The industry has become more aware of damages caused by heavy kill weight fluids and mud.

This has helped make snubbing units more popular in a completion and workover role, versus its' traditional use as a well control response tool.

With the advances in drilling technologies in the unconventional shale market, the benefits of snubbing units have become very apparent.

These types of completions often have laterals extending out thousands of feet.

With costly stimulations used to help extract the gas more efficiently, operators often times do not wish to turn around and load the well with heavy fluids to complete the well dead.