In its second update to the 2021 Canadian Oilfield Services Activity Forecast, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) has revised the number of wells drilled (rig released) across Canada for 2021 to 3,600 wells. This is an increase of 250 wells over PSAC's January 2021 Forecast of 3,350 wells.

Enerpac introduces the Safe T Torque Checker, the company's first mobile torque wrench testing unit. The new portable tool offers a simple and accurate measurement of torque output wherever and whenever operators need it.

Schlumberger and Equinor have announced a strategic project, in collaboration with Microsoft, to deploy the DELFI cognitive E&P environment, with seamless integration to the OSDU Data Platform—the industry's new data standard. This project aims to accelerate Equinor's ability to integrate data at scale and improve decision making.

Baker Hughes has released their latest rig report, with the U.S. industry seeing an increase in their rig count numbers for a second straight week, while Canada's slide continued.

Emerson has announced the new Clarkson KS1 Knife Gate Valve designed to help mine, oil sands and pulp & paper operators achieve increased availability of their most challenging slurry processes.

Single Phase Power Solutions (SPPS) has partnered with Cornell Pumps to incorporate their  pumps and pump monitoring systems with SPPS engineered pump systems that us the SPPS large horsepower single-phase BELLE Motor.  Availability of these proven pumping solutions enhances SPPS' capabilities to deliver higher horsepower, single-phase pump solutions for a wide range of industries and applications using readily available single-phase utility service.  It is often prohibitively expensive to extend three-phase power, forcing customers to choose diesel-driven solutions with high operating costs or unreliable phase converters over the electric-driven pumps. This new partnership  with Cornell allows Single Phase Power Solutions to better design pump-and-motor combinations to suit site-specific needs, with no harmonics, no reliability issues, and no tuning required.  

Emerson's new DataManager software v8.2 helps refiners monitor corrosion of hydrofluoric (HF) acid alkylation units to prevent costly, unplanned shutdowns and maximize profits and productivity. 

Wearable Technologies Ltd. has joined a worldwide partnership with IT services consultancy giant Wipro, to offer WTL's ELEKSEN Connected Worker solution to their respective global client bases.

Oil and gas companies are finding innovative ways to capitalise on the benefits of virtual reality (VR) technology, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Quorum Software, a leader in digital transformation for the oil and gas industry,  announced the release of myQuorum DynamicDocs, a cloud-based document management system purpose-built to make oil and gas operators more secure, agile and compliant. As part of the myQuorum platform, DynamicDocs will play a central role in helping Quorum customers evolve document-based business processes to deliver more value and streamline workflows.

Schlumberger announced that its technology partnership with Microsoft to develop cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack has been strengthened by new deployments being introduced at the SIS Global Forum 2019 in Monaco.

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.