Director Shareholding

BP PLC
21 June 2001


Letter to Company Announcements Office


We write to notify you that we were advised on 20 June 2001 by Morgan Guarantee
Trust Company of New York that the following Directors of BP p.l.c. received the
numbers of BP ADSs shown opposite their names below on 14 June 2001 @ $53,0994
per ADS under the Company's US dividend reinvestment plan:
 
Mr E.B. Davis, Jr         34,6495 ADSs
                          (equivalent to approximately 208 Ordinary shares)

Mr C.F. Knight            29.3122 ADSs
                          (equivalent to approximately 176 Ordinary shares)

Dr W.E. Massey            26.4579 ADSs
                          (equivalent to approximately 159 Ordinary shares)


Letter from BP plc