---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-029473"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001538822"
company_name: "Pacific Coast Oil Trust"
filed_at: "2026-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T10:24:35.229887+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pacific Coast Oil Trust appoints Weaver and Tidwell as new auditor after PKF resignation

## Summary
- PKF resigned as independent auditor on July 11, 2025.
- Weaver and Tidwell engaged as successor auditor on March 16, 2026.
- No consultations with Weaver on matters under Regulation S-K Item 304 prior to engagement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-029473
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001538822
- company_name: Pacific Coast Oil Trust
- filed_at: 2026-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465926029473/0001104659-26-029473-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465926029473/tm269093d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-029473
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-029473.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 5ad42d79c2e5ff5bd0325cd5262aab1528ab9efd
  claim: Pacific Coast Oil Trust engaged Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. as its auditor.
  evidence_excerpt: On March 16, 2026, the Trust engaged Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P. (“Weaver”) as the Trust’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465926029473/0001104659-26-029473-index.htm
- claim_id: d5f5031db574c10dc8fd24f8c8cc63e958bbd9a2
  claim: Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. resigned as auditor of Pacific Coast Oil Trust.
  evidence_excerpt: Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C. (“PKF”) resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm of Pacific Coast Oil Trust (the “Trust”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465926029473/0001104659-26-029473-index.htm

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