Blessed with sunshine, watered by huge rivers and close to self-sufficiency in oil, Brazil's energy potential is indeed enormous.

上天赋予的灿烂阳光、壮观大河提供的充足水源，以及几近自给自足的石油，这些确实都令巴西的能源潜力巨大。

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Japan's Mitsubishi Corp is to close its oil derivatives business by March 2012.

日本的三菱集团(Mitsubishi Corp)将最迟在2012年3月关闭其石油衍生品业务。

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Ghana, a close American ally, has also recently found oil.

另一个美国的亲近盟国家迦纳(Ghana)，最近也发现油矿。

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"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

That could happen later this month. The government now thinks close to five million barrels of oil leaked into the gulf between April and the middle of July, when the spill was contained.

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The development of oil and gas resources in the East Timor Sea has so far generated close to five billion dollars in revenue for the government.

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The Democratic effort to launch S.B. 940, known as the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act, would have ended tax breaks for the top five most profitable oil companies.

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In Russia, the days of the country being an oil and gas powerhouse are drawing to a close due to dwindling oil production and lackluster demand for natural gas in Europe.

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For years, there has been a scandalously close relationship between oil companies and the agency that regulates them.

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