Oil & Gas

Our Expertise

Future-focused expertise you can count on

The oil and gas industry is constantly evolving with technology advancements, price fluctuations, regulatory disruptions, and complex tax, finance, and deal structuring. Our strategic and growth-oriented solutions are built on decades of industry experience with a large, dedicated team of oil and gas professionals. We’ll anticipate the business challenges your company might face because we’ve seen them before.

We serve organizations of all sizes and capacity, from rapidly growing startups with limited internal resources, to large organizations with billions of dollars in assets. Whether you’re engaged in exploration and production, processing and transportation, or field services and support, we’re here to help.

Our experts are deadline-driven and know timeliness is a crucial factor in deal making.Whether you need to meet the financial reporting and income tax needs of institutional investors and management team members in private equity applications; comply with rigorous quarterly and annual financial reporting and filing requirements as a public company; or navigate myriad types of acquisitions, divestitures, and financing transactions; we have the expertise to meet your needs.

Proactive advice to drive profitability

We tailor solutions depending on your unique needs and goals. Some of our key services include:

Financial advisory and assurance

How confident are you in your accounting and financial reporting practices? Complex financing arrangements, business combinations, and changing accounting standards require deep technical knowledge, and most internal accounting departments would benefit from working with an expert. We’ll act as an extension of your in-house accounting team while working with our experienced industry leads and tax and valuation specialists to determine the best approach for every situation.

Outsourced accounting

Does your business model not align with hiring in-house accounting staff? Our dedicated team of oil and gas specialists are a scalable and seamless extension of your team, providing the full suite of accounting services, including clerical duties and GAAP-based financial statements. We can supply the accounting tools, knowledge, and expertise to allow you to focus on moving your business forward, without sacrificing crucial internal controls and insights.

Risk advisory

Are you confident in your internal controls, fraud prevention measures, and data security? We’ll help you achieve key business objectives surrounding risk, compliance, performance and controls, accountability, and financial transformation. Our collaborative model will help you bridge gaps and effectively manage and strengthen risk across your organization.

Tax strategy and compliance

Are you optimizing your tax position? Our expertise in deal structuring, allocations and distributions, and compliance combined with our future-focused thinking allows us to resolve issues and anticipate opportunities before they arise. We’ll also help you optimize tax rates and deferral opportunities to ensure you don’t leave money on the table during a transaction.

Technology

Are you keeping pace with evolving technology? From ERP consulting, to managed IT, to business analytics, we can help you create a digital strategy, set priorities, identify areas of risk and opportunity, and successfully integrate new solutions and processes to increase efficiencies and boost your bottom line.

Transactions

Do you have a sale or purchase on the horizon? Are you considering private equity investment? Our focus is cutting-edge deal structures, often bringing new strategies to the market. We provide complete transaction assistance, including optimized tax rate structuring, waterfall applications, incentive realignment strategies, and document review.

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Client Experience

Powering oil and gas companies

With such a large team of highly specialized energy, upstream, midstream, and field service clients can expect proactive advice in all phases of business, from startup through liquidity events. We’re fortunate enough to work with some of the best private-equity-backed, public, and closely held energy companies as well as their owners. With extensive audit, tax, and transaction expertise, we’ll position you for success. We appreciate the deep relationships we have with our clients and are excited to grow these relationships.

“The team-oriented environment,” says Judy Cain, our energy practice leader, when asked why she was attracted to the oil and gas industry. “Everyone in the industry works together to deliver the energy the country depends on. The industry uniquely utilizes strategic partnerships among competitors to successfully develop and deliver the energy we all need. That level of partnering takes place with us, too. We’re a partner today, and we’ll be a partner tomorrow.”