Extracted oil is counted in tons (thousands, millions). Why then are prices determined “per barrel”? What does this strange word mean?
The birthplace of the barrel is England
There is nothing strange in this word. Translated from English, “barrel” means “barrel”, that’s all.
Barrels have been used for a long time in European countries for storage of bulk substances. Initially, wheat was taken as the standard. Eight pounds of wheat made one gallon. And thirty-two gallons made up the desired barrel. It would seem, what does liquid have to do with it? How can one measure, for example, a barrel of oil in liters if the standard is wheat? But wheat and other bulk substances existed as the only objects for filling barrels for a relatively short time.
When epidemics swept across Europe, many began to associate them with the disgusting quality of water. And, I must say, not without reason. In the absence of sewerage systems, the population of cities and towns dumped wastewater into the streets, then these drains flowed to the sources and contaminated them. Therefore, in European cities, water has practically fallen out of use. A replacement was quickly found - a product of fermentation of grains (ale) and grapes (wine). Europe did not know stronger drinks at that time, but a lot of containers were urgently needed for the indicated drinks. The production of barrels made many enterprising businessmen of medieval Europe rich.
Variety of barrels
To answer the question: “A barrel is how many liters?” - You need to understand the variety of barrels. In England there were separate barrels for ale, and with the advent of beer, beer barrels appeared. In addition, there were barrels for bulk substances.
French barrels called “barriques” that contained wine. Along with the French proper, there were Bordeaux and Burgundy barriques.
Russian barrels for liquids were several times larger in volume than European ones and could hold forty buckets (almost 492 liters), but Russian analogues for storing alcohol were comparable to European ones - a Riga (wine) barrel could hold a little more than twelve buckets, a beer barrel - ten buckets, in a Polish barrel - eight buckets.
The Americans borrowed the language and units of measurement from England, but the American volumes were slightly different from the English ones. Thus, the volume of a barrel for beer in the USA is 31 gallons, and for other liquids it is 31.5 gallons. To help you understand the size of a gallon, use the picture below. A gallon is just under four liters.
That is, the answer to the question of what a barrel is equal to depends on what exactly we are talking about, because its volumes can vary from 115.6 liters in a dry US barrel to 163.66 liters in an English barrel. And this does not include French barriques (about 228 liters) and Russian barrels.
Oil barrel
So how much is one standard barrel of oil in liters? Approximately 159 liters, more precisely 158.988 liters. Rapid growth the value of “black gold”, the increase in its production, especially on the American continent, required the acceleration of trade processes. And the variety of barrel volumes not only did not speed up trade, but even slowed down the process of calculating the exact volume of the supplied product. Therefore, at a convention of oil industrialists in American Pennsylvania in the sixties of the nineteenth century, a unit for the sale of oil was established - a barrel with a volume of forty-two gallons. On the one hand, this is exactly the weight, according to calculations, that one loader can handle. On the other hand, a purely practical calculation had an impact - modern barges of that time could accommodate exactly twenty such barrels, and the railway platforms had the corresponding size.
Metric Convention
Three decimal places when denoting one barrel of oil in liters should not confuse anyone, because they appear only when converting from the American system of units to the metric system. A little later than the Americans, Europeans began to think about the standardization of world trade. Twenty-five years before the end of the nineteenth century, representatives of seventeen countries agreed on a metric convention. One of these representatives was from Russia. Since then, a systematic transition from local units of measurement to international ones has begun throughout Russia. Instead of miles, distances began to be measured in kilometers, weight in kilograms instead of pounds, and volumes in liters instead of buckets. Gradually, new units of measurement took root throughout the country, but the old names are still used in everyday life. IN modern world 55 full members and 41 associates joined the metric convention.
From barrels - to another plane
A little higher we discussed how much volume a barrel of oil occupies in liters. Standard American barrel. But oil is produced not only in the USA; it has different densities. Therefore, when asked about extracted hydrocarbons (“How much is a barrel?”), it is necessary to clarify what brand we are talking about. The denser the oil, the fewer barrels a ton will hold. And even though we're talking about about minor differences (for example, one barrel of “Ural” oil is approximately 137.3 liters, “Siberian Light” - about 134 liters), with production volumes in thousands of tons, the difference will be significant.
"Blue" barrel
Oil is measured in gallons, barrels, cubic meters, tons, exajoules (joule times 10 to the 18th power), and British thermal units (BTU or BTU). In the UK and France, crude oil and condensate are measured by ton, while in Norway and Canada, crude oil is measured in cubic meters and condensate is measured in tons. In the USA, both types of raw materials are measured in barrels, and for condensate the value is most often given in barrels of oil equivalent, and this volume does not coincide with the actual volume of the product.
The United States, the largest consumer of oil on the planet, essentially imposed its barrel on oil workers around the world. By definition, an American oil barrel is equal to 42 gallons, or 158.983 liters. Interestingly, a barrel for measuring other liquids in America holds only 31.5 gallons (119.237 l). An agreement on 42 gallons was reached at the end of August 1866: traders recognized that their measuring barrels, that is, barrels, often did not correspond to the volume indicated on them, and agreed to release oil to consumers “on the fly.”
This volume was fixed in 1972 by the US Petroleum Producers Association, but the oil barrel has not yet become an official unit, and American federal agencies are required by law to indicate each time that a given barrel is equal to 42 US gallons.
The usual abbreviation for barrel is bbl, with the first letter standing for blue. This has been the case since time immemorial, and today oil workers explain this virtual color of the barrel in different ways. Some say that crude oil barrels were once this color, as opposed to the red ones containing petroleum products. Others claim that Standard Oil of Califormia's signature color sneaked in here.
The barrel has taken root in the daily practice of oil workers also because it is much more convenient from a practical point of view to measure oil in tankers, tanks and pipelines by volume rather than by weight. And there is no need to talk about the advantages of the world practice of using such a unit as a barrel per day. It is much more indicative and practical than the annual weight of oil produced. And the conversion is simple: on average, a barrel per day is equal to 50 tons per year.
Some into the forest, some for firewood
Nevertheless, it is still necessary to convert barrels into tons often, and here a factor such as the specific gravity of oil comes into play, which for the main types of Russia, for example, varies widely - from 820 to 905.5 kg per cubic meter. The weight of each barrel changes accordingly. The most common export grade, Urals, is characterized by a density range from 870.8 to 860.2 kg per cubic meter, and exporters are forced to break this range into three smaller units: the lighter grade is called Urals High, the heavier grade is called Urals Low, and the intermediate grade is called Urals Med.
Export grades of CIS oil
Measuring oil density in degrees is another tradition followed by oil workers around the world under the influence of US standards. (The correspondence of this unit of change with those adopted in Russia is reflected in)
It must be said that the specifications of Russian varieties are enviably constant. In some oil-producing countries, the declared density of exported oil tends to vary, making calculations very difficult for both statisticians and traders.
OPEC barrel to ton conversion factor different years
View from the outside
The unexpected jumps in 1997-1998 are interesting in the table below. According to analyst Jean Laherrere, this is not explained by a change in the composition of exported oil grades, but by a special settlement system within OPEC, dictated by certain political or commercial considerations.
Experts external to the cartel give completely different conversion factors for members
to OPEC. Thus, in the annual statistical review, it is proposed to recalculate Saudi oil at 7.6 barrels per ton, and not at 7.3, and Algerian oil at 8.7 instead of 7.9 barrels, as OPEC sources would like. At the same time, the global average ratio for oil and condensate, according to BP, is 7.6 barrels per ton.
Barrel to ton conversion factor for CIS
A number of reputable foreign publications assume that a ton of Russian oil contains on average 7.35 - 7.36 barrels. However, this indicator is an arithmetic average, and not a weighted average between the “Ural” and “Siberian light”, and does not take into account the real ratio of their export volumes. Most often, to simplify calculations, Russian oil is converted from system to system with a coefficient of 7.3 barrels per ton, since the amount exported by Siberian Light lags far behind the popular Urals oil. However, from the above it follows that in some cases it makes sense for traders to remember a certain degree of convention when determining this coefficient, and carry out the translation using more complex system recalculation taking into account the characteristics of a particular type of oil.
Annex 1.
Converting API degrees to metric specific gravity measures
The origin of the oil barrel as a unit of measurement of oil production is hidden in the haze of the distant past. But we still know something from history.
Oil has been extracted in small quantities since ancient times. And at first there was no standard container for transporting oil. In some places oil was transported in wooden barrels, in others in wineskins. As long as oil transportation and trade volumes were small, this was not a big problem.
The rapid development of oil production in the second half of the 19th century led to a severe shortage of tanks for storing and transporting oil. All available barrels of various purposes and sizes were used to transport oil. Since it was convenient to set the price of oil for 1 barrel, the use of barrels different sizes caused great inconvenience to customers. As trade volumes increased, the lack of standard capacity for oil deliveries meant that the process of calculating delivered volumes of oil became increasingly lengthy and labor-intensive.
In August 1866, at the height of the oil boom in northwestern Pennsylvania, a handful of American independent oil workers met in the town of Titusville. One of the issues that was discussed at this meeting was the coordination of standard packaging for oil supplies to consumers. As a result, 42 gallons was agreed upon as the standard oil barrel.
Why did the 42-gallon drum become the standard in the oil industry?
By 1700, Pennsylvania's everyday practice and experience had led to the 42-gallon airtight wooden barrel becoming the de facto standard container for shipping fish, molasses, soap, wine, oil, whale oil, and other goods.
The 42-gallon drums, when filled with oil, were just the right weight for one person to handle. healthy man. Larger barrels could no longer be handled by one person, and using smaller barrels was not as profitable from an economic point of view. Additionally, the 20 42-gallon drums fit perfectly on typical barges and railroad flatcars of the day.
Thus, choosing the 42-gallon drum as the industry standard was a logical and natural step for early oil producers. In 1872, the American Petroleum Producers Association officially adopted the 42-gallon drum as the standard.
Nowadays, of course, oil is no longer transported in any barrels. It is transported by tankers and through oil pipelines. But the oil barrel as a unit of measurement remained in the practice of world oil trade.
The Myth of the Blue Barrel
or Why is the abbreviation “bbl” used to refer to barrel?
Another question that for a long time haunted me: why are there two letters “b” in the barrel designation (bbl), although English word barrel, only one "b"?
Popular rumor says that this abbreviation owes its origin to the phrase blue barrel (blue barrel). The fact is that the early practice of the Standard Oil Company was to paint its oil barrels blue. The blue barrel was a kind of guarantee that its volume was 42 gallons.
Although this version is very widespread, it is actually a myth. If you dig a little deeper, you can see that the abbreviation bbl was used long before the birth of the oil industry and the emergence of the Standard Oil company with its “holy blue barrel”. Various documents accompanying the transport of goods (honey, rum, whale oil and other goods) confirm that the abbreviation bbl was used as early as the eighteenth century.
Declaration of the cargo of the brig Sally, dated September 11, 1764
(if you read carefully you will notice the use of the abbreviation bbl)
There are other hypotheses about the origin of the abbreviation bbl. For example, some believe that bbl was used to represent plural. That is, one barrel is 1 bl, two barrels are 2 bbl, etc. Others believe that the abbreviation bbl was used to denote the word "barrel" to avoid confusion with the word "bale". That is, 1 bl is one bale, and 1 bbl is one barrel.
The last hypothesis seems to me the most plausible. But I couldn’t find a definite answer. In general, the truth is somewhere nearby. And it seems like we’ll never know what it really was like...
A barrel is an internationally accepted volume measure used in the petroleum industry to measure the volume of crude oil produced.
Definition of a barrel, types of barrel, history of the appearance of the blue oil barrel, American oil barrel, French and English barrels, conversion of barrel to other units of measurement
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Barrel is the definition
Barrel is a measure of volume and capacity, which is used in countries that use the English system of measures - such as the USA, England and a number of others. Currently, the barrel is widely distributed in oil industry and is used to measure crude oil production. One so-called oil barrel is equal to 42 US gallons or approximately 158.987 liters.
Barrel is“a cylindrical container, usually made of wooden planks, held together with metal hoops, often convex in the middle.” It’s hard not to recognize a banal barrel in this description. Industrial oil production began in the 19th century. The oil that was extracted from the fields in Pennsylvania (USA) was poured into whiskey barrels and delivered to consumers in this form (oil pipelines and tankers appeared later). Prices, accordingly, were set “per barrel”. The volume of such an oil barrel was 160 liters. Over time, barrels became a conventional value, which was brought to a standard form: in one oil barrel (and there are also alcoholic, corn and others) there are exactly 42 American gallons or approximately 158.987 liters. It is worth noting that a gallon, like a barrel (and liter) is not a measure of weight, but a measure of volume. This causes difficulties when converting from barrels to tons: oil comes in different densities, so one barrel may contain different quantities kilograms of oil. For oil produced in different regions, their own conversion factors are adopted depending on the density.
Barrel (English barrel, main meaning - barrel) is a measure of capacity and volume used in the USA, England and a number of countries that use the English system of measures. In the USA, a dry barrel is equal to 115,628 cubic meters. dm, and a barrel of oil equal to 158,988 cubic meters. dm. An English Barrel (measure of capacity for bulk solids) is equal to 163.65 cubic meters. dm.
Barrel is a measure of capacity and volume that is used in countries that use the English system of measures. There are several types of barrels: dry - it is equal to 115.628 cubic meters. dm, oil, equal to 158.988 cubic meters. dm and English - as a measure of the capacity of bulk solids, it is equal to 163.65 cubic meters. dm.
Barrel is a measure of volume that is commonly used in the international community for oil. An oil barrel is equal to 158.988 cubic meters. dm.
Barrel is an old English unit of measurement of liquid volume, a measure of the capacity and volume of liquid and granular bodies in various countries- from 115 to 164 l. There are dry barrels and oil barrels. Abbreviation: br.
Barrel is a measure of capacity and volume used in the USA, England and a number of countries that use the English system of measures.
Barrel (barrel) is a unit of crude oil production used in the petroleum industry, especially in the US and UK. The term originated during the period of transportation of oil in barrels by sea vessels. 1 barrel is equal to 42 US gallons or 159 liters; 7.3 barrels, in turn, are equal to 1 ton of oil; 6.29 barrels are equal to 1 cubic meter.
Barrel is unit of capacity and volume in the system of English measures in the USA and Great Britain. In international business practice most common as a unit of measurement for oil volume. The US oil barrel is 158,988 cubic meters. dm.
Barrel is a measure of capacity and volume. National unit of volume in Argentina, equal to 20 Argentine gallons and equal to 76 liters. National unit of liquid volume in Mexico: equal to 9.4 harres or 76 liters. National unit of volume of liquids in Paraguay: equal to 32 frascos or 96.93 liters. National unit of volume of liquids in Uruguay: equal to 32 frascos or 75.9 liters. National unit of volume in Haiti: equal to 1.1 cubic meters.
Barrel is a unit of volume used to measure liquids, particularly petroleum (crude). A barrel for oil and petroleum products equals 158.98 liters, or 35 gallons. A barrel of beer equals 163.66 liters, or 36 gallons.
Barrel (English barrel - lit. - barrel) is a measure of capacity and volume in the system of English measures. In the USA, a dry barrel is defined as 115.628 cubic meters. dm and oil - 158,988 cubic meters. dm. An English barrel (for bulk solids) is equal to 163.65 cubic meters. dm.
Barrel (from the English barrel - lit.: barrel) is a unit of volume used in the petroleum industry in several countries and equal to 42 US gallons; there is a simple barrel equal to 119.24 liters, an oil barrel equal to 158.76 liters; in the UK it is 163.65 liters. Other volume values are also used, equivalent to the concept of barrel, but differing in volume.
Types of barrel
In principle, there are three types of barrels:
Oil, equal to 158.987 l;
Liquid equal to 119, 240 l;
Dry, equal to 115, 627 l.
Barrel on English language has several meanings, the main one being a barrel, as a measure of capacity and volume.
Since they were the first to produce oil on an industrial scale English-speaking countries who adhere to a non-metric measurement system, it just so happens that the price of oil on world exchanges is given in terms of a barrel. At the very beginning, when oil was not produced in millions of tons per day, as is the case now, it was transported mainly in barrels. Hence the name of its unit of measurement. Although, by God, counting in tons is easier and more familiar to the rest of the world. But the British are conservative people, and the world's main oil exchange is located in London.
To measure the volume of beer and ale in the UK, the so-called beer barrel was used:
1 (beer) barrel was equal to 2/3 of a hogshead or 2 kilderkin or 4 ferkin. Over the centuries, the size of the beer barrel has changed. So:
In 1454, depending on what was being measured - ale or beer, the volume of the barrel changed. 1 barrel was equal to 32 ale gallons of ale (147.88 liters) or 36 ale gallons of beer (166.36 liters);
In 1688, 1 barrel was equal to 34 ale gallons or 157.12 liters;
In 1803: 1 barrel was equal to 36 ale gallons or 166.36 liters;
Since 1824: 1 barrel was equal to 36 English gallons or 163.66 liters.
"English" barrel
To measure the volume of bulk solids there was a so-called “English” barrel:
1 (English) barrel was equal to 4.5 bushels or 163.65 liters.
"English" barrel
Barrel (US petroleum)
American oil barrel is a unit of measurement for the volume of oil equal to 42 gallons, or 158.988 liters. Interestingly, a barrel for measuring other liquids in America holds only 31.5 gallons.
The standard abbreviation for barrel is bbl, with the first letter standing for blue. This has been the case since time immemorial, and today oil workers explain this virtual color of the barrel in different ways. Some say that crude oil barrels were once this color, as opposed to the red ones containing petroleum products. Others claim that Standard Oil of California's signature color crept in here.
The barrel has taken root in the daily practice of oil workers also because it is much more convenient from a practical point of view to measure oil in tankers, tanks and pipelines by volume rather than by weight. And there is no need to talk about the advantages of the world practice of using such a unit as a barrel per day. It is much more indicative and practical than the “annual weight” (mass) of extracted oil. The conversion is simple: on average, a barrel per day is equal to 50 tons per year.
IN famous book Leffler "Petroleum Refining" provides the following justification for the difference between measurement in tons and barrels: in the territory North America transportation was initially carried out using pipeline systems. In Europe, transportation was predominantly carried out by sea.
Nevertheless, it is still necessary to convert barrels into tons often, and here a factor such as the specific gravity of oil comes into play, which for the main types of oil in Russia, for example, varies widely - from 820 to 905.5 kg per cubic meter. The mass of each barrel changes accordingly. The conversion factor from tons to barrels for Russian Urals crude, the main grade of Russian oil shipped for export, is about 7.28 bbl/t. A similar coefficient for light Norwegian Brent oil, at a discount to which Urals is sold on the world market, is 7.59 barrels/t.
In the US, the standard liquid barrel is 31.5 US gallons, in other words:
However, when measuring the volume of beer (due to tax restrictions) in the USA, the so-called standard beer barrel is used, which is equal to 31 US gallons (117.3 liters).
Also in the USA, a unit called the “dry barrel” is used, which is equal to 105 dry quarts (115.6 liters).
For the most frequently used concept of a barrel in the world (namely: for oil), there is a special measure that is different from all of those listed (Oil Barrel).
It is interesting that for the most commonly used concept of a barrel in the world (namely: for oil) there is a special measure that is different from all of those listed.
In the United States, there is a dry barrel equal to 115.628 cubic decimeters and an oil barrel equal to 158.988 cubic decimeters. An English barrel (a measure of capacity for bulk solids) is equal to 163.65 cubic decimeters.
"French barrel"
It is called a “barrique” (French barrique) and is equal to 225 liters or 60 old wine gallons (the most common “Bordeaux” measure or Bordeaux barrel). Haiti adopted it as a national unit of volume. There are also other historical measures of the French barrique. A “Burgundy” barrique, for example, is equal to 228 liters.
"French" barrel
"Blue" barrel
Some say that barrels containing crude oil were once blue, as opposed to red ones containing petroleum products. There is another version, according to which the oil barrel got its name from the corporate color of the Standard Oil of California company.
A blue oil barrel (bbl) is equal to 158.98 liters.
A barrel for measuring other liquids in America holds only 31.5 gallons (119.237 L).
An agreement on 42 gallons was reached in late August 1866 after merchants recognized that their measuring barrels, that is, casks, often did not correspond to the volume indicated on them.
This volume was consolidated in 1972 by the Association of Petroleum Producers of the United States. But until now, the oil barrel has not become an official unit, and American federal agencies are required by law to indicate every time that a given barrel is equal to 42 US gallons.
In the world oil market, in contrast to the domestic Russian market, where oil is sold in tons, the barrel is used as the main unit of measurement, and the price for the world's main brands of oil is set in dollars per barrel.
In the USA, oil is measured in units of volume, but in Russia it is weighed. Accordingly, there is no single coefficient for converting barrels into tons.
Oil is measured in gallons, barrels, cubic meters, tons, exajoules (joule multiplied by 10 to the 18th power), and British thermal units (BTU or BTU).
In the UK and France, crude oil and condensate are measured by ton, while in Norway and Canada, crude oil is measured in cubic meters and condensate is measured in tons. In the USA, both types of raw materials are measured in barrels.
For condensate, the value most often given is in barrels of oil equivalent, and this volume does not coincide with the actual volume of the product.
The barrel has taken root in the daily practice of oil workers: from a practical point of view, it is more convenient to measure oil in tankers, tanks and pipelines by volume rather than by weight.
A ton of oil, depending on its density, changes with temperature changes and occupies different volumes. One ton of oil contains approximately 7.35 barrels.
The conversion factor from tons to barrels for Russian Urals crude, the main grade of Russian oil shipped for export, is about 7.28 bbl/t.
In the world oil market, in contrast to the domestic Russian market, where oil is sold in tons, the barrel is used as the main unit of measurement, and the price for the world's main brands of oil is set in dollars per barrel.
To compare the amount of crude oil, Russian experts convert the world's common barrels into metric tons. Articles and government documents use different coefficients for one type of oil.
History of the blue barrel
It's a traditional name; no one remembers exactly where it came from. According to one version, barrels with crude oil were painted blue, and those with petroleum products - red. There is another version, according to which the oil barrel got its name from the corporate color of Standard Oil of Califormia. It just so happens that in the USA oil is measured in units of volume, but in Russia it is weighed. Accordingly, there is no single coefficient for converting barrels into tons.
Oil is measured in gallons, barrels, cubic meters, tons, exajoules (joule multiplied by 10 to the 18th power), and British thermal units (BTU or BTU). In the UK and France, crude oil and condensate are measured by ton, while in Norway and Canada, crude oil is measured in cubic meters and condensate is measured in tons. In the USA, both types of raw materials are measured in barrels, and for condensate the value is most often given in barrels of oil equivalent, and this volume does not coincide with the actual volume of the product.
The United States, the largest consumer of oil on the planet, essentially imposed its barrel on oil workers around the world. By definition, an American oil barrel is equal to 42 gallons, or 158.983 liters. Interestingly, a barrel for measuring other liquids in America holds only 31.5 gallons (119.237 l). An agreement on 42 gallons was reached at the end of August 1866: traders recognized that their measuring barrels, that is, barrels, often did not correspond to the volume indicated on them, and agreed to release oil to consumers “on the fly.”
This volume was fixed in 1972 by the US Petroleum Producers Association, but the oil barrel has not yet become an official unit, and American federal agencies are required by law to indicate each time that a given barrel is equal to 42 US gallons.
The usual abbreviation for barrel is bbl, with the first letter standing for blue. This has been the case since time immemorial, and today oil workers explain this virtual color of the barrel in different ways. Some say that crude oil barrels were once this color, as opposed to the red ones containing petroleum products. Others claim that Standard Oil of Califormia's signature color sneaked in here.
The barrel has taken root in the daily practice of oil workers also because it is much more convenient from a practical point of view to measure oil in tankers, tanks and pipelines by volume rather than by weight. And there is no need to talk about the advantages of the world practice of using such a unit as a barrel per day. It is much more indicative and practical than the annual weight of oil produced. And the conversion is simple: on average, a barrel per day is equal to 50 tons per year...
Barrel to ton conversion factor for CIS:
Azerbaijan - 7.4;
Kazakhstan - 7.7;
Russia - 7.4;
Turkmenistan - 7.4;
Uzbekistan - 8.6;
Other former Soviet republics - 7.9;
On average former USSR - 7,5.
It is often necessary to convert barrels into tons, and here a factor such as the specific gravity of oil comes into play, which for the main types of oil in Russia, for example, varies widely - from 820 to 905.5 kg per cubic meter. The mass of each barrel changes accordingly. The conversion factor from tons to barrels for Russian Urals crude, the main grade of Russian oil shipped for export, is about 7.28 bbl/t. A similar coefficient for light Brent crude oil (UK), at a discount to which Urals is sold on the world market, is 7.59 barrels/t.
You can use the following ratios:
Russian oil grades have a different ratio:
The ratio of Russian Ural oil
The ratio of Russian oil ""Siberian light""
Oil company"Rosneft"
Converting barrels to other units
US Dry Barrel Conversion
Converting barrel to other units of measurement
1 English barrel is equal to 257.66 liters. Barrel is a measure of volume. However, when measuring beer volume (due to tax restrictions), the US uses the so-called standard beer barrel, which is equal to 31 US gallons (117.3 liters). To measure the volume of oil, an oil barrel = 158.983 liters is used. On average, according to OPEC, a ton of oil also contains about 7.3 barrels. A barrel (from the English barrel [barrel]) is a unit of volume of liquids and bulk substances.
There are measures that are familiar to us from childhood and are used everywhere: liter, meter, kilogram. Before you try to express a barrel in liters, you need to understand what this term means. Translated from English, “barrel” is a cask. Barrels have long been used to transport alcohol, bulk and other materials.
The barrel is not a metric unit. Sometimes, after hearing about a certain number of barrels, we try to convert the result into tons. This action, although quite realistic if you know the specific gravity of the material, is still not very correct. In fact - how much? But 1 barrel in liters can be 119.24 if we are talking about American wine.
In the USA, when measuring the volume of beer, a barrel will be 31 gallons, but for other types of liquid the figure will be different - 31.5 gallons (0.5 hogshead). In the case of measuring bulk materials, the answer to the question of how many liters are in 1 barrel will be 115.6 (this is the value of the so-called dry barrel). And yet, the term “barrel” is most often applied to the production and transportation of oil. The concept of an oil barrel goes back a long way: fuel has been extracted by man since ancient times.
Among other problems they discussed was the question of standard containers for oil supplies. The outcome of the meeting was the agreement on a standard barrel representing a volume of 42 gallons. Moreover, one person was able to lift and move such a barrel filled with oil.
And although no one transports oil in barrels anymore (there are tankers and oil pipelines for this), the barrel still remains a unit of measurement in the world practice of trading petroleum products. But wouldn’t it be more convenient to measure the extracted oil in tons, just as coal and grain, metal and fertilizers are measured?
And if you can answer the question of what a barrel of oil is in liters with complete accuracy, then it is somewhat difficult to find out its weight. So measuring produced and sold oil in volumes rather than by weight is much more convenient. If we also take into account the fact that oil is usually transported using tankers and tanks, and pumped through pipelines, then the advantage of such a unit as a barrel becomes irrefutable.
But no matter what units you use to measure the production of “black gold,” it is still customary to pay for oil in dollars per barrel. As with any other commodity, the price of oil depends on the volume of its production and consumption.
Oil barrel - 158.988 liters. International designation: bbls. It is called a “barrique” (French barrique) and is equal to 225 liters or 60 old wine gallons (the most common is “Bordeaux measure” or “Bordeaux barrel”). A Burgundy barrique, for example, is equal to 228 liters.
Quick answer: 159 liters (exact volume - 158.988 liters). More recently, we have already told you that a barrel is a measure of the volume of bulk solids and liquids in different countries. There are different types of barrels, but we will only touch on the oil barrel, which is of interest to us within the framework of this article.
This is a very small dimension, there were a lot of numbers! We don’t buy a car for 584600000 kopecks! There are several types of barrels, and each of them has its own number of liters. What barrel are you talking about? But in 1688, 1 barrel of any drink began to equal 157.12 liters.
Yes, indeed, many things are measured in barrels. And as noted above, this is an English measure, that is, an English unit of measurement. 158.988 liters or 42 gallons. If you mean a barrel, which is used to measure oil, then I can say with exact certainty that 1 barrel is 158.988 liters.
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One oil barrel is also equal to 42 gallons. Most often when people talk about a barrel, they mean a barrel of oil. We are, after all, an oil country. The barrel, as a unit of volume measurement, is used in the English system of measures, and in the United States of America a dry barrel is distinguished from an oil barrel.
How many liters are in 1 barrel of oil?
The volume of oil is traditionally measured in barrels, which are not part of the metric system we are used to. In addition to liquids, volumes of bulk materials are also measured in barrels. Since a ton is a unit of mass, and a barrel is a unit of volume, the ratio between them depends on the density of the substance. In Russia, by the way, the density of oil can vary from 820 to 905 kg per cubic meter.
However, this is from the point of view of OPEC itself. From the point of view of independent (British) experts, the average ton of oil from OPEC member countries contains 7.6 barrels. Oil reserves by country of the world, leaders Oil production by country of the world, leaders Barrel of oil. Definition.
1 (beer) barrel = 2/3 hogshead = 2 kilderkin = 4 ferkin. And since 1824, 1 barrel was equal to 163.66 liters. Also in the USA, a unit called the “dry barrel” is used, which is equal to 105 dry quarts (115.6 liters). Well, then in 1803 a change occurred and 1 barrel became 166.36 liters in volume. To measure the volume of bulk solids there was a so-called. “English” barrel: 1 (English) barrel = 4.5 bushels = 163.65 liters.
