Factorio Oil Tutorial - Absolute Basics

This tutorial is accurate at time of publishing, with the current version of Factorio being 0.17.69. If anything changes, look for a pinned comment.

Next in my series of Factorio tutorials for absolute beginners - Oil!

Oil has long been one of the main obstacles for less-experienced players, and is a sudden ramp in the complexity curve of the game. This tutorial aims to walk you through everything to do with Factorio's oil system in a careful, logical manner. It's quite long, so use these timestamps to skip to specific chapters if you want:

Title: 0:00
Introduction: 00:30
Research: 01:47
Gathering and Storing: 06:49
Basic Oil Processing: 09:36
Chemical Plants: 12:34
Advanced Oil Processing: 17:42
Fraction Management - Oil Recipes: 21:12
Fraction Management - Cracking: 22:48
Fraction Management - The Circuit Solution: 25:06
Fraction Management - Ratios: 29:37 (final answer 33:44)
Pipe Management: 33:59
Barrelling: 37:24
Coal Liquefaction: 39:09
Outtroduction: 40:51

My other Tutorials of this style:
Circuit Network: youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1q3MtHBPo
Trains: youtube.com/watch?v=Co136r7pkTk

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Background music from Factorio OST, available on Steam.
Outro music: youtube.com/watch?v=_-2xqes4gho

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