Cobalt International Energy (CIE) has filed a modified registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock. The company also seeks to list in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the name of “CIE”.

Moreover, the company is offering 63,000, 000 shares and anticipates the offering price to be $15-$17 a share.

The offering is being made via Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., UBS, Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital, Howard Weil, FBR Capital, Thomas Weisel, Natixis Bleichroeder and Capital One Southcoast.

Cobalt International Energy is an independent, oil-focused exploration and production company with a world-class below salt prospect inventory in the deep water of the U. S. Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola and Gabon in West Africa.

The company has a portfolio of 132 identified, well-defined prospects, comprised of 47 prospects situated in the deep-water U. S. Gulf of Mexico and around 85 prospects located in Blocks 9 and 21 offshore Angola and the “Diaba” Block offshore Gabon.

Cobalt has yet to produce any oil and gas grosses through June 30, 2009.