Drill Rig Roughneck Job

The drill rig roughneck nature of work

The drill rig roughneck or floorman is a member of the oil drilling crew.

The drill rig roughneck carry out a variety of general laboring duties and operate equipment to assist in the drilling and servicing of oil and gas wells. The drill rig roughnecks are employed by drilling and well servicing contractors and by petroleum producing companies.

Drill rig roughneck job conditions

The drill rig roughneck usually work long hours in all weather conditions on extended roster systems, usually as member of a drilling crew. The drill rig roughneck usually performs semiskilled and unskilled manual labor that requires continual hard work in difficult conditions for many hours.

Drill rig roughneck duties and tasks

The drill rig roughneck perform some or all of the following duties:

• The drill rig roughneck assist in setting up, taking down and transporting drilling and service rigs and service equipment
• The drill rig roughneck clean up drill rig area
• The drill rig roughneck handle, sort and move drill tools, pipe, cement and other materials
• The drill rig roughneck maintain drilling equipment on the drill floor
• The drill rig roughneck manipulate sections of pipe or drill stem at the rig floor during drilling and during the removal and replacement of strings of pipe or drill stem and drill bit
• The drill rig roughneck may drive truck to transport materials and well service equipment

If you are able to meet these requirements and you are motivated to be part of highly motivated team of people please, apply for the drill rig roughneck job through one of the links below:

Offshore Rig Workers Call the Shots Wall Street Journal - 9 Nov 2008 An experienced "roughneck," the nickname for rig workers, can make $100000 a year, and top white-collar engineers can make as much as $500000 a year, ...

Patty A. Coleman, 55, activist, social worker Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 15 hours ago [and] a roughneck on an oil-drilling rig." John R. Coleman's Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical was published in 1974. ...

The Associated Press

Once-dying ND town sits on potential oil jackpot The Associated Press - 9 Nov 2008 Next year, a rig will likely drill directly beneath the town, he said. "We've never drilled anything like this," he said. "Every time we drill, ...

FWWeekly

Bearish in Cowtown FWWeekly, TX - 12 Nov 2008 And the people who work those rigs work for Patterson Drilling, and every one of them kept their jobs and just moved with the rig.” Organizers of a Barnett ...