3134-Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators

Job Title: 

Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators

Job Description: 

Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators operate and monitor plants and adjust and maintain processing units and equipment which refine, distil and treat petroleum, petroleum-based products and by-products, or natural gas.

Tasks: 

Tasks include:

  • (a) operating electronic or computerized control panel from a central control room to monitor and optimize physical and chemical processes for several processing units
  • adjusting equipment, valves, pumps, controls and process equipment
  • controlling process start-up and shut-down, troubleshooting and monitoring outside process equipment
  • verifying equipment for malfunctions, testing well pipes for leaks and fractures and arranging for maintenance
  • (e) analyzing sample products, performing tests, recording data and writing production logs.
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    Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2153