Drilling.

Delivers drilling engineering support, technology guidance, and operational planning for well construction

EntrySoftware spend $7,800 / seat / yr (2026)39 contacts in the graph hold this role

Sample taken from the live graph on 7 October 2026; refreshed on demand.

What this role actually does

Responsibilities and pain points, sourced from the production graph.

Key responsibilities

Operate Rotary Drilling Equipment, Drawworks, Top Drive, Pumps, and Rig Controls to Advance the Well Safely Against the Drilling Program
Monitor Pressure, Torque, Hookload, Mud Flow, Pit Volume, Depth, and Rate-of-penetration Indicators to Detect Kicks, Losses, Stuck Pipe, or Drilling Dysfunctions
Direct the Rig-floor Crew Through Connections, Tripping, Casing, BOP Checks, Equipment Handling, and Shift Handovers
Maintain Accurate Tour Sheets, Footage Drilled, Materials Used, Formations Encountered, Service Time, and NPT Records for Daily Drilling Reports
Coordinate with Drilling Engineers, Directional Drillers, Mud Engineers, Mud Loggers, and Company Representatives to Execute Well-plan Changes
Inspect, Maintain, and Troubleshoot Rotary Tables, Hoists, Tongs, Pumps, Mud Tanks, Engines, Cables, Blocks, and Rig Safety Equipment

Software pain points

Tour sheets and DDR data are re-entered across EDR, WellView, spreadsheets, and operator templates
Rig sensor feeds arrive in different WITS, WITSML, CSV, and vendor formats
NPT root causes are discovered after the well instead of during the tour
Poor rig connectivity blocks cloud dashboards, document access, and remote-ops support
BOP, JSA, permit, and inspection evidence sits in PDFs that are hard to audit
Maintenance defects are reported verbally and miss the CMMS until failure creates flat time

How this role buys

The categories they buy, the people who approve.

Top software categories

Oil & Gas Software
Industrial IoT Software
Data Preparation Software
Visitor Behavior Intelligence Software
EHS Management
Work Order Software

Decision makers

Drilling Manager
Rig Manager
Control Operations
Digital Forensics Engineering
Procurement

Workflow

A day in the workflow.

Starts tour with the previous crew's handover in WellView and the daily plan in OpenWells, then signs the JSA and permit notes in Microsoft SharePoint; spends the first operating block at the rig console watching Pason EDR torque, hookload, mud flow, standpipe pressure, and depth curves while adjusting top-drive, drawworks, and mud-pump settings; pauses for pipe connections, BOP checks, and mud-weight checks recorded on the electronic tour sheet; joins a short remote-ops call in Microsoft Teams with the drilling engineer, directional driller, mud logger, and company man to compare Pason DataHub trends against the drilling program; uses Microsoft Excel or Power BI to flag ROP, connection time, NPT, and safety exceptions; closes the tour by updating WellView/OpenWells daily drilling reports, logging maintenance defects to SAP or Maximo, and handing unresolved risks to the next driller

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