Update: I made some changes and added quite a bit of circuit logic. Better but still not enough. Petroleum production is excessive and Lubricant production sputters trying to make Purple Science for research.
1) @urza:
- There were some circuits from Nilaus' blueprint, just not many. Either I messed up implementing the blueprint, or it is based on some assumptions about what you might be consuming at the moment.
- Yes, I do seem to be using a lot of Lubricant at the moment. I have completed all research up to Blue, and I am currently doing the Purple based research. That seems to consume a ton of lubricant (for engines).
- I seem to be massively overproducing Petroleum. One thing I noticed is that the blueprint directly piped light oil into the cracking inputs. I modified that to go to the storage tanks first, and I put pumps to only allow Light Oil cracking if they contain 'more than 10k Light Oil' and 'less than 19k Petroleum'. So, even just the Oil Refinery's Petroleum with no cracking at all still seems to be too much and makes production sputter. But at least it now moves forward some.
2) @DaveMcW:
- The solid fuel idea might be good, but my oil fields are kind of limited and far away... so I am not sure I should waste any crude. On the other hand there is a lot of Uranium ore and I was planning to go that route once I could. Of course... this is my first run through and I have not reached the point of needing solid fuel or uranium, so my assumptions are probably wrong.
The following is what I did and seems to "sort of work". It still overproduces Petroleum and sputters, but it seems to be "sort of functioning".
- 2 primary tanks each for crude, petroleum, light, heavy and lubricant.
- 6 overflow tanks each for petroleum, light, heavy and lubricant.
- 8 Oil Refineries, fed directly from the input pumps and the primary crude tanks, plus water from the lake. They run continuously *if* the is crude at the source and none of the outputs fill up. This is the main cause of my problem... Petroleum is filling up and what consumes it - so far - isn't enough.
- 7 Light to Petroleum cracking chemical plants. They only activate if (1) I have more than 10K of Light Oil to crack AND (2) less than 19K of Petroleum in the primary tanks.
- 2 Heavy to Lubricant chemical plants. They only activate if I have (1) more than 10K Heavy Oil and less than 10K Lubricant in the primary tanks.
- 2 Heavy to Light cracking chemical plants. They only activate if I have (1) more than 10K Lubricant and less than 19K Light in the primary tanks.
- Overflow tanks get filled ONLY if the source primary tanks are over 20K.
- Overflow tanks feed the back end of the corresponding primary tanks, ONLY if the source primary tanks are under 9K.
Comsumption:
- Petroleum is used to generate plastic. This line is fully backed up to its factory.
- Lubricant is used to generate a stock of Blue Belts, Underground Belts and Splitters. Only underground belts are still being produced at this moment. Soon will be done.
- Plastic is used to make Red Circuits.
- Red circuits were used to produce assembling machine 3. Idle now.
- Red circuits are used to produce Blue Science. Being used a bit, but mostly backed up at this point.
- Lubricant is being drawn to produce engines for Purple Science. This seems to be the main consumption of Lubricant at the moment. Engine production is struggling. All other supplies for Engine production are heavily backed up all the way to their sources and lubricant level is near 0, so the issue is lubricant supply.
- Red circuits are consumed to make electric furnaces for Purple Science. Again, plenty of supply with red circuits backed up all the way to its factory.
- ** That's it, no other consumption of oil products or their derivatives.
Fluid levels in the storage tanks after letting it stabilize from the changes I made:
PRIMARY tanks
- Crude: 24k. Nicely full from the supply trains.
- Petroleum: 24k. This is my problem.
- Light oil: 10k. Clearly the cracking limit is working 
- Heavy oil: 5k. Not sure how to interpret this. But seems OK since currently have no usage of Heavy.
- Lubricant: Between 0 and 1k. I do seem to be continuously producing, so that's something, but I am clearly not producing enough for my consumption due to the oversupply of Petroleum.
OVERFLOW tanks
- Petroleum: 25k. Yep, the source of my problem. Even with 7 storage tanks. I think I'll add more for now as a band-aid, since I have the space, and make solid fuel if I must.
- Lubricant: 0k.
- Heavy: 0k.
- Light: 9K and climbing slowly.
And this is the blueprint of my Oil Processing setup (first time I paste a blueprint, I hope this is fine):
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