r/oil
Oil, gas, and other products that keep the world flowing
Founded March 2008 · Public — anyone can post
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
Members
122,519
123K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+16%
+16K members · ≈34d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 14 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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r/oil — frequently asked
How many members does r/oil have?
r/oil has 122,519 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 17. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/oil growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/oil changed by +16% — a gain of 16K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/oil?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/oil yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/oil created?
r/oil was founded in March 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/oil?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/oil yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/oil for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/oil into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/oil's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/oil's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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