As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 23, 2017

Registration No. 333-202217-01

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

600 Travis Street

Houston, Texas 77002

(281) 840-4000

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

Candice J. Wells

Linn Energy, LLC

600 Travis Street

Houston, Texas 77002

(281) 840-4000

(Name. address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to

Matthew R. Pacey

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

600 Travis Street, Suite 3300

Houston, Texas 77002

(713) 835-3600

Not applicable. Removal from registration securities that were not sold pursuant to this registration statement.

(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)

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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 No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Nos. 333-202217 and 333-202217-01) (the “Registration Statement”) originally filed on February 20, 2015 by LINN Energy, LLC (the “Company”) and LinnCo, LLC (“LinnCo”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission, registering units representing limited liability company interests of the Company and common shares representing limited liability company interests of LinnCo. On March 15, 2016, LinnCo had requested to withdraw the Registration Statement on Registration No. 333-202217, effective immediately.

On May 11, 2016, the Company, LinnCo and certain of the Company’s direct and indirect subsidiaries (collectively with the Company and LinnCo, the “Debtors”), filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The Debtors’ Chapter 11 cases are being administered jointly under the caption  In re Linn Energy, LLC, et al. , Case No. 16-60040 (the “Chapter 11 Cases”).

As a result of the Chapter 11 Cases, 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 Statements to remove from registration, by means of a 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 by means of this Post-Effective Amendment all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Houston, state of Texas, on February 23, 2017. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Act.