If efforts to dam the Shell oil spill prove unsuccessful the final amount of oil leaked into the North Sea could be four times greater than it is at present, the company admitted on Wednesday.

周三壳牌公司承认，如果阻止壳牌原油泄漏的努力以失败告终，北海泄漏原油总量可能达到目前泄漏量的四倍多。

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Among these phases, the underwater distributary channels and the estuary dam are favorable phases for oil accumulation with relatively good physical property.

水下分流河道和河口砂坝砂体相互连接，物性好，为储油的有利相带。

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The worst die-off has occurred in south-east Asia, where hunting, dam building and the conversion of forest to palm oil plantations and paddy fields has been most dramatic.

物种消失最严重的地方在东南亚，当地捕猎、建设大坝、毁掉森林建造棕榈油种植园、开发稻田等行为对生态环境的影响最大。

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Mr al-Bukhary, a close friend of the prime minister's, has built an extraordinary empire in a the five years since the crisis, including Malaysia's fast-growing new container port at Tanjung Pelepas, a hotel and property group, Pernas, mining companies, power companies, palm-oil companies and much else, including a controlling stake in the Bakun dam on the island of Borneo.

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