This paper mainly studies a technical method for detecting the metal content in oil, that is, the combination of microwave digestion and ICP?AES detection technology. Studies have shown that the method has good applicability to the elements measured in the sample, and each element has a good linear correlation with its mass concentration, both greater than 0.999, and the detection limits of iron, manganese, and lead are 0.005 0 mg/L, 0.000 3 mg/L, 0.007 0 mg/L. The reliability of the data obtained by the method was verified by the spiked recovery experiment and the precision of the experimental method. The relative standard deviation of each element was less than 2%, and the recoveries were between 94.1% and 107.6%. Compared with the conventional single detection method, the detection method constructed in this paper has the characteristics of high sensitivity, fastness and high precision.