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Oil Fueled Steel Plant

Thank you Oolykee, I love your videos.

Keep up the good work.

Great work as always.
I just read the comments and no need to answer any questions!
Thank you for this mod!

Mod Monday video that includes your mod.
https://youtu.be/iYieYbdWB7w

@dopravopat You don't necessarily have to use coal in steel production. Sponge iron can be produced in a fluidised bed furnace using natural gas, and further refined into steel an electric arc furnace.

In theory, if you could source pig iron that was smelted without coal, it should be possible to use the Bessemer process to prepare steel without involving coal at all.

What is absolutely necessary in steelmaking is some source of carbon, which is easily (but not exclusively) supplied by coal.

Thanks to this mod, we were able to proceed with development in areas where coal is difficult to obtain. Thank you very much.

@Stolen Profile I remember making a suggestion to have oil rigs extract crude oil which needs refining before it can be used. I know that the game has a refinery, but the rigs are able to extract pure oil which can be used without the need to go to the refinery, which is needed as a means to provide fuel and bitumen.
Oil seems to be the only raw product that doesn't need a process before it can be used.


Nice mod and thanks for sharing :)

Mods like this make me wish the game had more complicated and realistic oil refining. In real life, making petroleum coke is a way to get rid of the super heavy sludge left over after refining away all the more useful, lighter hydrocarbons. The useful stuff like gasoline, diesel, and motor oil.

Normally, there is a low enough amount of this sludge left over after refining that you can mix a small amount of lighter oil back in and sell it to shipping companies, who use it in their complicated ship engines that are capable of burning it. But when refining tar into oil, famously like in Canada, you end up with a lot more than these shipping companies need, so its turned into petcoke.

Having the player make decisions on what to do with these different products could make for interesting gameplay. It would also add more use to the university research, by allowing the player to research new, more modern refining processes.

Petroleum coke is not so effective as normal coke at energy per weight. It could be need much more oil for better balance. And most important thing is that burning petroleum coke make very heavy pollution.

But this mod has very good idea.

Coke can be made from any source of carbon including oil which has plenty of carbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_coke

Technological absurdity, as you need coke (made directly from coal) mixed with iron to produce steel. It is essential in the process of manufacturing steel.

Absolutely awesome !!! This mod is simply what I was looking for. Thank you very much Novu