Best EAM Software for Oil and Gas 2026

By the editors at Reliable. Last updated October 20, 2026.

Updated October 2026: Hexagon EAM is now Octave Attune EAM after Octave's spin-off from Hexagon (listed May 2026); the former Infor EAM is the same product, sold to Hexagon in 2021, so the service-company slot now goes to IFS Cloud EAM; AVEVA's entry reflects that AVEVA markets asset performance management and no standalone EAM; IBM's offering is named as IBM names it (Maximo for Oil and Gas, with Maximo HSE); compliance claims limited to what each vendor names; unsourced cost and timeline figures replaced; analyst reports removed from Sources.

The short version: Oil and gas is the most demanding EAM vertical: operational technology integration, regulatory complexity, and asset criticality all exceed what horizontal EAM platforms are built for. AVEVA leads this list on the strength of its OT-integrated asset performance stack (AVEVA PI System, Plant SCADA and Enterprise SCADA, Predictive Analytics, Asset Information Management), which operators run over an EAM such as IBM Maximo or SAP; AVEVA itself sells no standalone EAM. IBM Maximo Application Suite with Maximo for Oil and Gas is the strongest horizontal EAM for global integrated operators.

Octave Attune EAM (formerly HxGN EAM and, before 2021, Infor EAM) is the linear-asset specialist for midstream pipeline operators. SAP EAM is the natural choice for S/4HANA-standardized organizations. Bentley AssetWise, which bp standardized on in 2023, serves engineering-intensive upstream and offshore operations. IFS Cloud EAM, a DNV-certified platform for mobile assets that TotalEnergies selected in 2025 for more than 13,500 users, serves drilling contractors, rig owners, and oilfield service companies.

Choose by segment (upstream, midstream, downstream), by whether you are an operator or a service company, and by the OT and ERP systems already in place.

How We Evaluated

This guide is independent editorial analysis based on publicly available product documentation, analyst reports from Gartner and IDC, verified customer reviews across G2 and Capterra, and hands-on product demonstrations. Reliable does not sell EAM software and has no commercial interest in routing buyers toward any particular platform. Reliable does not accept payment for rankings. Vendors may sponsor enhanced listings with additional detail, but editorial rankings are independent. Read our editorial policy.

We evaluated each platform across six criteria that matter most for oil and gas EAM decisions:

• Operational technology integration: native connectivity to process historians, SCADA, and control systems

• Industry segment fit: depth of functionality for upstream, midstream, or downstream operations

• Regulatory compliance: support for the mechanical integrity, management of change, permit-to-work, audit-trail, and emissions workflows that PHMSA, OSHA PSM, EPA, BSEE, and international safety case regimes drive, judged by what each vendor's own pages name

• Asset criticality and APM integration: predictive maintenance and reliability program support for safety-critical assets

• Engineering data integration: connectivity with design systems, materials of construction, and asset information management

• Implementation and total cost of ownership: what each vendor publishes about deployment, licensing, and price

Why Oil and Gas EAM Is Different

Oil and gas is the most demanding EAM vertical, and the reason has three parts. First, operational technology integration is central. Refineries, gas processing plants, and offshore platforms run continuous process operations where asset performance and process performance are inseparable. EAM platforms that cannot connect to PI System historians, distributed control systems, and process safety systems leave operators with fragmented visibility: maintenance teams in EAM, operations teams in process historians, and reliability teams reconciling data by hand between them. The cost of that fragmentation is large and the safety implications can be severe.

Second, regulatory complexity exceeds almost any other industry. Upstream operations navigate BSEE offshore regulations and state-level production rules. Midstream operations run under PHMSA pipeline integrity management requirements and DOT transportation regulations. Downstream operations face OSHA Process Safety Management, EPA refinery emissions standards, and a maze of state and local environmental requirements. Each regime drives specific EAM capabilities: audit trails, mechanical integrity programs, management of change workflows, and compliance reporting. Horizontal EAM platforms deliver some of these out of the box and leave the rest to configuration.

Third, asset criticality consequences are unusually severe. A failed pump in a manufacturing plant causes a production interruption. A failed pump in a refinery hydrocracker can cause an explosion, fatalities, and a multi-month regulatory shutdown. The same dynamics apply to offshore platforms, gas processing facilities, and pipeline pump stations. EAM in oil and gas optimizes maintenance and also manages operational risk, at a level where integrated APM, condition monitoring, and reliability programs are essential.

The 6 Best EAM Platforms for Oil and Gas in 2026

1. AVEVA Asset Performance Management — Best for Oil and Gas Overall

AVEVA leads this list on the strength of its operational technology stack, and it is important to be clear about what that stack is. AVEVA sells no standalone EAM: its products catalog lists no enterprise asset management product, and the AVEVA address that once served an EAM page now serves Asset Performance Management. What AVEVA does sell is the OT-integrated layer that oil and gas operators run over their EAM: AVEVA PI System, the process historian that AVEVA describes as the long-standing center of oil and gas operational data; AVEVA Plant SCADA and AVEVA Enterprise SCADA for plant control and pipeline operations; AVEVA Predictive Analytics (formerly PRiSM) for asset health; AVEVA Asset Information Management for engineering data; and AVEVA Unified Operations Center for visualization. AVEVA describes the combination as information management, digital twins, analytics, and visualization for upstream, LNG, pipeline, gas processing, downstream, and hydrogen operations.

The customer evidence sits on AVEVA's own pages: Shell monitored subsea blowout preventers with PI System and reports more than US$5 million in cost avoidance; PETRONAS combined Predictive Analytics with PI System and reports US$33 million in savings from reduced unplanned downtime; Saudi Aramco runs Predictive Analytics, PI System, and process simulation across 2,500 pieces of critical rotating equipment; TotalEnergies uses PI System for energy efficiency and emissions monitoring at scale; and bp and KBR built a full-lifecycle digital twin for an offshore Azerbaijan development (all vendor figures). The trade-offs are real. The AVEVA stack is a major program that needs deep oil and gas expertise, it assumes an EAM or CMMS underneath it for work orders, parts, and procurement, and it is more than operations without OT integration depth need. For operators that fit the profile, it is the safest choice for the OT layer. For service companies and mid-market operators, the alternatives below are the better fit. AVEVA has been wholly owned by Schneider Electric since 2023.

Best for: Major integrated oil and gas operators, refineries, offshore platforms, gas processing facilities, LNG and pipeline operators with deep operational technology infrastructure, running AVEVA over an EAM such as Maximo or SAP.

Pricing: Custom enterprise quotes through AVEVA's Flex subscription program; AVEVA publishes no list prices.

2. IBM Maximo for Oil and Gas — Best for Global Integrated Enterprises

IBM Maximo Application Suite is the strongest horizontal EAM on this list for global integrated operators, and IBM packages its industry offering as Maximo for Oil and Gas (IBM also writes it as IBM Maximo Oil and Gas): applications and add-ons on the suite with embedded processes and data models for petroleum and chemicals. IBM's oil and gas page describes managing rigs, wells, pipelines, pumps, fleets, and plants across extraction, distribution, and refining; spatial capabilities for midstream asset visualization; and integration with IoT sensors and SCADA systems for predictive maintenance. The suite's applications for this work are Maximo EAM for maintenance planning and scheduling, Maximo Monitor and Maximo Health for condition-based maintenance, MRO Inventory Optimization, and Maximo Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), which IBM positions as the HSE and emissions management piece of Maximo for Oil and Gas.

Maximo HSE is where the industry-specific depth sits. IBM names incident management (incidents, hazards, near misses, investigations, corrective actions, shift handovers, operator rounds, production loss reporting), control of work (permit to work, lockout/tagout, isolations, certifications, risk assessments), management of change for operational and engineering changes, environmental compliance (waste tracking, emissions monitoring, environmental inspections, and audits, with IBM Envizi integration for greenhouse gas calculations), and contractor safety and competency. IBM names no specific regulator on these pages. Petroleum Development Oman's migration to cloud-based Maximo is IBM's featured oil and gas case study. Major operators often run Maximo and the AVEVA stack together: Maximo for enterprise asset management and corporate reporting, AVEVA for OT-integrated asset performance. The combination is expensive, and it reflects how oil and gas asset management actually works.

Best for: Global integrated oil and gas enterprises, major operators with diverse upstream, midstream, and downstream portfolios, organizations with existing IBM relationships.

Pricing: IBM publishes Maximo Application Suite Essentials SaaS tiers starting under US$40,000 per year (Maintenance at 150 AppPoints; Inspection under US$47,000) with a twelve-month minimum subscription; the Standard and Premium SaaS editions that add APM, and the client-managed edition, are quoted. Deployment is SaaS on AWS, client-managed on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other clouds, on-premises or hybrid, with Red Hat OpenShift included.

3. Octave Attune EAM — Best for Midstream Pipeline Operations

The product this guide previously listed as Hexagon EAM is now Octave Attune EAM. Infor sold its global EAM business to Hexagon in 2021 for about US$2.75 billion (nearly 3,500 customers at the time), the product became HxGN EAM, and in 2026 Hexagon spun its software businesses out as Octave Intelligence plc: the share distribution completed May 22, 2026, Octave's shares began trading on Nasdaq New York on May 28, 2026 under the ticker OCTV, and the product was rebranded Attune EAM. Octave's own pages still carry the line "formerly HxGN EAM". Octave is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

Octave publishes a dedicated Attune EAM for oil and gas brochure. It names the compressors, valves, pumps, and motors that keep pipelines, oil platforms, and wells running; condition monitoring with maintenance alerts; environmental health and safety; real-time emissions and energy tracking with alerts for regulatory non-compliance; mobile work and inspection management online and offline; a Constraint Optimizer for activity dispatch optimization and asset investment planning; and management of facilities, fleets, and linear assets from one system. Octave also publishes an Attune EAM and Esri GIS integration product sheet, which is the basis for the pipeline positioning here. Octave claims labor productivity gains of as much as 20 percent (vendor figure). Octave names no pipeline regulator on these pages, so PHMSA integrity management is a configuration and process question for the buyer, as it is with every platform on this list. For upstream production and downstream refining, the AVEVA stack and Maximo typically offer better fit. For midstream-focused operators (independent pipeline companies, gas gathering and processing operations, midstream divisions of integrated operators), Attune EAM is the linear-asset specialist on this list. Attune APM is a separate Octave product.

Best for: Pipeline operators, gas gathering systems, midstream divisions of integrated operators, operations with significant linear asset portfolios.

Pricing: Custom enterprise quotes; Octave publishes no list prices.

4. SAP EAM — Best for SAP-Standardized Operations

SAP EAM, the asset management capabilities of SAP S/4HANA, is the natural choice for oil and gas operations standardized on S/4HANA, which represents a meaningful share of the global oil and gas market. The integration with SAP financials, procurement, and supply chain is native, so asset records, work orders, parts, and financial transactions flow through a single source of truth. In oil and gas, where asset financial accountability extends from operations to corporate finance to regulatory reporting, SAP EAM removes the integration friction that mixed ERP and EAM deployments carry.

SAP's oil, gas, and energy pages describe upstream, midstream, downstream, and oilfield services segments, hydrocarbon visibility from wells to wheels, holistic enterprise asset management, and an environmental, health, and safety management application. SAP S/4HANA Cloud for upstream oil and gas, co-developed with Accenture, became generally available in March 2020 with contributions from ConocoPhillips and Shell. SAP Asset Performance Management is the SaaS APM layer, with closed-loop integration to SAP EAM, out-of-the-box integration with S/4HANA and SAP ERP, and embedded IoT via Cumulocity IoT. SAP names no oil and gas regulator on these pages. The platform is rarely the right choice for operations not standardized on SAP, because the value collapses without native SAP integration. For SAP-aligned operators and service companies, it is the path of least resistance and frequently the best total cost of ownership once ERP integration costs are counted.

Best for: Oil and gas operators standardized on SAP S/4HANA, service companies with SAP financial systems, organizations needing single-platform integration of financial, procurement, and asset management.

Pricing: Custom enterprise quotes tied to S/4HANA licensing; SAP Asset Performance Management is licensed in blocks of 100 objects per year, with no list price published.

5. Bentley AssetWise — Best for Engineering-Intensive Upstream and Offshore

Bentley's oil and gas position rests on engineering data. AssetWise Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM) manages documents, tags, metadata, and 3D model visualization as an owner-operator's central information store, and AssetWise Reliability covers risk-based inspection, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM2, compliant with SAE JA1011 and JA1012), FMEA, safety instrumented function strategy selection, condition monitoring, criticality, and HAZOP analysis. Bentley's design tools model the assets themselves: SACS and MOSES for offshore structures and floating systems, OpenPlant and AutoPIPE for plant design and pipe stress, PlantSight for plant digital twins, and iTwin Experience and iTwin IoT for operational digital twins that connect IT, OT, and engineering data. Bentley describes asset integrity management (corrosion monitoring, inspections, structural integrity of aging pipelines and offshore infrastructure), turnaround and shutdown planning, and operational records for safety and regulatory compliance; it names no specific regulator.

The anchor customer is bp, which in November 2023 standardized AssetWise ALIM across all projects, production, and manufacturing assets and began a global rollout of AssetWise Reliability across eight regions after a first deployment on the Clair asset in the North Sea. Bentley's oil and gas page also reports Shell cutting time to find information by 50 percent with iTwin Experience, ProjectWise, and AssetWise; Vedanta Cairn increasing productive well time by 10 percent and saving US$1.2 million a year; and OQ reducing asset failures by 50 percent with AssetWise APM (all vendor figures). AssetWise handles engineering information and reliability strategy; work orders, parts, and procurement stay in SAP or IBM Maximo, which Bentley integrates through Bentley Enterprise Connector Services. AssetWise is less compelling for downstream refining or midstream pipelines. For upstream operators with offshore portfolios or major capital projects, it offers lifecycle continuity from design through handover into operations that horizontal EAM platforms do not.

Best for: Offshore platform operators, engineering-intensive upstream operations, operators with significant capital project portfolios, organizations needing tight integration between engineering data and asset management.

Pricing: Custom quotes (AssetWise ALIM is listed as Request Pricing on bentley.com); licensing through Virtuoso named-user subscriptions or the SELECT and Enterprise 365 pooled programs; deployed on Bentley Infrastructure Cloud (SOC 2) or, for ProjectWise and several core applications, on-premises or hybrid.

6. IFS Cloud EAM — Best for Drilling Contractors, Rig Owners, and Oilfield Service Companies

The service-company slot on this guide belonged to Infor EAM, which no longer exists as a separate product (it is the Octave Attune EAM at number three). IFS Cloud takes it. IFS describes its oil and gas offering as a DNV-certified enterprise solution for energy companies that own and operate complex mobile assets onshore and offshore, combining EAM, field service management, mobile workforce management, and ERP, with onshore-offshore data replication for rigs and vessels, oil and gas accounting (revenue distribution, joint interest billing, lease acquisition and land administration, production accounting, joint venture accounting), and Copperleaf asset investment planning. Its oil and gas customers include the offshore drilling contractors Borr Drilling (28 jack-up rigs; IFS Cloud selected in February 2022 for EAM, onshore-offshore replication, supply chain, and global financials) and Noble Corporation, the FPSO operator BW Offshore, and the services contractor SPIE Nederland.

IFS also serves operators at scale. On January 31, 2025 TotalEnergies selected IFS Cloud as the single platform for maintenance and service of its global operated asset portfolio across exploration, production, refining, and chemicals, with more than 13,500 users when fully implemented and integration with TotalEnergies' future ERP. For drilling contractors, well services, equipment rental, and oilfield services, whose assets are portable, fleet-based, and project-deployed, IFS Cloud's mobile-asset design and offline replication fit better than operator-focused platforms, and the TotalEnergies deal shows it serves operators too. IFS claims a 40 percent reduction in production downtime for oil and gas customers (vendor figure). IFS Ultimo, the separate mid-market EAM that IFS acquired in 2022, is the lighter alternative for smaller service companies.

Best for: Drilling contractors, rig and FPSO owners, well services, equipment rental operators, oilfield services, and smaller independent operators that need EAM for mobile and offshore assets.

Pricing: Custom quotes; IFS publishes no list prices.

Oil and Gas EAM Platform Comparison Table

How to Choose the Right Oil and Gas EAM Platform

Oil and gas EAM selection comes down to four questions that matter more than feature comparison:

1. What segment do you operate in?

Upstream operators with offshore portfolios should evaluate the AVEVA stack, Maximo, Bentley AssetWise, and IFS Cloud as the strongest candidates. Midstream pipeline operators should evaluate Octave Attune EAM and Maximo. Downstream refining and gas processing operations should evaluate the AVEVA stack over Maximo or SAP EAM. Integrated operators with portfolios across all segments typically deploy more than one platform (Maximo or SAP for enterprise breadth, AVEVA for process operations, Attune EAM for midstream) instead of choosing one for everything.

2. Are you an operator or a service company?

Major operators with fixed production assets need a Tier 1 EAM (Maximo or SAP) with an OT layer (AVEVA) and, offshore, an engineering information layer (Bentley). Mid-market operators may have room to deploy Attune EAM or IFS Cloud on their own. Service companies (drilling contractors, well services, equipment rental, oilfield services) often get better fit from IFS Cloud or upper-tier CMMS platforms with strong fleet and equipment tracking than from operator-focused EAM platforms.

3. What is your existing technology environment?

Operations standardized on SAP S/4HANA should evaluate SAP EAM seriously regardless of segment; the integration economics are usually compelling. Operations with deep AVEVA PI System or Plant SCADA deployments should evaluate AVEVA Asset Performance Management as the natural extension of existing investments. Operations whose assets were designed in Bentley tools should evaluate AssetWise for the handover and integrity data. Operations with mixed environments should choose on segment-specific fit over ERP alignment.

4. What is your asset criticality and regulatory environment?

Operations with high-consequence assets (offshore platforms, refineries, large pipelines, gas processing facilities) need platforms with integrated APM and reliability program support. AVEVA, Maximo, Bentley, and SAP all offer these capabilities at different depths and through different architectures. For regulated processes, compare what each vendor names on its own pages. IBM names permit to work, lockout/tagout, management of change, incident management, emissions and waste tracking, and contractor safety (Maximo HSE). Octave names environmental health and safety and emissions and energy tracking with regulatory alerts. Bentley names asset integrity management and operational records for regulatory compliance. SAP names an environmental, health, and safety management application. IFS names DNV certification and regulatory compliance for mobile assets. None of the six names PHMSA, BSEE, or OSHA PSM on the pages checked, so the gap between a vendor's list and your permit conditions is configuration work or a specialist tool.

The Honest Middle Ground

Oil and gas EAM is a category where the largest deployments dominate the conversation while mid-market needs go underserved. Major operators get extensive vendor attention because their deals are large; mid-market operators and service companies frequently overspend on platforms that exceed their operational complexity. A mid-sized E&P operator does not necessarily need the full AVEVA stack. Attune EAM, IFS Cloud, or even an upper-tier CMMS with good historian integration can serve effectively at a fraction of the cost.

The opposite mistake is real and more dangerous. Operations with high-consequence assets that run horizontal EAM or an upper-tier CMMS without an OT-integrated layer end up with maintenance teams making decisions without process context, reliability programs disconnected from real-time operational data, and integrity management programs living in spreadsheets. When those failures happen, their cost dwarfs the price difference between platforms.

The right answer is an honest assessment of segment, scale, asset criticality, and regulatory environment. Major operators should not assume their peers' platform choices apply to their own operations. Service companies should not feel pressured to deploy operator-focused platforms. The buyer who selects oil and gas EAM based on what the largest operators in the region deploy will frequently select an overengineered or misaligned platform.

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Sources

• AVEVA: Software Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry; Maximize your oil and gas data to increase sustainability and reliability; Asset Performance Management

• IBM: Oil and gas asset management with Maximo Application Suite; Health, safety and environment (HSE) software with IBM Maximo; IBM Maximo Application Suite pricing

• Octave: Octave Attune EAM for oil and gas (brochure); Octave Attune EAM + ESRI GIS integration (product sheet); Octave Intelligence plc Listed on Nasdaq New York (May 28, 2026)

• Hexagon: Hexagon to acquire Infor's EAM business (July 6, 2021)

• SAP: Oil, gas, and energy; SAP Asset Performance Management features; SAP and Accenture launch upstream oil and gas solution (March 2020)

• Bentley Systems: Oil and Gas Infrastructure Software; AssetWise ALIM; AssetWise Reliability; bp Selects AssetWise Lifecycle Information Management and AssetWise Reliability (Business Wire, November 2, 2023)

• IFS: Oil and Gas Industry Software Solutions; TotalEnergies chooses IFS for global asset management transformation (January 31, 2025); International Drilling Contractor Borr Drilling Selects IFS Cloud (February 8, 2022)

Last updated: October 20, 2026. This guide is editorial analysis by Reliable. No vendor paid for ranking consideration or editorial input.