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  • Brent has gained prominence at the expense of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, which has broken from the global market as logistical issues have led to rising supplies at its land-locked delivery point in Cushing, Okla., keeping prices down.

    Traders Look To Brent, But Oil Benchmark Has Own Problems Sarah Kent 2011

  • Mongolia is a land-locked country with the 19th largest geographic size of any country yet a total population of around 2.8 million people or slightly lower than the population of Brooklyn.

    Howard Steven Friedman: Mongolia's Beauty Howard Steven Friedman 2011

  • Earlier Sudan has failed to reach a deal on oil transit fees with its land-locked neighbor, South Sudan, and seized an additional 2.4 million barrels of oil shipments.

    Sudan to Resume Oil Talks With South Sudan Nicholas Bariyo 2012

  • The first few days the girl imagined that they were like a land-locked Robinson Crusoe, on an adventure.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

  • Canadian producers have been boosting oil output, and shippers still need pipeline capacity to get that oil out of the land-locked province of Alberta, where most of Canada's oil-sands reserves are located.

    Oil Jumps on Pipeline Deal Chip Cummins 2011

  • Often you will hear Marco say, "Would you like an ocean view", which always gets a chuckle in land-locked Calgary.

    Larry Leach: Calgary's People, Part 1 Larry Leach 2011

  • We found it quite rough in the Straits and in Suisun Bay; but as the water grew more land-locked it became calm, though without let-up in the wind.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • Sometimes she rested her back and watched the teeming beach towards which they were heading, and again, the land-locked arm of the sea in which a score or so of great steamships lay at anchor.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • York Cut-Off, skimmed across the smooth land-locked water past

    Chapter 22 2010

  • The first few days the girl imagined that they were like a land-locked Robinson Crusoe, on an adventure.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

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