Can Crude Petroleum Floating In Gulf of Mexico Be Harvested and Processed?

there are salvage operations out there doing just that.....

Yes, but not in an economically feasible manner.

First of all it's suspended in a great deal of water. It will thus be much more difficult and expensive to process than regular oil.

Second, the volatile components have evaporated. This means that there will be no gasoline refined from it, and that's what makes the oil very valuable. It's really just the heavy tar left over, and that's not really worth processing in the current economic environment. Especially if you have to separate it from a lot of water.

so, yeah, you can do it. But you'll pretty much have to pay someone to take it off your hands.

Quite possibly! If they can separate the sea water from it, which is quite possible, co's they can do most things these days.The biggest question is harvesting it all after it's all been gathered up, but that's the burning question, co's it's everywhere, not just floating on the surface or washed ashore, it's on the sea floor of the oceans! How the heck is anyone ever going to gather it all up beats me?

It's a total disaster & I will from now on boycott purchasing BP fuel.

Cheers!

You can separate it just as they do in high water cut oilwells, but many of the volatile components that make it valuable will have already been flashed off. You would have to ship it to a refiner that takes heavy crude where it can be turned into asphalt potentially.

Not with current technology

No.