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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by NullPrefix on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:54AM (#19606334)
>313,661 barrels per day per million people.... Australia produces 12,010 bbl/day/millon-people

Would be way easier to understand the comparison if the notation would be the same on both numbers. I assume bbl means billions of barrels, this means Australia's number is higher by few orders.

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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by aristophenes on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:44PM (#19606814)
They are the same notation, look it up. If Australia was producing 12,010 billion barrels of oil per day per million people you'd probably be able to see that portion of the globe turn black from space, everyone in Australia would have drowned in it and an oil tsunami would be heading towards New Zealand.
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by vijayr02 on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:56AM (#19606360)
bbl is market jargon for barrels, not billions of barrels...
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by jessaustin on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:26AM (#19653518)
That's goofy, most abbreviations drop letters rather than adding them.
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by NullPrefix on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:12AM (#19623519)
So why not use the same for both numbers?
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