r/oil is a subreddit with 142k members. The community frequently discusses struggling, oil, worst, time, and oil producers, and the most common flair used is news, discussion, ukraine/russia, iran war, and trump .
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
Popular Topics in r/oil
#1
Struggling
16 posts
#2
Oil
10 posts
#3
Worst
7 posts
#4
Time
7 posts
#5
Oil Producers
5 posts
#6
Market
4 posts
#7
Prices
4 posts
#8
Tight Oil
2 posts
#9
Producers
1 post
#10
Career
1 post
Flair Used in r/oil
#1
News
: "Ukraine has just struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it ablaze, hours after the US-Russia diesel deal and Trump lifting sanctions on Russian fuel exports."
57 posts
#2
Discussion
: "I can not believe how absurd this situation is, we literally are our own worst enemy. We are now buying oil from Russia, except one minor detail, Russia has no diesel."
32 posts
#3
Ukraine/Russia
: "USA desanctions the russians"
21 posts
#4
Iran War
: "Ansarallah just popped a new aramco refinery in jeddah"
18 posts
#5
Trump
: "We are getting desperate"
11 posts
#6
Humor
: "It's now more expensive to hire a tanker from US to China than to launch a rocket into space"
8 posts
#7
OIl Price Speculation
: "Iran starting to target oil STS transfers. BWET behaving like bitcoin, oil yield ship equities to the moon?"
5 posts
#8
Political Rubbish
: "The Russian tanker believed to be carrying diesel fuel to the US was actually carrying urea ammonium nitrate instead @wartranslated.bsky.social"
4 posts
#9
Jobs
: "Working at Exxon vs smaller oil and gas company"
3 posts
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+103k members(264.6%)
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Last updated: October 14, 2026