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Install drilling equipment

This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.

Part of Install commercial or production equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 3 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Connect sections of drill pipe, using hand tools and powered wrenches and tongs.Stays human Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
• Steady pipes during connection to or disconnection from drill or casing strings.Stays human Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas
• Guide lengths of pipe into and out of elevators.Stays human Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Select and attach drill bits and drill rods, adding more rods as hole depths increase, and changing drill bits as needed.AI-assist Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas