Prepare calculations for receipts and deliveries of oil and oil products.

“Prepare calculations for receipts and deliveries of oil and oil products.” is a supplemental task performed by Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#23 most important). About 51% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Determine values or prices of goods or services. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Signal other workers by telephone or radio to operate pumps, open and close valves, and check temperatures. · importance 4.3
• Maintain and repair equipment, or report malfunctioning equipment to supervisors so that repairs can be scheduled. · importance 4.3
• Monitor process indicators, instruments, gauges, and meters to detect and report any possible problems. · importance 4.3
• Start pumps and open valves or use automated equipment to regulate the flow of oil in pipelines and into and out of tanks. · importance 4.2
• Operate control panels to coordinate and regulate process variables such as temperature and pressure, and to direct product flow rate, according to process schedules. · importance 4.2
• Verify that incoming and outgoing products are moving through the correct meters, and that meters are working properly. · importance 4.2
• Patrol units to monitor the amount of oil in storage tanks, and to verify that activities and operations are safe, efficient, and in compliance with regulations. · importance 4.1
• Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of system interconnections and capacities. · importance 4.1
• Control or operate manifold and pumping systems to circulate liquids through a petroleum refinery. · importance 4.1
• Operate auxiliary equipment and control multiple processing units during distilling or treating operations, moving controls that regulate valves, pumps, compressors, and auxiliary equipment. · importance 4.1
• Collect product samples by turning bleeder valves, or by lowering containers into tanks to obtain oil samples. · importance 4.1
• Read automatic gauges at specified intervals to determine the flow rate of oil into or from tanks, and the amount of oil in tanks. · importance 4.0
• Read and analyze specifications, schedules, logs, test results, and laboratory recommendations to determine how to set equipment controls to produce the required qualities and quantities of products. · importance 4.0
• Synchronize activities with other pumphouses to ensure a continuous flow of products and a minimum of contamination between products. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Prepare calculations for receipts and deliveries of oil and oil products.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-14324}
}