Patent ID: 7273108

Claim:
A method of moving a coiled tubing tractor through a wellbore containing sand, the method comprising the steps of: running a coiled tubing tractor assembly on coiled tubing into the wellbore, the tractor assembly comprising one or more forward facing jet nozzles, the tractor, a suction inlet ahead of the tractor and a jet pump behind the tractor, the jet pump being in fluid communication with the suction inlet; removing a sand bed ahead of the tractor by fluidizing the sand particles with the one or more forward facing nozzles to create a sand-ladened slurry; sucking the sand-ladened slurry through the suction inlet; pumping the sand-ladened slurry via the jet pump past the trailing end of the tractor assembly; and driving the tractor through the portion of the wellbore that previously contained the sand bed.