Note, these devices have been around for over 10 years. These people are just now getting around to using them? Something isn't right with this picture. It reeks with either incompetence or........
Costner has been working for more than a decade in hopes of having the clean up machines on hand for immediate use in oil spills.
"Clearly, there is a market out there," said Costner, who has invested more than $24 million to develop the portable devices.
BP has contracted with Costner and Ocean Therapy Solutions to use 32 centrifuge machines that are designed to separate oil from water.
Costner said all major oil companies should keep the device nearby, like a fire extinguisher, ready whenever accidents occur.
The centrifuges can fit on fishing boats or docks and clean 200 gallons of water per minute — 210,000 gallons per day, Costner said.
Navigating the system is like "playing a video game that no one can master," Costner said. And many government agencies and foreign and U.S. oil companies were unresponsive even after seeing the oil-water separator years ago.
Costner said the device had been sitting at a Nevada facility for 10 years until BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles recently called him.
"He was excited," Costner said. "He told me that the machine worked. He told me that it was working against the dispersants, that it was handling the variations of oil mixtures and thickness present in the Gulf."
Costner said other small businesses like his have ideas that could be used in the oil spill relief effort.
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