QUE$TOR Oil and Gas Cost Analysis

Leading-Edge Cost-Estimation Analysis 

The QUE$TOR cost estimating product consists of QUE$TOR Offshore, QUE$TOR Onshore and QUE$TOR LNG Regasification. Taken together, these tools produce complete CAPEX and OPEX cost estimates.

Industry estimators and managers rely on these sophisticated, technical-analysis modules for rapid and detailed capital cost, development scheduling and operating cost estimates relating to new oil and gas projects worldwide.

Sophisticated, technical capabilities 

QUE$TOR provides a consistent, global platform for concept screening and optimization and cost-control, whether you're interested in offshore, onshore or regasification cost estimation.

These easy-to-use tools save you hundreds of hours of in-house research and analysis time. QUE$TOR's up-to-date cost and technical databases provide:

• Rapid and accurate analysis of global oil and gas projects from exploration to concept selection and field plan development
• Project cost modeling, evaluation and decision support for global application in offshore and onshore oil and gas field and LNG regasification estimations 
• Detailed cost estimations to support feasibility studies and concept selection for new oil and gas field developments

QUE$TOR cost and technical databases are built on Microsoft Access and include data on all oil and gas producing regions of the world. Databases are updated every six months and information is gathered from actual projects, fabricators, vendors, and service companies.

QUE$TOR includes:

• QUE$TOR Offshore: offshore oil and gas project cost analysis 
• QUE$TOR Onshore: onshore oil and gas project cost analysis 
• QUE$TOR LNG: cost estimation for LNG regasification projects

Rapid, Accurate Data

QUE$TOR uses primary input data including recoverable reserves, gas and liquid ratios, reservoir depth, and water depth, and leverages IHS basin data to generate a production profile that supports the development of concept and design flowrates. The tool enables you to size facilities, pipelines and substructures, and quickly calculate capital costs, drilling costs, operating costs and abandonment and decommissioning costs, then schedule these to provide project cash flows.

Detailed Reports 

Detailed QUE$TOR reports can be printed or exported to spreadsheets for use in other cost-control analysis formats. Project cashflows can be imported into AS$ET™ for post-tax economic analysis.

QUE$TOR Offshore 

The QUE$TOR Offshore tool helps you overcome the challenges of project cost estimation for offshore structures. It provides data for the following components:

• Topsides: from simple wellheads to complex drilling, production, and quarters (DPQ) platforms. 
• Jackets: lightweight structures and conventional 4, 6 and 8 legged jackets, caissons and guyed towers. 
• Gravity Based Structures: options for conventional condeep and slimline monotower designs. 
• Pipelines: infield flowlines, export pipelines, multiple riser types and tie-in options. 
• Offshore Loading Buoys: CALM Buoys, SALMs and Floating Loading Platforms with an option for storage. 
• Floaters: options include Semis, FPSOs, Spar Buoys and Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs) mini Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs). 
• Drilling: options include fixed or mobile drilling rigs, multiple well profile types and multilaterals 
• Subsea: includes for templates, clusters, manifolds, flowlines and risers. 

QUE$TOR Onshore 

The QUE$TOR Onshore tool helps reduce the time for onshore cost estimation by thousands of hours. It analyses the following components of onshore oilfield estimation:

• Wellsites: manifolding, equipment and flowlines. 
• Drilling: various types of rig, multiple well profile types and multilaterals. 
• Facilities: options for manifold stations, gathering stations and production facilities with full oil and gas processing. 
• Terminals: options for inland and coastal terminals including storage and export systems. 
• Pipelines: infield flowlines and export pipelines with options for different terrains, crossings and booster stations. 
• Infrastructure: construction camps, roads, airstrips, buildings etc.
  

The QUE$TOR LNG Regasification

QUE$TOR LNG Regasification software gives you quick and easy access to accurate, detailed LNG regasification information, worldwide. For a $2 billion LNG facility this information can impact project cost estimates by as much as 10-20%.

Cost estimators, conceptual engineers and managers use the QUE$TOR LNG software to specify and develop cost estimates for new LNG facilities and compare the impact of different design options during concept selection.

This tool will help you assess the following LNG cost-specific factors:

• Local gas specifications 
• Costs associated with NGL removal 
• Method of vaporization 
• Required type of tanks 
• Civils construction for marine slips and other structures 
• Dredging material disposal

QUE$TOR Offshore Project Modeling, Evaluation, & Decision Support

QUE$TOR is a project modeling, evaluation and decision support system for global application in the oil and gas industry. It is the industry standard for cost evaluation and concept optimization of new oil and gas field developments.

Course topics include

• Introduction to QUE$TOR Offshore 
• Cost estimate methodology overview 
• Review of cost databases and how to modify the data to create user defined databases
• Review of primary input data 
• Use of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) 
• Topsides, Jackets, Drilling, Pipelines, Floaters and Subsea components 
• Opex 
• Capex Scheduling 
• Batch processing 

Who should attend

E&P professionals engaged in screening E&P opportunities or generating project or portfolio level economics.

Training Schedule

Please contact us for details.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellation without charge is allowed if notification is received in our office at least five business days before the course start date. Registrants will be responsible for half the course fee for cancellations received less than five business days before the course. Confirmed registrants who do not attend the course are responsible for the full course fee. Substitutions may be made at any time. If we must cancel a course for any reason, liability is limited to the registration fee only.

View QUE$TOR Capabilities Overview Video (15 minutes)