Supply equipment to rig floors as requested and provide assistance to roughnecks.

“Supply equipment to rig floors as requested and provide assistance to roughnecks.” is a supplemental task performed by Roustabouts, Oil and Gas. Among the occupation's 13 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#8 most important). About 43% 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.

• Perform general construction or extraction activities. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Move materials, equipment, or supplies. in Performing General Physical Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Unscrew or tighten pipes, casing, tubing, and pump rods, using hand and power wrenches and tongs. · importance 3.9
• Dismantle and repair oil field machinery, boilers, and steam engine parts, using hand tools and power tools. · importance 3.6
• Guide cranes to move loads about decks. · importance 3.6
• Walk flow lines to locate leaks, using electronic detectors and by making visual inspections, and repair the leaks. · importance 3.5
• Dig holes, set forms, and mix and pour concrete into forms to make foundations for wood or steel derricks. · importance 3.4
• Bolt together pump and engine parts. · importance 3.4
• Move pipes to and from trucks, using truck winches and motorized lifts, or by hand. · importance 3.4
• Clean up spilled oil by bailing it into barrels. · importance 3.2
• Dig drainage ditches around wells and storage tanks. · importance 3.0
• Cut down and remove trees and brush to clear drill sites, to reduce fire hazards, and to make way for roads to sites. · importance 2.9
• Keep pipe deck and main deck areas clean and tidy.
• Bolt or nail together wood or steel framework to erect derricks.

See all tasks on the Roustabouts, Oil and Gas 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-7120,
  title  = {Supply equipment to rig floors as requested and provide assistance to roughnecks.},
  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-7120}
}