QUE$TOR manual

Table of Contents

Table of Contents 1

About the Quick Start Guide 65

Getting Started 67

From the taskbar Start button 67

From your PC desktop 67

Creating a New Project 68

Selecting the Project Properties 69

Entering Your Field Level Data 72

Creating a Production Profile 74

Setting the Design Flowrates 76

Setting the Number of Wells 77

Setting the Wellhead Conditions 78

Selecting a Concept - Offshore 79

Selecting a Concept - Onshore 80

Using the Field Development Schematic 82

Adjusting a Component 83

Inputs 83

Sub-components 84

Cost sheet 85

Calculating the Operating Costs 86

Scheduling the Capital Costs 87

Generating the Investment and Production Profile 88

Saving Your Project 89

Opening a Saved Project 89

About QUE$TOR 90

Capabilities 90

Cost Databases 90

Estimate Basis 92

Recommended System Specifications 93

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Minimum system specifications: 93

Before installing QUE$TOR 93

Installation requirements 93

Exporting to Microsoft Excel from QUE$TOR 94

Contacting Customer Support 95

Copyright 97

QUE$TOR Structure 98

Once on the FDS 99

About Project Properties 100

Units of Measure 101

Main Product 101

Location 101

Creating Procurement Strategies 103

About Field Level Data 105

Field Characteristics 106

Fluid / Profile Characteristics 108

Liquid data 108

Gas data @ STP 108

Well data 109

Miscellaneous 110

Miscellaneous Items 110

Temperature 110

BOEEquivalents 111

About Production Profiles 112

Production Profile Edit 113

Production Profile 114

Design Flowrates 116

Peak daily average production rates 116

Design rates 116

Water injection 117

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Gas injection 117

Number of Wells 118

About the Concept Selector 119

Concept Selection for New Projects 120

Concept Selection for Existing Projects 121

Field Development Schematic 123

Topsides docking to substructures 124

Pipelines, Power cables & linking components 124

About Component Level Data 127

Cost Summary Tree 127

Component Toolbar 128

Component Duplication 130

Well and Flow Distribution 133

Offshore Cost Centres 136

Equipment Costs 136

Materials Costs 137

Fabrication Costs 137

Installation Costs 138

Hook-up and Commissioning (HUC) Costs 138

Design and Project Management Costs 138

Insurance and Certification costs 139

Contingency 139

About Offshore Components 140


Input Panel 141

Cost Estimate Sheets 141

About Topsides 142

User Interface 143

Inputs 143

Facilities 144

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Cost Estimate 145

Primary Inputs 146

Functions 146

Capacities 147

Configuration 149

Substructure 149

Include electrical buildings 150

Deck 150

Installation and HUC 151

Product Export 152

Gas Disposal / Export 153

Design Conditions 154

Reservoir Pressure 154

Dry tree wellhead temperature 154

Arrival temperature 154

Acid Gas / High T / High P 155

Maximum monthly average air temperature 155

Facilities 156

Manifolding 158

Multiphase metering 158

Operating pressures 159

Design pressures 159

Oil Processing 161

Oil Export 166

Pipeline Sizing 166

Details 167

Driver 167

Derating Factor 167

Capacity 168

Driver Model 168

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Pump Weight 168

Pump Driver Weight 168

Metering Capacity 168

Metering Weight 168

Gas Processing 169

Cooling 170

Acid Gas Removal 170

Membrane Unit 170

Conventional Acid Gas Removal 172

Dehydration 173

Dewpoint Control 175

Stabiliser 176

Metering 176

Gas Compression 177

Compressor Classification and Selection 177

Flash gas 177

Export gas 178

Gas lift 178

Gas injection 178

Compressor Sizing 178

Compressor type 178

Number of stages 179

Power 179

Derated power 179

Number of compressors 179

Design duty/compressor 179

Driver type 179

Driver model 180

Driver rating 180

Pipeline Sizing 180

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Coolers 181

Weights 181

Water Injection 182

Details 183

Driver 183

Configuration 184

Weight 184

Custom Equipment 185

General 187

Bulk materials, utilities and operating weight 187

Utilities 187

Power 187

Civils 187

Cost sheet 187

Example 188

Cost sheet 189

Custom equipment library 190

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Control and Communications 191

Monitoring and Control 191

Telemetry System 192

On-Platform Communications 192

Off-Platform Communications 192

Drilling Facilities 193

Rig details 193

Number of rigs 194

Maximum measured depth 194

Power 194

Weights 194

Quarters 196

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Existing facilities 196

Number of beds 197

Cabin size 197

Helideck 197

Platforms with No Quarters 197

Manning 198

Process Utilities 199

Process Support Utilities 200

General Utilities 200

Ancillaries 201

Chemical Injection 202

Flare 207

Gas Design Capacity 207

Flare Type 207

Flare Tower Type 208

Power 209

Power Requirement 209

Emergency Power 210

Generation and distribution 211

Distribution only 211

Derating 211

Capacity 211

Driver 211

Weights 212

Electrical Buildings 213

Equipment List 214

Equipment Costs 216

Freight 216

Bulk Materials Costs 217

Steel 217

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Piping 217

Electrical bulks 218

Instrument bulks 218

Others 218

Freight 219


Loadout and Seafasten 220


Tugs Transport Spread 221

Barge Transport Spread 221

Installation Spread 221

Hook-up and Commissioning Costs 223

Atshore HUC 223

Inshore HUC 223

Offshore HUC 223

HUC Accommodation (flotel) 224

General Costs 225

Design 225

Project Management 225

Certification 226

Insurance 226

Contingency 226

Hints on Developing Topsides Projects 227

Sour Gas Service 227

Gas lift projects 228

About Jackets 229

Calibration of jacket weights 229

Inputs 231

Jacket Type 231

Water Depth 231

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Topsides Operating Weight 232

Installation Method 232

Jacket attachments 233

Soil conditions 233

Environmental conditions 233

Regional jacket steel factor 234

Materials Costs 235

Jacket Steel 235

Piles 235

Conductors 235

Anodes 235

Installation aids 235

Freight 236







General Costs 239

Design 239


Certification 240

Insurance 240

Contingency 240

Lightweight Structures 241

Guyed Caisson 241

Braced Monotower 242

Lightweight Jacket 242

About Gravity Based Structures 243

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Inputs 244

GBS Type 244

Water Depth 244


Storage Capacity 244

Inshore Deck Mating 244

Conductors 245

Materials Costs 246

Concrete 246

Steel 246

Solid Ballast 246

Mechanical Outfitting 247

Conductors 247

Freight 247


GBS 248

Mechanical Outfitting 248


Deck Mating 249

Deck / Shaft HUC 249

Tow Out 249

Installation 249

General Costs 250

Design 250


Certification 251

Insurance 251

Contingency 251

About Offshore Pipelines 252

Pipeline Links 253

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Length 253

Water depth 254

Flow type 254

To / From 254

Pipeline Sizing 256

General 256

Material 257

Liquid / Oil / Methanol Flowrate 258

Water Flowrate 258

Gas Flowrate 258

Pressure In 258

Pressure Out 258

Fluid Temperature 258

Buckle Arrestors 258

Nominal Diameter 259

Corrosion Allowance 259

Wall Thickness 259

Pipeline Installation 260

Lay Vessel 260

Pipeline Crossings 261

Buried Length 261

Coating 261

Weight Coat 261

Cathodic Protection 262

Insulation Material 262

Insulation U-value 262

Export End 263

Termination details 263

Pipeline end terminations (PLETs) 264

Receiving End 265

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Pipeline end terminations (PLETs) 266

About Pipeline Terminations 267

Riser - Steel Fixed 268

Riser Linepipe 268

Coating 268

Insulation 268

Anodes 268

Clamps 269

Spools, Flanges & Fittings 269

Subsea Emergency Shutdown Valve Systems 269

Riser - Steel Retrofit 270

Riser Linepipe 270

Coating 270

Insulation 270

Anodes 270

Clamps 270



Riser - Steel Catenary 272

Riser Linepipe 272

Coating 272

Insulation 272

Anodes 272

Strakes 273

Buoyancy 273

Flex Joint 273



Riser - Flexible Lazy S 274

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Riser Linepipe 274

Riser Arch Buoy System 274



Riser - J-Tube 275

Riser Linepipe 275

Coating 275

Insulation 275

Anodes 275

Clamps 276



Riser - Top Tension 277

Riser Linepipe 277

Coating 277

Insulation 277

Anodes 277

Tensioning Equipment 278

Buoyancy Cans 278

Lower Assembly 278

Foundation 278



Riser - Single Leg Hybrid 279

Flexible Linepipe 279

Rigid Linepipe 279

Coating 279

Insulation 280

Anodes 280

Upper Assembly 280

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Buoyancy Cans 280

Lower Assembly 280

Foundation 280



Pipeline Tie-In 282

Pipeline Tie-In 282



Shore Approach 284

Shore Approach Materials 284


Pipeline End Terminations (PLETs) 285

Structure 285

Valve 285

Protection Structure 285

Mudmat 285

Jumper 286

Jumper Connectors 286

Installation Durations 287

Pipelay Spreads 287

Diving Support Vessel 287

Trench Vessel 288

Survey Vessel 288

Dredge Vessel 288

Rock Install Vessel 288

Materials Costs 289

Linepipe 289

Coating 289

Weight Coating 289

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Insulation 290

Onshore Welding and Reeling 290

Terminations 290

PLETs 290

Freight 290


Pipelay Spreads 291

Diving Support Vessel 291

Testing & Commissioning Equipment 291

Trench Vessel 291

Survey Vessel 292

Dredge Vessel 292


Shore Approach 292

General Costs 293

Design 293


Certification 294

Insurance 294

Contingency 294

About Offshore Power Cables 295

Power Cable Links 296

Water depth 296

To / From 297

Cable Sizing 298

General 298

Power 298

Voltage 298

Conductor Size 298

Burial 298

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Rock Installation 299


Export End 300

Receiving End 300

Installation Durations 301

Cable laying 301

Survey Vessel 301


Materials Costs 302

Cable 302

Gravel 302

Export End Riser 302

Export End Connection System 302

Receiving End Riser 302

Receiving End Connection System 303

Landfall System 303

Freight 303


Cable Lay Spread 304


Survey Vessel 304

Testing & Commissioning Equipment 304

Shore Approach 304

General Costs 305

Design 305


Certification 306

Insurance 306

Contingency 306

About Semi-submersibles 307

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Primary Inputs 308

Semi-submersible Type 308

Semi-submersible Generation 309


Water Depth 309

Number of Risers 309

Conversion Upgrades 309

Length of Sea Trials 310

Additional Load 310

Buoyancy Aid 310

Drilling Facilities 310

Marine transport 311

Mooring System 312

Mooring Type 312

Anchor Type 313

Soil Condition 313

Environmental Conditions 314

Mooring Chain Size 314

Number of Mooring Lines 315

Chain Length 315

Rope Length 315

Wire Length 315

Equipment Costs 316

Vessel Purchase 316

Anchors 316

Materials Costs 317

General Upgrade 317

Marine Upgrade 317

Drilling Upgrade 317

Mooring Upgrade 317

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Mooring Chain 317

Mooring Wire 318

Mooring Rope 318

Mooring Terminations 318

Buoyancy Aid 318

Freight 319


Strip Out 320

General Upgrade 320

Marine Upgrade 320

Drilling Upgrade 320

Mooring Upgrade 320

Buoyancy Aid 320


Transport from fabrication yard 321

Mob / Demob and Tow out 321

Installation 321


Sea Trials and Marine Commissioning 322

General Costs 323

Design 323


Certification 324

Insurance 324

Contingency 324

About Spar Buoys 325

Primary Inputs 326

Spar Type 326

Riser Wall Type 327

Number of Platform Wells 327

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Water Depth 327

Distance to Installation Site 327



Mooring System 329

Mooring Type 329

Anchor Type 330

Soil Condition 330



Number of Lines 332

Chain Length 332

Rope Length 332

Wire Length 332

Materials Costs 333

Hull Structure 333

Hull Outfitting and Marine Systems 334

Mooring Chains 334

Mooring Wire / Rope 334


Anchors 334

Riser Pipe (conductors) 334

Riser Connectors and Buoyancy Cans 334

Riser Components 335


Hull Structure 336


Riser Pipe (conductors) 336

Hull Joining 336


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Transport from Fabrication Yard 337

Transport to Installation Site 337

Hull Installation Duration 337

Anchor and Mooring Installation 337

General Costs 339

Design 339


Certification 340

Insurance 340

Contingency 340

About Tankers 341

Primary Inputs 342

Tanker Type 342

Tanker Size 343

Water Depth 343

Production Rate 343

Water Injection Rate 343

Gas Export/Injection 343

Days of Storage 343

Number of Risers 343

General Upgrade 343

MarineUpgrade 344

Tanker Strengthening 344

Length of Sea Trials 344

Mooring Option 344

Added Production Facilities Weight 345

Elevated Deck 345

Gas Lift 345


Mooring System 346

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Mooring Type 346

Anchor Type 347

Soil Condition 347



Number of Lines 349

Chain Length 349

Rope Length 349

Wire Length 349

Equipment Costs 350

Vessel Purchase 350

Swivels/Disconnect 350

Anchors 351

Materials Costs 352


Marine / Offloading 352

General Upgrade 352

Mooring Chain 352



Frame / Mooring Arm 353

Turret / Riser 353

Chain table / Buoy 353

Riser Porch 353

Elevated Deck 354

Freight 354



Marine / Offloading 355

General Upgrade 355

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Turret 355

Riser Porch 355

Elevated Deck 355



Mob / Demob and Tow out 357

Installation 357



General Costs 359

Design 359


Certification 360

Insurance 360

Contingency 360

About Cylindrical Hulls 361

Primary Inputs 362

Production Rate 362

Days of Storage 362

Required Storage 362


Hull Weight 363

Water Depth 363

Distance to Installation Site 363

Marine Transport 363

Mooring System 364

Mooring Type 364

Anchor Type 365

Soil Condition 365


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Number of Lines 367

Chain Length 367

Rope Length 367

Wire Length 367

Materials Costs 368

Hull Structure 368


Mooring Chains 368



Anchors 369

Freight 369


Hull Structure 370



Transport from Fabrication Yard 371

Transport to Installation Site 371

Anchor and Mooring Installation 371

General Costs 372

Design 372


Certification 373

Insurance 373

Contingency 373

About Tension Leg Platforms 374

Inputs 375

TLP Type 375


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Water Depth 376

Number of Wells 376

Number of Pre-installed Risers 376

Soil Conditions 376



Materials Costs 378

Hull 378

Foundations 378

Tendons 378

Tendon Connectors 379

Production Risers 379

Tensioning Equipment 379

Buoyancy 379

Freight 379




Foundation Install 381

Transportation to installation site 381

Tendon Install 381

TLP Connect / Tension 381

General Costs 382

Design 382


Certification 383

Insurance 383

Contingency 383

About Offshore Loading 384

Primary Inputs 385

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Loading Type 385

Water Depth 386

Export Rate 386

FlexiblePipeline 386

Number of Lines & Diameter 386

Riser Length at Buoy 386

Water Depth at Topsides 386

Riser Length at Topsides 387

Storage Tanker 387

Storage Time 387

Storage Capacity 387

Tanker Size 387


Mooring System 389

Mooring Type 389

Anchor Type 390

Soil Condition 390



Number of Mooring Lines 392

Chain Length 392

Rope Length 392

Wire Length 392

Equipment Costs 393

Loading Buoy 393

Anchors 393

Storage Tanker 393

Materials Costs 394

Mooring Chain 394

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Flexible Riser at Buoy 394

Riser System at Buoy 395

Pipeline (flexible) 395

Riser at Platform 395

Riser System at Platform 395



Tow out and installation 396

Sea trials and marine commissioning 396

General Costs 397

Design 397


Certification 398

Insurance 398

Contingency 398

About Offshore Drilling 399

Inputs 400

Rig 401

Category 401

Profile 402

Well Details 402

Drilling Details 403

Water Depth 403

Reservoir Depth 403


Pressure Rating 403

Longest Stepout 403

Trip Speed 404

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Rate of Build 404

Acid Gas 404

Use ESPs 404

Drilling Profiles 405

Well Profile 406

Horizontal Section 406

Measured Depth and Deviation 408

Drilling/Completion Rig 409

Completion Type 409

Drilling Durations 410

Add Well / Remove Well 410

Drilling Curves 411

Rig class 411

Profile 411

Stage 411

Equipment Costs 413

Xmas trees 413

Wellheads 413

Completions 413

Electronic submersible pumps (ESP) 414

Exploration wellheads / Appraisal wellheads 414

Materials Costs 415

Drilling/Completion 415

Conductors 415

Drilling Template 416


From Floating or Jackup 417

From Platform 418

Specialist Services 418

Transport 418

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Site Preparation 418

General Costs 420

Design 420


Certification 421

Insurance 421

About Subsea 422

Inputs 423

Primary 425

Wells and Flowrates 425

Services 425

Layout 427

Item defaults 427

Flowline defaults 427

Features 429

Design conditions 429

HIPPS 430

Features 430

Tie-in Point 432

Flowlines 433

Lay Vessel 433

Flowline Type 434

Buried Lines 434

Material by Fluid Type 434

Thermal Insulation Material 435

Thermal Insulation U-value 435

PLET selection 436

Umbilicals 437

Control System 437

Control Tube Material 437

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Inhibitor Chemicals 437

Power Cables 437

Installation 439

Subsea Configuration 441

Item and Link Names 442

Item and Link Duplication 442

Subsea Items 446

General 446

Well details 447

Services 447


Umbilical Terminations 448

Subsea Flowlines 449

General 449

Well / Tie-back ends 449

Total flowrates 449

Flowline sizing 450

Coating and insulation 451

Well end termination / Tie-back end termination 452

Umbilicals 452

Subsea Tie-back 453

Tie-back type 453

Water Depth 453

Termination type 453

Sub-type 453

Riser Systems 454

Riser Length 454

Equipment Costs 455

Intervention Tools 455

Platform Controls Main 455

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Platform Controls Additional 455

Freight 455

Detailed Item Cost Breakdown 455

Main Structure 456

Xmas trees 456

Manifolding (Piping & Valves) 457


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Flowline Connectors/Pull-In 457

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Cluster Satellites 457

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Control and Testing 458

HIPPS 458

Materials Costs 459

Riser Systems 459

Links 459

Umbilicals 460

Risers 461


General Costs 463

Design 463


Certification 464

Insurance 464

Contingency 464

About Barges 465

Developments with Barges 465

Primary Inputs 466

Storage Required 466

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Production Rate 466

Topside Operating Weight 466

Barge Size 466

Water Depth 467


Mooring System 468

Mooring Type 468

Anchor Type 469

Soil Condition 470



Number of Lines 471

Chain Length 471

Rope Length 471

Wire Length 471

Equipment Costs 472

Barge Cost 472

Anchors 472

Materials Costs 473

Mooring Chain 473

Mooring Wire/Rope 473


Freight 473



Tow Out and Installation 474


General Costs 475

Design 475


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Certification 476

Insurance 476

Contingency 476

About Bridge Links 477

Inputs 478

Functions 478

Details 478

Process 479

Flow Type 479

Flowrates 480

Pressure 480

Diameter 480

Materials Costs 481

Primary Steel 481

Secondary Steel 481

Piping 481

Electrical Bulks 481

Instrument Bulks 482

Others 482

Freight 482







General Costs 485

Design 485


Certification 486

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Insurance 486

Contingency 486

About User Defined 487

Cost Estimate 488

Operating Expenditure - OPEX 489

Working with OPEX 490

Locking/Unlocking 491

Applying a Change to a Range of Cells 492

Operating Personnel 494

Inspection and Maintenance 495

Platforms 495

Pipelines 496

Power Cables 496

Subsea 497

Logistics and Consumables 498

Helicopters 498

Supply Boats 498

Rescue and Recovery Boat 498

Fuel Gas 498

Diesel 499

Chemicals 499

Well Costs 500

Insurance 501

Field / Project Costs 502

Tariffs 503

CO2 Emission Taxes 504

Leases 505

Capital Expenditure Scheduling 506

CAPEX Scheduling Window 507

Distributions 508

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Intra-component Relationships 509

Inter-component Relationships 510

Locking 510

First Oil 510

Timescale 511

Adding and Removing Components 511

CAPEX Breakdown Graphs 512

About Decommissioning 513

Decommissioning Scenarios 514

Decommissioning duration 514

Delay after end of field life 514

Component Decommissioning 515

Cost estimate 515

Scrap 515

Inputs 516

Distance to Disposal Site 516

Temporary Piping Weight 516

Padeyes Weight 516

Crane Size 516

Maximum Lift Weight 517

Number of Lifts 517

Weights 518

Hazardous Volumes 519

Flushing / Inerting 520

Flushing Days 520

Inerting Days 520

Dismantle / Removal 521

Cost Sheet 522

Materials 522

Fabrication 523

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Decommissioning / removal 523

Design and Project management 524

Insurance 524

Certification 524

Contingency 525

Scrap 525

Inputs 526

Removal 526

Disposal 526

Lifts 527

Details 528

Jacket 528

Attachments 528

Cost Sheet 529

Materials 529

Fabrication 530

Decommissioning / removal 530

Design and Project Management 531

Insurance 531

Certification 531

Contingency 531

Scrap 532

Pipeline Decommissioning 533

Removal 533

Disposal 533

Cleaning 534

Details 535

Pipeline Decommissioning Cost Sheet 536

Decommissioning / Removal 536

Design and Project Management 537

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Insurance 538

Certification 538

Contingency 538

Scrap 538

About the Investment and Production Profile 539

Exporting the Investment Profile into AS$ET 541

QUE$TOR Structure 542

Once on the FDS 543

About Project Properties 544

Units of Measure 545

Main Product 545

Location 545

Creating Procurement Strategies 547

To create a new procurement strategy 547

About Field Level Data 549

Field Characteristics 550

Fluid / Profile Characteristics 552

Liquid Data 552

Gas Data @ STP 552

Well Data 553

Miscellaneous 554

Miscellaneous Items 554

Layout 554

Artificial Lift 555

Temperature 555

BOEEquivalents 555

About Production Profiles 556

Production Profile Edit 557

Production Profile 558

Design Flowrates 560

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Peak daily average production rates 560

Design rates 560

Water injection 561

Gas injection 561

Gas lift 561

Number of Wells 562

Wellhead Conditions 563

About the Concept Selector 564

Concept Selection for New Projects 565

Concept Selection for Existing Projects 567

Field Development Schematic 569

Pipelines & Linking Components 570

About Component Level Data 572


Component Toolbar 574

Component Duplication 576

Well and Flow Distribution 579

Onshore Cost Centres 581

Equipment Costs 581

Materials Costs 581

Prefabrication Costs 583

Construction Costs 583

Design and Project Management Costs 584

Insurance and Certification Costs 585

Contingency 585

About Onshore Components 586


Input Panel 586

Cost Estimate Sheets 587

About Production Facilities 588

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User Interface 589

Inputs 589

Facilities 590

Cost Estimate 591

Primary Inputs 592

Terrain 592

Elevation 592

Functions 592

Capacities 593

Fluid Capacities 594

Inlet High Pressure Fluids 594

Arrival Temperature 594

Arrival Pressure 594

Well Stream Fluids 594

Separated Fluids 595

Inlet Medium Pressure Fluids 595

Total Capacities 595

Design Conditions 596


Acid gas / High T / High P 596

Max. Ambient Air Temperature 596

Prefabrication 597

Winterisation 598

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Manifolding 599

Number of Flowlines 599


Operating Pressure 600

Design Pressure 600

Weight 600

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Oil Processing 602

Oil Processing Configurations 602

Stream Properties 603

Equipment Sizing 604

Gas Processing 607

Cooling 608

Acid Gas Removal 608

Membrane Unit 608

Conventional Acid Gas Removal 609

Sulphur 611

Dehydration 612

Dewpoint Control 613

Gas Metering 614

Deethaniser 614

Stabiliser 614

Produced Water 616

Product Storage 617

Atmospheric Storage Inputs 617

Pressurised Storage Inputs 618

Product Export 620

Export Rate 620

Size Export Pipeline 621

Details 621

Driver 622

Derating Factor 622

Capacity 622

Driver Model 622

Pump Weight 623



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Metering Weight 623

Gas Compression 624

Compressor Classification and Selection 624

Flash gas 624

Export gas 625

Gas lift 625

Gas injection 625

Compressor Sizing 625

Compressor type 625

Number of stages 626

Power 626

Derated power 626

Number of compressors 626

Design duty/compressor 626

Driver type 626

Driver model 627

Driver rating 627

Pipeline Sizing 627

Coolers 628

Weights 628

Water Injection 629

Details 629

Driver 630

Configuration 631

Weight 631

Custom Equipment 632

General 634

Bulk materials, utilities and operating weight 634

Utilities 634

Power 634

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Civils 634

Cost sheet 635

Example 635

Cost sheet 636

Custom equipment library 637

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Control System 638

Communications 638




Power 643


Emergency Power 644

Generation and Distribution / Distribution only Radio Buttons 644

Derating Factor 644

Capacity 645

Driver 645

Weights 646

Civils 647

Foundation Area 647

Plot Area 648

Equipment List 649

Equipment Costs 651

Freight 651

Material Costs 652

Steelwork 652

Piping 652

Electrical 652

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Instruments 653

Others 653

Civils Materials 653

Freight 653


Loadout and Transport 654



Civil Construction 655

General Costs 656

Design & Project Management 656

Insurance 657

Certification 657

Contingency 657

About Terminal Facilities 658

User Interface 659

Inputs 659

Facilities 660

Cost estimate 660

Primary Inputs 661

Location 661

Inlet Flows 661

Export Method 662

Marine Transport 662

Prefabrication 663

Winterisation 664

Product Storage 665



Product Export 668

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Export Rate 668


Details 669

Driver 669

Derating Factor 669

Capacity 669

Driver Model 670

Pump Weight 670



Metering Weight 670


Control System 671

Communications 671




Power 675



Emergency Power 676

Derating Factor 676

Duty 676

Driver 677

Weights 677

Civils 679

Foundation Area 679

Plot Area 680

Equipment Costs 681

Product Loading 681

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Safety 682

Freight 682

Material Costs 683

Steelwork 683

Piping 683

Electrical 683

Instruments 684

Others 684

Offloading Buoy (marine) 684

Offloading Pipeline 684

Jetty Materials 684


Freight 684






Buoy Installation 686

Pipeline Installation 686

Jetty Construction 687

General Costs 688


Insurance 689

Certification 689

Contingency 689

About Onshore Pipelines 690

Pipeline Links 691

Length 691

Flow Type 691

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To / From 692

Pipeline Sizing 694

For oil, gas, liquid & two phase lines 695

For gas injection, gas lift and water injection lines 695

Material 695

Oil / Gasoline/Condensate / NGL / LPG 696

Water Flowrate 696

Gas Flowrate 696

Fluid Temperature 696

Pipeline Sections 697

Nominal Diameter 697

Fixed Diameter 697

Corrosion Allowance 697

Wall Thickness 697

Slug Catchers 699

Winterisation 700

Pipeline winterisation 700

Booster station winterisation 700



Booster / Reducer Stations 703

Booster / Reducer Stations 705

Product Export / Gas Compression 705


Utilities 708

Power 709


Power Requirements 710

Emergency Power 710

Derating Factor 711

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Duty 711

Driver 711

Weights 712

Civils 712

Terrain and Crossings 714

Terrain Type 714

Construction Type 714

Length 714

Number of Crossings 714

Construction Duration 715

Pipeline Schematic 716

Construction Duration 717

Equipment Costs 718

Booster Stations 718

Reducer Stations 719

Slug Catchers 719

Freight 719

Materials Costs 720

Linepipe 720

Fittings 720

Coatings 720

Crossings 720



Slug Catchers 722

Freight 723



Slug Catchers 725

General Costs 726

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Insurance 727

Certification 727

Contingency 727

About Wellpad Groups 728

User Interface 729

Inputs 729

Primary Inputs 731

Location 731

Wells 731

Prefabrication 733

Winterisation 734

Wellpad Editor 735

Wellpad Editor Primary Inputs 737

Linkages 737

Equipment 737

Multiphase meters 737

Power Requirements 738

Well Count 738

Wellpad Editor Flowline Bundle 739

Bundle 739

Flowlines 740

Construction 740

Number of Crossings 741

Wellpad Editor - Details 742

Manifolding and Equipment 742

Utilities 742

Power 742

Flowlines 743

Flowline 743

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Installation 744

Control System 745

Civils 746

Equipment Costs 747

Manifolding 747

Multiphase Metering 747

Freight 747

Materials Costs 749

Steelwork 749

Piping 749

Electrical 749

Instruments 750

Others 750

Flowlines 750

Umbilical 750

Power Cable 750

Crossings 750


Freight 751






Flowline Testing 753

Flowline Right of Way 753

General Costs 755


Insurance 756

Certification 756

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Contingency 756

About Onshore Drilling 757

User Interface 758

Inputs 758

Details 760

Rig Class 760

Well Type 761

Pumped Wells 761

Profile 762

Well Details 762

Drilling Details 763

Winterisation 765

Winterisation Cost 765

Drilling Profiles 766

Well Type 767

TVD 768

Kick Off 768

Horizontal Shift 768

Profile Type 768

Horizontal Section 768

Measured Depth 770

Maximum Deviation 771

Drilling Rig 771

Completion Rig 771

Completion Type 771

Drilling Durations 772

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Drilling Curves 773

Rig class 773

Profile 773

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Stage 774

Equipment Costs 776

Xmas trees 776

Wellheads 776

Completions 776

Exploration wellheads / Appraisal wellheads 777

Pumps 777

Freight 777

Material Costs 778

Cement 778

Mud 778

Brine 778

Bits 779

Freight 779


Rig Hire 780

Drill Crew 780

Consumables 780

Drill Camps 781

Transportation 781

In-field Rig Down / Relocation / Rig up 781

Mob / Demob 781

Drilling Services 781

Other Costs 782

General Costs 783


Insurance 784

Certification 784

Contingency 784

About Infrastructure 785

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User Interface 786

Inputs 786

Facilities 787

Cost Estimate 787

Primary Inputs 788

Location 788

Distances to Major Populations 788

Road 790

Road Links 790

Road Type 791

Terrain 791

Rail 792

Terrain 793

Construction Camp 794

Operations Camp 795

Administration Offices 796

Permanent Housing 797

Medical / Hospital Facilities 798

Schools, Places of Worship, Community Buildings 799

Power Transmission 800

Airstrip 801

Material and Construction Costs 802

Road Construction 802

Rail Construction 803

Construction Camp 803

Operations Camp 803

Administration Buildings 803

Permanent Housing 803

Medical Facilities 803

Schools, Places of Worship 803

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Power Transmission 804

Airstrips 804

Community Projects/Others 804

General Costs 805


Insurance 806

Certification 806

Contingency 806

About User Defined Components 807

Cost Estimate 808








Fuel Gas 816

Diesel 816

Chemicals 817

Transportation 817

Messing 817

Vehicles 818

Well Costs 819

Insurance 820

Field / Project Costs 821

Support 821

Land Costs 821

Tariffs 823


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Lease costs 825



Distributions 828

Intra-component Relationships 829

Inter-component Relationships 830

Locking 830

First Oil 831

Timescale 831








Cost estimate 835

Scrap 835

About the Investment and Production Profile 836


LNG Regasification Structure 839

About Regasification Terminal Facilities 840

User Interface 841

Inputs 841

Facilities 842

Cost estimate 842

Primary Inputs 844

Terrain 844

Elevation 844

Functions 844

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Capacities 845

Inlet Composition 846

Molecular weight 846

Composition 846

Gas Properties 847

Design Specifications 848

Sales gas specification 848

Maximum ambient air temperature 848

Prefabrication 849

Winterisation 850

Marine Infrastructure 851

Ship / Berth Details 851

Jetty details 852

Marine Slip Details 852

LNG Metering 853

LNG Flowlines / Berth 853

Breakwater 854

Dredging 854

LNG Storage 855

Containment Type 855

Number of Tanks / Capacity per Tank 856

Diameter / Height 856

LNG Processing 857

Nitrogen injection 858

Demethaniser 859

Deethaniser 860

Stabiliser 860

Stream properties 860

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In-tank Pumps / Tank 862

LNG Processing Feed Pumps 863

Send out Pumps 863

Liquid Storage 865



Liquid Export 868

Export Rate 869


Details 869

Driver 870

Derating Factor 870

Capacity 870

Driver Model 871

Pump Weight 871



Metering Weight 871

Vapour Handling 872

Derating Factor 872

Boil off Gas Compression (BOG) 873

Recondenser 874

Vapour Return Blowers 874

Vapourisation 876

Process 876

Open Rack 877

Submerged Combustion 878

Intermediate Fluid 878

Gas Metering 879


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Control System 880

Communications 880




Power 885



Derating Factor 886

Duty 886

Driver 887

Emergency Power 887

Weights 888

Civils 889

Foundation Area 889

Totals 890

Equipment Costs 891

Odourisation 891

Safety 891

Freight 892

Material Costs 893

Steelwork 893

Berth 893

Jetty 893

Marine Slip 893

Breakwater 894

LNG Flowlines 894

Piping (cryogenic) 894

Piping 894

Electrical 894

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Instruments 894

Others 894


Freight 895






Tank Excavation 897

General Costs 898


Insurance 899

Certification 899

Contingency 899








Nitrogen 907

Fuel Gas 907

Diesel 907

Transportation 908

Messing 908

Vehicles 908

Insurance 910

Field / Project OPEX 911

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Support 911

Land Costs 911

Tariffs 913


Leases 915



Distributions 918

Locking 919

First Oil 919

Timescale 920



Investment and Production Profile 922







Cost estimate 928

Scrap 928

Data Input 929

Text boxes 929

Option buttons 929

Dropdown lists 929

Check boxes 930

Locked Values 931

To Unlock a Locked Value 931

Units 932

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Unit Nomenclature 932

Form Conventions 933

Tabs 933

Form Buttons 933

Component buttons 933

Warning Messages 935

About Program Menus 936

File Menu 937

Project Menu 938

Options Menu 939

Reports Menu 940

Tools Menu 942

Help Menu 943

About Data Flow and Locking 944

Data Flow between Components 945

Exceptions to the hierarchy order 947

Multiple topsides 947

Data Flow Within Components 948

Locking 949

About Project Costs 950

Project Cost Options 951

To add a project cost 951

To remove a project cost 952

To set the default project costs 953

Managing Project Costs 954

Item name 954

Cost 954

Schedule distribution 954

Schedule duration 955

Creating a new project cost 955

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Deleting a project cost 956

About Contingency 957

Base Cost Estimate 957

Expected Value (or most likely cost) 957

Contingency 957

Accuracy Levels 958

Operators Reserve 958

Contingency Options 960

About Component Ghosting 962

Ghosting of Components 963

Ghost CAPEX 963

Ghost OPEX 964

Ghosting Options 965


About Reports 967

Component Reports 969

Project Reports 970

Locked Values 972

Project Notes 974

About Database Editor 976

Procurement Strategies 977

View/Edit Procurement Strategy 977

Technical Databases 979

View/Edit Technical Database 979

Database Editor Interface 981

Item Type (procurement strategies) 981

Item Type (technical databases) 981

Component Type 982

Table Description 982

About Project Editor 985

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User Interface 986

To Change a Procurement Strategy or Technical Database 986

Procurement Strategies 988

Technical Databases 989

About Project Viewer 991

User Interface 993

Exporting from the Project Viewer 995

About Unit Editor 996

Custom Unit Sets 997

About Network Licences 1000

Feature 1000

Days until expiry 1000

Borrowed until 1000

Network Licence Management 1001

To borrow a feature from the network licence server 1001

To return a feature to the network licence server 1001

Restrictions 1002

ANSI Pressure Ratings 1003

Flow Definitions 1004

Basis of Inspection and Maintenance 1005

Comparison of Profile Timescales 1006

Offshore Components 1007

Offshore Concepts 1010

Decommissioning Toolbar 1011

Fabrication Details 1012

Installation Vessel Maximum Lift Weights 1014

CAPEX Scheduling Toolbar 1015

Offshore Technical Databases 1016

Offshore Toolbar 1017

Barge Sizes With Storage 1018

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Barge Sizes Without Storage 1019

Offshore Casing / Tubing Programme 1020

Offshore Drilling Profiles 1021

Concept Selector - Export Options 1022

CO2 Removal Only 1023

H2S Removal Only 1024

Simultaneous H2S and CO2 Removal 1025

Solvent Data 1026

Typical Gas Compositions 1027

Default Dehydration Process 1028

GBS Storage Capacity 1029

Jacket Installation Factors 1030

Maximum Topsides Weight 1031

Monotower GBS Concrete Volume 1032

Semi-submersible Characteristics 1033

Maximum Load and Buoyancy Aid Weights 1034

Subsea Flexible Flowline Limits 1035

Flying Leads Calculation 1036

Subsea Pressure Ratings 1037

Subsea Toolbar 1038

Standard Chain and Rope Sizes 1039

Wind Speed Lookup 1040

Single Point Mooring Systems 1041

Tanker Storage Capacity 1042

Offshore Gas Processing Product Specification 1043

Oil Processing Defaults for Gas Projects 1044

Oil Processing Defaults for Oil Projects 1045

Oil Processing Toolbar 1046

Tripod GBS Concrete Volume 1047


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Onshore Components 1049

Onshore Concepts 1050

Construction Details 1051

Prefabrication Details 1053

Onshore Technical Databases 1055

Onshore Toolbar 1056

Onshore Drilling - Profiles 1057

Onshore Drilling - Rig Class 1058

Default Dehydration Process 1059

Onshore Casing / Tubing Programme 1060

Solvent Data 1061

CO2 Removal Only 1062

H2S Removal Only 1063

Simultaneous H2S and CO2 Removal 1064

Typical Gas Compositions 1065

Gas Processing Defaults 1066

Column Operating Conditions - Single Column 1067

Column Operating Conditions - Both Columns 1068

Oil Processing Defaults for Gas Projects 1069

Oil Processing Defaults for Oil Projects 1070

GRP Pipe Sizes 1071


Double Containment LNG Storage Tanks 1073

Full Containment LNG Storage Tanks 1074

Single Containment LNG Storage Tanks 1075

LNG Tanker Properties 1076

LNG Regasification Onshore Toolbar 1077

Comparison of Profile Timescales 1078

Database Editor Toolbar 1079

Project Viewer Toolbar 1080

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Unit Sets 1081

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About the Quick Start GuideThis guide is designed to help you understand the operation of the QUE$TOR program,outlining the basic steps involved in developing a QUE$TOR project to produce ascheduled estimate for capital and operating costs.

QUE$TOR is structured around a field development schematic (FDS) which allows youto create a visualisation of the development. The FDS is driven by a number of highlevel inputs which allow the development conditions to be specified. The basicprogram calculation sequence followed in QUE$TOR to generate a full life-cycle fieldor prospect development cost estimate is shown below.

To define the new project, QUE$TOR presents you with a series of forms that allowhigh level parameters of the development to be specified.The Field level data form ispopulated with default values for the basin selected in the Project properties form.Subsequent forms have values and selections based on earlier entries. Once you

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have reviewed and adjusted as necessary the default inputs in each form, click on OKto apply the inputs and move on to the next form.Click on Cancel to ignore changesmade and go back to the previous form and make any necessary revisions.

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Getting StartedQUE$TOR must be installed on a local PC. This must be done by a local administrator.See the release notes for installation instructions.

QUE$TOR will run on these following operating systems:

Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8.

A licence must be available; either a standalone dongle which plugs directly into yourcomputer or a network licence which is accessible across your company's local areanetwork. QUE$TOR Offshore, QUE$TOR Onshore and QUE$TOR LNG Regasificationrequire separate licences. Contact your IT department for further details.

Depending on your installation options, you can launch QUE$TOR either from thetaskbar Start button or from your PC desktop.

From the taskbar Start button

Click Start and follow All Programs\IHS\QUE$TOR 2014 Q3

From your PC desktop

Double-click the QUE$TOR 2014 Q3 application shortcut icon .

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Creating a New ProjectOn opening QUE$TOR the task selection form will appear.

On this form you can choose to create a new project or open an existing project. Fornew projects you can either create a new offshore project or a new onshore project.For existing projects there are shortcuts to the last five projects saved.

The location of your wells should determine whether you pick offshore or onshore asthe start point. If you are running a combined offshore and onshore project then thesecond location can be selected later in the project estimate.

Once you have selected your project location i.e. offshore or onshore, click OK tomove onto the Project properties form. QUE$TOR will check that you have a validlicence to run the selected project type at this point.

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Selecting the Project PropertiesThe project properties allow you to setup the basic information about your projectincluding the procurement strategy, regional technical database and units setpreference.

Work through the following steps to set up your project:

l Give your project a name.

l Select the units you want to work in.Pick from one of the standard unit setsprovided or create your own using the Unit editor tool. For the majority of users

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one of the default unit sets should meet your needs as you can change each unit asneeded throughout the program.

l Select the main product. For Oil projects you will have to define your recoverableoil reserves and a gas oil ratio, while for gas projects you will input yourrecoverable gas reserves and a liquid gas ratio.

l Select the geographical region, country, and basin to enable QUE$TOR to seedyour project with typical basin specific data generated from the IHS IRIS21 E&Pdatabase. This selection will also drive the default location of a new procurementstrategy and will set your regional technical database.

l Create your procurement strategy. This can be done by clicking the Newbutton.This will display the Define procurement strategy form shown below. Procurementstrategies allow you to choose different regional cost databases for each costcentre. By default all costs are reported in US Dollars but this can be edited bychanging the currency name, symbol and exchange rate at the top of the form.

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l Select the technical database to use for your project. This will normally be theregion which you have selected for your project.Use Browse to select analternative if required.

Once you have completed the above steps, click OK to move onto the Field level dataform.

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Entering Your Field Level DataThe Field level data form contains three tabs which list the values for the fieldcharacteristics, fluid characteristics and some miscellaneous data respectively.

The information entered varies slightly depending on whether you have selected anoffshore or onshore project. Default values are populated from a database relevantto the basin you selected in the Project properties form.

On this form, modify the data to the specifics of the field that you want to produce anestimate for. The purpose of the default data is to provide a reasonable value wherenone is known and therefore you should use your values over these defaults. Anyinput value can be changed by simply over-typing it.

In this form, and any other form, the individual input units can be changed on the flyby clicking on the unit to the right of the value and selecting the unit you wish to usefrom the options available, this is shown for the recoverable reserves input below.

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Once you have entered / confirmed the data on all three tabs click OK to move ontothe Production profile edit form.

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Creating a Production ProfileThe production profile is created through two forms; the first form gives sevenentries through which you can influence the basic parameters of your productionprofile.

Enter any of the values you know at this point and then click OK to move onto theProduction profile form which gives you a visual representation of these values.

The production profile is displayed in a graphical and tabular format across four tabs;oil (or condensate), gas, water and gross liquids. Numbers in blue can be edited;numbers in black such as those in the gross liquids tab are derived numbers andtherefore cant be edited. This colour convention is common throughout QUE$TOR.

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You can change the production for each year by entering the values in the table at thebottom of the form. This can either be typed in year by year or you can paste in aprofile from an external spreadsheet through a right mouse click. You can overwriteeither the daily or annual flowrates but not the cumulative row of the table. You canalso copy the data in the production profile and paste it into an external spreadsheet.

Note: When pasting in a production profile from a spreadsheet ensure that thefield life specified in the production profile edit form is the same as that of the profileyou are pasting in.

Once you are happy with the production profile, click OK to move onto the Designflowrates form.

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Setting the Design FlowratesThe Design flowrates form gives the flowrates that will be used to design the facilitieswithin your project.

The production values are based on the peak production with a design factor for oilprojects giving an allowance for day to day variation, and a swing factor in gasprojects giving an allowance for seasonal demand variation.

The injection values should be adjusted based on your pressure maintenance and gasdisposal assumptions.

Once you are happy with the design flowrates, click OK to move onto the Number ofwells form.

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Setting the Number of WellsThe Number of wells form, shown below, sets the total number of wells requiredacross the field.

The default number of production wells is based on the recoverable reserves, wellproductivity, plateau production and peak well flow. The default number of waterinjection wells assumes an average of two injectors for every five oil productionwells.Gas injectors are based on an average flowrate of 30 MMscf/day per well.

Modify the well count to match your design assumptions and click OK to move ontothe Wellhead conditions form for onshore projects or the Concept selector form foroffshore projects.

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Setting the Wellhead ConditionsThe Wellhead conditions form is only available for onshore projects and provides thewellhead conditions of the primary streams.

Water injection, gas injection and gas lift pressure are only relevant if these servicesare selected. Adjust the conditions as necessary and then click OK to move onto theConcept selector form.

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Selecting a Concept - OffshoreThe Concept selector form allows you to choose the basic concept of your fielddevelopment.

QUE$TOR selects a field development concept based on the field level data andproduction profile.You can change this to another of the 14 default concepts using thelist box. If you want to configure your concept from scratch, select 'Blank concept'.

Based on your concept, QUE$TOR will select typical oil and gas export options. Adjustthese to match your desired product export routes.

When you click OK QUE$TOR runs the complete cost estimate using program defaultsthroughout and displays the field development schematic along with the costsummary tree.

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Selecting a Concept - OnshoreThe Concept selector form allows you to choose the basic concept of your fielddevelopment.

QUE$TOR selects a field development concept based on the field level data andproduction profile.You can change this to another of the 6 default concepts using thelist box. If you want to configure your concept from scratch, select 'Blank concept'.

Based on your concept, QUE$TOR will select typical oil and gas export options. Adjustthese to match your desired product export routes.

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When you click OK QUE$TOR runs the complete cost estimate using program defaultsthroughout and displays the field development schematic along with the costsummary tree.

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Using the Field Development SchematicOn selecting your concept and clicking OK QUE$TOR will move through to the mainfield development schematic.

The field development schematic shows the components within your chosen concepton the right hand side of the screen, with the associated high level CAPEX summaryon the left hand side of the screen.

The schematic can be changed by adding and removing components. You can selectcomponents to add from the component toolbar at the top of the screen and click onthe schematic to place the component. To delete a component hit delete when thecomponent is selected or right click on the component and select Delete. You will beasked to confirm any deletions to prevent any components being inadvertentlydeleted.

Components often require links so that the correct data can flow between them.

Components are linked using the link icon in the toolbar . Once you have linkedtwo components you may need to add a pipeline by double clicking on the link.

Note: Connections from drilling components, subsea, and wellpad groups do notrequire pipelines to be specified.

Each component will be estimated using default assumptions based on the data youhave entered so far. To view a component in detail you can double click on it or rightclick on it and select Edit / view cost estimate.

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Adjusting a ComponentYou can view the details of each component by either double clicking on thecomponent or by right clicking and selecting Edit / view cost estimate.

Each component has two main parts to it: the inputs, where you can adjust the designparameters, and the cost sheet, where you can see the detailed breakdown of thecost.

You can make changes within each of these areas and when you click Apply or OKthese changes will be applied to the component and the CAPEX estimate adjustedaccordingly. Clicking on OK will also exit the component. Clicking Cancel also exitsthe component; however you will lose all changes made since you entered thecomponent.

Inputs

The left hand side of the screen contains the main input data for that component. Theinput form for the topsides component is shown below.

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The input form shows the main design parameters for a given component, such as thedesign flowrates. You can make changes to these values to match your designassumptions. When you click Apply these changes will be applied to the componentand the CAPEX estimate adjusted accordingly.

Sub-components

There are arrow buttons within many components that can be clicked on to openup one of the sub-components; the details of that system are then shown. Thetopsides Manifolding sub-component form is shown below.

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You can make changes within each sub-component and when you click OK thesechanges will be applied to the component and the CAPEX estimate adjustedaccordingly.

Cost sheet

The right hand side of the screen has the cost sheet. This shows a detailed breakdownof the CAPEX estimate for the component. Each line item is made up of a quantity anda unit rate.

The quantity is calculated from the design parameters and technical algorithms forthat item and the unit rate is taken from the selected procurement strategy. You canoverwrite any of the blue values within the cost sheet, as shown for the quantityentry above. Numbers in black are derived by multiplying the quantity by the unitrate so cant be overwritten.

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Calculating the Operating CostsThe operating cost calculations should be run once you have finished the design ofyour development as the costs are based on the technical definition of thedevelopment.

The OPEX algorithms are run by selecting OPEX from the Project menu. This willopen a separate window where a summary of the operating costs for each year ofproduction is displayed.

The costs are broken down into various categories, which can be seen on the left sideof the screen. The detailed breakdown of these cost categories can be seen byclicking on these items, they are formatted as blue hypertext. This will open upfurther definition sheets for you to review or adjust the default values.

Once you are happy with the operating costs, click OK to go back to fielddevelopment schematic so that you can generate the project schedule.

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Scheduling the Capital CostsThe CAPEX scheduling calculations should be run once you have finished the design ofyour development as the schedule and costs are based on the details of thedevelopment.

The CAPEX scheduling module can be accessed by selecting Scheduling from theProject menu. The schedule will be shown as a Gantt chart along with the underlyingdata for each component.

For each component, a detailed schedule can be viewed by expanding the component

using the icon. You can adjust the start date and activity duration either bydragging the bars within the Gantt chart or by adjusting the corresponding values inthe table. Adjusting these values will change when the calculated CAPEX values are tobe spent.

Once you are happy with the project schedule, click OK to go back to fielddevelopment schematic so that you can generate the Investment and productionprofile.

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Generating the Investment and Production ProfileThe investment and production profile is run by selecting Investment andproduction profiles from the Project menu.

The investment and production profile gives a report of all of the values that could berequired to run an economic analysis, with the production, CAPEX and OPEX given foreach year of the project. The values in this report are in real terms, i.e. they arecosts specific to a particular point in time (depending on the version) and have notbeen inflated or discounted over the life of the project.

This report can be printed or exported to Excel using the toolbar buttons.

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Saving Your ProjectProjects are not automatically saved in QUE$TOR. We recommend you save yourproject when you reach the field development schematic and at regular intervalsafter this.

To save a project select Save or Save As from the File menu or click on the Save

project button . This will enable you to save the project in the usual Windowsfashion. The default location for saved projects is MyDocuments\IHS\QUE$TOR\Projects.

Saved project files have a .qpr file extension and include the selected procurementstrategy, technical database and unit set. Once saved, projects are completelystandalone and have no further interaction with QUE$TORs databases. This meansthat saved projects can easily be sent to others who may not have the samedatabases.

Saved projects can be moved, copied and renamed using Microsoft Windows Explorerin the same way as any Windows file. Projects can be opened either directly fromWindows Explorer or from within QUE$TOR. To open a saved project in QUE$TOReither select Open existing project from the form that appears when QUE$TORstarts or select Open from the File menu.

Note: When you create a new project you won't be able to save the project untilyou reach the field development schematic.

Opening a Saved Project

To open a saved project select, using the option buttons, Browse for project and

click OK to proceed or click on the Open project button .This will enable you toopen a project in the usual windows fashion.The Open existing project box hasshortcuts to the last five projects opened in QUE$TOR.Saved projects have a .qprfile extension.

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About QUE$TORQUE$TOR has been designed to produce high level estimates of the capital andoperating costs of green field oil and gas developments. It will assist with projectmodelling, evaluation and subsequent decision making in the oil and gas industry.

QUE$TOR provides a reliable, consistent methodology for producing cost estimatesand creates efficiency when optimising field developments. It has benefits in manyapplications, including:

l Prospect evaluations

l Screening studies

l Feasibility studies

l Conceptual studies

l Optimisation studies

QUE$TOR uses a systematic approach to generate a field development basis, capitaland operating costs, and project schedules from basic field data. QUE$TOR uses abottom up methodology; the calculations are based around detailed sizing algorithmsand engineering rules of thumb with regional variations where appropriate.

This approach allows engineers, estimators and economists to produce weight andcost estimates quickly, consistently and accurately and to develop investmentprofiles.

Capabilities

QUE$TOR has the capability to handle most oil and gas developments worldwide, ithas clearly defined methodologies for offshore and onshore upstream developmentsas well as onshore LNG regasification projects. Any combination of these threeproject types can be modelled provided you have the requisite licences.

In generating capital cost estimates for a field development, the estimate is brokendown into a number of discrete components.Combining these components allows afield development plan to be identified and estimated.It is then possible to generateoperating costs for the facilities specified and phase the expenditures as necessary.

The use of separate cost and technical databases for all major worldwide oil and gasproducing regions means that any development, present or future, can be modelled.

Cost Databases

There are 17 offshore and 11 onshore regional cost databases behind the program.These cost databases are updated on a six-monthly basis with a new version of theprogram sent out for each update. Each new version can be installed alongside allexisting versions of the program allowing you to track costs of a project over time.

Each of the databases is editable meaning that if there is a region where you have agood understanding of the costs you can overwrite some of the costs within theQUE$TOR databases to give you greater confidence in the estimate.

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Estimate BasisThe following points should be considered when generating or reporting a costestimate using QUE$TOR.

l QUE$TOR provides an estimate based on the costs within the markets today. Wemake no allowance for inflation or deflation of costs over the project life.

l All of the costs within QUE$TOR are in real terms, i.e. they are costs specific to aparticular point in time (depending on the version). We do not apply anydiscounting or inflation to the estimate to costs incurred over the project life.

l Pre-sanction costs, such as FEED studies and environmental impact assessments,are not included within the estimate by default. These costs can be optionallyadded as a percentage of the project CAPEX costs or as monetary value.

l Post sanction costs that fall outside of the typical EPC contract scope, such as theowner's project management cost, are not included by default. These costs can beoptionally added as a percentage of the project CAPEX costs or as monetary value.

l Contingencies within QUE$TOR are calibrated to target the P50 development cost.

l QUE$TOR is designed for use early in the project cycle. Therefore the estimatelevel that can be attained by using the program is typically within the range of +/-25% to 40%.

l The estimate produced is dependent on user entered values. Therefore, anyestimate should take into account the confidence of these values.

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Recommended System SpecificationsQUE$TOR is supported for the following operating systems:

l Windows XP service pack 2 or later

l Windows Vista

l Windows 7

l Windows 8.

The 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of these operating systems are supported.

To run QUE$TOR in a terminal server environment requires the use of networklicences.

Minimum system specifications:

l 1 GHz Pentium 4 processor

l 512 MB RAM

l 250 MB disk space

l Minimum 1024x768 resolution

l CD ROM drive

Before installing QUE$TOR

l QUE$TOR requires that you install Windows Installer 3.1, Windows ImagingComponent and .NET framework 4 or later.

l QUE$TOR requires that the Sentinel SuperPro driver be installed on PCs that havea local security key (dongle) for their QUE$TOR licence.

l These are included on the CD.

Note: Administrator privileges are required to install these components.

Installation requirements

l QUE$TOR must be installed on a local PC. This must be done by a localadministrator. See the release notes for installation instructions.

l A licence must be available to run QUE$TOR; either a standalone dongle whichplugs directly into your computer or a network licence which is accessible acrossyour company network. Contact your IT department for further details.

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Exporting to Microsoft Excel from QUE$TOR

It is not necessary for Microsoft Excel to be installed on the PC that QUE$TOR isrunning on to perform an export to an Excel format file. However, to view theexported file requires Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3 or later. The exported files may openin earlier versions, however some of the formatting may be lost.

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Contacting Customer SupportAs part of the continuing licensing agreement for QUE$TOR, IHS offers a full technicalsupport service via its regional offices. Both computing and engineering supportrelating to the operation and understanding of the program are available.

The QUE$TOR support group has a dedicated support email address: [email protected]

Note: There is an 's', not a '$' in questor in the email address.

The IHS software support team key contacts are as follows:

North & CentralAmerica

Jonathan Stephens - Product Manager,[email protected] Verma - Senior Field Development Engineer,[email protected] Wahab - Cost Analyst, [email protected]

5333 WestheimerHoustonTexas 77056USA

Tel: (+1) 713 840 8282Fax: (+1)713 995 8593

South America Thais Hamilko - Product Specialist, E&I Prod Line-LATAM,[email protected]

Rua So Bento, 29 - 7o andarCentroRio de JaneiroRJ, CEP 20090-010Brazil

Tel: (+55) 21 3299 0440

Europe, Africa &Middle East

Rita Antonelli - Cost Manager, [email protected] Butcher - Field Development Engineer,[email protected] Helliwell - Engineering Advisor,[email protected] Williams - Engineering Manager,[email protected]

133 HoundsditchLondonEC3A 7BX

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UK

Tel: (+44) 20 3159 3300Fax: (+44) 20 3159 3299

S.E. Asia & Australia Sanjay Sinha - APAC Field Development SME,[email protected]

First Floor, Tower AVatika Business ParkSohan Road, Sec 49Gurgaon 122018 - HaryanaIndia

Tel: (+91) 124 454 2699

China Yaxing Wang - Sr. Customer Solution Advisor,[email protected]

Room 3001China World Office 1No.1, JianGuoMenWai AvenueBeijing100004China

Tel: (+86) 10 5633 4567Fax: (+86) 10 5633 4500

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CopyrightCopyright 2014, IHS Inc. and its affiliated and subsidiary companies, ALL RIGHTSRESERVED.

Windows and Excel are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

All other trademarks and service marks, including without limitation QUE$TOR,AS$ET and IHS ENERGY, belong to IHS Inc. and its affiliated and subsidiarycompanies, all rights reserved.

This product, including software, data and documentation, is licensed to theauthorised user for its internal business purposes only and no part thereof may bedisclosed, disseminated, sold, licensed, copied, reproduced, translated, transmittedor transferred to any third party. All rights reserved.

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QUE$TOR StructureQUE$TOR is structured around a field development schematic (FDS) which allows youto create a visualisation of the development. The FDS is driven by a number of highlevel inputs which allow the development conditions to be specified.The basicprogram calculation sequence followed in QUE$TOR to generate a full life-cycle fieldor prospect development cost estimate is shown below.

To define the new project, QUE$TOR presents you with a series of forms that allowhigh level parameters of the development to be specified. Once you have reviewedand adjusted as necessary the default inputs in each form, click on OK to apply theinputs and move on to the next form.Click on Cancel to go back to the previous formand adjust any changes made.

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On starting each new project you will be led through the first four stages shownabove. Each of these stages will be populated with default values based upon yourchoices in the previous stage.

When the concept selector is completed, QUE$TOR will generate a complete costestimate immediately made up of a series of components, e.g. topsides, jacket,drilling and pipelines.

These components are all live linked to each other so that a change to one componentwill change all dependent components, e.g. jacket cost is dependent on topsidesoperating weight.You can enter and update these components and fix inputs so thatthey are no longer updated by the program.This is called locking. Although you canedit components in any order you should try to follow a logical path to avoid lockingvariables based on incorrect data.For example you should not lock the jacket weightuntil the topsides is fully defined. QUE$TORs order of calculation is explained infurther detail in Data flow and locking.

OPEX and Scheduling take data from all components to generate field operating costs(OPEX) and schedule the calculated capital and operating costs along with theproduction profile to give an overall project investment profile.

Once on the FDS

Cost estimates in QUE$TOR are made up of a number of individual components suchas topsides and jackets.Each of these components will influence or be dependent onthe design of associated components, e.g. jacket design is dependent on itsassociated topsides.Components are linked or docked to those components fromwhich they require data.There are also high level parameters defined withinQUE$TOR, such as reserves, which influence all components.

In generating a cost estimate QUE$TOR calculates one component at a time and thenpasses all requisite data on to the next component.The order of this is defined by thecalculation hierarchy.The concept selector generates a basic development plan froma selection of built-in defaults. The components selected by the concept are then runin the hierarchy order to provide a development capable of handling the wells andproduction defined in the production profile and field level data.

If you wish to fix parameters within a component, preventing them from beingrecalculated by the program, you can lock them.

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About Project PropertiesThe project properties is the starting point for defining a new project. It enables youto specify the location of the project, the procurement strategy and technicaldatabase to be used in the project and the preferred units.

Note: It is not possible to make changes in this screen once a project iscreated. However, the Project editor does allow the procurement strategy and thetechnical database to be changed once the project is saved.

l Name: enter a name for the project here.This will be the default file name whenyou save the project.

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Units of Measure

The units of measure define the units that will appear, both in the project and thereports. QUE$TOR has three built-in unit sets, metric, imperial and oilfield which areselected from the dropdown list.

Custom unit sets can be defined using the Unit editor.To select a user defined unitset, select the use custom unit set option button and use the Browse button to locateit. The default location for custom unit sets is: My Documents \IHS \QUE$TOR\Unit Sets.

Once in a project the units can be easily changed, for every input QUE$TOR providesa choice of relevant units. However the units in the reports are fixed by the choice ofunit set.

Main Product

The main product can be either oil or gas, the volume of the secondary product, e.g.associated gas when oil is selected, is defined by a ratio on the Field level data form.

This should typically be Oil if the gas oil ratio (GOR) is 400 bbl/MMscf (70 m3/million Sm3)].

Note: Once selected this cannot be changed in the project.

Selection will also affect the default field level data (but this can adjusted if required)which in turn will influence the field life and plateau production rate.

The default product type is set to the choice made in the last project you created, orto oil when QUE$TOR is shipped.

Location

QUE$TOR contains a database of typical field characteristics, extracted from the IHSIRIS21 E&P database. These are broken down on a basin by basin basis and providethe default properties for the field.Whilst you can overwrite all these characteristics,they can be useful if some data is unavailable.

Procurement strategy

This allows you to select the regional databases to be used for each of the costcentres for the new project. For example equipment could be sourced from NorthAmerica and design performed in Europe. The currency of the cost estimate can alsobe defined.

The box displays existing procurement strategies which can be chosen by selection.

To look for existing procurement strategies in a different folder, click on Browse.

Click on New to create a procurement strategy. When you create a new procurementstrategy QUE$TOR bases the default regional database on the location selected.SeeCreating procurement strategies for more information.

Click on View to examine a procurement strategy.

Click on Delete to delete the selected procurement strategy.

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Note: QUE$TOR does not ship with any built-in procurement strategies.

Technical database

The technical database contains regional specific technical data such asenvironmental data.QUE$TOR includes template databases for every offshore regionworldwide.The default database is based on the location chosen.To change to adifferent database, click on Browse.

You will be prompted to choose whether you want to use a template databasesupplied with QUE$TOR or use a custom database. See Technical Databases forfurther information.

Once you have adjusted all inputs as necessary, click OK. This applies your changesand closes the form to move on. Cancel will clear all entries in the form and takeyou back a step.

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Creating Procurement StrategiesProcurement strategies allow you to choose different regional cost databases foreach cost centre. They can also be used to choose the currency for the cost estimate.The cost data in each regional database is stored in either US dollars or the localcurrency (for the UK, Norway and the Netherlands). When cost databases are broughtinto the procurement strategy QUE$TOR converts them all into US dollars. You canedit the exchange rate used for this conversion. You can then choose a currency forthe cost estimate and enter the exchange rate from US dollars to this currency.

To create a new procurement strategy

1. Click Create new procurement strategy in the project properties form. Thisopens the form shown below.

2. Select a region and country.3. By default the cost database will be assigned a title which is the same as the

country selected; this can be overwritten.4. Click OK.5. The procurement strategy definition form is displayed.

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6. QUE$TOR has built in defaults for every country which it uses to choose wherecost centres are sourced from. To adjust the default region use the dropdownlists.

7. Check the exchange rate for each database. Some cost databases are in localcurrencies. In creating a procurement strategy QUE$TOR converts all costs to USdollars.A default exchange rate is entered if the cost database is in local currencybut this should obviously be treated with care and edited to reflect expectedexchange rates. The rate should be in the form of local currency to 1 US dollar,e.g. UK0.624 = US$1.

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project management costs

equipment costs

materials costs

fabrication costs

certification costs