The question posed was how much petroleum is in a CD disc?.

Since these numbers are going to be pretty small, I will work with 1,000 disks. The end user can adjust to fit their needs. From http://www.cdrecyclingcenter.com/information/about_recycling we see the components of a disc, one of which is polycarbonate. It should be noted that there is not just one polycarbonate plastic. But, since this job does not pay very well (lol) we are not going to do a great deal of research into which one is most commonly used for the CDs. For this exercise we will ignore the petroleum in the lacquer and dyes (probably insignificant), the energy used in the manufacturing process (significant, processed at 300C), the energy used to create the precursors (also significant), the materials & energy in packaging (outside of scope), the energy used to create the content for the disc (outside of scope), and the energy consumed in playing it (outside of scope). We have a polycarbonate layer approximately 1.1mm thick by 120 mm in diameter, less a hole in the center. This gives us about 12,301 mm3 (12.301 cm3) or 0.75 in3 of material per disk. This is a good time to multiply by 1,000. Assuming a density of 1.300 g/cm3 we have 15,991 g or 564.0765 oz of material in our 1,000 CD stack. From the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate, about half way down the page we find the synthesis mechanism. From this we see that the main precursor is bisphenol A. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A we see that bisphenol A is produced from acetone and phenol. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumene_process we see that the precursors are benzene and propylene. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene we see that benzene is indeed a petrochemical. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene we see that propylene is also a petrochemical. From the Wikipedia polycarbonate article we see that bisphenol A and phosgene (not a petrochemical) have a one-to-one relationship as the polycarbonate chain becomes fairly long.

Polycarbonates molecular formula (in the limit) is C16H16O3 giving a molecular weight (again, in the limit) of 256 g/mol (simplified, ignoring isotopes) of which 228 g/mol (89.0625%) is from a petrochemical source. This means that in our 1,000 CD or DVD disc stack we have about 14,242.25 g or 502.38 oz (weight) of petroleum product. Since crude oil is measured in liquid units of volume, we need a conversion from these weights. There is not one single specific gravity (or weight) of crude oil, but lets assume 40 API crude since that is the standard used for purchase in the industry. This gives us a specific gravity of 0.825. Water weighs 1 g/cm3 or 62.43 lb/ft3. From this we can calculate that our 1,000 disc stack has 17,263.3 cm3 or 0.108583 bbl of crude oil components. No effort was made to track significant figures. I hope this has helped answer your question.