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.
它们曾宛若巨人控制着整个地球。很少有公司在manbetx app苹果 的势力范围能赶得上石油巨头，即便这些巨头所发现的新油田规模越来越小。因此，英国石油(BP)在墨西哥湾的“巨型”新发现会如此令人兴奋。Tiber油田可能有10亿桶可采石油，以每桶5美元估价，对于英国石油的价值就能达到37亿美元——尽管这些石油藏在地壳以下10公里处，上面还有1259米深的海水，开采的艰巨程度会非常高。
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