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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001072613-25-000424"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EP"
cik: "0000887396"
company_name: "EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T09:46:43.291766+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Empire Petroleum annual meeting elects directors, approves executive pay, ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Annual meeting held June 12, 2025; 87.15% of shares represented (29.38M of 33.71M outstanding).
- Stockholders elected three directors: Michael R. Morrisett, Vice Admiral Andrew L. Lewis (Ret.), and J. Kevin Vann.
- Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation passed: 24.2M for, 28.8K against, 5.6K abstain.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as independent auditor for 2025 approved: 29.35M for, 11.6K against, 17.0K abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001072613-25-000424
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EP
- cik: 0000887396
- company_name: EMPIRE PETROLEUM CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261325000424/0001072613-25-000424-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887396/000107261325000424/emp_8k-18959.htm

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