---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-027894"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APA"
cik: "0001841666"
company_name: "APA Corp"
filed_at: "2022-02-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T11:14:20.205334+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# APA Corp expands board to 11, appoints Lt. Gen. Charles W. Hooper as director

## Summary
- Board expanded to 11 directors; Lt. Gen. Hooper appointed effective Feb. 2, 2022.
- Hooper to serve on Corporate Responsibility, Governance, and Nominating Committee and Management Development and Compensation Committee.
- Hooper, 64, retired after 41-year military career; last role was Director of Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
- Compensation consistent with other non-employee directors, as described in 2021 proxy statement.
- Hooper also serves as senior counselor at Cohen Group and on boards of UL Inc., Two Six Technologies, Loc Performance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-027894
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APA
- cik: 0001841666
- company_name: APA Corp
- filed_at: 2022-02-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841666/000119312522027894/0001193125-22-027894-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841666/000119312522027894/d190970d8k.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-027894.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-027894.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Charles W. Hooper was appointed as Director at APA Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 2, 2022, the board of directors (the “Board”) of APA Corporation (the “Company”) expanded the Board to eleven directors and appointed Lieutenant General Charles W. Hooper (U.S. Army, Retired) as a new director of the Company’s Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841666/000119312522027894/0001193125-22-027894-index.htm

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