NKA Niska Gas Storage Partners Llc Common Units Representing Limited Liability Company Interests

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2016

Registration No. 333- 177936

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-177936

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

170 Radnor Chester Road, Suite 150
Radnor, PA 19087
(484) 367-7432

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

·                   Registration No. 333-177936, filed on Form S-8 on November 14, 2011, pertaining to the registration of 3,718,521 common units representing limited liability company interests in the Company (“Common Units”) issuable under the Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC 2010 Long Term Incentive Plan.

On July 19, 2016, the Company was acquired by Swan Merger Sub LLC (“Merger Sub”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Membership Interest Transfer Agreement (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Niska Gas Storage Management LLC, Niska Sponsor Holdings Coöperatief U.A., Swan Holdings LP and Merger Sub.  On August 1, 2016, Merger Sub converted to Niska Gas Storage Partners L.P. by filing a certificate of conversion from a limited liability company into a limited partnership and a certificate of limited partnership of Niska Gas Storage Partners L.P. with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

As a result of the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

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