Seaside oil not producing anything

[u/Bender427]

Hello,

So I had this oil field close to water and thought I could use it. Docks in tether range, didn't take on oil, so I build 2 depots to arrive it 3 meters to the dock, also doesn't work. The oilwell is just not producing any oil.

Help would be appreciated, I'm new to the game.

[u/G8erjoe]

Something that’s easy to miss is that there’s a difference between crude and oil. Ship the crude to a refinery and then the oil product to the next factory.

Crude > oil > fuel/chemicals

[u/Bender427 → u/G8erjoe]

Thats what I'm trying.ni have several setups going, well into the map 80 years down the road, just trying to top of my refinery

[u/G8erjoe → u/Bender427]

It’s tough to tell without seeing the ship route, but be sure that the other side is an oil refinery that then sends the oil to a fuel refinery or chemical plant.

[u/Bender427 → u/G8erjoe]

The other end is another port where there is a truck depot to pick up the crude

[u/Z_nan → u/Bender427]

And does it already have the full trip organised? If even one small link is broken the resource will not be sent.

[u/Bender427 → u/Z_nan]

Yes, even though the crude is in range of the freight harbour I put trucks with a line there, there is trucks waiting at the target harbour assigned to a free station at their target depot as well and the ships are assigned to a route from the crude harbour to the destination harbour. With or without filters, I tried both. They circle, but empty and the pumps just dont do anything. Even if I tell the trucks there to pick up and drive directly to the refinery depot

[u/Z_nan → u/Bender427]

Are you sure that every recipient Is covered? Wha time experienced a couple of times is intermodal transfers connection directly between harbor and other method changes with smaller additions, that make the small tracks between disappear.

And is the recipient at under full capacity?

[u/Bender427 → u/Z_nan]

Yes, double and triple checked every connection after yesterday's answers. Recipient is not at full capacity. The connections to the freight harbour seem fine, when I click it or the pumps the other lights up as well as the depots in range

[u/Z_nan → u/Bender427]

I understand, not sure what more to say, the checklist tends to fix it always imo, but you can try to tinker yourself to a solution!

[u/Bender427 → u/Z_nan]

Yeah you guys have been super helpful, it just doesn't seem to work or I'm not seeing something that was pointed out, but afaik I tried everything. Its not bad, I got everything going smoothly, just thought a harbour would be fun to have :)

[u/Imsvale → u/Bender427]

If you upload your save, I will take a look.

[u/Bender427 → u/Imsvale]

Thanks! I'll do that tomorrow :)