As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2010

Registration No. 333-142993

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Basic Energy Services, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		54-2091194
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
500 W. Illinois, Suite 100 Midland, Texas 79701 (432) 620-5500 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)		Kenneth V. Huseman President 500 W. Illinois, Suite 100 Midland, Texas 79701 (432) 620-5500 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a copy to:
David C. Buck
Andrews Kurth LLP
600 Travis, Suite 4200
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 220-4200

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Termination of Registration Statement and deregistration of related securities that were not sold pursuant to the Registration Statement.

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

     On May 15, 2007, Basic Energy Services, Inc. (“Basic”) filed a Registration Statement on Form S-3, Registration No. 333-142993 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), registering the resale of 430,191 shares of common stock by selling stockholders (the “Registered Securities”). The Registration Statement was declared effective by the Commission on June 8, 2007.

     Basic has decided to deregister all of the Registered Securities which are authorized for sale under the Registration Statement but which remain unsold to date. Pursuant to the undertaking made by Basic in Part II, Item 17(a)(3) of the Registration Statement, Basic hereby amends the Registration Statement to deregister all Registered Securities remaining unsold as of the date hereof and files this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to remove all such unsold Registered Securities from registration and to terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Midland, State of Texas, on August 3, 2010.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name		Title		Date
/s/ Kenneth V. Huseman   Kenneth V. Huseman		President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)		August 3, 2010
/s/ Alan Krenek   Alan Krenek		Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)		August 3, 2010
*   Steven A. Webster		Chairman of the Board		August 3, 2010
*   James S. D’Agostino, Jr.		Director		August 3, 2010
*   William E. Chiles		Director		August 3, 2010
*   Robert F. Fulton		Director		August 3, 2010
*   Sylvester P. Johnson, IV		Director		August 3, 2010
*   Thomas P. Moore, Jr.		Director		August 3, 2010
		Director		August 3, 2010
Antonio O. Garza, Jr.

* By		/s/ Alan Krenek, Attorney-in-Fact   Alan Krenek, Attorney-in-Fact