Mr Dudley had hoped that this big deal would lift the cloud of last year's tragic rig blast and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

达德利希望，这次的大交易能让因去年墨西哥湾钻井平台爆炸和石油泄漏事件产生的疑虑消除。

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That's the problem lawmakers are wrestling with amid hearings and federal investigations of the Upper Big Branch mine blast in West Virginia and the BP oil rig collapse in the Gulf of Mexico.

在西弗吉尼亚州煤矿爆炸和英国石油公司在墨西哥湾的钻井平台漏油事故的听证会和联邦调查中，这就是国会议员们正在努力解决的问题。

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Protests have interrupted the annual general meeting in London of the oil giant BP, the first since last year's oil rig blast and huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

石油巨头BP公司在伦敦举行的年度高层会议被抗议者扰乱，这是自去年钻井平台爆炸，引发大量石油向墨西哥湾泄漏以来的首次抗议活动。

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