Oil processing
Oil processing was included in v0.9 to Factorio. It introduced new types of pipes, as well as refinery, chemical plant and several products, a new tech-tree and the handling of liquids.
This is also the reason, why this docs are not complete yet. Please refer to the following pages:
Items
Pumpjack | Pumpjacks mine the crude oil from the oil spills, and let you carry it by Pipe as seen in the Liquid network/0.9 |
Oil refinery | Refine Crude oil into basic oil products (Heavy-/Light oil and Petroleum gas. |
Chemical plant | Like the Assembling machine, used to automate processing of liquids. |
Storage Tank | Stores up to 2500 units of liquid. |
Small Pump | Allows you to pump liquids from one area to another. Used inline. |
Pump | Allows you to pump water up from a body of water. |
Assembling machine 2 Assembling machine 3 | Allows you to craft items using liquids, used mainly for Oil barrels. |
Pipe | Allows transporting of liquids from one location to another. |
Underground Pipe|Underground Pipe]] | [[A Pipe, but under the ground, acting similar to Underground belts. |
Technology
There is a lot of research that is available regarding oil processing. To start, you only need to have Oil processing. You can then get a crude oil production &processing facility set up while you wait for the other research to be completed.
Oil processing | |||||
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Requires: | Steel processing|- | Allows: | Fluid handling Advanced oil processing Sulfur processing Plastics Flammables|- | Effects: | Pumpjack Oil refinery Chemical plant Oil processing Solid fuel Soild fuel Solid fuel Lubricant|- |
Fluid handling | |
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Requires: | Oil processing |
Effects: | Storage tank Small pump Empty barrel|- |
Advanced oil processing | |
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Cost: | |
Requires: | Oil processing |
Effects: | Advanced oil processing Heavy oil cracking Light oil cracking|- |
Sulfur processing | |||
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Requires: | Oil processing | ||
Allows: | Explosives Battery|- | Effects: | Sulfuric acid Sulfur|- |
Plastics | |
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Requires: | Oil processing |
Effects: | Plastic bar|- |
Basic
Pumpjacks mine the Crude oil from the oil spills. Oil refinery processes the Crude oil to Oil fractions. Chemical plant processes the oil fractions to useful Oil products.