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Gas or Oil Lease Operator – Natural Gas – All Operations & DriversNot applicable to gas or oil field specialist contractors engaged in well maintenance operations at oil or gas lease sites.
Description
Code 1320 applies to employers that are engaged in operating gas or oil production wells whether performed by the lessee, owner or a contract lease operator who is responsible for operating the facility for its owner.
This classification includes all operations that are required to oversee the entire producing well including clearing of land, building of lease roads, slush pits, levees or fire walls, the laying or taking up of flow lines or water lines, installing central pumping units, the acidizing of wells, and lease beautification work.
Some of the duties of a lease operator consist of monitoring the well equipment to assure that it is functioning properly, measuring oil that has been pumped into tanks, and reporting emergencies that may arise such as an oil spill.
Heat-treating is also included and performed to remove excess water from the oil. This is done to increase the rate of oil flow.
Assignment by Analogy
Cleaning or swabbing of oil wells
Operations to be Separately Rated
Derrick erecting or dismantling. Refer to Code 5057 “Iron or Steel Erection NOC – All Operations to Completion,” and Code 5403 “Carpentry – NOC – All Operations to Completion.”
Gas or oil lease work by contractor Not Otherwise Classified (NOC). Refer to Code 6216 “Gas or Oil Lease Work – NOC – Natural Gas – By Contractor – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
Gas or oil pipeline construction. Refer to Code 6233 “Gas or Oil Pipeline Construction – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
Gas or oil pipeline operation. Refer to Code 7515 “Gas or Oil Pipeline Operation & Drivers.”
Oil or gas well cementing. Refer to Code 5213 “Concrete Construction – NOC – All Operations to Completion.”
Oil or gas well drilling, well shooting or redrilling. Refer to Code 6235 “Oil or Gas Well – Drilling or Redrilling – All Operations to Completion & Drivers.”
Tank building. Refer to Code 3620 “Tank Building – Metal – Shop.”