As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2011

Registration No. 333-117733

 

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

 

PETROHAWK ENERGY CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Amended and Restated 1999 Incentive and Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan

Stock Option Agreement 2003—Arthur W. Howard

Stock Option Agreement 2003—Richard L. Payne

Stock Option Agreement 2003—Larry R. Wilkins

Stock Option Agreement 2003—Matthew Jones

Stock Option Agreement 2003—Kristian Binnion

Stock Option Agreement 2002—David A. Wilkins

Warrant Agreement 2001—Sue Dipley

Warrant Agreement 2001—Larry Garrison

Warrant Agreement 2000—Joseph L. Burnett

Warrant Agreement 2000—Robert Spahr

2004 Non-Employee Director Incentive Plan

2004 Employee Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

David D. Powell

Vice President

1000 Louisiana, Suite 5600

Houston, Texas 77002

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(832) 204-2700

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

 

Copies of all communications, including all communications sent to the agent for service, should be sent to:

 

Copy to:

Thomas P. Giblin, Jr.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

101 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10178

(212) 309-6000

 

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 definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement of Petrohawk Energy Corporation, a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”), on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-117733), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 29, 2004 (the “Registration Statement”), which registered the offering of 1,885,209 shares of common stock (“Shares”), pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated 1999 Incentive and Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan, the Stock Option Agreement 2003—Arthur W. Howard, the Stock Option Agreement 2003—Richard L. Payne, the Stock Option Agreement 2003—Larry R. Wilkins, the Stock Option Agreement 2003—Matthew Jones, the Stock Option Agreement 2003—Kristian Binnion, the Stock Option Agreement 2002—David A. Wilkins, the Warrant Agreement 2001—Sue Dipley, the Warrant Agreement 2001—Larry Garrison, the Warrant Agreement 2000—Joseph L. Burnett, the Warrant Agreement 2000—Robert Spahr, the 2004 Non-Employee Director Incentive Plan and the 2004 Employee Incentive Plan.

 

On August 25, 2011, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 14, 2011 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among BHP Billiton Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of Victoria, Australia (“BHP Billiton Limited”), BHP Billiton Petroleum (North America) Inc., a Delaware corporation, North America Holdings II Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), and the Company, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of BHP Billiton Limited (the “Merger”). As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated the offering of its Shares pursuant to this Registration Statement.

 

In connection with the Merger and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any Shares which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities of the Company registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, the State of Texas, on this 14th day of September 2011.

 

 

	PETROHAWK ENERGY CORPORATION
	By:	/s/ David D. Powell
		David D. Powell
		Vice President

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Name		Date		Title
/s/ J. Michael Yeager		September 14, 2011		Director and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer)
J. Michael Yeager
/s/ David D. Powell		September 14, 2011		Director and Vice President (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer)
David D. Powell
/s/ James W. Christmas		September 14, 2011		Director
James W. Christmas
/s/ David J. Nelson		September 14, 2011		Director
David J. Nelson
/s/ Jeffrey L. Sahlberg		September 14, 2011		Director
Jeffrey L. Sahlberg
/s/ Nigel H. Smith		September 14, 2011		Director
Nigel H. Smith

 

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