Oil

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Oil's in-game icon.

### Use

Refines into Petrol or Heavy Oil at an Oil RefineryFuel Source similar to Diesel

## Logistics

### Amount in Crate ()

2 per Crate

**Oil** is a liquid resource primarily refined into Petrol or Heavy Oil, but it can be used as a fuel source for Power Stations or in certain vehicles like the Large Crane. It is stored in a 50L canister, which is smaller compared to its other fuel counterparts like Petrol or Diesel.

It is obtainable from either an Oil Well placed next to a Crude Oil Field or a Coal Refinery with Coal Liquefier upgrade which refines Coal and Water into Oil. Upgrades to the Oil Well can increase the production yield of oil.

Oil can be transported by hand, Truck, Fuel Tanker, Fuel Container, or by Pipelines. Oil can also be crated (two 50L cans per crate) and shipped in a Shipping Container.

* Fuel Tankers can only hold 25 cans (1,250L)
* Fuel Container holds 100 cans (5,000L)
* Pipelines can transport any type of liquid without player interaction
	+ **The best option, but pipelines are locked behind the Tech Tree under T2 Facilities**
* A Shipping Container full of crated Oil holds 120 cans (6,000L)
	+ While it carries the most oil, it requires the most work as it requires a Seaport or a Storage Depot to pack/unpack the oil, which then needs to be moved by another vehicle/container to be used in an Oil Refinery

## Acquisition

Oil can only be obtained from a Crude Oil Field with a player-built Oil Well placed near it. The Oil Well does not require power to produce oil, but can be upgraded with an Electric Oil Well or a Fracker, with both of them requiring power to produce oil.

* The original recipe can still be used, as the upgrades adds on new recipes, which allows higher production yields when activated
	+ In order to for the facility to use the recipe, the toggle on the right side of the recipe must be selected. (Green = using this recipe)
	+ Only one recipe can be used at a time
* The Fracker recipes requires water and power in order to produce oil

Certain recipes show off an amount of liters being produced (i.e. 75L) rather than a single item like in the standard recipe. This is simply stating that the facility produced more than what a single oil can is able to hold, which is 50L. In this case, producing 75L of oil means that the facility produced 1.5 cans of oil.

## Uses

Oil is primarily used for the refinement of other materials, like Petrol and Heavy Oil. It can also be used as a fuel source for the Power Station and the Large Crane.

* Refined at an Oil Refinery
	+ Petrol
	+ Heavy Oil (with the Cracking Unit upgrade)
* Fuel Source
* Large Crane
* At a Power Station to generate power.

### Refueling

Equipping an oil can allows you to manually refuel Large Cranes or in certain facilities that use oil by holding `LMB` (similar to other fuel cans, such as Diesel).

Alternatively, Fuel Tankers or Fuel Containers with oil them can refuel facilities or vehicles when placed nearby. In order to refuel them, have them close to the target, open up the target's menu with `E` and click the Refuel button .

* It is not possible to transfer oil cans from an Oil Well to a Fuel Tanker or a Fuel Container, or from a Liquid Transfer Station to a Fuel Container, through this method
	+ In order to transfer liquid between these structures, you must use the `LMB`, and `Shift + E` or press `E`

## Storage

Like other liquid resources, Oil canisters do not stack in inventories but can be stored in Fuel Containers and Liquid Transfer Stations. They can be crated/uncrated in the menu of a Seaport, Storage Depot, or Shipping Container using the `RMB` context menu (need 2 oil canisters to make a crate). A canister's encumbrance depends on how much fuel is left in it.