bbl.
abbreviation
barrel.
bbl.
Americanabbreviation
plural
bbls
BBL
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
A day later the Clinton Administration announced that it was releasing 30 million of the 570 million bbl. now stockpiled in salt caves along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mortar was mixed rather dry, but very thoroughly, using 14.1 cu. ft. of sand to 1 bbl. of cement, or very closely a 1 to 4 mixture.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
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