I hope this invention works, cause it sounds pretty cool. Kevin Costner is Cleaning up the Gulf with His Oil Separating Technology | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
Of course it will work, it is just spinning liquids of differing densities and skimming the top. It's been done for a long long time. But it does seem like a relatively simple solution to the problem, although the scale might be a little too small for the mess it is now.
