China is hoping to follow America into a shale gas revolution.

中国希望能跟随美国进入岩页天然气改革。

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。

But each shale gas well needs 15,000 tonnes of water a year to run.

然而，一个天然气井需一年15,000吨水来运转。

She says the presence of large shale gas reserves and political problems in Ukraine have increased interest in Europe's shale gas.

她说大量页岩气储备的存在和乌克兰的政治问题，使得人们对欧洲的页岩气越发感兴趣。

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，目前天然气价格处于20年来的最低水平。

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。

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。

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会导致地震。

Ukrainian officials said the deal was worth 10 billion dollars which would make it the largest investment in shale gas in Europe.

乌克兰官员称该协议价值100亿美元，这是欧洲最大的页岩气投资。

France, Poland and Ukraine are thought to have the largest amounts of shale gas.Large supplies have been found in Romania, Bulgaria and Britain.

据悉法国、荷兰和乌克兰拥有最大的页岩气储量，罗马尼亚、保加利亚和英国也发现大量储备。

But Europe is believed to be years away from major shale gas production. Poland, Britain and Romania are expected to start exploration by 2020.

但据悉欧洲要成为页岩气的大规模开发还需很多年，波兰、英国和罗马尼亚都有望在2020年之前开始开发。

The American oil firm Chevron has suspended test drilling for shale gas in Romania after anti-fracking protesters broken into a site northeast of the capital Bucharest.

美国雪佛龙石油公司暂停在罗马尼亚的页岩气测试钻探，此前有反压裂抗议者冲进首都布加勒斯特东北部一处钻探点。

Shale gas, billowing out of the bedrock in ever-increasing quantities, is becoming the most important factor in the drive to lessen America's dependence on imported fuel.

从基岩开发出来的页岩气数量前所未有的增加，是使得美国能够减少对进口石油依赖最重要的原因。

If you're an investor in shale gas, for example, and one minute shale gas is banned, then it's allowed, then it's banned again.

例如，如果你是页岩气的投资者，一分钟页岩气被禁止，然后它被允许， 然后又被禁止。

Like wind power, this has boomed in America over the past couple of decades, with the rise of shale gas produced by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of rocks.

与风力发电一样，随着水力压裂法开采页岩天然气的兴起，在过去的几十年里，这一技术在美国蓬勃发展。

Any emissions reductions have tended to come from things beyond climate policy—such as the economic downturn following the global financial crisis, or the cheap shale gas which has displaced American coal.

任何排放量的减少往往高于气候政策之上，例如全球经济危机之后的经济衰退或是在美国用廉价的页岩代替煤。

They're trying to put the shale gas revolution on hold. They're trying to flood the market with oil and drive prices even lower in the hopes the frackers will stop fracking.

他们试图遏制液压破碎法。他们想要通过石油占领市场，把油价压到更低，希望液压破碎法退出。

But it is still not clear what the global impact of shale gas will be, how energy markets might change or what geopolitical implications will emerge if America becomes self-sufficient in energy.

但是对于页岩气的全球性影响，能源市场将如何改变或者如果美国能源能够自给自足将有什么地理政治意义还是不甚明朗。

He held out the prospect of exporting shale gas to Europe if a prospective trade agreement between the two powers were signed. But he added that Europe should not rely on US gas.

他指出如果美国和欧洲签署贸易协议后向欧洲出口页岩的前景，但他说欧洲不应该依赖美国的天然气。