Francesco Gerali reviews Reflecting Oil, edited by Ernst Logar, a volume grounded in a five-year arts-based research project that places crude oil at the center of inquiry. The book treats oil as a substance, a system, and a structuring condition of modern life. Gerali situates the volume within energy humanities and argues that it offers a methodological intervention: artistic research can function as a form of knowledge production capable of reframing how we understand petroculture and transition.