{"url_path":"/sec/kntk/8-k/2026-06-25/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-25","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692787/0001692787-26-000110-index.html","accession_number":"0001692787-26-000110","cik":"0001692787","ticker":"KNTK","issuer_name":"Kinetik Holdings Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1692787/0001692787-26-000110-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001692787","primary_entity_name":"Kinetik Holdings Inc."},"word_count":306,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.\n\nAppointment of Director\n\nOn June 23, 2026, the Board of Directors (the \"Board\") of Kinetik Holdings Inc. (the \"Company\") appointed Craig Harris to serve as director of the Company, effective immediately. In connection with Mr. Harris's appointment, the Board increased the size of the Board from ten (10) directors to eleven (11) directors, effective immediately.\n\nAs a non-employee and non-affiliate director of the Board, Mr. Harris will receive standard cash and equity compensation for non-employee directors serving on the Board and the Board’s committee(s), if any, in accordance with the Company’s policies, prorated for his service until the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.\n\nMr. Harris is not a party to any arrangements or understandings with any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as a director of the Board. Mr. Harris has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.\n\nMr. Harris 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 agreement requires 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 agreement 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."}