I can see that it can be considered a shame to waste potential fuel by venting petrolium gass.
However i feel that it is inconsistent becaues we can already vent Hydrogen and that can be made into solid fuel.
The problem, for me, comes when trying to balance out production.
Several things that we need in very large amounts for research packs, require some byproducts oil processing, but not the other byproducts (or not in a perfectly balanced way), so I'm often left with trying to dispose of large amounts of light oil or petrolium gas.
Take Logistics Science packs for example.
They require Express transport belts and express filter inserters, which both require cobalt steel.
Cobalt steel can afaik by default only be obtained from Copper plate+cobalt oxide, unless cobalt ore is enabled before generating the world.
Cobalt plate requires sulfuric acid, and then what do i do with all the light oil and petroleum gas i get from creating Sulfur dioxide?
Right now I have to convert 5 petroleum gas into 250 Hydrogen (2.5 second) and THEN vent the Hydrogen. And that is a slow process that requires a lot of room, gas vents and high tier chemical plants.
I was unaware that it was possible to burn petroleum gas in oil burners. How can we see that in-game? Perhaps rename the "Oil burning boiler" to "Oil and gas burning boiler"?
Can Oil burners burn light and heavy oil as well? and what about Hydrogen?
Burning hydrogen should be a pollution free process, so that would be an alternative to nuclear?
I'm soon switching all my power generation over to nuclear because it generates 0 pollution, so then i can't even burn petroleum gas.
Could it be an idea to add a way to turn petroleum gas in to light oil and light oil into heavy oil?
I mean, its already possible to convert from heavy to light to gas just by adding water. Perhaps we can convert the other way by means of evaporation?