A Translation Report Of Shale Oil Production Process

At present, due to the shortage of fossil energy including oil and gas resulting from the fast consumption, the development and utilization of non-fossil energy and unconventional oil and gas have become a necessary way to human social development and economic growth. Shale oil can play a leading role in the unconventional oil revolution. In recent years, North America's unconventional oil and gas exploration has made great breakthroughs, which marks unconventional oil and gas resources have become an important area in oil resources reserve and production. Shale oil exploration and development in our country, however, is still in its primary stage. In order to promote the sustainable development of unconventional resources, it is urgent for us to draw experience in unconventional resources exploration and development from the success of the model represented by American one. Unfortunately, there are a few English translated texts about shale oil and gas development in our country much less the related materials because of the difficulty of shale oil English translation. Therefore, the Chinese translation and research of foreign shale oil English text can not only provide important reference for the development of domestic shale oil industry but also offer valuable data for the universal popularity of shale oil.Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 which have more than 10,000 words in total from Shale Oil Production Process are translated as the source language. Based on the source text, the translator picks up some special and meaningful sentences as the translation examples in order to analyze the translation process. Of the two chapters, chapter 7 is the key assignment of this translation task which is put emphasis on the introduction that the development of shale oil production has great adverse effect on the environment, air quality, water quality and soil. The author of the Shale Oil Production Process attempts to make the readers realize how important it is to protect our environment. This translation report covers the whole process of this translation task including the preparing stage, the summary and analyzing of the translation examples. Based on Nord(1943-)text analysis theory and New Mark(1916–2011) text type theory, Shale Oil Production Process is analyzed and researched with the help of translation examples.This report analyses the extratextual factors and intratextual factors influencing the translation. Through the analysis and research of Shale Oil Production Process, the translator gets the conclusion that this text belongs to the integration text of information and vocative text which requires the translation version must follow the translation demands in the stylistics and the version should be close to the original sentence in its structure and word order. Considering the characteristics of oil English and the principles of scientific English translation, the translator utilizes concrete cases from the translation text to demonstrate translation methods and skills to deal with the difficulties encountered in the translation process. Finally, combined with the task of the translation practice, the translator discusses the professional quality for English shale oil translators and talks about the translation experience of this project. The author hopes that through the translation of the text, the public understanding of the new energy can be improved and great importance should be attached to the energy mining impact on the environment. In addition, the source text contains a lot of special sentence patterns and terminology associated with shale oil, which can provide some experiences for petroleum English translator and interpreter in the future.