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Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
Operate steam-, gas-, electric motor-, or internal combustion-engine driven compressors. Transmit, compress, or recover gases, such as butane, nitrogen, hydrogen, and natural gas.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor meters and pressure gauges to determine consumption rate variations, temperatures, and pressures.Mostly human for now
- 02Respond to problems by adjusting control room equipment or instructing other personnel to adjust equipment at problem locations or in other control areas.Mostly human for now
- 03Record instrument readings and operational changes in operating logs.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Adjust valves and equipment to obtain specified performance.Mostly human for now
- 05Move controls and turn valves to start compressor engines, pumps, and auxiliary equipment.Mostly human for now
- 06Operate power-driven pumps that transfer liquids, semi-liquids, gases, or powdered materials.Mostly human for now
- 07Submit daily reports on facility operations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Take samples of gases and conduct chemical tests to determine gas quality and sulfur or moisture content, or send samples to laboratories for analysis.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Read gas meters, and maintain records of the amounts of gas received and dispensed from holders.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Turn knobs or switches to regulate pressures.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
27%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 2% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 69% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Monitor meters and pressure gauges to determine consumption rate variations, temperatures, and pressures.
- Respond to problems by adjusting control room equipment or instructing other personnel to adjust equipment at problem locations or in other control areas.
- Adjust valves and equipment to obtain specified performance.