The hunt for sources of oil overseas has acquired a new urgency as India races to catch up with China, which has spent billions of dollars in acquiring oil assets in several countries.

随着为赶上中国而展开竞争，印度对海外石油资源的寻求目前有了新的紧迫感。 中国已在几个国家耗资上千亿美元购买石油资产。

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BP, for example, is keen for the company to hunt for more reserves of oil and gas, to make up for BP's own less impressive record in finding oil.

举例来说，BP希望公司寻求更多的石油和天然气储备，弥补BP自身在寻找石油方面并不令人满意的记录。

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The Inupiat have been torn between promoting lucrative oil drilling and protecting the waters they hunt in.

到底是推动利润丰厚的石油钻探，还是保护赖以捕猎的水域？

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But he has never found the play that would turn his small shop into a player mentioned in the same breath as Hunt Oil.

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Two other potential producers in the region are the Hopi Indian tribe and HNZ, a privately held entity controlled by Hunt Oil of Dallas, Texas.

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The hunt for oil explains why these companies are so keen to restart work in the Gulf of Mexico, after a halt imposed by the Obama administration following the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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