BP to pay $4.5 billion in oil spill settlement
ALLEGIANCE CAPITAL CORPORATION SKIMMER SHIP
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Skimmer ships can collect 3,500 gallons of oil per hour per ship. Allegiance Capital Corporation has 12 available, but has not received a response, positive or negative, from BP or the U.S. government since proposing them a week ago. Every day 2.5 million gallons of oil spill into the Gulf. If engaged today, and granted a Jones Act waiver immediately, the skimmers would arrive by barge in 30 days, by plane in five. (PRNewsFoto/Allegiance Capital Corporation)
