barrel

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Still, Brent crude futures rose 5.9% for the week to $71.76 a barrel, with investors bracing for a potential U.S. strike in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal

U.S. inventory data added support to prices, with the EIA reporting an unexpected 9 million barrel crude stock draw for last week.

From The Wall Street Journal

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pipelines bypass the strait, but their spare capacity would cover only a fraction of the roughly 20 million barrels a day usually flowing through Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal

But just as they were a couple of miles from safety, someone in the group saw a wall of snow — estimated to be the size of a football field — barreling toward them.

From Los Angeles Times

Analysts say Iran could close the world’s busiest oil thoroughfare, the Strait of Hormuz, which sees roughly 20 million barrels of petroleum running through it daily, equivalent to almost a fifth of global oil demand.

From The Wall Street Journal