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Crude oil is a natural resource, so you don't really make it. It takes hundreds of millions of years to create fossil fuel, if that's what your looking for.
Petroleum comes out of the ground as crude oil. Crude oil has different properties it is not clean and depending on where it is from needs cleaning up and the removal of components that are not desirable in the running of an engine. Crude is divided into many different products ranging from plastic to petrol to highly refined fuels like petrol. To run an engine on straight crude oil you would need a much bigger engine much more fuel and it would prove to be environmentally very bad.You would also need a totally different system for getting the fuel into the cylinders because crude oil is very thick and would not flow or evaporate like petrol
Crude oil is readily separated into fractions one of which is gasoline. Lubricating oil is much more difficult.
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A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons. A gallon of light crude oil weighs approximately 7.27 pounds. Heavy crude oil weighs 7.61 pounds per gallon. Therefore a barrel of light crude oil weighs 305.34 pounds + the weight of the barrel. Heavy crude would weigh 319.62 pounds + the weight of the barrel.
That was the month and year that a barrel of crude oil reached its highest level: $128.08 per barrel.
It weighs one pound per pound
There are 42 gallons of crude oil per barrel.
About 19.6 gallons per barrel of crude oil. Each barrel holds 42 gallons of oil.
About 9.21 gallons of diesel is refined from each 42-gallon barrel of crude oil.
$7.67 per barrel.
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Crude oil is crude oil, there is no such thing as gas oil. Gasoline is refined from crude oil. 1 barrel of Benchmark crude oil for May delivery is currently $48.20 as of 3/31/09.
$128.08 per barrel in July 2008.
Eight to nine gallons.
1245 dollars