No synthetic oil

[vimhawk]

Playing as Sovs, and lack of oil has never been a problem for me before so I have never worked out how the synthetic oil plants work. In my current game in early '43 I have the synthetic oil plant slider at to the extreme right (and have 'improved refining' tech if that makes a difference, and +92 energy per day), but no oil is produced. The slider under it, synthetic materials, does work if I move it to the right. I'm probably missing something obvious, please advise.

 

[x260bm]

Do you have any synthetic oil plants?

 

[vimhawk]

You're right, that would help wouldn't it! I thought it might be something obvious. Many thanks, there is clearly no limit to my stupidity!

In my (slight) defence, I note it doesn't appear on the list of province improvements you can select from the right mouse click menu so I suppose I thought they were just "there" (which is how they were in previous HoI?)

 

[rr99]

You're right, that would help wouldn't it! I thought it might be something obvious. Many thanks, there is clearly no limit to my stupidity!

In my (slight) defence, I note it doesn't appear on the list of province improvements you can select from the right mouse click menu so I suppose I thought they were just "there" (which is how they were in previous HoI?)

Possibly because you have to research them first...? Then build them from the "Province" production box like the other generic provincial stuff - very handy for forts and airbases before you're sure where you want to put them.