Will AI replace Wellhead Pumpers?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
0/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 2% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 0% of the work
What the job involves
Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Out of reach(14)
- Gauge oil and gas production.
- Monitor pumps and flow lines for gas and fluid leaks.
- Operate engines and pumps to shut off wells according to production schedules, and to switch flow of oil into storage tanks.
- Monitor control panels during pumping operations to ensure that materials are being pumped at the correct pressure, density, rate, and concentration.
- Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
and 9 more
Also called
Pumper · Oil Pumper · Oil Field Operator · Oil Field Pumper · Field Operator · Oilfield Plant Operator · Well Tender · Wellhead Pumper
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics