Hydrocarbon

Prospecting Nodes
Rock	Hydrocarbon	Crystal	Glowing	Gas	Hulk

• Hydrocarbons are one of the 6 different types of prospecting nodes.
• They are shown as "Hydrocarbon Deposit" in-game, but are shortened to Hydrocarbon across the wiki.
• They generally contain resources of type Hydrocarbon or Silicate.

Locations of Hydrocarbon fields

• Use the Prospect Locations page. You can sort the "Prospecting Node" column to group all the Hydrocarbon information together.

Visual Identification

Level	Normal	Pop*	Sectors	Contents*
L1			Asteroid Belt Beta Dahin Io Kailaasa Kitara's Veil Mars Yokan	Crude Graphite Raw Black Tazeron Raw Blue Tazeron Raw Crude Coal Raw Green Tazeron Raw Red Tazeron Raw White Tazeron Raw Yellow Tazeron Sand Tar
L2		File:Pop-Hydrocarbon-L2.jpg	Asteroid Belt Alpha Asteroid Belt Beta Asteroid Belt Gamma Dahin Io Ishuan Kailaasa Margesi Mars Swooping Eagle	Crude Oil Quartz Crystals Raw Coal
L3		File:Pop-Hydrocarbon-L3.jpg	Asteroid Belt Alpha Asteroid Belt Beta Asteroid Belt Gamma Carpenter Dahin Earth Freya Ishuan Jotunheim Mars Odin Rex Slayton Swooping Eagle	Light Crude Oil Obsidian Raw Anthracite
L4			Aganju Asteroid Belt Alpha Asteroid Belt Gamma Carpenter Dahin Freya Glenn Ishuan Jotunheim Mars Odin Rex Slayton Swooping Eagle Varen's Girdle	Meteoric Sand Solar Sweet Oil
L5			Aganju Aragoth Prime Asteroid Belt Alpha Carpenter Freya Glenn Ishuan Jotunheim Jupiter Odin Rex Shepard Slayton Swooping Eagle Valkyrie Twins	Andromesite Brood Oil Hades Blood
L6			Aganju Aragoth Prime Blackbeard's Wake Carpenter Cooper Fenris Glenn Glory's Orbit Grissom Jotunheim Jupiter Nifleheim Cloud Odin Rex Ragnarok Shepard Uranus Valkyrie Twins Varen's Girdle	Charon's Dust Raw Anthenicite Stygian Blackwater
L7			Aganju Aragoth Prime Blackbeard's Wake Carpenter Cooper Fenris Glenn Glory's Orbit Grissom Jotunheim Nifleheim Cloud Ragnarok Shepard Uranus Valkyrie Twins Varen's Girdle	Demeter's Tears Leonite Raw Hadecite Stygian Blacksand
L8			Aganju Antares Frontier Arduinne Blackbeard's Wake Cooper Fenris Glenn Glory's Orbit Grissom Jotunheim Nifleheim Cloud Ragnarok Shepard Uranus Valkyrie Twins Varen's Girdle Zweihander	Abyssian Dust Ambrosia Crude Helvatha Pyrrhotite Gneiss Raw Acheronite Raw Mica
L9			Aganju Antares Frontier Arduinne Blackbeard's Wake Carpenter Cooper Fenris Freya Glory's Orbit Grissom Jotunheim Nifleheim Cloud Ragnarok Shepard Valkyrie Twins Varen's Girdle Zweihander	Abaddon Ashes Astralite Crude Rutha Grail Water Raw Erebusite Ziosite

Notes

• ^*Tazeron is only available from L1 Hydrocarbon nodes in Kitara's Veil. I'm not 100% certain as it caught me by surprise and I wasn't paying enough attention (it could have been a different level node as they are mixed in at some fields in KV), but I think it's possible the L1 Hydrocarbon nodes with Tazeron can be Pop "rocks"; I have a node explode that I'm fairly sure was a L1 Hydrocarbon and I didn't notice anything odd about it. This could be evidence that ALL nodes have a (very, very) tiny chance to explode which increases based on the number of resources they contain (i.e. that the number of resources is a cause for pop-rocks, rather than a symptom) and therefore the Tazeron-containing nodes exploding could simply be a "bug" due to having far more resources than L1-3 nodes would typically ever have.