Crude oil farming

[Massive Grunt]

Im new to Oxygen not included and im trying to use crude oil in oil refineries but everytie i try to put a liquid pump in the crude oil it just overheats and breaks.

Is there some different material of different method to use farm crude oil cause this was really frustrating.

[Strygald]

use Gold Amalgam.

[SamuraiJones]

gold amal goes to 125C without breaking. Normally the oil biome is around 100C I think, but it's right next to the magma, so if there's any holes in the natural abysalite sealing on the magma, the oil can become very hot and gold amal might not be enough.

I've looked for cooler pockets, and dumped cooler oil into hotter oil, although that typically just gives me alot of hot oil. I've also opened the oil biome up to an ice biome and poured water in (water boils on oil, recondenses on ice, melts some ice, falls back in oil, repeats) which is messy as hell but works.

[sacommander]

two whezze worts next to it does trick for with gold amal construction does the trick and make sure you pump the natural gas out with a gas sensor on pump

[LeakyAbstraction]

Another thing that might be useful to note is to put your plastic production somewhere else. That 60-70-80C environment close to the oil is generally too much for the polymer press.

I put my first polymer press there, because it seemed practical, then left it unattended for some time, and when I returned I found "naptha" instead of my plactic. It melted. :)

What many people do (from what I'm aware) is that they find the closest cold biome, and route the oil pipes there.

[L37]

Probably the easiest way to cool oil down for pumping if it is really above 125C is dumping some p-water or water into it. Just be carefull with the fact that it will produce some steam.