barrels

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Halfway through May, the pace of exports is even higher, well over 200,000 barrels a day—the highest monthly pace on Kpler’s records since 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“We have to essentially get squeezed to the point where prices move higher to stop the barrels leaving.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The U.S. exported some 1.86 million barrels at one point earlier this month, according to the Energy Information Administration, the highest volume ever.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

But like distillers, some of the makers of those barrels are struggling to find buyers for their products.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Usually there was a good supply of salt fish kept in barrels, but fish had not been plentiful the past summer, so now the supply was meager.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli