This chapter examines the infrastructural turn in the humanities through a literary-critical lens, focusing on energy infrastructures as central to the Anthropocene. It foregrounds an expanded method of “reading for infrastructure” (Martens and Vermeulen, 2021) that moves beyond material visibility to legibility, encompassing affective, temporal, and socio-psychological dimensions. Through comparative readings of contemporary oil fictions, David Huebert’s Oil People (2024) and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water (2010), the chapter explores how petro-infrastructures shape subjectivities and imaginaries across Global North and Global South contexts. While Oil People reflects the normalized, ‘boring’ presence of settler-colonial oil infrastructures in Canada, Oil on Water foregrounds the violent legibility of neocolonial energy infrastructures in the Niger Delta. The comparative reading demonstrates how legibility, temporality, and affect reshape utopian/dystopian registers: invisibility yields complacency, while stark visibility foregrounds rupture and agency. Ultimately, the chapter argues that literary‑critical attention to hard energy infrastructure uncovers the geopolitical stakes of the Anthropocene and invites a more accountable, decolonial imagination of infrastructural futures.