Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE

Oil company BP has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement over its Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion. http://nyti.ms/UtkNpn The disastrous loss of life and environmental/financial impact will be felt for years. But the event also spawned the opportunity to jump-start new technology for cleaning up catastrophic spills. We're proud of all of the teams that joined in our competition, which resulted in tripling the oil cleanup industry's best rate at the time!

Elastec/American Marine (first place winner of our Challenge) continues to earn awards for its innovative grooved disc oil skimming technology. This time it's the Nafta Gaz Grand Prix Award at Oil & Gas Warsaw 2012. Congrats! http://elastec.com/news/release/index.php

Popular Mechanics just awarded Elastec/American Marine a 2012 Breakthrough Award for their patented Grooved Disc oil skimmer technology! Just happens to be the team that won the first place $1 million in our Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. http://www.popularmechanics.com//10-world-changing-innovat

Elastec/American Marine's Grooved Drum Skimmer is more than just a cool name - watch a new video of this ultra-efficient oil cleanup machine in action at the Ohmsett testing facility.