Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Occidental Petroleum Corporation under which Occidental will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Anadarko.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will acquire the remaining shares of ICONICS, Inc., a U.S-based software company focused on HMI/SCADA, IoT, mobile, analytics, and cloud software products for the manufacturing, industrial and building-automation markets.

Schlumberger announced that it has renewed and significantly expanded its agreement with Google Cloud to develop cloud-native E&P applications to help its customers derive actionable insights from data.

HP and Siemens announced an expansion of their strategic alliance to help customers transform their businesses with industrial additive manufacturing (AM).

AVEVA and Cognizant announced that the two companies have expanded their research and development (R&D) partnership to develop software for industrial applications ranging from water and energy to food and infrastructure.

Siemens has named Israel-based Presenso as its strategic partner in AI and machine learning (ML) for predictive oil and gas maintenance.

ADLINK Technology, Inc., a global provider of Edge Computing products, announces that it is collaborating with Intel to develop its latest Edge Computing platform MECS-6110 as an Intel Select Solution for Universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE).

According to the announcement from Ingersoll Rand: "Ingersoll Rand will separate its Industrial segment (Ingersoll Rand Industrial) by way of a spin-off to Ingersoll Rand’s shareholders and then combine it with Gardner Denver, creating a leader in mission-critical flow creation and industrial technologies (IndustrialCo).

Emerson has acquired Bioproduction Group (Bio-G), a leader in simulation, modeling, and scheduling software for biomanufacturing.

Microsoft announced an expanded partnership with Dell Technologies to provide customers with native, supported, and certified VMware solutions on Microsoft Azure.