---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-021716"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDCO"
cik: "0000793306"
company_name: "BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T11:28:00.118000+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Dolphin stockholders elect all five directors and ratify UHY as auditor

## Summary
- All five director nominees elected: Carroll, Misra, Morris, Bailey, Whitney with ~12.5M votes each.
- Ratification of UHY LLP as independent auditor for FY2025 passed with 12,596,056 for, 290 against.
- Approximately 80,584 broker non-votes on director election; no other business transacted.
- Annual meeting held June 26, 2025; results filed July 1, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-021716
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDCO
- cik: 0000793306
- company_name: BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000143774925021716/0001437749-25-021716-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000143774925021716/bdco20250626c_8k.htm

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