oil metrics

Oil metrics. Tankers run 80k to 3m barrels. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 1.57 t barrels. Global daily consumption is on the order of 100m +/-5% barrels.

1m barrels ~= 159 cubic decametres ~= 0.3 hectometer diameter spheres

1b barrels ~= 159 cubic hectometres ~= 0.3 kilometer diameter spheres

1t barrels ~= 159 cubic kilometres ~= 0.3 x 10km diameter spheres

So tankers run 13 cubic dm to 0.5 cubic hm. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 238 cubic km.

So tankers run 24 dm-diameter spheres to 0.9 hm-diameter spheres. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 0.5 10km-diameter spheres.