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Crude oil*
Natural gas and LNG
Units
1 metric ton =
2204.62 lb. = 1.1023 short tons
1 kilolitre =
6.2898 barrels = 1 cubic metre
1 kilocalorie (kcal) =
4.187 kJ = 3.968 Btu
1 kilojoule (kJ) =
0.239 kcal = 0.948 Btu
1 (Btu) =
0.252 kcal = 1.055 kJ
1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) = 860 kcal = 3600 kJ = 3412 Btu
One tons of oil equivalent equals approximately:
Heat units
10 million kilocalories = 42 gigajoules = 40 million Btu
Solid fuels
1.5 tons of hard coal = 3 tons of lignite
Electricity
12 megawatt-hours
One million tons of oil produces about 4400 gigawatt-hours (=4.4 terawatt hours) of electricity in a modern power station.
Approximate conversion factors
To
From Multiply by
Metric
tons
Long
tons
kilolitres Barrels Imperial
gallons
US
gallons
Tons/
year
1 Tonnes
(
metric
)
1
0.984 1.165 7.33
256 307.86
–
1 Long tons
1.016
1
1.18364 7.45
261
313
–
1 Kilolitres
0.8581 0.8444
1
6.2898 219.6736 264.17
–
1 Barrels
0.1364 0.134 0.159
1
35
42
–
1 Imperial gallons
0.00391 0.00383 0.0046 0.0286
1
1.201
–
1 US gallons
0.00325 0.00319 0.0038 0.0238 0833
1
–
1 Barrels
/
day
–
–
–
–
–
–
49.8
*Based on worldwide average gravity.
To
From Multiply by
Billion
cubic
metres NG
Billion
cubic
feet NG
Million
tons
oil equiv
Million
tons
LNG
Trillion
Btu
Million
barrels
oil equiv
1 billion cubic metres NG
1
35.3000 0.9000 0.7353 35.7149 6.5970
1 billion cubic feet NG
0.0280
1
0.0255 0.0208 1.0113 0.1868
1 million tons oil equivalent
1.1111 39.2385
1
0.8170 39.6832 7.3300
1 million tons LNG
1.3600 48.0279 1.2240
1
48.5722 8.9719
1 trillion British thermal units
0.0280 0.9888 0.0252 0.0206
1
0.1847
1 million barrels oil equivalent
0.1516 5.3531 0.1364 0.1115 5.4138
1