Forty-nine vessels - oil skimmers, tugboats barges and special recovery boats that separate oil from water - were meanwhile working to round up oil, BP said.
Oil and water may be hard to mix, but blending inputs creates a good salad dressing.
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As investors, we need to evaluate both in trying to distill this oil and water.
He thinks he has cracked the main (and obvious) difficulty that oil and water do not easily mix.
Allison Spitz, 16, brandished a sign reading "Oil and Water Don't Mix" as she attended her first political demonstration.
Carlos Menem, its Peronist president from 1989-99, privatised everything from oil to water.
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Like oil, water is an essential part of doing business in almost every industry, and unexpected shortages can trigger potentially catastrophic consequences.
Mechanical systems like skimmers, centrifuges, and reverse osmosis machines can go a long way towards separating oil from water.
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It has rising rates of child malnutrition and alarming declines in reserves of its two main resources, oil and water.
Investors need to understand that trying to mix fundamental analysis and technical analysis is like trying to mix oil and water.
When the cost of oil or water or electric power rises, the company that uses resources most effectively will have an advantage.
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"The combination seemed like heresy, like mixing oil and water, " Turley said.
Approximately 25.4 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been recovered.
The parts of the body that mustn't dissolve--cell membranes, for instance--are made of oily molecules, and even a child knows that oil and water don't mix.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
First is the weakening of an already-fragile Yemeni state, owing to shrinking oil and water stocks, a Shia rebellion in the north and secessionism in the south.
At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
The researchers were able to make every droplet of oil or water placed on the material to run or stop in its tracks (a response which the team describes as "pinning"), simply by flexing the material or letting it relax.
Pemex, the state-owned oil company that dominates the Mexican economy, recently announced deep-water oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting the company might be able to slow the decline of its production.
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Complicating matters, Mexico's oil output has slipped to 2.55 million barrels a day from a peak of 3.4 million in 2004, as easy oil in the Gulf is replaced by more difficult reserves of deep-water oil and heavy oil onshore.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) said in a press release late Thursday that it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil in deep water Gulf of Mexico at the Keathley Canyon bloc it runs together with ExxonMobil (XOM) and Italian oil firm Eni.
Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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Petrobras is majority owned by the Brazilian government and is a major deep water oil driller.
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Petrobras is known worldwide for its ability to find and capture deep water oil deposits.
Its domestic fields are said to be declining, spewing up less oil and more water.
The oil drives the water out of the slices and turns the starch in the potatoes crisp.
Petrobras (PBR) is losing money and says it will invest less in its deep water oil drilling.
But he added that the spill should not stop deep water oil drilling.
He says BP was looking to be a serious player in the deep water oil finds off of the Brazilian coast.
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