barrels

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Data for 2023-2025 show gasoline demand 400,000-500,000 barrels a day higher in the second and third quarters than in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Energy Information Administration expects demand to decline by 1.1 million barrels a day, while the International Energy Agency projects a contraction of 420,000 barrels a day this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Global oil supply has been significantly disrupted, with the IEA estimating a loss of 13 million barrels a day.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The US has also sanctioned the ship's owner, Arihant Shipping Inc, and has accused the ship of transporting "hundreds of thousands of barrels of Iranian fuel oil and bitumen within the Gulf since July 2025".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

It was cluttered with a random assortment of boxes and barrels and bags: things he had taken from travelers, probably.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack