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Wellhead Pumpers
Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor pumps and flow lines for gas and fluid leaks.Mostly human for now
- 02Gauge oil and gas production.Mostly human for now
- 03Start compressor engines and divert oil from storage tanks into compressor units and auxiliary equipment to recover natural gas from oil.Mostly human for now
- 04Monitor control panels during pumping operations to ensure that materials are being pumped at the correct pressure, density, rate, and concentration.Mostly human for now
- 05Operate engines and pumps to shut off wells according to production schedules, and to switch flow of oil into storage tanks.Mostly human for now
- 06Repair gas and oil meters and gauges.Mostly human for now
- 07Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 08Open valves to return compressed gas to bottoms of specified wells to repressurize them and force oil to surface.Mostly human for now
- 09Change water filters.Mostly human for now
- 10Prepare trucks and equipment necessary for the type of pumping service required.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
0%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 24% 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 89% 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 pumps and flow lines for gas and fluid leaks.
- Gauge oil and gas production.
- Start compressor engines and divert oil from storage tanks into compressor units and auxiliary equipment to recover natural gas from oil.