8187-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 which refine, distil and treat petroleum, petroleum-base products and by-products or natural gas.

Tasks: 

Tasks include:

  • operating and monitoring plant which removes sulphur from petroleum and petroleum-based products, and by-products
  • operating and monitoring pumps which circulate petroleum products or water and chemical solutions through refinery
  • operating and monitoring stills which distil or refine petroleum products
  • operating and monitoring machines which blend petrol with chemicals and other additives
  • operating and monitoring machines which refine or otherwise treat natural gases
Additional Notes: 


This unit group includes

Paraffin plant operator
Petroleum refining plant control man
Acetylene filler
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) filler
Oxygen filler
Asphalt blender
Desulphurisation treater (petroleum refining)

Specific Occupations: 

81871
Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operator

81872
Cylinder filler/tester (compressed and liquefied gases)

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Source Of Info: 

Source: SINGAPORE STANDARD OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION 2015, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Republic of Singapore