2015考研英语阅读ETP竞购Sunoco_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读ETP竞购Sunoco

　　Energy Transfer bids for Sunoco

　　ETP竞购Sunoco

　　Put that in your pipe

　　纳入油管中

　　A pipeline deal to exploit America s fast-changing energy landscape

　　美国能源局势快速多变，一桩油气管道交易抓住了契机

　　NODDING donkeys, offshore platforms, refineries and filling stations are the bits of the oil industry you can see. A vast and largely invisible network of underground pipes joins them all together. It is worth a lot, which is why Energy Transfer Partners said it would pay $5.3 billion for Sunoco on April 30th. It hopes to pull together two networks and shift more of America s booming oil and gas output.

　　抽油机，海上钻井平台，炼油厂还有加油站，你看见的这些只是石油工业的冰山一角。把它们连在一起的是一个庞大且几乎隐形的地下管网。它价值不菲，正因如此 ETP 公司于4月30日表示，愿意出价53亿美元收购 Sunoco 公司。美国国内的石油和天然气产量正快速增长，ETP 希望通过合并两家公司的管网，以输送更多油气产品。

　　ETP is ambitious. Last year its parent company, Energy Transfer Equity, agreed to buy Southern Union and its gas-pipeline network for $5.7 billion.The latest deal will make ETP the country s second-biggest pipeline firm, behind Kinder Morgan, after the latter s merger with El Paso is concluded later this year.