Australia’s BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum have signed a binding share sale agreement (SSA) for the merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside, under which Woodside will acquire the entire share capital of BHP Petroleum in exchange for new Woodside shares.

ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology.

Schneider Electric and Prisma Photonics, a provider of fiber sensing for smart infrastructure, announced a partnership to help oil and gas pipeline owners and operators to better prevent accidental and malicious activity by providing real-time intelligence and more precise monitoring of oil and gas infrastructure.

Siemens Energy is enlisting NVIDIA technology to develop an Industrial Digital Twin to reduce the frequency of planned power plant shutdowns while maintaining safety.

L&T Technology Services Limited announced that it has been selected as an engineering partner by Mavenir and NVIDIA, to accelerate adoption of the industry’s first converged AI-on-5G.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Power Line Systems—a player in software for the design of overhead electric power transmission lines and their structures

Denmark’s Maersk Drilling and U.S. rival Noble Corp. have agreed to merge in a $3.4 billion deal to form one of the world’s largest offshore oil drilling rig companies.

L&T Technology Services Limited announced that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to offer LTTS’ Energy & Sustainability Manager Solution on Microsoft Azure as an IIoT-Based Smart Manufacturing Solutions to digitally transform and create sustainable factories of the future.

AVEVA announced that it has signed a technology partnership with Helios IoT Systems, a specialized company with domain expertise in the renewables energy sector for operations and maintenance (O&M). The collaboration extends AVEVA Insight with performance calculations specific to the solar energy industry.

Palo Alto Networks announced the extension of its technology partnership with Siemens to improve the security of mission-critical networks and protect critical infrastructure from ​the threat of cyberattacks