William E. “Bill” Hackett, CPL

Bill Hackett, CPL, is the managing member of WCM Resources LLC and Portal 2 Energy LLC in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is involved with providing remote/on-site broad spectrum land management services involving fee, state, tribal and federal lands across the Delaware Basin and San Juan Basin in New Mexico. Additionally, he is a licensed commercial real estate broker associate in New Mexico and supports the development of utility scale and community solar garden renewable energy projects across the state.

A proud Sooner, Hackett earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum land management from the University of Oklahoma in 1979 and AAPL’s Certified Professional Landman designation in 2019. His diverse professional background includes working as an in-house landman for majors and independents across multiple basins, serving as an officer/director of national title insurance and real estate information companies, and, in his current business, supporting surface and subsurface energy development projects in New Mexico.

An active member of AAPL, the San Juan Basin Landman’s Association and the New Mexico Landmen’s Association, Hackett has served as an officer in the local associations as chairman of national committees and as chairman of the Santa Fe Land Institute and San Juan Basin Land Institute. Outside his industry activity, he supports local initiatives in Santa Fe, including Bienvenidos Outreach Food Shelter and Desert Rose Women’s Resource Center, as a volunteer and donor.

Hackett lives on his acreage south of Santa Fe, and his lovely and talented daughter, Molly, lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is proud of his heritage as a Son of the Republic of Texas and of his ancestors who made the Land Run of 1889 into what was then the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma.