Analysts said that many of the oil companies involved in the bidding believed they would struggle to break even under the terms on offer.

分析人士称，许多参与投标的石油公司认为，按照出价条款，他们想收支平衡都难。

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The bill would also rescind a tax credit for "domestic manufacturing" that oil companies received in 2004 and a much smaller tax break for geological expenses.

法案也将取消石油公司2004年获得的“国内生产”的税收减免，这项减免比对地理成本的税收暂停征收数额上要小得多。

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The fault slope break is a favorable area of oil accumulation and new target of subtle reservoir exploration in terrigenous fault-depression.

断层坡折带是油气藏聚集的有利地带，也是陆相断陷盆地隐蔽油气藏勘探的新领域。

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Her biggest break came in oil.

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The UK government in September unveiled a tax break for oil and gas companies in a bid to reverse a decline in exploration and production in an industry which employs more than 300, 000 people.

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And in February 2006, militants in vehicles loaded with explosives tried to break through the gates of the Abqaiq oil refinery in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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