Forum Energy (FET) S-8Registration of securities for employees

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (“Forum” or the “Registrant”) pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register an additional 800,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), issuable under the Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2016 Stock and Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). At the recommendation of Forum’s Board of Directors, the Registrant’s stockholders approved the Second Amendment to the Plan on May 10, 2024, which increased the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan by 800,000 shares of Common Stock. This Registration Statement on Form S-8 relates to (i) the additional 800,000 shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued under the Plan and (ii) 264,000 shares of Common Stock that may become available for issuance under the Plan as a result of outstanding awards that, in whole or in part, are terminated, expire or are otherwise cancelled.

Each person whose signature appears below appoints Neal A. Lux, D. Lyle Williams, Jr. and John C. Ivascu, and each of them, any of whom may act without the joinder of the other, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or would do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.