r/oil↗
Oil, gas, and other products that keep the world flowing
Oil, gas, seismic science, engineering, and cool pictures of rigs. Everything you need to know about exploration, recoverable assets and pipelines. Posts must be on topic,directly about the oil industry. General Iran war topics go to r/geopolitics r/credibledefence etc
145k subscribers1,288 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~7% by known bots)515 authors / mosince 2008
r/oil has 145k members (+261% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,288 posts a month from 515 people. Top topics: Oil Prices & Crude Markets, Oil Prices & Commodities and Canadian Oil Pipelines.
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How r/oil has grown
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Topics and brands on r/oil
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Oil Prices & Crude Markets2.6%
- Oil Prices & Commodities1.7%
- Canadian Oil Pipelines0.4%
- Alberta Oil and Energy0.4%
- Pipeline Disputes0.3%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- OilPrice
- Wolfram
- Al Jazeera
- Bloomberg L.P.
- Cnbc
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