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Best well drillers in Butte County, California

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 41 drilling companies with wells on record in Butte County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 16,744 logged wells in the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Well Completion Reports database (records as of 2026-08-14). Every number links back to the public record.

41companies on record
34active since 2022
16,744wells in county record
#CompanyIn Butte Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Peters Drilling And Pump Service 273 274 11,563
2 Well Industries Inc. 91 108 558
3 David And Son Drilling 63 123 318
4 Chico Construction Inc. 57 66 67
5 Sullivan Drilling Inc. 48 50 1,387
6 W. S. Heitman Drilling & Pumps 47 64 626
7 Westervelt Well Drilling 45 45 122
8 Kruse Drilling Company 43 52 373
9 Big'n & Son Drilling Inc. 38 38 46
10 Vics Well Drilling Inc. 28 28 337
11 Keller Drilling And Pump 28 28 51
12 T S A Drilling Inc. Dba Penecore Drilling 16 16 577
13 Blaine's Well Drilling 16 16 55
14 Mid State Pump And Drilling 14 14 74
15 Davis Machine Shop Inc. 12 12 37
16 Diamond Well & Pump Inc. 9 9 26
17 Kleinfelder Inc. 9 9 54
18 Cascade Drilling L P 9 9 2,827
19 Valley Pump & Motor Works Inc. 8 9 181
20 Nor - Cal Pump & Well Drilling Inc. 8 8 248
21 Wildrose Drilling LLC 6 6 102
22 Eaton Drilling Co. LLC 4 4 3,793
23 Beymer Well Service 2 11 2,921
24 Gregory Drilling Incorporated 2 2 143
25 Layne Christensen Company 2 2 2,362
26 Kvilhaug Drilling & Pump Inc. 2 2 327
27 Steve's Pumps & Well Drilling Inc. 2 2 162
28 Mel Meyer 1 15,718 101,127
29 Stonehouse Well Drilling 1 2 157
30 American Construction And Supply Inc. 1 1 1,685
31 Corrpro Companies Inc. 1 1 737
32 Diamond Core Drilling Inc. 1 1 480
33 Enloe Drilling And Pumps Inc. 1 1 442
34 Martell Water Systems Inc. 1 1 1,094
35 Top Hat Well Drilling 1 1 31
36 Rindahl Drilling 1 1 110
37 Roadrunner Drilling & Pump Company Inc. 1 1 205
38 National E W P Inc. 1 1 431
39 Points West Drilling 1 1 78
40 U S Geological Survey — 5 30
41 Woodward Drilling Company Inc. — 2 1,542

Ranked by wells drilled in Butte County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full DWR 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 Butte County?

Peters Drilling And Pump Service has drilled the most Butte County wells in the recent record — 273 since 2016, 274 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Butte County?

41 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Butte County; 34 of them have drilled somewhere in California since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Butte County?

The median drilled depth in Butte County is 160 ft, based on 18,302 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Butte County wells page.

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

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