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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 Founded 2008 · 134K members

140.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.1K upvotes, which works out to 136 per 1,000 members.

136peak upvotes per 1,000 members
140.3Kmembers
19.1Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
442posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

41% 28% 14% 9%
Link 41% Image 28% Text 14% Video 9% Question 6% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 163 Discussion 114 Iran War 76 Trump 15 OIl Price Speculation 14 Political Rubbish 10 Humor 7 Ukraine/Russia 5 Jobs 3 Merg/Acq 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Iran trolls Trump with videos being removed on X

↑ 19.1K 💬 1.3K video 2026

Rumors that there is absolutely no diesel left in Southeast Michigan

↑ 14.9K 💬 2.1K image 2026

Floridan complains that not even 1000$ can fill his truck tank

↑ 14.6K 💬 2.6K video 2026

Who Americans think is their biggest supplier of foreign oil

↑ 9.2K 💬 254 image 2025

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇨🇦 China is now importing record amounts of Canadian oil after slashing US oil purchases by 90%.

↑ 7.9K 💬 491 image 2025

Can we get the name of person who sold at that time?. Bloomberg says market manipulation

↑ 7.1K 💬 170 video 2026

They HAVE been watching the oil markets. And HAVE been watching the insider trading

↑ 5.7K 💬 362 image 2026

It's now $100B in Sanction Relief and $300B fund with $150B already committed

↑ 5.6K 💬 878 image 2026

2 oil tankers hit in Iraqi waters

↑ 5.5K 💬 1.1K video 2026

Iran has completely ruled out any future negotiations with the Trump administration. The “Strait Of Hormuz” will remain closed.

↑ 5.1K 💬 1.3K image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/oil, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/oil?
r/oil ("Oil, gas, and other products that keep the world flowing") describes itself this way: 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. It was founded in 2008 and has 134K members.
How many members does r/oil have?
r/oil has about 140.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 442 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.1K upvotes, which is 136 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/oil?
"Iran trolls Trump with videos being removed on X" reached 19.1K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/oil.
What subreddits are similar to r/oil?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/oil?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are link posts and 28% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/oil?
Across 442 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/oil?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/oil has 3.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 42 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/oil, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.