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Giant tanker "A Whale" from Taiwan could help US oil cleanup
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 07 - 2010


A giant Taiwanese tanker ship was anchored in
Lousiana and awaiting the go-ahead to join the oil clean-up efforts
in the Gulf of Mexico, dpa cited officials as saying today.
The ship, the A Whale, owned by TMT Shipping, had to be tested and
evaluated by military and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) officials to determine whether it could be used
for skimming operations, said Bryan Ferguson of the joint information
centre operated by the US government and BP plc.
BP must pay for all the costs involved in cleaning up the massive
10-week-old gusher off the Louisiana coast that is causing massive
ecological degradation in the ocean and along the coastline of four
Gulf states.
"The US Navy and NOAA are overseeing the testing. They'll be
looking at the amount of oil to water collected, its ability to skim
oil and how it holds up under environmental conditions," Ferguson
told The German Press Agency dpa.
A Whale was modified into a skimmer in Portugal on June 15 to
allow it to be considered for the clean-up operations, Ferguson said.
The ship can hold 2 million barrels of oil and water, and is longer
than three football fields.
"The government is eager to get on board the super skimmer A Whale
in the region and see if (it) is effective in skimming oil," the
Coast Guard said in a statement quoted by CNN.
The tanker has 12 openings on either side to suck up oil and water
and is equipped to spit out the water and store the oil.
TMT founder Nobu Su said in a statement that large catastrophes
demand large solutions. A Whale is 10 storeys high.
The rough waves stirred up by tropical storm Alex, which has been
downgraded as the season's first Atlantic hurricane as it powers
across the western Gulf, have caused a suspension of skimming and
burning at the oil disaster site. More than 500 ships deployed in the
cleanup had to retreat to shore.
"We've been held hostage here for the last two days by the
prevailing weather," said Coast Guard Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft on
Wednesday.


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