Oil

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“	A raw viscous liquid that must be refined into fuel at Facilities.	„
	— In-game description

Oil is a raw liquid resource that is used in various facility recipes. It is stored within a 50L canister.

Acquisition

Structure	Input(s)	Output	Time
Coal Refinery (Coal Liquefier)	300 x Coal 50L x Water 6 MW of power	1 x Concrete Materials 10 x Sulfur 50L x Oil	00:04:30
Coal Refinery (Advanced Coal Liquefier)	300 x Coal 100L x Water 6 MW of power	1 x Concrete Materials 15 x Sulfur 100L x Oil	00:04:30
Oil Well		1 x Oil	00:00:50
Oil Well (Electric Oil Well)	2 MW of power	1 x Oil	00:00:26
Oil Well (Electric Oil Well)	2 MW of power	75L x Oil	00:00:40
Oil Well (Fracker)	25L x Water 3 MW of power	2 x Oil	00:00:40
Oil Well (Fracker)	25L x Water 3 MW of power	75L x Oil	00:00:30

Structure	Input(s)	Output	Time
Oil Refinery	150L x Oil 1 MW of power	150L x Petrol	00:02:30
Oil Refinery (Reformer)	120L x Oil 30L x Water 1 MW of power	150L x Petrol	00:02:30
Oil Refinery (Cracking Unit)	150L x Oil 2 MW of power	90L x Heavy Oil	00:02:40
Power Station	50L x Oil	10 MW of power	00:01:30

Like other liquid resources, Oil canisters do not stack in inventories but can be stored in the stockpile of Liquid Containers and Liquid Transfer Stations. Full canisters can be crated/uncrated in the menu of a Seaport, Storage Depot, or Shipping Container using the RMB context menu (need 1 oil canister to make a crate). A canister's encumbrance depends on how much fuel is left in it.

Oil, as a general resource, was reworked in Update 1.50 ('Inferno') from its previous iteration, Crude Oil.
- Crude Oil was a single-stack item that could only be used to refine into Petrol at a 3:1 ratio in a Refinery. Despite having a name of a liquid resource, it did not operate as such.