英国石油公司建造了北极星岛，北极星位于阿拉斯加以北6英里的波弗特海上。
British Petroleum built Northstar Island in the Beaufort sea six miles north of the Alaskan coast to siphon off the Northstar Oil Pool, which resides about 12,500 feet below the seabed.
壳牌石油公司急不可待地要在他们租赁的波弗特海区开始开采，去年，该公司因被环境学家和阿拉斯加土著居民所起诉而备受挫折。
Shell Oil, frustrated last year by lawsuits filed by environmentalists and Alaskan natives, is eager to start exploiting its leases in the Beaufort Sea.
“2003年，英国石油公司决定跟‘魔鬼做交易’……以保护其在俄罗斯的利益，”Norex公司亚历克斯·鲁特·桑格在一份声明中如是说。
"BP decided to make a 'deal with the devil' in 2003... to protect its interests in Russia," Alex Rotzang, chairman of Norex, asserts in a statement.
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