Help for Oil refinery

[Atherelm]

Hello!

First of all sorry for my bad english, I'm not an English-speaking country: /

But I come to this forum because it is almost impossible to find an active community on Factorio in other languages​​: /

And I'm hoping you can help me on an issue that is beginning to annoy me!

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/64115 ... iohelp.jpg

Why the damn machine does NOT petroleum gas product?

At first it worked and the machine producing sulfur was fed but not anymore

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Boogieman14]

If your storage for one of the output products (heavy, light or petroleum) is full, the refinery will stop producing all three. I'm going to guess that's what's happening (most likely light oil, in your case). So add a chem plant to either crack some light oil into petroleum, or make it into solid fuel.

[n9103]

And you should add another light oil storage tank in both cases to jump-start the refinery.

Alternatively, you could remove and replace your existing light oil storage tank(s) as a temporary solution, though it's rather expensive, since one tank of light oil can be converted into two tanks of gas.

[Xterminator]

Yup just like the other people said. Your light oil has backed up so it stopped producing. You either need to use the light oil for something, or build more storage tanks for it.

[DerivePi]

In order to balance the oil production, you need to crack heavy and light oil into petro with the "Advanced Refinery Technology (ART)." However, in order to gain the "ART" you need to produce blue science which requires petro production. In my games, the first technology I gain that requires blue science is "ART." In order to prevent the problem your game is having by having too much light oil (or heavy) is to start with 2 liquid storage tanks. 1 for Lubricant (uses heavy oil) and 1 for light oil. Once I have light and heavy cracking, I update my refinery to advanced oil production, add a heavy oil cracking chemistry plant and, over a short period, add 3 light oil cracking chemistry plants.

Another way to deal with too much light or heavy oil is to produce solid fuel from it. I prefer the other way.

Here is my layout with 4 oil refineries.

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=8&t=4568

[n9103]

If you're going to make Solid Fuel from Heavy Oil, best to crack it down to Light Oil first, as it's more efficient. (More fuel per Heavy Oil)
Or it was when I looked last.

[FishSandwich]

First of all sorry for my bad english, I'm not an English-speaking country: /

I didn't know countries could get forum accounts.

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First of all sorry for my bad english, I'm not an English-speaking country: /

I didn't know countries could get forum accounts.

They can. The UK is just banned.

Back on topic. Whilst light oil is the most efficient for solid fuel I feel that cracking everything down to petroleum gas and then converting petroleum gas into solid fuel is the way to go. Makes it easier to handle and you can just focus on cracking everything down to the base level and not have to worry about your solid fuel getting enough light oil before it is cracked.