**Exhibit 31**

**CERTIFICATION**

I,Mike Ulrich, as Vice President of The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., theTrustee, certify that:

1.                 Ihave reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Santa Fe EnergyTrust, for which The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. serves asTrustee;

2.                 Basedon my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of amaterial fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statementsmade, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.                 Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial informationincluded in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, distributable income and changes in trust corpus of the registrantas of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.                 Iam responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e))and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and15d-15(f)), or for causing such procedures to be established andmaintained, for the registrant and I have:

(a)          designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the registrant, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b)         designedsuch internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal controlover financial reporting to be designed under my supervision, to providereasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and thepreparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance withgenerally accepted accounting practices;

(c)          evaluatedthe effectiveness of the Trustee’s disclosure controls and procedures and presentedin this report my conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and

(d)         disclosedin this report any change in the Trust’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (theregistrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Trustee’sinternal control over financial reporting; and

5.                 Ihave disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors:

(a)          allsignificant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofthe Trustee’s internal control over financial reporting which are reasonablylikely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process,summarize and report financial information; and

(b)         anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves any management or other employeeswho have a significant role in the Trustee’s internal control over financialreporting; and

In giving the foregoingcertifications, I have relied to the extent I consider reasonable oninformation provided to me by Devon Energy Production Company, L.P.
| Date: November 7, 2006 |             |
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|                        | /s/ MIKE  ULRICH |
|                        | Mike  Ulrich     |
|                        | Vice  President  |

 

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