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Company description
BRITISH DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 31 July 1989; registered for 37 years; registered office reported in NOTTINGHAM. Its primary declared activity is 06100 · Extraction of crude petroleum.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2025, it reported average employees 0. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 procurement record, 1 other public-register record. 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 DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 02409264
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 16 total · 0 outstanding · 16 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
31 July 2025Next statement due
14 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Fixed assets
- £749,605
- Current assets
- £1,683,813
- Current liabilities
- £291,729
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £2,141,689
- Cash at bank
- £1,204,082
- Equity
- £2,141,689
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- AccountsNot supplied net assets
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
BRITISH DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED
LEI 2138008CQ7HNII3SI561 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 17 November 2017
- LEI last updated
- 27 March 2019
- Next renewal
- 17 November 2018
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- COLWICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, COLWICK, GB-NTT, NG4 2BB, GB
- Headquarters address
- COLWICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, COLWICK, GB-NTT, NG4 2BB, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
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.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
British Drilling and Freezing Company Limited
16 August 2021 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
British Drilling And Freezing Company Limited
Registration ZA306599
- Registered from
- 11 January 2018
- Current end date
- 10 January 2027
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.
06 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
BRITISH DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED
712 · NG4 2BB
- Permit or record holder
- BRITISH DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED
- Record date
- 29 January 2001
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- COLWICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, COLWICK, NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, NG4 2BB
- Activity
- Water Resources
- Action
- Court Case
- Relevant legislation
- WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 712; Offender: BRITISH DRILLING AND FREEZING COMPANY LIMITED; Address: COLWICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, COLWICK, NOTTINGHAM, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, NG4 2BB; Action Date: 2001-01-29; Relevant Legislation: WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991; Action Type: Court Case; Agency Function: Water Resources
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Drilling 4500 m geothermal well
Eden Geothermal Ltd · ocds-b5fd17-6d46d68d-5f37-4bf6-8e9e-1a2cd7bae8b4
- Supplier named in award
- British Drilling and Freezing Company Limited
- Award value
- £4,591,685
- Contract period
- 30 October 2020 – 31 August 2021
- Published
- 9 November 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 45255500
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6d46d68d-5f37-4bf6-8e9e-1a2cd7bae8b4-2020-11-09T17:45:05Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Howard William MewSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 August 2023
- Anti Money Laundering Supervisory Bodies: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z
- Authorised Corporate Service Provider Name: XEINADIN GROUP LIMITED ACSP
- Identity Verified On: 2025-12-23T00:00:00Z
- Preferred Name: Howard William Mew
Mr Peter James WheelhouseSee 8 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Anti Money Laundering Supervisory Bodies: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-08-03T00:00:00Z
- Authorised Corporate Service Provider Name: XEINADIN GROUP LIMITED ACSP
- Identity Verified On: 2025-05-22T00:00:00Z
- Preferred Name: Peter James Wheelhouse
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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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.
16 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
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-name and postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.