The machines developed by the company were of little commercial interest until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill , when BP took six of the machines for testing in late May 2010 . On June 9 , that order was expanded to 32 of the oil-water separation devices . Stephen Baldwin and Spyridon Contogouris ( plaintiffs ) had a joint agreement to market the technology . They filed a lawsuit in the Louisiana District Court claiming securities fraud and misrepresentation in the amount of $ 10.64 million . The suit claims that Costner held a meeting with BP without notifying plaintiffs . At that meeting , OTS sold BP $ 52 million worth of product , receiving an $ 18 million deposit . Costner is then alleged to have used portions of the deposit to buy out plaintiffs shares before they were made aware of the BP purchase , thus cutting them out of the profits from the $ 52 million sale . Baldwin and Contogouris allege they were misled by Costner into believing BP had no interest in the technology , thus persuading them to accept Costner 's lowball offer for their shares . Plaintiffs receipts from their share sales totaled just under $ 2 million - $ 1.4 million to Baldwin and $ 500,000 to Contogouris . On June 15 , 2012 , the jury ruled in favor of Costner , giving Baldwin and Contogouris nothing
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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