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Top 25 Borehole drilling services based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 94 borehole drilling services headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 834 professional contacts across them, including 197 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers borehole drilling services headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest borehole drilling services based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 94 borehole drilling services based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to borehole drilling services: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000200 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ROSOND provides fast, efficient, safe and cost-effective drilling and grouting services to mining and exploration industries throughout Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceRustenburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20072 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Provest is a leading provider of quality services to the mining, industrial and construction sectors, specialising primarily in Platinum, Chrome, and Manganese.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceSunrella, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50068 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Digital Surveying is a specialist Directional, Geophysical, Geotechnical & Hydrogeological logging company servicing the mining, exploration, and civil engineering industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMooi Nooi, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Wireline Africa is an engineering company that focuses on supplying the local and international mining industry with products and services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Strong evidenceStellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5031 contacts →

Strong evidence

“GEOSS, established on 1 March 2001, specializes in all aspects of hydrogeology, including: • Groundwater exploration (borehole siting, drilling supervision with logging, pumping…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceWitbank, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50027 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ZED has been the preferred exploration drilling supplier for most of the major mining groups since its inception.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rafuni offers Geotechnical, Geological and Environmental Consulting Services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Diabor (Pty) ltd is a South African registered company involved in geotechnical and exploration drilling since 1983 and operates in Sub-Sahara Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20013 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mzansi Exploration Drilling, trading as Mzansi Exploration & Mining, was established in 2008 by Samkelo Thankslord Mlambo.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BAUER Technologies South Africa has been established in South Africa in and is part of the BAUER Group of companies The global activities of the BAUER Group are split in three…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Introduction In the dynamic landscape of Southern Africa’s industrial and natural resource sectors, Torque Africa Group has emerged as a formidable force, distinguishing itself as…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceHillcrest, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Geomeasure Group (Pty) Ltd was founded on 1 July 2002 with the aim of creating a company with a multidisciplinary team of specialist professionals, with the preservation of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Aqua Earth celebrates more than 20 years of operation and prides itself on having a dynamic team of specialists in Hydrogeology, also identified as Groundwater, as well as…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Reliable water quality and supply are critical to operations, especially as drought risk and rising municipal costs impact businesses across South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLanseria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-504 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“KLM Consulting Services (KLMCS) is a multi-disciplinary consulting company, specializing in mine dewatering, depressurisation and management of water resources.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lefatshe Minerals and Consulting (PTY)Ltd, is a 100% Black owned and managed diversified company and has completed successful projects (nationally and internationally) which…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceWorcester, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-503 contacts →

Partial evidence

“RPM Drilling offers a wide range of precision drilling in various sectors of the industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Strong evidenceSilvertondale, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-502 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Soil & Groundwater Remediation Services (Pty) Ltd, better known as SGRS specialises in borehole drilling and soil probing for environmental and geotechnical investigations…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-502 contacts →

Partial evidence

“J&M DRILLING, established in 1998, is a leading South African drilling company and has established its position in the industry through two decades of operational success in some…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-502 contacts →

Strong evidence

“T4velson a leading manufacturer specializing in water well borehole machines, mining drilling machines, and equipment for solar projects, along with their accessories and spare…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Strong evidenceBronkhorstspuit, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-502 contacts →

Strong evidence

Borehole Drilling Blasthole Drilling Borehole Rehabilitation Large Diameter Drilling Monitoring Boreholes Natural Gas Extraction Odex / Symmetric Drilling Refuge Bays Reverse…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-502 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GASS is an established specialised contracting services company with our head office located in Johannesburg but is geared to offer bespoke services throughout Southern Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceParys, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Groundwater Contact us for a free quote on groundwater specialist studies for EIA's and WULA's in South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Borehole drilling services based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
23.6%Verified-email coverage
8.9Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
18.1%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
38
11-50
36
51-200
11
201-500
6
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 94 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among borehole drilling services, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “borehole drilling services”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names borehole drilling services), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among borehole drilling services, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 197 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names borehole drilling services, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many borehole drilling services are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 94 borehole drilling services headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Rosond, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most borehole drilling services?

Johannesburg leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Pretoria (11) and Durban (6).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 197 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 94 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.