Access Restoration

Wellhead Intervention & Gate Valve Drilling

Restoring safe wellhead access when conventional methods are limited.

A seized valve doesn’t have to shut down your well. We drill through it, restore access, and keep well control intact - start to finish.

Capabilities

  • Drilling through seized or partially closed gate valves
  • Restoring wellhead access for workover and intervention
  • Identifying and safely bleeding off trapped pressure
  • Mechanical wellhead remediation
  • Post-intervention well control verification

Deploy Us When

  • A master or wing valve has seized open or closed
  • A failed valve is blocking wellhead access
  • Trapped pressure behind a valve body needs to be managed before work can proceed
Field Work

Gate valve drilling, on real wellheads.

A technician in coveralls beside a newly installed flange assembly on a wellhead
Close-up of a gate valve and pressure fittings staged for installation
A gate valve being fitted onto a corroded wellhead riser
Wellhead intervention equipment staged during a controlled field operation
Wellhead reheading equipment and fittings prepared on location
Close field view of wellhead intervention tooling
Crew equipment arranged for a wellhead access restoration operation
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