In some cleanup operations, booms will be towed alongside one ... After the BP Deep Horizon oil spill, hundreds of skimmers ...

In some cleanup operations, booms will be towed alongside one ... After the BP Deep Horizon oil spill, hundreds of skimmers were used to scoop up oil from the water's surface.

with BP's chief executive saying the company was "determined to do everything in our power" to contain the spill. Booms were deployed to try to contain the oil, skimmer ships nibbled at the edges ...

In some cleanup operations, booms will be towed alongside one ... After the BP Deep Horizon oil spill, hundreds of skimmers were used to scoop up oil from the water's surface.

circle the boom and then deploy the skimmers and remove the oil from the water. We can do that both in practice and in reality if we have a spill down in the marina," said Keith Muhlestein.

An Ontario oil refinery spilled 5,000 liters ... The company, Wheeler said, deployed booms to contain the spill and Ontario's St. Clair Township — across the river from Marysville — sent ...

How will the jet oil spill affect the marine environment ... and pump contained oil into waste storage units. Both booms and skimmers are less effective in rougher conditions.

Major oil spills can be catastrophic ... using mechanical methods like skimmers. Short says that mechanical recovery has improved in recent decades, with better booms to corral the oil and better ...