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D&C Digital D&C Digital Guide to: BP Cost Estimate and AFE Form in OpenWells Before you create a new form, ensure that your Datum, Rig Operation and Rig Equipment are correct. •

Right-click on the Event, Well or Wellbore you wish to create the form for, and click ‘New Report‘.

Right Click

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Select ‘’Cost Est. and AFE’ from the list of forms. Check that the Well, Wellbore and Event are correct or select the correct ones. If the Well is incorrect, click cancel, select the correct Well in OpenWells and start again. Click ‘Next’.

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Double check the information in the ‘Report Header’ section, if it is incorrect, click ‘Cancel’ and start again. Edit the ‘Report Details’ as required. The ‘Description’ shows up in the ‘Forms’ list on the main page of OpenWells, as does the ‘Report Date’ and ‘Number’. Click ‘Finish’.

(The form number is reset for each different type of form and when the Event changes)

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Your new Cost Est. and AFE report should now be open.

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Tick the ‘Single Section View’ box on the left of the toolbar (this allows you to look at one section of the form at a time).

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It is important to click apply or save regularly during your report – at least after each section. Apply: is available when you have single section view enabled, otherwise use the save button: .

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Once a section has been completed, activate the Section Complete checkbox located in the section header . A green checkmark will appear on the section icon in the shortcut bar to indicate that all data has been entered in the section.

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The Daily Costs entered in the Daily Operations against planned costs entered in the Costs Est. & reason the Cost Est. & AFE report should be created report otherwise the Daily Report will not be appropriate AFE number

report are reported AFE report. For this before the first Daily associated with an

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The Well/ Event List section displays a table listing all the Wells and Events associated with the AFE, along with the Event Date. This table is automatically updated and is associated with the information inputted in the General Information section.

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Associations are configured using the File > Associate > AFE menu command in the OpenWells main menu

General Information -Summary Area: • Enter an AFE Number. The most important element in the General Information section is the field used to enter an AFE number. An AFE number is used to track planned vs. actual costs and the information collected is used to compare cost estimates with actual cost, and can be viewed in the Cost vs. Days Output Report. •

AFE Number Note: If an AFE Number is not entered, the program will display an error message at the time the report is saved instructing the user to enter information in the field.

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Enter other summary parameters such as Currency, Exchange Rate and Estimator. Fill in as much information as possible. Turquoise coloured cells are corporately required and pale yellow cells are

D&C Digital calculated. To refer back to the previous forms, use the drop down list or the backwards and forwards arrows on the tool bar as shown below:

-Cost Estimate Spreadsheet: •

Add a row to the spreadsheet by clicking this icon:

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Click the Phase picklist in the spreadsheet and select the appropriate phase of the operation.

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Then select an associated Task and then whether it is a Tangible or Intangible item. Openwells automatically changes the following Cost Codes available depending whether Tangible or Intangible is selected.

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Select the relevant Cost Code from the picklist. The next three cells are automatically filled in:- Subcode or Description, Local Account and Global Account.

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Fill in the other cells in the spreadsheet and select a vendor from the picklist.

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Attachment Support ( ). The Cost Estimate spreadsheet allows for one or more documents to be attached to a row in the spreadsheet (e.g., tender document from a vendor). To attach a file to a row in the spreadsheet, left-click the cell in the (Attachment) row and select New.... The Attachment Properties dialog appears that allows the user to attach a document to the cost item.

Supplemental AFE •

This section is used to add cost estimates to the report that were not anticipated at the time of the initial estimate.

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The section is similar to the General Information and should be completed in a similar way.

Remarks •

If necessary, enter any comments that you feel are important in this section.