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Que$tor™: Oil and gas cost estimation software

Discover accurate cost projections for all of your E&P projects

How do you estimate your project lifecycle costs?

Used by more than 500 energy estimators and managers in 50 countries, QUE$TOR provides concept screening, optimization and detailed oil and gas CAPEX/OPEX cost estimates. The QUE$TOR application suite includes QUE$TOR Offshore, QUE$TOR Onshore and QUE$TOR LNG Regasification modules. With our comprehensive cost database for numerous attributes, technologies and equipment, cost estimation engineers, financial analysts, executives and M&A analysts use the software to:
  • Accurately model oil/gas expenditures and production
  • Create development scheduling
  • Save hundreds of hours in research and analysis
  • Support feasibility and pre-FEED studies and concept selection
  • Support l cost management for multiple upstream, LNG and offshore projects
  • Access latest global cost information with bi-annual updates on more than 60,000 cost points

What’s Included

Offshore Coverage
  • Topsides from simple wellheads to complex drilling, production and quarters (DPQ) platforms
  • Lightweight structures and conventional 3, 4, 6 and 8 legged jackets, caissons and guyed towers
  • Conventional condeep and slimline monotower gravity-based structure designs
  • Infield flowlines, export pipelines, power cables, multiple riser types and tie-in options
  • CALM Buoys, SALMs and Floating Off-shore Loading Platforms with storage
  • Semis-submersibles, FPSOs, Barges, Spar Buoys, Cylindrical hulls and Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs)
  • Fixed or mobile drilling rigs, multiple well profile types and multilaterals
  • Subsea templates, clusters, satellites, manifolds, flowlines, umbilicals and risers
Onshore Coverage

Access comprehensive details on:

  • Wellsite groups including manifolding, equipment and flowlines
  • Various rig types, multiple well profile types and multilaterals
  • Manifold stations, gathering stations, and production facilities with full oil/gas processing
  • Inland and coastal terminals including storage and export systems
  • Infield flowlines and export pipelines with options for different terrains, crossings, booster stations
  • Construction camps, roads, airstrips and buildings
LNG Regas Onshore Coverage

Obtain quick and easy access to accurate worldwide data, helping to create cost estimates for new LNG regasification facilities based on cost factors such as:

  • Local gas specifications
  • NGL removal costs
  • Vaporization method
  • Required tank type
  • Civils construction for marine slips/other structures
  • Dredging material disposal

QUESTOR Project Modeling, Evaluation, and Decision Support

Contact us  for details on QUE$TOR training for E&P professionals engaged in screening E&P opportunities or generating project or portfolio level economics. Training topics include:
  • Introduction to QUE$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 Field Development Schematic (FDS)
  • Offshore components: Topsides, Jackets, Drilling, Pipelines, Floaters and Subsea components
  • Onshore components: Drilling, Wellpad groups, Production facilities, Terminals, Pipelines and Infrastructure
  • Capex Scheduling
  • Database editing
  • Report generating and printing
  • OPEX

Industry Success Stories

Maersk Oil Speeds Decisions, Extends Competitive Edge by Streamlining E&P Project Cost-Estimation

This Danish energy firm makes expert use of an IHS tool to meet tight deadlines for project bids -- eliminating the need for hundreds of hours of manual cost-estimation and saving 75% of the time required to ramp up an outside contractor -- while giving decision makers confidence in the estimates’ proven accuracy.

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RWE Dea AG Relies on Consistent, Global Platform for Concept Screening/Optimization and Cost Control

To gain an advantage in highly competitive energy markets, this industry leader leverages rapid, accurate analysis of global oil and gas projects -- from exploration to concept selection and field plan development -- that save time and deliver insights by comparing cost scenarios and production profiles.

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Oil & Gas Industry Leader Discovers Huge Cost-Savings Opportunities with Standards Conformity assessment

To lower costs enterprise-wide, a global energy company asked IHS to review 35 internal standards and list 143 comparable international standards. Research uncovered conformity opportunities including 25% savings on casing and tubing for $5 million annually and $180 million annually for conformance with ALL industry standards.

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Energy Leader Saves Millions of Dollars with Innovation to Simplify Oil Extraction from Unconventional Reservoirs

A Global 500 energy company set out to find opportunities for greater efficiency in extracting oil from unconventional reservoirs and developed a steam-assisted gravity drainage production solution that now saves millions of dollars annually by reducing the need for maintenance and risk of interruptions.

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