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.
You’re kinda missing the point. The density is variable with oil, volume is not, hence using “barrels”.
Use kg, now we don’t know the volume. Use m^3, now we don’t know the mass. “Barrels” kinda fudges the difference so we have an idea of what we’re talking about. It was never meant to be a scientific term, though it can be with the math I posted.
May as well just use m3, as i purchase my fuel in L and its easier to convert them.
I mean the density is far less definable right? Like because it’s hotter in Saudi Arabia than Norway, that would mean that Saudi barrels are worse?
Barrel is literally no different than using metric volume. It’s exactly as accurate, since both are units of volume. The standard barrel has pressure and temperature references for the contents filling the volume, but the volume unit in that scenario is arbitrary, and could just as well use liters.
The commenter you are responding to is either confused or intentionally misleading. The same volume, the barrel, can be expressed in other units of volume. What matters for the standard unit in oil are the conditions and external parameters. The unit is interchangeable and carries none of that actually important meta.