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Top 25 Well drilling contractors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,111 well drilling contractors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 17,276 professional contacts across them, including 3,928 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Calgary the largest hub.
This list covers well drilling contractors worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for well drilling contractors follow the table.
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.
The 25 largest well drilling contractors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,317 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Patterson-UTI is a leading provider of drilling and completion services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States and other select…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ensign Energy Services Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,447 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Major Drilling Group International Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,097 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HMH is a premier drilling solutions provider - delivering a broad portfolio of products and services that are designed to be the safest and most efficient in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As the largest privately-held domestic land drilling contractor in the United States, Cactus provides competent, motivated personnel utilizing premium equipment to meet and exceed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Express Energy Services, a leading oilfield services company, is active in every major hydrocarbon basin in the United States and is a premier provider of products and services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Lucas!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FTE Drilling (Forages Technic-Eau Inc.) is one of the most specialized companies in the drilling industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LEAM Drilling Systems, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En Prodrilling contamos con más de 12 años de experiencia entregando servicios de sondaje de alta calidad para la gran minería en Chile, con los más altos estándares técnicos y de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Perforar pozos de exploración al más alto nivel y a total conformidad de nuestros clientes, protegiendo para ello la integridad y desarrollo de nuestros trabajadores y la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa canadiense con operaciones en Chile y el mundo, de larga trayectoria y experiencia en servicios especializados de perforación, tales como: 1) Perforación de Superficie-…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Usamos, mantenemos y reconstruimos perforadoras de superficie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Geotech Drilling Group of Companies is a team focused on continually implementing the most technologically advanced drilling techniques in order to increase the efficiency and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Plaster & Wald Consulting Corp has provided engineering and consulting services to the oil & gas industry since 1997.Our supervisors provide technical expertise in well planning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Water has been our passion for more than 60 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hole Products is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high performance drilling supplies, tools and equipment to the construction, direct push, environmental, geotechnical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 7.4 million feet drilled in the past seven years, Timberline Drilling has a proven track records in safety and production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Itapoços é uma empresa especializada em perfuração de poços tubulares profundos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dutch independent water well drilling company and manufacturer of complete groundwater installations suitable for drinking water, process water, and aquifer energy storage as well…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With roots going back to 1976, Earth Drilling brings unmatched expertise to a full range of disciplines, including environmental and geotechnical engineering, oil sands, mining…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Authentic relationships are standard practice at Weisinger Incorporated.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hagstrom Drilling is a privately owned Australian drilling contractor delivering exploration drilling, reverse circulation (RC) drilling, diamond drilling, geotechnical drilling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: well drilling contractors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names well drilling contractors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of well drilling contractors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name well drilling contractors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Well drilling contractors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 well drilling contractors, 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.
- Coverage
- 9 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Chile, South Africa, the Netherlands. Country and city lists for well drilling contractors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “well drilling contractors”. 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 well drilling contractors), 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 well drilling contractors, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 3,928 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
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Well drilling contractors by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Well drilling contractors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Well drilling contractors based in the United States603
- Well drilling contractors based in Brazil126
- Well drilling contractors based in Canada104
- Well drilling contractors based in the United Kingdom73
- Well drilling contractors based in Australia57
- Well drilling contractors based in Germany54
- Well drilling contractors based in Chile42
- Well drilling contractors based in South Africa27
- Well drilling contractors based in the Netherlands25
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 well drilling contractors, 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 well drilling contractors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,111 well drilling contractors worldwide 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?
Patterson-Uti, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most well drilling contractors?
The United States leads with 603 companies, followed by Brazil (126) and Canada (104). Every well drilling contractors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most well drilling contractors?
Calgary leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Midland (12) and Houston (11).
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 3,928 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,111 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.