The Basra refinery escaped the war mostly unscathed, but it gets only 6 gallons of gasoline from a barrel of crude, one-third that of modern plants.
After Parker's rapturous February 2001 review--his educated palate really was assessing grape juice from a barrel--futures went on sale in June 2001 for cases that will be delivered in spring 2003.
The fuel pellets typically contain around 10 milligrams of fuel, and if all of that were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to that from burning a barrel of oil.
They decline significantly from one year to the next because each barrel of oil taken from a reservoir reduces the pressure within the field, leaving less force available to push the next barrel of oil up the well.
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Each of the caps of a vault's barrel is made from a ring of proteins.
He said that 21st century national security could "not be delivered solely from the barrel of a gun".
Still, a number of things could go wrong from a fuse malfunctioning, a problem with the barrel's assembly to a round prematurely detonating inside the tube, he said.
The barrel heats up as a result of the hot expanding gases in the barrel and the friction from the bullets that are propelled by these hot gases along a helical path inside the barrel.
So I took out a motorcycle helmet made of fibreglass, with a polycarbonate visor that could take a double-barrel shogun from 10 paces - so I though it could withstand a cricket ball!
Just a week earlier the government reversed its position on pipeline ownership, giving him and his peers a provisional green light to build a 2m-barrel-a-day link from the oilfields of Western Siberia to the northern port of Murmansk.
Kevin Newman lowers a barrel down from his Chevy Duramax Diesel Truck outside a shopping mall in Salt Lake City.
All this from a single 108, 000-barrel-a-day teakettle in Coffeyville, Kans. (pop. 11, 000) and a fertilizer plant nearby.
The price of a barrel had doubled from August 2007 to July 2008.
The Clinton administration began taking bids this week from energy companies to fill a 2 million barrel heating oil reserve planned for the Northeast.
You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
So even as we're tackling issues of supply and demand, even as we're looking at the long-term in terms of how we can structurally make ourselves less reliant on foreign oil, we still need to work extra hard to protect consumers from factors that should not affect the price of a barrel of oil.
Oil economist Timothy Considine examined a similar 30 million barrel release of crude from the SPR prior to the 2000 election.
DeLauro also hinted that the administration might consider releasing product from the 571-million barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a suggestion the White House is certain to refuse outright.
Then in 1985 along came Glock with a gun made from a nylon resin that was tough enough to be made into most parts of a pistol (except the carbon steel barrel).
Storm systems were moving in from either side, but there was a lull between them that let us barrel through at a considerable average speed of 11 knots, returning so far ahead of schedule that the captain detoured to give us a view of Cape Horn.
According to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data, the percentage of non-commercial traders (investors who have no intention of ever supplying or taking delivery of a barrel of crude oil) has grown over time, from less than 10 percent of market players by volume in 2000 to more than 40 percent in 2011.
Another unique feature of the Delta Six is that by removing the barrel and collapsing the stock it converts from an assault rifle to a Sub Machine Gun.
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It is convenient to account for both oil and gas in terms of the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil, although actual North Sea oil production has fallen from just above 3 million bpd in1979 to just over one million bpd now.
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Planters also used group incentives to encourage honesty, doling out a barrel of corn to each hand with the caveat that if anything was stolen from the farm and no one turned in the thief, double the value of that corn would be deducted from each of their Christmas awards.
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He also estimates increased transportation costs at a dollar a barrel--another reason to keep refineries close to where crude oil is pulled from the ground.
Unlike titles like Halo or Call of Duty which have players aiming down the barrel of a gun, in strategy games you control entire massive armies at once from on high.
Watson reached his 15th Test half century from 95 deliveries in the 30th over but once again the barrel-chested opener fell short of a three-figure score when he misjudged a reverse-swinging delivery, offering no stroke to a ball which moved back into his pads.
Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.
Delphi Chief Executive Officer Steve Miller has both GM and the UAW over a barrel, after putting Delphi into bankruptcy last October and demanding a 60% wage cut from the union.
Additionally, it features a macro switching ring on the lens barrel which instantly shortens the minimum focusing distance to approximately 20cm (from image plane), allowing the camera to capture small, close-up subjects with exquisite detail.
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