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July 5, 2010 · about 16 years ago

‘Whale’ ship joins BP clean-up operation

Clean-up hopes in the Gulf of Mexico are riding on a supertanker called The Whale. The world’s largest oil skimmer, from Taiwan, has cruised a 25 square-mile test site north of the Macondo deepwater well. It can process 21 million gallons of polluted water a day by sucking it up, separating the oil

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Clean-up hopes in the Gulf of Mexico are riding on a supertanker called The Whale. The world’s largest oil skimmer, from Taiwan, has cruised a 25 square-mile test site north of the Macondo deepwater well. It can process 21 million gallons of polluted water a day by sucking it up, separating the oil and returning water to the sea.

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