barrels

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The president said more than 200 commercial ships had safely traveled the crucial waterway, resulting in more than 100 million barrels of oil reaching the market.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The US has also sanctioned the ship's owner, Arihant Shipping Inc, and has accused the ship of transporting "hundreds of thousands of barrels of Iranian fuel oil and bitumen within the Gulf since July 2025".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Since the beginning of May, those two data sets show approximately 96 million barrels of confirmed non-Iranian crude exiting the Persian Gulf through either direct Hormuz transits or Gulf of Oman-linked export networks, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The group of oil-rich countries now expects global oil-demand to grow by 970,000 barrels a day, from 1.17 million previously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object.

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