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filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on &bull;,
2006<br>Registration No. 333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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COMMISSION<br>
<font style="font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">Washington, D.C.
20549</font></font>
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1933</p>
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">(Exact
name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</font></font>
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<br>(I.R.S. Employer<br>
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International Plaza, Suite 610<br> Fort Worth, Texas </font>
<br>(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)</font></td>
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INC.<br>AMENDED AND RESTATED 2000 STOCK OPTION PLAN,<br>2005
STOCK OPTION PLAN<br>AND<br>STOCK
OPTION PLAN AND AGREEMENT OF CHRISTOPHER D.
STRONG.<br>
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Officer<br> Union Drilling, Inc.<br> 4055 International Plaza, Suite
610<br>Fort Worth, Texas 76109<br>
<font style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">(Name and Address of Agent for
Service)</font>
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Code, of Agent for Service: (817) 735-8793</p>
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<font style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal">Copy
to:</font>
<br>Edwin Markham, Esq.<br>Satterlee Stephens Burke &amp;
Burke LLP<br>230 Park Avenue<br>New York, New York
10169-0079<br>(212) 818-9200</p>
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REGISTRATION FEE</p>
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of Securities<br> to be Registered</font></td>
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Registered (1)(2)</font></td>
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<td style="font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Proposed Maximum<br> Offering Price per<br>
Share</font></td>
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<td style="font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Proposed Maximum<br> Aggregate Offering<br> Price
(5)</font></td>
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<td style="font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Amount of<br> Registration Fee (5)</font></td>
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Stock,<br> Par value $0.01</font></td>
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Stock<br> Par Value $0.01</font></td>
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 3pt;"><font style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">Represents shares issuable under the Amended and Restated 2000
Stock Option Plan, the 2005 Stock Option Plan and the Stock Option Plan
and Agreement of Christopher D. Strong (the
&lsquo;&lsquo;Plans&rsquo;&rsquo;).</font></td>
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 3pt;"><font style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &lsquo;&lsquo;Securities
Act&rsquo;&rsquo;), this registration statement shall also cover such
indeterminate number of additional shares as may be issued to prevent
dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, or similar
transactions.</font></td>
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 3pt;"><font style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">Consists of
shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of options
granted prior to the date hereof under the
Plans.</font></td>
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 3pt;"><font style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">Consists of shares of
share of Common Stock to be issued in the future under the
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<td align="left" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 3pt;"><font style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 8pt;  padding-bottom: 6pt;">With respect to the
1,563,880 shares of Common Stock, computed in accordance with Ruled
457(h) under the Securities Act, based on the weighted average per
share exercise price of outstanding options granted under the Plans.
With respect to the 1,200,428 shares of Common Stock to be issued in
the future under the Plans, calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule
457(h) under the Securities Act. Such computation is based on the
average of the high and low prices as reported on the NASDAQ National
Market on June  1,  2006.</font></td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">PART
I</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Plan Information</u>
</p>
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be filed in this registration statement</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item
2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
Information</u>
</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Not required to be filed in this registration
statement</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">PART II</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Incorporation of
Documents by Reference</u>
</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">This Registration Statement
incorporates herein by reference the following documents which have
been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&lsquo;&lsquo;Commission&rsquo;&rsquo;) by the
Registrant:</p>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">Annual Report on Form 10-K
for fiscal year ended December, 31, 2005 filed with the Commission on
March  29,  2006.</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">The
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31,
2006, filed with the Commission on May 12,
2006.</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">The description of the
Registrant&rsquo;s Common Stock set forth in the Registrant&rsquo;s
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on
August  15,  2005 (File No. 333-127525), including any
amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such
description.</td>
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<td valign="top" style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size: 10pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; width: 414pt">All documents subsequently
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d)
of the Exchange Act after the filing hereof and prior to a filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and
documents. Any statement contained herein or in any document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration
Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequent filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modified or superseded such statement.
Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so modified
or superseded.</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Description of
Securities</u>
</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Not Applicable</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel</u>
</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The validity of the issuance
of the shares of common stock offered under the employee benefit plans
will be passed upon for the Registrant by Satterlee Stephens Burke
&amp; Burke LLP, New York, New York. William R. Ziegler, a substantial
investor and former Vice Chairman of the Board (non-executive) of the
Registrant is of counsel to Satterlee Stephens Burke &amp; Burke LLP.
Edwin Markham, an investor of the Registrant, is a partner of Satterlee
Stephens Burke &amp; Burke LLP.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item
6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Indemnification of Directors and
Officers</u>.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, or DGCL, provides that a corporation may indemnify any person
who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of
the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the
fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
corporation as a director, officer, </p>
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employee or agent of the corporation, or is or
was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys&rsquo;
fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person
acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and
except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim,
issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the
Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit
was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the
case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for
such expenses which the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court
shall deem proper. Pursuant to the Registrant&rsquo;s certificate of
incorporation, the Registrant may indemnify its officers, employees and
agents to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. The
Registrant&rsquo;s bylaws obligate it, under some circumstances, to
advance expenses to its directors and officers in defending an action,
suit or proceeding for which indemnification may be sought. The
Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with it
directors.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Section 145 also provides that to the extent a
director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to above, or defense of any claim, issue or matter
therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including
attorneys&rsquo; fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection therewith. Section 145 further provides that nothing in the
above-described provisions shall be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses to which any
person may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders
or disinterested directors otherwise.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The certificate of
incorporation of the Registrant provides, as authorized by Section
102(b)(7) of the DGCL, that a director will not be personally liable to
the Registrant or any of the Registrant&rsquo;s stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except
that such provisions do not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (1) for any breach of the director&rsquo;s duty of loyalty to
us or our stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3)
under Section 174 of the DGCL, as it now exists or hereafter may be
amended, or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit. The certificate of incorporation of the
Registrant also provides that if the DGCL is amended after the date of
filing of the certificate of incorporation to authorize corporate
action further limiting or eliminating the personal liability of
directors, then the liability of a director, in addition to the
limitation on personal liability provided for already, shall be limited
to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended. Any repeal
or modification of this provision in the Registrant&rsquo;s
certificate of incorporation by the stockholders will be effective
prospective only, and will not adversely affect any limitation on the
personal liability of a director existing at the time of such repeal or
modification. The Registrant&rsquo;s stockholders may not amend,
repeal or adopt any provision inconsistent with the limitation of
liability provision set forth in the Registrant&rsquo;s certificate of
incorporation, except by the affirmative vote of the holders of at
least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting
stock.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">The certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the
Registrant also provide that it has the power to purchase and maintain
insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of it, or who is or was serving at its request as a
director, officer, trustee, partner, employee or agent of one of its
subsidiaries or of any other organization, against any liability
asserted against that person or incurred by that person in any such
capacity, whether or not the Registrant would have the power to
indemnify such person against such liability under the
DGCL.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">Item 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Exemption from Registration
Claimed</u>
</p>
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8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Exhibits</u>
</p>
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Index.</p>
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9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Undertakings</u>
</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned
Registrant hereby undertakes as follows:</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">(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.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">(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 the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">(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.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act each
filing of the Registrant&rsquo;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&rsquo;s annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in
this 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.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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 Securities and Exchange 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 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.</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement or amendment thereto to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Fort
Worth, State of Texas, on this 2nd day of June,
2006.</p>
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<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</font></td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;"><font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">UNION
DRILLING,
INC.</font></font></td>
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June 2, 2006</font></td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 16pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="t" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">By:</font></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 16pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="t" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">/s/ CHRISTOPHER
D. STRONG</font></td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</font></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Christopher D.
Strong<br> President and Chief Executive
Officer</font></td>
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</table>
</div>
</div>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; background-color: #ffffff;">POWER OF ATTORNEY</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">KNOW ALL
MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and
officers of Union Drilling, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is
filing a registration statement on Form S-8 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the &lsquo;&lsquo;Securities Act&rsquo;&rsquo;), hereby
constitutes and appoints Christopher D. Strong and Dan E. Steigerwald,
and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign and file
(i) any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to
this registration statement, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, and (ii) a registration statement,
and any and all amendments thereto, relating to the offering covered
hereby filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, it being understood that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall have full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person and that each of
the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said
attorneys-in-fact as agents or any of them, or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.</p>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top:6pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: 20pt; background-color: #ffffff">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.</p>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Signature</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Title</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Date</td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/
CHRISTOPHER D. STRONG</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal
Executive Officer)</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Christopher D.
Strong</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="16" width="1"></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ DAN E.
STEIGERWALD</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
and Secretary (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting
Officer)</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2, 2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Dan E.
Steigerwald</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="16" width="1"></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ THOMAS
H. O&rsquo;NEILL, JR.</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Thomas H. O&rsquo;Neill,
Jr.</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="16" width="1"></td>
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<tr>
<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ JOHN J. MOON</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">John J.
Moon</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="16" width="1"></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ GREGORY D.
MYERS</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Gregory D.
Myers</td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ THOMAS M.
MERCER</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Thomas M.
Mercer</td>
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</table>
<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt; text-align: center; width: 456pt;">4</p>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Signature</td>
<td></td>
<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Title</td>
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<td style="font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;" align="center">Date</td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ HOWARD I.
HOFFEN</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">Howard I.
Hoffen</td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td style="border-top:1px solid #000000;height:1;"><img src="spacer.gif" height="1" width="1"></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">M.
Joseph  McHugh</td>
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<td><img src="spacer.gif" height="16" width="1"></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">/s/ T.J. GLAUTHIER</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="left">Director</td>
<td rowspan="3"></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; normal; line-height: 12pt; " align="center">June 2,
2006</td>
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<td align="center" valign="top" style="font-family: serif; font-weight: normal;  font-size: 10pt ; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt ; ">T.J.
Glauthier</td>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-size:10pt; text-align: center; width: 456pt;">5</p>
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<p style="font-family:serif;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;  width: 456pt; text-align: center; font-style: normal; line-height: 12pt; padding-top: 12pt; padding-left:0pt; padding-right:0pt; margin: 0pt; text-indent: pt; padding-bottom: 6pt; background-color: #ffffff;">INDEX TO
EXHIBITS</p>
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<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">3.1</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="t" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Form
of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Union Drilling,
Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to our Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q (File No. 000-51630) filed on May 12, 2006).</font></td>
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<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">3.2</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Union
Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File No. 000-51630) filed on May 12,
2006).</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">4.1</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
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</td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Specimen Stock Certificate for
the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Union Drilling, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to our Registration Statement
on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed on August  15,
2005).</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">10.1</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Amended and Restated 2000 Stock
Option Plan of Union Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
333-127525) filed on August  15,  2005).</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">10.2</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Stock Option Plan and Agreement, dated May
13,  1999, by and between Union Drilling, Inc. and Christopher
Strong (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to our Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed on August
15,  2005).</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">10.3</td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top" align="left">
<div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="position:absolute;overflow:visible;width:100pt;top:0;">
<img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></div>
</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">2005 Stock Option
Plan of Union Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4
to our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed
on August  15,  2005).</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" align="right" valign="top"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1"></td>
<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">23.1</td>
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</td>
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<td style="background-color: #ffffff;border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>
<td style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; " align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"><font style="font-family: serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;background-color: #ffffff;">Opinion of Satterlee Stephens Burke &amp; Burke
LLP as to legality of the securities being registered, filed
herewith.</font></td>
</tr>
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<td align="left" style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff;padding-top: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; " valign="top">23.2</td>
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LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, filed
herewith.</font></td>
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Table of Contents
As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on •,
2006
Registration No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933
UNION DRILLING, INC.
(Exact
name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
(State or Other
Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or
Organization)
16-1537048
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
4055
International Plaza, Suite 610
Fort Worth, Texas
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
76109
(Zip
Code)
UNION DRILLING,
INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED 2000 STOCK OPTION PLAN,
2005
STOCK OPTION PLAN
AND
STOCK
OPTION PLAN AND AGREEMENT OF CHRISTOPHER D.
STRONG.
(Full Title of Plan)
Christopher Strong
President and
Chief Executive
Officer
Union Drilling, Inc.
4055 International Plaza, Suite
610
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
(Name and Address of Agent for
Service)
Telephone Number, Including Area
Code, of Agent for Service: (817) 735-8793
Copy
to:
Edwin Markham, Esq.
Satterlee Stephens Burke &
Burke LLP
230 Park Avenue
New York, New York
10169-0079
(212) 818-9200
CALCULATION OF
REGISTRATION FEE
Title
of Securities
to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered (1)(2)
Proposed Maximum
Offering Price per
Share
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price
(5)
Amount of
Registration Fee (5)
Common
Stock,
Par value $0.01
1,563,880(3)
$7.31
$11,433,458.18
$1,223.38
Common
Stock
Par Value $0.01
1,200,428(4)
$14.75
$17,706,313.00
$1,894.57
(1)
Represents shares issuable under the Amended and Restated 2000
Stock Option Plan, the 2005 Stock Option Plan and the Stock Option Plan
and Agreement of Christopher D. Strong (the
''Plans'').
(2)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ''Securities
Act''), this registration statement shall also cover such
indeterminate number of additional shares as may be issued to prevent
dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, or similar
transactions.
(3)
Consists of
shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of options
granted prior to the date hereof under the
Plans.
(4)
Consists of shares of
share of Common Stock to be issued in the future under the
Plans.
(5)
With respect to the
1,563,880 shares of Common Stock, computed in accordance with Ruled
457(h) under the Securities Act, based on the weighted average per
share exercise price of outstanding options granted under the Plans.
With respect to the 1,200,428 shares of Common Stock to be issued in
the future under the Plans, calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule
457(h) under the Securities Act. Such computation is based on the
average of the high and low prices as reported on the NASDAQ National
Market on June  1,  2006.
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PART
I
Item 1.
Plan Information
Not required to
be filed in this registration statement
Item
2.
Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
Information
Not required to be filed in this registration
statement
PART II
Item 3.
Incorporation of
Documents by Reference
This Registration Statement
incorporates herein by reference the following documents which have
been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
''Commission'') by the
Registrant:
(a)
Annual Report on Form 10-K
for fiscal year ended December, 31, 2005 filed with the Commission on
March  29,  2006.
(b)
The
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31,
2006, filed with the Commission on May 12,
2006.
(c)
The description of the
Registrant's Common Stock set forth in the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on
August  15,  2005 (File No. 333-127525), including any
amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such
description.
(d)
All documents subsequently
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d)
of the Exchange Act after the filing hereof and prior to a filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and
documents. Any statement contained herein or in any document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration
Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequent filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modified or superseded such statement.
Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so modified
or superseded.
Item 4.
Description of
Securities
Not Applicable
Item 5.
Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel
The validity of the issuance
of the shares of common stock offered under the employee benefit plans
will be passed upon for the Registrant by Satterlee Stephens Burke
& Burke LLP, New York, New York. William R. Ziegler, a substantial
investor and former Vice Chairman of the Board (non-executive) of the
Registrant is of counsel to Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP.
Edwin Markham, an investor of the Registrant, is a partner of Satterlee
Stephens Burke & Burke LLP.
Item
6.
Indemnification of Directors and
Officers
.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, or DGCL, provides that a corporation may indemnify any person
who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of
the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the
fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
corporation as a director, officer,
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employee or agent of the corporation, or is or
was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys'
fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person
acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to
be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and
except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim,
issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the
Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit
was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the
case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for
such expenses which the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court
shall deem proper. Pursuant to the Registrant's certificate of
incorporation, the Registrant may indemnify its officers, employees and
agents to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. The
Registrant's bylaws obligate it, under some circumstances, to
advance expenses to its directors and officers in defending an action,
suit or proceeding for which indemnification may be sought. The
Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with it
directors.
Section 145 also provides that to the extent a
director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to above, or defense of any claim, issue or matter
therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including
attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection therewith. Section 145 further provides that nothing in the
above-described provisions shall be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses to which any
person may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders
or disinterested directors otherwise.
The certificate of
incorporation of the Registrant provides, as authorized by Section
102(b)(7) of the DGCL, that a director will not be personally liable to
the Registrant or any of the Registrant's stockholders for
monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except
that such provisions do not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (1) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to
us or our stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3)
under Section 174 of the DGCL, as it now exists or hereafter may be
amended, or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit. The certificate of incorporation of the
Registrant also provides that if the DGCL is amended after the date of
filing of the certificate of incorporation to authorize corporate
action further limiting or eliminating the personal liability of
directors, then the liability of a director, in addition to the
limitation on personal liability provided for already, shall be limited
to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended. Any repeal
or modification of this provision in the Registrant's
certificate of incorporation by the stockholders will be effective
prospective only, and will not adversely affect any limitation on the
personal liability of a director existing at the time of such repeal or
modification. The Registrant's stockholders may not amend,
repeal or adopt any provision inconsistent with the limitation of
liability provision set forth in the Registrant's certificate of
incorporation, except by the affirmative vote of the holders of at
least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting
stock.
The certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the
Registrant also provide that it has the power to purchase and maintain
insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of it, or who is or was serving at its request as a
director, officer, trustee, partner, employee or agent of one of its
subsidiaries or of any other organization, against any liability
asserted against that person or incurred by that person in any such
capacity, whether or not the Registrant would have the power to
indemnify such person against such liability under the
DGCL.
Item 7.
Exemption from Registration
Claimed
Not applicable.
Item
8.
Exhibits
Reference is made to the Exhibit
Index.
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Item
9.
Undertakings
1.    The undersigned
Registrant hereby undertakes as follows:
(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 the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(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.
2.    The 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
this 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.
3.    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 Securities and Exchange 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 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 of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
registration statement or amendment thereto to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Fort
Worth, State of Texas, on this 2nd day of June,
2006.
UNION
DRILLING,
INC.
Date:
June 2, 2006
By:
/s/ CHRISTOPHER
D. STRONG
Christopher D.
Strong
President and Chief Executive
Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL
MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and
officers of Union Drilling, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is
filing a registration statement on Form S-8 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the ''Securities Act''), hereby
constitutes and appoints Christopher D. Strong and Dan E. Steigerwald,
and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, and in any and all capacities, to sign and file
(i) any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to
this registration statement, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, and (ii) a registration statement,
and any and all amendments thereto, relating to the offering covered
hereby filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, it being understood that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, shall have full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person and that each of
the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said
attorneys-in-fact as agents or any of them, or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following
persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/
CHRISTOPHER D. STRONG
President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal
Executive Officer)
June 2,
2006
Christopher D.
Strong
/s/ DAN E.
STEIGERWALD
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
and Secretary (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting
Officer)
June 2, 2006
Dan E.
Steigerwald
/s/ THOMAS
H. O'NEILL, JR.
Director
June 2,
2006
Thomas H. O'Neill,
Jr.
/s/ JOHN J. MOON
Director
June 2,
2006
John J.
Moon
/s/ GREGORY D.
MYERS
Director
June 2,
2006
Gregory D.
Myers
/s/ THOMAS M.
MERCER
Director
June 2,
2006
Thomas M.
Mercer
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Signature
Title
Date
/s/ HOWARD I.
HOFFEN
Director
June 2,
2006
Howard I.
Hoffen
Director
June 2,
2006
M.
Joseph  McHugh
/s/ T.J. GLAUTHIER
Director
June 2,
2006
T.J.
Glauthier
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INDEX TO
EXHIBITS
3.1
Form
of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Union Drilling,
Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to our Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q (File No. 000-51630) filed on May 12, 2006).
3.2
Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Union
Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File No. 000-51630) filed on May 12,
2006).
4.1
Specimen Stock Certificate for
the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Union Drilling, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to our Registration Statement
on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed on August  15,
2005).
10.1
Amended and Restated 2000 Stock
Option Plan of Union Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No.
333-127525) filed on August  15,  2005).
10.2
Stock Option Plan and Agreement, dated May
13,  1999, by and between Union Drilling, Inc. and Christopher
Strong (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to our Registration
Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed on August
15,  2005).
10.3
2005 Stock Option
Plan of Union Drilling, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4
to our Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-127525) filed
on August  15,  2005).
23.1
Opinion of Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke
LLP as to legality of the securities being registered, filed
herewith.
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young
LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, filed
herewith.
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