Port Fourchon, LA – Ocean Therapy Solutions and British Petroleum demonstrated the centrifuge devices that will be deployed in the Gulf of Mexico cleanup operations.  At a news conference in Port Fourchon today,  Ocean Therapy Solutions (OTS) officials including Kevin Costner,  British Petroleum Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles and media toured the Energy 8000, a massive barge used to transport three of the 5 ton V20 machines to the Gulf. Together, they have the capacity to process 600,000 gallons of oil water per day.

The V20 has the capacity to separate up to 210,000 gallons a day.    The devices passed rigorous testing by BP in both deep and shallow waters of the Gulf.

British Petroleum has ordered 32 of the devices. OTS expects to manufacture ten devices a month at its manufacturing facility in Nevada.

“We put the OTS equipment to hard work. We tested it in some of the toughest environments we could find and actually what it’s done is quite robust. This is  real technology with real science behind it and its passed all of those tests because we needed something that needed a difference today and we have that,” BP’s Doug Suttles said.