There is a lively debate about the solar oxygen abundance and the role of 3D models in its recent downward revision. These models have been tested using high-resolution solar atlases of flux and disk-centre intensity. Further testing can be done using centre-to-limb variations. Using high-resolution and high S/N observations of neutral oxygen lines across the solar surface, we seek to test that the 3D and 1D models reproduce their observed centre-to-limb variation. In particular we seek to assess whether the latest generation of 3D hydrodynamical solar model atmospheres and NLTE line formation calculations are appropriate to derive the solar oxygen abundance.