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After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Costner wanted to find a new way to separate oil from water, so he acquired the company. He found it difficult to promote its products, until BP placed an order for several of the company's devices in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [2] [3]
Stephen Baldwin has sued fellow actor Kevin Costner over investments in a technology that BP used to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The two actors, among ...
These include his Costner oil and water separation technology, which was used to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, as well as his investment in Autio, a ...
The oil company was far more receptive to Kevin Costner who has spent $20 million developing a machine that can separate oil from water. According to the New York Daily News , BP has ordered 32 ...
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades , including two Academy Awards , three Golden Globe Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award .
An oil containment boom deployed by the U.S. Navy surrounds New Harbor Island, Louisiana. The response included deploying many miles of containment boom, whose purpose is to either corral the oil, or to block it from a marsh, mangrove, shrimp, crab, and/or oyster ranch, or other ecologically sensitive areas.
To break up oil, roughly 1.8 million gallons of Corexit were dropped from planes and sprayed from boats — far more than previous U.S. oil spills. The manufacturer said it was safer than dish soap.
With oil now spewing into the ocean, an oil-covered pelican flies into the bridge of a nearby vessel, the Damon Bankston, which was there to collect the drilling mud from the well, and dies; the vessel heads towards the rig just as the workers begin a frantic evacuation, sending out a rescue team after seeing the rig burst into flames. Harrell ...