What are Snubbing Services?

"Snubbing Services" with their "snubbing units" are deployed in the Upstream Oil and Gas industry on oil and natural gas wells when "heavy well intervention" is required. "Snubbing" requires a snubbing unit whereby tubulars can be installed or removed from "live" oil & gas wells operating under reservoir/formation pressure thereby saving time, money and possible damage to the reservoir.  

Snubbing services include the following typical applications:

• Cementing

• Clean-out

• CO2 injection

• Coiled tubing services

• Conventional workovers

• Deepen existing wells

• Drilling new wells

• Fishing

• Gravel packing

• "Live" well control

• Milling

• Nitrogen injection

• Nitrogen stimulation

• Reservoir stimulation

• Perforating

• Pipeline cleanouts

• Pressure control

• Removing bridge plugs

• Running production tubing

• Side tracking

• Under-balanced drilling

• Well completion services

• Well control & well control services

• Well intervention

• Wireline services

Finally, another advantage that snubbing units provide include the ability to work on live wells without having to remove the Christmas tree from the wellhead.