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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-066193"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TBN"
cik: "0001997652"
company_name: "Tamboran Resources Corp"
filed_at: "2026-10-19T10:01:48+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-19T10:05:31.572495+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tamboran appoints CEO Todd Abbott as Managing Director and Class II director, effective Oct 19

## Summary
- Board appointed Todd Abbott Managing Director in addition to CEO, effective Oct 19, 2026; he was also named a Class II director with term expiring at the 2028 annual meeting.
- Abbott became CEO in January 2026; the appointment formalizes his executive leadership at Board level as Tamboran shifts from appraisal into development of the Beetaloo Basin.
- As an executive director Abbott receives no additional Board compensation; the company will enter an indemnification agreement in the form attached to its FY2026 Form 10-K.
- Chair Richard Stoneburner cited Abbott's 25+ years of upstream oil and gas experience and capital discipline; Abbott noted recent first gas sales from the Beetaloo to the Northern Territory market.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-066193
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TBN
- cik: 0001997652
- company_name: Tamboran Resources Corp
- filed_at: 2026-10-19T10:01:48+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997652/000162828026066193/0001628280-26-066193-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1997652/000162828026066193/trc-20261019.htm

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