jr. resigns effective March 28, 2024.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Faulkner accepted a position with another public company.
- No successor has been announced as of the filing date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001072613-24-000339
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EP
- cik: 0000887396
- company_name: EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP
- filed_at: 2024-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261324000339/0001072613-24-000339-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261324000339/emp_8k-18810.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-24-000339
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-24-000339.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001072613-24-000339.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen L. Faulkner, Jr. resigned as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On March 12, 2024, Stephen L. Faulkner, Jr. (Larry) informed Empire Petroleum Corporation (the “Company”) that he was resigning as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company effective on or about March 28, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261324000339/0001072613-24-000339-index.htm

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