Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concession in the northwestern coastal plain. It had beaten out the Japanese and the Italians for Yemen rights. ¶ In the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Compagnie Franchise des Petroles brought in a well that tested out at 2,400 bbl. daily...
...Venezuela struck it rich. On the northeastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, a quiet little oil well called Los Barrosos No. 2 suddenly blew in and began spouting crude at the rate of 100,000 bbl. a day. In the rush that followed, oil companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered...
LIFT IN BEER raised per capita intake in 1959 for first time since 1948, as sales bubbled up 4.8% to record 89 million bbl. Average consumer drank 15.5 gal. v. 15 gal. in 1958. Top brewers (in bbl...
FIRST PIPELINE designed for liquefied petroleum gas will be built by Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. The $60 million, 2,500-mile pipeline artery will stretch from West Texas to Wisconsin and Minnesota. The railroad has already lined up enough shippers to supply 30,000 bbl. daily...