How much oil does it take to produce one litre of petrol?

Question

I'm trying to work out how much one litre of petrol costs in oil-price terms, presuming oil to be $100/barrel (159 litres or 42 US gallons). 1 gallon = 3.78 litres.

Answer 1

It depends on where you are.  In the US, it would take about 2 liters of oil to produce a liter of petrol (gasoline).  US refineries are generally set up to maximize gasoline production.

In the EU, refineries produce less gasoline and more diesel from each barrel of crude oil, so it would take somewhat more oil to produce that single liter of petrol, probably about 2.5 to 3.0 liters.

Answer 2

its almost the same, but the cost is of refining it.. the process costs..

Answer 3

http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html

<<Most frequent question #2: How many gallons of gasoline in a barrel of oil? Answer: a 42-gallon barrel of oil makes about 19.5 gallons of gasoline. Details elsewhere on these pages.>>

so 73 liters.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/whats_...

22 gallons, or 83 liters.

(variety is good, right?)

Answer 4

One gallon of oil weighs 3.26 kilograms. A gallon of oil produces up to 0.67 gallons of gasoline. So 3.26 kilograms for a gallon of oil divided by 0.67 gallons means that at least 4.87 kilograms of oil are needed to make a gallon of gasoline.

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/transporta...

One 42 US gallon barrel of crude oil, when refined, produces about 20 gallons of finished motor gasoline, and 7 gallons of diesel, as well as other petroleum products.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/...

It takes 98 tons of prehistoric tiny floating organisms called phytoplankton that were deposited on ancient seafloors, river deltas and lakebeds and devoured by bacteria to produce each gallon of gasoline we burn in our vehicles.

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/transporta...

(Essentially oil and gas comes from marine life and is formed in the sediments at the bottom of the seas and oceans, coal is formed from plant life on land.)

Just for interest. A gallon of petrol weighs around 6lbs. When burnt in a combustion engine the carbon in it produces 19.3 pounds of CO2 gas.

The chemistry & maths of why this occurs is here.

It’s because carbon atoms join with 2 oxygen atoms to form a CO2 molecule. It’s the addition of oxygen atoms that adds the extra weight and converts the carbon and oxygen into a different gas.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/f*g/co2.shtml

http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/how-...

http://www.slate.com/id/2152685/

Answer 5

About 2 to 1.

It took one liter to get your one liter.