UNSPSC 71121633: Oilfield gravel packing services

Services to provide a steel screen in the wellbore and the surrounding annulus packed with gravel designed to prevent the passage of formation sand for stabilization purposes.

UNSPSC 71121633 Oilfield gravel packing services is a Commodity code that state and local governments are not currently buying. The recent opportunities block shows no solicitations for gravel packing services—the dominant recent activity involves orphan well plugging, abandonment, and site restoration, which fall outside the scope of gravel packing in active oilfield operations. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has posted four direct solicitations (July 2026) for plugging and site restoration of 38 total orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm Counties, with responses due July 21, 2026; these solicitations demand comprehensive well abandonment, site remediation, and infrastructure removal but make no reference to gravel packing as a service line. The code shows a fundamental mismatch with current state and local procurement activity.

State and local governments buying under related codes are primarily addressing legacy well infrastructure remediation rather than production-phase well completion services. The issuing bodies are state environmental agencies (Michigan EGLE), county utilities (Seminole County, Hillsborough County, Marion County, Volusia County in Florida; Collier County; San Bernardino County in California), city water systems (Lubbock, Bend, Pascagoula, Palm Bay in Texas and Florida), and regional water authorities (Eastern Municipal Water District in California). This portfolio reflects capital replacement of aging wells, plugging of orphan wells under federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding, and emergency or routine maintenance of potable and irrigation infrastructure. Gravel packing—a sand control technique used during production well completion in active drilling operations—does not appear in any of the recent solicitations.