Oil & Gas Businesses for Sale in Ohio.
Fuel distribution businesses offer something genuinely rare: infrastructure-backed revenue with customers who tend to stay for decades, and the best ones have government and utility contracts that have renewed without interruption for years.
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Due diligence
What to Look For
Practical guidance from hundreds of real acquisition conversations.
Contract Quality and Customer Tenure
- Ask for a list of the top 20 customers with annual purchase volume, agreement type, remaining contract term, and how long they've been buying.
- Multi-year government and utility contracts that have renewed consistently are the backbone of a strong fuel distribution acquisition.
- Understand what percentage of revenue is under written contract versus on-demand or spot basis.
- Government and utility contracts that have renewed for five or more consecutive years are the clearest signal of durable revenue in this category.
Storage Infrastructure and Environmental Records
- Get a complete picture of what storage facilities and tank assets are included in the deal.
- Ask for tank inspection records, environmental assessments, and site cleanup history for every location before you go deep into diligence.
- Clean environmental records turn a potential concern into a non-issue. Missing or unclear records are the most common reason fuel distribution deals stall or reprice.
Customer Diversification Across Industries
- Ask how revenue breaks down across customer types: agricultural, municipal, oilfield, infrastructure, and commercial.
- A distribution business with revenue spread across multiple industries is insulated from a downturn in any single sector.
- Understanding the mix tells you a lot about how the business has performed through past commodity cycles.
Operations Without the Owner
- Find out who handles dispatch, customer service, and daily logistics, and how long those people have been with the business.
- Ask about the management structure: who makes daily decisions, how fleet maintenance is scheduled, and whether there are site managers at satellite locations.
- A business where the team runs operations without daily owner direction is what you want to step into.
Valuation
What Should You Expect to Pay?
3x-5x
SDE
Spot-based revenue, owner-dependent operations
5x-8x
EBITDA
Government and utility contracts, owned storage, management team
The spread reflects how much revenue is locked in under multi-year contracts versus exposed to spot pricing, and whether the business includes owned storage infrastructure that would cost years and significant capital to replicate.
What drives a premium
Multi-year government and utility contracts representing 70%+ of revenue with strong renewal history
Revenue spread across agricultural, municipal, oilfield, and infrastructure customers
Owned or long-leased bulk storage and tank infrastructure with clean environmental records
Annual compliance and maintenance work that generates predictable recurring income
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