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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.
Actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy, speaks during the announcement that the Ella G. vessel will be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system to separate oil and water, Port Fourchon, La., Thursday July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
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.
The Ella G, a former supply barge which will be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system is shown in Port Fourchon, La., Thurs., July 8, 2010. Now one of the Vessels of Opportunity, The Ella G 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. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
The Ella G, a former supply barge which will be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system is shown in Port Fourchon, La., Thurs., July 8, 2010. Now one of the Vessels of Opportunity, The Ella G 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. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
“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.”
Actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system to separate oil and water, talks to Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser, right, while aboard the Ella G. vessel to be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's machines, in Port Fourchon, La., Thursday July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
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.
Watch Demo of Kevin Costner Oil Cleaning Machine
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