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Oil drum emoji 🛢️

🛢️ is the oil drum: a steel barrel with a stripe. It means oil — crude oil, oil prices, the oil industry, fuel — and barrels in general: industrial scenes, rain…

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What the oil drum 🛢️ emoji means

🛢️ is the oil drum: a steel barrel with a stripe. It means oil — crude oil, oil prices, the oil industry, fuel — and barrels in general: industrial scenes, rain barrels, barrel fires. Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015) with a variation selector. Related: ⛽ fuel pump, 🏭 factory on the buildings guide, 🛠️ hammer and wrench; the cost 💸 money with wings.

Unicode name: oil drum · U+1F6E2 U+FE0F · Emoji 0.7 (original set) · group: Travel & Places.

IN A MESSAGEoil up again 🛢️📈 fill the tank tonight

How people use it

  • Oil: prices, industry, energy
  • Barrels: industrial scenes
  • Fuel: with ⛽
  • Cooking oil: occasionally, as a joke

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
oil drumU+1F6E2 U+FE0FOil, barrel
fuel pumpU+26FDPetrol
factoryU+1F3EDIndustry
hammer and wrenchU+1F6E0 U+FE0FTools
pickup truckU+1F6FBTruck

Questions people ask

What does 🛢️ mean?

An oil drum — oil, fuel, industry.

Is there an oil emoji?

🛢️ oil drum is the closest; 🫒 is the olive.

Why does 🛢 look grey?

It needs its variation selector; copy 🛢️ from this page.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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