How to make petroleum gas with Basic Oil Processing as of 0.16
I have read the Factorio Wikipedia but I can't understand what it is telling me. My Oil Refiniery does not have an option for petroleum, only "Basic oil processing."
Best Answer
The wiki is a bit unclear. It says petroleum 'consumes' crude oil, and that's true in a way.
- First off, you need to have Oil processing researched.
- Pumpjacks produce crude oil (when placed on an oil resource)
- Oil Refineries transform crude oil into Heavy Oil, Light Oil and Petroleum, 'consuming' the crude oil in the process.
- You need a 'recipe' in the Oil Refinery to specify mode of operation. At first this will only be 'basic processing', with different options coming with later research.
- The different oils are then processed further in Chemical plants to get sulphur, plastic etc.
Here's one of the many tutorial video's you can find on the subject.
Edit for v 0.17 (and beyond): The basic recipe for oil processing now only gives Petroleum, instead of all three of the cracked Oil products (Heavy Oil, Light Oil and Petroleum). You need Advanced Oil Processing to also get into Heavy and Light Oil.
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How do you make petroleum gas?
In the first step of the refining process, crude oil is heated in a furnace until most of it vaporizes into a gas. The liquids and vapours then enter an atmospheric distillation tower, which separates the liquids and vapours into different streams, or fractions, based on differences in boiling points.How is petroleum made step by step?
The oil production process is extracting the hydrocarbons and separating the mixture of liquid hydrocarbons, gas, water, and solids, removing the elements that are non-saleable, and selling the liquid hydrocarbons and gas.Petroleum and its refining - Chemistry
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