ONE PAD. EVERY DECISION LEAVES A TRACE.
Notikewin → Falher channel → Wilrich A → Wilrich C. Thinner sand, folding, thrust displacement and disconnected channels. Faster arcade pacing, precision checkpoints, clean-sand combos and earned boost. Scoured channel margins, mud drapes and tight streaks feed the live GR, gas and ROP logs. Numerous sidetracks; coal, pressure and gas-handling limits carry costs.
Fractured gneiss, amphibolite, cavernous hole and thermal limits. Leave abandoned branches, cement and lost tools visible. The 1984 failure is a documented anchor; individual bypass problems are reconstructed exercises.
Reservoir log sources and synthetic-response limits
The pad is fictional. Dimensions, costs, operational readings and Wilrich roof/floor coal seams are local game assumptions, not universal formation characteristics. Geological contact and log response use the same model as the visible rock. Each new pad well starts at surface and follows a full cyan survey plan through vertical, casing, build, landing and a 1,000–1,300 m horizontal lateral, with manual steering and ≤67° coal crossings; Kola starts at deep recovery; the main arcade retains full surface-to-TD drilling.
Lobanov, Chicherov & Sharov (2021) documents twelve bypass bores, four long branches, the 1984 lost turbodrill/pipe and the 12,262 m record. Exact sequence, geometry and causes of every bypass are not established here. All twelve exercises use schematic geometry.
AGS Mannville stratigraphy · Drill Deep geology evidence. Simulated strategic decisions; not an operational well-control procedure.