---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-062520"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COP"
cik: "0001163165"
company_name: "CONOCOPHILLIPS"
filed_at: "2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T19:17:23.609037+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ConocoPhillips shareholders approve simple-majority vote proposal at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- 12 director nominees elected; Robert A. Niblock had highest against vote at ~175M shares (18.9% of votes cast).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor passed with ~987M for, ~47M against, ~1M abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with ~886M for, ~37M against, ~2.4M abstain.
- Stockholder proposal to eliminate supermajority vote requirements approved with ~915M for, ~9.5M against.
- Stockholder proposal to revisit GHG emission reduction pay incentives rejected with ~914M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-062520
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COP
- cik: 0001163165
- company_name: CONOCOPHILLIPS
- filed_at: 2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/tm2414733d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-062520.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 3da725c44d8dbfdce1a8343c12f3e64f316ae8fe
  claim: CONOCOPHILLIPS shareholders approved Stockholder Proposal – Simple Majority Vote at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: A stockholder proposal for the Company to eliminate any voting requirement in our Charter and By-Laws that calls for a greater than simple majority vote and replace it with a simple majority vote standard was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm
- claim_id: 5c4c0a1ce0bc6ded1f9450fcbba855978ed229e4
  claim: CONOCOPHILLIPS shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS All 12 nominated directors were elected to serve a one-year term.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm
- claim_id: 6452285aca13dcadd31e3241f0119427f0867f6f
  claim: CONOCOPHILLIPS shareholders rejected Stockholder Proposal – Revisit Pay Incentives for GHG Emission Reductions at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: A stockholder proposal for our Board of Directors' Human Resources and Compensation Committee to revisit its pay incentives for executive pay and consider eliminating greenhouse gas reduction targets from compensation was not approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm
- claim_id: a42fc028c535ab576ad33681dd1541ab33e100f7
  claim: CONOCOPHILLIPS shareholders approved Advisory Vote on the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: The advisory vote on the compensation of our Named Executive Officers was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm
- claim_id: c384afaae5bc9a93c21dd4d81c4eefffbc0bcef3
  claim: CONOCOPHILLIPS shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2024-05-14 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2024 was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000110465924062520/0001104659-24-062520-index.htm

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