Welcoming back Matthew T. Scott, P.E. to present RAL and State Fee Lease Terms Regarding the Payment on Processed and Unprocessed Gas, Including Typical Problems Encountered with Gas Plant Statements.

BIO:
·     Matthew Scott, a Petroleum Engineer with the Texas General Land Office (GLO),

has over forty-one years of experience in the oil and gas industry as a Reservoir Engineer, Production Engineer, Facility Design and Construction Engineer (onshore and offshore), and as a Rod Pump and Hydraulic Artificial Lift Design Engineer.

·     His experience also includes positions with Texas Instruments, Gulf Oil E&P, Chevron U.S.A., Chevron Corporation, National-Oilwell, Trico Industries, Weatherford Artificial Lift Systems, and the Texas Department of Health.

·     Matthew lived in Midland for 30 years prior to relocating to Austin, Texas in 1990. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) in 1979.

·     He worked at the GLO as a Petroleum Engineer in Energy Resources from 2001 until his retirement from the state in 2017 and returned to the GLO in November 2022. He is involved in all aspects of lease compliance and royalty audits with respect to production volume calculations, offset obligations, and the commingling of state leases.

·      He has an extensive background in flow meter technology and applications, production facility design, oil and gas processing, fluid properties, and multiphase flow.

·      Matthew currently lives in Celina, Texas with his wife, Vicky, and his family includes two young men, Sam and Alex, that they adopted in 2002 from Russia that are now working in the Frisco and Denton, Texas area.