As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2016

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-1
ON FORM S-3 NO. 333-196618

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-1
ON FORM S-3 NO. 333-194932

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3 NO. 333-177486

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3 NO. 333-168161

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-3 NO. 333-166756

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		001-32997		86-0879278
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

909 Lake Carolyn Parkway, Suite 600

Irving, Texas 75039

(832) 369-6986

(Address of registrant’s principal executive offices)

(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)		Copy of communications to:

Paul M. Johnston 909 Lake Carolyn Parkway, Suite 600 Irving, Texas 75039 (832) 369-6986		Matthew R. Pacey, P.C. Kirkland & Ellis LLP 600 Travis Street, Suite 3300 Houston, Texas 77002 Tel: (713) 835-3600 Fax: (713) 835-3601

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to this registration statement.

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Large accelerated filer	o	Accelerated filer	x

Non-accelerated filer	o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company	o

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments relate to the following Registration Statements on Form S-1 on Form S-3 and on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”), originally filed by Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

· Registration No. 333-196618, filed on Form S-1 on June 9, 2014 (as amended and converted to Form S-3 on August 12, 2014), pertaining to the registration of 21,428,580 shares of common stock of the Company (“Shares”), issued or issuable from time to time, and 2,142,858 shares of common stock that are issuable upon exercise of warrants;

· Registration No. 333-194932, filed on Form S-1 on March 31, 2014 (as amended on July 21, 2015 and converted to Form S-3 on August 26, 2014), pertaining to the registration of 4,300,000 Shares, issued or issuable from time to time;

· Registration No. 333-177486, filed on Form S-3 on October 24, 2011, pertaining to the registration of 13,253,445 Shares that were issuable upon exercise of certain warrants;

· Registration No. 333-168161, filed on Form S-3 on July 16, 2010, pertaining to the registration of 616,812 Shares that were issuable upon exercise of certain warrants; and

· Registration No. 333-166756, filed on Form S-3 on May 12, 2010 (as amended on May 18, 2010), pertaining to the registration of 5,499,032 Shares that were issuable upon exercise of certain warrants.

On December 15, 2015, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Debtors”) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under chapter 11 (the “Filing”) of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”), which cases are being jointly administered under the caption In re Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation, et al., Case No. 15-12533 (the “Chapter 11 Cases”).

As a result of the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company 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 that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statements.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has duly caused these post-effective amendments to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irving, State of Texas, on April 26, 2016.

	MAGNUM HUNTER RESOURCES CORPORATION


	By:	/s/ Gary C. Evans
		Name: Gary C. Evans
		Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, these post-effective amendments to the Registration Statements have been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April 26, 2016.

Signature		Title

/s/ Gary C. Evans		Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Gary C. Evans		(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Joseph C. Daches		Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Joseph C. Daches		(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

*		Director
Victor Carrillo

*		Director
Stephen C. Hurley

*		Director
Joe L. McClaugherty

*		Director
Jeff Swanson

*By:	/s/ Gary C. Evans
	Gary C. Evans
	Attorney in fact for the persons indicated