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A roughneck is a person whose occupation is hard manual labor. The term applies across a number of industries, but is most commonly associated with the workers on a drilling rig . The ideal of the hard-working, tough roughneck has been adopted by several sports teams who use the phrase as part of their name or logo.
An elderly woman shouted, "Sit down and be quiet you roughnecks!" [1] The name was later changed to RUF/NEKS. The founder of the RUF/NEKS was Charles Leslie High. [1] His most famous act was the "Dallas or Bust" campaign, in which he sold tickets at a cheap price to students who wished to attend the Red River Showdown game against Texas ...
An oil roustabout has no limits in the oil industry and can, and will do any and all oil field work, including roughneck drilling, oil well completion and well service, and even chemical work. An oil field roustabout will also do all things that an oil field pumper would have to do.
When Trace Adkins, honky tonk legend and Celebrity Apprentice star, spent a day laboring on the offshore oil rig where he spent six years of his youth, he proved his point: "I'm not a singer who ...
The president and CEO of a local company has won the 2024 Chief Roughneck Award.
An iron roughneck is a piece of hydraulic machinery used to "handle" (connect and disconnect) segments of pipe in a modern drilling rig. [1] The segments can be manipulated as they are hoisted into and out of a borehole .
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Roughnecks can refer to: . Roughneck, those employed in the oil industry.; Roughnecks, a 1990s BBC One programme about oil rig workers; Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, a CGI animation television series