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Gulf Oil Spill Solution

Hi Bob,

Our web site, www.gulfoilspillsolution.org is up now and there have been some developments with Senator Richard Burr’s office. They returned our call and said that they were planning on having a meeting with BP in a few days to ask about the progress of implementing suggestions and were looking for well thought out suggestions to mention. We sent over our suggestion as well as other similar suggestions we have found.

The U.S. Coast Guard has received over 1,900 proposals that have been reviewed by the Federal Inter-agency Alternative Technology Assessment Program (IATAP) and it has screened about 600 proposals. To date, no proposals have yet been deployed in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has received over 35,000 proposals to date and none deployed to the Gulf of Mexico.

From our country and from around the world oil companies, companies experienced in working with large fabric structures and private individuals and inventors have all been submitting inverted cone shaped designs and animations similar to my design the Deepwater Oil Recovery System (DORS). At least 2 People are pursuing patents on the concept. All, obviously, came to the conclusion that this is a feasible project. You will see several of these designs and animation in the other solutions portion of our web site http://www.gulfoilspillsolution.org/similar_solution.php

Sometimes people just blogged about an idea or posted their idea on Facebook. Many designs were formally submitted as White Papers to the Coast Guard’s web site and officially submitted to BP’s Deepwater Horizons Response Team. Some were posted to YouTube or emailed to us directly. No mater whose design you look at the concept is sound and could be implemented in a matter of weeks if not days.

The inverted cone shaped design is unique in that it can work with broken well heads spilling crude oil, natural gas and methane vertically, fallen risers spilling horizontally and the system can capture oil and gas seeping from the ocean bottom originating from fissures in the seafloor. These fissures can result from human activities like a fractured lining of a well deep below the surface of the sea bottom or naturally occurring from the result of earthquake or other natural phenomenon. The Deepwater Oil Recover System (DORS) can be stored in rolled segments ready to be quickly deployed to any point in the world in just a few hours.

BP had rejected this entire category of ideas as Not Feasible or Not Possible and has requested no more suggestions of this nature be submitted and gave no further explanation. See the form that they require you to agree with before you can submit ad new suggestion at: http://www.horizonedocs.com/agree.php titled,

Alternative Technology Response Form

I received the following cryptic email on June 28th saying my suggestion “falls into one of the following ART categories: Already Considered/Planned, Not Feasible, or Not Possible, and therefore will not be advanced for further evaluation".

For those people who worked long and hard on solutions it is pretty much a slap in the face to receive a response like this. This doesn't even reject the idea. It just says that it falls into a category that has been looked at and will not be advanced.

None the less I called BP's response line at (281) 366-5511 to request why the category considered Not Possible or Not Feasible based on the Alternate Technology Response Form on their web site. A nice lady listened patiently, got my name wrong 3 times and took down all my information and said she would submit the request via email. And also thanked me for not taking the rejection personally. (I would hate to have her job) Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this.

Thanks, Jeff

Email from Oegllc (I suppose working with BP)
Monday, June 28, 2010 2:16 PM
horizon.support@oegllc.com

Dear Jeff Holden,

Thank you for your submission to the Alternative Response Technology (ART) process for the Deepwater Horizon MC252 incident. Your submission has been reviewed for its technical merits.

It has been determined that your idea falls into one of the following ART categories: Already Considered/Planned, Not Feasible, or Not Possible, and therefore will not be advanced for further evaluation. To date, we have received over 80,000 submissions with each submission receiving individual consideration and priority based on merit and need BP and Horizon Deepwater Unified Command appreciate your contribution and interest in responding to this incident.

Thank you very much,
Horizon Response Team