As  filed  with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 23, 1997.
                                                   Registration No. 333- 15987

                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                Washington, D.C. 20549                       
                                
                           POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT No. 2 
                                  TO FORM SB-2               
               REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933     
                          Superior Energy Services, Inc.         
              (Exact  name  of registrant as specified in its charter)



          Delaware                1503 Engineers Road     75-2379388   
(State or other jurisdiction     Belle Chasse, LA 70037  (I.R.S. Employer 
of incorporation or organization)    (504) 393-7774      Identification No.)
                    
                    (Address, including zip code, and telephone       
                number,  including  area  code,  of  the registrant's    
                             principal executive offices)                   
                             
                             
                                   Terence E. Hall      
                           Superior Energy Services, Inc.                    
                               Chairman of the Board,       
                       Chief Executive Officer and President           
                                1503 Engineers Road           
                            Belle Chasse, Louisiana 70037          
                                   (504) 393-7774                            
            (Name,  address,  including  zip  code,  and telephone number,  
                    including  area  code,  of  agent for service)


                                     Copy to:                
                                     
                              William B. Masters, Esq.     
                        Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, 
                             Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.      
                              201 St. Charles Avenue                
                           New Orleans, Louisiana  70170       
                                Fax:  504-582-8012                 
                                
       Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale  to  the   public:   
                                  Not Applicable                     
                                  
        If  the  only securities being registered on this Form are being 
offered pursuant  to  dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the 
following box.                       

        If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be 
offered on a delayed or  continuous  basis  pursuant to Rule  415 under the 
Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection 
with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.     

        If   this   Form   is  filed  to  register  additional securities 
for an offering pursuant  to  Rule  462(b)  under  the Securities  Act,  
please  check  the  following  box and list the Securities  Act  registration  
statement  number  of the  earlier effective registration statement for the 
same offering.                       

        If  this  Form  is  a  post-effective amendment  filed pursuant  to  
Rule  462(c) under the Securities  Act,  check  the following box and list  
the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective  
registration  statement  for the same offering.  *                     

        If  delivery of the prospectus is expected to be  made pursuant to 
Rule 434, please check the following box.                   


This  Post-Effective   Amendment   No.   2  shall  become effective  in 
accordance with Section 8(c) of the Securities  Act of 1933 on such  date  
as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(c), may determine.  

                                Deregistration                
                                
In accordance with the undertakings contained in Part II of this Registration 
Statement  and  Item  512  of  Regulation  S-K, Superior  Energy  Services,  
Inc.  ("Superior")  has  filed  this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to remove 
from registration all of the  securities  registered  under  this  Registration
Statement, which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.          

        Superior hereby removes from registration 708,491 shares of common 
stock, $0.001 par value per share, registered  by Superior in  this  
Registration  Statement,  which  remain  unsold at  the termination of the 
offering.         


                                  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 the requirements for filing on Form SB-2 and has duly caused this 
post-effective amendment No. 2 on Form SB-2 to the registration statement on 
Form SB-2  to  be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly 
authorized,  in the City of Belle Chasse, State of Louisiana, on October 23, 
1997.                                                    

                                 SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES, INC.  
                                 
                                 By:   /s/ Terence E. Hall        
                                       --------------------    
                                           Terence E. Hall           
                                       Chairman  of the Board,   
                                Chief  Executive Officer and President     
                                
                                
 Signature                         Title                             Date 

/s/ Terence E. Hall         Chairman of the Board,            October 23, 1997
Terence E. Hall     Chief Executive Officer and President         
                      (Principal Executive Officer)                     
      
      *             Chief Financial Officer (Principal        October 23, 1997
Robert S. Taylor  Financial Officer and Accounting Officer)                   

      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
Ernest J. Yancey, Jr.                     
      
      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
James E. Rayannack                     
      
      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
Richard J. Lazes                     
      
      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
Kenneth C. Boothe                     
      
      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
Bradford Small                     
      
      *                          Director                     October 23, 1997
Justin L. Sullivan          


By: /s/ Terence E. Hall              
       Attorney-in-fact