barrels
Example Sentences
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On April 18, Sanmar Herald, an Indian-flagged oil supertanker loaded with two million barrels of Iraqi crude, was hit by the Iranian navy on its way out of the strait heading to India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“The oil industry in Venezuela is a shambles,” Gross noted, with production falling from a peak of about 3.2 million barrels a day in 2000 to as low as about 800,000 barrels now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
But cargoes of oil products like gasoline and diesel came to 1.3 million barrels a day, accounting for only 11% of the overall flows—the rest was unrefined crude oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
But they are barely moving any barrels of the fuel the world needs most: diesel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Fifty feet of rope, a ten-foot plank, and some big steel barrels, what sometimes they call drums.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
