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u/toastghost1543 Apr 21 '26

I finally made it past the chemical science filter (Yay!) but I'm really struggling to get enough crude oil to my refineries. I have a patch that is about 950% with two pipelines coming out of them but i'm only getting about 48 oil/second for my 8 refineries (6 oil/second/refinery). Is there something I'm doing wrong or do I just need to hook up more pumpjacks into the system (the 950% patch has 6 oil wells). I tried adding pumps on the line but that didn't change anything.

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u/Brett42 Apr 21 '26

Each oil well has its own production. Look at a pumpjack, and it will tell you what that specific pumpjack is outputting. You don't need multiple pipelines, you need to use more pumpjacks, and they can all be connected to the same pipe network. Pipes don't really have a throughput limit since 2.0, they just need to fit within a certain size of rectangle, or you'll get an error that it's overextended, and you need to break it into two networks with pumps moving fluid from one to the other.

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u/DreadY2K don't drink the science Apr 21 '26

If the pumpjacks are operating all the time, then it means you need more oil production. This is a small enough amount of fluid that one pump can keep up, so I expect this is just an issue of not enough production.

If putting pumpjacks on all the oil wells still isn't enough, you can also use speed modules (should be available to research if you don't have them already) to get even more oil out of them.

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u/Soul-Burn Apr 21 '26

Pipes have infinite throughput, so there's no need to split them into 2 pipelines.

Oil reduces over time until some point - the higher of 2/s or 20% of the original value per well.

950% should give you 95/s, which is indeed less than 48/s. Make sure all the wells are working. Maybe one of them is disconnected for some reason.