Here are some handy oil conversion numbers:
| one tonne of crude oil |
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| approximately 7.3 barrels of crude oil |
| about 307 U.S. gallons of crude oil |
| one barrel of crude oil |
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| 42 U.S. gallons of crude oil |
| 159 liters of crude oil |
| 10,000 barrels of crude oil |
|---|
| 420,000 U.S. gallons of crude oil |
| 1,590,000 liters of crude oil |
| about 1,400 tonnes of crude oil |
| 60,000 barrels of crude oil |
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| 2.5 million U.S. gallons of crude oil |
| 9.5 million liters of crude oil |
| about 8,200 tonnes of crude oil |
| 4.9 million barrels of crude oil (latest govt estimate of spill) |
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| 205.8 million gallons of crude oil |
| 779.1 million liters of crude oil |
Other great conversion factors for the oil industry can be found here