SEC Form S-8 filed by Murphy Oil Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 11, 2024

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Murphy Oil Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Murphy Oil Corporation 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan 

(Full Title of the Plans)

E. Ted Botner, Esq. 

Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary 

Murphy Oil Corporation 

9805 Katy Freeway, G-200 

Houston, TX 77024-1269
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

(281) 675-9000 

(Telephone Number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Travis Triano, Esq. 

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 

450 Lexington Avenue 

New York, New York 10017 

(212) 450-4000

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES

PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, Murphy Oil Corporation (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register (i) 1,173,998 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $1.00 per share (“Common Stock”) that may be issued pursuant to awards under the Murphy Oil Corporation 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended and restated (the “Plan”) as a result of the share “recycling” provisions under the Plan and (ii) pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), any additional Shares that may become issuable under the Plan by reason of any share dividend, share split or other similar transaction.

This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on August 6, 2020 (Registration No. 333-241837). In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

PART II

Information Required in the Registration Statement

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated herein by reference:

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such documents as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report furnished on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

The validity of the shares of original issuance common stock offered under this Registration Statement is being passed upon for the Company by E. Ted Botner, Esq., Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company. Mr. Botner is an officer and employee of the Company and is eligible to participate in the Plan. As of the date of this Registration Statement, Mr. Botner beneficially owns securities of the Registrant, including options to acquire such securities and restricted stock units in respect of such securities, with a fair market value in excess of $50,000.

Item 8. Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on this 11^th day of October 2024.

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints E. Ted Botner and Eric M. Hambly, and each of them, the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact of the undersigned, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement and any or all amendments to this registration statement, including post-effective amendments, and registration statements filed pursuant to Rules 413 or 462 under the Securities Act of 1933, and to file or cause to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons on October 11, 2024 in the capacities indicated.