---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-034795"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001528129"
company_name: "Vital Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T17:09:22.612481+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vital Energy prices $800M of 7.875% senior notes due 2032; launches tender offers for up to $550M of higher-coupon notes

## Summary
- Upsized private offering to $800M of 7.875% senior unsecured notes due 2032, priced at par; net proceeds ~$786M.
- Tender offers for up to $475M of 10.125% notes due 2028 and $75M of 9.750% notes due 2030, plus early tender premium of $50 per $1,000.
- Use of proceeds includes funding tender offers, repaying credit facility, paying fees; expected close March 28, 2024.
- Refinancing targets high-cost debt, potentially lowering annual interest expense and extending maturity profile.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-034795
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001528129
- company_name: Vital Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000110465924034795/0001104659-24-034795-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000110465924034795/tm248761d2_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Vital Energy, Inc. entered into Purchase Agreement with BofA Securities, Inc., as representative of the several initial purchasers named in Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement valued at $800.0 million aggregate principal amount (effective 2024-03-14).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: BofA Securities, Inc., as representative of the several initial purchasers named in Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement
  - Value: $800.0 million aggregate principal amount
  - Effective: 2024-03-14
  source text: On March 14, 2024, Vital Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vital Midstream Services, LLC, entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with BofA Securities, Inc., as representative of the several initial purchasers named in Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement (together, the “Initial Purchasers”), providing for the offer and sale by the Company (the “Offering”) of $800.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 7.875% senior unsecured notes due 2032 (the “Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000110465924034795/0001104659-24-034795-index.htm

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