For oil and gas manufacturers and service companies
Calibration software for API Q1 and Q2 equipment control
In oil and gas, a pressure gauge on a test bench, a torque wrench on a make-up line or a thread gauge in the shop decides whether equipment ships or goes back to work. API Specification Q1, 10th edition, clause 5.8 asks manufacturers to control all testing, measuring, monitoring and detection equipment, including tools owned by employees or from other sources. API Q2 asks the same of service companies. Axiospec keeps that equipment in one list with its status, readings and certificates, so an API auditor can follow each item back to its reference standard.
Standards that apply in Oil and Gas
Calibration challenges in Oil and Gas
Tools from many owners
Shops and crews use company gauges, employees' own tools, rentals and customer equipment. API Q1 clause 5.8 brings all of it under control and asks you to confirm outside equipment is calibrated before you use it.
Ten years of records
API Q1 records are kept for at least 10 years (clause 4.5), and the Q2 3rd edition, effective 1 October 2027, asks service companies for ten years as well.
Out-of-tolerance findings reach the customer
When equipment is found out of calibration, API Q2 asks you to assess earlier results and tell the customer about any impact. That needs a clear link between each gauge and the work it was used on.
Status at the point of use
API Q1 asks for calibration status to be identifiable before and during use. On a well site or a shop floor that is hard when the status lives in an office spreadsheet.
Editions keep changing
The Q1 10th edition replaced the 9th, whose last certificates were withdrawn in March 2026. The Q2 3rd edition takes effect on 1 October 2027. API Spec 5B's 17th edition, published in October 2026, tightens calibration and record keeping for thread gauges.
How Axiospec helps Oil and Gas teams
One register across shops and bases
Every pressure gauge, torque wrench, thread gauge and hardness tester gets a unique ID, location, interval and status, in one list with a rollup across every site.
As-found and as-left readings
Log as-found and as-left readings against tolerance, attach the lab's certificate and record the reference standard behind each calibration.
A trail for out-of-tolerance equipment
An out-of-tolerance result is flagged on the calibration, with room to record the impact assessment. If a reference standard drifts, trace it to every calibration it stood behind.
Status where the equipment is
Print a QR label for each instrument. Your team scans it to open the instrument's record. Technicians log a check from the native iOS and Android apps without going back to a desk.
A full history you can export
Every entry is time-stamped and tied to the person who made it, on a tamper-evident audit trail, and the full history exports whenever an auditor or customer asks.
An easy start, free for small programs
Import your equipment list from Excel or CSV, or send us what you have in any format and we load it for you at no cost, usually within a couple of business days. The Free plan covers up to 50 active instruments with unlimited users.
Oil and Gas calibration software: common questions
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Does Axiospec make us API Q1 or Q2 compliant?
No software does. Axiospec keeps the equipment records clause 5.8 asks for, such as identity, calibration status, results, traceability and the action taken on out-of-tolerance equipment. Conformance is decided by API's auditors.
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Can Axiospec handle several shops and field bases?
Yes. Group equipment by site and see a rollup across all of them, with unlimited users on every plan.
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How do we move our current records over?
Import a spreadsheet yourself, or send us your current list and calibration history in any format and we load it for you at no cost, usually within a couple of business days.
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Is there a free way to try Axiospec?
Yes. The live demo opens a working calibration record with no signup and no credit card. A new workspace takes no card and runs on Professional for its first 45 days, so you can load your own equipment, and the Free plan then covers up to 50 active instruments with unlimited users and no per-seat fee.
Axiospec is a documentation and workflow tool. It helps Oil and Gas teams produce clean, traceable, audit-ready calibration records; certification and conformance depend on your own processes, scope, and assessor.
Audit-ready from day one
Each instrument gets a tamper-evident calibration record.
Got a gage list? Send it over and we load it for you, usually in a couple of business days. Free on every plan.
Free plan, no credit card · Unlimited users · Nothing to install