  Autonomous agents are seen as a prominent technology to be applied in
industrial scenarios. Classical automation solutions are struggling with
challenges related to high dynamism, prompt actuation, heterogeneous entities,
including humans, and decentralised decision-making. Besides promoting
concepts, languages, and tools to face such challenges, agents must also
provide high reliability. To assess how appropriate and mature are agents for
industrial applications, we have investigated its application in two scenarios
of the gas and oil industry. This paper presents the development of systems and
the initial results highlighting the advantages and drawbacks of the agents
approach when compared with the existing automation solutions.
