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Steve Van Doorn
oops! 261.8
thousand
million barrels
Didn't see that :)
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03/09/2004 7:44:07 AM PST
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Steve Van Doorn
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Steve Van Doorn
Easy to mistake that. In some parts of the world, billion means a million million, so they use the term thousand million instead to convey the amount.
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03/09/2004 7:52:47 AM PST
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