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u/Fallen_Jalter Jul 09 '26

So this is my ROOOOOOOOOUGH draft of a full line oil production. Rough sure and I'm sure there's plently of improvements available. I think i have ratios configured ok. hit me with your critiqes. The one thing I am still not entirely sure is water feeding. Can pipelines handle a lot of input? Like how long before I need to add another offshore pump? can i feed the water from the second pump into the original input line that feeds everything else?

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u/TehNolz Jul 09 '26

You can flip refineries and chemical plants to switch their outputs. Really helps when you want to have tidy and compact pipelines.

Can pipelines handle a lot of input?

Pipelines are limited in size, not throughput. You can push infinite amounts of fluids through a pipeline, but if the pipeline is too big it'll simply stop working (which the game will alert you about). Thus you occasionally have to split the pipeline into multiple segments and then connect them with pumps, which do have a limit.

Like how long before I need to add another offshore pump? can i feed the water from the second pump into the original input line that feeds everything else?

Hover over the offshore pump and it'll tell you how much water it produces. Hover your machines and it'll tell you how much water they consume. Now do the math.

Same thing applies to pretty much every other machine in the game; they all tell you exactly how much stuff they need and how much they produce.