VANGUARD ENERGY CORPORATION 1330 Post Oak Blvd. Suite 1600 Houston, TX 77056 (713) 627-2500 March 11, 2013 Sirimal R. Mukerjee Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549 Re: Vanguard Energy Corporation Form S-1 File No. 333-180987 Vanguard Energy Corporation (the "Company") requests that the effective date of the above captioned Registration Statement be accelerated to March 14, 2013, 4:30 P.M. Eastern time, or as soon as practicable thereafter. The Company understands that: o 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; o the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and o the Company may not assert 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. Very Truly Yours, /s/ Warren Dillard Warren Dillard, Chief Executive Officer