The history of oil in sub-Saharan Africa does not make for happy reading.

撒哈拉以南非洲的石油历史读来并不让人愉快。

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These models analyze the history of oil at various points in time to extract meaningful statistics and predict future values based on previously observed values.

这些模型分析石油在各个时间点上的历史以提取有意义的数据并根据先前的观察预测未来价格。

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U.S. scientists estimate nearly 5 million barrels of oil leaked from the damaged well, making it the largest accidental release of oil into the seas in history.

美国科学家估计将近500万桶石油经受损油井泄漏出来，造成历史上最大的海上漏油事故。

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Her nineteen-part series was called The History of the Standard Oil Company.

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Smith says American academicians and journalists often cite a list of root causes for Middle East turmoil, in which the U.S., the West and Israel usually play a big part: a history of colonialism and economic exploitation, the creation of Israel and American support for the Jewish state, the politics of oil, Western backing of repressive Arab regimes and the U.S.military presence in the region.

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But the recent history of oil supply and demand gives a hint to what even a partial deflation of the carbon bubble can bring.

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If you know the history of global oil in the years before World War Two, then you realize there is nothing new about America enjoying energy independence as Asia worries about its own needs.

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Mattei shook up the business by offering oil-exporting nations a bigger share of production. (He also reportedly tried to win a sweet deal by enticing the Shah of Iran with an Italian princess.) At one point British diplomats fretted that Mattei's dealmaking could "seriously prejudice the stability of the Middle East, " according to The Prize, Daniel Yergin's 1991 history of the oil business.

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