EXHIBIT 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Bank of America, N.A., as Trustee
for the Hugoton Royalty Trust:
We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement No. 333-81849 on Form S-8 of XTO Energy Inc. of our reports dated February 28, 2007, with respect to the statements of assets, liabilities, and trust corpus of the Hugoton Royalty Trust as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related statements of distributable income and changes in trust corpus for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, the trustee’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, which reports appear in the December 31, 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Hugoton Royalty Trust.
KPMG LLP
Dallas, Texas
March 1, 2007