BP plans to use device to burn off oil spilling from sea well

BRITISH oil corporation BP plans to use a floating platform and device called an EverGreen Burner to burn off oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from an undersea oil well.

BP says that its proposed device turns a flow of oil and gas into a vapour that is pushed out its 12 nozzles and burned without creating visible smoke.

What is not known, however, is how much oil is eluding capture.