On a bi-weekly basis, the tool pushers meet with the company's drilling superintendent and the safety director to discuss the safety program along with other matters.
In the early oil-development days, roughnecks, drillers, tool pushers and equipment haulers literally wallowed in the mud, dropping pipe and running oil wells around the clock.
In graduate school I taught freshman history classes and shared an office with a fellow whose former career had been tool pusher on an offshore rig.
In the event the tool pusher is not on site, the drill rig operator or driller assumes this responsibility.
To advance from an entry-level position to being a tool pusher may require 10-15 years.
Definition of tool pusher in US English:
tool pusher
(also toolpusher)
noun
A person who directs the drilling on an oil rig.
钻井工长，钻井工地主任
Example sentencesExamples
On a bi-weekly basis, the tool pushers meet with the company's drilling superintendent and the safety director to discuss the safety program along with other matters.
To advance from an entry-level position to being a tool pusher may require 10-15 years.
In the early oil-development days, roughnecks, drillers, tool pushers and equipment haulers literally wallowed in the mud, dropping pipe and running oil wells around the clock.
In the event the tool pusher is not on site, the drill rig operator or driller assumes this responsibility.
In graduate school I taught freshman history classes and shared an office with a fellow whose former career had been tool pusher on an offshore rig.