使两国接近达成一致的基本努力发生于1995年，当时发布了一项联合声明，双方一致同意在大西洋西南部联合开发原油。

The best effort to get the two countries closer together came in 1995 when, in a joint declaration, both agreed to co-operate in developing oil exploration in the south-west Atlantic.

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“到1988年，我认为我们已经开发了这一行业中任何原油购买商中的最好的测量方法、控制方法，”科赫说。

"By 1988, I thought we had developed the best measurement approach, controls and so on of any crude oil purchaser in the industry," Koch said.

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例如，克雷格·文特尔(Craig Venter)的合成基因学说，以及其他一些公司正在试图开发把碳、页岩焦油和原油变为甲烷的微生物。

For instance, Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics and other companies are trying to develop microbes that turn coal, tar shale and oil into methane.

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