Oil Well

Extracts Crude Oil using clean Water.

Must be built atop an Oil Reservoir.

Water pumped into an oil reservoir cannot be recovered.

Automation & transport

Signal controls

Green permits operation; red prevents it. Other operating requirements still apply.

Unconnected state:Green

Transport & storage

Liquid

Nominal packet mass: 10kg
Transport limit: 10kg/s
Phase-damage mass: > 1 kg

Freezing or boiling damages the pipe only above this packet mass.

Browse controls

Construction

Build time: 120 s
Melting point: 1,326.9 ºC

Construction materials

Refined Metal

200 kg

Specific heat: 0.91 (DTU/g)/ºC
Thermal conductivity: 205 (DTU/(m·s))/ºC
Heating transition: 660.3 ºC

Connections

Footprint4 × 4 Tiles

Inputs & outputs

Rates while running

Consumes

Water1 kg/s

Produces

Crude Oil3.33333 kg/s

Stats

Power use: 240 W
Self heat: 2 kDTU/s
Overheat temperature: 2,000 ºC

Unlocked by

Plastic Manufacturing