If thinking of leaving the shiny offices of the majors and the structured workplace of the independents to strike out on your own, there's help for you out there. "There are a number of guys who have done this before and, if you ever think about making a cold start, there's a whole fraternity of people that will help you with the simple stuff you never even had to think about when you were working for a larger company," Tommy Nusz, president of recently formed, Houston-based Oasis Petroleum LLC told IPAA and Tipro members at a recent program in Houston. Nusz was joined by Doug Brooks, president of another recently formed start-up, Houston-based Compass Resources Corp. Nusz was with Burlington Resources Inc.; Brooks was with Marathon Oil Co. "The first thing I would tell anyone who is about to form their own company is to hire an assistant," Brooks said. "We are ineffective at what we do until we have an assistant. Then, we can focus." If he could do it all over again, Brooks would have spent a little more time researching how to get the infrastructure of his business put into place. Nusz said the best piece of advice he would give anyone starting their own company was to hire Administaff to take all of the human-resources work off their hands. For more on this, see the August issue of Oil and Gas Investor. For a subscription, call 713-260-6441.

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