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Nipple Up
Empire supplies experienced nipple up crews across Northern Alberta — rigging up BOP stacks and wellhead equipment to spec, torqued right, and ready for operations to begin.
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A nipple up done wrong costs you time, money, and sometimes a whole lot more. Whether you’re rigging up a BOP stack for drilling operations or configuring wellhead equipment for completions, the setup has to be right before anything else can happen. Empire’s crews have done this enough times to know what right looks like — and they don’t leave until it is.
We supply experienced nipple up crews across Northern Alberta, available around the clock. This isn’t a service we bolt on — it’s work our guys know inside and out from years of field experience.
For anyone newer to the terminology — a nipple up refers to the process of assembling and rigging up wellhead pressure control equipment at the start of a drilling or completions operation. This typically includes stacking and connecting the BOP equipment, spools, and associated wellhead components in the correct configuration, torqued to spec and pressure tested before operations begin.
Get it wrong and you’re tearing it back down and starting over. Get it right and operations move forward on schedule.
Empire’s crews are familiar with a wide range of wellhead configurations and pressure ratings. They show up knowing what they’re doing, work efficiently, and make sure the stack is properly assembled, sealed, and ready for the next step.
Our nipple up crews have field time behind them. They understand wellhead equipment, know how to read a configuration, and work to the torque specs and procedures the job requires — not shortcuts.
We pair our crews with the tools they need to do the job properly. Hydraulic torque equipment, rigging gear, and everything else required to get the stack assembled correctly.
Drilling and completions don’t run on office hours, and neither do we. If you need a crew on location for a nipple up, call us and we’ll get people moving.
If you need recertification work done on the equipment before it goes in the hole, or rentals to fill gaps in your stack, Empire can handle that too. We’re not just a nipple up crew — we’re a full-service operation that can coordinate across multiple needs on the same job.
We work throughout Northern Alberta and into BC. Grande Prairie is home base, but our crews go where the work is. Remote locations, tight timelines, last-minute callouts — we’re used to it.
If you’ve got a rig-up coming up, don’t wait until the day before. Give us a call and let’s make sure we’ve got the right crew lined up and ready.
We mobilize ASAP across Northern Alberta and BC. Call our dispatch line now.
dispatch@empireoilfield.ca
Empire takes pride in treating our people well — which is why they stick around and why we can keep sending you the same reliable faces job after job. A workforce that’s respected is a workforce that performs. Every person we send out has been through our process. That means:
We’re not interested in rushing through a nipple up to get to the next job. A properly rigged stack means operations proceed safely and without interruption. That matters to us — and it should matter to everyone on location.
