GULF KEYSTONE PETROLEUM (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-06 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£976K
+39.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£19M
-3% vs 2023
Employees
23
-4.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£1M
-159.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,700,000 | £11,179,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,876,000 | -£1,041,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,824,000 | -£1,079,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,734,000 | -£1,634,000 | |
| Cash | £700,000 | £976,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £19,148,000 | £19,348,000 | |
| Net assets | £19,118,000 | £18,536,000 | |
| Equity | £19,118,000 | £18,536,000 | |
| Average employees | 24 | 23 | |
| Wages | £3,391,000 | £6,860,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 17.5% | -9.3% | |
| Net margin | 16.2% | -14.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 9.8% | -5.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.1% | 24.8% | |
| Current ratio | 6.78x | 2.53x | |
| Interest cover | 36.08x | -27.39x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Upon review of the Group's forecasts and taking into account the applicable risks, stress test scenarios and potential mitigating actions, there is a reasonable expectation that the Group and therefore the Company have adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future. Thus, the going concern basis of accounting is used to prepare the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Closure of the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline ("ITP") in March 2023.”
- “Group significantly reduced expenditures to preserve liquidity while pipeline remains closed.”
- “Throughout 2024 and up to date of report in 2025, due to stabilising local sales volumes, Group significantly improved its working capital position.”
- “Group distributed $45 million to shareholders in 2024 via buybacks and dividends, with further $25 million interim dividend in April 2025.”
- “Potential decline in local sales and delays in Kurdistan Regional Government ("KRG") revenue receipts once ITP reopens are uncertainties.”
- “In February 2025, Iraqi Parliament approved an amendment to Article 12 of the Iraqi 2023-2025 Budget Law, potentially facilitating resumption of Kurdistan's oil exports.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, Alasdair | Secretary | 2017-06-20 | — | — |
| CAMERON, Michael Paul | Director | 2024-06-21 | Oct 1972 | British |
| ROBINSON, Alasdair Nicholson | Director | 2017-06-20 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUGELSHOFER, Markus | Secretary | 2008-01-04 | 2009-11-18 |
| HUGELSHOFER, Markus | Secretary | 2005-03-04 | 2006-08-31 |
| PATRICK, John Alexander | Secretary | 2006-08-31 | 2007-12-19 |
| PEART, Anthony Rowland | Secretary | 2009-11-18 | 2016-09-06 |
| ROSS, Marie Isobel | Secretary | 2016-09-06 | 2017-06-20 |
| ACI SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2004-11-17 | 2004-11-17 |
| EMCEE NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2004-11-17 | 2005-03-04 |
| GARRETT, Christopher Howard | Director | 2004-11-17 | 2014-04-28 |
| HUGELSHOFER, Markus | Director | 2008-01-04 | 2009-11-18 |
| HUGELSHOFER, Markus | Director | 2005-03-04 | 2006-08-31 |
| PAPINEAU-LEGRIS, Gabriel | Director | 2017-10-10 | 2024-06-19 |
| PATRICK, John Alexander | Director | 2006-03-17 | 2007-12-19 |
| PEART, Anthony Rowland | Director | 2009-09-30 | 2016-09-06 |
| ROSS, Marie Isobel | Director | 2016-09-06 | 2017-06-20 |
| ACI DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2004-11-17 | 2004-11-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 96 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-26 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-12-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | RP04TM01 | officers | Second filing of director termination with name | |
| 2024-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+4.5%
£10,700,000 £11,179,000
-
Cash
+39.4%
£700,000 £976,000
-
Net assets
-3%
£19,118,000 £18,536,000
-
Employees
-4.2%
24 23
-
Operating profit
-155.5%
£1,876,000 -£1,041,000
-
Profit before tax
-159.2%
£1,824,000 -£1,079,000
-
Wages
+102.3%
£3,391,000 £6,860,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers