Cracking excess refinery fluids into a more useful downstream fluid can keep an oil chain from stalling on a full byproduct tank. The useful target is a balanced refinery loop where every output has a consumer or a route for further processing.
At the crude oil refinery line, with chemical processing equipment connected to the excess fluid output.
Inspect the fluid outputs from crude refining, identify which one is accumulating, then send excess heavy or light oil to the appropriate chemical processing step available in your current progression. Keep separate pipes and make sure the resulting fluid has a consumer; cracking simply moves the bottleneck if its output is blocked.
Cracking repeats while the chemical plant receives excess fluid and its required inputs, and its output has somewhere to go. It is a production loop rather than a one-time farm.
Stop expanding the cracking line when refinery outputs remain usable and tanks no longer block processing. Rebalance if a different fluid begins accumulating.
At the crude oil refinery line, with chemical processing equipment connected to the excess fluid output.
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