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bbl.

American  

abbreviation

plural

bbls
  1. barrel.


BBL British  

abbreviation

  1. be back later

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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

That has pushed up prices to about $28 per bbl., the high end of OPEC's target zone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1987, oil production in Russia has fallen from 11.8 million bbl. a day to an estimated 6.3 million in 2000.

From Time Magazine Archive

The highest price of mess pork at Chicago during the last forty years, according to the Daily Trade Bulletin, was $44 per bbl. in 1864, and the lowest price $5.50 per bbl., paid in 1896.

From Home Pork Making by Fulton, A. W.