Oil well with polluted water runs but doesn't produce oil

Deconstruct it and reconstruct. 

2 hours ago, tzionut said:

Deconstruct it and reconstruct. 

I restarted the game and now I don't have any oil wells. This also fixed the problem.

It hasn't behaved like this in the past, and regarding consistency, why doesn't this have an 'empty storage' option.

 

Imagine if your hydrogen generator took in some oxygen and stopped running and there wasn't any way to correct it unless you reconstructed it. Or hydroponic farm tiles, but at least they can be emptied.

 

Edited October 19, 2018 by scaldinghotcarl

I ran into this problem with petroleum. I had a little industrial accident which dumped petroleum into my catch basin for generator polluted water, it got sucked up, classified as “not polluted water,” and sent in to my water lines where it ended up in my oil wells.

Basically, if the oil well has any fluid in it that isn’t water, it doesn’t show an error message, continues to run, but doesn’t produce any oil. I fixed this by deconstructing the wells and re-building them, but it’s still and issue that needs to be addressed. At the very least it needs to highlight the wrong fluid in red so it’s easy to see why the well is blocked.

There's a bunch of issues about this, it really needs an empty button at the very least. An error message would be great as well.

Changed Status to Fixed

Thanks for the report! This will be resolved in the next patch.