# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001705873
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-325067
**Filing Date:** 2025-12
**Character Count:** 7395
**Document Hash:** 6077db5d00029c6e0d46b6205802e34f
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-325067.hdr.sgml**: 20251218

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-325067

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

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251218

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251218

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20251218

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Berry Corp (bry)
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001705873
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 815410470
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-265505
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251583934

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 16000 N. DALLAS PARKWAY, SUITE 500
- **CITY:** DALLAS
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75248
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 214-453-2920

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 16000 N. DALLAS PARKWAY, SUITE 500
- **CITY:** DALLAS
- **STATE:** TX
- **ZIP:** 75248

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Berry Petroleum Corp
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20170504

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2025.** 

**Registration No. 333-226582** 

**Registration No. 333-265505** 

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-226582** 

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-265505** 

***UNDER***

***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933***

## Berry Corporation (bry)
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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|:---|:---|
| **Delaware** | **81-5410470** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation or organization)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br> **Identification No.)** |
| **16000 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 500**<br> **Dallas, Texas** | **75248** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Second Amended and Restated Berry Petroleum Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan** 

**Berry Corporation (bry) 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan** 

**(Full title of the plan)** 

**Michael L. Preston** 

**Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel** 

**Berry Corporation (bry)** 

**16000 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 500** 

**Dallas, Texas 75248** 

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

**(661) 616-3900** 

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

***Copies to:***

**Sarah K. Morgan** 

**Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.** 

**845 Texas Avenue** 

**Suite 4700** 

**Houston, Texas 77002** 

**(713) 758-2222** 

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 the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth 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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**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES** 

These post-effective amendments (the "<u>Post-Effective Amendments</u>") relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (the "<u>Registration Statements</u>") filed by Berry Corporation (bry), a Delaware corporation (the "<u>Registrant</u>"), with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "<u>SEC</u>") and are being filed to deregister any and all shares of the Registrant's common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "<u>Common Stock</u>"), registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under each such Registration Statement as of the date hereof:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement [No. 333-226582](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705873/000119312518238273/d589154ds8.htm) , filed with the SEC on August 3, 2018, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 
1 to Registration Statement [No. 333-226582](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705873/000170587322000054/bry-formsx8pos2017plankedr.htm) , filed with the SEC on June 10, 2022,
registering 11,500,000 shares of the Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Berry Petroleum Corporation 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan (as amended from time to time).

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Registration Statement [No. 333-265505](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1705873/000170587322000051/bry-formsx82022plan.htm) , filed with the SEC on June 9, 2022, registering 2,300,000 shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the Berry Corporation (bry) 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan.

Effective December 18, 2025, pursuant to and in accordance with the Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among the Registrant, California Resources Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("<u>Parent</u>"), and Dornoch Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent ("<u>Merger Sub</u>"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the "<u>Merger</u>"), with the Registrant surviving the Merger as a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance under the Registration Statements that remain unsold at the termination of the applicable offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration, by means of these Post-Effective Amendments, any and all shares of Common Stock registered but unsold under the Registration Statements as of the date hereof. The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such shares of Common Stock and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

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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 all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Long Beach, State of California, on December 18, 2025.

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|  | **Berry Corporation (bry)**<br> (Registrant) |
| By: | /s/ Michael L. Preston |
|  | Name: Michael L. Preston<br> Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel |

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Note: No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements on Form S-8 in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.