A Translation Report On Fundamentals Of Applied Reservoir Engineering:Appraisal,Economics And Optimization(Chapters 1-2)

In recent years,although oil price has gone through ups and downs and the oil industry has suffered from severe turbulence,China heavily relies on oil without any change.International cooperations between Chinese oil companies and foreign oil giants have experienced a fast and profound development,whether just like Sinopec working together with foreign oil corporations to develop domestic oil blocks or like CNPC directly buying oil blocks abroad.Translating relevant technology materials from English version to Chinese version brings both opportunities and challenges to those English majors.Not only do they need a solid language skill,but also need to be familiar with some oil-related basic knowledge.Only by that,can they perform well in their position during the cooperation with foreign parties.The translator chooses the book Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering:Appraisal,Economics and Optimization as translation material,which covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering and its latest development.This translation project intercepts the first two chapters of the book.The translator adopts Cartford’s Translation Shift Theory as guidance to help to analyze and translate the source text accurately.So that,those readers can learn about oil exploration and development processes through reservoir engineering.The translation report firstly introduces the background information,significance and translation theory.Then,it comes to the content and linguistic style of the source text.After that,the analysis of typical examples is adopted to show the difficulty in translating terms,long sentences and passive voice sentences.What’s more,some translation skills are covered to get over the difficulty mentioned above.Finally,it comes to the experience obtained and unsolved problems.Not only does the translator learn a lot of translation experience,but also get familiar with some basic reservoir knowledge,which could lay the foundation for reservoir-related translation.The translator wishes that this translation practice could be a reference for those translators in this field and could be helpful to those readers who are interested in reservoir.