Take the challenge of climate change. In just eight years, we’ve halved our dependence on foreign oil, we doubled our renewable energy, we led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this planet.

说说气候变化。不足八年间，我们对外国石油的依赖减半，可再生能源翻倍，我们领导达成协议，承诺拯救这个行星。

Despite its oil wealth, Russia is increasingly reliant on the West.

尽管有着石油财富, 俄罗斯却越来越依赖西方。

He's trying to reshape Saudi Arabia's economy, reducing its dependence on oil sales.

他要重塑沙特的经济，减少对石油产业的依赖。

Fuelled by these states' immense oil wealth, they're constructing buildings with a scale and ambition unparalleled anywhere in the world.

在这些国家巨大的石油财富的推动下，他们正在以任何地方都无法比拟的规模和野心建造建筑。

Oil is sold by the barrel, each barrel is equal to 42 gallons.

石油以桶为单位进行交易，每桶约42加仑。

The foundation has already put up prizes in areas as diverse as cleaning up oil spills and landing a robot on the moon.

该基金会已在许多领域中设立了奖项，这些领域五花八门，如清除石油泄漏和让机器登陆月球。

Autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are used in the oil industry, for instance, to create maps of the seabed before rigs and pipelines are installed.

自动的水下交通工具，或者是AUV，是在石油工业中使用的，比如说，在安装设备和管道之前先去描绘海床的地图。

By the end of trading, oil was at $36 a barrel.

交易结束时，石油价格为每桶36美元。

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has had governance problems for decades.

尼日利亚国家石油公司的治理问题存在几十年了。

The country has quite a few oil deposits.

那个国家蕴藏了丰富的石油。

Some of it is sent on spec.

还有部分石油被运来碰运气。

Libya's oil industry has suffered since the country's civil war started in 2011.

2011年利比亚内战以来，该国的石油产业已经严重受损。

Coal, gas and oil are found underground.

煤、天然气和石油在地下找到。

The burning of fossil fuels, especially petroleum, powers the global economy.

化石燃料，尤其是石油的燃烧，驱动着球经济的发展。

She bought her own used car, has an apartment she shares with one roommate.

买了一辆二手车，和石油同租一个公寓。

While fossil fuels — coal, oil, gas — still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.

尽管化石燃料，如煤炭、石油、天然气仍然在球能源供应中约占85%，然而比以往更清楚的趋势是未来是属于再生资源的，例如风能和太阳能。

For the next nine days until the well was capped, the well poured out more oil than all the wells in America combined.

在接下来的 9 天里，直到油井被封盖，这口油井涌出的石油比美国所有油井的总和还要多。

The use of fossil fuels-coal, oil and natural gas has affected the environment by polluting the air and water, creating toxic wastes, and causing global warming.

化石燃料、石油、天然气已经污染了空气和水资源，并排放了有毒废料，造成了球变暖，这些资源的使用已经影响了环境。

She had added storage tanks for petroleum products that could just be pumped into the tank and pumped off into tank farms at the dock of San Juan.

“El Faro” 号还增加了用于储存石油产品的储罐，这样，石油可以直接泵入油罐中，到圣胡安码头的储罐区时，又可以泵入储罐区。

Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S. , when the Standard Oil Trust was broken up.

但是很难想像当今的几个石油公司的合并是否会重新造成约 100 年前美国标准石油公司对竞争造成的同样的威胁，那时由于们对该公司的这种担心而导致了它最终的解散。