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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-030237"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000061398"
company_name: "TELLURIAN INC. /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T05:05:03.820629+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tellurian CEO not renewed; Executive Chairman appointed; mulls upstream sale

## Summary
- CEO Octávio Simões employment not extended beyond June 5, 2024; Martin Houston named Executive Chairman.
- President Daniel Belhumeur gets $850k base salary (up from $525k) and higher incentive targets.
- Exploring sale of Haynesville/Bossier upstream assets; Lazard retained as advisor.
- Driftwood LNG fully permitted; FERC extension received; first LNG targeted for 2028.
- Debt restructured to reduce near-term cash obligations; corporate overhead materially reduced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-030237
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000061398
- company_name: TELLURIAN INC. /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61398/000110465924030237/0001104659-24-030237-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61398/000110465924030237/tm247773d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-030237
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-030237.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-030237.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Octávio Simões departed as Chief Executive Officer at TELLURIAN INC. /DE/.
  - Action: elected not to renew or extend
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 1, 2024, the Board elected not to renew or extend the term of the Company’s employment agreement with Octávio Simões, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, beyond the term ending on June 5, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/61398/000110465924030237/0001104659-24-030237-index.htm

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