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                             October 19, 2021

       David Lancaster
       Chief Financial Officer
       Matador Resources Company
       5400 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1500
       Dallas, Texas 75240

                                                        Re: Matador Resources
Company
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020
                                                            Filed February 26,
2021
                                                            File No. 001-35410

       Dear Mr. Lancaster:

              We have reviewed your October 8, 2021 response to our comment
letter and have the
       following comment. We may ask you to provide us with information so we
may better
       understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this comment within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

             After reviewing your response to this comment, we may have
additional
       comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are
to comments in our
       September 10, 2021 letter.

       Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020

       Unaudited Supplementary Information
       Supplemental Oil and Natural Gas Disclosures, page F-38

   1.                                                   We note your response
to comment 5; however, you do not include or indicate you
                                                        will include an
expanded explanation of the sources of your extensions and discoveries as
                                                        part of the discussion
of the changes in your total proved reserves, e.g. changes
                                                        attributable to proved
developed reserves versus proved undeveloped reserves. FASB
                                                        ASC 932-235-50-5
states, extensions and discoveries are additions to proved reserves that
                                                        result from either of
the following: 1) extension of the proved acreage of previously
                                                        discovered (old)
reservoirs through additional drilling in periods subsequent to discovery;
                                                        or 2) discovery of new
fields with proved reserves or of new reservoirs of proved reserves
                                                        in old fields. We
reissue the comment.
 David Lancaster
Matador Resources Company
October 19, 2021
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       You may contact Sandra Wall, Petroleum Engineer, at (202) 551-4727 if
you have
questions regarding the engineering comment. Please contact Ethan Horowitz,
Branch Chief, at
(202) 551-3311 with any other questions.



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