Best well drillers in Santa Barbara County, California

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 150 drilling companies with wells on record in Santa Barbara County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 7,386 logged wells in the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Well Completion Reports database (records as of 2026-10-02). Every number links back to the public record.

150companies on record

57active since 2022

7,386wells in county record

#	Company	In Santa Barbara Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Sargent Drilling	145	342	442
2	Cascade Well Co.	116	303	371
3	All American Drilling Inc.	110	110	145
4	Taylor Drilling And Pump Inc.	95	255	342
5	Filipponi-Thompson Drilling Inc.	49	542	2,135
6	Coast Drilling Inc.	38	75	278
7	Sar Construction	32	33	47
8	Sierra Exploration Drilling Co. Inc.	21	582	803
9	Pacific Coast Well Drilling Inc.	20	63	338
10	Farwest Corrosion Control Company	18	59	2,667
11	D & D Pumps	16	16	46
12	Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc.	14	17	4,828
13	Cascade Drilling L P	12	96	2,827
14	National E W P Inc.	10	12	431
15	Cascade Drilling LP	10	11	830
16	Abundant Water Wells	8	20	173
17	Corrpro Companies Inc.	8	8	737
18	Business Midstate Drillers	8	8	119
19	Kleinfelder Inc.	8	8	54
20	Hansen-Welldo-Service Inc.	7	11	138
21	Farm Pump And Irrigation Company Inc.	6	19	451
22	Barbour Well Inc.	6	6	32
23	Bc2 Environmental LLC	5	9	435
24	Enloe Well Drilling	4	90	279
25	Miller Drilling Co.	4	87	1,778
26	Vics Well Drilling Inc.	4	4	337
27	American Construction And Supply Inc.	3	6	1,697
28	Camp S A Pump Company	3	5	498
29	A B C Liovin Drilling Inc.	3	3	1,282
30	South Valley Pump & Drilling	3	3	69
31	J & H Drilling Co. Inc.	2	18	994
32	Zim Industries Inc. Dba Bakersfield Well & Pump Co.	2	17	1,721
33	Maggiora Bros Drilling Inc.	2	15	4,676
34	Bertram Drilling Inc.	2	4	1,171
35	Well Industries Inc.	2	2	559
36	Eaton Drilling Co. LLC	2	2	3,792
37	Alexander Brothers	1	897	903
38	S/G Testing Laboratories Inc.	1	123	187
39	Beks Acquisition Inc.	1	8	465
40	Shipps For Water Well Drilling	1	7	33
41	D C A Drilling And Construction Inc.	1	2	69
42	Gregg Drilling LLC	1	1	564
43	Bradley & Sons Inc.	1	1	3,631
44	L O Lynch Quality Wells & Pumps Inc.	1	1	3,374
45	Arsenal Well Drilling Inc.	1	1	234
46	Arthur & Orum Well Drilling Inc.	1	1	3,219
47	Wildrose Drilling LLC	1	1	102
48	National Corrosion	1	1	33
49	Island Drilling	1	1	221
50	All Well Drilling And Pump Service	1	1	31
51	Floyd V Wells	—	1,401	1,771
52	Mel Meyer	—	475	101,127
53	C. J Longwell	—	136	217
54	E Stewart Johnston For Valley Pump	—	129	135
55	Longwell & Taylor	—	107	129
56	Filipponi & Thompson Drilling Company	—	102	303
57	Clark F Wells Corp	—	70	83
58	Chester A. Hollister	—	70	70
59	Southern Deep Well Drilling Co.	—	66	69
60	Santa Ynez Pump & Drilling	—	60	60
61	Old Creek Drilling	—	59	94
62	Pacific Geoscience Inc.	—	52	84
63	George Chamberlain	—	49	256
64	Gilbert Drilling	—	45	107
65	Santa Ynez Valley Well Service	—	45	47
66	Valley Pump & Supply	—	36	36
67	American Technological Drilling Service Inc.	—	35	1,385
68	Midway Drilling & Pump Company	—	35	753
69	Beylik Drilling & Pump Service	—	33	1,267
70	Cascade Drilling Inc. - California	—	32	3,167
71	M & W Pumps Inc.	—	29	35
72	Rottman Drilling Co.	—	21	1,331
73	Layne Christensen Company	—	20	2,363
74	Whitten Pumps Inc.	—	17	874
75	Terry Mccormick	—	16	26
76	Valley Well Drilling LP	—	15	421
77	Datum Exploration Inc.	—	15	223
78	West Hazmat Drilling Corp	—	14	1,702
79	W D C Exploration & Wells	—	13	2,421
80	Myers Brothers Inc.	—	13	796
81	Bakersfield Pump Co.	—	13	303
82	Ben Barrow Company	—	13	49
83	H-F Drilling, Inc.	—	12	618
84	Trunnell Wells & Pumps	—	12	384
85	Klein Knight Drlg Co.	—	12	72
86	Cruse Drilling Co.	—	11	341
87	Robert Haylock "RH" Well Drilling	—	11	48
88	Myers Reverse, Inc.	—	10	2,389
89	Myers Brothers Well Drilling Inc.	—	9	2,865
90	DE LA Grange & Sons Inc.	—	9	263
91	Rauch Drilling Company Inc.	—	9	520
92	Robertson Bros	—	9	68
93	Arrowhead Group	—	7	244
94	B & W Drilling	—	7	132
95	Council Harold Drilling & Pump Service	—	7	91
96	Barbour Corporation	—	7	88
97	Howard Pump Inc. A California Corporation	—	6	1,650
98	Moss Roscoe Company	—	6	1,220
99	C. Cruse Drilling	—	6	301
100	Teredon Company	—	6	48
101	Best Drilling And Pump Inc.	—	5	248
102	Trudell Drilling Co.	—	5	707
103	Beylik Drilling Inc.	—	5	174
104	Starr Drilling And Pump Co.	—	4	875
105	Corrosion Technology Inc.	—	4	169
106	D W Slocum Water Well Drilling	—	3	217
107	SO Cal Pump And Well Drilling	—	3	158
108	Roscoe Moss Company	—	3	130
109	John W. Nairn	—	3	39
110	Sixkiller Drilling	—	2	26
111	Boart Longyear Company	—	2	172
112	MC Dougall's Well Drilling Inc.	—	2	1,345
113	Jack Jones Wells & Pumps	—	2	1,145
114	Diversified Exploration Co. Inc.	—	2	751
115	Big Valley Drilling	—	2	294
116	Layne-Western Co. Inc.	—	2	255
117	Central Coast Drilling	—	2	122
118	Stang Hydronics Inc.	—	2	56
119	Reuben J Boe Water Well Drilling	—	2	45
120	H A Moore Drlng	—	2	32
121	Canepa And Sons Inc.	—	1	3,178
122	Johnson Drilling Co.	—	1	11,872
123	Fain Drilling & Pump Co. Inc.	—	1	3,030
124	Bryant Pump & Drilling Company	—	1	1,000
125	Bill Belknap	—	1	2,758
126	Pitcher Drilling Co.	—	1	1,232
127	Aqua Engineering	—	1	641
128	Boetsch Well Drilling And Pump Service	—	1	522
129	Bill Rambeau Pump & Well Drilling	—	1	288
130	Clark Well Inc.	—	1	273
131	Leonard A Anderson Company	—	1	203
132	D-R Water Well Drill	—	1	196
133	Don Redfeairn Drilling Co.	—	1	186
134	Ralph E Anderson	—	1	171
135	Golden Empire Drilling	—	1	168
136	Council Harold Drilling Co.	—	1	154
137	Soilprobe Inc.	—	1	133
138	Xxx	—	1	113
139	Layne Environmental Services Inc.	—	1	104
140	Barnes Core Drlg	—	1	86
141	Ray Parnell Drilling Contractor	—	1	79
142	A & R Drilling	—	1	60
143	Pierson Drilling	—	1	59
144	Hylton Drilling Co.	—	1	57
145	Shipps For Water Well	—	1	54
146	Environmental West Drilling	—	1	38
147	Arrowhead Water Well Drilling	—	1	36
148	L E Tomson	—	1	35
149	Gungle Drilling	—	1	27
150	Sixkiller Rufus Henry Drilling	—	1	25

Ranked by wells drilled in Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara County?

Sargent Drilling has drilled the most Santa Barbara County wells in the recent record — 145 since 2016, 342 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Santa Barbara County?

150 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Santa Barbara County; 57 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 Santa Barbara County?

The median drilled depth in Santa Barbara County is 340 ft, based on 11,536 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Santa Barbara County wells page.

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

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