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    <periodOfReport>2017-12-14</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001615817</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>C&amp;J Energy Services, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>CJ</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerCik>0001725921</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Joyce Victor</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>3990 ROGERDALE ROAD</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>HOUSTON</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>TX</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>77042</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
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            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>See Remarks</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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            </securityTitle>
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        </nonDerivativeHolding>
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                <value>Performance Shares</value>
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                    <value>D</value>
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        <derivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Non-qualified Stock Option</value>
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            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F3"/>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2027-12-13</value>
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                    <value>Common Stock</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">These shares of restricted stock, granted under the C&amp;J Energy Services, Inc. 2017 Management Incentive Plan, are not yet vested and remain subject to a time-based vesting schedule that is contingent upon continued employment.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Represents performance shares granted on December 13, 2017 and scheduled to vest on the third anniversary of the grant date, subject to the grantee's continued employment with or provision of services to the issuer or its affiliates through the third anniversary of the date of grant and the achievement of certain levels of total shareholder returns (TSR) relative to a peer group established by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, as well as certain treatment upon the occurrence of certain termination events.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Represents options granted on December 13, 2017 and scheduled to vest ratably on the first, second and third anniversary of the grant date, in each case, subject to the earlier expiration of the options and the grantee's continued employment with or provision of services to the issuer or its affiliates, as well as certain treatment upon the occurrence of certain termination events.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>President of Well Construction and Intervention Services

Exhibit List:
Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/Gabriel Nwuli, as attorney in fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2017-12-21</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
