The 8 Best Oil and Gas Automation Software Platforms For Evaluation

2024 is the year for energy, oil and gas companies to reinvent themselves, all while becoming leaner and greener. The industry is turning to process automation to help reduce operation, and maintenance costs and unplanned outages and downtime. 

With focuses on debt reduction, overcoming skills shortages, and transforming business models. There’s never been a better time to discover how processes can be re-invented and widespread automation achieved by empowering businesspeople with self-service automation software platforms. 

What should the oil and gas industry look for in automation software?

Oil and gas companies want software that is a good fit for their disconnected and distributed sites, many have global processes with variances for different sites etc., so the software they need must be agile and built for remote locations with offline capability for example.

These companies want to gather, showcase, and apply data visualization to enable better decision-making, so they should look for process tools that validate the data through the data collection, resulting in accurate and validated data collection.

One oil and gas company summed up these needs recently by saying "My sector is labor intensive – we are always delivering a tailored service. Key aspects for us to take advantage of digitalization are how we gather the data, whether it is correct, and the visibility of the data to make better decisions. We want to standardize processes without losing business agility."

They are also looking for automation software that can become strategic to their organization and use widely to drive operational efficiency across key areas such as health & safety, quality control, process control compliance, HR, procurement, and everything in between. They are looking for a tool to help them achieve a connected enterprise.

In this blog, I concisely share the details of eight oil and gas automation platforms, what their main features are, and pricing information where available. I hope this will act as a useful guide to you in your evaluation of process platforms

8 Oil and Gas Automation Platforms For Consideration

FlowForma Process Automation

FlowForma Process Automation is the tool of choice for the oil and gas industry. The tools offers forms, workflow, analytics, document generation, and lots more in one platform. It was designed from day one as a process tool for use by both the business and IT. FlowForma customers be they energy companies or healthcare providers don't need to know any coding to be able to rapidly digitalize business processes.

Find out more about this award-winning platform by visiting our Energy webpage.

Features 

• All-in-one tool platform

• Forms

• Workflow

• Unlimited document generation

• Seamless governance

• Compliance

• Collaborate

• Offline capability

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Platform built for rapid automation by IT, business or a fusion team

• Our unique engage features, provides you the ability to grant external stakeholders such as suppliers, contractors etc. to input to internal processes

Pricing

FlowForma pricing is transparent with no hidden costs. The pricing is based off how many users you have and there are different packages depending on what your requirements are and features you will require.

Kissflow

Kissflow is a low code oil and gas automation tool used by many companies in the sector.

Features 

• low code automation tool

• app builder

• process builder

• forms builder

• external portal

• governance

Pricing

For simple use cases for internal participation only, the Kissflow pricing starts at $1,500 per month

OpenText

OpenText was listed by Forrester in its Digital Process Automation Landscape 2024, as a vendor concentrating on the Oil and gas industry. OpenText’s Digital Process Automation suite draws on expertise from multiple BPM and workflow acquisitions. Forrester had called it out as a strong contender for content-centric DPA use cases.

Features

• Deep integrations with key applications

• Information governance

• wide list of oil and gas use cases

• Scalability and performance

Pricing

OpenText does not list its pricing on its website.

HighGear

HighGear is a no code, configurable workflow automation platform that supports oil and gas companies.

Features 

• drag and drop form builder

• enterprise task manager

• Real-time reporting

• Integrations

Pricing

HighGear does not disclose pricing for its automation solutions on its website.

ILeap

ILeap is a low-code Business Process Management tool that is used for automation solutions across many sectors including energy companies.

Features

• drag and drop form builder

• Extensible rules engine

• native document management

• app builder

• reporting and analytics

Pricing

ILeap does not disclose its automation solutions pricing on its website.

Nintex

Nintex is a well-known brand for automation solutions, the low-code platform is used across organizations of varying sizes across multiple sectors including oil and gas.

Features

• Drag and drop designer

• Process analytics

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Process discovery

• Document generation

• Robotic Process Automation

Pricing

Nintex entry pricing starts from 21k with the next level up being from 42k and custom pricing for enterprise packages. Their pricing is tailored directly to the use case. Use case can mean workflow, document generation, process mapping, and more. Price also seems customized based on the industry in which the client works.

Axon Ivy

Axon Ivy is a process automation and BPM software, suitable for low-code and full-code development for the oil and gas industry and beyond. The platform promises to increase operational efficiency.

Features

• Process engine

• Business rule engine

• Holistic integration

• Adaptive case management

Pricing

Axon Ivy does not have published pricing on their website.

EnergyFlow

EnergyFlow is a business process automation and management platform designed for modern oil and gas companies, offered by Enegen.

Features

• Process designer

• Process executor

• Integration tools

• Energy data models

• Full audit trail

Pricing

EnergyFlow pricing is not presented on their website.

Conclusion

With so many automation solutions out there for oil and gas companies, it can be confusing and a time-consuming task to evaluate multiple vendors, but I can guarantee you that the results are worth it to achieve operational performance and regulatory compliance. To help you formulate a checklist for evaluation, I'd recommend you download our Comparative Buyers Guide.