If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.

如果一个稳定的泥浆柱能在油井里成型，并通过它十足的压力将石油限制在海湾范围，那下一步就是将井里的泥浆粘合好，使油井永久封闭。

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Although bad weather, like that of the May Day weekend, keeps boats and booms at bay, it also ACTS as a dispersant itself, mixing the oil into the water.

尽管，就像国际劳动节周末的天气那样，糟糕的天气情况使船只和水栅被滞留在海湾内，但它本身也有分散剂的作用，能将浮油沉入水中。

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Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

1968年在阿拉斯加州北部的普拉德霍海湾发现了石油和天然气。

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Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

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His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.

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In addition, the firm had to close part of its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska earlier this year, after leaks were discovered in one of its pipes.

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ConocoPhillips China, the subsidiary of the Houston based oil major (COP), said there was yet another leak at one of its oil wells in Bohai Bay, Shanghai Daily reported the company as saying Saturday.

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