How do you pump oil?

[Joseph Sneed]

I finally found some oil but it is so hot that it breaks the pump. How are you suposed to process it if you cant even pump it?

[LittleBallOfPurr]

I'm just getting towards the oil on my first playthrough. Perhaps, can you cool the oil first with a hydrogen gas loop?

[asanger]

A cooling loop would work.
Build you pump out of different metals can change the overheat temp will let it withstand the heat.
Gold amalgam gives +50
Steel gives +200

[Hedning]

Oil wells produce at 90°, so gold amalgam works. If your oil is too hot for gold amalgam then just pump from the oil well. You can use granite pipe if the water is cold to let it cool down the place too. You can also use steel. An early way to get steel is to simply find some cold (<60°) polluted water and pump it into your refinery and then vent it back out.

[Joseph Sneed]

I got slightly lucky with an ice biome right over the well. I let the oil shoot up into it and am pumping that for the moment. I will have to try making the pump out of gold later.

[Dschinghis Pan]

What is your pump made of?

[Blake Walsh]

You can also use pitcher pump and bottle emptier combo to move crude oil into an intermediate tank where it can cool. Dupes don't have a problem carrying hot liquid - even magma - in bottles.

[Elidrin]

In my new game I hit a leaky fissure right outside the newbie area. Needless to say I was jumping for joy until I realized it was 300C+. My answer was to dump P-water on it and then recover both with a pump. The P-water would be sent back to the fissure and the now cooled oil recovered.

Its not a final fix by any means but I have a steady, if small, amount of oil before cycle 50.