The researchers who discovered them are unsure exactly how they do this, but one possibility is that they effectively eat oil.

研究人员还没有发现它们是如何活下来的，有一种可能性是它们能有效的利用地下的石油。

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And documents emerged that showed BP had previously downplayed the possibility of a major spill. (See pictures of oil fires.)

有文件表明，该公司此前淡化了发生重大泄漏的可能性。

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Director of the museum is now thinking over a possibility to open an exhibition devoted to oil.

博物馆的理事正在考虑做一期以石油为主题的展览。

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And he knows no landfill liner system is completely leak-proof, meaning there is some possibility that the industrial quantities of waste coming from the oil cleanup could pollute local underground water supplies.

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Abrams, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said President Obama has a better chance of effectively employing sanctions against Iran than President Bush did due to two factors: the drop in cost of oil and the possibility of increased cooperation from Russia and China.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Elliott Abrams predicts Obama, Bibi faceoff

The oil world is gripped by the possibility that vital bits of Saudi oil infrastructure will be targeted.

ECONOMIST: The oil markets are jittery

His decree announcing a review of all existing oil contracts, with the possibility of curtailing some (if not all) oil exports, has substantially heightened anxieties in both the Western oil and credit markets.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy