In today's global society, it is often necessary to convert a standard measurment to a metric one, or the reverse. You can easily convert cubic meters to barrels per day with a few simple procedures. Barrels have different standard volumes depending on their content. A standard barrel of oil has a volume of 42 U.S. gallons. Since "barrels per day" is a standard measurement in the oil industry, we will use this for our example. Also for our example we will assume that we are starting with a rate of 3000 cubic meters per day.
Instructions
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Multiply the number of cubic meters by 264.172. This will convert your volume to U.S. gallons.
In our example: 264.172 x 3000 = 792,516
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Divide your answer by 42. This will convert U.S. gallons to barrels (standard barrel of oil).
Example: 792,516 / 42 = 18,869.428
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Notate your answer in barrels per day.
Example: 18,869.428 barrels per day