The oil is stored in a large rubber "bladder ... constantly changing the consistency," Capelotti said, and skimmer boat operators must be trained on how to handle the various forms.

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 ...

Oil nearer the well site can be corralled and burned, but not as it comes closer to shore. "The ocean is a giant washing machine, constantly changing the consistency," Capelotti said, and skimmer boat ...

BP says it has some oil skimmers back out on the seas off ... ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another 500 metres of booms have reached Chennai from Paradip (Odisha) along with oil skimmers. Sufficient boats and manpower have been deployed for oil removal activities at the creek.