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Can Crude Oil be stored in wood barrels?
Since there is no much oil in storage, a friend of mine was wondering if wood barrels are an option?
10 Answers
- Anonymous1 year agoFavourite answer
Sure. Stack them in your garage, too.
- squeezie_1999Lv 712 months ago
It can and was, until the 1890's. Unfortunately, wood barrels are expensive, difficult to make, and inefficient in use of space. That's why your car has a steel gas tank instead of a wooden one. and incidently ....why crude oil is measured in 'barrels'.
- ?Lv 712 months ago
In the early 1900s it was transported in them. Some up to 500 gallon barrels on horse drawn wagons. But the EPA. Has rules against it today. Spills leaks & such.
- J R SpigotLv 41 year ago
A barrel of oil is 42 US gallons.. Crude oil is quite toxic, very sticky. Wood barrels not at all suitable
- Anonymous1 year ago
Gasoline used to be transported in barrels by horse drawn carts.