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Oil barrels to US cups

1 oil barrel in US cups
1 bbl = 672 cup
cup = bbl × 672

To convert oil barrels to US cups, multiply by 672. The table below gives the values people look up most often, and the converter works for any number.

Oil barrels to US cups table

Common oil barrel values converted to US cups.
Oil barrels US cups
1 bbl 672
2 bbl 1,344
3 bbl 2,016
4 bbl 2,688
5 bbl 3,360
10 bbl 6,720
15 bbl 10,080
20 bbl 13,440
25 bbl 16,800
30 bbl 20,160
40 bbl 26,880
50 bbl 33,600
75 bbl 50,400
100 bbl 67,200
250 bbl 168,000
500 bbl 336,000
1,000 bbl 672,000

How the conversion works

The relationship is cup = bbl × 672. Both units measure volume, so the conversion is a fixed factor that never changes. The figure is exact rather than approximate: since the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, an inch is defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres and a pound as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms, and every other imperial and US customary unit here is derived from those two.

Oil barrel: Petroleum barrel = 42 US gallons.

US cup: US legal cup is 240 mL; the customary cup used here is 236.588 mL.

Common questions

How many US cups are in one oil barrel?
One oil barrel equals 672 US cups. cup = bbl × 672.
How do you convert oil barrels to US cups?
Use cup = bbl × 672. So 10 bbl is 6,720 cup.
How many oil barrels are in one US cup?
One US cup equals 0.0014881 oil barrels, which is the reverse of the conversion above.
Is there more than one kind of oil barrel?
Petroleum barrel = 42 US gallons. US legal cup is 240 mL; the customary cup used here is 236.588 mL.

Related pages

Sources

  1. Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SP 811) — NIST (Public domain (US Government))
  2. The International System of Units (SI Brochure) — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
  3. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked