Hair salons and dog groomers in Spartanburg are participating in a grassroots project started by California based Matter of Trust, which collects hair to stuff in nylon hosepipes to serve as booms or mats to soak up oil. These act as a barrier for oil and prevent it from spreading.

The Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency has intended a new strategy on Saturday against the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing BP to make use of oil dispersants.

Oil dispersants are compounds, which can split the oil down into tiny drops and stop it from getting to the surface or the shore.

In what has put a question mark over its efficacy, the big box that BP hoped would be its savior sat idle hundreds of feet away encased in ice crystals even as a massive oil leak spit thousands of gallons more crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

No less than half an inch of oil roofed the sea when Dennis Kelso's boat, which was stacked with a few newly dead birds, pushed up against the side of the Exxon Valdez on Friday, March 24, 1989.

Kelso, the Head of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation said that at the beginning, oil was literally boiling out of the tanker.

A BP spokesman said that the company has not been able to access the efficiency of the oil spill followed by explosion on a drilling rig leased by BP. An estimated 156, 012 gallons of dispersants so far has been released by BP to break up the oil. With weather conditions not favoring BP was unable to spray dispersants yesterday.

On Monday, a spokesman for the firm said that after an explosion that sunk a Transocean Ltd. (RIG) drilling rig last week, BP PLC is taking up quite a lot of choices for closing or containing an oil leak of around 1,000 barrels a day in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP Plc has stated that it is not procrastinating on the decision to go ahead with the Sunrise oil sands project in Canada. This announcement comes in contrast to widespread speculation that the decision has been postponed to
2011.

Things seem to be going good for BP, especially after the British oil major on Thursday agreed to take over a huge swap of oil assets from Devon Energy Corp., an independent oil and gas producer of the US.

Third quarter report released by BP has revealed profit figures which are less than half of what they were during the same time last year. In contrast to figures reported between July and September 2008, which stood firm at $10 Billion, 2009's numbers in three months up-to September have been revealed as $4.98 Billion (?3 Billion).