Oil platforms serve as excellent nursery grounds that boost fish populations, he says.

石油钻井平台就像优质育儿室，促进鱼类繁殖。

Security officials in Nigeria say militants have attacked a Chevron oil platform in the Niger Delta region.

据尼日利亚安全部门表示，激进分子在尼日尔三角洲袭击了雪佛龙钻井平台。

Oil platform workers are often called roughnecks. In Texas, many roughnecks have lost their jobs because of the drop in oil prices.

石油钻井平台工人通常叫做钻工，在德州，油价下跌导致很多钻工失业。

Sixteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina heavily damaged a Shell Oil platform and capsized a deepwater platform belonging to Chevron.

16年前，飓风“卡特里娜”严重破坏了壳牌石油公司的一个平台，并倾覆了雪佛龙公司的一个深水平台。

The Environmental Defence Centre in Santa Barbara, a group that files anti-development lawsuits, advocates the complete removal of oil platforms.

圣芭芭拉环境保护中心主要任务就是给反运动的法律诉讼存档，他们提倡完全移除石油钻井平台。

It's not like the Gulf Coast, where they have a ton of oil platforms.

它不像墨西哥湾沿岸，那里有大量的石油平台。

The company that owns the oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire on Friday is looking for a missing worker.

周五墨西哥湾石油平台爆炸着火，现在该公司正在搜寻失踪人员。

In other places, huge machines called oil platforms drill wells under the sea.

在其他地方，被称为石油平台的巨大机器在海底钻井。

Nearly 2,000 workers constructing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge were evacuated, and more than 2,000 others working on an offshore oil platform were relocated.

近2000名港珠澳大桥施工人员撤离，工作在近海石油钻井平台上的2000多名工人转移。

There are often bad storms at sea, so oil platforms have to be very strong.

海上经常有恶劣的风暴，所以石油平台必须非常坚固。

Mexico and the USA, there are more than 2,300 oil platforms.

墨西哥和美国，有2300多个石油平台。

The oil platform was destroyed and eleven workers died.

石油平台被毁，11 名工人死亡。

In February, 2 people were killed and at least 7 injured in a Pemex oil platform off the coast of Campeche, also in the southeastern Mexico.

2月份，同样在墨西哥东南部坎佩切海岸一座Pemex石油钻探平台发生的事故造成2人死亡，至少7人受伤。

Ironically, these green energy producers modelled  their floating turbines off floating oil platforms that use similar engineering techniques  to stay afloat in the middle of the sea.

具有讽刺意味的是，这些绿色能源生产商在浮动石油平台上模拟了他们的浮动涡轮机，这些平台使用类似的工程技术在海中保持漂浮。