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Company description
BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 30 September 1975; registered for 50 years; registered office reported in HERTFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 49500 · Transport via pipeline, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 waste registration. 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
- BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED
- Company number
- 01228157
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
10 May 2026Next statement due
24 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 8 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £25,814,469
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,493,886
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £368,092
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,618,479
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 6.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 2.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Where a specific contract has been negotiated for the work
Retention release
Following the end of the retention period if no issues remain on the contract
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 100.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 1.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days following receipt of the invoice
- Dispute resolution process
Any complaints in the first
instance should be raised with
the Accounts Payable
Coordinator, these can be
escalated, if required, through
the Head of Finance & Risk
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 19.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay30.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 16 June 2026
- Sectors
- Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
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
- £36 million to £60 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 10 July 2026
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.
05 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED
5711 · HP2 5BS
- Permit or record holder
- BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED
- Record date
- 16 July 2010
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- 5-7 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE, HP2 5BS
- Activity
- Water Quality
- Action
- Court Case
- Relevant legislation
- WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991|CONTROL OF MAJOR ACCIDENT HAZARD REGULATIONS 1999
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 5711; Offender: BRITISH PIPELINE AGENCY LIMITED; Address: 5-7 ALEXANDRA ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE, HP2 5BS; Action Date: 2010-07-16; Relevant Legislation: WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991|CONTROL OF MAJOR ACCIDENT HAZARD REGULATIONS 1999; Action Type: Court Case; Agency Function: Water Quality
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06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Bp Oil Uk Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- Not Specified/Other
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 00446915
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Shell U.K. Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- Not Specified/Other
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 00140141
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 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.
08 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.
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
13 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
1 exact company-number registration.
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.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-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.