Turning Oil into Water and Carbon Dioxide
Oil Spill Eater II does exactly what Mother Nature does to clean up a toxic site - the only difference being that what would take Mother Nature decades or even centuries to clean up now takes only a few weeks, achieving the same results with absolutely no negative side effects. It has effectively cleaned up over 16,000 oil spills in the past 23 years. And it is already on the EPA's NCP list named Oil Spill Eater II (OSE II).
The OSEI Corporation has determined, through contractors, that the cost to apply OSE II is approximately USD2 per gallon of oil spilled in the Gulf, it could be slightly more in other countries. Taking into account deployment costs, it would require USD4 per gallon to convert 100% of the spilled oil to CO2 and water, depending on how fast OSE II is applied. 200 million gallons times USD4 equals USD800 million. This means that, had BP used OSE II as its first and only response tool, it would have saved BP USD41.8 billion on the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The cost of application is due to the fact that the spill is very large, whereas with smaller spills the initial response causes the cleanup price per gallon of oil spilled to be higher. Despite this, in 2000 the US Navy performed a cost analysis between its use of OSE II, and their earlier, oil cleanup responses with mechanical equipment. It found that, with the mechanical methods, it was paying around USD92 to USD96 to clean up each gallon spilled. When it switched to OSE II, the Navy documented that it had cut its cleanup costs down to USD12 per gallon of oil spilled, effectively reducing its clean up costs by 87% for each gallon spilled. This, while successfully addressing 100% of each spill, compared to the earlier methods it had used which only addressed about 5% of the spill, allowing the rest of the spill to adversely affect the environment.
