OUR COMPANY
We are helping build a more prosperous West Texas by fully realizing the value of mineral investments.
OUR COMPANY
We are helping build a more prosperous West Texas by fully realizing the value of mineral investments.
OUR VISION
We are helping West Texans turn their mineral rights into generational wealth.
When partnering with Santa Fe Energy, landowners in West Texas can fully realize the value of their minerals and create lasting wealth for their families for generations to come. This “multiplier effect” causes prosperity to circulate around West Texas communities—supporting local businesses, creating jobs, and raising the overall standard of living for everyone. We do this by:
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Guiding Principles
We’re here to help you get the most out of what you have while protecting what matters most.
No Pressure. No Gimmicks.
In an industry full of high-pressure cold calls and deceptive tactics, we approach every relationship as a trusted guide aiming to educate, not exploit.
Success Follows a Handshake
Call us old school, but when you shake a hand it should mean something. It’s a sign of trust and integrity — the beginning of a long lasting, prosperous partnership.
Cards on the Table
For decades, we worked for the big guys. Frankly, we weren’t impressed by their bureaucratic nonsense. Our team is efficient, knowledgeable, and responsive—we actually answer the phone when you call, a novel approach in today’s age.
Efficiency is Patriotic
We’ve all sat around the dinner table complaining about inflation, the rising price of gas, and “big energy.” We are working to be part of the solution by reducing inefficiencies, streamlining communication, and trimming the fat where we can.
Our Team
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Scott Steger is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner at Santa Fe Energy. Scott previously served as a Director at Stronghold Resource Partners and Expedition Royalty, where he managed a long-term mineral investment portfolio of over $500 million in assets. Scott has extensive experience working with mineral owners and walking them through the value of their assets (from 1 acre to 1,000 acres!).
Prior to Stronghold, Scott was a Finance Manager at Guidon Energy, a Blackstone backed upstream company with assets in the Midland Basin. At Guidon, Scott evaluated over $1 billion in leasehold and royalty transactions, led the budgeting and forecasting process, and managed the commodity hedging program. Prior to joining Guidon, Scott worked as an Associate at Aethon Energy, a Dallas-based private equity firm, helping the company execute on over $400 million of M&A transactions.
Prior to Aethon, Mr. Steger spent three years as an Investment Banking Analyst at Scotiabank in Houston and London, with a focus on Upstream and Midstream M&A. Mr. Steger earned a Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics and Philosophy from Vanderbilt University.
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Reid Swanson, JD, is the Founder and Managing Partner at Santa Fe Energy and has over 10 years of Am Law 100 law firm and in-house experience. Reid previously served as General Counsel at Stronghold Resource Partners, an asset manager with over $800mm of supported assets, where he managed and executed all legal initiatives of the firm, both at the General Partner and Portfolio Company level.
Prior to Stronghold, Reid was an Associate within Latham & Watkins’s industry-leading energy project finance and development practice where he represented lenders, equity investors, sponsors and developers in connection with the development, financing, acquisition and divestment of a variety of power generation and midstream oil and gas projects. Reid earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University.
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Prior to joining Santa Fe Energy, Will was a senior buyer at Stronghold Investment Management working the Permian and Haynesville basins. During his time at Stronghold, he was the lead buyer for a $300M mineral buying campaign in the Midland Basin.
His day-to-day duties consist of working with mineral owners across the country purchasing minerals and royalties. Will graduated from the Sam Walton School of Business at the University of Arkansas.
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Prior to joining Santa Fe Energy, Drew was a landman at Stronghold Resource Partners, where he was a landman and team lead that completed full mineral & leasehold title on over 128,000 acres generating leads for a mineral investment portfolio of over $500 million in assets.
Drew earned a Bachelor of Science in Energy Management from the University of Oklahoma.
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Prior to joining Santa Fe Energy, Sam spent 3 years working in sales, where he developed and maintained relationships for new and existing clients and improved sales volume, revenue, and conversion rates.
Sam graduated from The Price School of Business at The University of Oklahoma with a BBA in Finance.