Role
AI for Drill Operators
Founder, Automation Squad
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 Gas · O*NET 47-5012.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database
Automation coverage
5 of 12tools on this list have an AI solution available today
Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.
AI you can use for this job
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Salesforce
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Salesforce
Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
MCP serverExcel
MCP serverExcel
SkillMake (make.com)
PowerOffice
AppMake (make.com)
SAP S/4HANA
MCP serverSAP S/4HANA is an intelligent ERP suite that helps businesses manage finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations in real time.
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
AppMake (make.com)
Spreadsheet
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The tools this job actually uses
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- Microsoft Excelhot
- Microsoft Office softwarehot
- Microsoft Wordhot
- Pythonhot
- Salesforce softwarehot
- SAP softwarehot
- CAPSHER Technology SureTec
- Drillingsoftware DrillPro
- Drillingsoftware Tubular Database
- Pason WellView Field Solution
- Schlumberger Petrel E&P
- Structure query language SQL
What this job involves
20 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 20.
- 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.
- Cap wells with packers, or turn valves, to regulate outflow of oil from wells.
- Clean and oil pulleys, blocks, and cables.
- Line drilled holes with pipes, and install all necessary hardware, to prepare new wells.
- Bolt together pump and engine parts, and connect tanks and flow lines.
- Position and prepare truck-mounted derricks at drilling areas specified on field maps.
- Remove core samples during drilling to determine the nature of the strata being drilled.
- Plug observation wells, and restore sites.
