Having fashioned itself as a global Asian city, Singapore’s embodiment of “petroculture”—the way that fossil fuels have shaped our values, practices, habits, beliefs and feelings—remains overlooked in the production and reception of Singaporean literature. Furthermore, energy and environmental critics have registered the political significance of oil’s invisibility for the Singaporean national identity and citizen psyche. To this end, I adopt the critical lens of petrofiction to examine the literary representation of petro-consciousness in two Singaporean dystopian novels—Tham Cheng-E’s Band Eight and Lu Huiyi’s Beng Beng Revolution—that depict resource scarcity and inequity in their near-future imaginaries of Singapore. Given Singapore’s distance from sites of extractivist violence, I attend to what Graeme Macdonald calls “narrative energetics” to examine the literary representations of energy epistemologies and ontologies. First, I show that while both dystopias present an emergent energy consciousness in their plots and character conflicts, Tham and Lu diverge in how they power and empower their protagonists in their respective quests to redress the injustices of resource inequality. Thereafter, I compare their ontological construction of settings to uncover the political significance of resisting and reproducing dominant energy systems. Finally, I call for a more politically petro-conscious Singaporean literature.