Kevin Costner Oil Cleaning Machine Heads to Clean Up BP Oil Spill

Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 9, 2010

PORT FOURCHON, La. – BP COO Doug Suttles and actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy, announced that the Ella G. vessel set sail on Thursday July 8, 2010, carrying Ocean Therapy’s centrifuge system to separate oil and water.

The Ella G, now one of the Vessels of Opportunity, was retrofitted to receive oil and water from the skimmer, separate the oil and place it in storage tanks, and return the cleaned water to the Gulf. It had once been an offshore supply barge.

“I know a lot of times you have been down on the ground and stayed down,” Costner told workers and visitors who had come to see the latest in the fight against the oil spill. “But the machine I once dreamed of is here to help you.”

The system was built in 10 days, and BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles says the system offers many advantages. He says it can remove more oil, stay at sea indefinitely, and skim in seas up to 10 feet. Most skimmers can’t work in seas higher than 4 feet.



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