Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.

“Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.” is a core task performed by Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#3 most important). About 84% 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.

• Maintain operational records. in Documenting/Recording Information

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

• Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary. · importance 4.5
• Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage. · importance 4.4
• Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances. · importance 4.3
• Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials. · importance 4.3
• Connect hoses and pipelines to pumps and vessels prior to material transfer, using hand tools. · importance 4.2
• Tend vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts. · importance 4.2
• Clean, lubricate, and repair pumps and vessels, using hand tools and equipment. · importance 4.2
• Read operating schedules or instructions or receive verbal orders to determine amounts to be pumped. · importance 4.0
• Tend auxiliary equipment such as water treatment and refrigeration units, and heat exchangers. · importance 4.0
• Collect and deliver sample solutions for laboratory analysis. · importance 4.0
• Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met. · importance 4.0
• Pump two or more materials into one tank to blend mixtures. · importance 3.9
• Test materials and solutions, using testing equipment. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-14610,
  title  = {Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.},
  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-14610}
}