barrels

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Oil stored in the SPR fell by 8 million barrels to 357.1 million barrels on continued emergency releases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Gasoline demand fell by 662,000 barrels a day to 8.6 million barrels a day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Gasoline stocks were expected to have fallen by 600,000 barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Oil stocks at Cushing, Okla., the Nymex delivery hub, were down by 583,000 barrels at 22.4 million barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 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