In this case, the sheer ferocity of the accident might have had lessened its environmental impact - much of the fuel oil and crude onboard the rig may have burned up in the initial fire.

这次的事件中，可能是爆炸的猛烈性降低了事故对于环境的冲击。因为钻井所载的大部分的燃油和原油可能都在最初的大火中烧掉了。

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Some blubber ends up in the trash, no longer prized as fuel for heat and light when a drill rig nearby makes natural gas cheap and easy.

当钻孔机在附近获取天然气更加的方便容易后，鲸脂被丢进垃圾箱，不再被做为取暖和点灯的燃料。

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The rig was producing up to 336, 000 gallons of oil a day and carrying some 700, 000 gallons of fuel oil at the time of the accident.

该钻井日产油336 000加仑，事故发生时装载700 000加仑燃油。

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The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.

CNN: Shell: Grounded drilling rig sound and fit to be towed

The fuel will be processed on a floating rig some 80 km northwest of Palawan island in the west, and piped 504 km to Batangas province, south of Manila.

CNN: Up from the Ocean

Before the explosion, the rig carried 2.6m litres of diesel fuel and was pumping 8, 000 barrels (1.27m litres) of crude oil a day - a volume which may still be leaking from the well into the Gulf of Mexico.

BBC: Tackling oil rig disaster 'number one priority' - Obama