OIL, how big is it?

[fennster]

It said on the news that Saudi Arabia produces 9.1 millon barrels of oil a day, how much area does that cover, is it as big as londonIt said on the news that Saudi Arabia produces 9.1 millon barrels of oil a day, how much area does that cover, is it as big as londonIt said on the news that Saudi Arabia produces 9.1 millon barrels of oil a day, how much area does that cover, is it as big as London or a small country like Luxemburg?

[bernardo]

It depends on how thinly you spread it. And by the way, Luxembourg is one-and-a-half times as big as London.

[darth vader]

A barrel is a volumetric measure so you can't compare it with area. This said according to the link at the bottom, there are 6.29 barrels per cubic metre. this equates to 9.1mill/6.29 cubic metres per day = 1.447 million cubic metres, or nearly 1 and a half mill cubic metres. can't think of anything that is 1.5mill cubic metres big to compare it with. sorree! (but it ain't as big as London for sure, there are 1 billion cubic metres to a cubic kilometre, so our barrels equates to roughly 3/2000ths of a cubic kilometre)

[darth vader]

oops forgot the link http://www.ukooa.co.uk/ukooa/glossary.htm

[fennster]

It's HUGE then. How many footall fields squared then, or doule decker buses?

[fennster]

Sorry, meant footall fields cubed.

[fennster]

What is the measurement for the 3rd dimension of a footall field? Just in buses please.

[nedflanders]

depends on how many elephants you want to squeeze into the bus and depending on how many buns the elephants just had for their lunch ! ;-)

[bernardo]

Following on from Darth Vader's statistics: If 9.1 m barrels is 1.447 m cubic metres, then that would be a depth of 1.447 metres over an area of 1 square km. London (for example) is c. 1600 sq km, so the oil would cover the whole of London to a depth of just under 1 millimetre. Or Luxembourg to a depth of about 0.6 millimetres.

[darth vader]

thankyou Bernardo. my brain was hurting too much to think of an example.

Considering the football pitch (which can vary but lets say it's 100m by 70m which is standard for International matches = 7000 metres squared) then the volume would be equivalent to filling the pitch 206.71 metres high, without elephants of course. it's 5.15 pm so excuse me if my maths is wrong.
(1,000,000 / 7000) * 1.447

anyone know how to push the 2 or 3 up the line a bit to symbolise the squared and cubed? (in HTML schpeak obviously)

[darth vader]

according to this site (link below) a doubledecker bus is 4.42m high therefore your pitch invasion of crude oil is now just under 47 doubledecker buses high. I'm going home now. http://www.capitalomnibus.fsnet.co.uk/leylandtitan
.htm

[bernardo]

Or the Vatican City State to a depth of c. 3.5 metres (c. 12 feet). Or, to cover the whole surface of the world to a depth of one inch would take about 2,000 years of oil production at the rate of 9 million bbl per day.

[albatross]

there is a theory that oil is a natural inorganic product. look up on google "the genesis of hydrocarbons and the origin of petroleum". this is to say that oil is produced by cyclic activity in the earths mantle/core/crust and that the big implication is it won't run out just as long as it is used in a controlled manner