Best well drillers in Brule County, South Dakota
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 19 drilling companies with wells on record in Brule County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 463 logged wells in the South Dakota DANR well completion report database (NR68) (records as of 2026-08-24). Every number links back to the public record.
| # | Company | In Brule Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hutmacher Drilling, Inc. | 5 | 256 | 855 |
| 2 | Pullman Well Drilling | 4 | 16 | 3,380 |
| 3 | Kaiser Well Drilling | 2 | 2 | 461 |
| 4 | Geotek Engineering & Testing | 1 | 30 | 661 |
| 5 | Stretch's Well Service, Inc. | 1 | 3 | 1,175 |
| 6 | Carl Meier & Sons | — | 68 | 396 |
| 7 | Respec, Inc. | — | 21 | 507 |
| 8 | Huron Drilling, Incorporated | — | 12 | 2,246 |
| 9 | Grimshaw Drilling Company | — | 10 | 108 |
| 10 | Meier Well Drilling | — | 9 | 149 |
| 11 | American Engineering Testing,Inc. | — | 8 | 687 |
| 12 | Chase Drilling | — | 7 | 319 |
| 13 | Hickey Well Drilling | — | 6 | 209 |
| 14 | Dakota Environmental, Inc. | — | 4 | 181 |
| 15 | Independent Drilling Co., Inc. | — | 3 | 1,188 |
| 16 | Maxim Technologies, Inc. | — | 3 | 661 |
| 17 | Empire Irrigation Drilling Company | — | 2 | 334 |
| 18 | Prairie Consulting Group, Inc. | — | 2 | 296 |
| 19 | Northern Technologies, LLC | — | 1 | 145 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Brule County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full SD DANR 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 Brule County?
Hutmacher Drilling, Inc. has drilled the most Brule County wells in the recent record — 5 since 2016, 256 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Brule County?
19 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Brule County; 7 of them have drilled somewhere in South Dakota since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
How deep is a typical well in Brule County?
The median drilled depth in Brule County is 900 ft, based on 566 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Brule County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Brule County wells page.
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