Who is ARI and what do we do?
Associated Resources, Inc. is a privately held Oil and Gas Outsourcing firm headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. CPL Jeff Myers founded ARI in 1993 with the idea of helping energy-related businesses reduce the increasing burden of administrative and accounting costs brought about through acquisitions and divestitures or legal cases. As a non-interest holding company, ARI is in a unique position to assist our clients in streamlining their day-to-day and large-scale land and accounting operations. ARI offers a variety of land, accounting, field, and legal-related services on an ‘as-needed’ short or long-term basis.

ARI primarily consists of three main departments that all work in tandem to best address our clients’ individual needs either from our own offices or our clients’ offices:

The Land Department is comprised of both senior and junior staff members. ARI’s senior staff can boast to having over 200 combined years of work experience with lease records, division orders, due diligence and title analysis, in addition to numerous professional memberships in a variety of national and state-level associations. The average career length for our senior staff is 23 years, with most having worked for other oil and gas companies before coming on board at ARI. Supporting our senior-level staff are ARI’s junior-level staff members, who have an average working experience of 1.5 years either at ARI or from undergraduate industry energy internships. Half of our junior staff members hold at least a Bachelor’s degree in addition to energy industry-related professional memberships.

Outside of our Tulsa offices, ARI’s Land Department also includes a dedicated set of senior and junior-level field landmen who research county records, run chains of title, negotiate surface damages, and purchase leases for clients based throughout the United States. Want to Know More?

The Accounting Department offers various levels of service for all types of oil and gas businesses. Comprised of a staff with an average of 15 years experience in petroleum accounting, ARI is well-qualified to handle your company’s joint interest billing, revenue distribution, gas balancing, regulatory and tax reporting, as well as payout tracking needs. In addition to two CPAs on staff, many of our other staff members are active in the Petroleum Accountants Society of Oklahoma and its national parent organization, Council of Petroleum Accountants Society. Whether your company requires help with accounts payable and receivable or in compiling detailed financial statements for clients, ARI’s accounting department has the staff and experience to handle all of the business functions required by small and large oil companies alike. Want to Know More?

The Information Technology Department is equipped to handle any number of our clients’ IT demands. The department head has over 10 years of experience with server applications, database maintenance and upgrades, and network/remote-access usage at both the corporate and small business levels. In addition, numerous software and industry certifications attest to the department’s training in handling the security and monitoring of access to the networks, ensuring that updates and scheduled upgrades are deployed on time and with minimal downtime, and providing front-end or remote user support and assistance. Want to Know More?

How can my business benefit from outsourcing its work to ARI?
As an outsourcing firm, ARI is well aware of our clients’ concerns about sending their work out-of-house. The values to outsourcing are numerous and include amongst other things:

• Reduced Costs for both start-ups and larger established companies
• ARI is able to offer lower costs to its clients as a result of the fractional or shared costs on software/hardware support and upgrades as well as on labor and training costs
• ARI gives its clients the flexibility of hiring qualified staff members on an hourly or ad-hoc basis
• On average outsourcing saves our clients 25%-35% of the costs of doing a project in-house
• Ease of Use for clients
• Outsourcing enables our clients to enjoy fewer administrative concerns due to ARI’s handling of the back-office areas of an oil and gas company, with the result that our clients are freed up to handle other areas of their business such as exploration and production
• ARI works within the existing software and management structure of its clients to ensure things are done at the same level of quality and presentation as if they were done in-house
• Clients have the ability to choose from a variety of detailed billing reports that can help track costs on an hourly or monthly basis and by either acquisition, well, or prospect
• Guaranteed Confidentiality
• ARI grants client access rights only to those who are specifically working on a particular client’s project
• Our offices are able to offer comprehensive security and encryption software packages for our clients’ projects that rival any major company