China has earmarked more than $20 billion for oil exploration.
中国已留出二百多亿美元用于石油勘探。
Central to the operation is a mile-deep well, dug originally to explore for oil.
那次行动的重点是一口原本为勘探石油而挖的一英里深的井。
The economic downturn is drying up demand for oil and natural gas, dropping the benchmark price for a barrel of oil to below $50.
经济低迷正在抑制市场对石油和天然气的需求，导致基准原油价格跌破每桶50美元。
They're drilling for oil off the Irish coast.
他们在爱尔兰沿海钻井采油。
They are using a new prospecting method to quest for oil.
他们正在采用一种新的勘探方法寻找石油。
They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
它们挂在枝头（由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名），需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。
Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.
不幸的是，目前石油、天然气和煤炭的低价格可能无法激励研究人员去寻找更便宜的那些燃料的替代品。
Offshore drilling platforms extend the search for oil to the ocean's continental shelves—those gently sloping submarine regions at the edges of the continents.
海底钻井平台将寻找石油的区域延伸到了海洋大陆架——大陆边缘那些平缓倾斜的海底区域。
She has taken part in a major battle for oil.
她曾经参加过石油大会战。
That forms traps for oil and gas.
从而形成了石油和天然气。
The oil workers drilled for oil.
石油工人钻探石油。
And drill for oil and natural gas.
钻探石油和天然气资源。
push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
它们助长石油需求，而石油正可用于塑料制造。
For decades Israel drilled for oil with scant success.
数十年来，以色列在石油开采方面不算成功。
The present high prices for oil and gas are the result.
其结果就是当下石油与天然气价格高涨。
Foolish indeed is it to drill for oil in the Arctic.
在北极开采石油着实愚蠢。
For oil replacements, cheap suddenly looks less of a problem.
对于石油的替代品来说，价格突然不是什么问题了。
Surely all that hot money has supercharged the demand for oil?
很自然地可以认为正是这些热钱推动了对石油的需求。
You see, companies used to drill for oil by going straight down.
你瞧，过去石油公司常常采用垂直钻探。
MOSCOW - The Arctic Ocean is a forbidding place for oil drillers.
莫斯科-对于海上钻探，北冰洋是一个令人望而却步的地方。
Meanwhile, demand for oil in China and India has become unquenchable.
同时，印度和中国对石油的需求也是无法满足的。
Some sovereign funds are built on demand for oil and other commodities.
有些主权财富基金建立在对石油和其他商品的需求上。
It reportedly will be used for oil exploration and aircraft design.
据报道它将会被用于石油勘探和飞行器设计。
There are just too many cars on the road for oil fields to sustain.
路上有太多的车需要油田提供补给。
It hardly needs saying that China's demand for oil is moving the other way.
根本无需多言，中国的石油需求正在步入快车道。
Poorer countries' demand for oil is still rising, albeit at a slowing pace.
虽然增速缓慢，但欠发达国家石油需求还是在增加。
There is now a shortage of geologists who can help with the search for oil.
现在能帮助找到原油的地质学家很短缺。
There is now a shortage of geologists who can help with the search for oil.
现在能帮助找到原油的地质学家很短缺。
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