Can you please tell me the relevance of this conversion:

One barrel of crude oil equals 5,614 cubic feet of natural gas.

I guess I am trying to figure out what this information would be used for in the industry and what does it tell us?

Sorry if the question is stupid.

Mike

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Mike, there are various conversion factors. All these conversion factors are attempting to equate natural gas and crude oil on an energy basis. The industry sometimes reports production or reserves on a BOE (barrels of oil equivalent) or MMcfe (million cubic feet natural gas equivalent) basis and requires such a conversion.

By the way, there are no stupid questions.

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