Control systems run the wells and the pipelines. UiPath automates the business work around them: land records, trade confirmations, invoices, and turnaround plans.
Automation in the oil and gas industry splits in two. Control systems run physical production. UiPath automates the business work around it: land, contracts, trade, operations, and invoices.
The oil and gas processes where agents, robots, and people already work together in production.
LAND AND LEASE
The land lease lifecycle runs on courthouse records, spreadsheets, email, and systems that were never designed to move work between them. Document understanding reads deeds, leases, mortgages, and probate records. Agents draft the chain of title and flag curative items. Title examiners review and approve. Quorum, Enverus, PakEnergy, and Peloton stay where they are.
QUALITY ENGINEERING
Energy operators run test cycles against enterprise resource planning, maintenance, scheduling, and point-of-sale systems that change constantly. UiPath Test Cloud plans, designs, runs, and maintains those tests with AI agents. Testers move to defining intent and resolving ambiguity where judgment matters.
TRADING
Counterparty confirmations still arrive as PDFs and email, in formats that change by counterparty, inside next-business-day windows. Agents extract the terms, compare them against Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, or TriplePoint, and detect mismatches. Analysts see the exceptions with the evidence attached, and every approval is recorded.
MAINTENANCE
Turnaround scope lives across SAP, Maximo, Primavera, and spreadsheets, and reconciling it takes weeks. Robots consolidate the work list and clean it. Agents build work packs, check materials, and surface the highest-risk work first. Orchestration gives planners a live view of schedule, approvals, cost, and change instead of a status report next week.
PRODUCTION
Upstream operators receive hundreds of well-status emails a day, in varying formats, each one needing to be logged against the right well for audit. An agent reads the message, validates the well name against the system of record, checks the reported stage against the expected stage, and files the record. Anything that deviates goes to a subject matter expert in real time.
FINANCE
Invoice volume in oil and gas tracks service company activity, and much of it still arrives on paper or as unstructured attachments. Document understanding extracts the line items. Agents match them against purchase orders and contracts, investigate the discrepancies, and draft the follow-up. Accounts payable teams approve rather than rekey.
Pull data from deeds, confirmations, invoices, and field email at scale.
Long-running processes survive failures, wait on approvals, and resume.
Consequential decisions go to a person, with the evidence and a record.
See how business orchestration and automation coordinates agents, robots, and people across the enterprise systems that run your operations.
Recorded walkthroughs of the land and trading processes above, running on real systems.
CASE STUDY
The energy group automated 58 processes covering customs documentation and invoicing, cutting errors and removing the waiting time between steps.
hours handed back to staff
automations in production
software robots running
human involvement, down from 4 hours
from initial design to production
deploys automation across the company
EVENTS
Customer sessions on running agentic AI across oil and gas business processes, including a recorded session with Continental Resources. Recordings are available to watch now.
More customer results across energy
WEBINAR
From an owner email or voicemail to a live ticket and a reply, with people in control of the decisions that matter.
WEBINAR
A recorded session on where autonomous agents fit in oil and gas operations, and what it takes to run them.
E-BOOK
How energy finance teams cut invoice handling time and errors with document understanding and agents.
Common questions about what oil and gas automation covers and where it applies.
Oil and gas automation covers two different things. Control and field automation runs physical production: wellhead equipment, pipelines, terminals, and refinery units. Process and back-office automation runs the business around that production: land and lease records, contracts, trade confirmations, invoices, and regulatory reporting. UiPath works in the second category. It orchestrates agents, robots, and people across the enterprise systems an operator already runs, and it does not replace control systems.
Control and field automation is instrumentation and control: the sensors, controllers, and systems that keep physical assets running safely. It is sold by industrial control vendors. Process automation is software that runs the work surrounding production, such as reading a deed, validating a trade confirmation, matching an invoice, or tracking a lease obligation. The two are complementary, and an operator generally buys them from different vendors.
Robotic process automation, or RPA, uses software robots to carry out rule-based work across applications the way a person would: opening a system, reading a field, entering data, moving a file. In oil and gas it handles high-volume repeatable steps such as updating a land system, pulling records for a title run, or posting invoice data into an enterprise resource planning system. RPA covers the deterministic work. AI agents handle the steps that need judgment.
The fastest returns come from document-heavy, deadline-driven processes that already run at volume. Land and lease administration, incoming trade confirmations, accounts payable and invoice processing, well status handling, and turnaround planning all fit that description. Each one has clear inputs, a measurable cycle time, and an owner who feels the delay.
No. Quorum, Enverus, PakEnergy, Peloton, Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, SAP, and Maximo stay where they are and stay authoritative. The work changes around them. UiPath reads what arrives, prepares it, moves it between systems, and brings a person in when a decision needs judgment.
Every consequential action is recorded, including what the agent proposed, the evidence behind it, the rule that was applied, and the person who approved it. Human checkpoints sit in front of decisions that carry legal or financial exposure, so the record shows both what ran and what was decided.
