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The Oil Well is a standard tile improvement in Civilization VI. It is used to access land-based 
Oil resources.
In the Gathering Storm expansion, the Oil Well is unlocked with Refining.
- Effects:
- +2
Production - +1 Production and +1 Faith with God of Craftsmen pantheon
- +1 Production (requires Predictive Systems)
- -1 Appeal
- +2
Strategy[]
Oil Wells extract Oil from land tiles, providing a resource and extra 
Production at the expense of the surrounding tiles' Appeal. The Tanks and Aircraft Carriers that can be built with Oil, however, are a great boon to military-focused civilizations.
Building an Oil Well triggers the 
Eureka for Plastics.
Civilopedia entry[]
As J. Paul Getty put it, “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” Ever since the first oil wells were drilled in China around 340 AD, using metal bits attached to bamboo poles, men have been trying to do just that. Throughout the millennium and a half since then, the technology has advanced, spurred by civilization finding new ways to use all the things that come from petroleum: gasoline, lubricants, asphalt, petrochemicals, tar, plastics, fertilizer, pesticides, and a thousand other things. The first “modern” commercial oil well in North America came online in Oil Springs, Ontario, in 1858. Then came the development of the automobile, and humanity’s thirst for oil became insatiable. Since then, wars have been fought for it, regimes toppled because of it, and unchecked pollution has resulted from it. But then too, unbelievable fortunes have been made from it – as Getty could attest.
See also[]
- Oil Well in other games
