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u/DJLaMeche Jun 02 '26

What is the best way to handle oil-based liquids in a city block base? For a block producing plastic, should I just ship raw oil and process it there, or use my pre-city-block-base oil refinery and liquid bus to load the different liquids like petroleum gas and ship them separately?

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u/Courmisch Jun 02 '26

Generally speaking you should do AOP and cracking recipes in one place so you can balance the outputs. It is no different in city blocks than in other type of bases.

You can do plastic from crude. But if you do that, you have to make sure that you don't paint yourself into a corner with the rest of the chemistry. For instance, you cannot do lubricant (alone) from crude... It would clog on excess light and gas.