Director Shareholding

BP PLC
5 October 2001


LETTER TO COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFICE

We write to notify you that we have been advised today by Mr P.D. Sutherland, a 
director of BP p.l.c. that his financial advisers had advised him that on the 26
September 2001 he acquired 48 BP Ordinary shares @ £5.62 per share through 
reinvestment of dividends.

FROM BP PLC