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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-046897"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRN"
cik: "0000010048"
company_name: "BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:57:16.165452+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Barnwell Industries CFO Russell Gifford to retire; Philip Patman to succeed as CFO effective Dec 31, 2025

## Summary
- Russell M. Gifford, EVP, CFO, Treasurer, principal financial and accounting officer, will retire on December 31, 2025.
- Philip F. Patman, Jr., EVP-Finance, will assume roles of CFO, Treasurer, and principal financial officer upon Gifford's retirement.
- Transition follows previously disclosed senior management succession plan.
- Gifford's retirement effective immediately after December 31, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-046897
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRN
- cik: 0000010048
- company_name: BARNWELL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10048/000114036125046897/0001140361-25-046897-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/10048/000114036125046897/ef20061999_8k.htm

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