尽管纽芬兰为赞成修改矿藏开采权制度做出了种种尝试,但是由于与原油粘稠性有关的成本十分高昂,这个5.8亿桶的项目受到了搁置。
The 580 mb project was sidelined due to high costs related to the viscous nature of the crude, despite attempts by Newfoundland to favourably amend the royalty regime.
在过去的几年时间里,来自世界各地的开发商,蜂涌而至,一直在为夺得开采权而忙碌奔波,甚至连那些并不富集的矿藏,也遭到轰抢。
In the last few years, companies from around the world have been bidding for the right to exploit some of Afghanistan's more modest deposits.
但在公海,只是发现矿藏并不能赋予一个国家其开采权。
But in open seas, simply discovering such deposits does not give one permission to develop them.
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