Petroleum County Oil Drilling Simulator

Team status

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Drill

Click on a drill site, then enter a depth to drill. See all your drill sites in the Record Keeper's Data Sheet below — click a row to see its details. In the Cartographer's Cross-Section, pick which line to draw, then click on a bar in the chart to see that drill site's details. — See the full instructions

TOWNSHIP NWTOWNSHIP NE

TOWNSHIP SWTOWNSHIP SE

Green-outlined sections have already been drilled by anyone on your team, on any device. Gold-filled sections struck oil or gas.

Selected: none Budget: —

Depth to drill (1–100 ft, from the surface):

Record Keeper's Data Sheet (whole team, all devices)

#	Drilled by	Township	Section	Amt. (ft)	Rocks Encountered	Resource

Click a column header to sort by it (click again to reverse). Rows highlighted in yellow are holes that struck oil, gas, or another resource — it's not alternating shading, it's flagging the interesting ones. Click any row to see that hole's full rock-by-rock breakdown.

Cartographer's Cross-Section

Pick a Township and a line to see how your team's drilling connects across it — Row, Column, or Diagonal. Solid bands link two adjacent sites you've drilled into the same rock layer. Dotted lines with dots mark matching resources (oil, gas, fault, etc.) found across the line. Hover over any layer or dot for details, or click it to pull up that hole in the Drill Log.

Township Type Line

Drill Log

Click on a bar (or dot) in the Cross-Section to see that drill site's full details here.

Team roles & strategy

Paleontologist: research the fossils found to determine relative ages of rock layers.

Stratigrapher: build the geologic column — oldest at the bottom, youngest at the top.

Cartographer: use the cross-section below to map where the rock structure could trap oil or gas.

Record Keeper: keep the data sheet accurate.

Strategist: decide where and how deep to drill next with the team's remaining budget.

MAP OF PETROLEUM COUNTY, OILKLAHOMA