Wiktionary
vb. to lubricate with oil, to cover or smear with oil
Usage examples of "oil up".
The tank farms had to be burning, sending untold millions of gallons of fuel oil up in smoke.
If the reservoir lacks sufficient driving force (gas or water) to push the oil up to the surface, the wellhead will be connected to a pump, which then provides the lifting force.
And we brought the oil up last night,' answered Beris, a small lad with a shock of ginger hair and a freckled face.
Appalled residents watched the fingers stretch and take hold, as if to haul the whole huge body of oil up and over the sand inch by inch until not a glint of gold showed through.
They used to oil Up-Mile Hill every June and every Fourth of July the Mayor would talk about how they were going to pave Kansas Street, but it never happened until 1942.