The British government has halted fracking in England.

英政府已经停止在英格兰使用水力压裂法采油。

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。

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

他说希望到种法，本质上对那些拥有租约却不钻井采油的公司征收罚款。

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生作用。

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

就像采油者为个刚出土的油矿争夺样，蝙蝠也为美食而战。

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

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

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用于称为强化采油的过程。

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，如今这比例已上升至 35% 左右。