Tailored Tax Strategies for the Oil and Gas Industry

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Overview
Maximizing Tax Savings
Ryan helps oil and gas businesses navigate complex tax challenges across exploration, production, refining, and distribution. We understand the unique realities of the energy sector, from evolving tax frameworks and fluctuating valuations to globalization pressures and tax credits, and we help businesses address these realities at the upstream, midstream, and downstream levels.
Industry Challenges
Addressing the Biggest Tax Challenges in Oil and Gas
Oil and gas companies operate in complex regulatory and multijurisdictional environments. Ryan helps identify opportunities within that complexity to reduce costs, improve cash flow, and maximize tax savings.
Overpayments
Our industry experts ensure fair tax assessments to prevent overvaluation across assets.

Data Management
We centralize tax data from multiple sources in order to gain full visibility while reviewing and advising on clients tax obligations.

Overburdened Resources
Ryan’s automation and expert guidance reduce audit workloads, freeing your team to focus on priorities.

Compliance
Our team navigates shifting tax regulations, maintaining compliance while minimizing liability.
Capabilities
The Industry’s Most Experienced Oil and Gas Tax Team
From identifying initial recovery opportunities through filing returns, responding to audits, and resolving disputes, Ryan handles all aspects of your tax function for oil and gas operations.
Our Solutions
Oil and Gas Industry Expertise Powered by Intelligent Technology
End-to-End Services:
Severance Tax
Ryan recovers severance tax overpayments and secures future deductions through our proprietary process, production data analysis, well-by-well reviews, and audit support.
Federal Royalty
We apply propriety methodologies to identify and reclaim federal royalty overpayments on production from federal lands while capturing ongoing deductions.
Sales and Use Tax
Ryan optimizes compliance, secures refunds, and manages audits through data-driven services that identify exemptions.
Grants, Credits, and Incentives
Where applicable, our team leverages state and federal tax incentives for oil and gas that reduce costs and support strategic initiatives.
Expert-Built Software:
Transfer Pricing Lifecycle Management™
Coordinate transfer pricing policy, documentation, and defense in one unified workflow.
OPT®
Manage personal property tax classifications, depreciation, and compliance in one dashboard.
TAILORED SOLUTIONS
Explore Tax Strategies and Services Built Around the Unique Needs of Your Industry
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Client Success
Measurable Impact for Leading Oil and Gas Companies
Ryan’s oil and gas tax expertise delivers quantifiable results for independent producers and integrated oil and gas companies across North America and internationally.
“Ryan handling of our sales and use tax audit saved us a significant amount of money. Their personable, competent, and tenacious team managed the process with minimal disruption to our team, so we could remain focused on our core business. We are incredibly pleased with the level of service and value Ryan provides; their team continues to provide strong support and expertise to our sales tax management processes.”
Chief Financial Officer, KLX Energy Services
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Insights
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Ryan conducts comprehensive reviews such as:
Severance tax and royalty calculations
Property tax assessments on production facilities and equipment
Sales tax on drilling supplies and services
We analyze production data well by well, challenge excessive valuations on mineral interests and surface facilities, and identify exemptions frequently missed on equipment purchases and oilfield services. Our oil and gas tax accounting specialists understand the industry through years of specialized experience, enabling us to identify refund opportunities across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations that other firms overlook.
Oil and gas taxation involves multiple specialized tax types, including severance taxes that vary by state and production type, federal royalties on production from federal lands, property taxes on mineral interests and equipment, and sales taxes on activities including, but not limited to, drilling and completion activities.Valuations fluctuate with volatile commodity markets, creating assessment challenges. Multistate operations trigger nexus in numerous jurisdictions with different apportionment rules. Federal regulations, state-specific severance tax structures, and evolving credits and incentives create a complex regulatory environment requiring specialized expertise to navigate.
Yes. Ryan challenges property tax assessments on refineries, production facilities, well sites, gathering systems, processing plants, and mineral interests through detailed analysis of actual market values, functional obsolescence, and income approaches specific to energy assets. We identify misclassifications between real and personal property, challenge excessive land valuations, and ensure proper depreciation recognition for aging facilities. For producing properties, we analyze reserve values, production decline rates, and commodity price assumptions to ensure assessments reflect actual economic conditions rather than inflated appraisals.
Ryan uses practitioner-built platforms that centralize tax data across all production sites, refineries, and distribution facilities into unified dashboards. Where applicable, our technology tracks property tax assessments, monitors severance tax filings across multiple states, automates sales tax compliance on equipment and services purchases, and maintains production data for accurate royalty calculations. Automated workflows flag discrepancies, track deadlines, and ensure timely filings while reducing manual errors.
Common refunds include severance tax and royalty overpayments from underclaimed allowances or missed incentive opportunities, property tax refunds from excessive assessments on facilities and equipment, and sales tax refunds on drilling and completion equipment qualifying for manufacturing exemptions.Frequently captured recovery opportunities include sales and use tax (SUT) exemptions for intangible drilling costs, property tax depletion allowances, and equipment depreciation. Our approach also identifies severance tax savings through lease operating expense (LOE) deductions and incentives for high-cost gas, marginal/stripper wells, and new discoveries.

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Tailored Tax Strategies for the Oil and Gas Industry

Maximizing Tax Savings

Addressing the Biggest Tax Challenges in Oil and Gas

Overpayments

Data Management

Overburdened Resources

Compliance

The Industry’s Most Experienced Oil and Gas Tax Team

Turnkey Tax Management

Strategic Tax Planning

Tax Recovery and Refund Services

Legal Support

Security and Technology

Oil and Gas Industry Expertise Powered by Intelligent Technology

Transfer Pricing Lifecycle Management™

OPT®

Explore Tax Strategies and Services Built Around the Unique Needs of Your Industry

Measurable Impact for Leading Oil and Gas Companies

Chief Financial Officer, KLX Energy Services

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Ryan uncover savings opportunities in oil and gas taxation?

What makes oil and gas taxation uniquely complex?

Can Ryan assist with property tax assessments for refineries and production facilities?

How does Ryan use technology to improve compliance and reporting accuracy?

What types of refunds or deductions are most common in the oil and gas sector?

Discover How We Help You Pay Only What You Owe—Nothing More

Overpayments

Data Management

Overburdened Resources

Compliance

Turnkey Tax Management

Strategic Tax Planning

Tax Recovery and Refund Services

Legal Support

Security and Technology

Transfer Pricing Lifecycle Management™

OPT®

Explore Tax Strategies and Services Built Around the Unique Needs of Your Industry

Chief Financial Officer, KLX Energy Services

How does Ryan uncover savings opportunities in oil and gas taxation?

What makes oil and gas taxation uniquely complex?

Can Ryan assist with property tax assessments for refineries and production facilities?

How does Ryan use technology to improve compliance and reporting accuracy?

What types of refunds or deductions are most common in the oil and gas sector?

Discover How We Help You Pay Only What You Owe—Nothing More