barrels

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The U.S. exported 2.7 million barrels of U.S. diesel, gasoline and other refined products to Australia in March, according to Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The ports of New York, Philadelphia and Albany, N.Y., exported 174,000 barrels a day of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products last month, according to Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

An additional 1.8 million barrels headed to Australia in April.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Kentucky is sitting on roughly 16.1 million barrels of bourbon—the equivalent of around 300 million cases—according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

This may seem a backward way of going about measuring barrels, but it was a brilliant idea.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife