In recent weeks America's oil inventories have been higher than ever at this time of year, and higher than at any point save September 1990, in the run-up to the first Gulf war.

最近几周，美国的石油库存达到了历年中这一时期的最高值，而且比除第一次海湾战争爆发前夕的1990年9月之外的任何时候都高。

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If war broke out, it would probably be fought in the disputed oil fields in the borderlands between north and south: in southern Kordofan, Abyei, Unity and the Upper Nile states (see map).

如果战争爆发，那么这场战争将可能在南北苏丹交界处的原油争端地区进行，也就是下图所示的几个地区：科尔多凡南部地区、阿拜伊、尤里提与尼罗河上游各省。

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Japan’s leading military officer, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, warned Japan was going to war for oil, and would be defeated because of lack of oil.

日本的主要军事将领海军上将 IsorokuYamamoto当时警告日本，为了石油加入战争到最后很可能因为缺乏石油而战败。

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To add complication to this issue, Iraq is ramping up oil production after war and conflict left the country unable to produce significant levels of oil.

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Deutsche Bank analysts said that threat hasn't been this severe since the late 1970s and early 1980s, the time of the Iranian revolution and a war between Iran and Iraq that disrupted oil supplies.

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With the largest oil reserves in Africa, it produced 1.6 million barrels of oil a day before the war and accounted for 95% of the country's export earnings.

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