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 (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 |
| 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 |
| Oil Well | 50L x Oil |
00:00:50 | |
| Oil Well (Electric Oil Well) | 2 MW of power |
50L x Oil |
00:00:26 |
| Oil Well (Fracker) | 25L x Water 3 MW of power |
100L x Oil |
00:00:40 |
Uses
Usage
- Put the canister in your tertiary slot
- Equip it with
3 - Hold
LMBnear the target.
The canister's weight changes proportionally to how much liquid is left in it.
Fuel
It is used to refuel Large Cranes.
Production
| Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil Refinery | 150L x Oil 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 |
| Oil Refinery (Reformer) | 120L x Oil 30L x Water 1 MW of power |
150L x Petrol |
00:02:30 |
| Power Station | 50L x Oil |
10 MW of power |
00:01:30 |
Storage
As a liquid resource, the Oil canister does not stack in inventories (1 per slot). It can be stored in the stockpiles of Bases (32k max), Small Liquid Container Cars (50), Liquid Containers (100) and Liquid Transfer Stations (500). It cannot be submitted into a stockpile if the canister is not full.
When a canister is full, it can be crated (need stack of 1 per crate) and uncrated with the right click context menu while interfacing a Seaport, Storage Depot, or Shipping Container.
Crates of Oil can be directly submitted to any item stockpile that accepts that item to transfer their content. The crates can also be stored in the crate stockpiles of Storage Depots (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Seaports (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Shipping Containers (60), or Storage Ships (1000).
It can be transported by almost any vehicle with inventory slots, but is most commonly transported by Fuel Tankers, Small Liquid Container Cars, and shipping vehicles carrying Liquid Containers. The liquid can also be delivered by Pipelines. Delivering it in crate form is possible but much less efficient.
Trivia
- 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.
Gallery
A Colonial soldier holding an oil can
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