---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-23-002742"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CEIN"
cik: "0001309082"
company_name: "CAMBER ENERGY, INC."
filed_at: "2023-04-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T23:26:37.848994+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Camber Energy and Viking Energy amend merger agreement; S-4 filing next step

## Summary
- Camber (CEI) and Viking (VKIN) signed amendment on April 18, 2023 to existing merger agreement.
- Viking common shareholders to receive one Camber share per Viking share; preferred stock converted into new Camber preferred series.
- James A. Doris to serve as President & CEO of combined company; headquarters in Houston, TX.
- Camber intends to file Form S-4 registration statement with SEC as next step toward closing.
- Closing conditions include stockholder approvals, regulatory OK, NYSE American listing qualification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-23-002742
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CEIN
- cik: 0001309082
- company_name: CAMBER ENERGY, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-04-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309082/000147793223002742/0001477932-23-002742-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309082/000147793223002742/cei_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001477932-23-002742.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  CAMBER ENERGY, INC. amended Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger with Viking Energy Group, Inc. (effective 2023-04-18).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Viking Energy Group, Inc.
  - Effective: 2023-04-18
  source text: on April 18, 2023, Camber Energy, Inc. (“Camber” or the “Company”) and Viking Energy Group, Inc. (“Viking”) entered into an amendment to that certain Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 15, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309082/000147793223002742/0001477932-23-002742-index.htm

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