Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
Operate equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells. Includes fishing-tool technicians.
Also known as: Gather Operator · Fishing Tool Operator · Pulling Unit Operator · Reverse Unit Operator · Coiled Tubing Operator · Oil Processing Technician
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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Most exposed task
Prepare reports of services rendered, tools used, or time required, for billing purposes.
Augmentable 65/100 exposure
Most durable task
Drive truck-mounted units to well sites.
Durable 5/100 exposure
Useful next step
Make one change to the task mix
Protect the durable core of the role, then use AI to compress the routine work around it before that becomes a mandate.
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No task is classified fully automatable in this release. The highest-exposure task relative to this role is shown in the free snapshot above; the assistive work is detailed next.
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Prepare reports of services rendered, tools used, or time required, for billing purposes.65
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Interpret instrument readings to ascertain the depth of obstruction.40
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Drive truck-mounted units to well sites.5
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Thread cables through derrick pulleys, using hand tools.8
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Operate controls that raise derricks or level rigs.10
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 21 puts Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas in the least-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 0 of 19 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 2 augmentable, and 17 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.
Labor-market context
- $58,160median wage
- 43,140employed
- 4,100annual openings
- +0.4%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 19 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Augmentable 2 tasks, averaging 53/100 exposure
- Durable 17 tasks, averaging 17/100 exposure
score = (2×53 + 17×17) ÷ 19 ≈ 21
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (Low) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
- Will AI replace Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 21 mean for a Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas?
- It means that, weighted across the 19 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 21 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the least-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- This role has no strongly automatable task in the current data release.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Drive truck-mounted units to well sites; Thread cables through derrick pulleys, using hand tools; Operate controls that raise derricks or level rigs. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 19 of 19 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology