Roughneck Careers

Oil industry jobs are some of the best paying and most sought-after jobs in the world. In the oil industry, you choose your career path.

Roustabouts carry out general laboring tasks and help to keep the drilling area in good working order. Their tasks include:

• cleaning, scraping and painting the deck, equipment and work areas
• offloading supplies from boats and moving them to storage areas
• moving supplies and equipment to the work site
• using lifting gear and winches to load and stack equipment
• general work in the pump room, for example helping to repair mud pumps
• mixing and conditioning the lubricants ('drilling mud') for the drill bit.

Roughnecks carry out more skilled duties as part of the actual drilling operation, such as:

• adding fresh lengths of drill pipe as the drill moves deeper into rock
• inserting and extracting the whole drill
• cleaning, maintaining and repairing the drilling equipment
• using lifting gear, ropes and winches to carry out the above tasks.

Mudloggers work for a service company contracted by the oil company (or operator) and are tasked primarily with:

• gathering data and collecting samples during the drilling of a well to identify possible indications of hydrocarbons.
• organizing this information in the form of a graphic log, showing the data charted on a graphic representation of the wellbore.
• Another important task of the mudlogger is to monitor gas levels and notify other personnel on the rig when gas levels may be reaching dangerous levels, so appropriate steps can be taken to avoid a dangerous well blowout.

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