How many gallons of oil is in a barrel of crude oil?
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Crude oil from various oil fields differs in composition. Depending on that composition, refinery processing of crude oil produces greater or lessor amounts of endproducts. Oil can be refined by distillation into several fractions varying from light oils (naptha, gasoline, etc) and medium oils (jkerosene and similar oils) and heavy oils (which often require heating to flow at all). What's left is usually used as asphalt.
Some of the heavier oils can be 'cracked' by a kind of chemical conversion into lighter oils, thus increasing the proportion of higher priced fuels. The yield from such 'cracking' also varies with the original compositon of hte crude oil. There is a term in the industry, 'sweet crude', which means a low sulphur easily refined and high yielding type of crude oil. Sour crude is the opposite, a high sulphur, difficult to refine, and lower yielding crude.
So there is no exact answer to your question, if it is directed to gallons of endproducts. It varies a good bit from one oil field to another.
40 gal
55
55 gallons
55 gallons per normal barrel since 1969 when oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
But before that it was 52, go figure.
55
55
33 gal/bbl. I don't know where to 40 gal answer came from. 55 gal is the size of a standard oil drum in the U.S, but has nothing to do with shipping crude oil.
I've wondered about that myself!.. and I still don't have any idea.
42
If you're looking to buy a barrel of oil as advertized on MSNBC then you're buying 42 gallons of the stuff. If you're looking for specific breakdowns (ie. how much asphalt) then check the link.
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