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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Oilfield Service Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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 Gas · O*NET 47-5013.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

9 of 11tools 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

26 matched to the tools service unit operators, oil and gas use. Showing 24.

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    MCP server

  • Office Powerpoint

    MCP server

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    MCP server

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  • Sharepoint

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  • Sharepoint

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  • Spreadsheet

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The tools this job actually uses

11 documented for this occupation. Showing 11, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft SharePointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
  • Data logger software
  • Inventory tracking software
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
  • Time and attendance software

What this job involves

20 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 20.

  1. Maintain and perform safety inspections on equipment and tools.
  2. Operate controls that raise derricks or level rigs.
  3. Listen to engines, rotary chains, or other equipment to detect faulty operations or unusual well conditions.
  4. Prepare reports of services rendered, tools used, or time required, for billing purposes.
  5. Install pressure-control devices onto wellheads.
  6. Direct drilling crews performing activities such as assembling and connecting pipe, applying weights to drill pipes, or drilling around lodged obstacles.
  7. Confer with others to gather information regarding pipe or tool sizes or borehole conditions in wells.
  8. Operate pumps that circulate water, oil, or other fluids through wells to remove sand or other materials obstructing the free flow of oil.
  9. Drive truck-mounted units to well sites.
  10. Interpret instrument readings to ascertain the depth of obstruction.
  11. Thread cables through derrick pulleys, using hand tools.
  12. Select fishing methods or tools for removing obstacles such as liners, broken casing, screens, or drill pipe.
  13. Apply green technologies or techniques, such as the use of coiled tubing, slim-hole drilling, horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, or gas lift systems.
  14. Operate specialized equipment to remove obstructions by backing off or severing pipes by chemical or explosive action.
  15. Close and seal wells no longer in use.
  16. Perforate well casings or sidewalls of boreholes with explosive charges.
  17. Examine unserviceable wells to determine actions to be taken to improve well conditions.
  18. Monitor sound wave-generating or detecting mechanisms to determine well fluid levels.
  19. Insert detection instruments into wells with obstructions.
  20. Maintain and perform safety inspections on rigs, equipment, and other tools.
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