How much gasoline can be made from 1 barrell of crude oil?
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1 barrel makes about 19.5 gallons of gas.\n\nThe person below me:  Your math doesn't work because you can get a lot more than gas out of the crude oil, and the other products sell for non-zero values.
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The answer is 2.5 gallons of ethanol.  Check out the link.
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Ethane = C2H6 - so for each mole of ethane combusted, assuming oxygen is in excess, 3 moles of water can be produced.
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Crude oil is composed of a mix of molecules composed of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms in many different forms. These can range from simple compounds like methane (CH4) or ethane (C2H6) to long complicated molecules such as paraffins like C8H18, also known as octane that is used to rate motor fuels. \n\nThe initial source of the crude oil is the accumulation of the dead bodies of phytoplankton and zooplankton which are microscopic plants and animals that live in the sea and fresh water lakes. Adding to this organic matter that accumulates on the sea floor is the material that is carried into the ocean by rivers, such as pollen, spores, and plant material. To be preserved, all of this organic matter must fall into a zone of the water that is low in oxygen, otherwise it will decay rather than be preserved. Mud and silt coming from rivers will often bury this material before it can be consumed by living organisms. Near the mouths of rivers there are often rapid rates of deposition of mud and silt that will bury organic material, and over time it may be buried by several miles of sediment. For example, the Mississippi River Delta, which is a prolific oil producing area, has deposited sediments several miles thick over the last 66 million years. \n\nAs these deposits of organic matter are buried deeper and deeper they begin to warm from the heat of the earth's interior. When they reach a temperature of about 140 degrees F, they begin to undergo "catagenesis" which is a molecular change that makes oil. If they reach a temperature of about 250 degree F, they will begin to form more natural gas than oil. If they get too hot it is possible to change them to graphite, and no oil or gas will be produced. \n\nIn other types of depositional environments the plants and animals that become oil also form the rock. Carbonate mudstone (which is simply a type of limestone) of the Hanifa Formation in the Middle East formed much of the oil in Saudi Arabia. These carbonate mudstones  are composed of huge accumulations of lime muds made from the breakdown of marine algaes and other organisms. These deposits of the remains of marine organisms also must undergo burial and and heating by the deep earth to generate oil and gas. \n\nSo when you burn oil, you are really burning solar energy that was stored by plants and animals thousands or millions of years ago and buried in the earth. \n\nEvery time I answer this question someone comes along and points out that there may be oil that is not from living organisms. Thomas Gold, a respected physicist at Cornell proposed that oil may be abiotic; that is just another type of deposit of the earth. This may in fact be possible, but if it is, it is likely to be a very minor source of the oil on Earth. The reasons are complicated, but the fact that the rocks where Gold predicted this abiotic oil should be found do not contain oil is pretty conclusive proof that this type of oil is not significant, if it exists at all. \n\nHere is my previous answer to this question:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AqkzP9amgCudYabOz20w2YIjzKIX?qid=1006022109950
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1 US gallon = 3.785 liters\n\n1 barrel = 42 gallons = 158.9873 liters = 5.6146 cu ft = 0.159 cu meters \n\n             = 0.136 metric ton\n\n1 metric ton of crude = 7.35 barrels of crude\n\n \n\n{
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To end up with exactly one gallon, you would need 124.12 ounces to 3.87 ounces
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There has simply been a ban on building new refineries for 25 years, and the capacity to refine crude oil has not kept up with demand for gasoline. The supply of crude oil, and crude oil inventories are ample. But the ability for the refineries to produce gasoline from the crude oil is at a maximum, and this time of year some of them shut down for maintenance (30-60 days), so gasoline supplies are even tighter.\n\nIn a free market, no matter the commodity, when Demand is greater than the Supply, the price goes up.
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I'm thinking it would be about the size of, oh say, a planet. Oil is a product of fossil fuels. Long dead and buried by time biological creatures that become compressed to crude oil over time and planetary pressure. As long as things keep dying and compressing, we will have new sources of crude, however, if it is pulled out faster then it is replenished it will create a void in supply.
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Question -   HOW MANY GAL.OF CRUDE OIL IN A BARREL? HOW MANY GAL OF GAS\nDOES THAT EQUAL?\n-----------------\nThere are 42 gallons / barrel of crude oil. The conversion to gasoline\ndepends upon several factors -- refining efficiency, product mix desired by\nthe refiner, quality of the crude to name a few. The following sites provide\nadditional info.\n\n http://www.petroleum.org/petrokids/petroperbbl.htm\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99675.htm\n\nVince Calder\n=====================================================\nA barrel contains 42 gallons.  After refining, it makes about 19.5 gallons\nof gasoline in addition to numerous other products such as heating oil..\n\nIf you can get to the web,\nhttp://www.petroleum.org/petrokids/petroperbbl.htm\nhas many interesting numbers related to your question.\n\nBest, Dick Plano, Professor of Physics emeritus, Rutgers University\n=====================================================\nBernie,\n\nMost of us know that the standard measure for petrol products, crude, light\nsweet etc... is the BBL (barrel).  This is exactly equal to 42 gallons.\nWhether it is milk or molten uranium or gas or crude oil...1 BBL (barrel) is\n42 gallon (US)\n\nI do not know the exact ratio of octane 87 gas to brent oil, light sweet\nblend, or crude oil.  This is because "OIL" is made up of many constituents.\nIt has many long changed hydrocarbons that determine its energy content.\nRefineries of the OPEC nations, or just in general already know this from\nyears of experience.  In order to not waste any of the crude oil, chemical\nengineers will perform hydro-cracking which will cleave the longer (CRUDEr)\noil chains into smaller more volatile compounds.  Why is this done?  This is\ndone so that while distilling the "OIL" engineers will not be able to\nseparate the oil with greater ease and efficiency.\n\nSomeone once told me that there was a rule of thumb for how many gallons of\n"gasoline" you can get from one gallon of crude.  I don't wish to repeat it\nsince I don't recall which blend it was for.  I hope that I've helped you\nsome even though I haven't fully answered your 2nd question.\n\nRegards,\nDarin\n=====================================================\nMy old CRC chemical handbook has it that a US petroleum barrel is exactly 42 gallons.\n\nCrude oil gets changed into petroleum gas, gasoline, oils, tar, and asphalt.\nThe total volume of the non-gaseous products will be not much different than the crude \nvolume.\n\nWhat percentage do they refine into gasoline? I don't know yet.\nAnything from 30-70% wouldn't surprise me.\nThey have both choices and pressures as to what product to make from crude.\n( See http://www.oiltycoon.com/htp/refining.html)\nA person at www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33287 says it's about 2/3.\nThe other product made from the remaining 1/3 of a barrel gets sold too.\n\nSo that would be roughly 28 gallons of gasoline from each barrel of oil.
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I'd go with 40 to 1. The most convenient mix I can come up with is One Cup of Oil to 2 1/2 Gallons of Gasonline.\nThat's 3.2 Oz Oil to 1 Gallon of Gasoline.  \nHope this helps.
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1 US gallon =3.7854 liters or litres canadian \n1 US dollar = 1.15 canadian dollar as of today
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There really isn't much. All gasoline has to meet federal standards. Go for price.
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I would guess that the mix is either 32:1 or 50:1.  That means 32 gallons of gas to 1 gallon oil or 50 gallons of gas to 1 gallon of oil.  If you mixed it 4:1 I think you would foul the spark plugs if it even would run.
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I used to buy a product from Exxon called Varsol.  You can use gasoline also.
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All hydrocarbons.  They start with gaseous methane (CH4) dissolved in the oily liquid, then through heavier dissolved gases with 2 to 5 carbon atoms per molecule, then liquids with every posible number of carbon atoms per molecule from 6 (benzene) to 8 (octane) to scores and scores, then waxes (the stuff of Vaseline) which have up to hundreds.  Sometimes there are sulphur-based impurities.\n\nRefining the oil is the process of separating the different weights of components.  Car and aeroplane fuel is roughly from C6 to C10, diesel fuel is heavier, and heating oils and lubricating oils are heaviest.
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85% Ethanol; OK, stay with me now.........\n\n15% of a gallon = gasoline.  1 gallon = 4 quarts\n\n15% of 4 quarts = .6 quarts = 1 pint, 6 tablespoons, 1 teaspoon\n\nSo, you would need to mix 1 pint, 6 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon of gasoline with every 3.4 quarts of ethanol
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There have been discoveries of oil near ANWR 1002 area in Alaska.  A study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1998 shows in the results that "The total quantity of technically recoverable oil within the entire assessment area is estimated to be between 5.7 and 16.0 Billion barrels, with a mean value of 10.4 billion barrels.  Technically recoverable oil within the4 AWNR 1002 area is estimated to be between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels, with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels." (pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.pdf)  Read this study to better inform yourself about oil in alaska.  I am not sure how long this amount would last, but I am going to investigate how much oil is produced in foreign markets and do an unscientific comparrison.  I'll let you know when I finally get it "figured" out.