Hi, please post your thoughts on balancing feedback here as this area is still in development.

Current problems include H2S and plastic production requiring a lot more infrastructure than intended for blue science territory, addressed in next release 2.1.1

Release 2.1.1 is now live for some testing. You should have a fair amount of oil now.

Also, coal liquefaction is temporarily a positive loop for Heavy Oils, as I figured with the rocket fuel requirements, heavy oil might be in demand for petcoking. Let me know what you think!

I have a new but similar setup, this time a little bit larger, one full red belt of plastic. The save requires both the Aligned Underground Pipes and Flow Control mods. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lRkmPW_KGTDdtmXk3gafRnQpRH1G2nAx/view?usp=sharing

When running full speed, the setup seems to do well. My issue is sulfur production without plastic production. When not running the factory for science packs, I will the need to produce sulfur for sulfuric acid and/or lubricant, without plastic production... like when expanding/upgrading and producing blue logistics stuff... what to do with the excess polypropylene? It can not be burned or vented, yet it is required to produce for the hydrogen sulfide.

The reverse (plastic without sulfur), can be handled by simply venting the excess hydrogen sulfide.

You can also vent or burn the ethylene before sending it to the polymerization process, which should handle overflow of that. I might also include a better fuel recipe for another use with ethylene, or change its fuel value.

Thank you very much for the update :) I'll take a look at the save later tonight.

Ah, I should have thought about that. Indeed, burning/venting the ethylene does the job. I think that I will need to make a smarter facility, one with some circuits to control some pumps, I do not think the flow control valves alone can handle it.

I updated my save with the burning of ethylene and venting of H2S, the link above is no longer valid.
Here is the new one: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jU2TBGyNHQS0ZAEWnu9Al7EsbBMNgdbi/view?usp=sharing

I added a simple check to see if sulfur is backed up, if not, permit burning of ethylene (if volume of ethylene in the pipes is greater than 80% - flow control valve). H2S is also vented if the volume in the pipes is over 80%. I think this is fairly workable, and can now tolerate unbalanced demand for sulfur and plastic.