ASCENT RESOURCES PLC
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Executive summary
Ascent Resources PLC occupies a challenging niche within the UK-listed E&P sector as a micro-cap, European onshore-focused operator with a gas-weighted asset base concentrated in Slovenia. While European energy security concerns provide a strategic tailwind, the company's modest capitalisation, extended development timelines, and corporate overhead relative to asset scale place it at a competitive disadvantage against better-capitalised peers. The company's trajectory is overwhelmingly dependent on achieving production milestones at its Slovenian assets — a proposition that carries both geological promise and persistent regulatory risk characteristic of continental European onshore development.
Overview
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-09-23
- Registered office
- TAYLOR WESSING, 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW
- Postcode
- EC4A 3TW
- Capital
- 11 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-20
- Next due by
- 2027-06-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 6100 Extraction of crude petroleum
- 6200 Extraction of natural gas
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 36 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
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ASCENT HISPANIC RESOURCES UK LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- ascentresources.co.uk
- Phone
- 02072514905, 03031231113
Welcome to the website for Ascent Resources plc, an independent oil and gas exploration company with a focus on European onshore projects.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ORBITEAGLE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 2004-10-19 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE, LONDON, EC1M 6EE | 2014-07-11 |
| ONE AMERICA SQUARE CROSSWALL, LONDON, EC3N 2SG | 2013-07-25 |
| 30 FARRINGDON STREET, LONDON, EC4A 4HJ | 2008-03-18 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 18/03/2008 FROM, 30 FARRINGDON STREET, LONDON, EC4A 4HJ | 2008-03-18 |
| 1 MITCHELL LANE, BRISTOL, BS1 6BU | 2004-11-04 |
The class of 2004
37%
of the 135,816 companies incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.