The British government has halted fracking in England.

英政府已经停止在英格兰使水力压裂法采油。

Like two wildcatters fighting over a fresh oil strike, these bats battle over a particularly rich feeding spot.

就像采油者为一个刚出土的油矿争夺一样，蝙蝠也为美食而战。

And even a small amount of it, added to an existing gas-based recovery process, can make a useful contribution.

而且，甚至添加少量的蒸汽到现有的以天然气为基础的采油过程也能产。

He said he wanted Congress to find a way to levy fines essentially on companies that are sitting on leases and not drilling.

他说希找到一种方法，从本质上对那些拥有租约却不钻井采油的公司征收罚款。

Which is why a lot of the carbon captured today is still used in a process  called enhanced oil recovery.

这就是为什么今天捕获的大量碳仍然于称为强化采油的过程。

GlassPoint, a small Californian company, thinks it can make steam for oil recovery more cleanly and cheaply by using sunshine to do the heating.

加州的一家小公司---玻璃点太阳能公司认为，通过使阳光来加热，它能为采油产更清洁和更便宜的蒸汽。

There's a big environmental trouble around Blackpool. It's quite clear that those tremors. We're really serious. There's no doubt about that, so I didn't have a problem with that at all.

布莱克浦地区存在严重的环境问题。很明显，那里地震频发。我们将严肃对待该问题。停止水力压裂法采油是毫无疑问的，我对此完全没有意见。

As The Economist magazine put it: A few decades ago, the average oil recovery rate from reservoirs was 20%; thanks to remarkable advances in technology, this has risen to about 35% today.

正如《经济学人》杂志所言：几十年前，油藏平均采油率为20%；由于技术的显着进步，如今这一比例已上升至 35% 左右。