TXT In plain English
Company description
DOLPHIN DRILLING LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 13 July 1971; registered for 55 years; registered office reported in EASTLEIGH, HAMPSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 09100 · Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- DOLPHIN DRILLING LIMITED
- Company number
- 01017560
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 73 total · 7 outstanding · 66 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
28 September 2025Next statement due
12 October 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2020 – 31 December 2020
- Filed
- 29 January 2021
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 45.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Payment terms changed
We have undertaken an exercise throughout 2020 to review vendor payment terms, agree with vendors and change accordingly.
How suppliers were notified
Yes, supply chain department engaged in dialogue with relevant suppliers and ensured this was included in the relevant purchase orders/contracts.
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard company T&C's: company shall pay the approved invoice within 30 days after receipt of a correctly and properly supported invoice. This is found on the company website within the vendor portal section.
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
The purchase order shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the country in which the purchase order was issued. Any dispute arising in connection with the purchase order which cannot be resolved by mutual agreement between the parties shall be settled by court proceedings brought before the courts within the jurisdiction of the country in which the purchase order was issued.
Earlier payment reports (5 shown)
- 46.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
DOLPHIN DRILLING LIMITED
LEI 254900HYTBXBIU4IBP04 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 13 July 1971
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 January 2025
- LEI last updated
- 19 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Legal address
- New Kings Court Tollgate, Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, Eastleigh, SO53 3LG, GB
- Headquarters address
- 1 Harvest Avenue, D2 Business Park, Dyce Drive, Aberdeen, AB210BQ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900HYTBXBIU4IBP04 to LEI 636700KVRNQYY153LO45
- Initial registration
- 22 January 2025
- Last updated
- 19 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 January 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- DOLPHIN DRILLING LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Approved
- 1 April 2025
- Sectors
- Mining, metals, chemicals and resources (including oil and gas)
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 21 May 2025
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Demonstrated progress
We encourage all workers to report any wrongdoing. To date no reports of any wrongdoing or modern slavery complaints.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: International operations with 3rd parties providing national labour.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Location: India
- Mitigation: Thorough due diligence and auditing of 3rd party companies providing local labour.
- Risk: Shipyard projects with 3rd parties providing labour
- Location: Spain
- Mitigation: Thorough due diligence on shipyards prior to entry.
- Risk: New locations for our rigs to operate.
- Mitigation: Ensure thorough due diligence on any labour suppliers in new areas of operation.
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Dolphin Drilling Limited
Registration ZB238123
- Registered from
- 11 November 2021
- Current end date
- 10 November 2026
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 16 August 2019
Dolphin Drilling Asa
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Norway
- Legal authority
- Norway
- Legal form
- Corporate
- Place registered
- Norway
- Registration number
- 977 388 287
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 28 June 2019
Dolphin Drilling Operations Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 07640822
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 28 June 2019
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.