A family-run manufacturer of horizontal directional drilling rigs — each one built to order, and trusted on job sites across every continent.
A family business.
Still, after all these years.
Prime Drilling was founded in 1999, and it has been run as a family business ever since. We've grown steadily and stayed independent — which means we answer to our customers and to our own standards, and to no one else. It also means stability: the people who build your rig are still here to back it years later — no group strategy, no sell-off, no support quietly dropped.
We do one thing, and we do it completely: design and build horizontal directional drilling rigs that earn their keep. Directional drilling is not a side line for us. It's the whole company.
The best materials, built to last. Our rigs have proven themselves on every continent — and earned a name for running when it matters.
Independent and grounded. We work at eye level with our customers, keep our word, and — because we own the company ourselves — we're still here to back what we build, long after the sale.
Proven platforms, configured to the job — over 200 options. We live by "there's no such thing as can't," and keep pushing what a rig can do.
We build because we love it. Every machine that leaves our workshop is the fusion of steel, engineering and decades of know-how — shaped to one customer's exact job, on a platform we know inside out. Fascination got us here; the drive for perfection keeps us going. And when someone tells us it can't be done — that's usually right where we start.
Our rigs work where conditions don't forgive. They've held up through the deep cold of Canada and the heat and remote distances of the Australian outback — and kept drilling.
Flat hierarchies, real craftsmanship, and people who care about getting it right. We train our own, we back each other, and we take pride in the machines that carry our name. If that sounds like you, we'd like to meet you.