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Metric Conversion Factors for Fuels

The document provides conversion factors for calculating weight, volume, and calorific measures for crude oil, products, natural gas, LNG, electricity, and solid fuels. It includes approximate conversion factors between various units such as tonnes, kilolitres, barrels, and US gallons. Additionally, it outlines calorific equivalents and other relevant terms related to energy measurements.

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Metric Conversion Factors for Fuels

The document provides conversion factors for calculating weight, volume, and calorific measures for crude oil, products, natural gas, LNG, electricity, and solid fuels. It includes approximate conversion factors between various units such as tonnes, kilolitres, barrels, and US gallons. Additionally, it outlines calorific equivalents and other relevant terms related to energy measurements.

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Conversion Factors
The conversion factors cover calculation between weight, volume and calorific
measures. They provide data for crude oil, products, natural gas, LNG, electricity
and solid fuels.

Approximate conversion factors

To
Crude Oil*
tonnes (metric) kilolitres barrels US gallons tonnes/year

From -------------------  Multiply by  --------------------

Tonnes (metric) 1 1.165 7.33 307.86 -


0.8581 1 6.2898 264.17 -
Kilolitres

Barrels 0.1364 0.159 1 42 -

US gallons 0.00325 0.0038 0.0238 1 -

Barrels/day - - - - 49.8

*Based on the worldwide average gravity.

To Convert

Products          
barrels to tonnes to kilolitres to tonnes to
tonnes barrels tonnes kilolitres

-------------------  Multiply by  --------------------

LPG 0.086 11.6 0.542 1.844

Gasoline 0.118 8.5 0.740 1.351

Kierosene 0.128 7.8 0.806 1.240

Gas oli/diesel 0.133 7.5 0.839 1.192

Fuel oil 0.149 6.7 0.939 1.065

To
Convert
Natural
trillion
gas and billion billion million million million
British
LNG cubic cubic tonnes oil tonnes barrels oil
thermal
metres feet NG equivalent LNG equivalent
units
NG

From -------------------  Multiply by  --------------------  

1 billion
cubic 1 35.3 0.90 0.74 35.7 6.60
metres NG

1 billion
cubic feet 0.028 1 0.025 0.021 1.01 0.19
NG

1 million
tonnes oil 1.11 39.2 1 0.82 39.7 7.33
equivalent

1 million
tonnes 1.36 48.0 1.22 1 48.6 8.97
LNG

1 trillion
British
0.028 0.99 0.025 0.021 1 0.18
thermal
units

1 million
barrels oil 0.15 5.35 0.14 0.11 5.41 1
equivalent

Units

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 :

10 million kilocarlories 42 gigajoules


Heat units
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 mega watt-hours

One million tonnes of oil produces about 4400 gigawatt-hours


(=4.4 terawatt hours) of electricity in modern power station.
1 tonne of ethanol = .57 tonne of oil 
1 tonne of biodiesel = .88 tonne of oil 
1 barrel of ethanol = .57 barrel of oil 
1 barrel of biodiesel = .88 barrel of oil

Other Terms

Tonnes: Metric equivalent of tons

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