# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001876581
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-042026
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
**Character Count:** 6201
**Document Hash:** 64c7e3058df28eecff9607cfa8c310d1
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-042026.hdr.sgml**: 20260209

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-042026

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 6-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20260209

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260209

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260209

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Imperial Petroleum Inc./Marshall Islands
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001876581
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** DEEP SEA FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT [4412]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** 1T
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 6-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-41095
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26609831

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** 331 KIFISSIAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** ERITHREA
- **CITY:** ATHENS
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** J3
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 011 30 210 625 2849

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **ADDRESS IS A NON US LOCATION:** YES
- **STREET 1:** 331 KIFISSIAS AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** ERITHREA
- **CITY:** ATHENS
- **PROVINCE COUNTRY:** J3

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM 6-K**

**REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER** 

**PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16** 

**UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

**For the month of February 2026** 

**Commission File Number 001-41095**

## IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC.
**(Translation of registrant's name into English)** 

**331 Kifissias Avenue, Kifissias 14561 Athens, Greece** 

**(Address of principal executive office)** 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F ☒ Form 40-F ☐

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**INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT**

Attached to this report on Form 6-K as Exhibit 99.1 is a copy of the press release of Imperial Petroleum Inc. dated February 9, 2026, announcing a share repurchase program for up to $10,000,000 of the Company's common stock.

**EXHIBIT INDEX** 

99.1 [Imperial Petroleum Inc. Press Release dated February 9, 2026](d57645dex991.htm)

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This report on Form 6-K, including exhibit 99.1 hereto, is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company's Registration Statement on Form F-3 (Reg. No. 333-268663), Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form F-1 on Form F-3 Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-266031) and Registration Statements on Form S-8 (Reg. Nos. 333-275745 and 333-278813), including the prospectuses contained therein.

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**SIGNATURES** 

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, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: February 9, 2026

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| IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. | IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. |
| By: | /s/ Ifigenia Sakellari |
| Name: | Ifigenia Sakellari |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

**Exhibit 99.1**![LOGO](g57645g0206215537005.jpg)

**<u>IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC.</u>**

IMPERIAL PETROLEUM ANNOUNCES $10 MILLION SHARE REPURCHASE PROGRAM

**Athens, Greece, February 9, 2026** – Imperial Petroleum Inc. (Nasdaq: IMPP) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program and authorized the officers of the Company to repurchase, from time to time, up to $10,000,000 of the Company's common stock. Shares may be purchased in open market or privately negotiated transactions, at times and prices that are considered to be appropriate by the Company, and the program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.

**About Imperial Petroleum Inc.** 

IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. is a ship-owning company providing petroleum products, crude oil and drybulk seaborne transportation services. The Company owns a total of nineteen vessels on the water - seven M.R. product tankers, two suezmax tankers, three handysize drybulk carriers, five supramax drybulk carriers and two kamsarmax drybulk vessels - with a total capacity of 1,195,000 deadweight tons (dwt) and has contracted to acquire an additional five handysize drybulk carriers, a post panamax drybulk carrier and a product tanker of 319,400 dwt aggregate capacity. Following these deliveries, the Company's fleet will count a total of 26 vessels with an aggregate capacity of about 1.5 million dwt. IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC.'s shares of common stock and 8.75% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market and trade under the symbols "IMPP" and "IMPPP," respectively.

**Forward-Looking Statements** 

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical or current facts, including statements related to the Company' share repurchase program and capital strategy, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance and may include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon various assumptions. IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control, IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. Important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include risks discussed in our filings with the SEC. Risks and uncertainties are further described in reports filed by IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

**Company Contact:** 

Fenia Sakellaris

IMPERIAL PETROLEUM INC.

<u>info@ImperialPetro.com</u>