Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga Operate equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells. Includes fishing-tool technicians.
Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga is Also Know as
In different settings, Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga is titled as
- Pulling Unit Operator
- Reverse Unit Operator
- Rig Operator
- Service Operator
- Service Rig Operator
- Tool Pusher
- Well Servicing Rig Operator
- Wireline Operator
Education and Training of Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Service Unit 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 Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
- Bachelor in Mining Technology/Technician
- Associate Degree Courses in Mining Technology/Technician
- Masters Degree Courses in Mining Technology/Technician
Training Required for Service Unit 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 Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga in different industries are
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Wellhead Pumpers
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Power Plant Operators
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Chemical Plant and System Operators
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Gas Plant Operators
What Do Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga do?
- Confer with others to gather information regarding pipe or tool sizes or borehole conditions in wells.
- Drive truck-mounted units to well sites.
- Install pressure-control devices onto wellheads.
- Thread cables through derrick pulleys, using hand tools.
- Operate pumps that circulate water, oil, or other fluids through wells to remove sand or other materials obstructing the free flow of oil.
- Close and seal wells no longer in use.
- Operate controls that raise derricks or level rigs.
- Direct drilling crews performing activities such as assembling and connecting pipe, applying weights to drill pipes, or drilling around lodged obstacles.
- Perforate well casings or sidewalls of boreholes with explosive charges.
- Prepare reports of services rendered, tools used, or time required, for billing purposes.
- Operate specialized equipment to remove obstructions by backing off or severing pipes by chemical or explosive action.
- Select fishing methods or tools for removing obstacles such as liners, broken casing, screens, or drill pipe.
- Examine unserviceable wells to determine actions to be taken to improve well conditions.
- Insert detection instruments into wells with obstructions.
- Interpret instrument readings to ascertain the depth of obstruction.
- Monitor sound wave-generating or detecting mechanisms to determine well fluid levels.
- Apply green technologies or techniques, such as the use of coiled tubing, slim-hole drilling, horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, or gas lift systems.
- Maintain and perform safety inspections on equipment and tools.
- Listen to engines, rotary chains, or other equipment to detect faulty operations or unusual well conditions.
Qualities of Good Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- 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.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- 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.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- 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.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- 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.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- 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 Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing 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).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- 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.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- 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.
- 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).
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- 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 Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
- Adjustable hand wrenches
- Cement mixers
- Cement pumps
- Channel lock pliers
- Chemical casing cutters
- Chemical pipe cutters
- Claw hammers
- Continuous sucker rods
- Depth gauges
- Desktop computers
- Diesel motors
- Downhole object retrieval equipment
- Electric downhole pumps
- Free point tools
- Handheld data loggers
- Hex wrenches
- Hoisting equipment
- Hydraulic hoisting equipment
- Hydraulic pumping systems
- Jet casing cutters
- Jet pipe cutters
- Laptop computers
- Mallets
- Mud pumps
- Personal computers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Pipe elevators
- Pipe slips
- Pipe tongs
- Pipe wrenches
- Power drills
- Pressure control devices
- Pressure indicators
- Programmable logic controllers PLC
- Protective ear muffs
- Ratchet sets
- Safety gloves
- Safety goggles
- Slickline severance tools
- Sonar equipment
- Steel measuring tapes
- Straight screwdrivers
- Strain gauges
- Stuck pipe tools
- Torpedo levels
- Truck-mounted derricks
- Utility knives
- Well tubing perforation guns
- Wellhead drives
- Wire cutters
Technology Skills required for Service Unit Operators, Oil and Ga
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
- Data logger software
- Inventory tracking software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Word
- SAP software
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- Time and attendance software