Crude Oil

Crude Oil
Crude Oil is refined into all kinds of Oil-based resources, like Fuel and Plastic.
Unlocked at	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Category	Fluids
Blueprint Path /Game/FactoryGame/Resource/RawResources/CrudeOil/Desc_CrudeOil.Desc_CrudeOil_C

Crude Oil is a semi-rare 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 the only 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
Impure	60
Normal	120
Pure	240

This leads to the following total availability on the map:

Node purity	Number of nodes	Mk.1 mining rate	Mk.1 mining rate at 250 %
Impure	10	600	1500
Normal	12	1440	3600
Pure	8	1920	4800
Total	30	3960	9900

Since Pipelines are limited to 300 m³/min, the maximum amount of oil that can be extracted from the map is 7500 m³/min.

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Crude Oil													Oil Extractor 1 sec	2 × Crude Oil 120 / min 20 MJ / item		Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Unpackage Oil	2 × Packaged Oil 60 / min												Refinery 2 sec	2 × Crude Oil 60 / min 30 MJ / item	2 × Empty Canister 60 / min 30 MJ / item	Tier 5 - Alternative Fluid Transport

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Fuel	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min												Refinery 6 sec	4 × Fuel 40 / min 45 MJ / item	3 × Polymer Resin 30 / min 60 MJ / item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Heavy Oil Residue Alternate	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min												Refinery 6 sec	4 × Heavy Oil Residue 40 / min 45 MJ / item	2 × Polymer Resin 20 / min 90 MJ / item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Packaged Oil	2 × Crude Oil 30 / min						2 × Empty Canister 30 / min						Refinery 4 sec	2 × Packaged Oil 30 / min 60 MJ / item		Tier 5 - Alternative Fluid Transport
Plastic	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min												Refinery 6 sec	2 × Plastic 20 / min 90 MJ / item	1 × Heavy Oil Residue 10 / min 180 MJ / item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Polymer Resin Alternate	6 × Crude Oil 60 / min												Refinery 6 sec	13 × Polymer Resin 130 / min 13.85 MJ / item	2 × Heavy Oil Residue 20 / min 90 MJ / item	Tier 5 - Oil Processing
Rubber	3 × Crude Oil 30 / min												Refinery 6 sec	2 × Rubber 20 / min 90 MJ / item	2 × Heavy Oil Residue 20 / min 90 MJ / item	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, Unpackage 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%. Same applies to Rubber. Empty Canisters are reused and recycled in the loop.

Gallery

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  Build this temporary setup to get the first 200 Plastic, then dismantle the Refineries.

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

History

• 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 ocassionally 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

External link

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