Our Well Interventions Team

a perfect solution for your Well Intervention Needs

Time Is Money When it comes to well Interventions

Our well interventions team has over 200 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. Our crews in the field have an average of 45 years per crew in the oil & gas industry.  This combined experience gives our customers the most efficient operations on their job sites.

Well interventions team President

ROBERT BRAY

PRESIDENT

39 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, specializing in work-over/snubbing, well control operations, and management of a fortune 500 company.

Well Interventions team Senior VP of Operations

tony Sanders

Senior VP of Operations

 43 years of experience in the oil & gas industry with an Associates degree in petroleum engineering. Specializing in work-over/snubbing, drilling, well control operations, and management. 

SBS Energy Business Development

Phil Smith

vp of business development

42 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. Specializing in snubbing operations & technical sales management.

SBS Energy Coiled Tubing Manager

ed burchfield

Coiled tubing manager

41 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, specializing in coiled tubing, well control operations and management.

SBS Energy Services Safety Coordinator

Jim wurst

safety COORDINATOR

41 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, specializing in work-over, snubbing, well control operations and management.

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SBS Energy Services News

Breaking Records!!!

SBS Energy Services (SBS), a leader in snubbing, hydraulic workover, and coiled tubing applications, has completed a multi-phase project to decommission approximately 29,000 feet of 10 inches by 6 inches insulated pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico in partnership with Helix Energy Solutions, setting a new offshore snubbing unit/hydraulic workover world record. 

The project, which was completed successfully in 22 days, ahead of schedule, consisted of retrieving and removing a Pipeline End Termination (PLET) to the surface of a DP3 drilling intervention vessel. The second objective was to use a 340k snubbing unit to rig up and intervene inside the pipeline with an optimized drill pipe string to perform washing/flushing operations until reaching the second PLET. A cap was then installed on the first end of the pipeline and placed back in the original trench on the seafloor with the deployment rigging and drill string for permanent abandonment in-situ. The final task was to record the final pipeline position on the seafloor.  

A highlight of the operation was cleaning out the flowline rather than cutting it into sections, which has been performed previously on long flowlines such as this one. This approach significantly reduced the number of critical subsea lifts and the overall timeline for the cleanout and lay down. Performing the full cleanout in a single lift also required minimal onshore disposal of flowline components. 

This deepwater pipeline cleanout utilized the Helix Q4000, an intervention, and construction vessel, working in 3,287 feet of water. “To our knowledge, this has never been done before, especially considering the total cleanout depth of almost 29,000 feet with over 25,000 feet of that being lateral length on the ocean floor,” said Bobby Bray, president, SBS. 

The operation’s highlight was to successfully trip in one time and trip out the drill string to the 28,789 feet actual drill pipe measurement (28,763 feet per procedure); 3,281 feet water depth, 25,069 feet (4.75 miles) lateral and flush the pipeline. Another characteristic that makes this unique is that the pipeline lying on the seafloor is shallow (3,281 feet vertical) compared to a conventional well profile (est. 10,000 feet vertical). 

“Typically, interventions use the verticality of the upper portion of the wellbore, in this case, the pipeline to take advantage of gravity and the vertical drill pipe section to use the weight to lower the drill pipe string into the lateral,” explained Charles Overstreet, PE, president of Omicron Project Consulting, who provided the engineering design on the project. “This project relied on the snubbing unit’s ability to snub/push/rotate more than is required in a conventional well profile and be able to reach nearly 5 miles of extended laterals.”

The job also incorporated a special tool named “Crab Claw.” Crab Claw was designed, engineered, and manufactured to store torque energy while washing and rotating operations were ongoing.  

“This was both a safety and an operational efficiency design. We stored the residual torque of pipe rotations while making up or breaking out subsequent joints. This saved measurable time and created a safer work environment,” added Overstreet.

“The pre-job planning, institutional knowledge, and crew experience were critical to our success,” says Bray. “Kudos to our customer who gave us the time to prepare for the job. Our customers now know they have an environmentally safe and cost-efficient option for flowline cleanout compared to recovering the flowline and disposing of it onshore.”

To date, this is the longest subsea flowline cleanout conducted via this method. The previous snubbing record depth of 23,800 feet was set in 2006 by Helix (then Cal Dive) on the Q4000 during the Mariner Energy Pluto pipeline cleanout.

"SBS has always done a fantastic job no matter what the circumstances were. They're always prepared and come with their A-game. From Bobby to Brandon and Big-G, it's always a pleasure to have these guys on my projects. The level of planning, safety, and execution can't be matched"
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Team Building & Training

Our personnel attends training with a 3rd party safety company which is well known for providing some of the best training courses in the country. We hold our staff to the highest standard when it comes to training. We are serious about our personnel performing safely and efficiently on every job site.

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