Profession derrickhand

Derrickhands guide the positions and movements of drill pipes. They control the automated pipe-handling equipment. They are often responsible for the condition of drilling fluids, or "mud".

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Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Related professions oil, gas

• Boat or derrick operator
• Boring machine operator
• First line supervisor oil or gas workers
• Gas compressor or gas pumping station operator
• Mains pipes layer-jointer
• Oil or gas geologist
• Oil or gas well driller
• Oiler, greaser
• Operator service unit oil or gas well
• Petroleum chemist
• Petroleum or natural gas refining plant operator
• Pipe fitter
• Pipeline worker
• Roustabout oil or gas
• Well digger
• Well driller (not in gas and oil)
• Well service unit operator (not in gas and oil)
• Well sinker

Knowledge

• Mechanical tools

  Understand machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

• Mechanics

  Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

• Rigging terminology

  Terms for lifting equipment, lifting accessories, slings, shackles, wires, ropes, chains, cables and nets.

Skills

• Control flow of oils

  Adjust controls to regulate flow of oils through lines and tanks.

• Follow safety procedures when working at heights

  Take necessary precautions and follow a set of measures that assess, prevent and tackle risks when working at a high distance from the ground. Prevent endangering people working under these structures and avoid falls from ladders, mobile scaffolding, fixed working bridges, single person lifts etc. since they may cause fatalities or major injuries.

• Monitor drilling fluid

  Monitor and maintain the drilling fluids, or "mud". Add different chemicals to the fluid to perform various function in well operations: keep the drill bit cool, provide hydrostatic pressure, etc.

• React to events in time-critical environments

  Monitor the situation around you and anticipate. Be ready to take quick and appropriate action in case of unexpected events.

• Work in drilling teams

  Ability to work confidently within a drilling team on a drilling rig or oil platform with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole.

• Maintain circulation system

  Maintain the fluid pumps and circulation systems of an oil pumping system.

• Guide drill pipes

  Guide drill pipe in and out of elevators.

• Maintain mechanical equipment

  Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect malfunction. Service, repair, adjust, and test machines, parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical principles. Maintain and repair vehicles meant for cargo, passengers, farming and landscaping.

• Use rigging equipment

  Set up rolling and lifting equipment required to lift and move objects e.g. with a crane or block and tackle system.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB