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Re:Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract e... by pjc50 on Monday April 20, 2020 @11:09AM (#22924471)
The world produces approximately thirteen billion liters of oil (83m "barrels") a day. A billion liters is a cube a hundred meters on a side. Given that it needs to be stored in a tank and not just pooled in a huge lake, that's a bit of a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-class_supertanker store about three million barrels.

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