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  • Overview

    Comprehensive Strategies to Maximize Royalty Savings 

    The mandatory reporting of oil and gas royalties comes with high compliance risks and significant regulatory oversight. Companies must navigate complex calculations, frequent adjustments, and regular audits. Ryan brings a proven track record of success in minimizing liability and boosting savings.

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    End-to-End Royalty Services to Optimize Cash Flow

    Ryan offers end-to-end royalty services, from filing adjustments to audit support, contract review, and more.

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Ryan’s Track Record of Success

Ryan offers the specialized expertise needed to transform complex royalty challenges into measurable financial advantages.

Audit and Adjustment Support

Our Approach
Proactively defend your organization against royalty audits with Ryan’s expertise. The Firm’s royalty professionals meticulously manage audit notices and assess all available refund opportunities to achieve favorable outcomes.

  • Oil and Gas

    Ryan’s experts help identify eligible benefits to ensure your organization pays exactly what it owes. Royalty experts work with the Office of Natural Resources Revenue to help oil and gas leaders navigate complex calculations, delivering rigorous oversight and proactively defending your business during audits.

Credit Identification and Recovery

Our Approach
Royalty professionals will perform a comprehensive review of your past filings to identify potential royalty overpayments and secure refunds or credits wherever possible.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Because of its complexity, federal royalties carry significant audit risk for oil and gas companies nationwide. Federal royalty compliance requires complex calculations and strict reporting, as well as adherence to ever-changing rules and legislation. Furthermore, itʼs enforced using rigorous regulatory oversight from the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR).When it comes to misreporting, the risk of penalties is significant. Penalties can add up quickly, costing anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per day. These factors make accuracy even more imperative.
  • Federal royalties and severance tax in the oil and gas industry are payments owed to the federal government for production on federal lands and offshore. They’re calculated as a percentage of a companyʼs total revenue from oil and gas extracted on federal lands and waters. These funds are split between the federal government and the states in which resources are extracted, serving as a significant source of revenue for both state and federal governments.
  • Royalty and severance experts take a multipronged approach to reducing your royalty liability:
    • Comprehensive review: Our professionals conduct a comprehensive review of past filings to identify any potential overpayments. When an overpayment is identified, Ryan will work tirelessly on your behalf to secure any available credits and refunds.
    • Audit and adjustment support: We’ll position your organization against royalty audits, helping achieve favorable outcomes with detailed adjustment notice oversight and verification of all recovery avenues.
    • Credit identification and recovery: Royalty tax professionals will perform a comprehensive review of your past filings to identify all royalty overpayments and secure refunds or credits wherever possible.
    • Contract and lease review: We perform a meticulous evaluation of royalty clauses, reimbursement contracts, and allowable cost deductions to directly minimize your financial liability and exposure.
  • Yes. Ryan provides comprehensive audit assistance. If you receive a royalty audit, the Ryan team will review your audit notices, prepare a thorough defense, and collaborate with government authorities to achieve a favorable resolution.
  • Ryan’s royalty services stand out, particularly in the oil and gas industry, thanks to our specialized approach, comprehensive offerings, decades of experience, and technology-driven process. Our approach is designed to maximize client savings by going beyond competitive service offerings, expanding simple record reviews to deliver detailed, data-driven analyses that ensure every possible recovery option is explored. Leveraging experience in government auditing, big oil management, and field operations, our consultants possess proprietary insights in complex tax and royalty applications. This specialized knowledge is supported by a deep-dive methodology that goes beyond surface-level analysis, involving extensive offsite research to maximize savings from every angle.

Contract and Lease Review

Comprehensive evaluations to safeguard revenue streams
Ryan delivers a comprehensive evaluation of royalty clauses, reimbursement contracts, and cost deductions to help minimize your liability.

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