Any storm would be a frustrating setback as the British energy giant may be within days of permanently plugging the well, which began leaking after a deadly explosion on April 20.

任何风暴对要在数天内对漏油井永久封盖的英国能源巨头来说都是令人沮丧的挫折，漏油开始于四月20日的致命性的爆炸之后。

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Russia too is in the eye of the storm, despite its energy wealth – or because of it.

俄罗斯不顾自己的能源财富——或许正因为有能源财富，也在顶风而上。

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Of course, the vast majority of the energy is in the storm itself—hurricanes, for example, have the heat energy of 10, 000 nuclear bombs. Capturing that energy might prove frazzling.

当然，绝大多数能量来自于风暴本身，譬如，飓风。

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"This is like the perfect storm of the energy situation, " said Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio.

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In the face of entrepreneurial innovation and energy, any such perfect storm would quickly disperse.

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According to Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, a Washington-based group that analyzes oil economics, a "perfect storm" of events within the last five years--including political instability in Iraq, Venezuela and Nigeria--has undermined production expectations by as much as 3 million barrels per day.

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