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May 23, 2007

VIA EDGAR

Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
Mail Stop 7010
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
Attn: Jill Davis


Re:		Basic Energy Services, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006 Filed March 16, 2007 File No. 001-32693

Dear Ms. Davis:

On behalf of Basic Energy Services, Inc. (the “Company”), set forth below are the responses to comments received from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by letter dated May 16, 2007, with respect to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006 (File No. 001-32693) (the “Form 10-K”). For your convenience, the responses are prefaced by the exact text of the Staff’s corresponding comment in italicized text.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page 26

Results of Operations, page 36

You discuss the business reasons for changes in the various line items of your statements of operations. However, in circumstances where there is more than one business reason for the change, you should quantify the incremental impact of each individual business reason discussed on the overall change in the line item. For example, you indicate that increase in drilling and completion services revenue in 2006 as compared to 2005 was primarily the result of internal expansion, the acquisition of Oilwell Fracturing Services in October 2005, the acquisition of G&L during February 2006 and improved pricing and utilization of your services. While this information is helpful, you do not quantify the extent to which income was affected by each of these reasons. In future filings, whenever possible, please quantify all line item changes with more than one business reason.

Austin

Dallas

Houston

London

Los Angeles

New York

The Woodlands

Washington, DC

Response: The Company will undertake to quantify all such line item changes, to the extent material, in future filings with the Commission.

Note 3. Acquisitions, page 61

We note that you provided unaudited pro-forma results of operations as though the G&L acquisition had been completed on January 1, 2005. We further note that you do not believe the pro-forma effect of the remainder of the acquisitions completed in 2004, 2005, and 2006 is material, either individually or when aggregated, to the results of operations. However, the cash expended to acquire G&L Tool is less than half of the total cash expended to acquire all of the acquisitions in 2006. In addition, you have not separately quantified your organic growth from your growth from acquisitions. Please tell us how you concluded that your individual acquisitions were not material in the aggregate.

Response: For 2005, the aggregate pro forma impact of all 2005 acquisitions was 2.7% of revenue and 5.5% of net income. As a result, the Company concluded that such acquisitions were not material individually or in the aggregate.

For 2006, the G&L Tool, Ltd. (“G&L”) acquisition was deemed significant for pro forma disclosure purposes because such acquisition (i) exceeded 10% under the “investment in subsidiary” condition and (ii) created a new type of business for the Company. However, on an aggregate basis, the remaining acquisitions during 2006 accounted for only 15.8% under the “investment in subsidiary” condition. Because of this, and because the other significance tests in the aggregate were smaller, the Company concluded that such other acquisitions were not material individually or in the aggregate. The Company does not believe there are any qualitative factors that would make the insignificant acquisitions material, either individually or in the aggregate.

The Company has attached computations of significance tests for acquisitions during 2006 as Schedule I hereto.

Please clarify your accounting policy for recording certain contingent earn-out payments as goodwill compared to compensation expense. Refer to EITF 95-8.

Response: Pursuant to EITF 95-8, if future consideration is based on employment, the amounts paid are recorded as compensation expense. However, if the contingent payments are not related to the employment of the individual and the contingent payments are considered reasonable, the payments are recorded as additional purchase price rather than compensation.

The following factors or indicators are considered when evaluating whether an arrangement for contingent consideration based on earnings is in substance additional purchase price of the acquired enterprise:

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Terms of continuing employment

	•		Linkage of continuing employment and contingent consideration

	•		Duration of continued employment

	•		Level of compensation

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Components of a shareholder group

	•		Contingent amount differing based on employment arrangement

	•		Contingent amount differing based on previous stock ownership percentage

	•		Reasons for contingent payment provisions

	•		Formula for determining contingent earn-out

	•		Other agreements and issues

At the time an acquisition is entered into by the Company, the contingent earn-out agreement is reviewed to determine if the payments are based on future employment with the Company. If the agreement is based on future employment with the Company, the payments are recorded as compensation expense. If the payments are not based on future employment, and if the total amount to be paid and the level of compensation are deemed reasonable, the amount is recorded as additional purchase price.

As the Company believes its practices reflect the requirements of EITF 95-8 and not a discretionary accounting policy of the Company, it has not summarized these requirements in the notes to financial statements.

Item 9 A. Disclosure Controls and Procedures, page 82

We note that you state that your disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified. Please revise to clarify, if true, that your officers concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that you filed or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to your management, including your principal executive and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Please refer to Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e).

Response: The Company hereby acknowledges that, as set forth in Rule 13a-15(e), disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by it in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to its management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company will undertake to expand such disclosure in future filings with the Commission to expressly include such further clarification regarding the definition and scope of disclosure controls and procedures.

Form 8-K filed on March 8,2007

Please tell us if you expect to file the financial statements and pro-forma financial information with respect to your acquisition of JetStar. In doing so, please provide your computations of significance tests.

Response: The Company does not expect to file the financial statements and pro forma financial information with respect to its acquisition of JetStar. The Company has attached computations of significance tests relating to the JetStar acquisition as Schedule II hereto.

In addition, at the request of the Staff, the Company hereby acknowledges as follows:

	•		the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Form 10-K;

	•		staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Form 10-K; and

	•		the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

Please do not hesitate to call the undersigned at (713) 220-4301 with any comments or questions regarding this letter or the above-referenced Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,

/s/ David C. Buck

David C. Buck


cc:		John Cannarella (Securities and Exchange Commission) Kenneth V. Huseman (Issuer) Alan Krenek (Issuer) Nicholas Roman (Issuer)

Schedule I

Basic Energy Services
Acquisition Significance Test
2006 Acquisitions

Most recent fiscal year end


	Year ended
	12/31/2005					Individually Insignificant
			1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9			10			Combined
	Basic Energy		G & L			LeBus			Chaparral			Hennessey			Globe Well			Rebel			Arkla			Hydro			Stimulation			Reddline			Individually
	& Subsidiaries		Tool Co.			Oilfield Service			Service, Inc			Rental Tools			Service			Testers			Cementing			Static			Services			Services			Insignificant
Dollars in thousands

Investment in Sub	$	496,957		79,514			24,618			18,605			8,205			11,674			2,397			5,012			1,143			4,500			2,525		$	78,679

Total assets	$	496,957		26,712			10,358			6,341			4,368			4,429			741			410			1,077			955			346		$	29,025

Income from continuing operations before taxes	$	71,581		3,520			2,698			599			2,686			957			432			200			180			(25	)		161		$	7,888

Conditions:

Investment in Sub				16.0	%		5.0	%		3.7	%		1.7	%		2.3	%		0.5	%		1.0	%		0.2	%		0.9	%		0.5	%		15.8	%

Total assets				5.4	%		2.1	%		1.3	%		0.9	%		0.9	%		0.1	%		0.1	%		0.2	%		0.2	%		0.1	%		5.8	%

Income from continuing operations before taxes				4.9	%		3.8	%		0.8	%		3.8	%		1.3	%		0.6	%		0.3	%		0.3	%		0.0	%		0.2	%		11.0	%

Significant?			Yes			No			No			No			No			No			No			No			No			No			No

Schedule II

Basic Energy Services
Acquisition Significance Test
2007 Acquisitions


	Year ended		Year ended
	12/31/2006		4/30/2006
	Basic Energy		JetStar
	& Subsidiaries		& Subsidiaries
Dollars in thousands

Investment in Sub	$	796,260	$	79,828

Total assets	$	796,260	$	71,143

Income from continuing operations before taxes	$	153,572	$	4,397

Conditions:

Investment in Sub				10.0	%

Total assets				8.9	%

Income from continuing operations before taxes				2.9	%

Significant?			No

Section 305 Criteria:

Individually less than 20%, no audit required

Individually 20% to 40%, one-year audit required

Individually 40% to 50%, two-year audit required

Individually greater than 50%, three-year audit required

Combined insignificant greater than 50%, one-year audit