With the development of the nation, petroleum has become one major energy source. The industry of oil exploitation and refining is expanding steadily, thus leading to occurrence of more and more pollution events mainly due to irrational management, among which, soil pollution by crude oil is especially serious. In order to understand the mechanisms of the pollution, it is necessary to study crude oil infiltration into soil. In this study soil columns were used to determine relationship of advance distance and advance rate of crude oil into soils with time, and residue of the contaminant. Results indicated that in soils the same in texture, advance distance, advance rate and residue of crude oil decreased with the increase of the bulk density of the soils. But into soils the same in bulk density, the same trend was observed with the increase in silt content. The variation of advance distance of crude oil with time can be described by a logarithmic function, and the advance rate by a power function. The findings in the research on crude oil infiltration in soil columns are of some importance to the study on the transport of crude oil in soils.