Hong Tang, an immigrant from China, has lived and worked in the West Palm Beach community for many years. She worked at a spa for most of that time. Now she is a homemaker for her small but growing family. Tang has an unusual skill that many people don’t know about in her social circles: oil drill repair. Tang studied how to repair and maintain oil drilling equipment during her time in college in China before she moved to the United States. Tang worked with these incredibly complex machines and learned much from her hands-on experience and classroom time before she immigrated to the US to pursue other opportunities.
Hong Tang hopes to one day find a job in the energy sector near West Palm Beach someday in which she can work with oil drilling rigs. These machines are very complex and can be used for many different applications. Drilling rigs, in addition to creating holes in the earth’s sub-surface for natural gas, oil, or water extraction, can also be used to sample sub-surface mineral deposits, test rock, soil, and groundwater physical properties, and can be used to install sub-surface structures, such as underground utilities, instrumentation, tunnels, and wells. Hong Tang took her education in oil rig drilling equipment with her to West Palm Beach, Florida.
Hong Tang has built a life for herself in West Palm Beach without getting into the energy sector as a drill machinist, but she hopes to one day use her education in a profession that will help her family grow and become prosperous.
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Hong Tang has built a life for herself in West Palm Beach without getting into the energy sector as a drill machinist, but she hopes to one day use her education in a profession that will help her family grow and become prosperous.
