barrel

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Even so, benchmark U.S. crude futures’ 2.4% gain Monday, to $58.08 a barrel, left them trading at one of their lowest values of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Crude stocks were expected to have fallen by 2.6 million barrels, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal

At $76.486, a troy ounce of silver is worth more than a barrel of oil in futures markets, where U.S. crude ended Friday at $56.74.

From The Wall Street Journal

Several times a month, tankers unload tens of thousands of barrels of oil products at a Turkish storage terminal in the port city of Mersin.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the Delaware portion of the Permian, its most prolific region, drillers crank out between 5 and 6 barrels of water, on average, for every barrel of oil.

From The Wall Street Journal