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How to use the word barrel in a Sentence? Page #7

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That's when I saw the shooter. And he turned on me, brought his gun down and the barrel hit the door frame and I was like oh, f***.

Jesse Hughes

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Right now, to step into this, you'd be catching a falling knife, with oil at $40 a barrel, these people can't make it ... At some point there are going to be some bargains out there, but we're not stepping into that now.

Bonnie Baha

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We remain focused on achieving further reliability improvements across our operations. And, we'll continue to build upon the momentum gained in 2015 in reducing cash costs per barrel at our oil sands operations.

Suncor Chief Executive Steve Williams

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This massive cushion has inflated even as the global oil market adjusts to $50 per barrel. Demand growth has risen to a five-year high of nearly 2 million bpd... But gains in demand have been outpaced by vigorous production from OPEC and resilient non-OPEC supply - with Russian output at a post-Soviet record and likely to remain robust in 2016 as well.

The IEA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is very hard to take Syrian pledges at their face, not least because last I checked President Assad continues to deny that his regime even uses barrel bombs despite the extensive documentation.

Samantha Power

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The oil price in this scenario remains close to $50 a barrel until the end of this decade, before rising gradually back to $85 a barrel in 2040, in the low-oil price scenario, the Middle East's share in the oil market ends up higher than at any time in the last forty years.

The IEA

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We all talk about 'peak supply' and maybe with shale that is becoming a disabused concept. I have begun feeling that... we are coming to peak demand towards 2030, i believe we may not see $100 (a barrel) ever again.

Ian Taylor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I believe we may not see $100 (a barrel) ever again.

Ian Taylor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If they were going to take it out, they should have at least considered doing it at high prices instead of selling it out at $40 a barrel.

Raye Miller

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I wouldn't want to conclude there is a real bounce going on, i'd like to see U.S. crude go beyond $46 a barrel to conclude the downtrend had finished.

Ric Spooner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The actual price of a barrel of petroleum demands more dedication to planning in the industry, which means that this is the moment to improve operationally.

Magda Chambriard

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The (Oxy) sale price shows the stark reality that operators trying to sell non-core acreage face in a sub-$50 per barrel oil world face.

Tim Rezvan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The world was a different place when we ran those triple-digit numbers. So, you would not only need oil to go back you'd need all those variables to go back. You created a perfect set of conditions that allowed you to get up to those levels, i'm bullish on oil, two to three years out. But I don't know if I'm bullish from $20 to $50 a barrel, or from $40 to $70 a barrel, or from $50 to $100 a barrel ... Until you have an equilibrium in all those other macro variables, you can't talk about a stable equilibrium in oil.

Jeff Currie

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm bullish on oil, two to three years out. But I don't know if I'm bullish from $20 to $50 a barrel, or from $40 to $70 a barrel, or from $50 to $100 a barrel ... Until you have an equilibrium in all those other macro variables, you can't talk about a stable equilibrium in oil.

Jeff Currie

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If oil didn't drop to $40 a barrel, we would be making 35,000 tank cars this year and next, most people expected that number to continue for another five years, but, right now, I am not sure that it holds up.

Robert Pickel Jr.

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our long-term investment plan will be based on several scenarios of global oil prices, with estimated high level of $60 a barrel, $50 a barrel and low level of $30.

Chief Executive Tevin Vongvanich told

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are both in the position, in exchange perhaps for something that we might do, they might decide to keep Assad from dropping barrel bombs.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As soon as I looked over I saw the barrel of the gun, I saw Mr. Apperson, I heard the shot, it was within seconds at the most.

George Zimmerman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

With a price of $40-$45 per barrel, the companies will revise their models, if the low price persists long term, previously approved models would stop working efficiently.

Deputy Energy Minister Alexei Teksler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If the price falls below $40 per barrel, then we, most likely, would be faced with a production decline.

Deputy Energy Minister Alexei Teksler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Doubling down on a regime that gases its people, that barrel bombs its people, that tortures people who it arrests simply for protesting and for claiming their rights -- that's just not going to work.

Samantha Power

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While there is some seasonality to crude beginning to build at this time of the year, a four-plus-million-barrel build is bearish and larger than normal.

Scott Shelton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At home, you stick yeast at the bottom of a barrel, but in labs, everything is controlled in special vessels.

Christina Smolke

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When they're using missiles that are shot from airplanes, it's a little bit different than these barrel bombs that just fall out of the sky, it's completely contrary to international law.

Sylvain Groulx

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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