How to get crude oil early game?

[cyboogie king]

I'm on cycle 100 on my colony and we haven't struck oil yet because I have mostly been too busy to dig down and also I limit my exosuits to 4 because I don't want to spend excess oxygen. How can I get crude oil in the early game? It is a challenge for me.

[waymond enjoyer]

You can't. You have to keep digging until you find crude oil somewhere else on the map.

[AquaX]

Just dig down if you want oil. But expect massive issues to occur if you didn't prepare beforehand.

[Thorin]

Usually you just need to dig a screen worth if tiles down and you will see some oil. But it will be hot, and neds a lot of energy and other stuff to do anything with it, so no reason until you are ready for it.

[Cryten]

So what do you guys do for your first actions trying to access world oil supplies (natural oil instead of geyser oil)? What preperations/investment would you do to prepare to cool and store the oil. Clearly most starting oil is to hot to pump even with gold.

[cyboogie king]

wheezeworts around it maybe

[L37]

If you got " lucky" and found oil biome with ~180-200C oil... IMO the simpliest solution is to dump a bunch of polluted water into it. It will boil/purify water and cool down oil to usable temperature.
Just be sure to prepare properly (insulation, gas permiable tiles to hold water etc) because it will release a lot of very hot steam, which can cause a lot of trouble.