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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-155546"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHRD"
cik: "0001486159"
company_name: "Chord Energy Corp"
filed_at: "2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T05:52:36.902607+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chord Energy completes Enerplus acquisition; sees >$200M annual synergies, issues combined guidance

## Summary
- Each Enerplus share exchanged for 0.10125 Chord shares + $1.84 cash; ~20.7M new Chord shares issued.
- Synergy estimate raised to >$200M/yr from $150M; Enerplus holders own ~33% of combined company.
- Board expanded to 11 members; 4 from Enerplus including former CEO Ian Dundas, Hilary Foulkes, Ward Polzin, Jeffrey Sheets.
- Borrowing base increased to $3.0B, elected commitments to $1.5B via Fifth Amendment to credit agreement.
- Combined Q2 2024 oil guidance 115.6-118.6 MBopd; capex guidance unchanged from May standalone outlooks.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-155546
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHRD
- cik: 0001486159
- company_name: Chord Energy Corp
- filed_at: 2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.02, 3.03, 5.03, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/d829409d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-155546.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cynthia L. Walker resigned as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Cynthia L. Walker and Paul J. Korus resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) effective as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jeffrey Sheets was appointed as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board approved an increase in the size of the Board from nine to eleven directors and appointed Ian C. Dundas, Hilary Foulkes, Ward Polzin and Jeffrey Sheets, whose biographies are included below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ian C. Dundas was appointed as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board approved an increase in the size of the Board from nine to eleven directors and appointed Ian C. Dundas, Hilary Foulkes, Ward Polzin and Jeffrey Sheets, whose biographies are included below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- Executive change
  Hilary Foulkes was appointed as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board approved an increase in the size of the Board from nine to eleven directors and appointed Ian C. Dundas, Hilary Foulkes, Ward Polzin and Jeffrey Sheets, whose biographies are included below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ward Polzin was appointed as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective as of the Effective Time, the Board approved an increase in the size of the Board from nine to eleven directors and appointed Ian C. Dundas, Hilary Foulkes, Ward Polzin and Jeffrey Sheets, whose biographies are included below.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm
- Executive change
  Paul J. Korus resigned as Director at Chord Energy Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Cynthia L. Walker and Paul J. Korus resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) effective as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000119312524155546/0001193125-24-155546-index.htm

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