barrels

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Bloomberg reported that supplies through the waterway -- through which a fifth of the world's crude usually passes -- hit more than 10 million barrels a day.

From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026

Crude stocks were expected to have fallen by 3.1 million barrels, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Oil stocks at Cushing, Okla., the Nymex delivery hub, rose by 709,000 barrels to 19.7 million barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Those numbers includes five very large crude carriers that can collectively export about 10 million barrels of crude.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

We spent the night changing places with one another on the two barrels left in the barrack.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz