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Best well drillers in Nye County, Nevada

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 162 drilling companies with wells on record in Nye County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 16,516 logged wells in the Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) Well Driller Reports database (records as of 2026-09-28). Every number links back to the public record.

162companies on record
39active since 2022
16,516wells in county record
#CompanyIn Nye Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Great Basin Drilling 532 5,063 5,456
2 Jim Pike Well Drilling LLC 411 3,333 3,335
3 Strickland Construction Co. Inc. 299 1,255 1,257
4 Boart Longyear 235 547 3,633
5 Layne Christensen Co. 165 207 738
6 Budget Drilling Co. 158 190 884
7 Ream Drilling 84 84 125
8 Parsons Drilling Inc. 27 88 4,125
9 Davis Drilling & Pumps 24 101 638
10 David Gibson Contractor LLC 20 26 114
11 Cascade Drilling LP 18 18 4,479
12 Welsco Corp 15 28 2,537
13 Rosenlund Drilling LLC 15 28 540
14 Lewis Drilling LLC 12 12 98
15 National Ewp Inc. 11 38 2,155
16 Major Drilling America Inc. 11 14 138
17 Yellow Jacket Drilling Services LLC 11 11 333
18 Premier Drilling Company 8 8 67
19 Gardner Brothers Drilling Inc. 7 18 94
20 Western Strata Exploration Inc. 6 6 182
21 Haz-Tech Drilling Inc. 5 12 830
22 Nevada Webber Drilling Inc. 5 10 74
23 Stonehouse Drilling & Construction LLC 4 4 363
24 Harris Exploration Drilling & Associates Inc. 4 4 37
25 Hydro Resources West Inc. 3 7 300
26 BC@ Environmental LLC 3 3 624
27 AB Drilling 3 3 45
28 Christiansen Drilling Inc. 2 39 521
29 Fred Anderson Drilling Inc. 2 6 643
30 J & H Drilling 2 2 149
31 Eagle Drilling Services LLC 1 35 3,374
32 Leach Drilling Inc. 1 18 1,400
33 Bc2 Environmental LLC 1 1 1,032
34 Capital City Well Drilling & Pump Service Inc. 1 1 1,240
35 S & S Water Wells 1 1 28
36 Charles Nyberg Well Drilling — 1,454 1,531
37 S & H Drilling — 489 508
38 Wayne Floyd Pumps & Drilling — 337 346
39 Floyds Construction — 328 344
40 Cook Drilling Co. #2 Inc. — 317 327
41 Larrys Waterwell Service — 287 288
42 Custom Drilling Inc. — 241 242
43 Eklund Drilling Co. Inc. — 148 1,580
44 Woytek Drilling Co. — 147 331
45 C B Capehart — 138 140
46 Gatzke Drilling — 88 144
47 Ron Naillon Well Drilling & Pumps — 85 86
48 Bruce Robinson Drilling Co. — 78 326
49 John Floyd Well Drilling — 74 74
50 Larue Construction Co. — 73 73
51 Thompson Drilling Co. Inc. — 61 1,080
52 Lang Exploratory Drilling — 50 1,532
53 E. C. Ferguson — 41 46
54 C - D Co. — 39 40
55 J D Hill — 37 124
56 Hydro Resources Nevada Inc. — 36 459
57 Stanley Ford — 34 35
58 Dimick Drilling — 33 1,633
59 T & R Drilling — 31 298
60 W D C Exploration & Wells — 28 1,910
61 Gullard Drilling & Boring — 28 225
62 Valley Drilling — 26 111
63 Hackworth Drilling Inc. — 24 2,790
64 A A A Drilling — 23 158
65 Water Well Services — 20 413
66 Humboldt Drilling & Pump Co. — 19 1,494
67 Bruce Young — 19 34
68 Water Development Corp (The) — 17 609
69 Weber Environmental Inc. — 16 729
70 Sargent Irrigation Inc. — 14 429
71 Bechtel Nevada Corporation — 14 43
72 Briner Drilling Inc. — 13 434
73 American Drilling & Pump Service — 13 172
74 Maynard Well Drilling & Pump Sales — 12 112
75 Aqua Drilling & Well Service Inc. — 11 2,675
76 Enloe Drilling Co. — 11 597
77 Converse Consultants — 10 790
78 J B Reynolds — 10 343
79 J D Hill Drilling Co. — 10 50
80 Desert Drilling — 9 1,187
81 W L Mcdonald And Co. Inc. — 9 815
82 A A A Drilling & Equipment Rental — 9 377
83 Boart Longyear Nevada — 9 329
84 Darell H Free — 9 202
85 Steve Kawchack — 9 146
86 US Geological Survey — 9 127
87 Stretchs Exploration Inc. — 9 52
88 Potter Drilling Co. — 9 51
89 U S Geological Survey — 9 42
90 Wright Drilling Inc. — 8 87
91 High Desert Drilling LLC — 7 384
92 Alternative Drilling Company LLC — 7 243
93 Maynard Well Drilling — 7 95
94 Darell Free — 7 55
95 Frank J Schuh — 7 35
96 Layne Western Co. — 6 97
97 Effinger Drilling & Pump Svc — 5 370
98 Mitchell Enterprises — 5 294
99 Aqua Drilling & Well Service I — 5 225
100 Elsing Well Drilling & Pump Co. — 5 155
101 Beylik Drilling Inc. — 5 131
102 Bill Blood — 5 77
103 William Cooper — 5 77
104 S & R Drilling Co. — 5 64
105 Robertson Eng & Drill — 5 47
106 Badlands Drilling Corp — 5 28
107 Bruce Mackay Pump & Well Service Inc. — 4 2,849
108 S R Mckinney & Sons Inc. — 4 737
109 Eddco Exploration Inc. — 4 320
110 C M Robinson JR — 4 121
111 F B Hicks Drilling Co. — 4 91
112 Layne Environmental — 4 61
113 Compliance Drilling Corp — 4 43
114 Grant W Cox — 4 26
115 Don Wilson — 3 323
116 Sierra Pump & Drilling — 3 294
117 Mel Meyer — 3 258
118 Richard Leblanc — 3 243
119 Allen Water Well Service Co. — 3 231
120 Sage Brothers Drilling Co. Inc. — 3 178
121 Rimrock Drilling Inc. — 3 145
122 Gustin Corp — 3 139
123 T H F Drilling Inc. — 3 127
124 Glen Maddox — 3 116
125 Patrick H Thompson — 3 115
126 Oasis Drilling Inc. — 3 113
127 Fred Anderson & Son Exploratio — 3 107
128 H A Sevey — 3 63
129 Hatch Drilling Co. — 3 30
130 Wayne Drilling Inc. — 2 2,457
131 Fertig Drilling Co. — 2 762
132 Redding Drilling — 2 470
133 Armstrong Bros — 2 401
134 Louis F Evans — 2 291
135 B & B Drilling Co. Inc. — 2 269
136 Emdlco Inc. — 2 179
137 Blain Well Drilling — 2 114
138 Brinkerhoff Pump & Drilling Co. Inc. — 2 101
139 Weimer Drilling — 2 97
140 Charles Sargent Irrigation Inc. — 2 66
141 American Drilling Co. — 2 60
142 Carson Pump — 1 374
143 Okeefe Drilling Company Inc. — 1 139
144 Allen Drilling Inc. — 1 5,330
145 W M Blain Well Drilling & Pumps — 1 904
146 Elite Drilling Inc. — 1 619
147 Muth Drilling Co. — 1 563
148 Nevada Drilling Inc. — 1 547
149 Fred Anderson & Son Exploration Drilling Inc. — 1 479
150 Ogden Bros Drilling — 1 349
151 Edmund Miller Drilling Co. — 1 218
152 Nevada Pump & Drilling — 1 177
153 Vernon Cannon JR — 1 176
154 R C B B Inc. — 1 163
155 Vincent Dresden — 1 92
156 A O Large — 1 78
157 Becker Drills Inc. — 1 45
158 Maranatha Drilling & Pump Service — 1 41
159 Inland Pacific Drilling Co. Inc. — 1 36
160 Barnes Well Drilling — 1 35
161 Zim Irrigation & Bakersfield Well & Pump Co. — 1 31
162 J W Biffle — 1 31

Ranked by wells drilled in Nye County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full NDWR record. A ★ marks a featured sponsor — sponsors must appear in the county record to be listed, and the ranking below them is never reordered.

Who drills the most wells in Nye County?

Great Basin Drilling has drilled the most Nye County wells in the recent record — 532 since 2016, 5,063 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Nye County?

162 companies in the NDWR record have drilled wells in Nye County; 39 of them have drilled somewhere in Nevada since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Nye County?

The median drilled depth in Nye County is 160 ft, based on 17,658 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Nye County wells page.

Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Nye County wells page.

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