r/oil
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
106,049
106K
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not captured in the last snapshot
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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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
Tracking since Aug 14 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/oil — frequently asked
How many members does r/oil have?
r/oil has 106,049 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 14. 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?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/oil yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 14; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
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.
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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