New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) prices for February delivery of light, sweet crude oil stood at 51.88 U. S. dollars per barrel on Thursday, he lowest since May 2005.

上星期二纽约商业交易所二月份交货的轻质低硫原油价格维持在每桶51.88美元，这是自2005年5月份以来的最低价格。

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While randomly drilling in Oklahoma somewhere might have yielded sweet crude in 1915, the latter stages of oil-driven capitalism find us drilling offshore and thousands of feet deep.

自从1915年在俄克拉荷马州偶然为之的钻井尝到甜头后，之后的资本社会阶段在原油利润的驱使下，在近海区域开始钻探，并且深达数千英尺。

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As we've been reporting, oil prices have touched new heights in after hours trading. US light sweet crude futures climbed a dime from Tuesday's new record closed at 44 dollars 25 cents a barrel.

据本台已经报道的消息，交易买卖开始后的几小时内油价就已经攀升至新高，美国轻原油期货的价格在周二创下新高后再上升一角，最终以每桶44.25美元的价格收市。

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Cushing is the price settlement point for West Texas Intermediate Sweet Crude Oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).

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The North African nation had produced about 2% of world production, about 1.6 million barrels of sweet crude oil per day, most of which was exported to Europe.

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Sweet light crude oil yields the most gallons of gasoline per barrel of oil and since it has low viscosity and low density, it is comparatively inexpensive to pump, transport, and refine.

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