Oil Pump

Pulling oil out of the ground

The Oil Pump, a Scorched Earth structure in ARK: Survival Evolved, has to be placed on top of an oil vein; its description is simply "Extracts Oil from an Oil zone". On Scorched Earth those veins sit in the Low Desert and the Badlands, and Ragnarok has oil veins of its own.

Output and lifespan

A pump draws 1 unit of Oil from its vein every 20 seconds and needs around 28 hours before it is full. It does not run forever: pumps eventually dry up and must be replaced. The ARK Wiki also notes that the pump can be crafted on The Island but does not work there, and that in ARK: Survival Ascended its extraction rate ignores server and client settings and stays the same.

Unlocking and building it

The engram requires level 60 and 24 engram points, and the Electrical Generator is its prerequisite. The pump is crafted in a Fabricator or a Tek Replicator from:

• 75 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 25 Electronics
• 25 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 13 experience. A pump weighs 4 and only one fits per slot.

Maps, loot and toughness

Besides Scorched Earth, it is available on Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Valguero, Ragnarok and Genesis Part 2. Loot can supply it: 47 crate types can contain it, for example the Astraeos Desert Purple crate and Genesis Part 2 mission crates such as Mission 'Choose Your Own Adventure' and Mission 'Code Red'. Once placed it is handled as a wooden structure, so fists, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives do not harm it, and many small aggressive creatures, the Raptor and Direwolf among them, cannot damage it.