Oil barrel (bbl)
The oil barrel is an industry volume unit for petroleum production, trade, and statistics.
History: the oil barrel became a petroleum trade standard and equals 42 US gallons.
Quickly convert oil barrels to cubic meters without lookup tables or manual math.
This page is focused on converting oil barrels to cubic meters. Type a number into the first field and the result appears immediately in the second field.
Example: 1 bbl = 0.1589872949 m³. Conversion formula: result = value × 0.158987294928 / 1.
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The oil barrel is an industry volume unit for petroleum production, trade, and statistics.
History: the oil barrel became a petroleum trade standard and equals 42 US gallons.
The cubic meter is the SI unit of volume for space, gas, water, concrete, and cargo.
History: the cubic meter is the metric derived volume unit for a cube with one-meter sides.
Enter a value in the Oil barrel field. The converter applies the formula "result = value × 0.158987294928 / 1" and immediately shows the result in cubic meters.
1 bbl = 0.1589872949 m³.
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