Twelve (Imperfect) Ways to Clean the Gulf
-- The New York TImes Jun 5 2010
A quote from the article which includes a great chart. For more, see link.
"But I can tell you, based on 21 years' experience analyzing and observing oil spills, that the best minds in the business are already doing all they can. No special techniques that would work well to clean up the oil in this situation aren't being tried or planned. There simply are no foolproof solutions."
-- Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, an environmental risk consultant, who is advising the State of Louisiana and Mobile County, Ala., on the BP Spill