---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001603923-25-000151"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WFRD"
cik: "0001603923"
company_name: "Weatherford International plc"
filed_at: "2025-10-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:35:07.594705+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Weatherford issues $1.2B 6.75% senior notes due 2033 to fund tender offer for 8.625% notes

## Summary
- Issued $1.2B aggregate principal of 6.750% Senior Notes due 2033 at 100% of par.
- Interest payable semiannually on April 15 and October 15, commencing April 15, 2026.
- Proceeds, plus cash on hand, to fund tender offer for up to $1.3B of 8.625% Senior Notes due 2030.
- Notes are senior unsecured obligations guaranteed by Weatherford and certain restricted subsidiaries.
- Indenture contains customary covenants, change-of-control repurchase rights, and events of default.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001603923-25-000151
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WFRD
- cik: 0001603923
- company_name: Weatherford International plc
- filed_at: 2025-10-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603923/000160392325000151/0001603923-25-000151-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603923/000160392325000151/wft-20251006.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001603923-25-000151.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Weatherford International plc incurred senior notes of $1,200 million at 6.750% per annum maturing October 15, 2033.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $1,200 million
  - Rate: 6.750% per annum
  - Maturity: October 15, 2033
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On October 6, 2025, Weatherford International Ltd. (the “Issuer”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Weatherford International plc (the “Weatherford”), issued $1,200 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.750% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “Notes”) in a private offering at an offering price of 100% of the principal amount thereof (the “Notes Offering”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1603923/000160392325000151/0001603923-25-000151-index.htm

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