But do you think we'll see a renewed investment in shale eventually?

但你认为我们最终看到对页岩的重新投资吗？

He said agriculture and oil and gas from rocks, called shale, can help the economy.

他说，农业和来自页岩的石油和天然气可以帮助经发展。

Concerns about earthquakes have also been raised in connection with the practice of hydraulic fracking to produce shale gas.

人们开始担心液压破碎法开发页岩的做法地震。

What are the economic realities that are really giving shale executives pause here?

是什么经现实让页岩行业的高管们犹豫不决？

In between are several layers of dense shale rock.

中间是几层密的页岩。

When they do, some of the new supplies will be used to generate electricity.

等这些国家开始开采时，新供应页岩气中的一部分将用发电。

That shale is now at the bottom of the Badlands.

这个页岩现在地的底部。

And fracking has unleashed a flood of oil formerly trapped in shale rock underneath North Dakota, among other places.

液压破碎法将北达科他州及其他地区页岩下的石油大量开采出来。

The process of getting natural gas and oil out of sedimentary rock called shale.

从称为页岩的沉积岩中提取天然气和石油的过程。

The process which involves the fracturing of rock to extract oil or shale gas inside has raised safety concerns.

这种通过压裂岩石来开采石油或页岩气的方法引起了安全方面的担忧。

America's boundless production in shale energy has also kept down oil prices.

美国在页岩能源领域的丰富产量也压低了石油价格。

So analysts view this as a big step in consolidating the shale oil industry in the US.

分析师认为，这是整合美国页岩油行业的一大步。

The book has a stab at outlining the potential impact of shale gas.

这本书陈列出了开发页岩气的潜在影响，见解精辟。

A lot of the world's natural gas is found inside a type of rock called shale.

世界上很多天然气都存在一种叫做页岩的岩石中。

Experts believe Europe might have trillions of cubic meters of shale gas. Shale is a kind of rock.

专家认为欧洲可能有数万亿平方米的页岩气，页岩是一种岩石。

An abundance of shale gas has depressed prices, which are at their lowest in 20 years.

丰富的页岩气压低了天然气价格，目前天然气价格处20年来的最低水平。

We call rocks made of mud, Mudstone or sometimes Shale.

我们称由泥土、泥岩或有时页岩制成的岩石。

Shale oil is already gushing out of the ground in America, displacing imports to the world's largest consumer.

作为全球最大的石油消费国，美国国内的页岩油早已喷薄而出，开始替代进口石油。

More recently, the supermajors' shale ambitions have grown.

最近，超级巨头的页岩油野心不断增强。

Decades later, amid different norms, the shale oil and gas booms had different effects.

几十年后，在不同的规范下，页岩油气的繁荣产生了不同的影响。