Snubbers Tripping Tubing Out of Hole pt.2 HD 1080p

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Snubber night crew. Well completion operations.
Short clip, from a distance.

Just a short full view of removing a string of tubing out of well using snubbing equipment.

They are unthreading tubing with tongs on top, winching the single threaded joints of tubing down to the ground one at a time, stacking them, and marking their number with a grease pen. Rinse and repeat a couple hundred times through the 12 hour night-shift.

A full string of tubing, around two miles worth of pipe, or a few kilometers on average, takes a couple 24 hour shifts.

If the well is particularly high pressure, even with it pumped full of kill fluid (for hydro-static pressure to keep the gas pressure lower at surface), the well can still give high pressure at the surface requiring regular 'bleeding down' through the gas testers equipment to a flarestack. And may need to keep being bled down regularly through the testers, from the snubbers equipment, as they trip pipe. Doing it under pressure is more wear on the snubbers equipment. So it can make the process go a little slower and take more time, introduce more safety risk, and cost more at higher pressures.

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