Thousands of Barrels

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Abbreviation

MBBLs

Pronunciation

/ˈθaʊzənz əv ˈbɛrəlz/

But in that time hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil could flow unabated into the ocean.
In a few weeks ' time, two oil rigs off the coast of Brazil will move smoothly into production, pumping thousands of barrels of oil a day out of the Peregrino oilfield in the Campos basin.
As oil continues to hit our shores week after week, thousands of barrels of oil remain in the water.
But such moves would add only a few tens of thousands of barrels of oil production a day and would fail to arrest the long-term decline of the North Sea, one of the world's biggest oil provinces.
The accident killed 11 oil workers and resulted in tens of thousands of barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.