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Location: Red Deer, Canada
Experience: Entry-level
Highest Level of Education: High School Diploma



Job Responsibilities
Operater of a swab rig unloading and evaluating wells. 40 to 80 hours a week safely spoting and rigging up swab rig to perform required duties set out by contracting company.
Job Requirements
High school class 3 license, plus all safety tickets.
Uppers
Will learn a basic to advanced knowledge of oil and gas well operations that can be latter used to advance in the oil and gas industry.
Downers
Long travel, spotty work in the summer and freeze up and break up seasons.
Lifestyle
Long hours, continuous travel, spoty work.
Compensation
Average wage is 18 to 32 $/hour.
Advice to Jobseekers
More wells more work older wells require more swabbing to compensate for lower formation pressures... increase of fliud entering well casing.

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