barrels

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OPEC+ could begin unwinding the 2 million barrels per day of official cuts agreed to in October 2022 once voluntary reductions are fully reversed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies on Sunday agreed to increase production next month by 188,000 barrels a day, in the fourth-straight production increase.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

OPEC+ itself says daily production has plummeted to just 33 million barrels a day as tankers remain stuck, compared to nearly 43 million before the conflict.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Commercial inventories in Cushing are now at 22.4 million barrels, their lowest since December, after hovering around 30 million barrels earlier in the Iran conflict.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 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