Cardiff-based Graig Ship Management Ltd. (GSM) has appointed Matt Callender as Operations Director.

The RWO company, Bremen, is supplying a complete reverse osmosis plant for seawater desalination to the international oil and gas concern Total for its "Girassol".

The new built ultra-deepwater drillship "Discoverer Clear Leader" of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has begun work for Chevron in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico under a five-year contract with Transocean.