Well, it costs money for a producer to shut a well down.

因为生产商闭油井要花钱。

Oil wells weren't drilled back then. They were essentially dug.

那时还没有钻油井。石油基本上是靠挖出来的。

But the problem starts before these wells are abandoned.

但问题早在油井弃置前已经出现了。

Money flows and oil wells explode.

金钱如潮涌来 油井不断开采。

And once you've shut a well down, sometimes it can be hard to get it back up.

油井闭，有时很难重开。

And here, there has been a successful recovery injecting the water back into the wells.

而在这里，人们成功地将水重新注入油井。

Oil driller has to save the world from an asteroid. He does.

钻油井工人救地球免受小行星撞击 而且成功了。

The company says the well been shut down for several years after it became inactive.

该公司表示油井在不活跃闭多年。

Britain has fracked at only one test site, in Lancashire, and not since 2011.

而直到2011年，英国才在兰开夏郡一处试点进行油井开采。

As wildcatters rushed to the region, small refineries started popping up all over the place.

随着盲目开采油井者涌入该地区，小型炼油厂开始在各处涌现。

On February twenty-third, the Iraqis set fire to hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells.

2月23日，伊拉克人放火烧毁数百口科威特油井。

The two companies have blamed the other for a bad cement job that failed to plug the well.

两家公司互相指责对方的固井工作未能堵住油井。

Rawthan now works for Schlumberger where she collects information from oil wells.

拉森现在在美国斯伦贝谢公司工作，在那里，她负责收集油井方面的信息。

According to the coastguard, a swift energy crude boat had well head owned by the same company.

据海岸警卫队称这艘能源原油船和油井属于同一公司。

It says that proper oversight can limit the environmental and health risks associated with fracking.

委员会还称，适当的监管会控制油井开采对环境和健康方面的危害。

A boat hit a well head last night in the shallow waters of coast of Louisiana.

昨晚路易斯安那州海岸浅水域一艘船撞到了一座闭的油井。

Work is underway to plug a leaking oil well off Louisiana's coast.

路易斯安那州海岸油井泄漏，目前正在进行清理工作。

But the authors go on to blame the government, not green campaigners, for holding the frackers up.

但是报告的撰写者旨在批评政府暂停油井开采，并非环保主义者。

Travelers on the road used to pass resorts, gold mines, oil wells, railroad stops, and ranches.

路上的游客以前都会经过度假村、金矿、油井、火车站和牧场。

The desert sand around the well had melted into glass from the extreme heat.

在极高的温度下，油井周围的沙子融成了玻璃。