As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2001
                          Registration No. - 333-39172
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
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                        Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to
                                    FORM S-8
             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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                             DENBURY RESOURCES INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                Delaware                                     75-2815171
     (State or other jurisdiction of                       (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                       Identification No.)

    5100 Tennyson Parkway, Suite 3000
              Plano, Texas                                     75024
(Address of principal executive offices)                    (Zip Code)

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                DENBURY RESOURCES INC. DIRECTOR COMPENSATION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
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               Phil Rykhoek                                  Copy to:
          Chief Financial Officer                        Donald Brodsky
          Denbury Resources Inc.                         Deidre Shearer
     5100 Tennyson Parkway, Suite 3000                Jenkens & Gilchrist,
            Plano, Texas 75024                     A Professional Corporation
              (972) 673-2000                       1100 Louisiana, Suite 1800
    (Name, address and telephone number               Houston, Texas 77002
 including area code of agent for service)               (713) 951-3300

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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT



Item 8.  Exhibits.

       (a)   Exhibits.

             The following  documents  are filed as a part of this  registration
statement.


    Exhibit
    Number                                   Document Description

     4      Denbury  Resources  Inc.  Director  Compensation  Plan,  as  amended
            effective February 22, 2001


Item 9.  Undertakings.

         A.    The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
         made,  a  post-effective  amendment to this  registration  statement to
         include  any  material   information   with  respect  to  the  plan  of
         distribution not previously disclosed in the registration  statement or
         any material change to such information in the registration statement;

               (2) that, for the purpose of determining  any liability under the
         Securities Act, each such  post-effective  amendment shall be deemed to
         be a new  registration  statement  relating to the  securities  offered
         therein,  and the  offering  of such  securities  at that time shall be
         deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and

               (3) to  remove  from  registration  by means of a  post-effective
         amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
         the termination of the offering.

         B. The undersigned  registrant  hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining  any  liability  under  the  Securities  Act,  each  filing  of  the
registrant's  annual  report  pursuant to section  13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where  applicable,  each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual  report   pursuant  to  section  15(d)  of  the  Exchange  Act)  that  is
incorporated by reference in the registration  statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration  statement relating to the securities offered therein,  and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         C.  Insofar  as  indemnification  for  liabilities  arising  under  the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors,  officers and controlling  persons
of the  registrant  pursuant to the  foregoing  provisions,  or  otherwise,  the
registrant  has  been  advised  that  in  the  opinion  of the  Commission  such
indemnification  is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the event  that a claim for  indemnification
against such  liabilities  (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director,  officer or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director,  officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been  settled by  controlling  precedent,  submit to a court of  appropriate
jurisdiction  the  question  of whether  such  indemnification  by it is against
public  policy as  expressed in the  Securities  Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.



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                                   SIGNATURES
         Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act, the  registrant
certifies  that it has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  that it meets  all the
requirements  for filing  Amendment  No. 1 to 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 Plano, Texas, on March 2, 2001:

                                         Denbury Resources Inc.

                                         By:  /s/ Phil Rykhoek
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                                           Phil Rykhoek
                                           Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,  that each  individual  whose signature
appears below hereby  constitutes  and appoints Gareth Roberts and Phil Rykhoek,
and each of them,  each with full power to act without  the other,  his true and
lawful  attorneys-in-fact  and agents,  each with full power of substitution and
resubstitution  for  him  and in his  name,  place  and  stead,  in any  and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments to this Registration Statement, and to
file the same with all  exhibits  thereto  and  other  documents  in  connection
therewith, with the Commission, granting unto each of said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and  authority  to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite  and  necessary to be done in  connection  therewith,  as fully to all
intents and  purposes  as he might or could do in person  hereby  ratifying  and
confirming that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act, this  Registration
Statement has been signed by the following  persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.

    Signature                     Capacity                             Date
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Ronald G. Greene *      Chairman of the Board of Directors         March 2, 2001
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Ronald G. Greene


Gareth Roberts *        President and Chief Executive Officer and  March 2, 2001
- ---------------------   Director(Principal Executive Officer)
Gareth Roberts


 /s/ Phil Rykhoek       Chief Financial Officer and Secretary      March 2, 2001
- ---------------------   (Principal Financial Officer)
Phil Rykhoek


Mark Allen *            Controller and Chief Accounting Officer    March 2, 2001
- ---------------------   (Principal Accounting Officer)
Mark Allen


David I. Heather *      Director                                   March 2, 2001
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David I. Heather


Wieland F. Wettstein *  Director                                   March 2, 2001
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Wieland F. Wettstein

*By: /s/ Phil Rykhoek
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    Attorney-in-Fact pursuant to
    power of attorney contain in original filing
    of this Registration Statement


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                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS



    Exhibit
    Number            Document Description

         4     Denbury  Resources Inc.  Director  Compensation  Plan, as amended
               effective February 22, 2001





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