Below, though, in the Gulf of Mexico, huge waves are topped with white foam.

下面是墨西哥湾，巨浪泛起白色泡沫。

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IT HAS been nearly two months since oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from a damaged wellhead 5,000 feet below the ocean surface.

近两个月前，海面5000英尺下的一座油井口损坏后，渗入的原油开始源源不断地涌进整个墨西哥湾、造成了严重的影响。

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This summer, such systems helped seal a BP well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

今年夏天，这样的系统帮助封堵了墨西哥湾水下1.6公里处英国石油公司的油井。

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The town of Steinhatchee, Fla. (pop: 1, 500), a few miles off the Gulf Coast below the panhandle, has been using a Ferrator since May.

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Ocean Energy brings a whole portfolio of high-risk, high-return projects, from deepwater blocks off the coast of West Africa to one promising field that lies 9, 300 feet below the Gulf of Mexico.

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Stone Energy (SGY), which is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, is drilling several deep and ultradeep wells in Vermilion and Cameron parishes in the belief that gas-bearing reservoirs below the shallow Gulf bleed onshore, and that onshore drilling offers a way to tap an abundant hydrocarbon resource without incurring the considerable expenses of underwater operations.

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