So Much Refined Oil!

[DrussTheAxe]

Hi all

How do I get rid of all the refined oil I have? There's so much I either build a container field or the refineries simply clog and stop.

[Coops]

Burn it in thermal plants if you must.
But you need it to make plastic, sulfuric acid and organic crystal. All important for yellow science.
You can also convert it to hydrogen and graphite

[ExavierMacbeth]

What stage of the game are you at research wise?
When you first start doing refining you will end up with a massive surplus... You COULD dump it into Thermal Generators and burn it for power... But I recommend save & stockpile it.

Once you hit Yellow Cubes you actually do start burning through it pretty fast for alot of things to the point that you will probably want to be set up to burn off extra hydrogen rather than the oil.

EDIT: Also get the Vertical Construction techs... they let you stack storage boxes & tanks on top of eachother... Makes the capacity of your oil storage go up alot without having to make the field of tanks really big.

[Mylon]

If you crack it you can make graphite and supplement some of your finite coal with infinite oil.

[Dragonmaster]

Why do you have a refined oil surplus. There’s like zero reason for it.
But you can burn it in a thermal

[Andy]

Typically, at first I have to store or burn refined oil, or else I won't be able to make hydrogen. Later I'll have to store hydrogen or else I won't be able to make refined oil. Once I have gas giant hydrogen I change all my oil setups to crude oil + coal = refined oil so my supplies of refined oil and hydrogen are no longer dependent on each other.

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Dragonmaster:

Why do you have a refined oil surplus. There’s like zero reason for it.
But you can burn it in a thermal

Quite early you'd have it because oil refining is your only available source of hydrogen; which you need for red science. And there isn't a clear demand for the refined oil.
You wouldn't yet have unlocked X-ray Cracking (convert refined oil into energetic graphite for red science) or Polymer Chemical Engineering (convert refined oil into organic crystals).
You could have already researched Basic Chemical Engineering, which would let you convert it into sulfuric acid and/or plastic; but you don't have a need for those yet either.

Admittedly, this surplus of refined oil should be short lived, but it is a brief phase in the early game.

[Dragonmaster]

First thing to research with red is X-ray cracking. You can then make red with only oil and have no excess refined