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Oil Production Setup Satisfactory
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Best Oil Production Setups in Satisfactory, Explained

Time for liquid math!

Once players get introduced to the world of liquids, particularly Oil, it is a whole different ball game in Satisfactory. You’ll start calculating in cubic meters to create the most optimal production setups. The first liquid you’ll have to deal with is Crude Oil, one of the most important resources in bringing more power to your factory. Here’s the best Oil production setup in Satisfactory.

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To get the best Crude Oil production setup, you need to know how much Oil you are dealing with. There are impure, normal, and pure Oil nodes, each with different outputs. Each type of purity will need a different number of refineries to make a fully efficient Oil Extraction setup. Here’s a table of how many refineries you need on each Oil purity node:

Node Puritym3/minNumber of Refineries
Impure Node601
Normal Node1202
Pure Node2404

Now, things drastically change when you start overclocking. Each node can be overclocked up to 250%. On a maximum overclock of a normal oil node, you’ll jump from 120 m3/min to 300 m3/min, which pushes to five refineries per fully overclocked normal oil node.

This makes things extremely tricky because you won’t have enough overclocking or slugs to reach 250% at every Oil node you encounter. You’ll eventually start your production without the overclocking in mind, and the only way to change that is to redo the whole setup once you have overclocking up.

As a general rule of maximizing efficiency, you want to ensure that you are extracting at the maximum rate possible from the node and doing the calculations and planning from there. Let’s say you want Crude Oil to produce things like Plastic or Rubber running on a normal purity node.

Start your calculation with the 250% overclocked value or 300 m3/min. If Rubber and Plastic need 30 m3/min each, you’ll need 10 refineries producing both products to perform at a 100% efficiency rate when the Oil Extractor is overclocked at 250%.

Always start at the source and work your way up to get the best production setups using Oil. That will require a lot of space and planning, so make sure you have enough. If not, you can always destroy the rocks and boulders to make more room, assuming they aren’t part of the terrain. If you are struggling to look for more Oil sources, it is best to unlock and use the map. You never know; you may have encountered a few already. Oil looks like a black smear on the map.


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