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| Crude Oil* | tonnes (metric) | kilolitres | barrels | US gallons | tonnes/ year | |||||
| From | Multiply by | |||||||||
| Tonnes (metric) | 1 | 1.165 | 7.33 | 307.86 | - | |||||
| Kilolitres | 0.8581 | 1 | 6.2898 | 264.17 | - | |||||
| Barrels | 0.1364 | 0.159 | 1 | 42 | - | |||||
| US Gallons | 0.00325 | 0.0038 | 0.0238 | 1 | - | |||||
| Barrels/day | - | - | - | - | 49.8 | |||||
| *Based on worldwide average gravity. | ||||||||||
| From | ||||
| Products | barrels to tonnes | tonnes to barrels | kilolitres to tonnes | tonnes to kilolitres |
| Multiply by | ||||
| LPG | 0.086 | 11.6 | 0.542 | 1.844 |
| Gasoline | 0.118 | 8.5 | 0.740 | 1.351 |
| Kerosene | 0.128 | 7.8 | 0.806 | 1.240 |
| Gas oil / diesel | 0.133 | 7.5 | 0.839 | 1.192 |
| Fuel oil | 0.149 | 6.7 | 0.939 | 1.065 |
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| Natural Gas & LNG | billion cubic metres NG | billion cubic feet NG | million tonnes oil equivalent | million tonnes LNG | trillion British thermal units | million barrels oil equivalent | ||||||
| From | Multiply by | |||||||||||
| 1 billion cubic metres NG | 1 | 35.3 | 0.90 | 0.73 | 36 | 6.29 | ||||||
| 1 billion cubic feet NG | 0.028 | 1 | 0.026 | 0.021 | 1.03 | 0.18 | ||||||
| 1 million tonnes oil equivalent | 1.111 | 39.2 | 1 | 0.805 | 40.4 | 7.33 | ||||||
| 1 million tonnes LNG | 1.38 | 48.7 | 1.23 | 1 | 52.0 | 8.68 | ||||||
| 1 trillion British thermal units | 0.028 | 0.98 | 0.025 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.17 | ||||||
| 1 million barrels oil equivalent | 0.16 | 5.61 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 5.8 | 1 | ||||||
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
1 kilojoule (kJ) = 0.239 kcal = 0.948 Btu
1 British thermal unit (Btu) = 0.252 kcal = 1.055 kJ
1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) = 860 kcal = 3600 kJ = 3412 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 |
| Gaseous fuels | See natural gas and LNG table |
| Electricity | 12 megawatt-hours |
One million tonnes of oil produces about 4500 gigawatt-hours (=4.5 terawatt hours) of electricity in a modern power station.
Tonnes = metric tons