Embarrassed about my first pipe attempt

[happyemi]

Ok just started extracting crude oil for the first time and I already have a couple of questions. I know there are several threads about pipes behavior, but this is really basic stuff I couldn't find anywhere.

I have ~10 pumpjacks very close together, each one producing a flow of ~0.5 crude oil per second (very low yield , I know ). All these pumps outputs are connected together with pipes and the "final" pipeline goes into a factory to produce barrels. It's basically a all-to-all connection.
The pipeline is VERY short. I think there are less than 10-20 pipe units between any pump and the factory and the whole configuration really fits in a zoomed in screen.

Now, if I hover the mouse over the final pipe tile (the one that goes into the factory), I would expect to see 5 crude oil per second (i.e. 0.5 oil/sec * 10 pumps) but instead I normally get the usual low pressure reading (around 0/0.1).
Why is that?

BTW adding pumpjacks definitely lowered the barrel production, so this configuration is working, I just don't understand why that doesn't show up in the pipes reading.

[Zappes]

Your factory extracts oil from the pipe, only what's left is displayed.

[happyemi]

Your factory extracts oil from the pipe, only what's left is displayed.

Oh, so the fact a pipe reads 0 liquid only means that I'm producing less than I could consume. I see, thanks

[Mr. Tact]

Your factory extracts oil from the pipe, only what's left is displayed.

I want to make sure I understand what you are saying...

You saying the throughput is being displayed, not the current contents of that section of pipe. Right?

[Tym]

you may be able to see a higher flow rate if you connect all your pumpjacks to a storage tank first, then your oil-2-barrel assembler to the tank. Assuming you are not baby-sitting the operation, it may even result in faster throughput, as there is a larger pool of oil for the assembler to draw from.

[RoddyVR]

Pipe readout does not show flow rate, it shows amount of liquid in pipe (presumably after the last tick update), since 1 barreling factory outpaces your oil production (probably by more then 10 to1, dont remember numbers off hand), the factory is sucking up all the oil in the last pipe every tick and you're left with an empty pipe.