Overshot Fishing Tool In Drilling | How It Work
The Releasing Overshot fishing tools (check our guide to successful fishing operations) are used to externally engage and retrieve all sizes of tubing, drill pipe, and casing. Here we will discuss its components including basket grapple, spiral grapple & controls. We shall also explain in detail its operations.

Overshot: First choice tool because it does not reduce I.D. and has a better pack-off than a spear.
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