Crude Oil (Conversions)
Crude Oil (Conversions)
Crude Oil (Conversions)
To
tonnes
Crude oil* (metric)
From
Tonnes (metric) 1
Kilolitres 0.8581
Barrels 0.1364
US gallons 0.00325
Barrels/day –
*Based on worldwide average gravity.
Products
To
billion cubic billion cubic
Natural gas (NG) and liquefied natural metres NG feet NG
gas (LNG)
From Mu
1 billion cubic metres NG 1 35.3
1 billion cubic feet NG 0.028 1
1 million tonnes oil equivalent 1.11 39.2
1 million tonnes LNG 1.36 48.0
1 trillion British thermal units 0.028 0.99
1 million barrels oil equivalent 0.16 5.74
Units
1 metric tonne = 2204.62 lb.
= 1.1023 short tons
1 kilolitre = 6.2898 barrels
1 kilolitre = 1 cubic metre
1 kilocalorie (kcal) = 4.187 kJ = 3.968
Btu
Calorific equivalents
One tonne of oil equivalent equals
approximately:
Heat units 10 million kilocalories
42 gigajoules
40 million Btu
Solid fuels 1.5 tonnes of hard coal
3 tonnes of lignite amd sub-
bituminous coal
Gaseous fuels See Natural gas and LNG table
Electricity 12 megawatt-hours
Other terms
Tonnes: Metric equivalent of tons
US tonnes/
kilolitres barrels gallons year
Multiply by
1.165 7.33 307.86 –
1 6.2898 264.17 –
0.159 1 42 –
0.0038 0.0238 1 –
– – – 49.8
To convert
barrels tonnes kilolitres tonnes
to tonnes to barrels to tonnes to kilolitres
Multiply by
0.086 11.60 0.542 1.844
0.120 8.35 0.753 1.328
0.127 7.88 0.798 1.253
0.134 7.46 0.843 1.186
0.157 6.35 0.991 1.010
0.125 7.98 0.788 1.269
Multiply by
0.90 0.74 35.7 6.16
0.025 0.021 1.01 0.17
1 0.82 39.7 6.84
1.22 1 48.6 8.37
0.025 0.021 1 0.17
0.15 0.12 5.80 1