Roustabout / Oil / Gas

Assemble or repair oil field equipment using hand and power tools. Perform other tasks as needed.

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Field Service Roustabout; Floor Hand; Oil and Gas Roustabout; Oil Field Roustabout; Production Roustabout; Rig Hand; Roustabout; Roustabout Crew Pusher; Roustabout Hand; Roustabout Pusher

Tasks

• Unscrew or tighten pipes, casing, tubing, and pump rods, using hand and power wrenches and tongs.
• Dismantle and repair oil field machinery, boilers, and steam engine parts, using hand tools and power tools.
• Guide cranes to move loads about decks.
• Walk flow lines to locate leaks, using electronic detectors and by making visual inspections, and repair the leaks.
• Lay gas and oil pipelines.
• Bolt together pump and engine parts.
• Move pipes to and from trucks, using truck winches and motorized lifts, or by hand.
• Clean trucks used in the fields.

Knowledge

• Mechanical
• Customer and Personal Service

Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Monitoring

Abilities

• Manual Dexterity
• Multilimb Coordination
• Problem Sensitivity
• Near Vision
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
• Control Precision
• Static Strength
• Trunk Strength
• Extent Flexibility
• Far Vision
• Oral Comprehension
• Information Ordering
• Stamina
• Oral Expression
• Deductive Reasoning
• Flexibility of Closure
• Visualization
• Selective Attention
• Finger Dexterity
• Rate Control
• Reaction Time
• Gross Body Equilibrium
• Depth Perception
• Hearing Sensitivity
• Auditory Attention
• Speech Recognition