Though national oil companies have forced the Western oil giants to look farther afield for new reserves, the oil prices, unlike gas prices, are supported by the state-owned firms that make up OPEC.

尽管国有石油公司使得西方石油巨鳄为了储备，必须向更远的地方开采。石油价格，不同于天然气价格，仍然得到那些国有石油公司的(opec成员国的组成部分)支持！

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And they have backed plans by Russia and Iran to create a gas cartel analogous to OPEC.

并且，他们已拟定了由俄罗斯和伊朗支持，建立一个类似欧派克的卡特尔天然气公司的计划。

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Western concerns about global energy markets hit new heights last night when Russia, Iran and Qatar said they were forming an Opec-style gas cartel.

昨晚，俄罗斯、伊朗和卡塔尔表示，它们准备成立一个类似欧佩克的天然气卡特尔联盟，西方普遍担心全球能源市场价格将会因此再创新高。

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That set off fears in Europe and the U.S. that Russia was trying to form a gas version of OPEC to extract tribute from EUropean consumers.

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