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How does oil move and when? I repaired Miri abit, and am using small tankers to dump oil in Saigon. There is only one refinery in the region, and it's in Bangkok. Over the last 3 turns Saigon still has the same amount of oil as I dumped there, Bangkok still has about 44,500. So is there a threshold at which oil moves? I would expect it to move to Bangkok automatically, since Saigon has no use for it

Do you control Burma? What about Singapore? Is the magic highway open? Are you restricting any oil and/or resource movements?

.. and are there any enemy blocking movement, is it on, is fuel being produced, is oil from elsewhere being sent?

Unless you've increased it it is only size 20. So what's likely happening is its receiving more oil than it's processing.

Yes there is a restriction on overland movement using supply paths and nothing will move if there's no demand. With all that oil in Bangkok there's no demand so little or no movement, plus there's no direct rail link it will move by road etc, etc.

Without a pic of the area and more details it's a guess.

No I'm still in mid-January 1942, just took Manila and KL. I just don't understand why everything is moving but oil doesn't.

and are there any enemy blocking movement, is it on, is fuel being produced, is oil from elsewhere being sent?

Miri is like 187 now repaired from 151. Refinery is at 151. So there is a small amount of leftover oil plus Brunei. Fuel is being moved to Babeldoab or Davao or other places. Obviously there are no enemies between Saigon and Bangkok.

Infra is good, yes it's not rail, but a major road. Does oil movement follow the same algorithm as supply?

I doubt very much that fuel or anything else is moving to island locations like Davao or Babeldoap, unless you move it by ship.

Movement of stuff in this game is demand-driven. Land movement of oil from Saigon to Bangkok is possible, but only if the refinery at Bangkok is lacking oil, it will start pull oil from Saigon. If there is no demand, surplus will accumulate in the biggest base of a region.

LargeSlowTarget wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2026 5:50 pm I doubt very much that fuel or anything else is moving to island locations like Davao or Babeldoap, unless you move it by ship.

Movement of stuff in this game is demand-driven. Land movement of oil from Saigon to Bangkok is possible, but only if the refinery at Bangkok is lacking oil, it will start pull oil from Saigon. If there is no demand, surplus will accumulate in the biggest base of a region.

Obviously fuel is being moved by tankers.

Thanks for explanation about oil