Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga Set up or operate a variety of drills to remove underground oil and gas, or remove core samples for testing during oil and gas exploration.
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga is Also Know as
In different settings, Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga is titled as
- Daylight Driller
- Drill Operator
- Driller
- Drilling Rig Operator
- Motor Man
- Oil Rig Driller
- Oil Well Driller
- Relief Driller
- Tool Pusher
Education and Training of Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
- Bachelor in Well Drilling/Driller
- Associate Degree Courses in Well Drilling/Driller
- Masters Degree Courses in Well Drilling/Driller
Training Required for Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga in different industries are
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Wellhead Pumpers
- Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Dredge Operators
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Rock Splitters, Quarry
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters
What Do Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga do?
- Train crews, and introduce procedures to make drill work more safe and effective.
- Observe pressure gauge and move throttles and levers to control the speed of rotary tables, and to regulate pressure of tools at bottoms of boreholes.
- Count sections of drill rod to determine depths of boreholes.
- Push levers and brake pedals to control gasoline, diesel, electric, or steam draw works that lower and raise drill pipes and casings in and out of wells.
- Connect sections of drill pipe, using hand tools and powered wrenches and tongs.
- Maintain records of footage drilled, location and nature of strata penetrated, materials and tools used, services rendered, and time required.
- Maintain and adjust machinery to ensure proper performance.
- Start and examine operation of slush pumps to ensure circulation and consistency of drilling fluid or mud in well.
- Locate and recover lost or broken bits, casings, and drill pipes from wells, using special tools.
- Weigh clay, and mix with water and chemicals to make drilling mud.
- Direct rig crews in drilling and other activities, such as setting up rigs and completing or servicing wells.
- Monitor progress of drilling operations, and select and change drill bits according to the nature of strata, using hand tools.
- Repair or replace defective parts of machinery, such as rotary drill rigs, water trucks, air compressors, and pumps, using hand tools.
- Clean and oil pulleys, blocks, and cables.
- Bolt together pump and engine parts, and connect tanks and flow lines.
- Remove core samples during drilling to determine the nature of the strata being drilled.
- Cap wells with packers, or turn valves, to regulate outflow of oil from wells.
- Line drilled holes with pipes, and install all necessary hardware, to prepare new wells.
- Position and prepare truck-mounted derricks at drilling areas specified on field maps.
- Plug observation wells, and restore sites.
- Lower and explode charges in boreholes to start flow of oil from wells.
- Dig holes, set forms, and mix and pour concrete, for foundations of steel or wooden derricks.
Qualities of Good Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
- Accumulator systems
- Adapter spools
- Air hoists
- Cement pumping equipment
- Chain driven draw works
- Choke manifolds
- Claw hammers
- Double studded adapters
- Downhole fishing tools
- Drill casings
- Drill pipe tongs
- Drilling chokes
- Drilling collars
- Drilling crosses
- Drilling draw works
- Drilling mud mixers
- Drilling rig rotary tables
- Drilling spools
- Drilling swivels
- Explosives detonating equipment
- Fall arrest systems
- Gasoline engines
- Gear driven draw works
- Hammer wrenches
- Hard hats
- Hydraulic torque wrenches
- Lifting taglines
- Mobile radios
- Mud mixing equipment
- Multiphase flowmeters
- Oil drilling pipes
- Oil rig crown blocks
- Oil well blowout preventers
- Personal computers
- Pipe covering blind flanges
- Pipe slips
- Portable air compressors
- Power wrenches
- Pressure recorders
- Protective harnesses
- Protective safety glasses
- Reflective vests
- Rig diesel engines
- Rotary drilling rigs
- Silicon controlled rectifiers SCR
- Slush pumps
- Spacer spools
- Stuck pipe tools
- Traveling blocks
- Truck mounted derricks
- Well cementing units
- Well drill bits
- Well packers
Technology Skills required for Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Ga
- CAPSHER Technology SureTec
- Drillingsoftware DrillPro
- Drillingsoftware Tubular Database
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Word
- Pason WellView Field Solution
- Python
- Salesforce software
- SAP software
- Schlumberger Petrel E&P
- Structure query language SQL