Mike Arredondo has over 43 years of experience in oil and gas accounting, regulatory compliance, and system implementation. As a Senior Advisor of Compliance Advisory for Savvy Oil and Gas Consulting, Mike supports clients in meeting complex regulatory and revenue compliance requirements.

Mike started with the U.S. Department of Energy in 1977 as a staff auditor. There, he performed federal audits of major oil companies to determine compliance with crude oil pricing regulations. He also provided guidance to third-party contract firms conducting major oil company audits for DOE.

He then joined ARCO Oil & Gas Company, where he spent over a decade as Supervisor of Data Management and Control. Mike led accounting and systems teams in the development and implementation of account and revenue systems, defining requirements, designing, testing, and deploying financial, revenue, and regulatory systems.

At ARCO Transition Company, Mike was a Senior Project Accountant. He focused on researching and resolving legacy liability issues resulting from asset divestitures and litigation. He also performed state and federal reporting and supported audit functions across various entities.

From 2001 to 2008, Mike worked as a Senior Financial Analyst with IBM/PwC Consulting, where he provided British Petroleum (BP) with in-depth royalty and regulatory analysis to minimize risk from legal and compliance obligations. He maintained data retrieval methods to analyze information from decades of historical accounting systems.

He later joined BP as a Senior Financial Analyst until 2020, where he was responsible for timely State Severance Tax and Federal Royalty & Production (ONRR) reporting. Mike also responded to federal and state audit requests, helping resolve complex compliance issues.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Texas at El Paso.