In nineteen twenty-eight, he got a job flying the plane that belonged to a rich oil producer from Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

In fact, the assets that the Norwegian Government owns is about two-thirds oil and one-third government pension fund assets.

实际上，挪威政府所持有的资产中,大概有三分之二的石油,和三分之一的政府养老基金。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

As of then, I calculated the value of their oil in the North Sea and that's what I got-- it's worth about 3.5 billion Norwegian Kroner.

我计算了当时他们拥有的北海石油的价值,这是我的计算结果-,它价值35亿挪威克朗。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.02

And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

I don't know what percent; our oil reserves in the U.S. are pretty small, so we're kind of lying somewhere inside-- maybe on this pink line.

我不知道具体占百分之几;,美国的石油储备量是微不足道的，所以我们可能是位于这附近-,也许在这条粉线上面。

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But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

It's a huge amount of money that they're managing, but I was trying to convince them that they should do something to manage their oil risks because they're way over-invested in oil.

他们管理着一大笔钱，不过我试图说服他们,采取一些措施来应对他们手里石油的风险,因为他们过于侧重在石油上的投资。

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Before long, he controlled ninety-five percent of the oil processing industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

In nineteen thirty-eight, Adair got his first oil-related job with the Otis Pressure Control Company.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Ms.Casey-Lefkowitz says it would carry the oil more than three thousand kilometers, crossing the central United States -- and the Ogallala -- for processing in Texas.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Natural micro-organisms in the water helped eat the oil and clean up the spill.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

He went to work in the oil-producing areas of Texas.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

While clean-up continues in Louisiana,Alabama and Mississippi, officials in Florida are watching to guard against oil damage here as well.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Venezuelan oil analyst Juan Carlos Sosa says the government has diverted funds from oil infrastructure in order to sustain ever-more-expensive socialist initiatives.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Because of the oil-rich bran layer, it spoils quickly if not refrigerated or stored in vacuum-sealed bags.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

The oil slick threatens ever-larger swaths of the U.S.coastline, placing sensitive marine ecosystems in peril.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

MAN ON TV. ; You add a little bit of olive oilto a non-stick saute pan, and you want to cookwith the olive oil in medium-high heat.

VOA: standard.other

Its founders began oil explorations in modern-day Iran more than 100 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

The secretary reportedly has been trying to mediate between Kurdish leaders and the central government in Baghdad, over a thorny territorial dispute over the oil-rich region of Kirkuk.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Among other things, he said the company will establish a $100 million fund to support drilling-rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico who are unemployed because of the oil giant's massive spill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

An Iranian delegation, including Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazemi, met with Turkish counterparts in Ankara this week, to sign a deal to build a new natural gas pipeline and to increase gas sales to Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

As host of this year's World Jatropha Summit, the government in Accra is seeking greater investment in the hardy plant whose seeds can be crushed into an oil that is processed into high-quality biodiesel.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"It is a double track approach,of course, to have a very clear position on sanctions, not only on Security Council, but specific new measures from the European Union on the financial side - on the oil and gas sector, in all elements that can give to Iran a very clear message that they have to move and respond to the requirements of the international community."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28