Petroleum County Oil Drilling Simulator

Team status

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1. Choose a drill site

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.

2. Drill

Selected: none Budget: —

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

Drill Log — most recent hole

Depth (ft)	Rock Type	Fossil	Resource

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

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

Cartographer's Cross-Section

Pick a line of six sections to see how your team's drilling connects across them. Solid bands link two sites you've both drilled into the same rock layer; dashed bands are our best estimate for anything you haven't confirmed yet.

Township Line

Geologic column reference

Youngest (top) to oldest (bottom) — the Law of Superposition applies. This is a teaching dataset, not real county data.

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