secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Chord Energy Corp (CHRD)
CIK:        0001486159
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-19T21:27:39+00:00
Accession:  0001486159-26-000037
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.78
Item codes: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Chord Energy names Michael Lou CEO as Daniel Brown resigns; 3Q26 volumes beat guidance
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- Daniel Brown resigned as President & CEO and from the board effective Oct 19, 2026; no severance; company said resignation was not due to disagreement.
- Michael Lou, 52, named President & CEO and director effective Oct 19; he was EVP, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Commercial Officer since March 2024 and CFO from July 2022 to March 2024.
- 3Q26 volumes exceeded the high end of guidance across oil, natural gas and NGLs, while CapEx was in line with guidance.
- Repurchased $205MM of shares in 3Q26 at avg $135.74 and $44.3MM QTD in 4Q26 at avg $142.32; announced $550MM sale of non-operated Marcellus assets.
- Cash was $804.7MM and total debt $1,482.2MM at 9/30/26; 3Q26 realized hedge losses were $48.7MM.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000148615926000037/0001486159-26-000037-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1486159/000148615926000037/chrd-20261016.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001486159-26-000037

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