operating electronic or computerized control panel from a central control room to monitor and optimize physical and chemical processes for several processing units
// Unit group · 3134
Petroleum and Natural Gas Refining Plant Operators
Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators operate and monitor plants and adjust and maintain processing units and equipment which refine, distil and treat petroleum, petroleum-based products and by-products, or natural gas.
3 Technicians and Associate Professionals / 31 Science and Engineering Associate Professionals / 313 Process Control Technicians / All level 4
// Working conditions
// Hand tools
No hand tools in this set.
adjusting equipment, valves, pumps, controls and process equipment
controlling process start-up and shut-down, troubleshooting and monitoring outside process equipment
verifying equipment for malfunctions, testing well pipes for leaks and fractures and arranging for maintenance
analysing sample products, performing tests, recording data and writing production logs.
Included occupations
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Blender operator (petroleum and natural gas refining)
- Gas plant operator
- Paraffin plant operator
- Petroleum process operator
- Refinery process technician
- Still operator (still petroleum and natural gas refining)
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Chemical processing plant controllers - 3133
- Chemical products plant and machine operators - 8131
Indexed job titles 16
- Operator, blender: petroleum and natural gas refiningISCO-88 8155
- Operator, control-panel: coal gas productionISCO-88 8155
- Operator, control-panel: petroleum and natural gas refineryISCO-88 8155
- Operator, evaporator: petroleum and natural gasISCO-88 8155
- Operator, gas plantISCO-88 8155
- Operator, paraffin plantISCO-88 8155
- Operator, petroleum processISCO-88 8155
- Operator, pumping-station: petroleum and natural gasISCO-88 8155
- Operator, refinery: petroleum and natural gasISCO-88 8155
- Operator, still-pump: petroleum and natural gas refiningISCO-88 8155
- Operator, still: petroleum and natural gas refiningISCO-88 8155
- Operator, treater: desulphurisation (petroleum and natural gas refining)ISCO-88 8155
- Operator, treater: petroleum and natural gas refiningISCO-88 8155
- Operator, treating equipment: crude oilISCO-88 8155
- Technician, process control: coal gas productionISCO-88 8155
- Technician, refinery processISCO-88 8155