Satisfactory Update 5 Basic Oil Setup Guide - 100% Efficient Self-Powered PERFECT Oil Build Tutorial

Hey guys, today we have a build guide for a basic oil setup in Satisfactory Update 5. In this Satisfactory oil guide we cover what buildings you need, what recipes to use, and how to organize your basic oil production to be 100% efficient and fully self-powered. This is a great build for your first oil setup and will open the way for more advanced systems later once greater manufacturing is achieved with this satisfactory oil tutorial.

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[crudball]

This is a tutorial on how a tutorial SHOULD be made. Amazing! Straight to the point, clear, and concise. Good job!

[mrk]

Hey brother, I've been seeing lots of people use the phrase 'sandwich layer' for months. I work in a semiconductor factory and the industry term for such a layer is 'interstitial', which is used to refer to the 'space between'. It's literally an access floor for engineers to run all of our gases and conduit which supply manufacturing.

[KattleProductions]

70+ hours in and I just learned how to build a bridge conveyer and use the wheel tool. I didn't know you could use coal plants to burn coke, which will now drastically change my new plant setup. All because I came here looking how to balance my new oil plant, I am building for the first time. Thanks a million for the vid!

[mowvu]

this is literally exactly what i was looking for. just found those 3 oil nodes on a coast to the west. and also just unlocked the oil/refinery process.
not even unlocked a map yet, so i made a highway in the sky to get back to base.
think I'm going modular now that i can do things like this.
many thanks! awesome, clear and precise video.

[zogly]

Just finished building it, and so far everything is running smoothly! It's taking some time for the coal gens to fill, but it's already self-sustaining. Thanks for helping me get my start into oil for the first time!

**EDIT** Make sure that if you do not have an immediate use for all of the products from this setup, that you have an overflow system in place to keep everything running. Maybe it's just me who didn't think about that, but while I was building elsewhere, my storage units filled up and I had to reboot the system a couple of times 🙂 (plastic and rubber buildup stops it cold.)

[Jackie]

Thank you! I'm creating my very first factory and while it was nice to watch over my glorious mess of a spaghetti, upon meeting the requirement of oil, I realised the game won't let me happily wing it. I followed your tutorial and learnt a lot about the logistics :D

[cypherfunc]

Great tutorial, and great layout. No waste or awesome sinking, AND it produces excess power! All the other "basic" oil tutorials I can find require packaging (which is a separate milestone!), alternate recipes, and/or powershards.

[cortt]

Amazing tutorial! I used it.
Note: after unlocking smart splitter, you can use awesome sink to get rid of excesses.

[TerrisDWDC]

This tutorial guide is very well done. The perfect explanation for building this Oil processing setup. Thanks for sharing on the Satisfactory Discord. (FYI totally ignoring the one miss aligned conveyor feeding the petroleum coke over to the generator manifold). 😛

[woodducktony]

Fantastic, Finally found a Person who tells it as it should be told - I was struggling (Virtually Stopped) before building this as per clear instructions, I say, Give it a try & Thank You

[BlackCanvasAudio]

Great video and instructions! This game consumed my life when I started playing it. Once I hit the oil refining my brain exploded. lol That's when I felt I hit a wall. It made rethink everything.

[thelinsky]

I just reached the first Oilstage yesterday... and this setup seems perfect to get my Storage filled with Rubber and Plastik, as well for later production of Frames and Computers. Already running into power Problems, thanks to you I feel a bit dumb not seeing that I could run Coal Plants from the byproducts...

[sorcererCermet]

just built this in update 8 and the overall placement still works, but i had to tweak a few things:

the coal burners need a combined 200 coke/min so you can either have the coke refineries require a repearing decimal of heavy oil, or slightly overproduce coke and probably create a heavy oil buffer that you will need to empty and replace from time to time or likely you wont be able to keep up with coke production. water pumps are correct at 75% for 4 placed.

i have rubber refineries making 20 heavy oil each and plastic refineries making 13.5 heavy oil each which makes a surplus of 1 coke/min. could probably tweak it down further.

[TheScorchius]

Great tutorial! I just got to this point of the game and this served as a great intro on how I should approach oil processing.

Just as a note, you can probably save more power with the under clocking if you split the under clock amongst the other generators. The power usage does not scale linearly. So 2 production buildings (i.e. a constructor) both at 50% uses less power than 1 at 100%. With overclocking it uses more power. 2 Constructors at 100% will use less power than 1 constructor at 200%. It is similar with power production. So you could under clock all your generators instead of 1 to get more efficient. But I don't I'd need to pull out a spreadsheet to see if it would be worth doing in the long run. I don't know how much power you would be saving.

[zechariahoti]

Solid tutorial, incredibly easy to follow and works as advertised. 10/10

[Zomboo]

Im doing all of this in survival mode on the weekends... boy is it taking a whole lot longer 😆

My initial starting area was not 'factoried' it was 'spaghettied' but ive been factorying everything else since... works well so far either way. I just got to oil so i was checking out what you did before i jump in tomorrow night.

Im excited!

[MehMT]

nice, easy build, thanks a lot. just got into refineries for the first time, helped quite a bunch

[Salubrious]

Wow this video was great and a brilliant contrast against some other content creators covering Satisfactory! You’re clear, concise, informative, methodical and provide great visual overviews to reinforce the knowledge that your giving to people. Many thanks!! ❤
I’ve just finished watching some other videos by others and they’re a mess of speedy delivery and leaves you more baffled than informed. You on the other hand are a natural teacher!

[matthewlaffey]

Excellent tutorial, getting better every upload!

[Andrew-mkkh]

Thanks for the great video Dekoba! I think it would be a good idea if you add what raw input you need for these builds (240 raw ore per minute etc...). Loved the beach facility, think I might build this on my current save! Keep up the great work!