---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-001394"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TPET"
cik: "0001898766"
company_name: "Trio Petroleum Corp"
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T07:10:59.631728+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Trio Petroleum terminates President and COO effective Jan 2, 2025

## Summary
- President Terrence B. Eschner and COO Steven Rowlee terminated effective January 2, 2025.
- Both employment agreements expired on December 31, 2024; Board formalized termination.
- No successors named; CEO Robin Ross remains in place.
- Departures follow termination of agreements by their terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-001394
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TPET
- cik: 0001898766
- company_name: Trio Petroleum Corp
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000149315225001394/0001493152-25-001394-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000149315225001394/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-25-001394
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-25-001394.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-25-001394.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Terrence B. Eschner was terminated as President at Trio Petroleum Corp.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: President
  source text: Termination of Terrence B. Eschner as President and Steven Rowlee as Chief Operating Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000149315225001394/0001493152-25-001394-index.htm
- Executive change
  Steven Rowlee was terminated as Chief Operating Officer at Trio Petroleum Corp.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: Termination of Terrence B. Eschner as President and Steven Rowlee as Chief Operating Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898766/000149315225001394/0001493152-25-001394-index.htm

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