barrel

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But when the brewery ran short on bottles, he tried putting leftover beer in the barrels to avoid having to dump it.

From The Wall Street Journal

The acquisition also supports the company’s overall production at around 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day to the end of the decade, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal

It said that ship was loaded with 1.8 million barrels of crude oil at a Venezuelan port earlier this month before being escorted out of the Latin American country's exclusive economic zone on December 18.

From Barron's

The ship had loaded 1.8 million barrels of crude oil at Venezuela’s Jose terminal and had been signaling its destination as Malaysia at the point it was intercepted, one of the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal

One tanker that the U.S. has already seized was en route with almost two million barrels of Venezuelan oil.

From The Wall Street Journal