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Job Description
Test or analyze geological samples, crude oil, or minerals to detect presence of petroleum, gas, or mineral deposits indicating potential for exploration or production or to determine physical or chemical properties to ensure that products meet quality standards.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4041.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Geological Sample Test Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Geological Sample Test Technicians
- Research Associate
- Quality Control Technician (QC Technician)
- Physical Science Technician
- Organic Section Technical Lead
- Materials Technician
- Laboratory Technician
- Environmental Sampling Technician
- Environmental Field Services Technician
- Electron Microprobe Operator
- Core Inspector
- Well Tester
- Well Logger
- Tester
- Test Technician
- Test Evaluator
- Test Engine Operator
- Test Engine Evaluator
- Temperature Logging Operator
- Specialist Field Engineer
- Petroleum Analyst
- Ore Tester
- Oil Tester
- Oil Laboratory Analyst
- Oil Field Tester
- Oil and Gas Exploration Technician
- Oil Analyst
- Mud Analysis Well-Logging Operator
- Mud Analysis Well-Logging Captain
- Mud Analysis Operator
- Mineral Technologist
- Laboratory Worker
- Laboratory Assistant
- Hydrology Technician
- Geotechnicial Properties Technician
- Geology Technician
- Geology Associate
- Geological Technician
- Gasoline Tester
- Gas Tester
- Gas Prover
- Gas Analyst
- Extractions Technologist
- Explorer
- Drilling Fluids Specialist
- Crude Tester
- Chalk Tester
- Acid Tester
Tasks for “Oil Well Logger”
- Supervise well exploration, drilling activities, or well completions.
- Test and analyze samples to determine their content and characteristics, using laboratory apparatus or testing equipment.
- Assemble, operate, or maintain field or laboratory testing, measuring, or mechanical equipment.
- Plot information from aerial photographs, well logs, section descriptions, or other databases.
- Collaborate with hydrogeologists to evaluate groundwater or well circulation.
- Adjust or repair testing, electrical, or mechanical equipment or devices.
- Participate in the evaluation of possible mining locations.
- Assess the environmental impacts of development projects on subsurface materials.
- Collect or prepare solid or fluid samples for analysis.
- Prepare notes, sketches, geological maps, or cross sections.
- Inspect engines for wear or defective parts, using equipment or measuring devices.
- Participate in geological, geophysical, geochemical, hydrographic, or oceanographic surveys, prospecting field trips, exploratory drilling, well logging, or underground mine survey programs.
- Participate in the evaluation of possible geothermal energy plant locations.
- Prepare or review professional, technical, or other reports regarding sampling, testing, or recommendations of data analysis.
- Prepare, transcribe, or analyze seismic, gravimetric, well log, or other geophysical or survey data.
- Compile, log, or record testing or operational data for review and further analysis.
- Test and analyze samples from potential underground carbon sequestration sites.
Related Technology & Tools
- Laboratory drying ovens
- Portable dataloggers
- Dissolved organic carbon analyzers
- Water sampling bailers
- Total sulfur analyzers
- Gravitational field indicators
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Glass beakers
- Electronic distance meters
- Automatic burets
- Top-loading electronic balances
- Carbon hydrogen nitrogen CHN analyzers
- Rotary pulverizers
- Desktop computers
- Cryogenic magnetometers
- Spectrophotometers
- Fluorescence spectrophotometers
- Dissolved oxygen meters
- Calorimeters
- Conductivity indicators
- Turbidimeters
- Laptop computers
- Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers
- Proton magnetometers
- Digital seismographs
- Personal computers
- Terrain conductivity meters
- High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
- Optical particle detectors
- Laboratory sieves
- Glass dropping pipettes
- Digital micropipettes
- Phase contrast microscopes
- Rock saws
- Electronic laboratory balances
- Microwave digestion systems
- Glass graduated cylinders
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Heated magnetic stirrers
- Binocular polarizing microscopes
- Single crystal x ray diffractometers
- Digital chlorine testers
- Glass funnels
- Sieve shakers
- Groundwater sampling peristaltic pumps
- Spinner magnetometers
- General purpose burets
- Digital pH meters
- Chipmunk crushers
- Fluorescence microscopes
- Shatterboxes
- Piezometers
- Digital hydrometers
- Water distillation units
- Ground penetrating radar GPR systems
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Laboratory pulverizers
- Digital cameras
- Inductively coupled plasma ICP optical emission spectrometers
- Laboratory vacuum pumps
- Volumetric flasks
- Gas chromatography equipment
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Glass laboratory crucibles
- Sample microsplitters
- Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Mass spectrometers
- Jaw crushers
- Dissolved salt meters
- Clark Labs IDRISI Andes
- Martin D Adamiker's TruFlite
- Landmark GeoGraphix
- Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Parallel Geoscience SPW
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- Seismic Micro-Technology KINGDOM
- Golden Software Surfer
- Midland Valley 2DMove
- Surface III
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Autodesk AutoCAD