barrels

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Data for 2023-2025 show gasoline demand 400,000-500,000 barrels a day higher in the second and third quarters than in the first quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

They were expected to have fallen by 2.9 million barrels, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Globally, oil production has fallen, expected to be down 6.4 million barrels a day this year from the total 107 million barrels a day last year.

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

Water barrels being carried into the gym, with a heavily armed entourage, and people trying to push their way through to those barrels with all the anguish of a baroque painting.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman