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Best well drillers in Mercer County, North Dakota
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 45 drilling companies with wells
on record in Mercer County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,264 logged
wells in the North Dakota Department of Water Resources drillers log file (records as of 2026-09-28). Every number links back to
the public record.
45companies on record
19active since 2022
1,264wells in county record
| # | Company | In Mercer Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Mohl Drilling | 50 | 363 | 483 |
| 2 | Opp Well Drilling | 27 | 519 | 3,372 |
| 3 | Earth Energy & Water Systems | 9 | 59 | 877 |
| 4 | Earth Energy & Water | 9 | 9 | 58 |
| 5 | Agri Industries | 2 | 13 | 786 |
| 6 | Backman Drilling | 2 | 12 | 1,186 |
| 7 | Eews, Inc. | 2 | 2 | 25 |
| 8 | Steven M. Traut Wells Inc. | 2 | 2 | 60 |
| 9 | Gregory Water & Energy Inc. | 1 | 7 | 625 |
| 10 | Northern Plains Drilling | 1 | 2 | 185 |
| 11 | Iba Drilling Company, Inc. | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 12 | Milo Burwick & Sons | 1 | 1 | 261 |
| 13 | Manikowski Well Drilling | 1 | 1 | 670 |
| 14 | Depth Well Drilling | 1 | 1 | 80 |
| 15 | Mann Drilling | — | 76 | 638 |
| 16 | Erickson Well Drilling | — | 37 | 54 |
| 17 | Water Supply Inc. | — | 26 | 273 |
| 18 | Stumvoll Drilling | — | 22 | 1,028 |
| 19 | Zachmeier Well Drilling | — | 20 | 1,398 |
| 20 | Harlan Jones Drilling | — | 18 | 34 |
| 21 | Stone Drilling | — | 10 | 72 |
| 22 | Wetch & Sons | — | 7 | 310 |
| 23 | Himebaugh Drilling | — | 6 | 103 |
| 24 | Ltp Enterprises | — | 5 | 1,556 |
| 25 | Gregory Drilling | — | 5 | 975 |
| 26 | Wetch Drilling | — | 5 | 369 |
| 27 | Thompson Drilling | — | 4 | 1,674 |
| 28 | Traut Wells Inc. | — | 4 | 950 |
| 29 | Mann-Stumvoll Drilling | — | 4 | 77 |
| 30 | Russell Drilling | — | 3 | 345 |
| 31 | Peterson Well Drilling | — | 3 | 71 |
| 32 | Dennis Water Well Drilling | — | 2 | 1,283 |
| 33 | K & K Well Drilling | — | 2 | 497 |
| 34 | Wetch & Sons Drilling | — | 2 | 311 |
| 35 | Erck Well Drilling | — | 1 | 1,147 |
| 36 | Schaff & Sons Repair | — | 1 | 130 |
| 37 | Baumgartner Drilling | — | 1 | 628 |
| 38 | Farmers Supply Co. | — | 1 | 480 |
| 39 | Boyce Drilling | — | 1 | 354 |
| 40 | Circle M Drilling | — | 1 | 274 |
| 41 | Driver Well Drilling | — | 1 | 236 |
| 42 | Huron Drilling | — | 1 | 115 |
| 43 | Mariner Drilling | — | 1 | 89 |
| 44 | Nelson Drilling | — | 1 | 80 |
| 45 | Schaff & Sons | — | 1 | 51 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Mercer County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full ND 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 Mercer County?
Mohl Drilling has drilled the most Mercer County wells in the recent record — 50 since 2016, 363 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Mercer County?
45 companies in the ND DWR record have drilled wells in Mercer County; 19 of them have drilled somewhere in North Dakota since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
Log counts, drilling dates, and the full driller ranking for this county live on
the Mercer County wells page.
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