Update: BP places order with Kevin Costner Ocean Therapy Solutions for use of 32 centrifuge machines

[1776Forever]

BP reporting on twitter: BP places order with Kevin Costner's Ocean Therapy Solutions for use of 32 centrifuge machines.

LA Times Report:

Graphic: Kevin Costner's cleanup solution

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-hollywood.eps-20100522,0,7054889.graphic

[MineralMan]

1. I hope they'll help...

[hughee99]

2. So now he's officially sold more centrifuges than copies of Waterworld. n/t

[polichick]

4. This is a much more important enterprise! nt

[hughee99]

6. I agree, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make an outdated Waterworld reference.

Hopefully this will be by far Costner's most successful aquatic endeavor.

[LaurenG]

5. ooooo

:rofl:

[jobycom]

8. Spray smilie!

:spray:

I thought Waterworld was a decent flick, but that was still funny.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Oh snap! He could make a movie that makes Citizen Kane look like Gigli and

still he'll never be able to outlive that.

[1776Forever]

10. Let's hope the machines are more successful - lol - but Waterworld was fun! n/t

[lunatica]

3. These machines are good in that they are used after the fact

and actually do separate the oil from the water. Kevin Costner's company might just save the Gulf

[jobycom]

7. Smart PR move. Hope it helps the oil situation.

A report recently said that the machines weren't useful, and 32 doesn't sound like enough to do much, but BP ordering the invention of a high profile celebrity is sure to get a lot of media play. That's what BP wants--news coverage showing them doing stuff to fix it.

I'm sure most BP employees (and other oil company employees, since there are a lot of companies busy out there right now) want this to end and are doing all they can to stop it. Maybe they can use the Costner to clean up, regardless of the intentions of the upper brass for buying them.