Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): March 9, 2023

Kinetik Holdings Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


Delaware	001-38048	81-4675947
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)


2700 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 300 Houston, Texas		77056
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

(713) 621-7330

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading
Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

KNTK

New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On March 9, 2023, Joseph Payne notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Kinetik Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) that he would be resigning as a member of the Board effective immediately. Mr. Payne expressed no disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.

Mr. Payne served on the Board as a designee of Buzzard Midstream LLC (“ISQ”) under the terms of the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement (the “Stockholders Agreement”), dated as of October 21, 2021, by and among APA Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Apache Midstream LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Company, New BCP Raptor Holdco, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, BCP Raptor Aggregator, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, BX Permian Pipeline Aggregator LP, a Delaware limited partnership, ISQ, and for the limited purposes set forth therein, BCP Raptor Holdco, LP, a Delaware limited partnership. Pursuant to the terms of the Stockholders Agreement, ISQ has the right to designate a director to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Payne’s resignation, and ISQ designated Jesse Krynak to fill such vacancy.

On March 9, 2023, the Board appointed Jesse Krynak to serve as a director of the Board, effective immediately.

Mr. Krynak will not receive compensation for his service on the Board. Except for the Stockholders Agreement described above, there are no arrangements or understandings pursuant to which Mr. Krynak was selected as a director. Mr. Krynak has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Krynak will enter into the standard form indemnification agreement with the Company that the Company has entered into with each of its other directors and officers. The agreements require the Company to indemnify these individuals to the fullest extent permitted under Delaware law against liabilities that may arise by reason of their service to the Company, and to advance expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified. The foregoing description of the indemnification agreements is a summary only and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the form of indemnification agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 28, 2022 and is incorporated herein by reference.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 13, 2023