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Question by Larry Millr
Submitted on 5/25/2004
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What is the ratio of refined gasoline to one barrel of crude oil?  In other words, how many gallons of gasoline can be refined from one barrel of crude oil?

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Answer by Dean
Submitted on 9/8/2004
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19.5 gallons of refined gasoline per 42 gallon barrel of crude oil

 

Answer by Mr. Kool
Submitted on 9/13/2004
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I am going to assume that you meant to ask, how many gallons of gasoline from a barrel of oil. We call this "editorial license". The barrel of oil is = to 42 US gallons. In terms of energy, it is equivalent to 5.6 * 10^3 cubic feet of natural gas and .232 tons of bituminous coal. But I digress...

Gasoline is produced from oil by a process known as fractional distillation. Basically crude oil is placed in a huge cylinder and heat is applied. Up to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit gasoline boils off. It is then collected by a number of condensing units. The real trick is that the amount varies with how the oil is refined. About 40% is a rough figure.. So, the average barrel of oil will produce about 17 gallons of gasoline. Extending that a bit, each gallon of oil will produce .40 gallons of gasoline..


 

Answer by wes
Submitted on 4/1/2005
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a refined barrel produces approximately 20.5 gallons (US) of gasoline.

 

Answer by john bilik
Submitted on 4/18/2005
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There are approximately 19.5 gallons of refined gasoline from a barrel of crude.  Sadly, there are only 4 gallons of jet-a (jet fuel) produced.  This is bad news for me, but I hope I answered your question.

 

Answer by nik
Submitted on 4/25/2005
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one barrel is 42 (US) gallons or 159 (SI/metric) liters

 

Answer by j robinson
Submitted on 9/2/2005
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19.69 gal.

 

Answer by kjyg
Submitted on 10/24/2005
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32156541

 

Answer by Chris Crossman
Submitted on 4/21/2006
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One barrel contains 42 gallons of crude oil.  51.4% of which can be refined into Gasoline.  Thus you can produce 21.5 gallons of gas from one barrel of crude oil.

So the approximate ratio would be 43/84.

See the following link for more details:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/whats_in_barrel_oil.html

 

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