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Hello,
I completed the tutorial storyline, which ends with “I am ready to go” when the engineer packs his car, and I've been playing a few more hours. But not able to do research anymore. My tech tree only leads to dead ends, although I saw the complete tree is much bigger. Only when checking techs like “Oil Gathering” in Factoriopedia can I open it end see they are still locked. I find it quite confusing.
I watched a few youtube tutorials to understand how to progress, but they don't show how to discover oil. Maybe because “trigger technologies” were introduced last year, if I understand correctly.
I've explored almost the whole map, found uranium, created a new “green” base, played with concrete, but I wasn't able to find oil. No pink area (screenshot below), no luck when I tried to “mine” places which vaguely looked like oilfields. Pumpjack construction is locked behind oilfield, so it looks like the chicken or the egg. Maybe the tutorial ends there and I should create a new game?
Thank you in advance.

Welcome to the forum.

After the engineer's "I am ready to go", a Tutorial complete window is supposed to show up, congratulate you, and offer the choice to continue exploring/playing the map, or return to the main menu. So yes, that is pretty much the end of the tutorial.

For the full experience start a new "Freeplay" game.

Ok, thank you!
I saw this dialog, but I took the first sentence as an invitation to continue. I loved this map.
Best