---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-013923"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDCO"
cik: "0000793306"
company_name: "BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2023-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T12:04:59.542034+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Dolphin subsidiary's crude supply and storage agreements terminated by Tartan effective Dec 31, 2023

## Summary
- Tartan Oil LLC provided 60-day notice to terminate Crude Supply Agreement and Terminal Services Agreement on November 2, 2023.
- Terminations are effective December 31, 2023; no penalties incurred.
- Agreements covered crude storage at Blue Dolphin's Nixon facility via subsidiary Nixon Product Storage.
- Prior agreements dated May 2019 and June 2019; assigned from Pilot Travel Centers to Tartan in March 2020.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-013923
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDCO
- cik: 0000793306
- company_name: BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2023-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 1.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000165495423013923/0001654954-23-013923-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000165495423013923/bdco_8k.htm

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