Re: conversion factors

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I always thought a bbl was 55 ga.  However, this site says 42:

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Metric/number-barrels.html


imperial is even less ~35


bc



Brian Whatcott wrote:

> At 09:00 AM 9/8/2004, you wrote:
>
>
> > Regarding Ludwik's conversion factors:
> >
> >
> >
> > > ... Below
> > > is a table of conversion factors given by
> > > H. Geller in his 2003 "Energy Revolution:
> > > Politics for a Sustainable Future"  book.
> > > ...
> > > 1 TOE (ton of oil equivalent) = 4.19*10^9 J
> > >       =4.19 GJ
> > >
> > > 1 BBL (barrel of oil) = 6.1*10^9 J = 6.1 GJ
> > > ...
> > Ludwik, do you have a typo somewhere here or does Geller
> > really claim that a barrel of oil weighs about 3/2 ton?
> >
> > David Bowman
>
>
> No time to look it up - but a barrel looks like it might hold
>  40 gal - and a (US) gal of oil ought to weigh around 6 lb -
> so a barrel might possibly be 250 lb hence  8 to the (US) ton
> If 1 TOE is really 4.2E9 J then a barrel would comprise
> maybe 5.4E8 J - this doesn't look right?
>
>
>
> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!