Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Barrel (unit)

Index Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the UK beer barrel and US beer barrel), oil barrels and so on. [1]

69 relations: American Petroleum Institute, American Revolution, API gravity, Barrel, Barrel (unit), Barrel of oil equivalent, BP, British thermal unit, Bushel, Canadian dollar, Cornmeal, Cubic metre, Custody transfer, Deutsches Institut für Normung, Drake Well, Drum (container), Electronvolt, Empirical evidence, English brewery cask units, English wine cask units, Enthalpy, Financial accounting, Flour, Gallon, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Germanic languages, Hardisty, Hertz, Hogshead, Imperial units, International System of Units, Keg, Kilogram, Latin, Lime (material), List of English monarchs, List of unusual units of measurement, Metric prefix, Metric system, Natural gas, New York Mercantile Exchange, Oil City, Pennsylvania, Oil field, Oil refinery, Oil tanker, Oil well, Pascal (unit), Pennsylvania, Petroleum, Physical quantity, ..., Pipeline transport, Portland cement, Pounds per square inch, Richard III of England, Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities, Standard cubic foot, Standard Oil, Stock exchange, Sugar, Tierce (unit), Tonne, Unit of measurement, United States customary units, United States dollar, Units of paper quantity, Volume, Water injection (oil production), Watt, Western Canadian Select. Expand index (19 more) »

American Petroleum Institute

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and American Petroleum Institute · See more »

American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and American Revolution · See more »

API gravity

The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and API gravity · See more »

Barrel

A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Barrel · See more »

Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the UK beer barrel and US beer barrel), oil barrels and so on.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Barrel (unit) · See more »

Barrel of oil equivalent

The barrel of oil equivalent (BOE) is a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel (42 U.S. gallons or 158.9873 litres) of crude oil.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Barrel of oil equivalent · See more »

BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and BP · See more »

British thermal unit

The British thermal unit (Btu or BTU) is a traditional unit of heat; it is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and British thermal unit · See more »

Bushel

A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Bushel · See more »

Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Canadian dollar · See more »

Cornmeal

Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried maize (corn).

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Cornmeal · See more »

Cubic metre

The cubic metre (in British English and international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or cubic meter (in American English) is the SI derived unit of volume.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Cubic metre · See more »

Custody transfer

Custody Transfer in the oil and gas industry refers to the transactions involving transporting physical substance from one operator to another.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Custody transfer · See more »

Deutsches Institut für Normung

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization and is the German ISO member body.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Deutsches Institut für Normung · See more »

Drake Well

The Drake Well is a oil well in Cherrytree Township, Venango County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Drake Well · See more »

Drum (container)

A drum is a cylindrical container used for shipping bulk cargo.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Drum (container) · See more »

Electronvolt

In physics, the electronvolt (symbol eV, also written electron-volt and electron volt) is a unit of energy equal to approximately joules (symbol J).

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Electronvolt · See more »

Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence, also known as sensory experience, is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Empirical evidence · See more »

English brewery cask units

Capacities of brewery casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and English brewery cask units · See more »

English wine cask units

Capacities of wine casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and English wine cask units · See more »

Enthalpy

Enthalpy is a property of a thermodynamic system.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Enthalpy · See more »

Financial accounting

Financial accounting (or financial accountancy) is the field of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions pertaining to a business.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Financial accounting · See more »

Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains or roots and used to make many different foods.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Flour · See more »

Gallon

The gallon is a unit of measurement for fluid capacity in both the US customary units and the British imperial systems of measurement.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Gallon · See more »

Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing

The usage and pricing of gasoline (or petrol) results from factors such as crude oil prices, processing and distribution costs, local demand, the strength of local currencies, local taxation, and the availability of local sources of gasoline (supply).

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing · See more »

Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Germanic languages · See more »

Hardisty

Hardisty is a town in Flagstaff County in Alberta, Canada.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Hardisty · See more »

Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Hertz · See more »

Hogshead

A hogshead (abbreviated "Hhd", plural "Hhds") is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity).

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Hogshead · See more »

Imperial units

The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1825) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Imperial units · See more »

International System of Units

The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and International System of Units · See more »

Keg

A keg is a small barrel.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Keg · See more »

Kilogram

The kilogram or kilogramme (symbol: kg) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK, also known as "Le Grand K" or "Big K"), a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy stored by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Saint-Cloud, France.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Kilogram · See more »

Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Latin · See more »

Lime (material)

Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Lime (material) · See more »

List of English monarchs

This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and List of English monarchs · See more »

List of unusual units of measurement

An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement; especially in that its exact quantity may not be well known or that it may be an inconvenient multiple or fraction of base units in such systems.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and List of unusual units of measurement · See more »

Metric prefix

A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or fraction of the unit.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Metric prefix · See more »

Metric system

The metric system is an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Metric system · See more »

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Natural gas · See more »

New York Mercantile Exchange

The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is a commodity futures exchange owned and operated by CME Group of Chicago.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and New York Mercantile Exchange · See more »

Oil City, Pennsylvania

Oil City is a city in Venango County, Pennsylvania, that is known in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Oil City, Pennsylvania · See more »

Oil field

An "oil field" or "oilfield" is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (crude oil) from below ground.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Oil field · See more »

Oil refinery

Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Oil refinery · See more »

Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Oil tanker · See more »

Oil well

An oil well is a boring in the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Oil well · See more »

Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and ultimate tensile strength.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Pascal (unit) · See more »

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Pennsylvania · See more »

Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Petroleum · See more »

Physical quantity

A physical quantity is a physical property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, that can be quantified by measurement.or we can say that quantities which we come across during our scientific studies are called as the physical quantities...

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Physical quantity · See more »

Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Pipeline transport · See more »

Portland cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Portland cement · See more »

Pounds per square inch

The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2; abbreviation: psi) is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Pounds per square inch · See more »

Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Richard III of England · See more »

Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities

The Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities is United States legislation that specified the standard barrel size and measurements for fruits and vegetables, establishing grading standards and inspections for each produce type.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Standard Barrel Act For Fruits, Vegetables, and Dry Commodities · See more »

Standard cubic foot

A standard cubic foot (scf) is a unit used both in the natural gas industry to represent an amount of natural gas and in other industries where other gases are used.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Standard cubic foot · See more »

Standard Oil

Standard Oil Co.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Standard Oil · See more »

Stock exchange

A stock exchange, securities exchange or bourse, is a facility where stock brokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock and bonds and other financial instruments.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Stock exchange · See more »

Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Sugar · See more »

Tierce (unit)

The tierce (also terse) is both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the cask of that size.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Tierce (unit) · See more »

Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Tonne · See more »

Unit of measurement

A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Unit of measurement · See more »

United States customary units

United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and United States customary units · See more »

United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and United States dollar · See more »

Units of paper quantity

Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Units of paper quantity · See more »

Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Volume · See more »

Water injection (oil production)

In the oil industry, waterflooding or water injection is where water is injected into the oil field, usually to increase pressure and thereby stimulate production.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Water injection (oil production) · See more »

Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Watt · See more »

Western Canadian Select

Western Canadian Select is one of North America’s largest heavy crude oil streams.

New!!: Barrel (unit) and Western Canadian Select · See more »

Redirects here:

B/d, BBL/D, BOPD, Barrel (petroleum), Barrel (unit of volume), Barrel (volume), Barrel of oil, Barrel of petrol, Barrel per calendar day, Barrel per day, Barrels of oil, Barrels per calendar day, Barrels per day, Barrels per day equivalent, Bbl, Bbl/d, Bbl/day, Bbls, Blue barrel, Gigabarrel, MMbbl, MMbbl/d, Mbbl, Millions of barrels per day, Oil barrel, Oil barrels, Petrol barrel.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_(unit)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »