Crude Oil

Crude Oil
Refined into all kinds of Oil-based resources, like Fuel and Plastic.
Unlocked by	Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging
Class name	Desc_LiquidOil_C
Liquid
Abbrev­iation	Oil
Fluid color	#190019
Fuel
Energy	320 MJ

Crude Oil is a mid-game resource found in the world. It is refined in Refineries into Plastic, Rubber and Fuel, whilst producing the Heavy Oil Residue and Polymer Resin byproducts. It is a fluid resource obtained from Resource Nodes, and is extracted using Oil Extractors instead of Miners. It can be transported via Pipelines, be packaged for conveyor transportation or be transported via trains.

Obtaining

Resource acquisition

Crude Oil can be extracted from Crude Oil Resource Nodes using Oil Extractors. It cannot be mined manually. The default extraction rates are as follows:

Node purity	m3/min at 100%	m3/min at 250%
Impure	60	150
Normal	120	300
Pure	240	600

This leads to the following total availability on the map:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mining rate	Mining rate at 250 %
Impure	10	600	1,500
Normal	12	1,440	3,600
Pure	8	1,920	4,800
Total	30	3,960	9,900

Crude Oil can also be extracted from Resource Wells using Resource Well Extractors, which spread over 2 clusters. The default extraction rates are as follows:

Node purity	m3/min at 100%	m3/min at 250%
Impure	30	75
Normal	60	150
Pure	120	300

This means the following amount of Crude Oil is available:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mining rate	Mining rate at 250 %
Impure	8	240	600
Normal	6	360	900
Pure	4	480	1,200
Total	18	1,080	2,700

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Unpackage Oil	2 × Packaged Oil60 / min	Packager 2 sec	2 × Crude Oil60 / min 2 × Empty Canister60 / min	Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Fuel	6 × Crude Oil60 / min	Refinery 6 sec	4 × Fuel40 / min 3 × Polymer Resin30 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Packaged Oil	2 × Crude Oil30 / min 2 × Empty Canister30 / min	Packager 4 sec	2 × Packaged Oil30 / min	Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging
Plastic	3 × Crude Oil30 / min	Refinery 6 sec	2 × Plastic20 / min 1 × Heavy Oil Residue10 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Rubber	3 × Crude Oil30 / min	Refinery 6 sec	2 × Rubber20 / min 2 × Heavy Oil Residue20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Heavy Oil Residue Alternate	3 × Crude Oil30 / min	Refinery 6 sec	4 × Heavy Oil Residue40 / min 2 × Polymer Resin20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Oil-Based Diamonds Alternate	10 × Crude Oil200 / min	Particle Accelerator 3 sec 250 - 750 MW	2 × Diamonds40 / min	Tier 9 - Matter Conversion
Polymer Resin Alternate	6 × Crude Oil60 / min	Refinery 6 sec	13 × Polymer Resin130 / min 2 × Heavy Oil Residue20 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing

Tips

The following Alternate Recipes can be used to notably increase efficiency of petrochemical productions:

•  Heavy Oil Residue
•  Diluted Packaged Fuel
•  Recycled Plastic
•  Recycled Rubber

Combined with Packaged Water, Unpackaged Fuel, Residual Plastic or Residual Rubber, a closed-loop production of Plastic without any waste can be formed, potentially increasing the Crude Oil to Plastic conversion ratio to 300%. The same applies to Rubber. Empty Canisters are reused and recycled in the loop.

Gallery

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  Four Crude Oil resource nodes near each other

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  A starter setup for Crude Oil processing that burns off byproduct Petroleum Coke for power. Excess Plastic and Rubber overflows to an AWESOME Sink to keep power generation operational.

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  A closed-loop petrochemical setup with Plastic, Rubber, and Fuel as final products with no byproduct utilizing alternate recipes.

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  A Tier-5 version of the closed-loop petrochemical setup with Plastic, Rubber, and Fuel as final products by using packagers instead of blenders at the cost of a greater power load and setup costs.

History

• Patch 0.4.0.0: Now extractible from Resource Wells
• Patch 0.3:
  • Now a fluid
  • Can no longer be brought by Lizard Doggos
  • Can no longer be obtained by cutting down specific plants with the Chainsaw
  • Crude Oil blobs occasionally found in foliage now result in No item in foliage
• Unknown patch before Patch 0.1: No longer possible to be mined by hand
• Patch Closed Alpha 4: Mesh updated

See also

•  Oil Extractor
•  Packaged Oil

External link

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCm0H_4YnE Video guide on turning 300 Crude Oil into 900 Plastic.