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- noun the senior
worker in charge of anoil drilling rig
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Examples
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Jim, a 35 year old toolpusher from Alabama, was up at 6: 00am.
Peace of Mind 2010
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Mr. Wheeler was the dayshift toolpusher, the man who supervised the drilling crew for 12 hours each day.
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The toolpusher is designated OIM Offshore Installation Manager and as such is effectively captain of the vessel.
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'Nuff said, except for a joke a friend made when Bill Clements former CEO of SEDCO drilling was governor of Texas, "Texas doesn't have a governor, it has a toolpusher!"
More about Laura talking dirty. Ann Althouse 2005
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Barber, a Transocean senior toolpusher aboard the DDII, said last week in an e-mail from the rig.
Fore, right! 2010
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Barber, a Transocean senior toolpusher aboard the DDII, said last week in an e-mail from the rig.
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Transocean senior toolpusher aboard the DDII, said last week in an e-mail from the rig.
Leader Call Homepage 2010
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Transocean senior toolpusher aboard the DDII, said last week in an e-mail from the rig.
Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com 2010
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Anderson, the toolpusher, was one of nine Transocean employees who perished along with two workers from M-I Swaco, which supplies drilling fluid systems.
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Vidrine told the BP investigators he had been doing paperwork in his office aboard the rig for 10 or 15 minutes when Jason Anderson, a Transocean toolpusher, called to say that drilling mud had begun flowing up the pipe, an indication that gas or crude had entered the well.
qms commented on the word toolpusher
Suggestive are names on the rig:
They drill till the gusher is big;
A roustabout’s lusty
But (read it and trust me),
The big score’s a toolpusher’s gig.
May 17, 2018