Venezuela in bid to export more oil
ベネズエラが石油輸出量を増やそうとしている
Summary
2 January 2012
Venezuela's Orinoco river delta is set to become a major hub for the oil industry in 2012 as several new projects begin to produce oil for the first time. The area has some of the biggest oil deposits in the world.
ベネズエラのオリノコ川デルタが、複数の新プロジェクトによる初めての石油生産開始で、２０１２年に石油産業の主要ハブになろうとしている。 この地域は世界最大の石油鉱床を幾つか有している。
Vocabulary
overtook
surpassed
proven oil reserves
confirmed information of the existence of crude oil deposits
stretches over
spreads or covers a large area
sticky
substance that tends to fix to any surface it touches
refine
purify the raw material
ecosystem 生態系
the animals and plants in a particular geographical area and how they interact with each other
investment costs
money spent in the process of bringing oil to the surface
unprecedented 先例[前例]のない，空前の，前代未聞の
that never happened before
the consortia
several groups of companies joined together
to commit to
to do something that can't be changed
＜爺追加＞
set to do (まさに)〈…しようと〉して
in a bid to しようとしている