# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001475260
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-083006
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
**Character Count:** 5387
**Document Hash:** c1405f030bf265a3e80283dd86e16a63
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-083006.hdr.sgml**: 20260227

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-083006

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260227

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260227

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260227

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** CENOVUS ENERGY INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001475260
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 980642460
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-251886
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26701042

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 225 - 6 AVENUE S.W.
- **STREET 2:** P.O. BOX 766
- **CITY:** CALGARY
- **STATE:** A0
- **ZIP:** T2P 1N2
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 403-766-2000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 225 - 6 AVENUE S.W.
- **STREET 2:** P.O. BOX 766
- **CITY:** CALGARY
- **STATE:** A0
- **ZIP:** T2P 1N2

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2026** 

**Registration No. 333-251886** 

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**Post-Effective Amendment No. 1** 

**to** 

**FORM S-8** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

## CENOVUS ENERGY INC.
**(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Canada** | **98-0642460** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation or organization)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |

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**4100, 225 6 Avenue S.W.** 

**Calgary, Alberta, Canada** 

**T2P 1N2** 

**(Address, including zip code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)** 

**Husky Energy Inc. Incentive Stock Option Plan** 

**(Full title of the plan)** 

**CT Corporation System** 

**28 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005** 

**(Name and address of agent for service)** 

**(212) 894-8940** 

**(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)** 

***COPIES TO:***

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|:---|:---|
| **Susan Anderson**<br> **Cenovus Energy Inc.**<br> **4100, 225 6 Avenue S.W.**<br> **Calgary, Alberta, Canada**<br> **T2P 1N2**<br> **(403) 766-2000** | **Christopher J. Cummings**<br> **Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP**<br> **77 King Street West, Suite 3100**<br> **Toronto, Ontario M5K 1J3**<br> **Canada**<br> **(416) 504-0520** |

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

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| Large accelerated filer | ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | ☐ |
|  |  | Emerging growth company | ☐ |

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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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

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**EXPLANATORY NOTE – DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES** 

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement"), originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by Cenovus Energy Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Canada (the "Registrant"):

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement No. [333-251886](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1475260/000095014221000014/eh200120994_s8.htm) , filed on January 4, 2021, registering 1,250,000 common shares, no par value, of the Registrant
which may be issued under the Husky Energy Inc. Incentive Stock Option Plan.

The Registrant has terminated all offerings of the securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered and remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration by means of this Post-Effective Amendment all securities of the Registrant that remain unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

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**SIGNATURES** 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Calgary, Province of Alberta, Country of Canada, on the 27th day of February, 2026.

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|:---|:---|
| **CENOVUS ENERGY INC.** | **CENOVUS ENERGY INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Karamjit S. Sandhar |
| Name: | Karamjit S. Sandhar |
| Title: | Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer |

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Note: No other person is required to sign the post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

[*Signature Page to Form S-8*]