While randomly drilling in Oklahoma somewhere might have yielded sweet crude in 1915, the latter stages of oil-driven capitalism find us drilling offshore and thousands of feet deep.

自从1915年在俄克拉荷马州偶然为之的钻井尝到甜头后，之后的资本社会阶段在原油利润的驱使下，在近海区域开始钻探，并且深达数千英尺。

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The reality is that while the industry has improved safety in recent decades, drilling for oil and gas in deep water is inherently risky.

虽然近几十年这一行业的安全性提高了，但在深水钻采油气的危险性是与生俱来的。

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He also suspended or canceled a number of lease sales off the coast of the United States and extended a moratorium on deep-sea offshore oil drilling permits.

同时他还延迟或取消了一系列美国海岸的租赁合同，对深海作业加大了禁止力度。

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Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.

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We will participate in industry-wide efforts to improve the safety and reliability of subsea blow-out preventers and deep water drilling practices.

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The most promising initiatives near term, he thinks, include solar thermal, high-altitude wind power and deep drilling to tap geothermal power.

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