Recently at the SIS Global Forum 2019, Schlumberger, Chevron and Microsoft announced the industry's first three-party collaboration to accelerate creation of innovative petrotechnical and digital technologies.

Neptune, part of PSG, a Dover company, now offers the new NSP Series Solenoid Metering Pumps and NXP Series Stepper Motor-Driven Metering Pumps for chemical applications that require reliable and accurate dosing.

Baker Hughes, a GE company announced that the Baker Hughes international rig count for August 2019 was 1,138, down 24 from the 1,162 counted in July 2019, and up 130 from the 1,008 counted in August 2018. The international offshore rig count for August 2019 was 244, down 11 from the 255 counted in July 2019, and up 32 from the 212 counted in August 2018.

SPX FLOW has a long history in supplying portable pump technology to the oil and gas industry. Some of its models have proved so successful and popular that they have been around (upgraded and improved) for nearly 50 years and continue to be selected as reliable workhorses for the industry. Of course, technology has advanced over time, creating higher speeds for even greater efficiency, while maintaining high levels of performance and reliability.

Probe, a  supplier of cased-hole logging and advanced monitoring technology to the global oil and gas and geothermal industries,  has launched the ProMAC, a new series of multi-arm caliper tools. Designed to increase measurement accuracy, reliability and maintainability, ProMAC series tools offer the most advanced measurements in the industry to provide an accurate profile of the internal surface of tubing, casing and completion assemblies.

Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. reports that a significant Montney light oil pool has been discovered and appraised at Progress, Alberta, on the Corporation's 47 net section block of 100% owned lands.  This discovery elevates the Progress asset to be a primary element of the Corporation's near-term liquids development program.

Honeywell has unveiled new software to help field workers in the oil and gas, mining, and aerospace industries digitize equipment inspection programs, which can increase productivity, improve accuracy and minimize unplanned asset downtime. 

Endress+Hauser is offering two universal, device configuration tablet PCs that provide especially fast, efficient one-click mobile device configuration and plant asset management in hazardous environments. With these robust, touch-enabled Field Xpert tablet PCs ­­- model SMT77 for Cl. 1 Div. 1 and SMT70 for Cl. 1 Div. 2 - maintenance staff can manage virtually all digitally communicating Endress+Hauser and other field instruments throughout their entire life cycle. Both can be utilized just as effectively in non-hazardous parts of the same facilities.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, and C3.ai announced a joint venture agreement that brings together BHGE's fullstream oil and gas expertise with C3.ai's unique AI software suite to deliver digital transformation technologies that will drive new levels of productivity for the oil and gas industry.

Emerson announced the release of Geolog 19, the latest version of its formation evaluation software suite.  This release includes new display formats that enhance collaboration between subsurface specialists. This includes representation of zonal data as crossplot and histogram tracks so that geoscientists can better understand the relationships between rock formation pressures, stresses, and mud weights, for example. The release also enhances its data connectivity and "openness" features with direct streaming of wellsite information transfer standard markup language (WITSML) data into Geolog's geosteering application, expanded connectivity to third-party applications, including Petrel 2019, and the integration of Python scripts for enhanced customization with no separate installation.

Metegrity, a globally trusted provider of quality and asset integrity management (AIM) software solutions, announces the launch of VisionsGo: a new mobile technology for asset inspections management. This first-of-its-kind technology empowers companies with the ability to execute, perform, collect and analyze all asset inspection data directly from the field via mobile tablet.

FLIR Systems, Inc. introduced FLIR Thermal Studio, a thermal image analysis and reporting software designed to manage large sets of thermal images and videos. Engineered for thermographers who use FLIR thermal handheld cameras, optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras, and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with thermal cameras, FLIR Thermal Studio's advanced processing capabilities and automation are designed to streamline workflow and increase productivity.