It blows sideways at you when the oil or water comes shooting ... He could be sent to clean the rig manager’s — the “tool pusher’s”— kitchen. The roughneck’s iconic tools are the ...

The salary for an oil rig roughneck is much easier to find. There are somewhat conflicting results, but Glassdoor suggests that a roughneck can make between $60-$112k per year. With that being ...

What was once an extremely dangerous process on the rig floor has now become almost completely automated in most drilling situations. Iron roughnecks of today are fed pipe mechanically ...

Being a worm on an oil rig, as depicted in Landman, is more than just a job, it’s a test of endurance, grit, and character. Cooper’s struggles mirror the real-life challenges of roughnecks ...

Jacob Lofland says quitting college and going to work as a roughneck for the oil and gas company where his father is a ...

Christian Wallace was working on oil rigs in his native West Texas. Today, he’s co-creator and executive producer of “Landman,” a hit TV series inspired by the roughnecks he’s known his ...

Petroleum landmen at major companies such as Chevron can earn up to $194,584. Oil rig roughnecks, on the other hand, receive an annual salary ranging from $60,000 to $112,000, contingent upon ...

Oil Works, Inc. has been active ... automated pipe handling systems, iron roughnecks, substructures, and derricks. OWI also builds and sells full rig packages by aggregating many of these products ...

Sheridan replaced ranchers with roughnecks. Landman is very loosely based on the Boomtown podcast, which tells the story of a modern-day gold rush set in Texas’s oil-rig patch. Feel free to ...