Local and state leaders have also questioned why BP -- the owner of the ruptured well spewing millions of gallons of oil -- hasn't enlisted foreign-registered boats and skimmers to remove more oil ...

Nonetheless, Jones said, he's concerned that there are not enough skimmer boats to keep oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster out of the bay. Unified Command has been sending skimmer boats ...

On the deck of boats, they look like fluorescent pool ... the oil clings to it while the water simply falls off. Then the skimmer scrapes the oil off before the object take another pass through ...

private boats retrofitted with skimming equipment and oil skimmers maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard. "The Coast Guard has 24 Vessels of Opportunity skimming systems strategically located ...

Still, more than 2,000 boats have signed up for oil ... provided a map of the exact locations of 140 skimmers that were supposedly cleaning up the oil. But he said that after he repeatedly asked ...

Specialized boats built in Ballard could soon be on their way to the Gulf of Mexico. Kvichak Marine Industries is building 30 'Rapid Response Oil Skimmers' fitted with specialized oil recovery ...

GULFPORT, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour inspected the first of what he said will soon be a fleet of 27 oil-skimmer boats for Mississippi on Tuesday, and the head of BP's oil-disaster ...

A stricken Japanese oil tanker that's leaked tons of oil into ... "Booms had been placed already around the ship and the skimmer boat is also present as precautionary measures," the group said.

Use plastic walls and skimmer boats after Malaysian tanker collides with towing vessel Dallas: Crews worked on Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down ...

Dozens of small skiffs, huge shrimp boats ... Building with oil. More containment help could be arriving after the storm lets up. Mexico, Norway, Holland and Japan are providing skimmers; Canada ...