Kent Watts, CEO and President
Hyperdynamics Corporation
One Sugar Creek Center Blvd., #125
Sugar Land, Texas 77478
voice: (713) 3539400 fax: (713) 353-9421
CORRESPONDENCE
February 6, 2008 via Edgar to SEC
| to: | Division of Corporate Finance |
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
| from: | Hyperdynamics Corporation |
Kent Watts, CEO and President
| ref: | Hyperdynamics Corporation (the "Registrant") |
Form S-3 Amendment Number 1
File number 333-148287
Filed January 23, 2008
Request for Acceleration of Effectiveness of Form S-3
and
Company Acknowledgements
My name is Kent Watts. I am CEO and President of Hyperdynamics Corporation (the "Registrant" or the "Company"). The Registrant requests that the effectiveness of above referenced Form S-3 Amendment Number 1 be accelerated to be February 12, 2008 at 11 A.M. EST.
The Company/Registrant acknowledges that:
| (a) | Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the Filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Filing; |
| (b) | The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the Filing effective, does not relieve the Company/Registrant from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Filing; and |
| (c) | The Company/Registrant may not assert the staff comments or the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
| Thank you. | |
| Very truly yours, | |
| /s/ Kent Watts | |
| Kent Watts | |
| CEO and President | |
| Hyperdynamics Corporation |
| cc: | Representing Hyperdynamics Corporation: |
Joel Seidner, Esq.
880 Tully Road #50
Houston, Texas 77079
voice: (281) 493-1311
fax: (281) 667-3292