Crude Oil
Raw Oil out of the ground, must be refined in a refinery to be used.
Refining Crude Oil in an oil refinery turns each one into 3 × Low Grade Fuel. It cannot be crafted, and Fuel Crate drops it most often, at 100%.
About the Crude Oil
At an oven's base speed each one takes 10 seconds. Fuel Crate gives the biggest single find, 15 to 20 at a time. Opening Large Present (250) can give it as well.
One shop buys it: Scrap 4 Sale, 6 for 1 scrap. It stacks to 500 in one inventory slot.
Statistics
Turns into
Low Grade Fuel Cooking×310s to cook What to recycle for Crude Oil
A green recycler gives back 2 from each Coal :(.
Coal :( ×1 +60%×2×2 +40%×3 What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Large Present 13.3%×250 The chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Crude Oil
Fuel Crate has the best chance at 100%, followed by Diesel Barrel at 100% and Oil Barrel at 100%.
Shops that buy it
Scrap 4 SaleShop×6pays1 (1–2)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
