barrels

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The International Energy Agency already forecasts average demand of 104 million barrels a day this year will outstrip supplies of around 102.2 million barrels.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

By some calculations, the world is missing between 10 million and 12 million barrels a day of those products.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 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

Read: The world lost nearly 1 billion barrels in oil supply over the past 75 days.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Some of it spilled out onto the deck, filling the air with the pungent odor of distant lands, before the barrels were hurled overboard into the water.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin