Director Shareholding

BP PLC
17 May 2001


Letter to: Company Announcements Office

We write to notify you that we were advised on 16 May 2001 by Mr R.F. Chase, a
director of BP p.l.c., that on the same day he sold 75,000 BP Ordinary shares
registered in his own name @ £6.085 per share.


Letter from: BP PLC