Convert US barrels per second to Kilolitres per minute
Convert US barrels per second (bbl/s) to Kilolitres per minute (kL/min) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
kL/min = bbl/s × 9.539237696
About US barrels per second
The US barrel per second (bbl/s) equals 0.158987294928 m³/s, an extremely large flow rate used only for catastrophic spill-rate estimates and very large pipeline surge calculations. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill peaked at ≈60 000 bbl/d ≈ 0.000694 bbl/s; major subsea pipeline ruptures may briefly exceed 1 bbl/s during decompression. 1 US bbl/s = 0.158987 m³/s ≈ 158.987 L/s.
About Kilolitres per minute
The kilolitre per minute (kL/min) equals 1/60 m³/s ≈ 0.016667 m³/s, used in Australian water-utility engineering for pump and pipeline sizing. Irrigation district delivery schedules and water-authority trunk-main flow records in Australia and New Zealand frequently use kL/min as an intermediate unit between L/s and ML/d. 1 kL/min = 1 000 L/min ≈ 264.2 US gal/min.
Quick Reference Table
| US barrels per second (bbl/s) | Kilolitres per minute (kL/min) |
|---|---|
| 1 bbl/s | 9.53924 kL/min |
| 2 bbl/s | 19.0785 kL/min |
| 5 bbl/s | 47.6962 kL/min |
| 10 bbl/s | 95.3924 kL/min |
| 25 bbl/s | 238.481 kL/min |
| 50 bbl/s | 476.962 kL/min |
| 100 bbl/s | 953.924 kL/min |