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Exhibit 4.2    
    

 
 

[Specimen Common Stock Certificate]    
    

	NUMBER	 	 	 	SHARES
	    
	 	 	 	    

NATIONAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACQUISITION COMPANY
  Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Delaware  

	 	 	 	 	COMMON STOCK	 	CUSIP	 	    

SEE
REVERSE FOR

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 

This Certifies that                                      is the
registered holder of                                     

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE PAR VALUE OF $0.0001

EACH OF THE COMMON STOCK OF  

NATIONAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACQUISITION COMPANY  

transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly
endorsed.

The Corporation will be forced to liquidate if it is unable to complete a business combination by
                        , 2010, all as more fully
described in the Corporation's final prospectus dated                         , 2008.

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:	 	    
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Corporate Seal

Delaware	 	 	 	 
	

 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	
 	

 	
 	

 SECRETARY

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

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

National Energy Resources Acquisition Company  

        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. 

        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 said
stock on the books of the within named Company with 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.
	

Signatures(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 Corporation's trust account only in the event of a liquidation of the Corporation upon failure to consummate a
business combination or if 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    
    

 
 

[FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]    
    

[FACE]  

	Number	 	 	 	Warrants
	

	
 	

 	
 	

THIS
WARRANT WILL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO

5:00 P.M. NEW YORK CITY TIME,                         , 2012 

NATIONAL
ENERGY RESOURCES ACQUISITION COMPANY 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE  

	 	 	CUSIP	 	    

WARRANT CERTIFICATE 

        This Warrant Certificate certifies that
                                    , or registered assigns, is the registered holder of
                                     warrants (the
"Warrants") to purchase shares of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value (the
"Common Stock"), of National Energy Resources Acquisition Company, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"). Each Warrant entitles the holder, upon exercise during the period set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below, to receive from the
Company that number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock (each, a "Warrant Share") as set forth below, at the exercise price (the
"Exercise Price") as determined pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, payable as provided in the Warrant Agreement upon surrender of this Warrant
Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent referred to below, subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement. Defined terms
used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement. 

        Each
Warrant is initially exercisable for one fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock. The number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are
subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events set forth in the Warrant Agreement. 

        The
initial Exercise Price per share of Common Stock for any Warrant is equal to $7.50 per share. The Exercise Price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events set
forth in the Warrant Agreement. 

        Warrants
may be exercised only during the Warrant Exercise Period subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement and to the extent not exercised by the end of such Warrant
Exercise Period such Warrants shall become void. 

        Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as
though fully set forth at this place. 

        This
Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent, as such term is used in the Warrant Agreement. 

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        This
Warrant Certificate shall be governed and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof. 

	 	 	NATIONAL ENERGY RESOURCES ACQUISITION COMPANY
	 	 	By:	 	    

	 	 	Name:	 	Patrick R. McDonald
	 	 	Title:	 	Chief Executive Officer
	

 	
 	

By:	
 	

    

	 	 	Name:	 	Harold R. Logan, Jr.
	 	 	Title:	 	Secretary
	

Countersigned:

Dated:                         , 20    

COMPUTERSHARE, INC. and

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
 On Behalf of Both Entities:

as Warrant Agent
	

 	
 	

By:	
 	

    
 Authorized Signatory

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[FORM
OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE] 

[REVERSE]

        The
Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants entitling the holder on exercise to receive shares of Common Stock and are issued or to
be issued pursuant to a Warrant Agreement dated as of [                        ], 2008 (the "Warrant
Agreement"), duly executed and
delivered by the Company to Computershare, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its fully owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company (collectively the
"Warrant Agent"), which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a
description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the holders (the words
"holders" or "holder" meaning the registered holders or registered holder) of the Warrants. A copy of
the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the holder hereof upon written request to the Company. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Warrant Agreement. 

        Warrants
may be exercised at any time during the Warrant Exercise Period set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The holder of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may exercise
them by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the form of election to purchase set forth hereon properly completed and executed, together with payment of the Exercise Price as specified in the
Warrant Agreement (or through "cashless exercise" if permitted by the Warrant Agreement) at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent.
In the event that upon any exercise of Warrants evidenced hereby the number of Warrants exercised shall be less than the total number of Warrants evidenced hereby, there shall be issued to the holder
hereof or his assignee a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants not exercised. No adjustment shall be made for any dividends on any Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant. 

        Notwithstanding
anything else in this Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Agreement, no Warrant may be exercised unless at the time of exercise (i) a registration statement
covering the Public Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise of the Warrants is effective under the Act and (ii) a prospectus thereunder relating to the Public Warrant Shares is current. In no
event shall the Company be required to issue unregistered shares upon the exercise of any Public Warrant. 

        The
Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events the number of Warrant Shares set forth on the face hereof may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. If,
upon exercise of a Warrant, the holder thereof would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share of Common Stock, the Company will, upon exercise, round up to the nearest whole number of
shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Warrant holder. 

        Warrant
Certificates, when surrendered at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent by the registered holder thereof in person or by legal representative or 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 evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants. 

        Upon
due presentation for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office 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(s) in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement,
without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith. 

        The
Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered holder(s) thereof as the absolute owner(s) 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 holder(s) hereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any holder hereof to any rights of a stockholder of the Company. 

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ELECTION TO PURCHASE  

 (TO BE EXECUTED UPON EXERCISE OF WARRANT)  

        The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to receive
                                    
shares of Common Stock and herewith tenders payment for such shares to the order of National Energy Resources Acquisition Company in the amount of
$                         in
accordance with the terms hereof. The undersigned requests that a certificate for such shares be registered in the name of
                                    , whose
address is                                      and that such
shares be delivered to                                     
whose address is                                     .
If said number of shares is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such shares
be registered in the name of
                                    , whose address is
                                    , and that such Warrant
Certificate be delivered to
                                    , whose address is
                                    .
 

	Date:
                                    ,
20    	 	    
 (Signature)
	

 	
 	

    

	 	 	    

	 	 	    
 (Address)
	 	 	    
 (Tax Identification Number)

Signature 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).

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Exhibit 4.3

[FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]

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