February 13, 2020

Timothy S. Duncan
Chief Executive Officer and President
Talos Energy Inc.
Three Allen Center
333 Clay Street, Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002

       Re: Talos Energy Inc.
           Information Statement on Form PREM14C
           Filed January 30, 2020
           File No. 001-38497

Dear Mr. Duncan:

       We have limited our review of your registration statement to those
issues we have
addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide
us with
information so we may better understand your disclosure.

       Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement
and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts
and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why
in your
response.

       After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the
information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

Information Statement on Form PREM14C filed January 30, 2020

The Transactions, page 20

1.     Please revise to disclose the financial projections and assumptions
underlying the financial
       projections used by Guggenheim Securities in connection with its
fairness opinion.
Opinion of Guggenheim Securities, LLC
Summary of Financial Analyses, page 28

2.     Please revise to disclose the data underlying the results described in
each analysis
       prepared by Guggenheim Securities and to show how that information
resulted in the
       multiples and/or values disclosed. For example, disclose the criteria
used to select the
       companies and transactions for the Selected Publicly Traded Companies
and Selected
 Timothy S. Duncan
Talos Energy Inc.
February 13, 2020
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      Precedent Merger and Acquisition Transaction Analyses, whether any
companies and
      transactions that met the criteria were excluded and, if so, the
rationale for such exclusion,
      and the trading and financial metrics for each company and precedent
merger and
      acquisition transaction.
3.    Please revise to explain in greater detail the weighted average cost of
capital calculations
      and the range of discount rates underlying the discounted cash flow
analyses on pages 32
      and 35. In addition, please expand your disclosure to discuss the key
assumptions used in
      your analyses.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please
allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of
the registration
statement.

       Please contact Anuja A. Majmudar, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 551-3844
or, in her
absence, Karina Dorin, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 551-3763 with any questions.



                                                             Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameTimothy S. Duncan
                                                             Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameTalos Energy Inc.
                                                             Office of Energy &
Transportation
February 13, 2020 Page 2
cc:       Ramey Lane
FirstName LastName