Job Description:

• 1) Operates chemical, electrical, and centrifugal oil-treatment units to remove sediment and water from crude oil before transporting oil by pipeline to refineries: Opens valves and starts pumps to pump oil from storage tanks to treating units.

• 2) Opens valves to mix specified chemicals with oil, and adjusts controls to heat mixture to specified temperature.

• 3) Starts centrifugal machines that break up oil and water emulsions and drain off water.

• 4) Opens valves and starts pumps to transfer oil into settling tanks where sediment is precipitated from oil.

• 5) Tests sample in gravity- or centrifugal-separation machine to determine content of oil specified for pipeline transportation.

• 6) Pumps treated oil into pipelines leading to refinery.

• 7) Cleans and lubricates motors, pumps, and other moving parts of units.

• 8) Records data, such as volume of oil treated, operating temperatures of units, and test results.

• 9) May operate pumps at oil well sites.