"I'll be very honest with King Abdullah with whom I have developed a good relationship, indicating to him that we're not going to be eliminating our need for oil imports in the immediate future;

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

The oil futures market is very significant because it represents the price of energy on dates into the future.

石油期货市场对我们来说意义重大,因为它代表,未来的能源价格

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We can now see the price of oil going out years into the future.

现在我们就可以看得到,未来几年石油的价格

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It is a huge blow for BP says Faulkner. "It will be a smaller company because of this,and it will have lost a great deal of capital that it needs now to invest in future oil exploration."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27