Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.
| Meter Readers, Utilities |
43-5041.00 |
| Plating and Coating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic |
51-4193.00 |
| Prepress Technicians and Workers |
51-5022.00 |
| Gas Plant Operators |
51-8092.00 |
| Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders |
51-9012.00 |
| Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators |
53-7071.00 |
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- Attach pumps and hoses to wellheads.
- Control pumping and blending equipment to acidize, cement, or fracture gas or oil wells and permeable rock formations.
- Drive trucks in order to transport high-pressure pumping equipment, and chemicals, fluids, or gases to be pumped into wells.
- Mix acids, chemicals, or dry cement as required for a specific job.
- Monitor control panels during pumping operations in order to ensure that materials are being pumped at the correct pressure, density, rate, and concentration.
- Open valves to return compressed gas to bottoms of specified wells in order to repressurize them and force oil to surface.
- Operate engines and pumps in order to shut off wells according to production schedules, and to switch flow of oil into storage tanks.
- Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
- Prepare trucks and equipment necessary for the type of pumping service required.
- Repair gas and oil meters and gauges.
- Start compressor engines, and divert oil from storage tanks into compressor units and auxiliary equipment in order to recover natural gas from oil.
- Supervise oil pumpers and other workers engaged in producing oil from wells.
- Unload and assemble pipes and pumping equipment, using hand tools.
- control operation of compressors
- maintain production or work records
- operate gas, petroleum, or power distribution equipment
- operate petroleum pumping equipment
- operate power driven pumps
- operate power generation equipment
- use two-way radio or mobile phone
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