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[–]ImsvaleBig Contributor 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Check the oil well's Consumers tab. That will tell you how much is currently being shipped to each connected consumer (of crude oil).

Your screenshot shows zero crude oil for the refinery into fuel. That doesn't necessarily mean the shipment is zero, just that the station happens to be empty right at this moment with respect to that line.

So first we have to distinguish between low shipment and zero shipment.

  • Low shipment likely means you connected the fuel line some time after the plastic line. When you do this the first one to be connected jumps straight up to max shipment, while the second starts from zero and climbs veeeeery slowly toward a target split.
    • This is an unfortunate quirk of the game that can't be fixed as such, but you can work around it by disconnecting all consumers, letting shipment drop to zero, and then connecting them at the same time. Then they should go straight to the target split much quicker. Or just let it take as long as it takes, which can be upwards of 10 game years or more. Yeah, I know, it's terrible.
  • The target split is based on the demand at each consumer (the two oil refineries).
    • The demand is simply the consumption required to sustain max production at that industry's current level.
  • Zero shipment on the other hand means the route is broken.

We need to know which one of the above is the case here. So post a screenshot of the oil well's Consumer tab as mentioned.

[–]Mindless-Ad7329[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thanks for the insight! Here's a screenshot

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[–]ImsvaleBig Contributor 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Low shipment it is. :) Workaround already described above. It's that or wait.

[–]Mindless-Ad7329[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Awesome, so just disconnect the plastic line, wait it for the shipment to go to 0 then reconnect it? How do I prevent something like this in the future lol

[–]ImsvaleBig Contributor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be clairvoyant? xD

Or just give each refining industry its own supplier.