ASMAN: Let me go to Nicholas real quickly because I want to give him time to weigh in on what kind of engineering would be involved in cleaning this up.
I understand, Nicholas, that there are these huge tankers that can be used to suck up a lot of oil. Of course, it's mixed with the water. That can be separated later and we reuse the oil. How do you get resources into gulf now?
NICHOLAS POZZI, CHAIRMAN, WOW ENGERY SOLUTIONS: One of the things I think that's super important is first of all, stop arguing and let's just get her done. And get the actual tankers -- and I don't care what size they are. The longer this goes on, the more tankers you're going to need. That diminishes amount of resources available because, while the tankers are cleaning up the gulf, they're not delivering oil. Therefore, it is very, very expensive way to do it. The Saudis never mind -- never hesitated one bit to do it because it involved the environment, it involved human life, it also involved people's trade.
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ASMAN: Nicholas, hold on a second. Let me just alert the viewers as to what you're talk about. The Saudis have had terrible, terrible accidents with spills as well. Some even worse than what we're seeing in the gulf right now. And yet, they acted almost immediately in cleaning it up using these tankers, correct?
POZZI: That is correct. Probably a billion dollars or more was spent a day. I lost track, after signing so many P.O.s. But we had hoses in the water, at all depths, inside of 16 hours. And we responded because it is a catastrophe. You never want to keep hydrocarbons in water for any length of time. I don't care if it is your swimming pool. I don't care if it is a pond in the back of your yard. Oil is no good and -- but we need it. And we depend upon it because --
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ASMAN: OK. Nicholas, hold on one second.
POZZI: Yes, sir.
ASMAN: It has been in there for 30 days now. Of course, not all of it has been in there for 30 days. But is it too late? Has it been in the water too long to use these processes that they used in Saudi Arabia?
POZZI: No, sir, it hasn't. It's just that you're going to need a lot more of them and a lot more effort, and basically a lot more money because of the fact that you're going to have to get rid of this stuff as quickly as possible. And I don't care if you separate it now and recover it now. Because you can always do later. We did it later because we didn't have resources, the manpower or the time. So basically, when we mobilized, we threw everything we had at it. Basically, once we did that, we realized our timeline and how quickly we could suck it up and what we needed to suck it up. Then we threw money at it. We got it done. We were successful. And we used supertankers, centrifuges and separators, mechanical separators.
ASMAN: We've got to leave it at that, Nicholas.
POZZI: And we got it done. Yes, sir.
ASMAN: But the job can be done. That is the point. And it's a good point.
POZZI: Yes, sir.
ASMAN: Nicholas Pozzi, Ewell Smith, great to see you both.
