They bestrode the earth like giants. Few companies match the global reach of the oil majors, even as the new oil fields they find get smaller. Hence the excitement of BP's new “giant” discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. Value Tiber's perhaps 1bn barrels of recoverable oil at $5 apiece, and it could be worth $3.7bn to BP – although at 10km below the earth's crust, and under 1,259m of sea, the challenges of developing the field will be huge.
它們曾宛若巨人控制著整個地球。很少有公司在全球的勢力範圍能趕得上石油巨擘,即便這些巨擘所發現的新油田規模越來越小。因此,英國石油(BP)在墨西哥灣的「巨型」新發現會如此令人興奮。Tiber油田可能有10億桶可採石油,以每桶5美元估價,對於英國石油的價值就能達到37億美元——儘管這些石油藏在地殼以下10公里處,上面還有1259米深的海水,開採的艱鉅程度會非常高。
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