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Exhibit 4.2  

	NUMBER	 	 	 	SHARES
	
VTG	
 	

 	
 	

 
	

 	
 	
VANTAGE ENERGY SERVICES, INC.	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF DELAWARE	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

COMMON STOCK
 	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

 	
 	
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
 
	
This Certifies that	
 	

 	
 	
CUSIP 92209F 10 2
	
is the owner of	
 	

 	
 	

 

 
 

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES, PAR VALUE $.001 PER SHARE, OF THE COMMON STOCK OF    
    
    VANTAGE ENERGY SERVICES, INC.    
    

transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid unless
countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

	Dated:	 	Vantage Energy Services, Inc.

CORPORATE

SEAL

2006
 	 	 
	
 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	 	 	 	
 SECRETARY
	 	 	THE STATE OF DELAWARE
 	 	 

 
 

Vantage Energy Services, Inc.    
    

The
Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of
stock or series thereof of the Corporation and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued and
shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issue of shares of Preferred
Stock (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the Corporation), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents. 

The
following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 

	TEN COM-	 	as tenants in common	 	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT	 	Custodian
	TEN ENT -	 	as tenants by the entireties	 	 	 	 
	JT TEN -	 	as joint tenants with right of survivorship	 	(Cust)	 	(Minor)
	 	 	and not as tenants in common	 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
	

 	
 	

 	
 	

(State)	
 	

 

Additional
Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 

For
value received,                        hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 

PLEASE
INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER

IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 

(PLEASE
PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE) 

shares  

of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

                        Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation will full power of
substitution in the premises.

	Dated	 	 	 	 
	 	 	
	 	 
	 	 	 	 	
Notice:    The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatever.

Signature(s)
Guaranteed: 

THE
SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE
MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15). 

The
holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only in the event that the Corporation is liquidated because it does not consummate a business combination or
the holder seeks to convert his, her or its respective shares into cash upon a business combination which he, she or it voted against and which is actually completed by the Corporation. In no other
circumstances shall the holder have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account. 

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Exhibit 4.3  

	NUMBER	 	(SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR LEGEND)	 	WARRANTS
	
VTG-WS	
 	

THIS WARRANT WILL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO

5:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME,                        , 2011

OR UPON EARLIER REDEMPTION	
 	

 
	

 	
 	

Vantage Energy Services, Inc.	
 	

CUSIP 92209F 11 0
	

 	
 	

WARRANT	
 	

 

THIS
CERTIFIES THAT, for value received 

is
the registered holder of a Warrant or Warrants expiring at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, [            ] 2011 [four years from the
effective date of the registration statement], or upon earlier redemption (the "Warrant"), to purchase one fully paid and non-assessable share of Common
Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("Shares"), of Vantage Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), for each Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate. The Warrant
entitles the holder thereof to purchase from the Company, commencing on the later of (i) [            ], 2008
[one year from the effective date of the registration statement] and (ii) the completion by the Company of an acquisition
through merger, capital stock exchange, asset or stock acquisition, exchangeable share transaction, joint venture or other similar transaction, or a combination of any of the foregoing, of one or more
operating businesses, that is its initial business combination and which meets the size, timing and other criteria outlined in the Company's registration statement on Form S-1
initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2006 (File No. 333-138565), as amended ("Business Combination"), such number of Shares of the
Company at the price of $6.00 per share, upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate accompanied by the annexed duly executed subscription form and payment of the Warrant Price (as hereinafter defined)
at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent, 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004 (such payment to be made by check made payable to the Warrant Agent), but only subject to the conditions set
forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the "Warrant Agreement"). In no event shall the registered holder of this Warrant
be entitled to receive a net-cash settlement, shares of common stock or other consideration in lieu of physical settlement in Shares of the Company. The Warrant Agreement provides that
upon the occurrence of certain events the Warrant Price and the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder, may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. The term Warrant Price as used in this
Warrant Certificate refers to the price per Share at which Shares may be purchased at the time the Warrant is exercised. 

No
fraction of a Share will be issued upon any exercise of a Warrant. If the holder of a Warrant would be entitled to receive a fraction of a Share upon any exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall,
upon such exercise, round up to the nearest whole number the number of Shares to be issued to such holder. 

Upon
any exercise of the Warrant for less than the total number of full Shares provided for herein, there shall be issued to the registered holder hereof or his assignee a new Warrant Certificate
covering the number of Shares for which the Warrant has not been exercised. 

Warrant
Certificates, when surrendered at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent by the registered holder hereof in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged in the manner
and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the
aggregate a like number of Warrants. 

Upon
due presentment for registration of transfer of the Warrant Certificate at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and
evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee in exchange for this Warrant 

Certificate,
subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any applicable tax or other governmental charge. 

The
Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered holder as the absolute owner of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by
anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the registered holder, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice
to the contrary. 

This
Warrant does not entitle the registered holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company. 

The
Company reserves the right to redeem all (but not part) of the then outstanding Warrants, with a notice of redemption in writing to the holders of record of the Warrants then outstanding, giving
30 days' notice of such redemption at any time after such Warrants become exercisable if the last sale price of the Shares has been at least $11.50 per share on each of 20 trading days within a
30 trading day period ending on the third business day prior to the date on which notice of such redemption is given. The Company may not redeem the Warrants unless the Warrants comprising the units
sold in this offering and the shares of common stock underlying those Warrants are covered by an effective registration statement from the beginning of the measurement period through the date fixed
for the redemption. The redemption price of the Warrants is to be $.01 per Warrant. Any Warrant either not exercised or tendered back to the Company by the end of the date specified in the notice of
redemption shall be cancelled on the books of the Company and have no further value except for the $.01 redemption price. 

	By:	 	 	 	Vantage Energy Services, Inc.

CORPORATE

THE STATE OF DELAWARE	 	 
	
Chief Executive Officer	 	SEAL

2006	 	
 Secretary
	

COUNTERSIGNED:	
 	

 	
 	

 
	

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company,

as Warrant Agent	
 	

 	
 	

 
	

 Authorized Officer	
 	

 	
 	

 

 
 

SUBSCRIPTION FORM    
    

To
Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Exercise Warrants 

The
undersigned Registered Holder irrevocably elects to exercise                        Warrants represented by this Warrant
Certificate, and to purchase the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise
of such Warrants, and requests that Certificates for such shares shall be issued in the name of 

(PLEASE
TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS) 

(SOCIAL
SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER) 

and
be delivered to 

(PLEASE
PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS) 

and,
if such number of Warrants shall not be all the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, that a new Warrant Certificate for the balance of such Warrants be registered in the name of, and
delivered to, the Registered Holder at the address stated below: 

	

Dated:	
 	

 	
 	

 
	 	 	
	 	
 (SIGNATURE)
	

 	
 	

 	
 	

    
 (ADDRESS)
	

 	
 	

 	
 	

    
 (TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

 
 

ASSIGNMENT
  To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Assign Warrants    

For
Value Received,                        hereby sells, assigns, and transfers unto 

(PLEASE
TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS) 

(SOCIAL
SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER) 

                        of
the Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints                        Attorney to transfer this Warrant Certificate on the books of
the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises. 

	

Dated:	
 	

 	
 	

 
	 	 	
	 	
 (SIGNATURE)

THE
SIGNATURE TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE SUBSCRIPTION FORM MUST CORRESPOND TO THE NAME WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY
CHANGE WHATSOEVER, AND MUST BE GUARANTEED BY A COMMERCIAL BANK OR TRUST COMPANY OR A MEMBER FIRM OF THE AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE OR THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 

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ASSIGNMENT To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Assign Warrants

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