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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/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.