Drilling Roughnecks Job

The drilling roughnecks nature of work

The drilling roughnecks or floormen are the members of the oil drilling crews.

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

Drilling roughnecks work conditions

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

Drilling roughnecks duties and tasks

Drilling roughnecks perform some or all of the following duties:

• Drilling roughnecks assist in setting up, taking down and transporting drilling and service rigs and service equipment
• Drilling roughnecks clean up drill rig area
• Drilling roughnecks handle, sort and move drill tools, pipe, cement and other materials
• Drilling roughnecks maintain drilling equipment on the drill floor
• Drilling roughnecks 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
• Drilling roughnecks 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 drilling roughnecks position through one of the links below:

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'I do it for the money' CNNMoney.com - 17 Oct 2008 "I'd be making $13 an hour to minimum wage" doing other typical jobs in this section of Wyoming, like working as a ranch hand, he said. Drill rigs have ...

Hale Hughes named Dickies American Worker of the Year Fibre2fashion.com, India - 3 Nov 2008 Since his start with Unit Drilling in 2003, Hughes has worked his way up from roughneck to safety manager - one of 12 in a company of more than 3000 ...

Oil years molded Brown's conviction in less gov't Forbes, NY - 21 Oct 2008 He'd started in the business at 18, making $3 an hour working summers as a roughneck on a drilling crew in eastern Montana's oil fields. ...

An Oklahoma oil wildcatter hits a gusher Food For Thought, A News Cafe, CA - 13 Oct 2008 Roughnecks, slathered head to toe in mud, scrambled and cursed a blue streak as they threw chain and tripped out two-ton stands of pipe. ...