Talk:Barrel (volume)

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[edit] It has been suggested that bbl be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

I don't think there's anything to discuss, by saying "The barrel (abbreviated bbl)", it's obvious it's the same thing. --Leladax 08:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

unless "how" it's what should be discussed --Leladax 08:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

No, there's no discussion yet. Let them be merged. Jimp 06:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Though "How?"'s a good question seeing as they don't exactly agree with eachother. Jimp 07:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mbbl

Moved from Talk:bbl

There's some confusion over whether 1Mbbl means one million barrels or one thousand barrels. The usual usage seems to be 1 million. Try Google. Yes, it's an incorrect use of a metric prefix. 1MMbbl is also used for one million barrels. But in fact, both abbreviations are rarely used.

The Standard Oil blue barrel may be an urban legend, but the US Department of Energy believes it. See http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/bluebarrel.html

So does the Alberta government. See http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/1960.asp

Removed text about "splashing" explaination for barrel size. Used some text from DOE Kid's Page: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/bluebarrel.html

--Nagle 05:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

That should be 1 Mbbl.

It's not an incorrect use of a metric prefix. There's no violation of any rules to use megabarrels or kilofeet or microinches or whatever—but then, it probably isn't even a prefix in the first place. Many probably don't even read that M as standing for mega- but rather for million, just as in the old days we had "BeV" for billion electron volts and "MeV" for million electron volts.

Of course, that Roman numerals M for 1000, and MM for 1,000,000 (yes, sometimes seen in MMbbl—no, make that not just sometimes but far too often, search for mmbbl oil in any search engine). Gene Nygaard 06:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

21:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)21:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)21:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)70.144.103.150 The use of M as a prefix for Mega or million is standard metric use. However the medical industry uses capital M to mean milli as in Mg = milligram on medications! I would hate to have to swallow a metric Mg (meaning Megagram) pill? That certaintly could cause a LARGE mistake, such as the British - Metric system mistake that caused a Mars probe to crash a few years ago! When is the USA going to drop the arcaic British system with all its odd and irratonal units and fully adopt the metric system? --70.144.103.150 21:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Aeh