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Land or sea, mountainous terrain or pristine valleys, GULF has successfully executed oil and gas projects characterized by the most complex logistics.  \nChallenges  \nGULF Companies (GULF) specializes in the project management, engineering and construction management of transportation & midstream  \nsystems from the wellhead through, and including, the terminal. This includes onshore pipelines, gathering systems, gas plants, oil conditioning plants, production facilities, pump and compressor stations, storage terminals and loading facilities.  \nTheir expertise in all aspects of Oil & Gas production make them a worldwide provider in the pipeline industry for project management, engineering and design, GIS [geospatial], procurement and construction management services. As all capital projects management firms do, GULF relies on capital cost estimates for its projects.  \nGulf Companies at a Glance  \nGulf Companies reduced estimating man-hours, standardized setup and reporting, and increased productivity.  \nIndustry: Oil & Gas  \nLocation: United States Results:  \n• 10% reduction in man-hours  \n• Standardization of setup and reporting issues much sooner  \n• Increased productivity on large projects with multiple facilities  \nith Contruent, we’ve  \nreduced the effort to find and fix formula errors in our previous estimate worksheets saving us up to 10% of our estimating  \nman-ho“urs.   \nAde Oyetunji  \nEstimating Manager Gulf Companies  \nThese pipeline projects are often complex, requiring quality project management and consistent estimates. Previously, GULF utilizeda wide variety of Microsoft Excel workbooks to manage project estimates.  \nWhile this practice allowed estimators to build flexible work products that met client requirements, Excel did not control, validate, or standardize any of the inputs or formula calculations within each estimate.  \nThis resulted in many labor hours spent setting up Excel spreadsheets that would be used on an estimate.  \n“Each estimator started with an Excel template, then modified the template to fit specific requirements for the project or client,” Ade Oyetunji, Manager of Estimating at GULF, said.“In many cases, if an error was found in the worksheet, the fix never made it back to the template, thus continuing the error to another estimate. Due to this, every estimate was unique and quality control was difficult to implement as a broken formula may not be easily noticed.”  \n“A. fter reviewing four other  \nestimating applications, it became apparent that Contruent’s estimating functionality was going to be the most robust and fastest to implement  \nsolut“ion.   \nJoe Coe  \nProject Manager Gulf Companies  \nObjectives  \nGulf Companies was looking to implement estimating software to solve the following problems:  \n• Quality control  \n• Data management  \n• Standardized setup and reporting  \nThe Solution  \nGULF evaluated several estimating solutions. The company decided togo with Contruent to prepare total installed cost estimates for oil and gas pipelines and facilities’ capital projects.  \n“After reviewing four other estimating applications, it became apparent that Contruent’s estimating functionality was going to be the most robust and fastest to implement solution,” Jared Coe, Project Manager, said.“Contruent comes with many features out-ofthe-box and allows us to expand our use of the application over time with additional features, such as assemblies.”  \nWith ","cbCaidxKXU0RdkgQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidxKXU0RdkgQ","pdf",1522777,"English","# Challenges\n## Objectives\n# The Solution\n## The Results","[{\"question\":\"What challenges did Gulf Companies face with estimating?\",\"answer\":\"Gulf Companies struggled with quality control, data management, and standardized setup and reporting. 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