Petroleum

A fossil fuel essential for manufacturing gasoline, plastics, and asphalt. Its extraction, transport, and burning all have environmental impacts.

Notes

Petroleum is a fossil fuel used to produce gasoline, plastics, and asphalt. It is extracted from the ground and is a key ingredient in advanced industrial recipes like Epoxy, Nylon, and Synthetic Rubber. Because its extraction, transport, and burning all create pollution, managing petroleum use is a central environmental and political challenge for any industrializing settlement.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Barrel	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	0.04

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	60 calories
Craft time	0 min

As a block

Recycling & waste

• 0.3× Iron Scrap
• 0.1× Chemical Pollutant

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 3.75× Iron Ore
• 0.06× Clay

Categories

• Block
• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Petroleum

Used in

• Bio Gasoline
• Epoxy
• Gasoline
• Lubricant
• Nylon
• Paraffin
• Plastic
• Synthetic Rubber

See also

AdobeAshlar BasaltAshlar GneissAshlar GraniteAshlar LimestoneAshlar Sandstone