How many gallons are in a barrel of oil?
One of the ladies I work with asked me this recently. I thought the answer was 55, because I was thinking of those big drums (my Dad used to get kerosene in those), but I wanted to be sure. So when I got home I went online and did a little reading. Oil doesn’t come in those big 55 gallon drums like I thought. I should have known it by the wording. Oil comes in a barrel, not a drum.
One barrel of crude oil contains 42 gallons. One barrel of crude oil produces approximately 19.4 gallons of gasoline, as well as home heating oil, diesel fuel, kerosene type jet fuel, coke, heavy oils used as fuels in industry, marine transportation and electric power generation, liquefied refinery gases, still gas, asphalt and road oil, raw materials for petrochemicals, lubricants and kerosene. That’s a lot of stuff!
