Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast overnight, sparking a fire at the facility with an annual capacity of 12.5 million metric tons, Ukrainian company Fire Point said on Oct. 18.
Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast overnight, sparking a fire at the facility with an annual capacity of 12.5 million metric tons, Ukrainian company Fire Point said on Oct. 18.
If the entire world sells a product of a specific unit, changing that unit doesn’t make it better… It means we now have to convert it to understand the exact amount someone is discussing. That’s like the U.K buying in liters, cars rated in mpg and having road signs saying kph. But wait, which liter is it? Madness, lol.
How much oil is in a barrel? Is it 300 chuckduplets?
I have no idea, but every human and piece of software in the industry does.
How much oil in a barrel is easy, X gallons or X liters or whatever. How many metric tons of oil depends on density, and oil varies. Not so easy.
Yeah mass isn’t the right measure, but it could just as well be expressed in metric units of volume, i.e liters. Barrels aren’t special when they express the same thing.
I think the reporter might’ve used the metric ton as a general expression of “a lot” in their head and meant to express volume. If metric system isn’t familiar to them, it might not be obvious that a metric ton is for mass and in general metric units use kilos for thousands.