Guide: Petroleum Processing

You might have noticed that to make Desh, you'll need a liquid by the name of Light Oil, which is, apparently, crafted at something called a Refinery from Hot Crude Oil, a liquid that doesnt have an apparent recipe, and have been confused by it. Fear not, this page is here to guide you through the hellscape that is Oil Refinement. First of all, look at this graph.

Does that tell something to you? If the answer is no, continue reading.

Liberating Middle East. I mean, obtaining oil.
To obtain the sweet, sweet black liquid, you'll need two things. An Oil Deposit Detector, made with an Advanced Circuit and some wire, and an Oil Derrick or a Pumpjack.

Equip the Detector and wander around your surroundings for a bit, while RMB-ing time to time. Or just run around like a madman with your right mouse button taped to the table, i'm not the one to judge.

Once it lights up green, place a derrick or a pumpjack right where you stand. Both need quite a lot of energy, so charge some battery blocks before attempting to get oil.

You might want to use Poles to get the power to your Oil Obtainment Solution, or just get a twelvefold advanced power cell.

Once the... i'll just forget about the pumpjack for now, ok?...the derrick has power, it'll begin drilling towards the deposit. Once it finishes drilling, it'll start pumping oil and shooting some funny particles in the air.

You might notice that Natural Gas has started to accumulate. You can either:


 * 1) Take it out using whatever fluid containers you have for use in Gas Cracking;
 * 2) Place a Fuse in a special slot to instantly burn all gas that was obtained;
 * 3) Make a Gas Flare, connect it to the derrick using Universal Fluid Pipes or Gas Pipes to make the derrick self-sufficient in energy. Almost.

The Refinery
Once you have some Crude Oil, you'll have to make a Boiler and an Oil Refinery.

Place a Boiler right next to the Refinery's I/O socket marked with a huge black dot, mark the boiler to accept Crude Oil (use a Fluid Identifier: Crude Oil for that), give the boiler some fuel and the refinery, some energy. The amount of energy it needs is nominal (100 HE), so a single Advanced Battery will work for hours. Wait for the boiler to heat up and input a bunch of Crude Oil. And the unintuitive part is over, now just let me walk you through the Chemplant Spam.

Chemical Plant Tomfoolery™
The most important fluid you'll need from all of this is Kerosene. Ludicrous amounts of it are needed for rockets and missiles to work. Yeah.

Kerosene can be obtained from directly processing Light Oil and through Diesel Cracking using, well, Diesel.

Diesel, in turn, can be obtained from processing Light Oil, but also though processing Naphtha. It can also be found it the Radio in form of Explosive Barrels.

None of the other products are nearly as useful as kerosene, but ill list some of them here.

Heating Oil, obtained from Naptha and Industrial Oil (from Heavy Oil), can be used to make Cordite and therefore Semtex.

Bitumen can be used to make Asphalt, a block that makes you go almost too fast.

Engine Lubricant is used to make the Igen go brr. Say hi to me boi Igen. Please. He's lonely.

Every oil-related fluid can be solidified, read as turned into furnace fuel. Most of them can also be used in the Radial engine.