In 2024, energy, oil, and gas companies have a prime opportunity to reinvent themselves, becoming more efficient and environmentally friendly. The industry is increasingly embracing process automation to cut operational and maintenance costs while minimizing unplanned outages and downtime.
With priorities such as reducing debt, addressing skill shortages, and transforming business models, now is the ideal moment to explore how processes can be reimagined. By leveraging self-service automation software platforms, businesses can achieve widespread automation and empower their teams to digitalize at scale.
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
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.
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
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 is a low code oil and gas automation tool used by many companies in the sector.
low code automation tool
app builder
process builder
forms builder
external portal
governance
For simple use cases for internal participation only, the Kissflow pricing starts at $1,500 per month
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.
Deep integrations with key applications
Information governance
wide list of oil and gas use cases
Scalability and performance
OpenText does not list its pricing on its website.
HighGear is a no code, configurable workflow automation platform that supports oil and gas companies.
drag and drop form builder
enterprise task manager
Real-time reporting
Integrations
HighGear does not disclose pricing for its automation solutions on its website.
ILeap is a low-code Business Process Management tool that is used for automation solutions across many sectors including energy companies.
drag and drop form builder
Extensible rules engine
native document management
app builder
reporting and analytics
ILeap does not disclose its automation solutions pricing on its website.
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.
Drag and drop designer
Process analytics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Process discovery
Document generation
Robotic Process Automation
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 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.
Process engine
Business rule engine
Holistic integration
Adaptive case management
Axon Ivy does not have published pricing on their website.
EnergyFlow is a business process automation and management platform designed for modern oil and gas companies, offered by Enegen.
Process designer
Process executor
Integration tools
Energy data models
Full audit trail
EnergyFlow pricing is not presented on their website.
The Fluix software platform is designed for the oil and gas industry with features that empower on-site and off-site users to automate processes.
$50 per user per month with a 10 user minimum.
FieldCap is designed for users on the ground in oil fields. Oilfield companies use FieldCap software for managing their workflows, process tickets and billing, and respond to changing customer needs.
Pricing is not listed on the Fieldcap website.
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.
If you want to reduce costs, eliminate errors, and increase productivity across back office and operations processes, reach out to our team of process experts, they are on hand to support you.