If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.

如果一个稳定的泥浆柱能在油井里成型，并通过它十足的压力将石油限制在海湾范围，那下一步就是将井里的泥浆粘合好，使油井永久封闭。

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The area has been impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, us.

就在美国路易斯安那沿岸的巴拉塔里亚湾，该地区已受到了深水漏油事件的影响。

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A pelican sits covered with oil in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

巴拉塔里亚湾，一只裹满石油的褐鹈鹕卧在水里。

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Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

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They shut us down. We have to dump them back in the water." Wildlife officials have suspended fishing here in Black Bay and other areas affected by the oil leak.

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Into this mix is a new development on the eastern end of Virgin Gorda: Oil Nut Bay.

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If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.

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We're talking about the loss here, by the way, of 400, 000 barrels of oil every day while the flow is shut down in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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