NOC 2021 · 84101 · TEER 4
Oil and gas well drilling and related workers and services operators
Unit group 84101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Oil and gas well drilling workers operate drilling and service rig machinery as intermediate members of the rig crew. Oil and gas well services operators drive trucks and operate specialized hydraulic pumping systems to place cement in wells or to treat wells with chemicals, sand mixtures or gases to stimulate production. They are employed by drilling and well service contractors and by petroleum producing companies.
Example job titles
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- acid treater - oil field services
- acid truck driver - oil field services
- acidizer - oil field services
- ballast control operator - offshore drilling rig
- blender operator - oil field services
- blending machine operator - oil field services
- carbon dioxide truck operator - oil field services
- cement truck driver - oil field services
- cementer - oil field services
- cementing equipment operator - oil field services
- chemical services operator - oil field services
- chemical truck operator - oil field services
- coiled tubing operator - oil field services
- control room operator - offshore drilling
- derrick worker - oil and gas drilling
- derrickhand
- derrickhand - offshore drilling
- derrickhand - oil and gas drilling
- derrickman/woman
- derrickman/woman - oil and gas drilling
- dynamic positioning operator - offshore drilling
- formation fracturing operator
- formation fracturing operator - oil field services
- frac driver - oil field services
- motorhand - offshore drilling
- motorhand - oil and gas drilling
- motorman/woman - oil and gas drilling
- nitrogen operator
- nitrogen operator - oil field services
- nitrogen truck operator - oil field services
- offshore drilling rig technician
- oil well acidizer
- oil well cementer - oil field services
- pipeline locator - oil field services
- power-tong operator
- production tubing operator - oil field services
- pumper - oil field services
- pumper operator - oil field services
- reeled tubing operator - oil field services
- rig technician - motorhand
- rig technician - oil field services
- seismic buried facilities locator
- snubbing-unit operator
- well treatment blender operator - oil field services
- well treatment pump operator - oil field services
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.