---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-014394"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDCO"
cik: "0000793306"
company_name: "BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO"
filed_at: "2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T02:54:38.971812+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Dolphin Energy Company Reports Financial Results for Q3 and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023

## Summary
- Issued press release on November 15, 2023 reporting financial results for three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.
- Results cover Blue Dolphin Energy Company's financial condition as of September 30, 2023, per the attached Exhibit 99.1.
- The report was signed by CEO Jonathan P. Carroll and filed as an 8-K with the SEC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-014394
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDCO
- cik: 0000793306
- company_name: BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO
- filed_at: 2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000165495423014394/0001654954-23-014394-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000165495423014394/bdco_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-014394
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-014394.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-014394.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  BLUE DOLPHIN ENERGY CO reported financial results for three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2023.
  - Period: three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On November 15, 2023 Blue Dolphin Energy Company, a Delaware corporation (“Blue Dolphin”), issued a press release reporting its financial results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2023 and its financial condition as of September 30, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793306/000165495423014394/0001654954-23-014394-index.htm

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