For more info regarding the Petroleum Processes, check the Petroleum Processing page.

In Nuclear Tech Mod, Crude Oil is a major and important part of the mod progression, allowing the production of the majority of the fluids you will possibly get after the early-game oil stage. This may probably be the most important fluid in the entirety of the mod, as without it, you wouldn't get nowhere in the mod.

It is a black, flammable, viscous and polluting liquid. Providing you 25.0kTU per bucket.

Production

There are many ways you can get Crude Oil, so let's go through all of them:

Crude Oil is mainly extracted from Oil Deposits, blocks located deep underground containing lots of blocks called Oil Deposit, which per block, gives the player 250mB of Crude Oil. These deposits can be found with a Oil Reservoir Detector, a very useful item that when used, detects nearby oil deposits, this item pinpoints the player the exact position of the deposit, unlike the Survey Scanner, a also very usefull item to find not only oil deposits, but also other things like different Bedrock Ores, useful infinite ores that can be extracted through a Large Mining Drill and require different drills/liquids to be extracted. The Survey Scanner doesn't exactly tell you where the deposit is, only a general area of it when scanned.

These oil deposits can be extracted through a Pumpjack, Oil Derrick, or also a Hydraulic Fracking Tower, although it is a better option to place a Oil Derrick, as they extract much more Crude Oil from the deposits, which eventually deplete and turn into Empty Oil Deposit, which is a block that can be mined just like the Oil Deposit, and can be shredded to obtain gravel, just like you can also get 250mB of Crude Oil from a Oil Deposit. Wielding Crude Oil this way also will give you Natural Gas.

As Bedrock Ores were mentioned before, conventionally, there is a Bedrock Oil Deposit, which can only be extracted by the use of a Hydraulic Fracking Tower. These deposits are infinite therefore can't deplete, and they aren't detectable through the use of the Survey Scanner. So these deposits are renewable.

There are also 2 more ways to get Crude Oil unconventionally, those being in a Catalytic Cracking Tower:

100mB

200mB

80mB

20mB

2mB

And in the Fractioning Tower(s):

100mB

30mB

70mB

Uses

Crude Oil is used in a few ways, let's see all the machines and processes it can be used in, in details:

In a Vacuum Refinery:

1,000mB

400mB

250mB

200mB

150mB

(Note: The Crude Oil must be pressurized at 2 PU. For this, it must be ran through a Compressor)

In a Catalytic Cracking Tower:

100mB

200mB

80mB

20mB

2mB

In a Hydrotreater:

50mB

1,000mB

900mB

150mB

(Note: The Liquid Hydrogen must be pressurized at 1 PU)

In a Industrial Solidification Machine:

200mB Crude Oil > 1 Solid Fuel

And lastly, in a Boiler:

5mB Crude Oil > 5mB Hot Crude Oil

Hot Crude Oil

Hot Crude Oil
	Hot Crude Oil Fluid Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Boiling
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	350°C
Renewable?	Yes
Tooltip
	Hot Crude Oil350°C; [Polluting]; When spilled:; - 0.00005 POISON per mB; When burned:; - 0.004 SOOT per mB; Thermal capacity: 10 TU per 1mB; [Coolable] Efficiency: 100%; [Liquid]; [Viscous]; Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
NFPA 704;
	2 3 0 Hot Crude Oil

NFPA 704;
	2 1 0 Crude Oil

Crude Oil
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Oil Deposits/Cracking/Fractioning
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C
Renewable?	Yes
Flammable	25.0 kTU
Tooltip
	Crude Oil[Flammable]; Provides 25.0kTU per bucket; [Polluting]; When spilled:; - 0.00005 POISON per mB; When burned:; - 0.004 SOOT per mB; Thermal capacity: 10 TU per 1mB; [Boilable] Efficiency: 100%; [Heatable] Efficiency: 100%; [Liquid]; [Viscous]; Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
NFPA 704;
	2 1 0 Crude Oil