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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-194979"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SDRL"
cik: "0001737706"
company_name: "Seadrill Ltd"
filed_at: "2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:36:07.285008+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Seadrill approves salary increases for 4 NEOs; Sauer-Petersen named CTO & Sustainability Officer

## Summary
- CFO Grant Creed base salary set at $465,000, effective Sept 15, 2025.
- CCO Samir Ali base salary set at $440,000; same effective date.
- EVP/CTO Torsten Sauer-Petersen base salary set at $440,000 (increase due to role change).
- SVP and General Counsel Todd Strickler base salary set at $425,000.
- Sauer-Petersen's appointment as EVP, Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer effective Aug 27, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-194979
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SDRL
- cik: 0001737706
- company_name: Seadrill Ltd
- filed_at: 2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737706/000119312525194979/0001193125-25-194979-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737706/000119312525194979/d21429d8k.htm

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