bbl.
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With oil stuck above $70 per bbl. and the Doha round of trade negotiations defunct, growth was bound to slacken.
From Time • May 2, 2011
According to the latest government estimate, 12,000 to 19,000 bbl. of oil are leaking from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico each day.
From Time • Jun. 3, 2010
Geological Survey estimated that there could be between 3 billion and 16 billion bbl. of oil in Area 1002.
From Time Magazine Archive
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By that year, oil consumption in parts of the industrializing Third World should push global demand to 115 million bbl. a day from current levels of around 76 million bbl.
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Portland cement, at 8.00 pesos per bbl., delivered at pipe-making yard.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham
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