Oil refinery empty?

[El Patron]

I just build oil refinery and its still empty. Any idea why? My oil rig digs oil, but the refinery doesnt seem to be processing any of it. Should it be connected together with a pipe or something?

[rforeman]

I am having the same problem. I built the oil refinery. It has been sitting for 2 full game years and is still not running.

[El Patron]

Well, this happend with grain farm if I put it on not fertile land. It was empty. But once I moved it on the fertile land, it started to work. This oil refinery looks like it needs underground water. Because it show underground water when you are about to place it. I placed it there but its empty anyway and not working :/

[Memnon]

I have same problem with oil refinery ,milk factory and "stone and dust" factory.Anyone get any solution or just we have to wait for patch to fix this? Incerdible how half finish game they sold....

[Liberator48]

Same problem here.

[danmak27]

Same here. I have no idea how to solve that oil refinery problem.

[mikelleh63]

All of the specialized services need to be on the correct land with the resources in them. Look at your map in the Natural Resources View. Black, blue, Green and yellow areas show up. Oil refineries must be built on these black areas, Quarrys on blue, Farms on yellow and forestry on green. This is the same as old game. Production gets trickier after that. You need to zone industrial near your specialized service areas and bulldoze and rebuild it until you get an appropriate business. Example - I just created an oil production zone.....zone Industry and as building pop up, check what they do, if it isnt oil related kill it and let it try again. A bakery next to your minig area is not going to do anything. Is clunky, but since I figured this out i have $128 mil in bank and I am producing all kinds of goods/

[Fredericus_Rex]

@mikelleh63

if it's like that, i love u and thanks for this information

[El Patron]

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

All of the specialized services need to be on the correct land with the resources in them. Look at your map in the Natural Resources View. Black, blue, Green and yellow areas show up. Oil refineries must be built on these black areas, Quarrys on blue, Farms on yellow and forestry on green. This is the same as old game. Production gets trickier after that. You need to zone industrial near your specialized service areas and bulldoze and rebuild it until you get an appropriate business. Example - I just created an oil production zone.....zone Industry and as building pop up, check what they do, if it isnt oil related kill it and let it try again. A bakery next to your minig area is not going to do anything. Is clunky, but since I figured this out i have $128 mil in bank and I am producing all kinds of goods/

I cant verify at the moment (because I just started a new city), but its a bit strange. Because I have these oil diggers (towers) on the black spot. So if this is correct, I must demolish them and build this refinery instead. I must definitely try this out when my new city gets bigger.

[Rob]

make sure as well they are all connected by roads to your main city

[Flavalicious]

I had to move my refinary around a bunch of times for it to get an owner. Wasnt anywhere near oil fields lol. Was in the dead center of my industrial district. Meanwhile the chemical plant can go anywhere and have an owner, but the rock crushing building cant find an owner regardless where i put it.

[WannaSeeSomethingStupid?]

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

All of the specialized services need to be on the correct land with the resources in them. Look at your map in the Natural Resources View. Black, blue, Green and yellow areas show up. Oil refineries must be built on these black areas, Quarrys on blue, Farms on yellow and forestry on green. This is the same as old game. Production gets trickier after that. You need to zone industrial near your specialized service areas and bulldoze and rebuild it until you get an appropriate business. Example - I just created an oil production zone.....zone Industry and as building pop up, check what they do, if it isnt oil related kill it and let it try again. A bakery next to your minig area is not going to do anything. Is clunky, but since I figured this out i have $128 mil in bank and I am producing all kinds of goods/

That would be for specialized industries. The building in question here is a signature industrial building, which does not have the same requirements.
Also, following this discussion as the oil refinery does appear to be the most stubborn signature building in regards to finding an occupant. Vicinity to industrial zones, cargo harbours, freight rail stations, and maxed industrial demand do not appear to be enough. It makes me wonder just how many jobs this thing is supposed to hold, and whether or not it exceeds the maximum demand margin.

[OZZO]

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

All of the specialized services need to be on the correct land with the resources in them. Look at your map in the Natural Resources View. Black, blue, Green and yellow areas show up. Oil refineries must be built on these black areas, Quarrys on blue, Farms on yellow and forestry on green. This is the same as old game. Production gets trickier after that. You need to zone industrial near your specialized service areas and bulldoze and rebuild it until you get an appropriate business. Example - I just created an oil production zone.....zone Industry and as building pop up, check what they do, if it isnt oil related kill it and let it try again. A bakery next to your minig area is not going to do anything. Is clunky, but since I figured this out i have $128 mil in bank and I am producing all kinds of goods/

I built oil refinery on top of an oil field and it still was empty. This building also does NOT list what it requires and what it produces. Many other unique factories have the process chain listed.
I think this building is bugged for now.

On another matter: I think that bakery next to the oil rig will still function, only that it will either transport the goods from where you produce wheat or just import it with cash.

[Walker Evans]

The Oil Refinery signature building does not appear to ever get occupants. Same for the Dairy House. The other signature buildings seem to be working so far, but I don't have everything in this play through yet.

[ApollonDriver]

Originally posted by mikelleh63:

All of the specialized services need to be on the correct land with the resources in them. Look at your map in the Natural Resources View. Black, blue, Green and yellow areas show up. Oil refineries must be built on these black areas, Quarrys on blue, Farms on yellow and forestry on green. This is the same as old game. Production gets trickier after that. You need to zone industrial near your specialized service areas and bulldoze and rebuild it until you get an appropriate business. Example - I just created an oil production zone.....zone Industry and as building pop up, check what they do, if it isnt oil related kill it and let it try again. A bakery next to your minig area is not going to do anything. Is clunky, but since I figured this out i have $128 mil in bank and I am producing all kinds of goods/

Wrong. Special factories don't need to be placed on terrain with natural resources. Specialized industry areas such as farms and oil fields do. Factories never required that, not in the first game either. Just accept that it's buggy and don't spread false information.

[291144371018747]

Hi everyone, I'm not an expert on CS2 , but what I can see is that Oil refinery remains empty, it doesn't matter where you place it. What exactly happened to me is that before the 1.013f patch it worked, but after sometimes it went to get empty and remained so. Now It starts empty, no matter which terrain you will place it, no matter if it is close or far from highways, roads, services, towns. I've tried them all, so for me it is a bug, but It could be better that developers admit it and fix it ASAP. TY