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Continental Drilling & Service, a Synergen Company, was established in 1953 with hard work, grit, and an unrelenting drive to do right by its customers. In the 70+ years since, we have cemented our legacy as the gold standard in water well drilling, irrigation, and pump services across the Gulf South.
Continental Drilling employs three bulletproof drilling crews and four pump service crews who operate between four different drilling rigs, a machine shop, and regular maintenance facilities. These crews are experts in their respective fields, tested by every kind of weather and terrain imaginable, and they are unbeaten.
1978
In 1978 the company re-entered the drilling business and purchased a used Mayhew drilling rig. The next year they purchased a new Gardner Denver 1400 drilling rig followed by a new Failing Jed-A drilling rig two years later. Two years following that a second Failing Jed-A drilling rig was purchased.
1985
In 1985 the company split into two different corporations to help differentiate between the two directions it was pursuing. Wholesale Pump & Supply Co. Inc. was begun and moved offsite and Continental Drilling & Service, Inc. remained as a contracting company. Wholesale Pump & Supply operates in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas with the main office in Shreveport and branches in Jennings, LA; Tyler, TX; Beaumont, TX; Hammond, LA; Hot Springs, AK and Southhaven, MS. Both companies are now operated separately and independently managed.
1987
In 1987 a 3,000’ Skytop drilling rig was added to the drilling fleet. A downhole all digital electric logging unit, sonar jet unit and perforating and explosives units were all added to the wireline department in the mid 1990s. A 1,000 sack capacity pressure-cementing unit was built in our shop and added to the fleet in the late 1980’s. In 2002 a new Midway 1,500 was commissioned and custom built.
1990
In the early 1990’s we opened a full time machine shop and greatly expanded our shop operations.
2013
In the late spring of 2013 we moved into our newly constructed office and shop facilities at 449 Montgomery Street.
2015
In early 2015 Continental Drilling & Service, Inc. opened a new office in West Monroe.
2024
In January 2024, Continental Drilling joined Synergen, a proven network or collaborative companies designed to get more done in the oil & gas, civil construction, residential construction sectors, and beyond.
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1978

In 1978 the company re-entered the drilling business and purchased a used Mayhew drilling rig. The next year they purchased a new Gardner Denver 1400 drilling rig followed by a new Failing Jed-A drilling rig two years later. Two years following that a second Failing Jed-A drilling rig was purchased.

1985

In 1985 the company split into two different corporations to help differentiate between the two directions it was pursuing. Wholesale Pump & Supply Co. Inc. was begun and moved offsite and Continental Drilling & Service, Inc. remained as a contracting company. Wholesale Pump & Supply operates in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas with the main office in Shreveport and branches in Jennings, LA; Tyler, TX; Beaumont, TX; Hammond, LA; Hot Springs, AK and Southhaven, MS. Both companies are now operated separately and independently managed.

1987

In 1987 a 3,000’ Skytop drilling rig was added to the drilling fleet. A downhole all digital electric logging unit, sonar jet unit and perforating and explosives units were all added to the wireline department in the mid 1990s. A 1,000 sack capacity pressure-cementing unit was built in our shop and added to the fleet in the late 1980’s. In 2002 a new Midway 1,500 was commissioned and custom built.

1990

In the early 1990’s we opened a full time machine shop and greatly expanded our shop operations.

2013

In the late spring of 2013 we moved into our newly constructed office and shop facilities at 449 Montgomery Street.

2015

In early 2015 Continental Drilling & Service, Inc. opened a new office in West Monroe.

2024

In January 2024, Continental Drilling joined Synergen, a proven network of collaborative companies designed to get more done in the oil & gas, civil construction, residential construction sectors, and beyond.

What We Do

New Well Construction
Municipal and Residential

Water Well Services

Rehabilitate Water Wells

VFD Installation & Programming
(Variable Frequency Drive)

Open Hole Electric Logs

Downhole Camera Surveys

Booster Pumps

Our Leadership Team

Since our inception, our leadership team has been dedicated to building a business that will outlast us all and impact generations to come.

PATRICK FIFE

Chief Executive Officer

MATT ADKINS

Majority Owner & Chairman

MATTHEW O’NEAL

Chief Operating Officer

KELLY
BABIN

Chief Financial Officer

ROSS BROWN

Vice President of Drilling

CHRIS KYZAR

Director of Sales & Marketing

KELLI MADDEN

Chief Financial Officer

RYAN PUCKETT

Director of Safety & Compliance

REBECCA STINSON

Director of Human Resources
O.C. LaBorde Iowa, LA project
Goodrich Petroleum East Texas
R-12 at Camp Beauregard Pineville, LA
New water well and pumping station with storage tank and pressure tank for Dubberly, LA. 1998
New pumps being installed in new pump station at Dubberly, LA.
Bird’s eye view of split face block pump station building CDS built on site for Dubberly, LA project.
Wade Prison, Claiborne Parish, LA – 1988 Welding 8” stainless steel screens.
Test pumping a new well in Many, LA. Note the natural gas flare.
New well, Holmesville Water System – South Union Parish, LA – 1998
Tri State Oil Tool Learning Center project, circa 1987. Pulling the 46” bit out of the hole. Slim, Preston, Manuel and Carl. I was afraid Manuel might fall in the 46” hole! (It was only about 75’ deep.)
Tri State Oil Tool Learning Center project, circa 1987. The 40” casing is a mast full of pipe. Note the size of the 40” alignment clamp in the back of the welder’s truck.
Tri State Oil Tool Learning Center project, circa 1987. Preston at the controls while Manuel and Slim tail in a joint. After we set the 40” casing down to about 70’ we drilled a 36” hole 500’ deep and set 30” casing inside the 40” surface pipe.
New Midway 1500 drilling rig in fall of 2000 with O.C. LaBorde, Jr.
Bill threading column pipe in the machine shop. Late 1990’s.
Crew pulling oil lubricated turbine pump out of the VA in Alexandria, LA – 2005.
Roland in 1979 on a cathodic deep ground bed for pipeline corrosion control.
Bird’s eye view of crew at West Grant Parish drilling site.
This is two completed water wells at Start, LA, just east of Monroe.
City of Alexandria, LA, project in 1988 off Hwy 28 West.
Completed well at Camp Beauregard in Central Louisiana in 2000.
Drilling a test hole in Sabine Parish during the winter of 2000.
New water truck all loaded up with supplies and headed out to project in 1992.
City of Alexandria, night operations 1988.
Running casing at Fort Polk, LA – 1987. Shannon, Slim, Jack, James Edwards and Bubba.
Jon LaBorde at Ward’s Chapel WS in North central Louisiana – 2002.
Carl and Preston Niette getting ready to run an e-log in North Louisiana – 1986.
Carl Niette pump testing a well around 1990.
O.C. LaBorde, Jr. with Rig #1 at Lake Bistineau.
Typical irrigation well in the Red River alluvial aquifer around 1985.
I-49 dewatering wells during interstate construction at the 70th Street underpass in 1989.
Running 1,600 feet of 16” casing in East TX, circa 2003.
High production saltwater well 1,850’ deep in Tyler, TX – 2004.
New well at Downsville, LA – 2007.
Getting ready to e-log saltwater well in Tyler, TX in 2004.
Prefabricated pumping system for lumber mill in Dodson, LA circa 1990
Tight quarters in a refinery drilling a deep ground bed for cathodic protection in North Louisiana.
Compound meter with by-pass piping and restraining clamps ready for field installation in North central LA, – 2007.
A shop built, prefabricated booster station ready for delivery.
Setting 16” casing at Fort Polk, LA – 2003.
Two newly completed wells for Evangeline Oaks Water System on Lake Bistineau, LA – 1999.
Night operations, setting 16” casing at Greater Ward One Waterworks District near Ruston, LA – 2009.
Three well project for Belmont Water System near Pleasant Hill, LA – 1994.
Sabine W/S 10″ casing 900′
10″ casing Sabine
Welding 10″ Casing
Bastrop, LA
Bastrop, LA
Bastrop, LA
Bastrop, LA
Bastrop, LA
International Paper; drilling reverse well – 2014
Tristate Oil tool job, circa 1987
Tristate Oil tool job, circa 1987
Tristate Oil tool job, circa 1987 Carl sitting in the 48″ casing.
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R-12

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