100 Billion Barrels of Oil In Ground Near London Gatwick.ppt

100 Billion Barrels of Oil in Ground Near London Gatwick From:/thread-1139353-1-1.html Date:2015/04/12 Team Members: 1203012127 林燕婷 1203012128 刘欢 1203012140 翁欣 1203012151 庄璐华 London(AFP)??-?An?oil?exploration?firm said Thursday that? it? had?discovered 100?billion?barrels?of oil?in?the?ground?next to Gatwick?Airport?outside London. UK?Oil ?Gas?Investments?(UKOG) said the Horse Hill well ?in?Surrey?was?a world class?potential?resource. “We?think?weve?found?a?very significant discovery?here,? and?we?think?it?has?national significance,?Stephen?Sanderson, the firms?chief?executive,told?the?BBC. For?a?comparison,?a?total?of?around?42 billion?barrels?of?oil?have? been extracted?from?the?North Sea?since?the?first?licenses?were? issued there?in?1964. UKOG?said?the?technique?of?racking?should?not ?be necessary?to?extract?oil from?the?55-square-mile?site?in?Surrey. These?initial?results?suggest?a?very?large?volume?of?oil?in?place,? which could?potentially?help?to stem?the?rise in oil imports and ?improve?Britain euro?trades?energy?security?and?balance?of payments,?its?chief?executive Ken?Cronin?added. Some?2,000?oil?wells?have?been?drilled?in?Britain?since?the 19th?century and? 250?are?still operational, producing between 20,000?and?25,000?barrels of?oil?equivalent?per?day. Words Expressions ·for?a?comparison 作为比较 eg. The copy on line 6 is needed later on the replace page for a comparison. 稍后在 replace 页面上需要第 6 行的副本以进行比较。 ·extract 提取 eg. Wood ashes are leached to extract lye. 木炭被滤过以提取碱液。 ·potentially 可能地，潜在地 eg.